The Ulu Grosbard Papers, 1962-1967, pertain to his roles as director of the Broadway play The Subject Was Roses and as translator and director of The Investigation on Broadway and for television. For The Subject Was Roses, there is correspondence (mainly fan mail), a script, Grosbard's directing notes on the play as a whole and on the development of the major characters, technical production materials, financial statements, promotional material, and clippings. Included with this material is a 111-page carbon copy of playwright Frank Gilroy's diary of production, 1962, Oct.-1964, May, which recounts the difficult maneuvering to fund a Broadway play; and the interaction of the playwright, actors, and entire production crew and its result on the production.
The material on The Investigation is more extensive, and documents Grosbard's work as the co-translator of the play from German into English and as the director of the play on Broadway and for television. There is a script in German and reviews in German newspapers from the 1965 East and West Berlin productions of the play. From the New York theater production are Grosbard's notes, correspondence, general production materials, clippings, preliminary and final English versions of the script, and a list of material from the German version that had to be cut out. From the NBC-TV production are three scripts - a preliminary version, a corrected copy with notes, and a master script - which show how Grosbard adapted the script for television, as well as general production material, photocopies of congratulatory telegrams; and clippings regarding this production and clippings in Swedish regarding an earlier production directed by Ingmar Bergman on the stage in Stockholm, Sweden.
