Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	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