Gilbert Hemsley Papers, 1948-1980

Container Title
Series: Theater
A.P.A.-Phoenix, Lyceum Theatre, 1966-1967 Season: See the Oversize File
Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, 20 March 1969)
Box   69
Folder   1
Revised script, story by George Bernard Shaw, adapted by Christopher Isherwood, annotated with lighting notes, September 1968
Box   69
Folder   2
Correspondence, cues, budget, light plots, January-March 1969
After the Fall (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, October 1967)
Box   69
Folder   3
Floor plan, reviews, October 1967
After the Rain (St. Louis, Repertory Theatre, 23 March 1972)
Box   69
Folder   4
Playscript, by John Bowen, annotated, 1967
Box   69
Folder   4
Playbill, 1972
Box   69
Folder   5
Technical production file, 1972
Agamemnon (Ypsilanti, Michigan, Yspilanti Greek Theatre, 28 June 1966)
Box   69
Folder   6
Notebook of technical production materials, 1966
The Alchemist (NY, Gate, September 1964)
Box   69
Folder   7
Hanging and focusing plot, playbill, 1964
American Shakespeare Festival (Production information unknown)
Box   69
Folder   8
Light plot, April 1963
The Anabaptists (Production information unknown)
Box   69
Folder   9
Script, by Friedrich Durrenmatt, undated
Anatol, Man and Superman, and The Seagull (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 22 August 1960)
Box   69
Folder   10
Playbill, 1960
Arms and the Man (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 18 ? December 1967)
Box   69
Folder   11
Reviews, December 1967
Arturo Ui (Chicago, Goodman Theatre, 1975)
Box   69
Folder   12
Schedule, 1975
Beckett and Oedipus (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 27-28 June 1973)
Box   69
Folder   13
Production schedule and miscellany, 1973
Beatrice and Benedick (Los Angeles, other production information unknown)
Box   69
Folder   14
Program, review, undated
Benito Cereno (Chicago, Goodman, 20 November 1975)
Box   69
Folder   15
Script, annotated, undated
Box   69
Folder   16
Script with lighting cues, undated
Box   69
Folder   17
Notes, undated
Box   69
Folder   18
Blocking sheets, undated
Box   70
Folder   1
Cue sheets, undated
Box   70
Folder   2
Hook up, undated
Box   70
Folder   3
General technical production file, undated
The Birds and The Orestia (Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti Greek Theatre, 1966)
Box   70
Folder   4
Technical production file, 1966
Box   70
Folder   5
Plans, 1966
Box   70
Folder   6
Plots, 1966
Box   70
Folder   7
Elevations and details, light booth print, 1966
The Birthday Party (Los Angeles, UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, 26 July 1966)
Box   70
Folder   8
Correspondence, light plots, hook ups, 1965-1966
Born Yesterday (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 7 (?) December 1967)
Box   70
Folder   9
Reviews, December 1967
Brecht, Sacred and Profane (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, 1 November 1973)
Box   70
Folder   10
Mahagonny Songplay, text by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill translated by Michael Feingold, annotated, undated
Box   70
Folder   10
The Measure Taken, by Bertolt Brecht, annotated, undated
Box   70
Folder   10
Musical scores for songs, 1964
Box   70
Folder   11
Programs and reviews, November 1973
Box   71
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1972-1973
The Brig (Madison, Vilas Experimental Theatre, 7 March 1974)
Box   71
Folder   2
Playbill, 1974
Cabaret (NY, Broadhurst, 1966)
Box   71
Folder   3
Technical production file
Caesar and Cleopatra (Stratford, CT, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, circa Summer 1963)
Box   71
Folder   4
Playbill, 1963
Christmas Is Comin Uptown (NY, Winter Garden, December 1979)
Box   71
Folder   5
Script, book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell, lyrics by Peter Udell, music by Garry Sherman, undated
Box   71
Folder   6
Musical score, “Lifeline,” 3 December 1979
The Contractor (Manitoba, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 6 January 1978)
Box   71
Folder   7
Playscript, by David Storey, annotated with lighting cues, 1978
Box   71
Folder   8
Technical production file, 1978
Cyrano (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 23 January 1973 and tour)
Box   71
Folder   9
Script, by Edmond Rostand, translated and adapted by Anthony Burgess, annotated, 10 January 1973
Box   71
Folder   10
Script, annotated, 10 January 1973
Box   71
Folder   10
Playbill and reviews, January 1973
Box   72
Folder   1-4
General technical production files, 1973
Box   72
Folder   5-6
Cheat sheet and cues, 1973
Box   72
Folder   7
Light plots, 1973
Plots, plans, and designs, 30 January - 1 February 1973: See the Oversize File
Death of a Salesman (City and date unknown, Theatre in the Green)
Box   72
Folder   8
Playscript, by Arthur Miller, annotated, 1950
Box   72
Folder   8
Reviews, undated
The Devils (Madison, Wisconsin Union Theatre, September 1974 [?])
