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Satire in Song and Dance
“Dance Is a Weapon”
Alfredo Valente, photographer. “Van der Lubbe’s Head,” 1934. Copyprint. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0059]
Musical Theater and Satire
George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983). “Who Cares?” from Of Thee I Sing. New York: New World Music, 1931. Sheet music. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)
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Ira Gershwin. “Who Cares?” Lyric sheet for Of Thee I Sing, 1952 revival. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (200.00.00)
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George and Ira Gershwin. Ink doodles of heads by George Gershwin with lyric by Ira Gershwin from “No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh!” in “League of Nations Finale,” from Let ’Em Eat Cake, 1933. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (201.00.00)
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Bob Hope’s Satire on the Stage
Bob Hope, Eve Arden, and Hugh O’Connell (1898–1943). Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (198.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0198]
Advertising flyer for Red, Hot and Blue! Alvin Theatre, New York, 1936. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0057]
The Cradle Will Rock
Marc Blitzstein with cast. The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Copyprint. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0062]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0061]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0061p1]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.02)
[Digital ID # bhp0061p2]
Sing for Your Supper
Poster for Sing for Your Supper. Adelphi Theatre, New York, 1939. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (196.01.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-31186]
South Pacific
Oscar Hammerstein II. Lyric sheet for “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” 1949. Richard Rodgers Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (058.01.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0058_01]
Richard Rodgers. “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught.” Manuscript score, 1949. Richard Rodgers Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (199.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0199]
“Call South Pacific Racial Propaganda,” New York Herald-Tribune, March 1, 1953. Newspaper clipping. Oscar Hammerstein II Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (058.03.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0058_03p00]
The Origins of West Side Story
William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1940. Edited by George Kittredge. Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (196.00.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0196]
Help from a Presidential Speechwriter
Letter from Joshua Logan to Theodore Sorensen, October 23, 1962. Joshua Logan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (203.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0203]
Letter from Joshua Logan to Theodore Sorensen, October 12, 1962. Joshua Logan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (203.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0203_01]
Purlie
Purlie. Playbill, 1970. Lucy Kroll Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (204.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0204]
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