Title: Gerald A. Freedman Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1945-1995

Creator:

• Freedman, Gerald A., 1927-

Call Number: U.S. Mss 165AN; M88-153; M2008-055

Quantity: 6.4 cubic feet (16 archives boxes); plus additions of 11.6 cubic feet, and approximately 1.0 cubic foot of photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Gerald A. Freedman, a director of plays, operas and musicals. Contains theater files including scripts and prompt books, playbills, reviews, notes, designs, scores, production files, correspondence, and photographs, including production stills. Materials document Freedman's work on numerous productions and as a composer for the Acting Company (New York City), New York Shakespeare Festival, the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre (Stratford, Connecticut), the San Francisco Opera, and numerous other companies. The productions include Bells Are Ringing, America’s Sweetheart, Peer Gynt, West Side Story, The Robber Bridegroom, many Shakespeare plays including Love’s Labor’s Lost, and many other productions. Also includes biographical information, contracts, and personal correspondence.

Language: English

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Gerald Alan Freedman, director of theater, opera, and television, was born on June 25, 1927 to Barnie B. and Fannie Freedman of Lorain, Ohio. As a senior at Lorain High School young Freedman wanted to make painting his career, but he also found time to study music. Upon graduation from high school Freedman entered Northwestern University, where he came under the tutelage of the renowned acting coach, Alvina Krause, who inspired him to continue his work in the theater. Freedman received his B.A. in speech in 1949 and his M.A. in 1950. Following graduation from Northwestern University, Freedman attended the Cleveland Art Institute, the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Mannes School of Music.

Later in New York Freedman directed his first off-Broadway production, The Red Robe, and assisted in the direction of the television series Robert Montgomery Presents. After accepting a contract with Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, he worked with George Cukor and Stanley Kramer from 1953 to 1957. He was the dialogue director for several movies, among them It Should Happen to You and The Caine Mutiny. He directed six television films for the series Celebrity Playhouse including “Deborah,” “More Than Kin,” and “No Escape.”

In the mid-1950s Freedman also returned to New York to assist Jerome Robbins at the New York City Center with productions of Gypsy, Bells Are Ringing, and West Side Story. In 1957 he restaged Bells Are Ringing at the Coliseum in London, and in 1964 he restaged West Side Story for the New York City Center.

In 1959 Freedman directed a successful revival of On the Town and a year later directed an off-Broadway production of Molly Kazan's Rosemary and The Alligators. This was followed by his direction of the Broadway production of The Gay Life in 1961. A year later he staged Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad for the National Company.

In the early 1960s Freedman also began a collaboration with composer John Morris on a musical version of the Pied Piper, entitled Take One Step. They also composed and wrote a musical adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel, How Green Was My Valley, under the title A Time for Singing.

In 1960 Freedman became associated with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival as a director. His first production, The Taming of the Shrew, won an Obie Award. From 1966 to 1970 he was the Shakespeare Festival's artistic director, and staged more than twenty productions including Hair, Hamlet, Peer Gynt, The Tempest, Henry IV Parts I and II, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, and A Comedy of Errors.

Freedman's musical background has enhanced his versatility as a director. In 1971 he directed Beatrix Cenci, the first opera to be staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has also directed Die Fledermaus (1974) and Idomeneo (1974) at the Lincoln Center in New York, and Death in Venice (1975) with the San Francisco Opera Company.

Other Broadway productions include Colette (1970), The Incomparable Max (1971), Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Au Pair Man (1974), and The Robber Bridegroom (1975).

Freedman has won an Obie for a production of Macbeth with the New York Shakespeare Festival. He was also the first American director invited to direct at the Globe Theatre in London.

In addition to his work in the theater and opera, Freedman has directed Antigone for the Public Broadcasting Service (1972), several episodes of the Adams Family Chronicles for WNET-TV (1973), and an episode of Hot L Baltimore (1975).

From 1991 to 2012, Freedman was Dean of the School of Drama, at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts. A 350-seat theater on campus was named in his honor in 2012. He also taught at Yale and The Juilliard School. He serves on the Kennedy Center New Play Committee and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He is a participant in the Oomoto Institute, Kameoka, Japan.

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 3 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (U.S. Mss 165AN): Original Collection, 1955-1976
• Part 2 (M88-153): Additions, 1962-1986
• Part 3 (M2008-055): Additions, 1945-1995

Acquisition Information

Placed on deposit by Gerald Freedman, New York, New York, April 13, 1976; and by Fannie Freedman, Lorain, Ohio, August 24, 1976. Accession Number: MCHC76-25, MCHC76-66, MCHC 83-082, M88-153, M2008-055

Processing Information

Original collection processed by Cheri Swiss, Claire Cohen, J. Hyatt, L. Kurth, and Christine Rongone, February 25, 1977.

