Found 2 collections related to Variety shows (Television programs)

The collection contains non-commercial recordings of live and recorded performances and interviews of Jan Peerce spanning the years 1938-1983. The collection also features performers such as: singers Zinka Milanov, Roberta Peters, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi, Robert Merrill, Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Raye and Viola Philo ; conductors Arturo Toscanini, Fausto Cleva, Harry Horlick and David Rubinoff ; and interviewers Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas. Radio and television (audio only) programs included are: The A & P Gypsies, Radio City Music Hall On the Air, Carnegie Hall, The Chevrolet Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Tonight Show. Works featured are selections from operas such as "La boheme," "I pagliacci," "Don Giovanni," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "La traviata," "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Rigoletto" ; musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof" ; and songs by Handel and Schubert, among others. less

George Bonnell was a Broadway actor who performed under the name Sam Bonnell from the 1930s to the 1950s. Bonnell worked in an uncredited production position for Your Show of Shows, a televised variety show broadcast on NBC from the International Theatre in New York City. The program, which aired from 1950 to 1954, was hosted by a celebrity guest each week and starred Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The collection contains Bonnell's copies of scripts for 8 episodes of Your Show of Shows broadcast between February and April of 1950. Scripts contain song lyrics, skit dialogue, and Caesar's monologues. Prop lists and the running order for each episode feature Bonnell's annotations. The collection also holds one review of the show's premiere. less