Cheryl Crawford papers

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1087
origination
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986
date statement
1920-1986
key date
1920
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21481
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Billy Rose Theatre Division
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*T-Mss 1973-004
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b14811037
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672
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8
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3
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2013-04-01 15:04:05 UTC
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2026-08-14 02:28:34 UTC
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{"value"=>"1920-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1986"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Cheryl Crawford papers"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"51.3 linear feet (83 boxes, 49 vols."}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Cheryl Crawford, producer and director. Her papers include correspondence, production files, scripts, photographs, ephemera, ledgers, financial materials and scrapbooks documenting her career."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>Cheryl Crawford Papers, *T-Mss 1973-004, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<div class=\"bioghist\"> <p>Producer / director Cheryl Crawford was a founding member of the Group Theatre in 1931, and of the Actors Studio in 1947. Born in Akron, Ohio, Crawford became involved with the Theatre Guild in the 1920s, first as secretary, later as actress and stage manager, and ultimately as casting director. With Lee Strasberg she co-directed the Group Theatre's first production <span class=\"title\">The House of Connelly</span> in 1931 and went on to direct and/or produce many plays in the decades which followed, on Broadway and off, including <span class=\"title\">One Touch of Venus</span>, the 1942 revival of <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span>, <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span>, <span class=\"title\">Flahooley</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Sweet Bird of Youth</span>. Cheryl Crawford co-founded the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Robert Lewis, and remained with that organization until her death in 1986.</p></div> <p> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1902</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Akron, Ohio</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1921</span> <span class=\"event\">Enters Smith College</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1924</span> <span class=\"event\">Goes to the Provincetown Theatre on Cape Cod</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1925</span> <span class=\"event\">Goes to New York and enrolls in the Theatre Guild School</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">July 1926</span> <span class=\"event\">Directs for Theatre Guild summer stock company</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">Fall 1926</span> <span class=\"event\">Becomes casting secretary for the Theatre Guild</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1929</span> <span class=\"event\">Takes Theatre Guild production of <span class=\"title\">Porgy</span> to London</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">Fall 1929</span> <span class=\"event\">Becomes stage manager for Theatre Guild production</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1931</span> <span class=\"event\">Founds Group Theatre with Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1935</span> <span class=\"event\">Visits Moscow and Moscow Art Theatre with Harold Clurman</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937</span> <span class=\"event\">Begins working as an independent producer</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940</span> <span class=\"event\">First season of Crawford running the Maplewood Theatre</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Maplewood Theatre closes; <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span> opens at the Majestic Theatre</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">October 1943</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">One Touch of Venus</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1944</span> <span class=\"event\">Broadway revival of <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945</span> <span class=\"event\">Involvement in the beginning of ANTA</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1946</span> <span class=\"event\">Produces for the American Repertory Theatre</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947</span> <span class=\"event\">ANTA begins experimental theatre project at the Princess Theatre</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947</span> <span class=\"event\">Actors' Studio founded; <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Rejects offer to produce <span class=\"title\">Death of a Salesman</span> ; <span class=\"title\">Paint Your Wagon</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Lee Strasberg becomes Artistic Director of Actors' Studio</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Resigns from ANTA</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1956</span> <span class=\"event\">Leonard Bernstein introduces the project <span class=\"title\">West Side Story</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1957</span> <span class=\"event\">Rejects opportunity to produce <span class=\"title\">West Side Story</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">Sweet Bird of Youth</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1962</span> <span class=\"event\">Becomes involved with Actors' Studio</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1963</span> <span class=\"event\">Opening of Actors' Studio Theatre</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1964</span> <span class=\"event\">Actors' Studio Theatre closes - final production <span class=\"title\">The Three Sisters</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1966</span> <span class=\"event\">Produces <span class=\"title\">Chu Chem</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1974</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">Yentl</span> opens</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1986</span> <span class=\"event\">Cheryl Crawford dies</span></li></ul></p>"}