U.S. Mss 165AN	Part 1 (U.S. Mss 165AN): Original Collection, 1955-1976 Physical Description: 6.4 cubic feet (16 archives boxes)  Scope and Content Note The original collection of the Gerald Freedman Papers, 1955-1976, is organized into the following series: Biographical Information, Correspondence, Contracts, Opera, Television, Theater, and Miscellaneous. The file of Biographical Information contains a résumé listing Freedman's professional activities, clippings, and a biographical sketch prepared for a playbill. The Correspondence is composed of a general file which includes letters from Joseph Papp and Jerry McNeely; a file concerning the American College Theatre Festival; and a file containing the correspondence of Alvina Krause, Freedman's acting teacher. Correspondence relating to specific productions is filed by production title, under other series. A folder of Contracts concern his directorial activity from 1957 to 1973. The file is incomplete and does not include all the productions he directed in that period. The Opera series includes some scripts, reviews, notes, designs, and correspondence dealing with Freedman's operatic work throughout the country from 1971 to 1975. Among the productions are Beatrix Cenci, Die Fledermaus, Orfeo, and the Passion According to St. Matthew. The Television materials include scripts and production information for a number of projects, including the Adams Family Chronicles, Antigone, and Hot L Baltimore. There are also some reviews of Celebrity Playhouse, which he directed very early in his career, and research materials and a proposal for a television opera. The Theater file, the largest series in the collection, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes varying numbers of scripts, reviews, notes, designs, casting information, and musical scores for the numerous productions with which Freedman was associated, including those for the New York Shakespeare Festival. The two projects on which he collaborated with John Morris are also included. Take One Step is represented by several variant scripts as well as other materials which delineate the evolution of a show which was first presented as a children's theater piece, passed through stages as a film script, and eventually became a television project. Also included is their other collaboration, “How Green Was My Valley,” which resulted in a Broadway show entitled A Time for Singing. The documentation for this production includes: a number of complete script revisions and many fragments showing the creative process from research to the final script; production-oriented materials relating to casting, rehearsal schedules, budgets, and financing; programs; reviews; and correspondence. The Miscellaneous file includes materials about Freedman's involvement with a Concord Fabrics Inc. fashion show, an Israeli bond drive, plus papers dealing with the New York Shakespeare Festival.
	Series: Biographical Information
Box   1 Folder   1	Résumés, clippings, biographical sketch for playbill, 1956-1976
	Series: Correspondence	⇧
Box   1 Folder   2	General correspondence, 1957-1974
Box   1 Folder   3	American College Theatre Festival, 1971-1974
Box   1 Folder   4	Krause, Alvina, 1956-1972
	Series: Contracts	⇧
Box   1 Folder   5	Business contracts, 1958-1973
	Series: Opera	⇧
	Ariadne auf Naxos / by Richard Strauss (Juilliard Theatre, New York, 1974 April)
Box   1 Folder   6	Production notes, reviews, 1974
Box   1 Folder   7-8	Libretto and score
	Beatrix Cenci / by William Shand, Alberto Girri, Alberto Ginastera (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 1971 Fall)
Box   1 Folder   9	Three scripts, Spanish and English, undated
Box   1 Folder   10	Prompt script, Spanish and English, undated
Box   1 Folder   11	Production notes, correspondence, 1971-1974
Box   2 Folder   1	Reviews, 1971
Box   2 Folder   2	Music, undated
Box   16 Folder   1	Score, 1971
	Death in Venice / by Benjamin Britten (Curran Theatre, San Francisco, 1975 Spring)
Box   2 Folder   3	Production notes, 1974-1975
Box   2 Folder   4	Reviews, 1973-1975
	Die Fledermaus / by Johann Strauss, Ruth and Thomas Martin (New York State Theatre, New York, 1974 Fall)
Box   2 Folder   5	Designs, undated
Box   2 Folder   6	Score and libretto, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	Reviews, miscellaneous, 1974
	Idomeneo / by Wolfgang Mozart (New York State Theatre, New York, 1974; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 1974)
Box   2 Folder   8	Libretto design, production notes, 1969-1974
Box   2 Folder   9	Reviews, correspondence, 1974
	L'Incoronazione Di Poppea / by Claudio Monteverdi (New York State Theatre, New York, 1973 Fall)
Box   2 Folder   10	Correspondence, production notes, reviews, 1973
	L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (Caramoor Festival, Katonah, New York, 1972)
Box   2 Folder   11	Production notes, 1972
	Naked Carmen (project not done)
Box   3 Folder   1	Synopsis, production notes, 1971, undated
	Orfeo / by Claudio Monterverdi (Curran Theatre, San Francisco, 1972)
Box   3 Folder   2	Correspondence, script, 1971-1972
Box   3 Folder   3	Production notes, reviews, 1972
	Passion According to St. Matthew / by Johann Sebastian Bach (Curran Theatre, San Francisco, 1973)
Box   3 Folder   4	Clippings, reviews, 1972-1973
	Sambo / by Ron Steward and Neal Tate (New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, 1969 December)
Box   3 Folder   5	Reviews, 1969
	Series: Television	⇧
	Adams Family Chronicles (WNET-TV for PBS), 1975-1976
	“Adams: First Family”
Box   3 Folder   6	Draft script for episode 3, 1973 May 10
Box   3 Folder   7	Two revised drafts for episode 4, 1973 May 18, 20
Box   3 Folder   8	Production notes for episodes 3 and 4, 1973 April 15, September 12
	Celebrity Playhouse (Syndicated, Screen Gems Productions), 1956
Box   3 Folder   9	Reviews, 1955.
	Hot L Baltimore (1975, ABC)
Box   3 Folder   10	Two first draft scripts, two second draft scripts, 1975
Box   3 Folder   11	Final draft, revisions, staff listings, 1975
	Playhouse New York (PBS), 1972
	Antigone / by Jean Anouilh
Box   3 Folder   12	Script, production notes, 1972
Box   4 Folder   1	Designs, undated
	“Television Opera” (WGBH-TV project)
Box   4 Folder   2	Ideas, proposals, correspondence, 1969-1970
Box   4 Folder   3	Background and research, 1969-1970
	Series: Theater	⇧
	Alice
Box   4 Folder   4	Casting, production notes, 1970-1971
	All's Well That Ends Well (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1966 June 15)
Box   4 Folder   5	Cast list, 1966 Summer
	An American Millionaire / by Murray Schisgal (Circle In the Square Joseph E. Levine Theatre, New York, 1973 Fall)
Box   4 Folder   6	Casting, production notes, 1973-1974
Box   4 Folder   7	Script revisions, 1974 Winter
Box   4 Folder   8	Revised script, 1974
	As You Like It (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1963 August 11)
Box   4 Folder   9	Casting, production notes, reviews, 1963
	The Au Pair Man / by Hugh Leonard (Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York, 1973 December)
Box   4 Folder   10	Two scripts, revisions, 1973
Box   4 Folder   11	Designs, production notes, reviews, correspondence, 1973
	Bells Are Ringing / by Betty Comden, Adolph Green (London Coliseum, London, 1957)
Box   5 Folder   1	Music, reviews, 1957
	Cities in Bezique (New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, 1969 January 4)
Box   5 Folder   2	Production notes, reviews, 1968-1969
	The Clandestine Marriage / by David Garrick
Box   5 Folder   3	Script, undated
	Colette (Ellen Stewart Theatre, New York, 1970)
Box   5 Folder   4	Casting notes, reviews, 1970
	The Comedy of Errors (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1967 June 7)
Box   5 Folder   5	Designs, production notes, 1967
Box   5 Folder   6	Reviews, clippings, 1967
	The Creation of the World and Other Business (Shubert Theatre, New York, 1972)
Box   5 Folder   7	Production notes, 1972
Box   5 Folder   8	Script, by Author Miller, undated
