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(Small broadside lyric sheet and program handbill for the New York Premiere Production): Tambourines to Glory
by HUGHES, Langston
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- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
(New York): Little Theatre, 1963. Softcover. Fine. The lyric sheet is a single quarto sheet printed recto only on cheaper paper stock; slight age-toning, near fine. The lhandbill program is a single octavo sheet printed recto and verso, fine. A handbill associated with the New York premiere performance of Langston Hughes' 1956 gospel musical. In spite of generally good reviews, it ran only 24 performances at the Little Theatre during the month of November 1963. Directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos, music by Jobe Huntley, the estimable cast included Clara Ward, Robert Guillaume, Louis Gossett, Micki Grant, Rosalie King, Theresa Merritt Hines, and others. Hughes wrote the play prior to his adaptation of it into a novel; the cutline on this handbill reverses that order. The lyric sheet corresponds to Act II, and was no doubt prepared to be distributed to audience members so they could "Sing and clap along to the Tambourine Chorus.
Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 415858
- Title
- (Small broadside lyric sheet and program handbill for the New York Premiere Production): Tambourines to Glory
- Author
- HUGHES, Langston
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little Theatre
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Drama, Ephemera, Music, AmerLit20thCent, African-Americana, SouthernAuthor/Interest, Sociology, PoliticalBooks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama; Music; African-Americana;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- New
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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