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Play on!

Title: Play on! [videorecording] / Mitchell Maxwell, Eric Nederlander, Thomas Hall, Hal Luftig, Bruce Lucker, Mike Skipper, and Victoria Maxwell, in association with Kery Davis and Alan J. Schuster, present ; originally produced by The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California ; book by Cheryl L. West ; with the songs of Duke Ellington ; conceived and directed by Sheldon Epps ; [loosely based on Twelfth night by William Shakespeare] ; choreographed by Mercedes Ellington ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: New York, c1997.

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Description

3 videocassettes (139 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)

Summary

Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth night, set in 1940s Harlem.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Note

A videorecording of the Old Globe Theatre production of this show, taped on Nov. 10, 1996, is available on NCOV 467.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Arrangements, musical supervision and orchestrations by Luther Henderson ; scenic design, James Leonard Joy ; costume design, Marianna Elliott ; lighting design, Jeff Davis ; sound design, Jeff Ladman ; creative consultant, Louis Johnson ; creative historic consultant, Frankie Manning ; musical director, J. Leonard Oxley ; prod. stage manager, Robert Mark Kalfin.

Performer (note)

Carl Anderson, Yvette Cason, André DeShields, Cheryl Freeman, Lawrence Hamilton, Larry Marshall, Tonya Pinkins, Crystal Allen, Ronald "Cadet" Bastine, Jacquelyn Bird, Wendee Lee Curtis, Byron Easley, Germaine Goodson, Alan H. Green, Frantz G. Hall, Bryan S. Haynes, Gil P., Lacy Darryl Phillips, Stacie Precia, Angela Robinson, Lisa Scialabba, Erika Vaughn, William Wesley, Karen Callaway Williams.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, N.Y., May 7, 1997.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the financial assistance of the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund.

Call Number

NCOV 2043

OCLC

NYPG03-F260

Title

Play on! [videorecording] / Mitchell Maxwell, Eric Nederlander, Thomas Hall, Hal Luftig, Bruce Lucker, Mike Skipper, and Victoria Maxwell, in association with Kery Davis and Alan J. Schuster, present ; originally produced by The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California ; book by Cheryl L. West ; with the songs of Duke Ellington ; conceived and directed by Sheldon Epps ; [loosely based on Twelfth night by William Shakespeare] ; choreographed by Mercedes Ellington ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

New York, c1997.

Access

Permission required.

Credits

Arrangements, musical supervision and orchestrations by Luther Henderson ; scenic design, James Leonard Joy ; costume design, Marianna Elliott ; lighting design, Jeff Davis ; sound design, Jeff Ladman ; creative consultant, Louis Johnson ; creative historic consultant, Frankie Manning ; musical director, J. Leonard Oxley ; prod. stage manager, Robert Mark Kalfin.

Cast

Carl Anderson, Yvette Cason, André DeShields, Cheryl Freeman, Lawrence Hamilton, Larry Marshall, Tonya Pinkins, Crystal Allen, Ronald "Cadet" Bastine, Jacquelyn Bird, Wendee Lee Curtis, Byron Easley, Germaine Goodson, Alan H. Green, Frantz G. Hall, Bryan S. Haynes, Gil P., Lacy Darryl Phillips, Stacie Precia, Angela Robinson, Lisa Scialabba, Erika Vaughn, William Wesley, Karen Callaway Williams.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, N.Y., May 7, 1997.

Funding

Recorded with the financial assistance of the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund.

Added Author

Maxwell, Mitchell, producer.

Nederlander, Eric, producer.

Hall, Thomas (Stage producer)

Luftig, Hal, producer.

Lucker, Bruce, producer.

Skipper, Mike, producer.

Maxwell, Victoria, producer.

Davis, Kery, producer.

Schuster, Alan J., producer.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974. Play on!

West, Cheryl L, librettist.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Henderson, Luther, 1919-2003, orchestrations.

Henderson, Luther, 1919-2003, arranger of music.

Ellington, Mercedes, choreographer.

Epps, Sheldon, director.

Epps, Sheldon, conceptor.

Joy, James Leonard, set designer.

Elliott, Marianna (Costume designer), costume designer.

Davis, Jeff, lighting designer.

Ladman, Jeff, sound designer.

Johnson, Louis, 1930-2020.

Manning, Frankie.

Oxley, J. Leonard, conductor.

Kalfin, Robert Mark, production stage manager.

Anderson, Carl, 1945-2004, performer.

Cason, Yvette, performer.

De Shields, André, 1946- performer.

Freeman, Cheryl, performer.

Hamilton, Lawrence, performer.

Marshall, Larry (Tenor), performer.

Pinkins, Tonya, performer.

Allen, Crystal, performer.

Bastine, Ronald "Cadet," performer.

Bird, Jacquelyn, performer.

Lee, Wendee, 1955- performer.

Easley, Byron, performer.

Goodson, Germaine, performer.

Green, Alan H., performer.

Hall, Frantz G., performer.

Haynes, Bryan S., performer.

P., Gil, performer.

Phillips, Lacy Darryl, performer.

Precia, Stacie, performer.

Robinson, Angela, performer.

Scialabba, Lisa, performer.

Vaughn, Erika, performer.

Wesley, William, performer.

Williams, Karen Callaway, performer.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Corwin, Betty L.

Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, Calif.), producer.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund.

Research Call Number

NCOV 2043

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