Series II: Production Files

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{"value"=>"1957-1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1957/1966"}
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1957
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1966
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence, notes, partial scripts, cast lists, contracts and financial reports arranged alphabetically by production title. It includes correspondence discussing scripts with authors <span class=\"persname\">Morris West</span> on <span class=\"title\">Daughter of Silence</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Gore Vidal</span> on <span class=\"title\">Honor</span> which was shown on television's <span class=\"title\">Playwrights 56</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Robert Penn Warren</span> on <span class=\"title\">Listen to the Mocking Bird</span> which was not produced. Particularly rich are the detailed discussions in notes and letters by Donehue, <span class=\"persname\">Richard Halliday</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Leland Hayward</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Howard Lindsay</span> illuminating the research that went into the development and script changes of <span class=\"title\">The Sound of Music</span>, including notes and transcripts from phone conversations with the <span class=\"persname\">Baroness Maria Von Trapp</span>, whose life was fictionalized in the story, and with Sister Gregory, a nun at Rosary College, who gave guidance on the convent scene. Other productions included are <span class=\"title\">Annie Get Your Gun</span>, <span class=\"title\">Catch Me If You Can</span>, <span class=\"title\">Jennie</span>, <span class=\"title\">Lord Pengo</span>, <span class=\"title\">Lonelyhearts</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Sunrise at Campobello</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical</p>"}
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1957
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1966
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  1. Annie get your gun (Musical) / Irving Berlin
  2. Catch me if you can / Jack Weinstock
  3. Come one, come all! (Musical) / Arthur Schwartz
  4. Daughter of silence / Morris L. West
  5. Daughter of silence / Morris L. West
  6. Gentlemen be seated (Musical) / Jerome Moross
  7. Honor (Television script) / Gore Vidal
  8. Jennie (Musical) / Arthur Schwartz
  9. Jennie (Musical) / Arthur Schwartz
  10. Lonelyhearts (Motion picture)
  11. Lonelyhearts (Motion picture)
  12. Lord Pengo / S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) Behrman
  13. Lord Pengo / S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) Behrman
  14. Mary Martin musical / Max Shulman
  15. The sound of music (Musical) / Richard Rodgers
  16. Sunrise at Campobello (Motion picture)
  17. Tovarich (Musical) / Lee Pockriss
  18. Listen to the mocking bird / Robert Penn Warren
  19. Traveling lady / Horton Foote
  20. Poor children of Eve / Edward DeBlasio
  21. Miscellaneous productions