Box   5 Folder   9	Revised script, undated
Box   5 Folder   10	Script revisions, undated
Box   5 Folder   11	Reviews, 1972
	The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis (Players Theatre, New York, 1965)
Box   5 Folder   12	Floor plan, 1965 February
Box   6 Folder   1	Scripts, reviews, 1965
	Dodsworth / by Sidney Howard (project not done)
Box   6 Folder   2	Script, synopsis, notes, 1962 April
	Ergo / by Jakov Lind (New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, New York, 1968 March 3)
Box   6 Folder   3	Script, 1968
Box   6 Folder   4	Casting, production notes, annotated script, reviews, 1968
	Electra / by Sophocles (New York Shakespeare Festival, Mobile Theatre, New York, 1969 August 5)
Box   6 Folder   5	Script, notes, 1964, 1969
	The Gay Life / by Fay and Michael Kanin, Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (Shubert Theatre, New York, 1961 November 18)
Box   6 Folder   6	Revised rehearsal script, 1961 August 28
Box   6 Folder   7	Reviews, 1961
	Gypsy / by Arthur Laurents, Jules Styne, Stephen Sondheim (Broadway Theatre, New York, 1959 May 21)
Box   6 Folder   8	Script, undated
	Hair / by Jerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot (New York Shakespeare Festival, Anspacher Theatre, New York, 1967 October 17)
Box   6 Folder   9	Script, 1966
Box   7 Folder   1	Rehearsal script, 1967
Box   7 Folder   2	Production notes, 1967
Box   7 Folder   3	Reviews, 1967
	Hamlet (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1972)
Box   7 Folder   4	Correspondence with Stacy Keach regarding character analysis of Hamlet, 1971 September-December
Box   7 Folder   5	Casting, production notes, 1972 May
Box   7 Folder   6	Reviews, correspondence, 1972 June-July
	Hank Cinq /by Nat Joseph and David Palmer (project not done)
Box   8 Folder   1	Script, notes, undated
Box   8 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1972 July 31-1973 January 11
	Henry IV Parts I and II (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1968 June 11)
Box   8 Folder   3	Casting, production notes, undated
Box   8 Folder   4	Production notes, undated
Box   8 Folder   5	Reviews, 1968
	“How Green Was My Valley” Note: “I Remember, My Love,” working title; A Time for Singing, production title / by Gerald Freedman and John Morris (Broadway Theatre, New York, 1966 May 21)
Box   8 Folder   6	First draft script; script, “I Remember, My Love,” 1963
Box   8 Folder   7	Script, “I Remember, My Love,” undated
Box   8 Folder   8	Revised script, “I Remember, My Love,” 1964 January; revised script, “How Green Was My Valley,” 1965 October
Box   8 Folder   9	Script, “How Green Was My Valley,” 1965 February 10
Box   9 Folder   1	Script, “A Time for Singing,” 1965 October 20
Box   9 Folder   2	Script, “A Time for Singing,” 1966 May; lyric sheets, “How Green Was My Valley,” , 1962 November 28
Box   9 Folder   3	Production notes, 1966
Box   9 Folder   4	Casting notes, playbills, reviews, 1964-1966
Box   9 Folder   5	Financial materials, correspondence, 1962-1969
Box   9 Folder   6	Prospectus, partnership contracts, 1965-1966
Box   10 Folder   1-4	Notes, script fragments and revisions, 1962-1966
	The Incomparable Max / by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (Royale Theatre, New York, 1971)
Box   10 Folder   5	Rehearsal script, 1971 September 13
Box   11 Folder   1	Script, undated
Box   11 Folder   2	Casting, production notes, 1971
Box   11 Folder   3	Reviews, clippings, 1971
	Invitation to a Beheading (New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, 1969)
Box   11 Folder   4	Reviews, 1969
	Iphigenia / by Doug Dyer and Peter Link (New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, 1971)
Box   11 Folder   5	Revised script, 1971 October 28
Box   11 Folder   6	Revised script, 1971 November 27
Box   Folder   7	Revised script, script fragments, 1971 December
Box   11 Folder   8	Two revised scripts, 1971
Box   11 Folder   9	Revised script, 1971
Box   11 Folder   10	Production notes, music and lyrics, script fragments, undated
	“I Remember, My Love” (see “How Green Was My Valley”)
	King Lear (New York Shakespeare Festival, Beaumont Theatre, New York, 1968 November 7)
Box   11 Folder   11	Casting, production notes, correspondence, 1968
	The Little Foxes / by Lillian Hellman (Westwood Playhouse, Los Angeles, 1975)
Box   11 Folder   12	Production notes, correspondence, 1975 June
Box   11 Folder   13	Reviews, 1975 June
	Love's Labor's Lost (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York, 1965)
Box   11 Folder   14	Reviews, notes, 1965 June-July
	Love's Labor's Lost (touring company, City Center Acting Company, 1974)
Box   11 Folder   15	Production notes, reviews, 1974
	Macbird / by Barbara Garson (Village Gate Theatre, New York, 1967 February 22)
Box   12 Folder   1	Reviews, 1967 January-February
	Mack and Mabel / by Michael Steward and Jerry Herman
Box   12 Folder   2	Act I draft, 1972 November; revised draft, , 1972 May
	Milliken Breakfast Show (Hotel Astor, New York, 1963; Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 1964)
Box   12 Folder   3	Casting, programs, 1963, 1964
	The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail / by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (Arena Stage Theatre, Washington, D.C., 1970)
Box   12 Folder   4	Script, 1970 June
Box   12 Folder   5	Script, 1970 October
Box   `12 Folder   6	Casting, production notes, reviews, 1970
	Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad / by Arthur Kopit (Phoenix Theatre, New York, 1962 February 26)
Box   12 Folder   7	Script, review, 1962
	On the Town (Carnegie Hall Playhouse, New York, 1959)
Box   12 Folder   8	Reviews, 1959
	The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story (New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, 1969 January 4)
Box   12 Folder   9	Casting, production notes, 1968-1969
	Peer Gynt / by Henrik Ibsen (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacourt Theatre, New York, 1969 July 15)
Box   12 Folder   10	Production notes, designs, reviews, 1969 Summer
Box   12 Folder   11	Script excerpts: comparative translations
Box   12 Folder   12	Rehearsal script, 1969
Box   12 Folder   13	Revised rehearsal script, 1969
	Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacourt Theatre, New York, 1966 August 9)
Box   13 Folder   1	Casting, production notes, reviews, 1966
	The Robber Bridegroom / by Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman (Harkness Theatre, New York, 1975)
Box   13 Folder   2	Reviews, 1975
	Room Service / by John Murray and Allen Boretz (Juilliard)
Box   13 Folder   3	Cast list, undated
	Rosemary and The Alligators / by Molly Kazan (York Playhouse, New York, 1960 November 15)
Box   13 Folder   4	Reviews, 1960-1961
	School for Scandal / by Richard Sheridan (touring company, Juilliard Acting Company, 1972)
Box   13 Folder   5	Casting, reviews, miscellaneous, 1971-1972
	Sing to Me Through Open Windows / by Arthur Kopit
Box   13 Folder   6	Two scripts, undated
Box   13 Folder   7	Scores, notes, undated
	Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Rules of The Game / by Luigi Pirandello
Box   13 Folder   8	Scripts, undated
	Soon / by Joe Kookoolis and Scott Fagen
Box   13 Folder   9	Casting, script, miscellaneous
	Souvenir / by George Axelrod and Peter Viertel (Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles, 1975)
Box   13 Folder   10	Early script, 1975
Box   13 Folder   11	Revised script, 1975 October
Box   13 Folder   12	Two revised scripts, 1975 Fall
Box   13 Folder   13	Casting, reviews, 1975
Box   13 Folder   14	Production notes, designs, 1975
	Take One Step (The New Pied Piper) / by Gerald Freedman and John Morris (New York Shakespeare Festival, New York Shakespeare Festival Mobile Theatre, New York, 1968)
Box   14 Folder   1	Nine screenplay drafts and revisions, 1968-1970
Box   14 Folder   2	Research, synopsis, notes, music, 1968-1970
Box   14 Folder   3	Television script, outlines and drafts, 1968-1970
Box   14 Folder   4	Two stage scripts, revised, and final script, 1974
