- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2007-003", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18979", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20281687", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1976-2002", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1976/2002"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1976
- date_inclusive_end
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2002
- keydate
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1976
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Johnson-Liff Associates casting files"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.3 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"15 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Johnson-Liff Associates was a New York-based casting agency active from 1975 to 2002. The Johnson-Liff Associates casting files (1976-2002) consist of casting records for theater productions and for a small number of television and film projects."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Johnson-Liff Associates casting files, *T-Mss 2007-003. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Johnson-Liff Associates", "type"=>"corpname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Johnson-Liff Associates was a casting agency founded in 1975 by Geoffrey Johnson and Vincent Liff. Andrew Zerman became a partner in the 1980s, and for a time the firm was known as Johson-Liff & Zerman. The company did casting for theater, television, and film.</p> <p>Johnson-Liff Associates was responsible for casting Broadway productions such as Amadeus (1980), Big (1996), City of Angels (1989), Indiscretions (1995), and Me and My Girl (1986). Johnson-Liff often worked with producer Cameron Mackintosh, casting the original Broadway productions of Cats (1982) and Les Misérables (1987), among others. In 1983, the company cast Chaplin, starring Anthony Newley. The company also cast national and international tours, and Off-Broadway and regional productions such as The Red Address (1996) and a Yale Repertory production of Betty's Summer Vacation (2002). Johnson-Liff was disbanded in 2002.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The files were in the possession of Andrew Zerman after Johnson-Liff Associates closed in 2002. Before donation, the boxes were temporarily stored at the offices of Cindi Rush Casting.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Johnson-Liff Associates casting files (1976-2002) consist of casting records for theater productions and for a small number of television and film projects. The files are arranged by production and may include casting calls and character breakdowns, letters from agents submitting actors for consideration, audition notes, and other records such as clippings, programs, correspondence with producers, song scores, and excerpts of scripts. The records include one full script: a first draft of Jeremy Sams' revision of Waiting in the Wings by Noël Coward. For a number of the productions, the only records present are submission letters from agents.</p> <p>Smaller casting files are grouped together as \"Miscellaneous Projects\" and are arranged in roughly chronological order. Miscellaneous Projects include stage productions such as Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy (1982), Whistle Down the Wind (1998 London production), and A Wonderful Life (1999 New York State Theater Institute production), and film and television productions such as The 10th Kingdom (2000) and Big Momma's House (2000).</p> <p>Further casting files for Amadeus can be found in the Johnson-Liff Associates records (*T-Mss 2003-011).</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged alphabetically by production. Miscellaneous Projects are listed at the end of the container list and are arranged in roughly chronological order.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Andrew Zerman, 2007.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Kit Fluker</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Materials were removed from binders and placed in folders.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatrediv@nypl.org.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Johnson-Liff Associates records, *T-Mss 2003-011. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library ( This collection was donated in 2003 by Geoffrey Johnson.).</span>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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6.3 linear feet (15 boxes)
- date_start
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1976
- date_end
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2002