Performing arts
Found in 177 Collections and/or Records:
Bercu Gross Family Collection
The material in the collection includes items, photographs, and papers related to Dorothy Bercu Gross and her husband Norman Gross, her extended family, and her Vaudeville career in the 1920s and 1930s. Her father owned the Chicago Hide, Fur and Wool Company in Douglas, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The collection spans from the late 1800s to 2015 and illustrates an extended Jewish family and vaudeville performers.
Billboard Advertising Bus Stop, 1932-1958
Sign for Bus Stop opera in room surrounded by wooden chairs, reading ''Central City Opera House Assn. and Whitehead-Stevens Productions Inc. Present August 6-September 3, 1955 Bus Stop by William Inge Starring Peggy Ann Garner, Albert Salmi, and Glenn Anders, Directed by Harold Clurman.''
Billboard Advertising The Lark, 1956
Sign for the 1956 production of The Lark in a room surrounded by furniture, reading ''Central City Opera House Assn. By arrangement with Kermit Bloomgarden present twenty-fifth annual play festival dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Spencer Penrose, August 4 through September 1, 1956. Julie Harris in 'The Lark' a play by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lillian Hellman with Sam Jaffe, Leo Ciceri, George Macready, Bruce Gordon, James O'Rear, Edwin Binns, directed by Joseph Anthony."
Billboard Advertising Twenty-Fourth Annual Opera Festival, 1955
Sign in room surrounded by wooden chairs, reading: ''Central City Opera House Assn. Presents Twenty-Fourth Annual Opera Festival, July 2-July 30, 1955, Direct from London, England, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Sir William Gilbert's and Sir Arthur Sullivan's Immortal Operas The Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, Musical Director IsidoreGodfrey, Assistant Musical Director and Chorus Master William Cox-Ife, Director of Productions Robert Gibson.''
Billboard Advertising Twenty-Sixth Annual Opera Festival, 1957
Sign on outside wall of a building next to a door, reading ''Central City Opera House Assn. Presents Twenty-Sixth Annual Opera Festival, June 29th through July 27, 1957, The Immortal Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and The Gypsy Baron, A Viennese Comedy by Johann Strauss, Both Productions Designed and Directed by Dr. Elemer Nagy, Musical Director and Conductor Mr. Emerson Buckley, Associate Conductor Mr. Walter Taussig, Chorus Master Mr. Roger Dexter Fee.''
Billboards Advertising 'Separate Tables', 1932-1958
Man standing by billboard for the 1957 production of 'Separate Tables,' reading ''Direct from New York, settings by Michael Weight, lighting and supervision by Paul Morrison, produced by Robert Whitehead by arrangement with Stephen Mitchell, The remarkable New York cast includes William Podmore, Catherine Proctor, Michael Lipton, Valerie Cardew, Helena Carroll, Georgia Harvy.'' Another partially obscured billboard listing more names appears to the right.
Board Materials, 1973-2002
This series of documents contains meeting minutes from board meetings dating from the 1973-1974 presenting season to the 1992-1993 presenting season, board structure and slating documents, Annual Reports, financial records, fundraising materials, membership/contact lists, and random contact lists and meeting minutes (undated).
Box 1: 5 by 2 Plus-Ballet de Santiago
Box 1: Debutante Ball Programs and Clippings, 1987-1994
This box contains programs and clippings from Debutante Charities, Inc. summer debutante ball.
Box 1: Programs, 2003-2019
File folders in chronological order containing various Newman Center Presents (NCP) season announcement cards, season ticket purchase mailers, and programs for University of Denver sponsored productions presented by and performed in the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Season programs include the 2003-2004 Inaugaral season through the 2017-2018 season; season 2014-2015 not included. Many of the programs are autographed by the featured performer.