Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical "I Married an Angel"
Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical "I Married an Angel"
Uesgirl
Swing Joined: 12/19/16
#1Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical "I Married an Angel"
Posted: 12/19/16 at 5:48pm
Hello,
My family member, Isabelle Kimpal, was a cast member in the 1938 George Balanchine Musical "I Married an Angel" and understudied the lead Vera Zorina. I'm looking for a needle in the haystack. While I have located a number of playbills on Ebay, I have not come across any understudy slips that list that she was filling in for the lead. If anyone is a collector who happens to have such an item, please contact me. I would love to purchase it from you.
#2Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical
Posted: 12/19/16 at 6:11pm
Were understudy slips even used in 1938?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#3Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical
Posted: 12/19/16 at 7:29pm
That was my exact thought, I doubt it.
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#4Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical
Posted: 12/19/16 at 7:57pm
You should contact Equity and ask them if those slips were used during that time period. That way, you'll at least know whether or not you should continue on the search or not.
#5Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical
Posted: 12/19/16 at 8:27pm
Printing abilities in the '30s was not possible for short notice production of this nature.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
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#6Need Help Finding Understudy Slip from 1938 Musical
Posted: 12/19/16 at 8:58pm
I have some playbills from the mid 1940s that have inserts (one being for a performance in which Ethel Merman's understudy Jane Romano went on in Annie Get Your Gun) -- so they did use them-- but the ones I've seen were nicely printed so were likely done ahead of time and were possibly only used when stars took prearranged vacation.
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Updated On: 12/19/16 at 08:58 PM
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