	The Taming of the Shrew (New York Shakespeare Festival, Belvedere Lakes Theatre, New York, 1960)
Box   14 Folder   5	Casting, production notes, reviews, 1960 Summer
	The Tempest (New York, 1962 July 6)
Box   14 Folder   6	Casting, reviews, 1962 July
	A Time for Singing (see “How Green Was My Valley”)
	Timon of Athens (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacourt Theatre, Central Park, New York, 1971)
Box   14 Folder   7	Casting, production notes, reviews, 1971
	Titus Andronicus (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacourt Theatre, New York, 1967 August 2)
Box   14 Folder   8	Casting, production notes, designs, reviews, 1967
	The Trojan Woman / by F. G. Yerby (project not done)
Box   14 Folder   9	Script, correspondence, 1970 May-1971 May
	Trovarsi / by Luigi Pirandello (project not done)
Box   14 Folder   10	Program, review, undated
	West Side Story / by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim (New York City Center, New York, 1964 April 8)
Box   14 Folder   11	Reviews, miscellaneous, 1964 Spring
	Series: Miscellaneous File	⇧
Box   15 Folder   1	Concord Fabrics Inc. fashion show, 1966
Box   15 Folder   2	Israeli bond benefit, (Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1955)
	New York Shakespeare Festival
Box   15 Folder   3	Grant proposal to the National Council on the Arts, 1966
Box   15 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, 1966-1972
Box   15 Folder   5	Theater and TV reviews and programs, circa 1955-1974
Box   15 Folder   6	Ticket stubs, miscellany, 1967-1969
Box   15 Folder   7	Writings regarding “Film writing,” undated
M88-153	Part 2 (M88-153): Additions, 1962-1986 Physical Description: 5.0 cubic feet (4 records center cartons, 1 archives box, and 1 flat box) and photographs  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1962-1986, of theater files containing playbills, clippings, scripts, reviews, notes, designs, scores, production information, correspondence, materials relating to casting, and production stills. Materials document Freedman's work on numerous productions and as a composer for the Acting Company (New York City), New York Shakespeare Festival, the American Shakespeare [Festival] Theatre (Stratford, Connecticut), the San Francisco Opera, and numerous other companies.	⇧
Box   1 Folder   1	Margery Kempe
Box   1 Folder   2-3	Polly, Mac, and Mr. Mordecai
Box   1 Folder   4-12	The Robber Bridegroom
	The Acting Company
Box   1 Folder   13	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   14	Staff lists, schedules, auditions, etc.
Box   1 Folder   15	Reviews, articles, etc.
Box   1 Folder   16-17	The Acting Company in Repertory
Box   1 Folder   18	Camino Real
Box   6 Folder   2	Oversize material
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   1 Folder   19-24	Chapeau
Box   1 Folder   25	Duchess of Malfi
Box   1 Folder   26	Love's Labour Lost
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   1 Folder   27-28	The Robber Bridegroom
	American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut
Box   1 Folder   29	Contract, 1978 March 29
Box   1 Folder   30	Casting, 1979
Box   1 Folder   31	Miscellaneous, 1979
Box   1 Folder   32	Director's statement, etc.
Box   1 Folder   33	Resignation, 1980 February 18
Box   1 Folder   34-35	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   36	Clippings
Box   1 Folder   37	1979 Season
Box   1 Folder   38	Reviews
Box   1 Folder   39	Reviews, 1979
Box   1 Folder   40	Casting notes
Box   1 Folder   41	Budget statements
Box   1 Folder   42	Sample of audience survey
Box   2 Folder   1-6	Twelfth Night
Box   2 Folder   7-10	The Tempest
Box   2 Folder   11-13	Julius Caesar
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
	New York Shakespeare Festival
Box   2 Folder   14	1964
Box   2 Folder   15	Hamlet
Box   2 Folder   16	As You Like It
Box   2 Folder   17	A Comedy of Errors
Box   2 Folder   18	The Au Pair Man
Box   2 Folder   19	The Tempest
Box   2 Folder   20	Electra
Box   2 Folder   21	Taming of the Shrew
Box   2 Folder   22	Henry IV Parts I and II
Box   2 Folder   23	Take One Step
Box   2 Folder   24	Hasty Pudding
Box   2 Folder   25	St. Matthew Passion
Box   2 Folder   26	Beatrix Cenci
Box   2 Folder   27	Bells Are Ringing
Box   2 Folder   28	On the Town
Box   2 Folder   29	Otello, Tucson
Box   2 Folder   30	Peer Gynt
Box   2 Folder   31	Poppea
Box   2 Folder   32	Rosemary
Box   2 Folder   33-34	Northwestern University Gala, television
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   2 Folder   35	West Side Story
Box   2 Folder   36	West Side Story revival
Box   2 Folder   37	West Side Story, Paris
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   2 Folder   38	Gooney Bird preview
Box   2 Folder   39-41	The Graduate unproduced musical
Box   2 Folder   42	Beverly Sills television gala
Box   2 Folder   43-45	Quasimodo unproduced musical
Box   2 Folder   46-50	The Grand Tour Broadway
Box   2 Folder   51-52	Jewish Vaudeville/2nd Avenue Rag, new play Phoenix Theatre
Box   3 Folder   1-7	Angle of Repose, San Francisco Opera
Box   6 Folder   3	Oversize material
Box   3 Folder   8	Mrs. Warren's Profession
Box   3 Folder   9-10	Sarava pre-Broadway
Box   3 Folder   11	Ice-Travaganza
Box   3 Folder   12	The Incomparable Max
Box   3 Folder   13	The Creation of the World and Other Business
Box   3 Folder   14	The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
Box   3 Folder   15-16	Die Fledermaus
Box   3 Folder   17	The Gay Life
Box   3 Folder   18	Gypsy
Box   3 Folder   19	Hair
Box   3 Folder   20	Television
Box   3 Folder   21-47	Mahalia
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   3 Folder   48	Naughty Marietta
Box   3 Folder   49	Oh, Kay!
Box   3 Folder   50	Casting for Gay Life, The Day the Whores Came Out..., and Milliken show
Box   3 Folder   51	Miscellaneous
	America's Sweetheart
Box   4 Folder   1-5	General
Box   4 Folder   6	Miami, 1984-1985
Box   4 Folder   7-9	Hartford, Connecticut, 1985
Box   4 Folder   10-13	Northwestern University, 1983
Box   6 Folder   8	Oversize material
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   4 Folder   14	Katya Kabanova, San Francisco Opera, 1983
Box   6 Folder   5	Oversize material
Box   4 Folder   15	The Skin of Our Teeth, The Acting Company, JFK Center, 1984
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   4 Folder   16	The Show Off, Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey, 1984
Box   4 Folder   17	The Normal Heart
Box   4 Folder   18	Lucia de Lammermoor, Miami Opera, 1983-1984
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   4 Folder   19-21	Nabucco, San Francisco Opera, 1982
Box   6 Folder   6	Oversize material
WCFTR Stills Archive	Photographs
Box   4 Folder   22	La Boheme, San Francisco Opera, 1986
Box   4 Folder   23-24	Colette, New York, 1970
Box   4 Folder   25	The Song of Norway, New York City Opera, 1981
Box   4 Folder   26	Death and Taxes script, 1982
Box   4 Folder   27-29	Gone with Hardy or Cuckoo Waltz scripts
Box   4 Folder   30-31	Take One Step scripts
Box   4 Folder   32	Prince of Central Park West synopsis, 1984
Box   4 Folder   33	American Portraits, Baltimore Opera, 1985
Box   6 Folder   7	Oversize material
Box   4 Folder   34	Cry of Clytemnestra, San Francisco Opera, 1981
Box   4 Folder   35	Great Lakes Theatre Festival
	St. Matthew Passion
Box   5 Folder   1	Annotated score
Box   5 Folder   2-3	Minnesota Opera, 1976-1977
Box   5 Folder   4-5	San Francisco Opera, 1972-1973
Box   6 Folder   4	Oversize materials (production unknown)
Box   5 Folder   6-10	The Sound of Music, Australia, 1982
Box   5 Folder   11-13	A Time for Singing, 1962-1966
Box   5 Folder   14	L'Italiana in Algeri, Miami Opera, 1984-1985
Box   6 Folder   1	Miscellaneous oversize materials
