Abraham Polonsky Papers, 1936-1968

Contents List

Container Title
The Man in the Moon (N. Y., 1963, April 11)
Note

Dir: Gerald Freedman

Writer: Arthur Burns, based on story by Bill Baird

Music: Jerry Bock

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

Scripts, 1963
Box   1
Folder   1
Script A, Act I, Prologue and Partial Scene I
Box   1
Folder   2
Script B, Act I, Scenes II and III
Box   1
Folder   3
Script C, Act I, Scenes I, II, IV, V, and VI
Box   1
Folder   4
Script D, Act I, Scenes I-VI
Box   1
Folder   5
Songs, music and lyric manuscripts, 1963
She Loves Me (N.Y., 1963, April 23)
Note

Prod: Harold S. Prince, in association with Lawrence N. Kasha and Philip C. McKenna

Dir: Harold S. Prince

Writer: Book by Joe Masterhoff, based on the play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo

Music: Jerry Bock

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

Cast: Barbara Cook, Barbara Baxley, Jack Cassidy, Daniel Massey, Ludwig Donath

Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   6
Opening night, 1963, March-April
Box   1
Folder   7
Commendations, 1963, March-December
Box   1
Folder   8
Business, 1962, November 1963, December
Scripts
Box   1
Folder   9
Parfumerie,1937
Box   1
Folder   10
Parfumerie, revised Act I, Scene I, n.d.
Box   1
Folder   11
The Shop Around the Corner (early title), 1963
She Loves Me
Box   1
Folder   12
Script outline, Acts I and III, 1963
Box   1
Folder   13
Annotated draft, 1963
Songs Used in Production (in production order)
Box   2
Folder   1
“Good Morning, Good Day,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   2
“Sounds While Selling” and “Thank You, Madam,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   3
“Days Gone By,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   4
“No More Candy,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   5
“Three Letters,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   6
“Tonight at Eight,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   7
“I Don't Know Her Name,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   8
“Perspective,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   9
“Goodbye, George,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   10
“Will He Like Me?,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   11
“Ilona,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   12
“I Resolve,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   13
“A Romantic Atmosphere,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   14
“Tango Tragique,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   15
“Dear Friend,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   16
“Try Me,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   17
“Where's My Shoe?,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   18
“Ice Cream,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   19
“She Loves Me,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   20
“A Trip to the Library,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   21
“Grand Knowing You,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   22
“Twelve Days to Christmas,” lyric mss
Songs Not Used in Production (in alphabetical order)
Box   2
Folder   23
“Anna” and “Time to Go Home,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   24
“Heads I Win,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   25
“Hello, Love,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   26
“Her,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   27
“Merry Christmas Bells,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   28
“Mr. Nowak, Will You Please?,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   29
“My Drug Store,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   30
“Parfumerie,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   31
“Poor George,” lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   32
“Seasonal Pleasures,” dialogue, music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   33
“Second Floor, Apt. 6,” dialogue and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   34
“Tell Me I Look Nice,” music and lyric mss
Box   2
Folder   35
“What a Night,” music and lyric mss
To Broadway With Love (New York World's Fair, 1964, April 22)
Note

Prod: George Schaefer

Dir: Morton Da Costa

Music: Jerry Bock

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

Box   3
Folder   1
Production Outline, 1963, January
Songs
Box   3
Folder   2
Correspondence and theme outlines, 1964, January, February
Box   3
Folder   3-4
Music and lyric mss, 1964
Fiddler on the Roof (N.Y., 1964, September 22)
Note

