TENNESSEE WILLIAMS GLASS MENAGERIE annotated script ANTA Theater New York 1960

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[TENNESSEE WILLIAMS GLASS MENAGERIE ANNOTATED REHEARSAL SCRIPT]
THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams, heavily annotated rehearsal script for a 1960 revival at the ANTA/American National Theater and Academy in New York City, 1944 (date of the famed Tennessee Williams play), 1960 revival copy, staging copy/performance copy heavily annotated with timing for scenes, actor movements, and other directions, 65-page typescript original except for the first page which is mimeographed, pages 2-11 are stapled together in the upper left corner, every page has annotations of varying degrees ranging from a few to many variously in red pencil (for timing of scenes), stage directions in pen, cross-outs or slight changes to parts of text, sound effects, and diagrams of positions or movements of actors, and also on facing pages of some pages (i. e., the blank reverse sides of the preceding page) are stage directions and other notes, the heavily annotated complete script is clasped into a blue stiff paper binder with a label with "Glass Menagerie/Revival - 1960 - ANTA TH[eater]./N.Y.C.” on the front, and on the spine the paste-on label “1960 The Glass Menagerie, GK [for Gerald Kean/Keane];
Gerald Kean/Keane
, 1915-2002, was active in theater and television in the New York City area from the latter 1940s until the 1980s, he was active in leading positions as a writer, editor, and producer/director in the media and entertainment fields from the latter 1930s to the 1980s beginning with the position of assistant stage manager for the play "The Eternal Road" produced by Max Reinhardt in 1937, Kean had a long and close working relationship with Himan Brown, who had gained fame as the producer/director of the radio series Inner Sanctum plus other famed radio and TV series, and Kean wrote numerous radio plays for Himan's popular CBS Mystery Theater under his own name and the pen names G. Frederick Lewis and James Agate, Jr., during the World War II years Kean was in the U. S. government’s information service and in the years after held a top position with the United Nations information agency, the handwriting is confirmed to be Kean's by comparison with handwriting on other materials purchased at an estate sale in Fairfield County, Connecticut;
CONDITION:
all pages well-preserved with original typescript and handwritten annotations legible, faint normal age-toning to pages.