Published by International Creative Management [ICM], New York, 1982
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
Final Draft script for the 1983 play, which opened on November 11, 1982 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a run of 213 performances, closing on May 15, 1983, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Keith Carradine. Laid in is a letter written by Cronyn to Christian Science Monitor journalist Arthur Unger expressing gratitude for an enthusiastic review of the television movie adapted from the play, signed in manuscript marker by Cronyn. Missing 15 pages, likely as used or issued. Based on Foxfire (magazine), a quarterly magazine which began in 1966 by students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School about aspects and practices in Appalachian culture. Aging widow Annie Nations faces the choice of selling off her farm to a developer and moving in with her son and his daughters or spending her final days on the farm she's known all her life. Remade as a CBS television movie which aired on December 13, 1987, starring Tandy, Cronyn, and John Denver (replacing Carradine from the play) Set in Rabun Gap, Georgia and adjacent Appalachia areas in North and South Carolina. Beige untitled ICM wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982, noted as Final script, with credits for playwrights Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, editor of 'Foxfire' books Eliot Wigginton, and lyrics for Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, and Jonathan Holtzman. 93 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-41. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.