5 boxes, 1 oversize folder (2.1 linear feet)
Note: This brief collection description is an accession record. The
collection is not fully processed or cataloged; no biographical sketch,
descriptions of series, or indexes are available.
Acquisition: Acquired from Paula Laurence Bowden, 2004
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Hope Rider, 2004
RLIN Record ID: None
Series I. contains scripts and some production materials for plays including The Night of the Iguana, an unproduced musical version of Camino Real, and Slapstick Tragedy. Some of these scripts include multiple handwritten and typescript revisions by Williams.
Materials in Series II. include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and programs relating to Williams.
Audio tapes received with this collection were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings Collection. Posters, set designs, photographs by Bill Viggiano, and Williams ephemera were transferred to the Performing Arts Collection.
Box Folder Description
"El Camino" (musical based on CAMINO REAL, ca. 1976) Scripts 1 1 "An Untitled Musical," photocopy, May 1976 2 "El Camino," working title, photocopy 3 Revisions, typescript and handwritten Casting 4 Actor biographies, clippings, notes 5 Director and design, clippings and correspondence 6 Contracts 7 Correspondence re Larry Arrick and Barbara Damashek arbitration 8 Financial documents 9-10 Production materials, clippings, correspondence 2 1 THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (1964), typescript 2 A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND, photocopy, April 27, 1982, Maria St. Just's copy 3 KINGDOM OF EARTH, typescript 4 "The Negative," photocopy of revised typescript THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1963) 5-7 Typescript pages with handwritten revisions 8 Typescript, "Final and approved New York playing version" 3 1 Film script 2 Newspaper clippings and programs 3 Photographs and slides of Iguana-related material OUT CRY (1973), early version titled THE TWO- CHARACTER PLAY 4 Typescript, July 1971 5 Typescript, August 31, 1971, with handwritten revisions 6 Handwritten revisions 7 Programs 8 OUT CRY and SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS (1972), correspondence and clippings SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY (1965), includes THE MUTILATED and THE GNÄDIGES FRÄULEIN Typescripts 9 "Original submission, April 1964" 10-11 "Rehearsal version, January 17, 1965" 4 1 "Rehearsal version," ca. March 1965 2-3 Pages with handwritten revisions 4 Accounting statements 5 Contracts 6 Production materials and correspondence 7 SUMMER AND SMOKE (1972) opera, clippings and program 8 THIS IS (AN ENTERTAINMENT), photocopy script "Key West, January 1974, first draft" 9 TWO PLAYS (includes I NEVER GET DRESSED TILL AFTER DARK ON SUNDAYS and THE DAY ON WHICH A MAN DIES), photocopy script ca. 1971
10 Awards for THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA [oversize Drama Critic's Circle Award removed to oversize folder] Correspondence 11 Bowden, Charles, Maria St. Just, and Tennessee Williams 12 St. Just, Maria, 1983-1993 13 Various correspondents, ca. 1964-1994 5 1 "Five O'Clock Angel" script by Kit Harvey and Maria St. Just, working draft photocopy ca. 1993 2 Leverich, Lyle, materials 3 Photographs, including Charles Bowden, Tennessee Williams, Audrey Wood, Rose Williams, and Maria St. Just * Poster, "Maria St. Just Remembers Tennessee Williams" [removed to oversize folder] 4-5 Theatre programs Williams, Rose 6 Art work [oversize removed to oversize folder] 7 Documents re. care, finances 8-10 Williams, Tennessee, clippings, correspondence, memorial programs, obituaries
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