Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Johnny Johnson, 1936-[ongoing].

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Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Johnny Johnson, 1936-[ongoing].

Includes programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for stage productions, broadcasts, and film or video adaptations (if any) of the work, beginning with the November 1936 premiere at the Forty-Fourth Street Theater in New York City. Posters, photographic prints (for productions prior to 1983), and recordings are filed in other series.

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