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1897
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1897
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{"value"=>"Richard Lewine papers"}
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{"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>"}
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{"value"=>"Richard Lewine was a musical theater composer, an author of works of scholarship on musical theater and a theater and television producer, working mainly from the 1930s through the 1980s. This collection includes personal files, scores, scripts, production files, programs and oversized items pertaining to Lewine's career, life and films, stage musicals and television programs written or produced by Lewine."}
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{"value"=>"<p> Richard Lewine Papers, *T-Mss 2006-008. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Lewine, Richard", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Lewine was born in New York City on July 10, 1910. He attended the Franklin School, where he was an active athlete. He studied music at Columbia University.</p> <p>Lewine launched his composing career writing songs with lyricist June Sillman for the Broadway revue, <span class=\"title\">Fools Rush In</span> (1934) and with lyricist John Latouche for the Off-Broadway play <span class=\"title\">Murder in the Old Red Barn</span> (1936). He then wrote three musicals with lyricist Ted Fetter and librettist John Van Antwerp. <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Fireman's Flame</span> were produced Off-Broadway in 1937 and <span class=\"title\">The Girl from Wyoming</span> (1938) on Broadway. In 1939, Lewine was musical director for a show at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, <span class=\"title\">Fair Enough</span>, which had songs by Alan Jay Lerner.</p> <p>After a four year stint as an officer in the Signal Corp, during World War II, Lewine collaborated with lyricist/librettist Arnold B. Horwitt for his next musical, the hit revue, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span> (1948) which played 429 performances on Broadway and subsequently toured the country. The original cast for the musical featured David Burns, Sid Caesar and Bob Fosse. Though Lewine primarily focused on his television career from the 1950s on, he occasionally returned to theater. He reunited with Horwitt for the Broadway musical, <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span> (1959) which starred Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker and Dick Van Dyke. In 1970, Lewine produced <span class=\"title\">Look to the Lilies</span>, a musical based on William E. Barrett's novel, <span class=\"title\">Lilies of the Field</span>, with a score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. With John Fearnley, Lewine conceived a revue of songs by Lewine's second cousin Richard Rodgers and his first partner, Lorenz Hart, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart</span> (1975).</p> <p>From 1953 through 1961, Lewine worked at CBS television in many capacities, including as Director of Special Programs, Director of Special Projects, Executive Producer and Vice President. At CBS, Lewine consistently brought theater to a wider audience, producing television versions of such plays as <span class=\"title\">This Happy Breed</span> (1956), <span class=\"title\">Blithe Spirit</span> (1956), <span class=\"title\">Hamlet</span> (1958) and <span class=\"title\">The Hasty Heart</span> (1958) and musicals such as <span class=\"title\">Wonderful Town</span> (1958). Lewine also produced original television musicals such as Cole Porter's <span class=\"title\">Aladdin</span> (1957) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's <span class=\"title\">Cinderella</span> (1957). He was the executive producer for first four seasons of the acclaimed series, <span class=\"title\">The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts</span> with Leonard Bernstein (1957-1962). After Lewine left CBS in 1961, he worked as an independent producer, with shows such as <span class=\"title\">Hootenanny</span> (1963-1964) on ABC, and various specials including Walter Marks' <span class=\"title\">Pinocchio</span> (1968) for NBC and Jule Styne's <span class=\"title\">The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood</span> (1965) for ABC. Lewine also produced two programs for <span class=\"title\">ABC: Stage 67</span>, Burt Bacharach's <span class=\"title\">On the Flip Side</span> (1966) and <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart Today</span> (1966). Lewine earned an Emmy Award and the Screen Producers' Award for producing Barbra Streisand's first television special, <span class=\"title\">My Name is Barbra</span> (1965).</p> <p>Lewine was also an author of several scholarly works on musical theater. His books, written in collaboration with Alfred Simon, include <span class=\"title\">Encyclopedia of Theatre Music</span> (1962), <span class=\"title\">Songs of the American Theatre</span> (1973) and <span class=\"title\">Songs of the Theatre</span> (1984.) Lewine was involved in many organizations, serving as a Vice President and Council member for the Dramatists Guild, as the Secretary for the Author's League Fund and the Dramatists Guild Fund and an active member of ASCAP. After the death of Richard Rodgers in 1979, Lewine took over the running of The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization for two years. Lewine continued to compose orchestral pieces, such as <span class=\"title\">A Little Theatre Music</span> (1981) and <span class=\"title\">A Walk in the City</span> (1982) for clarinet and piano.</p> <p>Lewine was married to Mary Haas on September 29, 1945, with whom he had two children, Peter Emmett Lewine and Cornelia Mary Lewine. Mary Haas Lewine died in 1968. Lewine married Elizabeth Rivers on November 27, 1970. He died in New York on May 19, 2005.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection contains mainly professional materials, but includes some personal items such as army documents, biographies, correspondence, educational documents, passports, personal clippings, photographs and royalty statements. This collection is mostly made up of scores for musicals, songs and instrumental pieces written, produced or conceived by Lewine, such as, <span class=\"title\">The Fireman's Flame</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girl from Wyoming</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span>, the unproduced <span class=\"title\">The Liberty Tree</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span> and <span class=\"title\">Two Weeks with Pay</span>. This collection includes scripts, programs, posters, and production files for stage musicals written or produced by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">The Beach Point Club Revue of 1935</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Fireman's Flame</span>, <span class=\"title\">Fools Rush In</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girl From Wyoming</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Liberty Tree</span>, <span class=\"title\">Look to the Lilies</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mad Money</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Murder in the Old Red Barn</span>, <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span>, the unproduced <span class=\"title\">Pretty