Series II: Revues and Sketches

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{"value"=>"ca. 1949-1957", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1949/1957"}
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1949
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1957
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{"value"=>"<p>The revues and sketches series includes drafts of miscellaneous sketches, lyrics, and monologue material, as well as files pertaining to titled revues that were produced. During the 1950's Stewart worked with many writers, composers and actors who, like Stewart, went on to successful careers in the theater. Among the revues that were produced are: <span class=\"title\">Alive and Kicking</span> (1949-50) to which Stewart contributed a sketch and lyrics, <span class=\"title\">Come What May</span> with music by Leo Schumer, Shelley Mowell and others, and lyrics and sketches by Stewart, <span class=\"title\">Razzle Dazzle</span> (1951) with music by Leo Schumer, Shelley Mowell, James Reed Lawlor, Bernice Kroll, and Irma Jurist, and sketches and lyrics by Michael Stewart, <span class=\"title\">The Shoestring Revue</span> (1955) with sketches mostly by Stewart, Sheldon Harnick and Richard F. Maury, <span class=\"title\">The Littlest Revue</span> (1956) for which Stewart wrote sketches and <span class=\"title\">Shoestring '57</span> (1957) to which Stewart contributed lyrics. Other contributors to <span class=\"title\">The Littlest Revue</span> and <span class=\"title\">Shoestring '57</span> (both presented by Ben Bagley) included Ogden Nash and Vernon Duke, John Latouche, Sheldon Harnick, John Strauss, Sidney Shaw and Michael Brown, Nat Hiken, Billy Friedberg, Eudora Welty, George Baxt, Robert Emmett, Bud McCreery, Alan Mannings and Robert Van Scoyk, Moose Charlat, and Lee Adams. Among the actors in these revues were: Joel Gray, Tammy Grimes, Dorothy Greener, Larry Storch, Paul Mazursky, and Dody Goodman. These files (for works which were produced) include programs and clippings. The files for <span class=\"title\">Come What May</span> also include several letters. The miscellaneous sketches are unsorted although some contain titles.</p>"}
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1949
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1957
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1949

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  1. Alive and kicking (Revue)
  2. Come what may (Revue)
  3. Come what may (Revue)
  4. Come what may (Revue)
  5. Come what may correspondence
  6. Razzle dazzle (Revue)
  7. Shoestring revue
  8. Shoestring revue
  9. Shoestring revue
  10. Lyrics and monologue material / Michael Stewart
  11. Miscellaneous sketches by others
  12. Miscellaneous sketches / Michael Stewart