Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages unnumbered. Stapled soft cover with title and picture of a scene. Small smudge on cover. Joseph Marshall on percussion.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDStarring: Norma Donaldson, Robert Guillaume, James Randolph, Ernestine Jackson. Directed and Choreographed by Billy Wilson. Ran for 239 performances. All-black cast. Little age darkened else very good.

Draft script for the 1965 production of the play, a revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Won five Tony Awards in 1951, including Best Musical. 1965 production starred Alan King as Nathan Detroit, Sheila MacRae as Adelaide, Jerry Orbach as Sky and Anita Gillette as Sarah. Set in Broadway, Save-a-Soul Mission, Havana, Cuba, and The Hot Box Club. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for story writer Damon Runyon, music and lyricist Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-7-50. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Mimeographed sheets bradbound in pink stiff paper wrappers. Fine. Script for the original performance of this important musical play, which originally ran for 1200 performances with a splendid cast that included Robert Alda, Isabel Bigley, Vivian Blaine, and Sam Levene. The show's success begat the 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz-directed film version featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine and Stubby Kaye (the latter two reprising their inimitable Broadway performances). Co-author Swerling was one of Hollywood's best kept secrets; he contributed to the screenplays for many excellent films. Rare. Ex-Carter Burden. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mimeographed bound Broadway script with soft cover, circa 1950's. Additions at rear of script: Working Prop Plot and Costume Plot. Pages clean save for some pencil notations in the margin on some pages. Cover edges rubbed/bumped. Bottom edges, starting at "Props 3", have tiny bumps or cracks along bottom edges. Last 5 pages plus the rear cover have a 1" high by 2" loss at the center bottom edge.…

Condition: Good. 4to. Mimeographed typescript. Approx. 150 leaves bound with brads. Very good. Scarce.