M2008-055	Part 3 (M2008-055): Additions, 1945-1995 Physical Description: 6.6 cubic feet (17 archives boxes) and 1.0 cubic foot of photographs (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1945-1995, personal and business correspondence, play scripts and prompt scripts, stage-play and television production files; and photographs, including portraits, snapshots, and scene stills and production stills of plays directed by Mr. Freedman.	⇧
	Series: Biographical
Box   1 Folder   1	Résumés, clippings on career, Who's Who and theatrical encyclopedia entries on Gerald Freedman, press releases
Box   1 Folder   2	Address book
	Series: Correspondence	⇧
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1945-1951 Note: Mostly to and from family and friends, but with some letters dealing with the Valley Players, Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Gerald Freedman's employment there (playbills, press releases and form letters of the Valley Players originally associated with the correspondence have been filed separately in Box 3, Folder 14).
Box   3 Folder   4-7	General correspondence, 1971-1973, 1975-1980, 1984
Box   2 Folder   1-2	General correspondence (continued)
Box   2 Folder   3	Personal correspondence, 1961-1988, , undated
Box   2 Folder   4	Letters from family, 1976-1977
Box   2 Folder   4	Gerald Freedman related draft documents, 1945-1948
Box   2 Folder   5	Letters to and from Mrs. Fannie Freedman, Gerald Freedman's mother Note: Also includes obituaries on her death on September 28, 1979, and letters of condolence.
Box   2 Folder   6	Letters from notable correspondents Note: Includes Julie Andrews, Deborah Kerr, Joseph Papp, Jerome Robbins, Beverly Sills, Jan Skotnicki, and Jean Stapleton.
	Series: General	⇧
	American College Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Box   2 Folder   7	Correspondence, schedules, and playbills for venues attended during tours, 1975-1983 Note: Also includes transcripts of comments on productions at the venues by Freedman.
	American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut
Box   2 Folder   8	Correspondence list, 1983
	Harold Clurman
Box   2 Folder   9	Essays by Harold Clurman: photocopies
Box   2 Folder   9	“Soviet Diary”: typescript
Box   2 Folder   9	Correspondence between Freedman and Clurman, 1975
	Contracts
Box   2 Folder   10	Various productions directed by Freedman
	Great Lakes Theater Festival
Box   2 Folder   11	Clippings, playbills and correspondence, 1984-1987
Box   3 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1986
Box   3 Folder   2-3	Casting lists, 1986-1987
	Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theater Arts
Box   3 Folder   4	Correspondence, 1974-1977 Note: With John Mitchell about Freedman's teaching at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts (later part of the Northwood Institute Arts Program).
	Juilliard School
Box   3 Folder   5	Correspondence, lecture notes, regarding courses on directing, 1972-1974 Note: Lectures involved the topic “Acting Style,” and the plays Room Service and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
	Alvina Krause
Box   3 Folder   6	“The Playhouse, Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, 100 Productions”: pamphlet, 1956
Box   3 Folder   7	Letters from and about Alvina Krause
Box   3 Folder   7	Studies of Krause in Northwestern University publications
Box   3 Folder   7	Obituaries and eulogies, 1982 January
Box   3 Folder   7	Receipt and release for a legacy to Freedman under Krause's will
Box   3 Folder   7	Playbills for dedication of Krause Theater at Northwestern
	National Opera Institute and Central Opera Service
Box   3 Folder   8	Flyers and correspondence Note: Especially about a Central Opera Service conference in Toronto, October 1979, at which Freedman made a presentation on “New Directions for Opera Interpretation.”
	New York Shakespeare Festival
Box   3 Folder   9	Report and correspondence, circa 1964
	Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
	Northwestern University Theatre, 1947-1950 Note: Plays featuring Freedman as an actor and set designer.
Box   3 Folder   10	Clippings and playbills, 1948 Note: For Antigone, by Sophocles (November-December 1948), Dream Girl, by Elmer Rice (October 1948) and Volpone, by Ben Jonson (December 1947 and July 1948).
Box   3 Folder   11	Playbill for the “Waa-Mu Show of 1950”
	Alumni Awards, 1975 April 26
Box   3 Folder   12	Brochure and award
	Proposals for new media production and studies programs, 1983
Box   3 Folder   13	Schedules, rundowns, for 1980 campus television narrowcasts
Box   3 Folder   13	Letter from Roy V. Wood, regarding proposal, 1983 September 28
	The Valley Players, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1950
Box   3 Folder   14	Playbills, form letters, press release announcing Freedman's appointment as set designer Note: Also includes a few script pages and drafts of lyrics.
	Series: Projects: Theater Note: Productions directed by Freedman, unless noted otherwise or unidentified. Photographs have been separated and described in the Photographs series, and are arranged by production.	⇧
	The Alligators / play by Molly Kazan
	Unidentified production
Box   3 Folder   15	Script: copy with corrections, undated
	America's Sweetheart: musical / book by John Weidman and Alfred Uhry, music by Robert Waldman, lyrics by Alfred Uhry
	Huntington Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut, 1985
Box   3 Folder   16	Death and Taxes: play script with production notes, after 1982 August 25
Box   3 Folder   17	America's Sweetheart: play script copy, 1983 December
Box   4 Folder   1	America's Sweetheart: play script copy, circa 1984
Box   4 Folder   2	America's Sweetheart: typed draft, undated Note: With undated letter from Steve R.
Box   4 Folder   3	Notes and correspondence, 1983-1985
Box   4 Folder   4	Play script: copy with corrections, and playbill, 1984
	As You Like It / play by William Shakespeare
	Equity Library Theatre Inc., 1952
Box   4 Folder   5	Prompt script, production notes, copy for playbill and letters from Sefton Darr and Alvina Kraus
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Box   4 Folder   6	Prompt book
Box   4 Folder   7	Prompt script
	The Au Pair Man / play by Hugh Leonard
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1973-1974
Box   4 Folder   8	Prompt script, including cast, crew and prop lists, and light plots
	A Beast's Story / play by Adrienne Kennedy
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969 Note: As half of a double-bill with The Owl Answers, end Cities in Bezique.
Box   4 Folder   9	Play script: copy with corrections, undated
	Bells Are Ringing: musical / book and lyrics by Betty Comdon and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne
	Shubert Theatre and Alvin Theatre, New York, directed by Jerome Robbins, assistant director Gerald Freedman, 1956-1959
Box   5 Folder   1	Book: typescript carbon-copy, undated Note: Includes schedules, lists of numbers, orchestral forces. Also includes prop list for “The Merry Widow.”
Box   5 Folder   2	Director's notes, telegrams, clippings
Box   5 Folder   3	Prompt script: typescript carbon-copy with scene dividers
	Blood Wedding / play by Federico García Lorca
	Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, 1988 October 7-22
Box   5 Folder   4	Congratulatory correspondence and clippings
	La Bohème / opera by Giacomo Puccini
	San Francisco Opera, 1986
Box   5 Folder   5	Libretto: copy with cuts marked, playbill, chorus breakdown, cast list, supers list, props lists, director's notes, correspondence
	Brigadoon: musical / book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
	New York City Opera, 1986
Box   5 Folder   6	Book, congratulatory cards from cast, clippings, playbill, scene plot, schedules, contact sheets, prop lists, lighting cue sheets, playbill for original production, correspondence, clippings
	Camino Real / play by Tennessee Williams
	National Theatre, New York City, directed by Elia Kazan, produced by Cheryl Crawford, 1953 March-May
Box   5 Folder   7-9	Tennessee Williams's notes on the play: copy, prompt script, and production notes
