Part 1 (U.S. Mss 40AN, Audio 1897A): Original Collection, 1941-1966
Physical Description: 16.8 cubic feet (42 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) and 3 discs 
Scope and Content Note

The collection was organized by the Archives in two parts, designated here as the Original Collection, 1949-1961, and the Additions, 1941-1966.

The Original Collection is composed of Ms. Rosenthal's lighting notes for a number of productions mounted between 1949 and 1961. At her request, these papers (Boxes 1-24) were left in the physical order in which she arranged them: the order of all papers is unchanged and sub-headings appear on individual folders as she had them on her own folders.

The Additions contain Ms. Rosenthal's lighting notes for a number of productions mounted between 1941 and 1966. Most of the material is from her work with the New York City Opera Company in the early 1950s, and from Broadway shows dating from the late 1950s up until 1966. The productions are arranged alphabetically by title. The Additions include set designs and light plots for some of the productions represented in the Original Collection.

Series: Part 1: Original Collection, 1949-1961

House of Flowers, 1954
Note: Written by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen
Produced by Saint Subber
Designed by Oliver Messel
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Design elevations of set units and pieces; cue sheets; hanging plot; rigging plot

Property plot; preliminary electrics plots; hanging section plans; electrics hookup plots; light plot for Alvin Theatre, New York; set photograph; order of scenes; cue sheets; color cutting list; effects plot

Property list; sound equipment list; color cutting list; order of scenes; list of material; strike, set, and stack plan; order of scenes; rough sketches of set pieces; playbill, Erlanger Theatre, Philadelphia; effects plot; scene designs and details schedule; sound equipment list; rigging and hookup notes; electrics hookup plot; color cutting list

Saint of Bleecker Street, 1951
Note: Written by Gian-Carlo Menotti
Produced by Chandler Cowles
Designed by Robert Randolph
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Hookups; dimmer plot; rigging plot; cue sheets; electrical equipment lists; color list; color cutting lists

Focus chart; hookup by pipes; cue sheets; board hookup

Color cutting list; electrical equipment lists; light plots

Quadrille, 1954
Note: Written by Noel Coward
Produced by John C. Wilson
Designed by Cecil Beaton
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Board hookups; cue sheets; color list; miscellaneous production notes; equipment list; unit hookup and focus chart

Gel samples; light plots; photographs of set and set designs; unit hookups and focus charts; equipment lists; color lists; floor plan of Forrest Theatre stage; floor plans of sets' miscellaneous production notes; rigging plan; preset list

Ondine, 1953
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Rigging plot; hookup plots; miscellaneous notes; cue sheet

Beggar's Opera (City Center), 1957
Note: Written by John Gay
Designed by Watson Barratt
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Auxiliary board hookup chart; cue sheets; floor plan of set; stage and light layout

Time of Your Life (City Center), 1955
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; hookups; floor plan of set

Hole in the Head, 1957
Note: Produced by Robert Whitehead
Designed by Boris Aronson
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; hookup chart; equipment list; original focus chart; electrical property design

Electrical property design; fabric swatch; hookups; cue sheets; photograph of set design

Miscellaneous production notes; hookups; cue sheets; equipment lists; color lists

Light plots; ground plans of sets; elevations of sets; working plans; rigging plot plans; photograph of set design

New York City Opera

1954 Spring

Salome

Cue sheets; hookups

Falstaff

Photographs of set designs; ground plans of sets; device instructions

Showboat

Projection notes; set piece plans

The Tender Land

Ground plan; rigging plan

Switchboard and focus charts, 1950 season; rental equipment lists for tour; focus chart; board layout chart; call sheet, , 1952 Fall

Miscellaneous production notes; general light plots, 1950 Spring

General light plot, Spring 1950; board layout chart; rigging plot; board hookup, , 1950; focus sheets; miscellaneous production notes

Hookup plots and charts

The Great Sebastians (New York), 1955
Note: Produced by Leland Haywood
Designed by Ray Sovey
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

General plans of set; set elevations; set designs; fabric swatches

Light plot; color lists; set designs; hookup plot; focus chart

The Great Sebastians, tour, 1956-1957

Communication system plot; lighting revisions list; board hookup plot; cue sheets; equipment lists; light plots; focus charts; set elevations; ground plans

Preset lists; miscellaneous notes; focus chart; color lists; board hookup plots; preset list; equipment list

Rigging plot; preset plot; board hookup plots; light plots; focus charts; color lists; communication system plots; equipment lists

José Limón, 1949-1950

The Moor's Pavane: Cue sheet

Playbill, Ziegfield Theatre; cue sheets; take out sheets; rigging plots; equipment list, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre; ground plan of stage, Bellas Artes (Mexico)

