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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

New York City, January 8, 1937
Maxine Elliott's Theatre
Directed by Orson Welles
Music by Paul Bowles

Items

production notebook (book 1)
blueprints......pgs. 9-39, 56, 60, 67
lighting cues...pg. 40-52
photos..........pgs. 58, 62, 71, 80
playscript......pg. 53-86
production notebook (book 2)
playscript...pg. 8-36
costume designs (front and back each)
photographic negatives
oversize photograhic prints
5 playbills
program| flyer| flyer| flyer| flyer
posters
Conductor's Score, set 1
oboe
clarinet 1
clarinet 2
clarinet 3
tenor saxophone
baritone saxophone
trumpet
trombone
timpani
harp

Credits
Title - Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Author - Marlowe, Christopher
Location - New York, New York (Maxine Elliott Theatre)
Date - January 8, 1937
Genre - Tragedy
Director - Orson Welles
Composer - Paul Bowles
Conductor - Jacques Gottlieb
Costume Designer - Orson Welles
Set Designer - Kirk Clover
Lighting Director - Abe Feder
Stage Managers - William L. Greenbaum (head), Charles Pittenger, Carol King, and Walter Leroy
Managing Producer - John Houseman

Cast
The Pope - Charles Peyton
Cardinal of Lorrain - J. Headley
Faustus - Orson Welles
Valdes - Bernard Savage
Cornelius - Myron Paulson
Wagner - Arthur Spencer
First Scholar - William Hitch
Second Scholar - Joseph Wooll
Third Scholar - Huntly Weston
Clown - Harry McKee
Robin - Hiram Sherman
Ralph - Wallace Acton
Vinter - George Smithfield
Old Man - George Duthie
First Friar - Edward Hemmer
Mephistophilis - Jack Carter
Spirit in the Shape of Helen of Troy - Paula Laurence
Seven Deadly Sins
- Pride - Elizabeth Malone
- Covetousness - Jane Hale
- Wrath - Helena Rapport
- Envy - Cora Burlar
- Gluttony - Della Ford
- Sloth - Nina Salama
Lechery - Lee Molnar Baliol - Larry Lauria Belcher - Clarence Yates
Friars - Richie White, Jack Mealy, Warren Goddard, Robert Hopkins, Peter Barbier, Henry Russelle, Henry Howard, Louis Pennywell, Harry Singer, Solomon Goldstein, Walter Palm, Marcel Rousseau, Frank Kelly, Charles Uday
Puppets - Bill Baird
Masks - James Cochrane


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