Play Scripts from Royal Books, Inc.

New York: Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1947. Vintage script for the 1947 Broadway play. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout, noting stage directions and amending dialogue for several male characters. Many annotations partially (and unsuccessfully) erased, possibly in service of the script being used by several different cast or crew… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Draft script for an unproduced play. A light chamber comedy about an aging gay director whose attempts to maintain creative control over his newest production are thwarted by a ham-fisted millionaire, who wants his nephew to be cast in the lead role in exchange for financial backing. Clear plastic and green titled wrappers.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. A woman with two unfaithful husbands ends up pregnant. The arrangement begins to unravel when she gives birth to twins. White titled self wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Toni Ermini, and playwright Jaia Fiastri. 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication, rectos… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Draft script for the 1986 play. Laid in with the script is a typed letter addressed from Patrick James O'Leary to casting agent Paul Kohner, suggesting Kohner's client Peter O'Toole for the title role. Based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726), about a man's often-comic voyages to fictitious lands. Performed as a one-man show. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage script for the 1971 play. Copy belonging to director Larry Arrick, with his name and address in manuscript ink on the title page. A black comedy set in a sanatorium, satirizing American dependence on psychotherapy. The play debuted off-Broadway on August 10, 1971, at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton, New York,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1992. Archive of material for an unproduced musical, including original character design art, planned production information, a synopsis, and a tape recording of two songs from the musical, "Draggin' Along" and "Have a Happy Christmas." Also included in the archive is a typed letter of introduction from playwright Nance Crawford to her brother, noted child actor John… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. After a one night stand, a recently divorced woman begins to have regrets, ultimately deciding to have sex with at least ten men before beginning a relationship again. Set in Los Angeles. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credit for playwright Gene Stone.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Final Draft script for an unproduced play. A reincarnation narrative focusing on a motley group of Californian academics grappling with the newfound discovery of their past lives. Set in California. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credit for screenwriter Tom McGowan. 141 leaves, with last page… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage script for the 1976 off-Broadway play, seen here under the working title "Washington." INSCRIBED on the title page by playwright Barrie Stavis: "December, 1976 / This copy of Washington is for Norman Weinstein, friend, poet, valued colleague. It is presented with gratitude for the brilliant cutting he did on the script during that midstream time… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1987. Original script for an unproduced play. Laid in with the script is a Typed Letter Signed by screenwriter Basil Reichman, addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner, introducing the play and seeking representation by Kohner. A long-widowed Jewish immigrant falls in love again, but soon realizes he must choose between the support of his children and… Read more about this item

New York: N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1971 off-Broadway play, which premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 7, 1971. A comedy about the titular Tommy Flowers, a charming, freewheeling con man who finds himself homeless in Manhattan, eventually finding refuge in the apartment of a young violinist from Tampa. … Read more about this item

New York: Lincoln Center, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 play. Copy belonging to an unknown lighting technician, with their manuscript pencil annotations regarding lighting changes throughout. A dramatization of the early life and loves of William Shakespeare. The play made its Broadway debut at the Repertory Theatre at the Lincoln Center on November 14, running… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Two Final scripts for the 1968 one act plays "Sweet Eros" and "Witness," bound together and seen here under the joint title "The McNally Plays." Two early works by Terrence McNally, both dealing with alienation and violence, first performed on a double bill off-Broadway, at the Gramercy Arts Theatre, running from November 21, 1968, to… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Vintage script for the 1961 Broadway play, which premiered at the Music Box Theatre on April 4, 1961, running for a successful 271 performances. A drama about Sigmund Freud, focusing on his tumultuous relationship with troubled Viennese patient Elizabeth von Ritter. Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress for Kim Stanley. Set… Read more about this item

New York: The Theatre Guild, 1943. Early Draft script for the 1943 play, seen here under the working title "A New Play." Based on Richard Hughes' 1929 novel "A High Wind in Jamaica, Or, the Innocent Voyage." Writer Paul Osborn was a prolific writer for screen and stage, and is best remembered today for his 1955 film… Read more about this item

New York: International Creative Management [ICM], 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 play, which opened on November 11, 1982 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a run of 213 performances, closing on May 15, 1983, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Keith Carradine. Laid in is a letter written by Cronyn to Christian Science Monitor journalist Arthur Unger… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1948. Vintage script for the 1948 play, first produced by the Actors Lab in California. INSCRIBED by playwrights Janet and Philip Stevenson on the title page: "To Steve / with deep affection and 'eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man' / May 12, 1952 / Janet Stevenson / + Phil S." … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Vintage script for the 1970 play, which debuted off-Broadway at the Fortune Theatre on February 9, 1970. Laid in with the script are three copies of a review of a later run of the play printed in the American National Theater and Academy West newsletter, and three copies of an advertising sheet for the play, along… Read more about this item

New York: Waissman and Fox, 1972. Vintage script for the 1972 touring stage production of the 1971 musical. With the name of actor Greg Evigan in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, and in manuscript ink on the title page, however, script appears to have been used by several different cast members, with notations in various hands throughout. … Read more about this item

New York: N.p., 1948. Draft script for the 1948 play, with a "Property of [Producer] John C. Wilson" label and a New York "Rialto Service Bureau" label on the front wrapper. The play, which premiered at the Fortune Theatre in London in 1947, opened on Broadway the following year, on January 13, 1948, with the original London cast… Read more about this item