La Malinche: Cue sheet

Tour cue sheets

The Moor's Pavan: Cue sheets; color sheets

Tormentor and color changes

Invention: Cue sheets

Bach Preludes and Fugues Concert: Cue sheets

Invention: Cue sheets

Connecticut College Dance Festival, 1950: Hookup sheets; miscellaneous notes

Vivaldi Concerto: Cue sheets

Corybantic: Cue sheets; hookup charts

Day on Earth: Cue sheets

Chaconne: Color sheets; cue sheets; setup charts

Lament for Ignacio: Cue sheets; hookup sheets

Day on Earth: Cue sheets

Lament for Ignacio: Hookups; setup charts, floor; cue sheets; sketch of ground plan

Story of Mankind: Hookup sheet; cue sheets; rough sketches

The Moor's Pavane: Cue sheets; hookup sheets; color plot

La Malinche: Color sheets; cue sheets; setup charts, floor

Exiles: Hookup sheets; cue sheets; setup charts, floor

Dudley-Maslov-Bales, New London, 1950

Connecticut College Dance Festival, 1950: Cue sheets; rigging plots

PEON Portraits: Setup charts; color sheets; cue sheets

Dust Bowl Ballads: Cue sheet; setup chart; color sheet

Harmonica: Setup charts; cue sheets

Village I Knew: Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets; setup charts; auxiliary hookup charts

Passional: Auxiliary hookup charts; miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Bach Suite: Cue sheet

Lonely Ones: Cue sheets; auxiliary hookup sheets; miscellaneous notes; setup charts; color charts

World's a Comin': Cue sheets

Short Story: Cue sheet

Song for a Child: Cue sheet

Folksay: Auxiliary hookup sheets; cue sheets; typescript cue sheets; color sheets

Vogary: Color sheets; cue sheets; setup charts

Champion: Typescript cue sheet; cue sheets; hookup sheets; setup charts

Impromptu: Cue sheet

Old pieces

Beethoven Cue sheet

Judith: Cue sheets; auxiliary setup sheet

American Dance Festival, New London, 1950

Color changes; color charts

Electrical hookup

Hanging plots

Soloists; cue sheets

Ballet Russet de Monte Carlo, 1950 Spring

Playbills

Met setup

Prince Igor: Cue sheets

Mort du Cygne: Cue sheets

Romeo and Juliet: Cue sheets

Madrones: Cue sheets

Giselle: Cue sheets

Tour equipment notes

New York City Dance Theatre, 1949

Hookup sheets; cue sheets; miscellaneous notes; program; publicity material

Valerie Vettis: Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Concerto - Vivaldi: Cue sheets

Invention: Cue sheets

Story of Mankind: Cue sheet

Cue sheets for Mr. Puppett, Two Step, Quiet Day in the Wild West, Tenant of the Street, The Monkey Dance, Witch, Daughter of Virtue, Dreams, Mabry, Interlude

Time sheets

Flickers: Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Jesse James: Cue sheets

Shakers: Cue sheet

Rose of Sharon: Cue sheets

Fables: Cue sheets

Daddy Was a Fireman: Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Atavism: Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Ozark Suite: Cue sheets

Folksay - Dudley-Maslov-Bales: Cue sheets

Festival - Dudley-Maslov-Bales: Cue sheet

Lonely Ones - Dudley-Maslov-Bales: Cue sheets

Champion - Dudley-Maslov-Bales: Cue sheets

Ruth Page, José Limón in Paris

American Dance Festival, 1955 ANTA

Vettis: As I Lay Dying and Golden Round

Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets; hookup sheets

Butler: Davy Crockett, Three Promenades with God

Miscellaneous notes; hookup sheets; cue sheets

Collins: Spirituals, Rondo, Bird of Paradise

Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Draper: Gizelle, Alcina Suite

Cue sheets

Halpern: Steig, Prophetess

Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Koner: Anzilica, Sandra

Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Lang: Rites, Joy is My Witness

Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Limón: Day on Earth, Deed Rhythm, Felipe, Lament, The Moor's Pavane; Mozart: Fantasy, Nightspell, Dreams and Vision, Traitor, Variations

Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Mabrey: Dreams, Lamb of God, A'Passionetta, Cabaret Suite

Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Nagrin: Man Dancing, Man of Action, Spanish Dance, Strange Hero

Miscellaneous notes; cue sheets

Sokolov: Rooms

Cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Judy Garland at the Met and Baltimore, 1959

Layout; electrical equipment list; playbill

Met

Master cue sheets

Hookup sheets

Focus charts; running order; color lists; diagrams; hanging plot

Baltimore

Cue sheets

Hookup sheets; equipment lists; focus charts

Cue sheets

Hookup and hanging notes

Judy Garland at the Palace, 1951
Note: Designed by David Bines?
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Playbill; equipment list; cue sheets; song setups; carpenter instructions; electrician's cues

