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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket chipped and tattered.. 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. xx, 139pp. Eight black and white photos from original cast performance. Red cloth. Cast list. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .
Carmen Jones by Oscar Hammerstein - 1945
by Oscar Hammerstein
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E-140: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945. 139 pgs. Illustrated with 8 black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear to the extremities present (edges are chipped and worn with several closed tears present to the edges of the DJ). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. His musical play based on Meilhac and Halevy's adaptation of Prosper Merimee s Carmen. Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte starred in the movie version. Eight black & white photographs from the stage production. Oscar Hammerstein II (1895? -1960) forged a remarkable, multifaceted career as a librettist, lyricist, playwright, director, and producer. He wrote Carmen Jones, Carousel, Show Boat, and, with longtime collaborator Richard Rodgers, Oklahoma! , South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. E-140; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .
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- Place of Publication E-140
- Date Published 1945
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Carmen Jones
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era African-American setting. Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Merimee. The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short. Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show.The original Broadway production starred Muriel Smith (alternating with Muriel Rahn) in the title role. The original Broadway cast members were nearly all new to the stage; Kennedy and Muir write that on the first day of rehearsal only one member had ever been on a stage before. The 1954 film was adapted by Hammerstein and Harry Kleiner. It was directed by Otto Preminger and starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. In 1992, Carmen…
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