{"class"=>"bioghist", "value"=>"<p>Producer / director Cheryl Crawford was a founding member of the Group Theatre in 1931, and of the Actors Studio in 1947. Born in Akron, Ohio, Crawford became involved with the Theatre Guild in the 1920s, first as secretary, later as actress and stage manager, and ultimately as casting director. With Lee Strasberg she co-directed the Group Theatre's first production The House of Connelly in 1931 and went on to direct and/or produce many plays in the decades which followed, on Broadway and off, including One Touch of Venus, the 1942 revival of Porgy and Bess, Brigadoon, Flahooley, and Sweet Bird of Youth. Cheryl Crawford co-founded the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Robert Lewis, and remained with that organization until her death in 1986.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Producer / director Cheryl Crawford was a founding member of the Group Theatre in 1931, and of the Actors Studio in 1947. Born in Akron, Ohio, Crawford became involved with the Theatre Guild in the 1920s, first as secretary, later as actress and stage manager, and ultimately as casting director. With Lee Strasberg she co-directed the Group Theatre's first production The House of Connelly in 1931 and went on to direct and/or produce many plays in the decades which followed, on Broadway and off, including One Touch of Venus, the 1942 revival of Porgy and Bess, Brigadoon, Flahooley, and Sweet Bird of Youth. Cheryl Crawford co-founded the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Robert Lewis, and remained with that organization until her death in 1986.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The Cheryl Crawford papers were donated to the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 1973.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Cheryl Crawford papers span the years 1920-1986 and include correspondence, office files, production files, scripts, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, programs, clippings, ephemera and memorabilia. The strength of the collection is in the correspondence and production materials. Many of the scripts are annotated prompt books. Of special note are the materials for <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span> that includes a prompt book of the Broadway production and a file on <span class=\"title\">West Side Story</span> that Cheryl Crawford rejected as a project. Correspondence in the collection includes letters from such notables as <span class=\"persname\">Tennessee Williams</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Thornton Wilder</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lillian Hellman</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Elia Kazan</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Mary Martin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Paul Newman</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Joanne Woodward</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Geraldine Page</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Eli Wallach</span>. Production materials include files on <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span>, <span class=\"title\">Sweet Bird of Youth</span>, <span class=\"title\">Camino Real</span>, <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span>, <span class=\"title\">Oh Men!, Oh Women</span>, <span class=\"title\">Paint Your Wagon</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Rose Tattoo</span>. There is also some small amount of materials on the <span class=\"corpname\">Theatre Guild</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Group Theatre</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">American Repertory Theatre</span> and <span class=\"corpname\">Actors' Studio</span>, though this material is very sketchy.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Cheryl Crawford papers are arranged in eight series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306221'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1937-1986</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes correspondence from friends and business associates both about personal and business matters. Some overlapping of subject information may occur in the content of these files and the production files. Correspondents include <span class=\"persname\">Hugh \"Binkie\" Beaumont</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Tovah Feldshuh</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Richard Halliday</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lillian Hellman</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Jack Holmes</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Randall Jarrell</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Tom Jones</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Bel Kaufman</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Elia Kazan</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lotte Lenya</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Oscar Lewenstein</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Mary Martin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Paul Newman</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Geraldine Page</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Harvey Schmidt</span>, <span class=\"persname\">James Thurber</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Eli Wallach</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Thornton Wilder</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Tennessee Williams</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Audrey Wood</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Joanne Woodward</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306320'>Series II: Organizations</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1936-1968</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes correspondence, production files, contracts, production ideas and other materials relating to Cheryl Crawford's involvement in <span class=\"corpname\">American Repertory Theatre</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">ANTA</span> and <span class=\"corpname\">Actors' Studio</span>, <span class=\"corpname\">Theatre Guild</span> and <span class=\"corpname\">Group Theatre</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306415'>Series III: Cheryl Crawford Office Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1971</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes correspondence, production files and notes, contracts and other materials relating to Cheryl Crawford's work as an independent producer. Included in this series is a file on the collection of Agnes DeMille.