The Disenchanted, 1958-1959
Note: Produced by Darrid and Saidenberg
Designed by Ben Edwards
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Electrical equipment lists

Light plot

Hookup sheets; light plot; cue sheets; focus chart

Focus charts

Jamaica, 1958
Note: Book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Produced by David Merrick
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Playbill; board hookup sheets; plots for box lights and ladders; light plots

Track sheet; master cue sheets; board hookup sheets

Board hookup sheets and focus charts

Worker sheets; circuit check sheets

Light plot; set plans; scene elevations - photostats

Master cue sheets

Scene breakdown

Cue sheet notes; cue book (uncorrected)

Board hookup sheets

Electrics list

Special effects

Miscellaneous notes

Miscellaneous tracings

Color lists

Track sheets

Dear Liar: Winter stock tour, 1959; New York engagements, , 1960
Note: Produced by Cornell-McClintic
Designed by Donald Oenslager
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Light plot; set plan; swatches

Set drawings

Cue sheets - New York; hookup and focus charts

Notes on tour; Neighborhood Playhouse stage plan; drapes drawing

Cue sheets; focus charts; hookup sheets

Light plots - New York; electrics list

Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Music Box Theatre, New York, 1957
Note: Written by William Inge
Produced by Saint Subber and Elia Kazan
Designed by Ben Edwards
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Note: Materials returned to Jean Rosenthal on loan, January 30, 1969.

Playbill; cue sheets; hookup sheets

Focus charts; set drawings

Board hookup sheets; electrics list; color list

Master cue sheets; track sheets

Final color changes list; tracings; light plots; color lists

Electrics lists

Miscellaneous notes

Action plots

Original cue sheets

Focus charts

Board hookup sheets; track sheets

Dark at the Top of the Stairs, road, 1959

Program, Playhouse Theatre, Wilmington, Delaware; tour schedule; light plots

Track sheet; master cue sheets

Set elevations; electrics lists; miscellaneous notes

Hookup sheet

Cue sheets - working and transition; track sheet

Focus charts; Olivettes - diagram

Set plans and elevations

Caligula, 54th St. Theatre, New York, 1961
Note: Written by Albert Camus
Produced by Chandler Cowles, Charles Bowden, and Ridgely Bullock
Designed by Will Steven Armstrong
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Playbill; program, Schubert Theatre, New Haven; cue sheets; focus chart

Board hookup sheets; notes; preliminary electrics list

Light plots; hanging and tormentor plots

Set elevation; miscellaneous designs (3)

Juniper and the Pagans, 1959
Note: Produced by David Merrick
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Revised hookup sheets; work sheets

Working sheets; Prospectus of Computer Services Inc.; electrics list

Revised master cue sheets; track sheet

Focus charts

Notes; electrics lists; color list; equipment plans

Notes on Philadelphia and Boston openings

Track sheet; old hookup sheets; transportation notes

Old master cue sheets

Cue sheets

Light plots

Set plans and elevations

Lambs Club Benefit, 1961
Note: Benefit of the Children's Clinic - The Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy

Program; invitations; lighting notes for each act

Chicago Lyric Opera, 1955

Libretto for Aida (Metropolitan Opera); Lyric Opera advertisement for 1955 Season; list of operas with scenic records available; color chart for I Puritani; proposed revision of opera hookups - list; color list; opera schedule; plan of Opera House stage; photograph negative of plan; lighting notes

I Puritani - cue sheets, notes on floor specials; list of scenes for various operas; follow Spot notes; “Porcher notes”; action plots; focus list (in letter to Miles Morgan, 1955, November 10); color lists; report on lighting equipment, Chicago Opera House (2); list of recommended additional equipment; electrical equipment list; brochure for “Transpara” color medium; light plot; blank cue sheet; plan of Opera House stage; lighting plans; I Puritani cue sheets; miscellaneous notes

Connecticut College Dance Festival, l949-1950
Note: Technical Supervision and Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets: Daughter of Virtue, Before Dawn, Village I Knew

Program, Dance Theatre Subscription Series, 1950, May 11; hookup sheets; light plots; As I Lay Dying, cue sheets; tormentor and color changes for various dances; performance schedules; list of drapery sizes; background chart; special light cues; time sheet; hanging chart; miscellaneous notes

Primos

Cue sheets: Root of an Unfocus, Two Step, Bach Concerto (Koner)

Cue sheets: Daughter of Virtue, Suite for a Woman

Inventories

Twilight of a Flower, cue sheets

The Monkey Dances (Cunningham), cue sheets

Concerto, cue sheets

Nina Fonaroff: transposed hookup sheet; cue sheets; layout and hookup photostats; Mr. Puppett, cue sheet

