On View
Taking the Stage Gallery
Exhibition
Taking the Stage
Published by
Playbill, American, founded 1884
Metromedia, American, founded 1955
Subject of
Gordone, Charles, American, 1925 - 1995
Morosco Theatre, American, 1917 - 1982
Date
September 1971
Medium
ink on paper with metal
Dimensions
H x W x D (Closed): 9 1/16 × 6 × 1/16 in. (23 × 15.2 × 0.2 cm)
H x W x D (Open): 9 1/16 × 11 9/16 × 9/16 in. (23 × 29.3 × 1.5 cm)
Description
Playbill, volume 8, issue 9 featuring the play, "No Place To Be Somebody," written and directed by Charles Gordone and performed at the Morosco Theatre, New York, in 1971. The top third of the front cover is the masthead, with a square of white with gray pixels on the left and black centered type that reads [Morosco / Theatre], and a yellow rectangular field on the right with black type with the magazine's title centered, [PLAYBILL / the national magazine for theatregoers]. Below the masthead is a black field with a white illustration depicting a flat glass radial fracture that extends through a second graphic of a mirror image of a clock with handles pointing towards 3:45. The title of the play, which is also the main coverline, is written below the fracture illustration in white stylized text, [NO PLACE / TO BE / SOMEBODY], on the bottom third of the cover. The back cover features an ad for Tareyton cigarettes. All of the pages are glossy and bound together with staples. Most of the interior pages are off-white with black type with mostly black-and-white images and a few color images. The magazine has thirty-six (36) pages.
Transcription Center Status
Transcription Available
Place used
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Memorabilia and Ephemera
Type
theater programs
Topic
Broadway Theatre
Drama (Theatre)
Identity
Race relations
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick
Object number
2015.64.11
Restrictions & Rights
Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd537f962f1-9f9e-4f14-8f09-98a72d6ae5cd

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