{"value"=>"1959 - 1982", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1959/1982"}
{"value"=>"1992", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1992"}
{"value"=>"undated", "type"=>"inclusive"}
{"value"=>"1965", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1965"}
{"value"=>"1965-1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1965/1966"}
{"value"=>"1968-1969", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/1969"}
{"value"=>"1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1966"}
{"value"=>"1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1967"}
{"value"=>"<p>This series includes correspondence, financial papers, scripts, production and publicity materials, clippings, programs, and other ephemera documenting the repertory company founded by Ellis Rabb in 1960, the APA, until its demise in 1970.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of administrative records for APA, as well as materials documenting its decade of productions, from 1960 to 1970. Materials include correspondence, financial papers, contracts, clippings, programs, publicity materials, production materials, and ephemera. Correspondence and general administrative papers are filed at the beginning of each year. Papers for specific engagements follow. A few materials for the Portable Phoenix, the company’s educational project, as well as workshops run by APA, are also included in the series.</p> <p>Much of the correspondence was written by Rabb (some never sent), although a significant number of letters and memos are from Robert Alan Gold, APA’s business manager. Of particular interest is a 1960 prospectus for the company, as well as membership and attendance lists. Some notables represented in the correspondence include Katharine Hepburn, Arthur Laurents, Norman Rosten, Alan Schneider, Gale Sondergaard, Thornton Wilder, and Blanche Yurka.</p> <p>The company’s early years through 1966, are more thoroughly documented than its later seasons, 1968-1969 and 1969-1970. Correspondence with the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where APA played each fall from 1962 to 1968, is extensive. There are also applications for fellowships, including one from Karen Lynne Gorney.</p> <p>Productions were sometimes first presented in Ann Arbor, including one of APA’s biggest successes, <span class=\"title\">You Can’t Take It with You</span> (1965). Of note are stage managers’ humorous reports regarding the cats used for this production (September 29, 30 and October 3, 1965). The company also made its successful 1965 Broadway debut at the Lyceum Theatre with the Kaufman and Hart comedy.</p> <p>APA’s affiliation with the Phoenix Theatre, from its first engagement at its East 74th Street theater in 1964, to its seasons at the Lyceum Theatre (1965-1966 to 1968-1969) as the APA-Phoenix, is also well-represented in the papers. There is some overlap between the APA-Phoenix and University of Michigan correspondence.</p> <p>Summer tours are also documented, including two summers at the Huntington Hartford Theatre (Los Angeles, 1966 and 1967). For APA’s final production, <span class=\"title\">Private Lives</span>, there are only copies of a November 18, 1969 contract with producer David Merrick. Some financial papers and other materials relating to APA in the years following its dissolution can also be found in this series.</p>"}