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Freddy Wittop costume designs
- Title
- Freddy Wittop costume designs, 1964-1968.
- Author
- Wittop, Freddy
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Still image | Supervised use | *T-Vim 2010-036 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942.
- Description
- 1 box (9 drawings) : col.; 61 x 50 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- The Freddy Wittop costume designs consist of 9 original color costume sketches for the Broadway productions of George M! (musical) book by Michael Stewart, John Pascal and Francine Pascal, music and lyrics by George M. Cohan with revisions by Mary Cohan (1968), starring Joel Grey; Hello, Dolly! (musical) book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's The matchmaker, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (1964), starring Carol Channing; and I do! I do! book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt, based on The fourposter by Jan de Hartog (1966), starring Robert Preston and Mary Martin; as well as for The great waltz (musical) music by Johann Strauss, Senior and Junior, musical adaptation by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Robert Wright and George Forrest, lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, additional lyrics by Forman Brown (1965) at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, starring Giorgio Tozzi, and the Broadway-bound Pleasures and palaces (musical) book by Frank Loesser and Sam Spewack, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser (1965), with Phyllis Newman.
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Contents
- Folder 1. Hello, Dolly! (1964) -- Folder 2. Pleasures and palaces (1965) -- Folder 3-4. George M! (1968) -- Folder 5. The great waltz, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company (1965) -- Folder 6. I do! I do! (1966).
- Call Number
- *T-Vim 2010-036
- OCLC
- 669055983
- Author
- Wittop, Freddy, designer, artist.
- Title
- Freddy Wittop costume designs, 1964-1968.
- Biography
- Costume designer and dancer Freddy Wittop (1911-2001) was born Frederick Wittop Koning in Bussum, the Netherlands. Under the name Frederico Rey, he danced with such notables as La Argentinita and Jose Greco. He also formed his own dance company in 1951 and toured for seven years. In 1959, Wittop designed costumes for the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak house and actively worked in New York for the next fourteen years. Wittop died at the JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, shortly after being chosen as the 2001 recipient of the Theatre Development Fund's Irene Sharaff Award.
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- Added Author
- Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Vim 2010-036