Box   73
Folder   1
Cardboards, 1974
Box   73
Folder   2
Technical production file, 1974
Box   73
Folder   3-4
Plans and plots, 1974
The Divorce of Jane and Judy (NY, Bijou Theatre, 26 April 1972)
Box   73
Folder   5
Script, by A. O. Whitney, annotated, 1970
Box   73
Folder   5
Reviews, April 1972
Don Juan (Chicago, Goodman Theatre, 12 May 1977)
Box   73
Folder   6
Reviews, May 1977
The Enchanted (Matunuk, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 4 July 1960)
Box   73
Folder   7
Playbill, 1960
Fathers Day (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum,? date unknown)
Box   73
Folder   8
Playscript, by Oliver Hailey, undated
The Gelding or Prunings from the Family Game Tree (Production information unknown)
Box   73
Folder   9
Script, by James Heddle, undated
The Government Inspector (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 1973/1974 season)
Box   73
Folder   10
Playbill, circa 1973
Plans, plots, and designs, 25 May - 5 June 1973: See the Oversize File
Guys and Dolls (Madison, Union Theatre, 3 December 1971)
Tryouts
Box   73
Folder   11
Informational cards, 1971
Box   73
Folder   12
Notebook, including sign-in sheets and schedules, 1971
Box   74
Folder   1
Rehearsal schedule, musical score, scene breakdown, reviews, 1971
Happy Days/Happy Nights (University of Wisconsin, other production information unknown)
Box   74
Folder   2-3
Revised second draft, by Don George and Donn Manning, annotated, 15 July 1975
Box   74
Folder   4
Musical score, undated
Box   74
Folder   5
Miscellany, undated
Hay Fever (Madison, UW Compass Theatre, date unknown)
Box   74
Folder   6
Personnel requirements, undated
The Headhunters (Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theatre, 1 May 1974 and Knoxville, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Clarence Brown Theatre, , pre-26 April 1974)
Box   74
Folder   7
Playscript, by Henry Denker, undated
Unidentified or both productions
Box   74
Folder   8
Light plots and ground plans, 1974
Knoxville, Tennessee
Box   74
Folder   9-10
Technical production file, 1974
Washington, D.C.
Box   75
Folder   1-3
Technical production files, 1974
Henry IV (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 18 November 1967)
Box   75
Folder   4
Permanent hook up sheets, reviews, 1967
Holiday (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 8 August 1960)
Box   75
Folder   5
Playbill, 1960
I Love My Wife (NY, Ethel Barrymore and Forest, 1977?)
Box   75
Folder   6
Review, undated
Plots, plans, and designs, circa February-March 1977: See the Oversize File
I Said the Fly (Minneapolis, Guthrie, circa July 1973)
Box   75
Folder   7
Revised script, January 1972
Box   75
Folder   8
Script, annotated with lighting cues, 1973[?]
Box   75
Folder   9
Presets, ground plan, 1973
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, 24 May 1968)
Box   75
Folder   10
Technical production file, 1968
Box   75
Folder   11
Light plots, 1968
Jennie (Boston, theater unknown, 1963 [?])
Box   75
Folder   12
Focus charts and grid system, 1963
Box   75
Folder   13
Plot, undated
A Journal of the Voyage of Lieutenant James Cook in H. M. “Endeavour” Back to the Island of Otaheite and Round the World (Production information unknown)
Box   76
Folder   1
Script and letter, by Jeffrey M. Jones, 12 February 1971
Jumpers (Washington, D.C., Eisenhower, 18 February 1974)
Box   76
Folder   2
Diary re production, author unknown, 10-18 February 1974
Box   76
Folder   3
Reviews, February 1974
Box   76
Folder   4-5
Technical production file, 1974
Plots, plans, and designs, 15 January 1974: See the Oversize File
Juno and the Paycock (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 15 August 1960)
Box   76
Folder   6
Playbill, 1960
King Lear (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 13 [?] August 1974)
Box   76
Folder   7
Script, edited by George-Ian Duthie and John Dover Wilson, annotated, 1960
Box   76
Folder   8
Cue sheets, reviews, playbill, 1974
Life with Father (Madison, University of Wisconsin, other production information unknown)
Box   76
Folder   9
Light plot, undated
Love and Master Will (Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, Opera House, 19 September 1973)
Box   76
Folder   10
Script, undated
Box   76
Folder   11
2 Scripts, annotated with lighting cues, undated
Box   77
Folder   1-2
Technical production files, 1973
Love's Labor Lost (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 27 June 1974)
Box   77
Folder   3
Playbill, 1974
Luminetics (Unproduced?)