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306430'>Series IV: Independent Productions</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938-1977</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included in the production files are correspondence, contracts, scripts, production notes and ideas, box office statements and financial papers dealing with the business of theatrical production. Productions include works produced by Cheryl Crawford as an independent producer. PLEASE NOTE: All contracts are restricted and have been pulled from the files. Permission from the curator is required to view contracts.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306742'>Series V: Unproduced Works</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1986</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included in this series are scripts, notes and production ideas for plays considered by Cheryl Crawford but not produced by her. There are also unidentified play excerpts. Some titles include <span class=\"title\">Conversation at Midnight</span> by Edna St. Vincent Millay (clippings from Los Angeles production), <span class=\"title\">The Damask Cheek</span> by John Van Druten, <span class=\"title\">The Fair Country</span> by Jack Holmes (includes correspondence, production files and scripts), <span class=\"title\">The Farmer's Hotel</span> by John O'Hara, <span class=\"title\">The Flowering Peach</span> by Clifford Odets, <span class=\"title\">Hold Back the Dawn</span> by Ketti Frings, <span class=\"title\">Lizzie</span> by Edward Padula (play about Lizzie Borden), <span class=\"title\">The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail</span> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (casting notes), <span class=\"title\">Post Mortem</span> by Lynn Parker, <span class=\"title\">The Silent Partner</span> by Clifford Odets, <span class=\"title\">Vieux Carre</span> by Tennessee Williams and <span class=\"title\">West Side Story</span> by Leonard Bernstein (correspondence and notes).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306819'>Series VI: Personal Papers and Ephemera</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1920-1986</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included in this series are awards, an early scrapbook, personal photographs and ephemera, photographs and programs from her college productions at <span class=\"corpname\">Smith College</span>, programs from the <span class=\"corpname\">Wharf Players</span> a photograph of the <span class=\"corpname\">Provincetown Players</span> and a Japanese art book signed by the members of the <span class=\"corpname\">Actors Studio</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306844'>Series VII: Financial Ledgers & Receipt Books</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included in this series are production ledgers from some of Cheryl Crawford's plays. These include <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span> and <span class=\"title\">Paint Your Wagon</span>, among others. Receipt books include stock certificate books from the <span class=\"corpname\">American Repertory Theatre</span>. Of special note are two ledger volumes concerning M.T.R. Washburn entitled Ancestry. The connection to this collection has not been determined.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21481#c306862'>Series VIII: Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938-1950</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes scrapbooks of clippings about Cheryl Crawford as well as scrapbooks documenting Cheryl Crawford's productions. Titles include <span class=\"title\">Family Portrait</span>, <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span>, <span class=\"title\">One Touch of Venus</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Tempest</span>, <span class=\"title\">Love Life</span>, <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span>, <span class=\"title\">Paint Your Wagon</span>, <span class=\"title\">Regina</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Closing Door</span>. There are also scrapbooks under the topic of the <span class=\"corpname\">Maplewood Theatre</span> in New Jersey and the <span class=\"corpname\">American Repertory Theatre</span>.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<ul class=\"list\"> <li>Series I: Correspondence</li> <li>Series II: Organizations <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Sub-series 1 - Theatre Guild</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Group Theatre</li> <li>Sub-series 3 - American Repertory Theatre</li> <li>Sub-series 4 - ANTA</li> <li>Sub-series 5 - Actors' Studio</li></ul></li> <li>Series III: Cheryl Crawford Office Files</li> <li>Series IV: Independent Productions <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Sub-series 1 - <span class=\"title\">Yankee Fable</span></li> <li>Sub-series 2 - <span class=\"title\">All the Living</span></li> <li>Sub-series 3 - <span class=\"title\">Family Portrait</span></li> <li>Sub-series 4 - <span class=\"title\">Another Sun</span></li> <li>Sub-series 5 - <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span></li> <li>Sub-series 6 - <span class=\"title\">A Kiss for Cinderella</span></li> <li>Sub-series 7 - <span class=\"title\">One Touch of Venus</span></li> <li>Sub-series 8 - <span class=\"title\">The Perfect Marriage</span></li> <li>Sub-series 9 - <span class=\"title\">The Tempest</span></li> <li>Sub-series 10 - <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span></li> <li>Sub-series 11 - <span class=\"title\">Love Life</span></li> <li>Sub-series 12 - <span class=\"title\">The Closing Door</span></li> <li>Sub-series 13 - <span class=\"title\">Regina</span></li> <li>Sub-series 14 - <span class=\"title\">Flahooley</span></li> <li>Sub-series 15 - <span class=\"title\">Paint Your Wagon</span></li> <li>Sub-series 16 - <span class=\"title\">The Rose Tattoo</span></li> <li>Sub-series 17 - <span class=\"title\">Oh, Men! Oh, Women!