Fonaroff, Mr. Puppett: cue sheets

Construction sheets; setup chart; schedule for use of Palmer stage

Koner, The Visit: cue sheets

Suite for a Woman: notes; auxiliary hookup sheet; opening setup; cue sheets

Koner, The Visit: cue sheets; auxiliary hookup sheet

List of dances; properties list; notes on Dialogues and The Visit; construction sheet

Merce Cunningham, cues and notes

New York City Ballet, board hookup sheet

Take Me Along and Connecticut Summer, 1959
Note: Take Me Along: Book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell
Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Based on the play, Ah, Wilderness, by Eugene O'Neill
Produced by David Merrick
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Set plans, drawings, and elevations for Ah, Wilderness

Light plots for Connecticut Summer

Playbill for Take Me Along, Schubert Theatre, New York; Schedule, Boston; Connecticut Summer: fireworks plan; hanging plot; fixtures and special effects list; scene strike and set plan (also Take Me Along)

Velvet swatches for portals and hangings; Connecticut Summer: colors; costume notes

Connecticut Summer: electrics and set notes attached to swatch card; notes for Oliver Smith; lighting notes for Ah, Wilderness with equipment list for Connecticut Summer; cue sheets; notes on meeting with Director, [1959] August 27

Connecticut Summer: electrical equipment lists with corrections

Master cue sheets

Working cue sheets

Old cue sheets

Master cue sheets

Connecticut Summer: hookup sheets; track sheets

Focus charts

Connecticut Summer: Light plot; fireworks plot

Redhead, New York, 1958-1959
Note: Book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon, and David Shaw
Music by Albert Hague
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Produced by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr
Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Road hanging plot; playbill, 46th St. Theatre, New York; program, Schubert Theatre, New Haven; color chart; electrical equipment layout sheets; control sheets

Cue sheets

Focus chart

Work and track sheets; color chart

Hanging section plot; light plots; slide design

Set plans and elevations for various scenes; hanging section; floor plan; prop plans

Set plans and elevations for various scenes; floor plans

Set plans and elevations

Redhead, road, 1960

Light plots

Winesburg, Ohio, 1957
Note: Written by Sherwood Anderson
Produced by the SABA Company
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Set plans and sketches; revised and original equipment lists

Board hookup sheets; board hookups for Baltimore

Cue sheets; focus charts; light plots; magic sheets and original notes

Saratoga, 1959
Note: Based on the novel, Saratoga Trunk, by Edna Ferber
Music by Howard Arlen
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Produced by Robert Fryer and Morton DaCosta
Designed by Cecil Beaton
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Light plots

Hanging plot, Winter Garden Theatre, New York; hanging plots, Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia; re-hanging plot, Philadelphia; miscellaneous notes

Hookup sheets; costume color samples; electrical equipment list

Cue sheets

Program, Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia; focus chart; running order sheets

Old notes; board hookup sheet

Specifications and notes; set plans and elevations; prop drawings

Set plans and elevations; prop drawings

Set plans and elevations; ground plans

Ground plan

Destry Rides Again, 1959
Note: Book by Leonard Gershe
Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome
Produced by David Merrick
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Program, Schubert Theatre, Boston; playbill, Imperial Theatre, New York; hanging plot

Focus charts

Cue sheets; electric cuts - Los Angeles

Electrical equipment lists; miscellaneous notes

Light plot; electrical equipment list, road, 1960; magic sheets; board hookup sheets; track sheet

Scene order sheet; set plans and elevations; ground plans; list of musical numbers by scenes

The King and I, 1958
Note: Produced by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Electrical equipment lists for Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company production

Hanging section plot; general plan; work sheets; cue sheets

Hanging plots; [color list?]; board hookup sheets

Board hookup sheets; focus chart; rigging - “Philharmonic, Los Angeles, California”; preliminary hookup sheet

Cue sheets

Hail the Conquering Hero, 1961
Note: Book by Larry Gelbart
Music by Moose Charlap
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens
Designed by Jean Rosenthal and William Pitkin
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Color samples

Electrical equipment lists

Set plans

Set elevations

Program, ANTA Theatre, New York (2); program, National Theatre, Washington, D.C.; focus chart; light plots; electrical equipment lists

Cue sheets

Cue sheets, New Haven

Board hookup sheet; track sheet; fly floor cues

Electrical equipment, list

Cue notes

Daughter of Silence, Music Box Theatre, New York, 1961
Note: Produced by Halmar Productions
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Light plots; electrical equipment lists; hookup sheets; track sheet

Cue sheets; track sheets; electrical equipment list

Cue sheets

Cue notes; master plan; set plans and elevations

Electrical equipment list; set plans; photostats of set designs

Henry IV, Parts I and II, Phoenix Production, 1960
Note: Written by William Shakespeare
Produced by T. Edward Hambleton and Stuart Vaughan
Designed by Will Steven Armstrong
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Basic stage plan of Metropolitan Boston Arts Center Theatre; playbill, Phoenix Theatre, New York