Box   5 Folder   7-9	Tennessee Williams, American Blues: copy, including “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real,” signed by Cheryl Crawford
	Colette / play by Elinor Jones, adapted from book by Robert Phelps, Earthly Paradise
	Ellen Stewart Theatre, New York City, 1970
Box   5 Folder   10	Typescript: photocopy, revised 1969 December
Box   6 Folder   1	Typescript: copy with corrections, revised 1970 February 28
	The Comedy of Errors / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1967
Box   6 Folder   2	Prompt book
	Coriolanus / play by William Shakespeare
	Various productions
Box   6 Folder   3	Notes, clippings, and playbills
	A Critic and His Wife / play by John Ford Noonan
	Reading at the John Houseman Theatre, New York City, 1989 March 28
Box   6 Folder   4	Correspondence, playbill, and play script
	Eminent Domain / play by Percy Granger
	McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, and Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1981 January-February
Box   6 Folder   5	Agreement between the McCarter Theatre and Freedman, 1980 November 5
Box   6 Folder   5	Stage plans and set designs, 1980 November
Box   6 Folder   5	Clippings, notes, play script: copy
	The Gay Life: musical / book by Fay and Michael Kanin, lyrics by Howard Dietz, music by Arthur Schwartz, adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's play Anatol
	Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1961 November 1961
Box   6 Folder   6	“The Affairs of Anatol” play script: copy, undated Note: Marked “Property of Howard Dietz.”
Box   6 Folder   7	Script: annotated copy, 1960 October 14, revised 1961 January 17
Box   6 Folder   8	Director's notes, schedules, scene plot, memos from authors
	Gone with Hardy, a Cuckoo Waltz / play by David Allen
	Westbeth Theatre Center, New York City, 1984 March
Box   6 Folder   9	Typescript: copy, revised 1983 March 23
Box   6 Folder   10	Directors notes, script revises, script: copy
Box   17 Folder   1	Casting notes and correspondence, music and lyrics, director's notes and research, clippings on first production in Newcastle, England, schedules, contact lists, costume plot and prop list, sound effects plot, post-production correspondence with David Allen
	The Grand Tour / musical, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, based on S.N. Behrman's adaptation of Franz Werfel's play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel
	Palace Theatre, New York City, 1979 January
Box   7 Folder   1	Play script: copy with corrections, rehearsal draft, 1978 September 11
	Gypsy: musical / book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
	Broadway Theatre, New York City, Gerald Freedman assistant to the director, Jerome Robbins, 1959 May 21-1960 July 9
Box   7 Folder   2	Score: selections, script: revised, and rehearsal notes, 1959
Box   7 Folder   3	Script: copy with corrections and inserts
	Hair: musical / book and lyrics by Jerome Ragni and James Rado, music by Galt MacDermot
	Unidentified production
Box   17 Folder   2	Script: copy, copyright 1966
	Happy Hunting: musical / book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, music by Harold Karr
	Valley Forge Music Fair, 1958 June 9-21
Box   7 Folder   4	Playbill and clipping
	Home Is the Sailor (Os Velhos Marinheiros ou o Capitão de Longo Curso) / novel by Jorge Amado, 1961, English translation, 1964
	Unidentified production
Box   7 Folder   5	Correspondence, 1986 Note: Regarding rights with a view to a stage musical version of the novel.
	L'Incoronazione di Poppeia / opera by Claudio Monteverdi
	New York City Opera, 1973
Box   7 Folder   6	Scene plot
	Invitation to a Beheading / play by Vladimir Nabokov
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, 1969
Box   7 Folder   7	Play script: photocopy of typescript with annotations Note: Marked “Closest thing to a prompt script (now).”
	Jenùfa / opera by Leos Janáček
	Juilliard American Opera Center, New York City, 1978
Box   7 Folder   8	Correspondence with set designer Josef Svoboda and conductor Peter Adler
Box   7 Folder   8	Scene plot, lighting notes, schedules, cast list, director's notes, and clippings
	Julius Caesar / play by William Shakespeare
	American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut, 1979
Box   7 Folder   9-10	Prompt book with set designs, cast list and breakdown
	King Lear / play by William Shakespeare
	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1968 November-1969 February
Box   7 Folder   11	Playbill
	Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
	San Francisco Opera, 1981
Box   7 Folder   12	Libretto, breakdowns, props lists, scene plots, research photocopies and clippings, playbill, clippings of reviews
	San Francisco Opera, 1988
Box   8 Folder   1	Correspondence, production calendar, short score of Scene 3, schedules, staff assignments, chorus notes scenes in Act III, playbill
	Love's Labor's Lost / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1965 July
Box   8 Folder   2-3	Production book, with cast and staff credits, sketch of set design, play script with director's notes, music for “When daisies and violets blue ...,” sound cue sheets, property list, light cue sheets
Box   8 Folder   4	Prompt Book
	City Center Acting Company, 1975-1976
Box   8 Folder   5	“Directing Love's Labor's Lost” / by Gerald Freedman
Box   8 Folder   5	Play script: annotated copy, undated
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Newman Theatre, New York, 1989 January-March
Box   8 Folder   6	Cue schedule and staging notes
	Measure for Measure / play by William Shakespeare
	New Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California, 1981
Box   8 Folder   7	Clippings
	The Merry Widow: operetta / music by Franz Lehar
	Colonie Musical Theatre, undated
Box   17 Folder   3	Playbill, undated
	The Milliken Breakfast Show
	Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, Grand Ballroom, staged by Gerald Freeman, 1964 May 25-June 12
Box   8 Folder   8	Playbill
	Much Ado About Nothing / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1988
Box   9 Folder   1	Blocking book, research, production notes
	Naughty Marietta: operetta / music by Victor Herbert, book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
	New York City Opera production, State Theater, New York City, directed by Gerald Freedman and Theodor Pappas, 1978
Box   9 Folder   2	Book and score as adapted by Frederick S. Roffman, notes, prop lists, cast lists, and set designs
	Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad / play by Arthur Kopit
	Phoenix Theatre, New York City, directed by Jerome Robbins, 1962 February
Box   9 Folder   3	Play script: copy, revised 1962 November 29
	The Ohio State Murders / play by Adrienne Kennedy
	Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, undated
Box   9 Folder   4	Play script
	On the Town: musical / book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Alfred Green, music by Leonard Bernstein
	Carnegie Hall Playhouse, New York City, 1958 December
Box   9 Folder   5	Clippings
	The Owl Answers / play by Adrienne Kennedy
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969 Note: As half of a double-bill (with A Beast's Story) end Cities of Bezique.
Box   9 Folder   6	Play script: copy with annotations for lighting and music cues, undated
	Peer Gynt / play by Henrik Ibsen
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969
Box   9 Folder   7	“Freedman Edition” annotated and rearranged text of a translation of the play, version III, 1969 March 28
Box   9 Folder   8	Play text: photocopy
Box   9 Folder   9-10	Prompt book: annotated copy
Box   10 Folder   1	Lyrics and music
	Peter Pepper: proposed musical film / book by Ira Wallach, music by John Morris, lyrics by Gerald Freedman Note: See also Take One Step.
	Unidentified production
Box   10 Folder   2	Drafts of screenplay, lyrics and music, correspondence, 1970
	Post Mortem / play by Lynn Parker
	Unidentified production
Box   10 Folder   3	Play script: annotated photocopy, undated