Box   77
Folder   4
Proposal, undated
The Magistrate (Production information unknown)
Box   77
Folder   5
Script, by Arthur Wing Pinero, undated
Mais Oui! (Production information unknown)
Box   77
Folder   6
Sketch layout and hanging plot, undated
Make a Spectacle of Yourself (Madison, Broom Street, date unknown)
Box   77
Folder   7
Production schedule, annotated with lighting cues, undated
A Man for All Seasons (Los Angeles, Ahmanson Theatre, February 1979)
Box   77
Folder   8
Playscript, by Robert Bolt, annotated with lighting cues, 1979
Box   77
Folder   9
Technical production file, 1979
Plots, plans, and designs, November 1978-January 1979: See the Oversize File
The Matchmaker (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 11 July 1960)
Box   77
Folder   10
Playbill, 1960
The Matchmaker (Madison, University Theatre, 5 October 1972)
Box   77
Folder   11
Staff list, schedules, reviews, playbill, scores for 2 songs, 1972
The Mediterranean Heritage (Princeton, McCarter, 1 November 1962)
Box   77
Folder   12
Playbill, 1962
The Merchant of Venice (Minneapolis, Guthrie, circa October 1973)
Box   78
Folder   1
Ground plans, 1973
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Madison, Vilas Experimental Theatre, 13[?] October 1972)
Box   78
Folder   2
Reviews, technical miscellany, 1972
The Mighty Gents Washington, D.C., Eisenhower Theatre, 1978? and NY, Ambassador, , 1978?)
Box   78
Folder   5
Section, February 1978
Plots, plans, and designs, 15 March 1978: See the Oversize File
Monique (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 18 July 1960)
Box   78
Folder   6
Playbill, 1960
The Most Happy Fella (Princeton, McCarter Theatre, 7 May 1970)
Box   78
Folder   7
Playbill, plans, miscellany, 1970
The Most Happy Fella (Detroit, Music Hall, 7 September 1979 and NY, Majestic, , 11 October 1979)
Box   78
Folder   8
Vocal score and libretto, by Frank Loesser, annotated with lighting cues, 1979
Box   78
Folder   9
Technical production file, 1979
Box   79
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1979, continued
Box   79
Folder   2
Cues, 1979
Box   79
Folder   3
Plots and sections, 1979
Plots, plans, and designs, 17 August 1979: See the Oversize File
Murderous Angels (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, 4 February 1970)
Box   79
Folder   4-5
Script with lighting cues, by Conor Cruise O'Brien, annotated, 1970
Box   79
Folder   6
Reviews, 1970
Box   79
Folder   7-8
Technical production file, 1970
Box   80
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1970, continued
Murderous Angels (NY, Playhouse, 11 December 1971)
Box   80
Folder   2
Revised script, by Conor Cruise O'Brien, annotated, 29 November 1971
Box   80
Folder   3
Technical production file, 1971
Plots, plans, and designs, October-November 1971: See the Oversize File
Nefertiti (Chicago, Blackstone, 20 September 1977 and NY, Minskoff, , 1978?)
Box   80
Folder   4
Script, book and lyrics by Christopher Gore, undated
Box   80
Folder   5
Script, book and lyrics by Christopher Gore, music by David Spangler, annotated with lighting cues, undated
Box   80
Folder   5
Miscellaneous script pages, undated
Box   80
Folder   6
Playbill and score for “Egypt Is Egypt,” 1977
Box   80
Folder   7-9
Technical production files, 1977
Box   81
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1977, continued
Plots, plans, and designs, June-October 1977: See the Oversize File
The Odd Couple (, 1966 national tour)
Box   81
Folder   2
Focus chart, 1966
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (National Company, other production information unknown)
Box   81
Folder   3
Itinerary of national company, undated
Once Upon a Mattress (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 25 [?] September 1967)
Box   81
Folder   4
Reviews, 1967
The Opossum Rug (Production information unknown)
Box   81
Folder   5
Script, by Jerry Douglas, undated
Our Bettors (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 1 August 1960)
Box   81
Folder   6
Playbill, 1960
Our Town (Chicago, Goodman, 9 October 1975)
Box   81
Folder   7
Cardboards, 1975
Box   81
Folder   8
Presets and cue sheets, 1975
Box   81
Folder   9
Notes, floor plans, cheat sheet, flyers, 1975
Pantagleize (Madison, University of Wisconsin, theater unknown, February 1972[?])