Elevations, Metro. Boston Arts Center Theatre

Cue sheets, Part II

Cue sheets, Part I; track sheet

Board hookup sheet; focus chart; track sheet; electrical equipment list; light plot adjustments “from Peer Gynt to Henry IV”

Boston transposition sheet; hookup sheet, Cambridge Drama Festival

Cue sheets, Part II, Cambridge; track sheet

Electrical equipment list, Boston engagement; light plot, Cambridge

Transposition and color list, Boston; light plot, New York; stage elevation, Cambridge

Set drawing; focus chart, Cambridge; hookup sheet, Cambridge

Series: Part 2: Additions, 1941-1966

Aida, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by H.A. Condell
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheet; program; cue sheets; set-up notes; order of scenes; ground plan

Baker Street, Broadway Theatre, 1964
Note: Book by Jerome Coopersmith
Music and Lyrics by Marian Grudell and Raymond Jessel
Produced by Alexander H. Cohen
Directed by Harold Prince
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Light plots; photostat copies of stage plans and drawings; effects list; plan for fronts and ladders

Correspondence, 1964 November 23-December 16; electrical equipment and special effects list; hook-ups; rental list; playbills; cue sheets; lighting and action notes; color chart; staging notes; production schedule; staff list

Set designs, fabric swatches

Cue sheets, focus chart, revisions for move to Martin Beck Theatre (hook-ups; fronts and ladders plan; light plot)

Cue and track sheets; hanging plot; color list

Master plan; set designs; light plot; torms and ladders plan

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Martin Beck Theatre, 1963
Note: Adaptation by Edward Albee
Produced by Lewis Allen and Ben Edwards
Directed by Alan Schneider
Designed by Ben Edwards
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Focus chart; electrical equipment list; hook-up; cue sheets

Script, annotated; clippings; program

Cue sheets (old and revised); light plots

Notes; track sheets; color list

General plan; set designs (original and revised); light plot; torms and ladders, star pattern

Ballet International, International Theatre, 1944
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1944 September 29-December 22; invoice statement; color plot; Slavenska; petty cash vouchers; rental estimates; rehearsal schedules; lighting equipment list; article by Jean Rosenthal entitled “Stage Lighting”; rehearsal schedule; program; hook-ups; production schedule; rehearsal schedule; lighting equipment list; notes for hanging plot

Hanging plot; hook-ups; lighting equipment list; color list; rehearsal schedule; general notes on ballets; general lighting notes; cue sheets and movement notes; hook-ups; ground plan

The Beast in Me, Plymouth Theatre, 1963
Note: Adaptation and lyrics by James Costigan
Music by Don Elliot
Produced by Bonard Productions
Directed by John Lehne
Settings and lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Script, annotated; clippings; playbill

Focus chart; hook-ups; cue and track sheets; notes

Light plot; elevations and set designs; electrical equipment list

Light plot; ground plan; set designs

Becket

Light plots (original, tour, revised)

Bluebeard's Castle, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Master ground plan

Set designs

Revised ground plan, miscellaneous designs, drawings of set; set designs

Electrical specials; hook-up; cue sheets; sketch of tour platform plan; production photographs; set design; hook-up; cue sheet

Brandeis Theatre

State plans, hanging section

Caesar and Cleopatra, 1949
Note: Produced by Richard Aldrich and Richard Myers
Designed by R. Gerard Jr.
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; sound effects list; hook-up and focusing charts; miscellaneous memoranda; rehearsal schedule; sketches of set with general lighting notes; color plot; rehearsal schedule; miscellaneous notes; notes for carpenters and electricians; cue sheets; hook-ups; rehearsal notes; program

Sound effects records

Light plots; costume plot

Original light plot; hook-ups; color plot; electrical equipment list

Miscellaneous production material; budgets; contracts; production schedule; costume plot; cast list; property list

Caligula

Light plot; hanging plot; torm plot

Carmen, New York City Opera, 1950
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; rehearsal notes; ground plan

Cavalleria Rusticana, New York City Opera, 1950
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Ground plans; cue sheets; sketches of set; cue sheets

[André] Chenier, New York City Opera, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Photographs of set models; cue sheets

The Chinese Prime Minister, Royale Theatre, 1964
Note: Written by Enid Bagnold
Produced by Roger L. Stevens
Directed by Joseph Anthony
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Playbill, light plot; ground plan; electrical equipment list; hook-up; focus chart

Cue sheets; notes; fabric swatches

Script, annotated

Torms; light plot; ground plan

Chrysler-Dodge Show

Light plots; cable and jumper layout

Cinderella (La Cenerentola), New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Set designs