	The Postman Always Rings Twice / opera by Stephen Paulus, based on the novel by James M. Cain
	Greater Miami Opera, Miami, Florida, 1988 March
Box   10 Folder   4	Props lists, contact sheet, light cues, research clippings; playbill, clippings of reviews, and congratulatory cards
	Quasimodo: musical / book by Anthony Scully, lyrics by Hal Hackady, music by Larry Grossman, based on Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo
	Unidentified production
Box   10 Folder   5	Script: second draft, and notes, 1977 September 15
Box   10 Folder   6	Script: third draft, and notes, 1978 May 10
	Richard III, play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1966 Summer
Box   10 Folder   7	Prompt Book: annotated play script of Penguin Books edition
	The Robber Bridegroom: opera / book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry, music by Robert Waldman, adapted from the novel by Eudora Welty
	Harkness Theater, New York City, 1975 October 7-18
Box   10 Folder   8	Play script: photocopy typescript first draft
Box   10 Folder   9	Play script: photocopy typescript second first draft
	“Robbins Project”/”Poppa Piece”
	Unidentified production
Box   11 Folder   1-2	Drafts and notes for a project titled “Poppa,” 1976-1991
Box   11 Folder   3	Drafts for a project titled “Jerry Robbins Project,” 1990-1991
Box   11 Folder   4	Director's notes, correspondence regarding casting and scheduling, rehearsal schedules, 1990-1991
	Romeo and Juliet / play by William Shakespeare
	Unidentified production, SUNY Purchase, 1983
Box   11 Folder   5	Correspondence and director's notes
	Rosemary / play by Molly Kazan
	York Theatre, New York City, 1960 December
Box   11 Folder   6	Play script: copy, undated
Box   11 Folder   7	Play script: annotated and revised copy
	Run for the Money: musical / book and lyrics by Gerald Freedman?
	Unidentified production
Box   11 Folder   8	Play script with lyrics: draft
	The Saint Matthew Passion / oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Semi-staged performance, San Francisco Opera, 1973 and 1976
Box   11 Folder   9-11	Stage plan, notes, cast, schedules, properties list, annotated score
	The Saintliness of Margery Kempe / play by John Wulp
	York Theatre, New York City, 1959 Note: First production.
Box   12 Folder   1	Letter from John Wulp, 1972 July 13
Box   12 Folder   1	Director's notes on Act Three: photocopy; play script: copy, undated
	The School for Scandal / play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
	APA Phoenix Production, Juilliard Theater Center, City Center Acting Company Group I production, directed by Ellis Raab, 1966-1967
Box   12 Folder   2	Play script: cut version, part 1
Box   12 Folder   3	Play script, part 2
	Lyceum Theatre, City Center Acting Company revival, 1995 November-December
Box   12 Folder   4	Letter of agreement
	Second Avenue Rag / play by Allan Knee
	Unidentified production
Box   12 Folder   5	Play script: copy, undated
Box   12 Folder   6	“Jewish Vaudeville” play script: copy, undated
	Sing to Me through Open Windows / play by Arthur Kopit
	Players Theatre, New York City, 1965 March Note: As half of a double bill with The Day the Whores Came Out to Play.
Box   12 Folder   7	Play script: annotated copy, revised 1961 December 7
	Song of Norway: musical / music by Edvard Grieg, book by Milton Lazarus, musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest
	New York City Opera Production, Lincoln Center, 1981 September
Box   12 Folder   8	Book: copy
	Soon: musical / music by Joseph M. Kookoolis and Scott Fagan, lyrics by Scott Fagan
	Ritz Theatre, New York City, with additional staging by Gerald Freedman, 1971 January
Box   12 Folder   9	Clippings
	The Sound of Music: musical / book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein III, music by Richard Rodgers
	Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia, 1983
Box   12 Folder   10	Clippings
	South Pacific: musical / music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
	New York City Opera, State Theater, New York City, 1987 March
Box   13 Folder   1	Production history and book
Box   13 Folder   2	Correspondence, director's notes, casting, props list, and schedules
Box   13 Folder   3	Clippings and congratulatory telegrams
	Take One Step!: musical / book by Gerald Freedman, lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Morris, music by John Morris Note: See also Peter Pepper.
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1968
Box   13 Folder   4	Play script: typed, undated
	Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, 1986
Box   13 Folder   5	Drafts, notes, correspondence, copyright registration form, 1985
Box   13 Folder   5	Drafts, 1968
	Screenplay version, undated
Box   13 Folder   6	Screenplay: photocopy, including storyboard illustrations, undated
	The Taming of the Shrew / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1960
Box   13 Folder   7	Script: annotated
	The Tempest / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1962 Summer
Box   13 Folder   8	Prompt book and music: annotated, Pelican Shakespeare edition
Box   14 Folder   1	Prompt book: copy annotated, Pelican Shakespeare edition
	American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut, 1979
Box   14 Folder   2	Prompt book, rehearsal schedule and production notes
Box   14 Folder   2	Director's notes
	A Time for Singing / adaptation as a musical of Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley, book and lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Morris, music by John Morris
	Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1966 May-June
Box   14 Folder   3	“I Remember, My Love”: copy of play script, revised 1964 December 22
Box   14 Folder   4	“How Green Was My Valley”: copy of play script, 1965 February 10
Box   14 Folder   5	“A Time for Singing”: copy of play script, 1965 October 20
Box   14 Folder   6	“A Time for Singing”: rehearsal notes, J. Wishy, 1966
Box   14 Folder   6	Director's memos to cast and crew, and letters to Gerald Freedman on the production from Joseph Wishy, 1966
Box   14 Folder   7	Schedules, clippings, playbill, production correspondence, 1965
	Unidentified production, circa 1991
Box   14 Folder   8	Play script: copy, revised 1991
	Various productions
Box   15 Folder   1	Correspondence
	Unidentified German language production
Box   15 Folder   2	“Wie grün war mein Tal einst”: book, German translation and revision by Johannes Felsenstein, 1978 September
Box   15 Folder   3	“Wie grün war mein Tal einst”: score
Box   15 Folder   4	“A Time for Singing, Felsenstein”: correspondence and agreements with Johannes Felsenstein, 1978-1981
Box   17 Folder   4	Correspondence with Johannes Felsenstein, 1981-1983
	Titus Andronicus / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1967
Box   15 Folder   5	Prompt book: annotated play script
	La Tragédie de Carmen / opera by Georges Bizet
	Bouffes du Nord, Paris, directed by Peter Brook, 1981
Box   15 Folder   6	Playbill and clippings
	West Side Story: musical / book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein
	Unidentified production
Box   15 Folder   7	Play script: copy of typescript, undated
Box   15 Folder   8	Play script: copy, undated
	Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, directed by Jerome Robbins, assistant to the director Gerald Freedman, 1957 September
Box   15 Folder   9	Play script: copy, undated
Box   15 Folder   9	Original drawing of Gerald Freedman: signed, 1957 September 2
Box   15 Folder   9	Music cue list, revised script pages, staff and cast lists
Box   16 Folder   1	Play script: copy with revisions, undated
Box   16 Folder   2	Play script: copy with lighting cues, undated
	Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1958
Box   16 Folder   3	Clippings and playbill
	Series: Projects: Television	⇧
	A Muse of Fire: A Shakespeare Gala, 1980 Note: Proposed television program and potential series to be produced by WNET Thirteen/The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, for which Freedman served as proposal consultant.