Box   81
Folder   10
Technical production file, 1972
Rashomon (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 22 January 1968)
Box   81
Folder   11
Reviews, 1968
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Chicago, Goodman, 28 March 1975)
Box   81
Folder   12
Script, by Bertolt Brecht, including complete lighting cues, 1975
Box   81
Folder   13
Production notebook, 1975
Box   82
Folder   1-4
Technical production file, 1975
Right You Are (Los Angeles, Hartford, 2 [?] August 1966)
Box   82
Folder   5
Reviews, 1966
The Rivals (Baltimore, Center Stage, December 1977)
Box   82
Folder   6
Script, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, undated
Box   82
Folder   7
Technical production file, 1977
[Rosebloom] (Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, date unknown)
Box   82
Folder   8
Hook-up, undated
Royal Hunt of the Sun (Los Angeles, Greek, 4 [?] July 1966)
Box   82
Folder   9
Script, by Peter Schaffer, annotated, undated
Box   82
Folder   10
Technical production file, 1966
Sacred and Profane (LA, Mark Taper Forum, 1973?)
Plots, plans, and designs, 30 October 1973: See the Oversize File
Saint Joan (Princeton, McCarter, October 1961)
Box   83
Folder   1
Playbill, 1961
The School for Scandal (Los Angeles, Hartford, 1966 and Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mendelssohn Theatre, , 1966)
Box   83
Folder   2
Script, by Sheridan, directed by Ellis Raab, circa 1966
Box   83
Folder   3
Reviews, 1966
Box   83
Folder   4
Light plots, 1966
The Serpent (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   5
Script, by Jean-Claude van Italie, undated
Something Unspoken (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   6
Script, by Tennessee Williams, undated
South Pacific (Madison, Old Music Hall, 1 October 1974)
Box   83
Folder   7
Poster, playbill, review, 1974
The Stronger (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   8
Playscript, undated
The Subject Was Roses (Pittsburgh, Hamlet Street Theatre, 25[?]January 1968)
Box   83
Folder   9
Reviews, 1968
Sugar Babies (San Francisco, Curran, 8 May 1979)
Box   83
Folder   10
Script, annotated with lighting cues, 1979
Box   83
Folder   10
Playbill, 1979
Sugar Babies (Los Angeles,? Mark Hellinger Theatre, 1979?)
Plots, plans, and designs, April-October 1979: See the Oversize File
Summer and Smoke (Production information unknown)
Plots, plans, and designs, 14 May 1948: See the Oversize File
The Tavern (Pittsburgh, Craft Avenue Theatre, 30 September 1967)
Box   83
Folder   11
Ground and section plans, reviews, 1967
Ten Best Martyrs of the Year (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   12
Script, by Seymour Simckes, annotated, undated
Three Men on a Horse (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse, date unknown)
Box   83
Folder   13
Script, by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott, annotated with lighting cues, 1963
Box   83
Folder   13
Notes, section plots, 1963
Tiger (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   14
Miscellany, undated
Toad of Toad Hill (Production information unknown)
Box   83
Folder   15
Script, by A. A. Milne, annotated with lighting cues, 1959
Tooth of Crime (Chicago, Goodman, January 1974)
Box   83
Folder   16
Script, by Sam Shepard, annotated, undated
Box   83
Folder   17
Master Cue sheets, 1974
Box   84
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1974
Triptych (Production information unknown)
Box   84
Folder   2
Playscript, by J. M. Heddle, undated
Trojan Woman (Madison, University of Wisconsin Theatre, date unknown)
Box   84
Folder   3
Script, by Euripides, annotated, undated
Twentieth Century (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 27 June 1960)
Box   84
Folder   4
Playbill, 1960
Two for the Seasaw (Matunuck, RI, Theatre by-the-sea, 29 August 1960)
Box   84
Folder   5
Playbill, 1960
A View from the Bridge (St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 8 February 1980)
Box   84
Folder   6
Set drawings and photographs, 1980
Box   84
Folder   6
2 playscripts, by Arthur Miller, annotated, 1980
Box   84
Folder   7
Technical production file, 1980
Waiting for Godot (Minneapolis, Guthrie, 1973/1974 season)
Box   84
Folder   8
Playbill, circa 1973
War and Peace
Box   84
Folder   9
Script, after the novel by Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator, and Guntram Prufer, annotated, undated
Los Angeles, Greek Theatre, 1 September 1966
Box   84
Folder   10
Light plot, reviews, 1966
New York, Lyceum, 22 March 1967
Box   84
Folder   11
Technical production file, 1967
You Can't Take It with You (Los Angeles, Hartford, Spring 1966)
Box   84
Folder   12
Review, hook ups, cue sheet, note, 1966
Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with God (NY, Lyceum, July 1976)
Box   84
Folder   13
Technical production file, 1976