Prod: Harold S. Prince

Dir: Harold S. Prince

Writer: Book by Joseph Stein, based on stories by Sholom Aleichem

Music: Jerry Bock

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

Staging and Choreography: Jerome Robbins

Cast: Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Bea Arthur

Box   3
Folder   5
Business Papers, 1962, January, 1965, November
Box   3
Folder   6
Script Outlines, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   7
Script for Tevye (early title), 1962
Box   3
Folder   8
Casting, 1963, September, 1964, March
Dialogue
Box   3
Folder   9
Tevye's opening monologue, 1963-1964
Box   3
Folder   10
Tevye's second monologue, 1963-1964
Box   3
Folder   11
Tevye's third monologue, 1963-1964
Box   3
Folder   12
Miscellaneous, 1963-1964
Songs Used in Production, music and lyric mss (in production order), 1963-1964
Box   4
Folder   1
“Tradition”
Box   4
Folder   2
“Matchmaker, Matchmaker”
Box   4
Folder   3
“If I Were a Rich Man”
Box   4
Folder   4
“Sabbath Prayer”
Box   4
Folder   5
“To Life”
Box   4
Folder   6
“Miracle of Miracles”
Box   4
Folder   7
“Tevye's Dream (The Tailor Motel Kamzoil)”
Box   4
Folder   8
“Sunrise, Sunset”
Box   4
Folder   9
“Now I Have Everything”
Box   4
Folder   10
“Do You Love Me?”
Box   4
Folder   11
“Far From the Home I Love”
Box   4
Folder   12
“Anatevka”
Songs Not Used in Production, music and lyric mss (in alphabetical order), 1963-1964
Box   4
Folder   13
“As Much As That”
Box   4
Folder   14
“A Butcher's Soul”
Box   4
Folder   15
“Chavaleh”
Box   4
Folder   16
“Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine”
Box   4
Folder   17
“Fiddler on the Roof”
Box   4
Folder   18
“Get Thee Out”
Box   4
Folder   19
“Here in Anatevka”
Box   4
Folder   20
“I Can't Wait”
Box   4
Folder   21
“I Had a Relative”
Box   4
Folder   22
“I Just Heard”
Box   4
Folder   23
“If I Were a Woman”
Box   4
Folder   24
“A Little Bit of This”
Box   4
Folder   25
“Make a Bigger Circle”
Box   4
Folder   26
“A New World”
Box   4
Folder   27
“Poppa Help Me”
Box   5
Folder   1
“Promise Me”
Box   5
Folder   2
“The Richest Man in Town,” lyric mss only
Box   5
Folder   3
“Somehow the Time Will Pass”
Box   5
Folder   4
“The Story of Jacob”
Box   5
Folder   5
“That's Life”
Box   5
Folder   6
“To Marry For Love”
Box   5
Folder   7
“We'll Work for Tomorrow Today,” lyric mss only
Box   5
Folder   8
“We're Very Lucky”
Box   5
Folder   9
“We've Never Missed a Sabbath Yet”
Box   5
Folder   10
“What Should I Do?”
Box   5
Folder   11
“When Messiah Comes”
Box   5
Folder   12
“Where Poppa Came From”
Box   5
Folder   13
“Why”
Correspondence, congratulatory
Box   5
Folder   14
1964, July-December
Box   5
Folder   15
1965, January-December
Baker Street (N.Y., 1965, February 16)
Note

Prod: Alexander H. Cohen, in association with Gabriel Katzka

Dir: Harold S. Prince

Writer: Book by Jerome Coopersmith, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Music: and lyrics: Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessell

Cast: Fritz Weaver, Inga Swenson, Martin Gabel

Box   5
Folder   16
Correspondence, opening night, 1965, February
Box   5
Folder   17-18
Songs, music and lyric mss, 1964-1965
The Apple Tree (N.Y., 1966, October 18)
Note

Prod: Stuart Ostrow

Dir: Mike Nichols

Writers: Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton and Jules Feiffer

Music: Jerry Bock

Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick

Cast: Barbara Harris, Larry Blyden, Alan Alda

Plays Used in Production
“The Diary of Adam and Eve,” based on a Mark Twain story
Box   6
Folder   1
Songs, music and lyric mss, 1966
Box   6
Folder   2
Script and lyric mss, 1966, July-August
Box   6
Folder   3
Coopersmith's final script with Harnick's annotations, 1965, August-September
Box   6
Folder   4
Script and lyric mss, 1966, April-September
Box   6
Folder   5
Script, music and lyric mss, 1966
“The Lady or the Tiger,” based on a Frank Stockton story
Box   6
Folder   6
Coopersmith's final script and music and lyric mss, 1966
Box   6
Folder   7
Revised script, 1966, February-June
Box   7
Folder   1
Revised script and notes, 1966, January
Box   7
Folder   2
Miscellaneous papers and “Passionella,” based on a Jules Feiffer cartoon - correspondence, script and lyric mss, 1966, September
“Passionella”
Box   7
Folder   3
Music and lyric mss, 1966
Box   7
Folder   4
Dialogue, music and lyric mss, 1966
Box   7
Folder   5
Two early script and early rehearsal typescript, 1966, May, July
Plays Not Used in Production
Box   7
Folder   6
“Among the Paths to Eden,” script, music and lyric mss, 1966, May
Box   7
Folder   7
“Young Goodman Brown,” music and lyric mss, 1966
Box   7
Folder   8
Plot outlines and partial revised scripts, 1966, September
Her First Roman (N.Y., 1968, October 20)
Note

Prod: Joseph Cates and Henry Fownes

Dir: Derek Goldby

Writer: Ervin Drake, adapted from G. B. Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra

Cast: Richard Kiley, Leslie Uggams, Claudia McNeil

Box   7
Folder   9
Lyric mss, 1968