A collection on Yiddish theater reveals how an immigrant culture created vibrant and commercially viable performance traditions that maintained a lasting impact. Cohan, Howard Dietz, and Betty Comden document the evolution of musical theater as an artistic form. Large gifts on composers and lyricists Harry B. It is one of the best-preserved versions of the British playwright's '. Exposed only one day, Monday, it was visible at the library of the Guildhall in the city of London. The story of Broadway is augmented with smaller collections on popular entertainment forms: burlesque, minstrelsy, vaudeville, and circus. A rare copy of Shakespeare's first collection of plays has been exhibited in London on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its publication. With significant material on Broadway productions and related personalities, the Collection charts the expansion of commercial theater along Broadway to the establishment of the current theater district in Times Square. The First Folio is the first printing of 36 of Shakespeares plays, and it was first published in 1623 by Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard. The Collection contains a wide range of material types such as annotated scripts, articles, contracts, correspondence, design renderings, drawings, ephemera, memorabilia, photographs, personal papers, posters, prints, props, scores, sheet music, scrapbooks, window cards, 3-D objects, and architectural elements. The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 200,000 accessioned objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 to present day Broadway productions.
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