</span></li> <li>Sub-series 18 - <span class=\"title\">Camino Real</span></li> <li>Sub-series 19 - <span class=\"title\">Thirteen Clocks</span>and <span class=\"title\">Trouble in Tahiti</span></li> <li>Sub-series 20 - <span class=\"title\">The Honeys</span></li> <li>Sub-series 21 - <span class=\"title\">Reuben, Reuben</span></li> <li>Sub-series 22 - <span class=\"title\">The Girls of Summer</span></li> <li>Sub-series 23 - <span class=\"title\">Mister Johnson</span></li> <li>Sub-series 24 - <span class=\"title\">Good as Gold</span></li> <li>Sub-series 25 - <span class=\"title\">Comes a Day</span></li> <li>Sub-series 26 - <span class=\"title\">The Shadow of a Gunman</span></li> <li>Sub-series 27 - <span class=\"title\">Sweet Bird of Youth</span></li> <li>Sub-series 28 - <span class=\"title\">The Rivalry</span></li> <li>Sub-series 29 - <span class=\"title\">The Long Dream</span></li> <li>Sub-series 30 - <span class=\"title\">Kukla, Burr and Ollie</span></li> <li>Sub-series 31 - <span class=\"title\">Period of Adjustment</span></li> <li>Sub-series 32 - <span class=\"title\">Brecht on Brecht</span></li> <li>Sub-series 33 - <span class=\"title\">Andorra</span></li> <li>Sub-series 34 - <span class=\"title\">Mother Courage and her Children</span></li> <li>Sub-series 35 - <span class=\"title\">Jennie</span></li> <li>Sub-series 36 - <span class=\"title\">Doubletalk</span></li> <li>Sub-series 37 - <span class=\"title\">Chu Chem</span></li> <li>Sub-series 38 - <span class=\"title\">The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake</span></li> <li>Sub-series 39 - <span class=\"title\">Scandal Point</span></li> <li>Sub-series 40 - <span class=\"title\">Celebration</span></li> <li>Sub-series 41 - <span class=\"title\">Colette</span></li> <li>Sub-series 42 - <span class=\"title\">The Web and the Rock</span></li> <li>Sub-series 43 - <span class=\"title\">The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks</span></li> <li>Sub-series 44 - <span class=\"title\">Yentl</span></li> <li>Sub-series 45 - <span class=\"title\">Do You Turn Somersaults?</span></li></ul></li> <li>Series V: Unproduced Works</li> <li>Series VI: Personal Papers & Ephemera</li> <li>Series VII: Financial Ledgers and Receipt Books <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Sub-series 1 - Ledgers</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Receipt books</li></ul></li> <li>Series VIII: Scrapbooks</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Gift, Cheryl Crawford, 1973</p>"}
separatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<ul class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">Autographed Photographs</div> <li>Judith Anderson - 1</li> <li>Tallulah Bankhead - 1</li> <li>Ingrid Bergman - 1</li> <li>Zoe Caldwell - 1</li> <li>Tovah Feldshuh - 2</li> <li>Patricia Huston - 1</li> <li>Mary Martin - 4</li></ul> <ul class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">\"B\" - File Photographs</div> <li>Teresa Helburn - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Anna Christie</span> - 3</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Autumn Crocus</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Camino Real</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Charley's Aunt</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Elmer the Great</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Emperor Jones</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Flahooley</span> - 11</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Girls of Summer</span> - 1 contact sheet, 15 negative strips</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Guardsman</span> - 3</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Her Cardboard Lover</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Hot Mikado</span> - 3</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">John Gabriel Borkman</span> - 1 contact sheet</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">A Kiss for Cinderella</span> - 10</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Male Animal</span> - 2</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Man Who Came to Dinner</span> - 3</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Melody Jones</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Native Son</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">One Touch of Venus</span> - 3</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Our Betters</span> - 2</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Regina</span> - 21</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Royal Family</span> - 2</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Second Mrs. Tanqueray</span> - 5</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Tempest</span> - 2</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Twelfth Night</span> - 1</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Yentl</span> - 5</li></ul> <ul class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">\"A\" File Photographs</div> <li> <span class=\"title\">Anna Christie</span> - 17</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Bernadine</span> - 46</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Escapade</span> - 56</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Fourposter</span> - 112</li></ul> <ul class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">*T-Cabinet</div> <li>Wooden box lined in blue velvet containing the Lawrence Langner Award. Award is bronze with the image of Langner on the front. Back is inscribed \"To Cheryl Crawford for a lifetime of achievement in the American theatre, June 5, 1977.\"</li> <li>Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in Theatre to Cheryl Crawford, 1964</li></ul> <ul class=\"list\"> <div class=\"head\">Originals - *T-VIM 1973-004</div> <li> <span class=\"title\">Androcles and the Lion</span> - set design by <span class=\"persname\">Wolfgang Roth</span> for the American Repertory Theatre production (1946)</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Brigadoon</span> - costume design by <span class=\"persname\">David Ffolkes</span> inscribed to \"Cheryl\"</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Regina</span> - set design by <span class=\"persname\">Horace Armistead</span> (1949)</li></ul>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Mary Ellen Rogan and Susan McArthur.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>In 1995 through 1997 the collection was reprocessed, rehoused and conserved. In 2000 a finding aid was created for the Web.</p>"}
accessrestrict
{"value"=>"<p>Some collections held by the Dance, Music, Recorded Sound, and Theatre Divisions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. For general guidance about requesting offsite materials, please consult: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/lpa/requesting-archival-materials Patrons are requested to use service copies of material in Boxes 1 and 2; originals are available by permission only. Access to the contracts in the Independent Productions series by permission from the curator only.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact theatre@nypl.org</p>"}
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1986
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1986

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