Set designs; light plot

Set designs; libretto

Cue sheet; focus list; production photographs; cue sheets; color sheets; hook-up and focus charts; cue sheets

Climate in Eden, 1952
Note: Written by Moss Hart
Produced by Hyman and Hart
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Program; light plot; lighting plan; cue sheets; hookup; focus chart; hook-up

Light plots; cue sheets; hook-up sheet; lighting equipment design elevations; hook-up; cue list; asbestos swatch; sheets; light plots

Connecticut Summer

Light plot, fireworks plot

Dance Players, 1942
Note: Directed by Eugene Loring
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1941 December 16-1944 April 28

Layout and color plot; switchboard hook-up; cue sheets; layout and cue sheets; focus plot

Equipment notes; programs; clippings; expense sheet; set sketches; fabric swatch; production schedule; budget; estimates and bills

Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Light plot; torms and eye
Note: Missing, 03/16/2011.

Daughter of Silence

Master plan; fronts and torms

Dear Liar

Light plot, drapes design, preliminary light plots

Der Rosenkavalier, New York City Opera, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; hook-up; ground plans

Destry Rides Again

Light plot; prologue electrics; hanging sections

Die Fledermaus, New York City Opera, 1953
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; hook-up and focus charts; cue sheets

Die Meistersinger, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Focus chart and cue sheets; focus sheets; sketches of set; cue sheets

Notes on action and blocking; cue sheets; rehearsal and production schedule; cue sheets; general notes

The Disenchanted

Hanging sections; lanterns

Don Giovanni, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Ground plans; cue sheets; hook-up; ground plans

The Duke of Sacramento, undated
Note: Written by Warren Baer

Script A

Script B, annotated

Far Harbour, Ballet Society, 1947
Note: Music and lyrics by Bergersen and Archibald
Designed by H. Armistad
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; ground plans; set designs

Set designs; light plot; hanging plot

Score, Act I

Score, Act II

Faust, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by H.A. Condell
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Hook-up; cue sheets; focus chart; cue sheets; hook-up; cue sheet; notes; photos of set; lighting plot; cue sheets; special effects sheet; ground plan; drawings of set

Cue sheets; program

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Alvin Theatre, 1962
Note: Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Produced by Harold Prince
Directed by George Abbott
Designed by Tony Walton
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

New York Production: correspondence, 1962 February 20-May 7; slide duplicates list; light plots; electrical equipment list; cue sheet; focus chart; hook-up; magic sheet

Script, annotated; playbill

Road Company, 1963; Correspondence, , 1963 December 2-1964 June 3; cable list; electrical equipment list; production drawings

Focus charts; cue and track sheets; cuts; light plot

Notes; cue sheets; hook-up

Move to Mark Hellinger Theatre, 1964; focus charts; cue sheets; electrical equipment list; hook-up

Light plots; cue and track sheets; changes

Front light; light plots; ground rows

The Gay Life

Light plot; front lights, park drop, master plan, master section

A Gift of Time

Light plot, fronts, preliminary set design sketches

The Great Sebastians

Light plot

Hamlet, 1964
Note: Produced by Alexander H. Cohen.

Hook-up; electrical equipment list

Light plot; torms
Note: Missing, 03/16/2011.

Hansel and Gretel, New York City Opera, 1953
Note: Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Set designs

Correspondence, 1953 August 18-September 14; hook-up and focus sheets; cue sheets; scenery and costume budgets; estimates for The Trial, , undated

Happily Never After, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1966
Note: Written by J.A. Ross
Produced by George W. George and Frank Granat
Directed by Joseph Anthony
Designed by Peter Larkin
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Script; playbill

Correspondence, 1966 January 17-February 4; electrical equipment list; light plot; fabric swatches

Hook-ups; focus chart; cue and track sheets; production staff list; rehearsal schedule; notes; hook-up notes; stage plans; light plot

Light plot; preliminary no. 1 pipe

Hello Dolly

Light plot, torms

Hole in the Head

Light plot; torms and ladders; hanging sections; set fixture plot

Hot September (Boston), 1963
Note: Book by Paul Osborn
Music by Kenneth Jacobson
Lyrics by Rhoda Roberts
Produced by Leland Hayward and David Merrick
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1965 August 27-September 28; hook-up; equipment and color lists; light plot; track and cue sheets

Script

Light plot, fronts and torms

Hunter College - Ballet Society, 1947
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Ground plans; hanging plots; property and scenery list

The Innocents, Pocono Playhouse, undated
Note: Written by William Archibald
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Electrical equipment list; ground plan; hanging plot; hook-up and cue sheets; equipment rental list

Program; script, annotated; transparency drawings; cue sheets; hook-up; ground plan; color list; electrical equipment list; hook-up; color cutting list

