Plays

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Box includes two file folders (FF) from this series. FF 1 contains correspondence with administrators from Denver public schools as well as contact lists. FF 2 contains correspondence with a variety of organizations and companies about the traveling theater program, ranging from 1985-1998.

Abstract This box contains programs from theater productions including: 42nd Street; 1776; A Chorus Line; A Diamond Night at the Ballet Gala; A Divine Madness; A Little Night Music; A Star is Torn; Absurd Singular Person; The Act; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; After-Play; The Agony and the Ectasy; Ain't Misbehavin'; Amadeus; American Stage Premieres "Oedipus Rex" and "Le Pas d'Alcier"; Amerika Maru; Annie; Annie Get Your Gun; Antigone; Applause; April in Paris; Around the World in 80 Days; Art;...

Abstract This box contains programs of theater productions including: Da; Daisy Mayme; Dance Players; Dancin'; deChirico's Daughter; Dancing for Life Gala; Destry Rides Again; The Diaghilav Exhibition; The Diamond Lil Theatre;Diamonds of World Ballet; The Diary of Anne Frank; Dick Whittington; Djangology; Do Block Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; Doctor Zhivago; Dream Girls; EFX starring Tommy Tune; Eight Island Pageant; Emily; Enter Laughing; Equus; Equity; Eurythmeum; Evita; Expression of...

Abstract This box contains programs from theatrical or movie productions including: Invitation to the Dance; Iolanthe; Irma La Douce; Isadora: American Legend; It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; Jazz Dance World; Jekyll and Hyde; Jelly's Last Jam; Jerome Robins Broadway; Jerry's Girls; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Deamcoat; Jubilee!; The King and I; Kismet; Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Knee Pays; Last Night of the Ballyhoo; Lena Horne; Les Miserables; Les Sylphides; Liberace; The Lilly...

Abstract This box contains programs from theater productions and movies including: Radio City Christmas Spectacular; Ragtim; The Ramayana; Rapunzel and the Dragons; Razzle Dazzle; The Red Mill; The Red Shoes; Remembering Charles Weidman; Riverdance; Robin Hood Dell; Romance Romance; Romeo and Juliet; Roots; Rose; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Rothschilds; Salad Days; Salute to Vienna; Same Time Next Year; Santaland Diaries; Scarlet Pimpernel; The Secret Garden; Seven Wonders of the World;...

Abstract This box contains programs from theater productions and movies including: USA Dance classic; University of Denver Ice Shoe; Valentino; Victor Borge Holiday Show on Broadway; Visa a la Tierra Encantada; Viva Chinatown; The Wakefield Mystery Play; War and Peace; The Weir; West Side Story; Western States Performing Arts Tour; Who Plays Wins; Will Rogers Follies; The Winter's Tale; The Wiz; Wizard of Oz; World Amateur Standard Dancesport Championships; The World Goes Round; Ziegfield; and...

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Brad Bowles, professor of theater at the University of Colorado at Denver, discusses his work with senior citizens to collect biographical stories in order to create plays based on these stories. Reflects on a play he wrote with a student, "The Red Wheelbarrow," and how it led to the creation of what Bowles calls senior theater after a performance at a senior citizen community center. Reflects on his process which includes collecting stories and transforming them into performances.

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Contains a 1983 presentation speech to Elta M. L. Cohen written by Rabbi Manuel Laderman, and a 1988 book with a short family tree for the Cohen and Milkove family, photos of the families, a presentation by Rabbi Laderman and a play by Elta Cohen. She was the long-time secretary to Rabbi Laderman.

Abstract Lilian White Spencer (1876-1953) was a playwright and poet who lived in Denver, Colorado as a child and again from 1918-1944. Spencer wrote plays, reviews of plays, script revisions, poetry and also translated French literature. She was best known in Denver for pageant writing. She wrote The Pageant of Colorado, an epic drama, which was performed May 1927 with a cast of 1,500 as part of a celebration commemorating the opening of the Moffatt Tunnel. Her papers include pen and ink drawings...

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Contains photographs of Maurice Rose and photographs from a family scrapbook. The photographs of Maurice Rose include two where he is military uniforms and a photograph of a play where Maurice Rose is standing next to Deena Spivak Strauss.