Box   16 Folder   4	Contracts, contact list, casting notes, drafts of presentations on Shakespeare, proposal brochure
	The Way They Were, a Northwestern University Television Special, distributed by Paramount Television, produced by Bob Banner and Gerald Freedman, recorded 1980 October
Box   16 Folder   5	Script: final draft, 1980 September 26
Box   16 Folder   6-8	Production files, scheduling, cast list, staff list, rundown, script
	Unidentified projects
Box   16 Folder   9	Notes and sketches for various film or television scripts, undated Note: Originally in folder labeled “Rainbow on My Shoulder.”
	Series: Photographs	⇧
	Gerald Freedman
Box   18 Folder   1	Portraits
Box   20 Folder   1	Oversize prints
Box   19 Folder   21	Negatives
Box   18 Folder   2	Snapshots of Freedman, relatives and friends Note: Includes Edward Albee and Deborah Kerr.
Box   18 Folder   3	Slides Note: Includes James Jones and Colleen Dewhurst.
Box   18 Folder   5	George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Stacy Keach, Alvina Krause, and Charlotte Rae
Box   18 Folder   6	Directing
Box   18 Folder   7	Acting appearances and stage designs
Box   18 Folder   8	Scene and production stills
	Projects: Theater
	Ariadne auf Naxos / opera by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss
	Unidentified production
Box   18 Folder   9	Contact sheets and enlargement order list
	As You Like It / play by William Shakespeare
	Equity Library Theatre Inc., 1952
Box   18 Folder   10	Scene stills
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Box   18 Folder   11	Scene stills
	The Au Pair Man / play by Hugh Leonard
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1973-1974
Box   18 Folder   12	Scene still
	Il Ballo delle ingrate / opera by Claudio Monteverdi
	San Francisco Opera, 1981 Note: In double bill with The Cry of Clytemnestra.
Box   18 Folder   13	Scene stills
	A Beast's Story / play by Adrienne Kennedy
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969 Note: As half of a double-bill with The Owl Answers, end Cities in Bezique.
Box   18 Folder   14	Scene stills
	Bells Are Ringing: musical / book and lyrics by Betty Comdon and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne
	Shubert Theatre and Alvin Theatre, New York, directed by Jerome Robbins, assistant director Gerald Freedman, 1956-1959
Box   18 Folder   15	Scene stills
	Black Electra / play adapted from Sophocles
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969
Box   18 Folder   16	Scene still
	Brigadoon: musical / book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
	New York City Opera, 1986
Box   18 Folder   17	Scene mockups
	Colette / play by Elinor Jones, adapted from book by Robert Phelps, Earthly Paradise
	Ellen Stewart Theatre, New York City, 1970
Box   18 Folder   18	Scene stills
	The Comedy of Errors / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1967
Box   18 Folder   19	Scene still
	The Cry of Clytemnestra / opera by John Eaton
	San Francisco Opera, 1981 Note: In double bill with Il Ballo delle ingrate.
Box   18 Folder   20	Set design still
	Electra / play by Sophocles Note: See also Black Electra.
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1964
Box   18 Folder   21	Scene stills
	Ergo / play by Jakov Lind
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1968
Box   18 Folder   22	Scene stills of Jack Hollander and Gerald Freedman
	Gone with Hardy, a Cuckoo Waltz / play by David Allen
	Westbeth Theatre Center, New York City, 1984 March
Box   18 Folder   23	Casting portraits of Kathleen Doyle and Michael O'Connor
Box   18 Folder   23	Stills of O'Connor as Stan
	Hasty Pudding Theatricals review, Harvard University
	Unidentified productions, 1940s
Box   18 Folder   24	Scene stills
	Idomeneo / opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 1974 May
Box   18 Folder   25	Scene stills by Richard Braaten
Box   18 Folder   25	Contact sheets, 1974 May 18-19
	Invitation to a Beheading / play by Vladimir Nabokov
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, 1969
Box   18 Folder   26	Scene stills
	Jenùfa / opera by Leos Janáček
	Juilliard American Opera Center, New York City, 1978
Box   18 Folder   27	Stage mockups
	King Lear / play by William Shakespeare
	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1968 November-1969 February
Box   18 Folder   28	Scene stills
	Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
	San Francisco Opera, 1981
Box   18 Folder   29	Scene stills, before 1982 July 15
	San Francisco Opera, 1988
Box   18 Folder   30	Snapshots
	Love's Labor's Lost / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1965 July
Box   19 Folder   1	Scene stills
Box   19 Folder   1	Production still of Freedman directing
	Lucia di Lammermoor / opera by Gaetano Donizetti
	Unidentified production
Box   19 Folder   2	Scene stills, before 1984 March 4
Box   20 Folder   2	Scene stills, oversize, before 1984 March 4
	Macbird! / play by Barbara Garson
	Village Gate (Upstairs), directed by Roy Levine, 1967 February
Box   19 Folder   3	Scene stills
	Orfeo / opera by Claudio Montiverdi
	San Francisco Opera, 1972
Box   19 Folder   4	Scene stills, before 1975 January 11
	The Owl Answers / play by Adrienne Kennedy
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969 Note: As half of a double-bill (with A Beast's Story) end Cities of Bezique.
Box   19 Folder   5	Scene stills
	Peer Gynt / play by Henrik Ibsen
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1969
Box   19 Folder   6	Scene stills
	Richard III, play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1966 Summer
Box   19 Folder   7	Scene stills
	The Saint Matthew Passion / oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Semi-staged performance, San Francisco Opera, 1973 and 1976
Box   19 Folder   8	Scene stills
Box   19 Folder   9	Slides and transparencies
	South Pacific: musical / music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
	New York City Opera, State Theater, New York City, 1987 March
Box   19 Folder   10	Stills of mockups of stage settings, 1986 November
	Souvenir / play by George Axelrod and Peter Viertel
	Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles, California, 1975
Box   19 Folder   11	Contact sheets
	Take One Step!: musical / book by Gerald Freedman, lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Morris, music by John Morris Note: See also Peter Pepper.
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1968
Box   19 Folder   12	Production stills of Freedman with others, including Ethel Martin and John Morris
	The Taming of the Shrew / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1960
Box   19 Folder   13	Scene stills
	The Tempest / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1962 Summer
Box   19 Folder   15	Scene stills
Box   20 Folder   3	Picture of Paul Stevens and Kathy Widdoes
	Unidentified production
Box   19 Folder   14	Contact sheets
	A Time for Singing / adaptation as a musical of Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley, book and lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Morris, music by John Morris
	Unidentified German language production
Box   19 Folder   16	John Morris and Freedman during rehearsal, general rehearsal shots, contact sheets
	Titus Andronicus / play by William Shakespeare
	New York Shakespeare Festival, 1967
Box   19 Folder   17	Rehearsal
	Twelfth Night / play by William Shakespeare
	American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut, 1976
Box   19 Folder   18	Contact sheets
	Unidentified
Box   19 Folder   19	From various shows, prints and contact sheets
	Projects: Television
	ABC Stage 67
	Episode 23: I'm Getting Married: musical / book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jules Styne, directed by Gerald Freedman, broadcast 1967 March 16
Box   19 Folder   20	Stills showing Freedman directing Ann Bancroft and Dick Shawm
	The Way They Were
	Northwestern University, 1980
Box   18 Folder   4	Freedman with others