Jamaica

Electrics plan, box lights and ladders

Jennie, Colonial Theatre, Boston, 1963
Note: Book by Marguerite Courtney
Music by Arthur Sculman
Lyrics by Howard Dietz
Produced by Halmar Productions
Directed by Vincent J. Donehoe
Designed by George Jenkins
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1963 June 5-September 26; clippings; preliminary set designs; electrical equipment lists; color chart; magic sheet; focus chart; follow spot list; cue sheets

“Floor Stuff”; light plot; hanging sections; script, annotated

Costume swatches; set designs; notes; hook-up

Light plot, hanging sections, fronts

Joy to the World, 1948
Note: Produced by John Houseman and William Katzel
Designed by Harry Horner
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Light plot; rigging plot; hook-up; light plot; set designs; general production notes; equipment rental notes and estimates: schedule for taking in and setting up; equipment list

Light plot; set designs; advertising material notes on props

Correspondence, 1948 January 29-February 18; equipment rental list; property plot and notes; costume change list

Judy Garland Show

Hanging sections

Juniper and the Pagans

Light plot, hanging sections, torms

The King and I, Los Angeles Music Center, 1965
Note: Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers
Produced by Edwin D. Lester
Designed by Paul McGuire
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1965 March 9-May 13; focus chart; hook-up; cue and track sheets; electrical equipment list; color list; lighting notes

Light plots

Ballet set and curtains; torms; fireworks

La Belle Helene, 1941
Note: Produced by Demetrious Vilan and Stewart Chaney.

Correspondence, 1941 June 2-1944 March 28

La Bohème, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Cue sheets; hook-ups; lighting notes; ground plans

La Traviata, New York City Opera, 1951
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Hook-up and cue sheets; ground plans; sketches of set

L'Heure Espagnole, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Ground plan; set designs; specials list; cue sheets rough sketch of stage

Light Opera Company (New York City Opera), 1954-1956

Hook-ups (King and I, 1956); lighting notes (King and I); City Center hanging plots; revised light plots, , 1956; light plots, , 1950, 1953-1954; plan of stage; focus chart; switchboard layout; general production information; board hook-ups; equipment list

Hook-up changes (Carousel); hook-up (Showboat); floor plan for King and I (designed by Jo Mielziner)

Lord Pengo

Hook-up, light plot; hanging plot, floor plans

Love for Three Oranges, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by Mtitslav Dobujinsky
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Hook-up and cue sheets; original light plot; cue sheet; sketches of set; ground plan; cue sheets; rehearsal notes; cue sheets; production photographs; ground plans

Madama Butterfly, New York City Opera, 1950
Note: Designed by H.A. Condell
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; rehearsal notes; cue sheets; ground plans; rehearsal notes; rough sketch of set; cue sheets; ground plan

Manon, New York City Opera, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Hook-up and focus charts; libretto; cue sheets; ground plans; cue sheets; floor electric plan; lighting notes

The Marriage of Figaro, New York City Opera, 1950
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Hook-up; cue sheets; notes; ground plan; rehearsal notes; rough sketches of set; ground plans

Misalliance, New York City Center Drama Company, undated
Note: Designed by John Boyt
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Hanging plot; light plots

N.A.M. Convention (Annual Congress of American Industry), 1950
Note: Jean Rosenthal in charge of scenery, lights, and production.

Notes on scenery and props; scripts; set design; prop notes; rehearsal notes; cue sheet; notes on convention

Rough sketches of set; cue sheets; scripts; convention program

Casting and rehearsal notes

National Orchestral Association Christmas Show, 1945-1950
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Lighting notes and hook-up , (1950); stage plan; program , (1950); routine sheet and master cue sheet , (1950); preliminary hanging plot; script; hook-up sheet , (1949); cue sheet , (1948-1949); costume notes

New Opera Repertory Company, 1942
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Hanging plot; set designs; light plot; rigging plot

Stage plan; set designs; light plots

Correspondence, 1942 June 29-December 29; hook-ups; preliminary sketch of hanging plot; light plot; notes; electrical equipment list; special effects list; equipment rental lists

Electrical equipment list; rehearsal schedule; equipment rental list; sketches of scenery; notes; board hook-up

Switchboard set up; equipment layout; notes and set sketches; board hook-up; electrical equipment list; rough sketches of set

The Night of the Iguana

Light plot, fronts and torms, preliminary section - electric

The Old Maid and the Thief, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Cue sheets

On an Open Roof and Kadish

Set designs, ground plan, light plan, hook-up, torms and ladders

110 in the Shade, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Correspondence, 1963 January 9; script; follow spot notes; cue sheets

Pagliacci, New York City Opera, undated
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Cue sheets; ground plans; lighting notes; cue sheet