on the Bus at Nighttime</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart</span> and <span class=\"title\">Two Weeks with Pay</span>. This collection also includes scripts, programs, posters, and production files for television programs written or produced by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">Aladdin</span>, <span class=\"title\">Cinderella</span>, <span class=\"title\">My Name is Barbra</span>, <span class=\"title\">On the Flip Side</span>, <span class=\"title\">One Man Show</span>, <span class=\"title\">Pinocchio</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart Today</span> and <span class=\"title\">Together with Music</span> and one short film composed and produced by Lewine, <span class=\"title\">The Days of Wilfred Owen</span>. The strengths of this collection are its extensive coverage of orchestral parts for Lewine's musicals, especially <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span> and for its representation of Lewine's early, less documented shows. This collection includes materials from as early as 1897 and as late as 2004, but the bulk of the collection is from 1925-1984.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Richard Lewine papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c479830'>Series I: Personal and Professional Subject Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1926-2004</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series contains personal items such as army documents, biographies, business files, correspondence, educational documents, passports, personal clippings, photographs and royalty statements. This series also contains materials pertaining to Lewine's publications and to the many organizations of which he was a member.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c479925'>Series II: Scores</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1897-1983</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>30 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series contains orchestral parts, oversized conductor scores, published music and score notebooks. Most of the music in this series is for musicals, songs and instrumental pieces written, produced or conceived by Lewine, thought there are also a few pieces by other composers. This series mainly consists of conductor scores and parts for <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span>, but <span class=\"title\">The Fireman's Flame</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girl from Wyoming</span>, the unproduced <span class=\"title\">The Liberty Tree</span>, Stephen Sondheim's <span class=\"title\">A Little Night Music</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart</span> and <span class=\"title\">Two Weeks with Pay</span> are also well represented.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c480634'>Series III: Scripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1958-1990</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series contains scripts for stage musicals, written or produced by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">The Liberty Tree</span>, <span class=\"title\">Look to the Lilies</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span>, the unproduced <span class=\"title\">Pretty on the Bus at Nighttime</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart</span> and <span class=\"title\">Two Weeks with Pay</span>, television programs produced by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">Aladdin</span>, <span class=\"title\">My Name is Barbra</span>, <span class=\"title\">On the Flip Side</span> and <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart Today</span> and one short film composed and produced by Lewine, <span class=\"title\">The Days of Wilfred Owen</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c480655'>Series IV: Production Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1934-2004</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series contains advertisements, album labels, liner notes, budgets, business correspondence, clippings, contracts, flyers, photographs, press releases, royalty statement and schedules for the short film, <span class=\"title\">The Days of Wilfred Owen</span>, songs, stage musicals and television programs written or produced by Lewine. The television programs, <span class=\"title\">One Man Show</span> and <span class=\"title\">Pinocchio</span> are particularly well documented here, with individual cast and crew contracts. This series also contains materials on lesser-known stage productions, such as <span class=\"title\">Mad Money</span>, <span class=\"title\">Murder in the Old Red Barn</span> and <span class=\"title\">‘Tis of Thee</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c480868'>Series V: Programs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1934-2004</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series consists mainly of programs for stage musicals and revues with songs by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">The Beach Point Club Revue of 1935</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Fireman's Flame</span>, <span class=\"title\">Fools Rush In</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girl From Wyoming</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Girls Against the Boys</span>, the USO show, <span class=\"title\">It's All Yours</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mad Money</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Murder in the Old Red Barn</span>, <span class=\"title\">Naughty-Naught</span> and <span class=\"title\">Two Weeks with Pay</span>. There are also programs for television events produced by Lewine, such as <span class=\"title\">Pinocchio</span>, <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span> at the Catfish Row Company and <span class=\"title\">Together with Music</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21806#c480916'>Series VI: Oversized Items</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1927-1975</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p> <p>This series contains blueprints for Lewine's house, Lewine's diploma from the Franklin School, oversized photographs and posters for <span class=\"title\">Look to the Lilies</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mad Money</span>, <span class=\"title\">Make Mine Manhattan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rodgers and Hart</span> and the launch party for Lewine's book, <span class=\"title\">Songs of the American Theater</span>.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized into six series. They are: <ul class=\"list\"> <li>Series I: Personal and Professional Subject Files (1926-2004)</li> <li>Series II: Scores (1897-1983)</li> <li>Series III: Scripts (1958-1990)</li> <li>Series IV: Production Files (1934-2004)</li> <li>Series V: Programs (1934-2004)</li> <li>Series VI: Oversized Items (1927-1985)</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Richard Lewine Papers were donated to the Billy Rose Theater Division in 2006 by Elizabeth Rivers Lewine.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diana Bertolini; Machine-readable finding aid created by Diana Bertolini.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
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35.5 linear feet (42 boxes, 1 tube)
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1925
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1984