Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery

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Framed gouache watercolor painting, with pencil sketch visible underneath paint, of a scene with three arches with twisted Corinthian columns; ionic columns line the sides. The center arch is coffered. Arches and columns are painted yellow. Lower right-hand corner signed "Lowenstein." Sticker on the back of frame says "Panel 3." It is presumed to be a set design.

Abstract Helen Bonfils built the Bonfils Theatre, on East Colfax Avenue at Elizabeth Street, Denver, Colorado, in 1953. The theatre was built to try to preserve live theater in a time when Hollywood Films were taking over the entertainment industry. In 1985 the theatre was renamed the Lowenstein Theatre and was then closed in 1986 by its umbrella organization, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The collection consists of two copies of the Bonfils Memorial Theatre dedication program...

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This box contains clippings, programs, course work, and scene design paintings created by Sandra in high school and at UCLA.

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This box contains oversize drawings, sketches, costume designs, a sketchbook, and an "artist book" created by Sandra during her time at UCLA and the Aesthetic Education Institute.

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Costume and Set Designs - Look Homeward, Angel (8 Set Design sketches on paper), On Borrowed Time, Peg O' My Heart, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife Lighting Plot, group of 5 unidentified Set Designs, and a solo unidentified design.

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This box contains the first half of files related to productions that dancers performed at the Gwen Bowen School of Dance. Files are organized alphabetically. Folders contain materials that correspond to the production, including programs, notes, costume sketches, set design sketches, and photographs. This box also contains subject files relating to productions. Box contains folders Pearl Street Dancing Times -The Village of Ilf & Nowhere to Now.

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Stage settings for Theatre Production The Merry Widow, 1960. 16 sheets - Acts 1, 2, and 3.

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Stage settings for Theatre Production South Pacific, 1963. 43 sheets.

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Framed gouache watercolor painting, with pencil sketch visible underneath paint, of five scenes from "Hadrian VII." All five have a solid black backdrop with minimal set furnishings. Scenes include a room, altar, man knelling before a cardinal, throne with banner, candlesticks and railings and the same candlesticks and railings without the banner and throne chair. Sticker on the back of frame says "Panel 5." Also included is a mounted photograph from a production.

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Interview with Henry Lowenstein conducted by Glenn Giffin.