Redhead

Light plot, slide projection

Regina (Little Foxes), undated
Note: Written by Lillian Hellmann
Produced by Cheryl Crawford
Designed by H. Armistead
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1952 March 30; libretto; hook-up and focus chart; set photographs; color cutting list; cue sheets; hook-up; cue sheets; ground plan

Ground plans; plan of cyclorama and portals; photographs of set

Ground plan; set designs; sound cue sheet; libretto; prop and costume list; color list

Richard III, Forrest Theatre, 1943
Note: Produced by Theatre Production Service
Production and lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Designed by Motley

Pre-production: correspondence, 1942 December 1-1943 March 6; casting notes; schedules; lists

Casting notes and schedules

Pre-production budget and financing; miscellaneous

Operating: correspondence, 1943 March 4-April 26; payroll expenditures; box office statements

Overall expenses; promotion; theatre expenses; playbill negatives of photographs of production

Closing: correspondence and expense sheets regarding office and administration; taxes; insurance

Total expenditure list; bankbook

Contracts and expenditures regarding actors

Contracts regarding extras; production personnel

Expenditures regarding promotion; props; scenery; lighting; insurance; office and administration; rehearsal

Expenditures regarding theatre rental; workmen's compensation; music score; cue sheet; miscellaneous production notes

Clipping scrapbook

Rigoletto, New York City Opera, 1953
Note: Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Focus and hook-up; cue sheets; notes on action

Sarah Lawrence College

Floor plans for auditorium

Saratoga

Light plot

She Loves Me, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1963
Note: Book by Joe Masteroff
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Produced and directed by Harold Prince
Designed and lighting by William and Jean Eckart

Playbill; hook-up; cue and track sheets; notes

Sound of Music, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1959
Note: Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Produced by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed by Vincent J. Donahoe
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1959 May 27-December 29; playbill; clippings

Script, annotated; production staff list; production schedule; electrical equipment list

Costume swatches

Hanging plot; cue sheets; hook-up; focus chart; cue sheets (tour)

Preliminary sketches of hanging plot; light plots; ground plan; set designs; stage plans

Stage plans; master plan (tour)

Hook-up, light plots, torms and ladders

Tales of Hoffman, New York City Opera, undated

Cue sheets; ground plans

Taste of Honey

Light plot

A Time for Singing

Ground plan, torms and fronts, light plot
Note: Ground plan missing.

To Broadway with Love, 1964
Note: Conceived and directed by Morton DaCosta
Produced by Compass Productions
Designed by Peter Wolf
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1963 June 10-1964 March 23; lighting equipment information and design (Century Show Case); staff and cast list; electrical equipment list; effects and fixtures list; programs; script, annotated

Hook-up; glass colors and circuits; notes; light plot

Cue sheets; focus chart; photos of hanging plans; equipment list (Music Hall Texas Pavilion); ceiling layout; lighting instrument plot

Light plot, ceiling layout

Tosca, New York City Opera, 1950

Ground plans; cue sheets; lighting notes

The Trial, New York City Opera, 1953
Note: Designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Ground plans; set designs; portions of libretto; cue sheets; hanging plan; hook-up; rough sketch of set

Set designs; photographs of set

Hook-up and focus chart; cue sheet; drawings of set

Tribute to Sean O'Casey, Imperial Theatre, 1964 October 11

Cue sheets

Turandot, New York City Opera, 1950
Note: Designed by H.A. Condell
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Cue sheets; rehearsal notes; cue sheets

Cue sheets; ground plans; rough sketches of set and movement

University of Puerto Rico - Theater equipment supplied by Theatre Production Service (Jean Rosenthal and Elinor Weis)

Correspondence, 1942 September 2-1945 June 30

Estimates and shipping notes; bills and receipts

West Side Story, Winter Garden Theatre, 1957
Note: Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Produced by Griffith, Prince, and Stevens
Designed by Oliver Smith
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1959 March 2; original lighting notes; cue and track sheets
Note: Empty folder.

Cue sheets (Washington); color list; fixture list; script, annotated; gel samples
Note: Empty folder.

Hanging plot; stage plans and set designs
Note: Empty folder.

City Center production, 1964: cue sheets (and for transposition); electrical equipment list; hook-ups; focus charts (road); color list
Note: Empty folder.

Hanging plot; notes; cue sheets (road); light plots
Note: Empty folder.

Light plot, front lights, revised light plot and front lights plan; light plot for National Company, hanging sections for Dallas production
Note: Missing, 03/16/2011.

Winesburg, Ohio

Light plot
Note: Missing, 03/16/2011.

Wozzeck, New York City Opera, 1952
Note: Designed by Mtitslav Dobujinsky
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal

Correspondence, 1952 February 27-March 14; light plot; set designs

Libretto; cue sheets; hook-up; cue sheets; ground plan drawing of set; prop list