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" Richard Barr : "
David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee
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BL
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635752
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Crespy, David Allison
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Richard Barr : : the playwright's producer /\ David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee
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Carbondale :: Southern Illinois University Press,, c2013
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Theater in the Americas
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xiii, 279 p., [14] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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9780809331406
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: 0809331403
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: 9780809331413
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: 0809331411
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: "you have to hock your house: the story of a producer" -- Privilege with a price: Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts -- Playing with martians: stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre -- A theatrical warrior: Lieutenant Richard Barr -- Learning the director's craft: stock, Broadway, and City Center -- Broadway beginnings: Ethel Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage -- The zoo story: discovering Edward Albee -- Producers at work: on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway -- Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over -- Hocking the house: Seascape to Sweeney Todd -- Brightening Broadway's lights: Barr's legacy to the American theatre -- Afterword / Edward Albee
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Barr, Richard
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Theatrical producers and directors-- United States, Biography
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| LC Classification
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PN2287.B22C84 2013
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