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(Italian Theatre Poster)Biblio.com

TEATRO COMUNALE IL SOGNO D' ARISTO

WHITEHALL PRODUCTIONS (SYDNEY); [MINERVA THEATRE]; [COPPEL, Alec]Biblio.com

SYDNEY; THEATRE; CINEMA Minerva. Whitehall Productions presents ""Mr. Smart Guy"".

24171Cover title. Sydney NSW : Publicity Pty. Ltd. 1941. Small quarto 247 x 184 mm original pictorial wrappers light vertical fold staple bound 16 pp with photographic portraits including writer/director Alec Coppel and actors advertisements for local businesses; a good copy. Programme produced for the world premiere on May 10 1941 of the play Mr. Smart Guy written and directed by internationally acclaimed Australian screenwriter novelist and playwright Alec Coppel at the Minerva Theatre Orwell Street in Sydney's King's Cross. Coppel who was born in Melbourne and educated at Wesley College had just returned from England where he had already worked as a writer for theatre radio and film. In Sydney he co-founded Whitehall Productions an adventurous theatre company for which he also wrote and directed plays. After the war Coppel would return to London where he wrote the script for Edward Dmytryk's celebrated film noirÂ ObsessionÂ 1949 - based on Coppel's own novel A Man about a Dog. He then moved to Hollywood where his career really took off: he became the first Australian to receiveÂ anÂ Academy AwardÂ nomination for screenwriting withÂ The Captain's Paradise 1953. But Coppel's most significant achievement - albeit one that is not as well known in Australia as it should be - was to co-write the screenplay for a film that is consistently acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time Hitchcock's Vertigo 1958.Â 'The time has come for the legitimate theatre in Australia to re-establish itself and Whitehall Productions intends to see that it does exactly this. During the past few years it has been generally thought that the talkies have killed the theatre. This is not so. Talkies hit the public as a novelty and as a novelty built up a tremendous following. Today the legitimate theatre has the opportunity to use the same weapon to fight back. In Australia there is a whole generation of people who have never been to the theatre and to whom legitimate stage production is a novelty. A company that is prepared to show theatre to these people in a modern and attractive form will win the support of this generation. The aim of Whitehall Productions is to establish a permanent theatre in this town which will concern itself purely with the presentation of a continuous series of good modern and commercial plays.' p.1 This highly important Sydney theatre programme associated with Australia's most notable pioneer Hollywood screenwriter is unrecorded in Australian collections.Â unknown

Douglas Stewart Fine Books · Australie125,00 $AU≈ 82,39 €

[PERFORMANCE] [MUSICAL THEATRE] WEILL, Kurt (music); Elmer Rice (book); Langston Hughes (lyrics)Biblio.com

Street Scene: an American Opera Based on Elmer Rice's Play

194880631New York: Chappell & Co. Inc 1948. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on title page: "For Joe Littau a merry Christmas and thanks for a beautiful job!" signed "Kurt Weill" undated but annotated in pencil presumably by Littau: "Xmas 1948." Quarto 30cm. Original buff wrappers printed in red on front cover; 274pp. Professional paper repairs at spine ends; expected tanning to exterior and text; still a superlative copy overall and quite uncommon. Housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. A terrific association copy of this acclaimed late work by Weill for which he won the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1947. Street Scene is perhaps the apotheosis of Weill's socially-engaged musical theater a blend of operatic and theatrical elements with which he first experimented in his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht of the Thirties including Three Penny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Street Scene based on Elmer Rice's naturalistic working-class drama of the same name was especially noteworthy for including lyrics by the African-American poet Langston Hughes whom Weill sought out specifically to "lift the everyday language of the people into a simple unsophisticated poetry" quoted by Jane Vial Jaffe in her program notes to a 2008 production. This was Hughes' first experience writing for musical theater. Street Scene premiered at the Adelphi Theater in New York in January 1947 and met with critical success though its high production costs forced the production to close in April. The show has never been revived on Broadway but it has been staged regularly by operatic companies including revivals by the New York City Opera in 1959 1979 and 1990. Inscriptions by Weill are uncommon; it's an honor he appears to have bestowed only on very close friends and collaborators. In this case the presentation is to Joe Littau the well-known pit conductor who was at this time the Musical Director for Weill's 1948 musical "Love Life" which ran on Broadway from October 1948 to May 1949. Chappell & Co., Inc unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

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