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Octagon Club collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-6-3859

Scope and content

Recordings of "Joan of Arkansas," 1951 and "Speak of the Devil," 1952. Also the program and sheet music for the show Time Out, music by John Hastings, directed by Eleanor Segal. This was the first show of the Octagon Club from 1945. Also sheet music for Shoot if You Must, 1949, and Maid to Order, 1947. Collection also contains 3 photographs from productions. Also, a casting call flyer and promotional poster for the 1973 performance of "The Round Heads and Pointed Heads," as well the script, stage directions, and clippings associated with the performance. The Bertolt Brecht play was translated by Leonard Lehrman and Gesa Valk, adapted by Lehrman and Bill Castleman.

Dates

  • 1951-1952.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Octagon Club was a theater group founded in 1945 to produce original musicals.

Extent

1 folders. (1 folders.)

1 mapcase folders. (1 mapcase folders.)

2 phonographic records. (2 phonographic records.)

1 CDs. (1 CDs)

Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--CD copy available.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)