• The Equity Library Theatre (ELT) was a New York City theatre company active from 1943 until 1989. Founded in 1943 by Sam Jaffe, representing Actors' Equity...
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    a Waltz? (Equity Library Theatre), 10 productions of Funny Girl, as Fanny Brice (her favorite production, at Chateau DeVille Dinner Theatre, was directed...
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  • was at The Theatre at 2851 N. Halsted Street; and the title character in the play Robyn Hood of Barnsdale Wood at the Equity Library Theatre. He was in...
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  • performing on New York City stages in productions such as the 1977 Equity Library Theatre revival of Wonderful Town and the 1982 Broadway musical Is there...
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  • Crucible, an Equity Library Theatre production of Joan of Lorraine, and in several television drama series, including Armstrong Circle Theatre, The Doctors...
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  • Equity Library's production of Sidney Howard's Paths of Glory. An Off-Broadway production of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. by the Equity Library Theatre followed...
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    Year Title Role Venue 1986 Too Many Girls Al Equity Library Theatre 1990 Grease Kenicke Darien Dinner Theater 1990 The Golden Apple Patroclus York Theater...
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    revue had an off-Broadway revival at the Equity Library Theatre. The revue opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on May 16, 1952, and ran for 365 performances...
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    during this period. In early 1949 he took an unpaid role in an Equity Library Theatre production of the mid-1930s play Stevedore, in which Rod Steiger...
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  • Tony Award winners Lily Tomlin, Diana Ross, National Theatre For the Deaf and Equity Library Theatre honored with the award that year. He received it for...
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  • Jean Eckart. The musical was presented Off-Broadway in 1961 at the Equity Library Theatre, and in 1962 it was produced at the York Playhouse. Both productions...
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  • Nest, playing "Sefelt", Cort Theatre, New York City – 1963-1964 Our Town, playing "Howie Newsome", Equity Library Theatre, New York City; Eugene O'Neill...
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    writer known for his performances in film, television and theatre. He is most known for his theatre roles on and off Broadway including his Tony Award winning...
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    Ossie Davis (section Theatre)
    Arts in 1995, Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. Davis started his career in theatre acting with the Ross McClendon Players in the 1940s. He made his Broadway...
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  • 1975 performance of the 1975 Equity Library production was recorded on audiocassette and is held in the Equity Library Theatre collection. A recording of...
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  • absolutely required." Both the Equity Library Theatre and Encores! stagings were taped for the New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Collection archives. Anna...
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  • in a limited run off-Broadway production of Twelfth Night at the Equity Library Theatre in the role of sea captain Antonio. In 1961, when The Sword and...
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    Inge in the early 1970s, was titled Summer Brave. It opened at the Equity Library Theatre in New York in 1973, two months before Inge committed suicide. The...
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    Chip Zien (section Theatre)
    child in a production of South Pacific at the Melody Top summer outdoor theatre in Milwaukee. Zien's first major role was in 1977 at the Manhattan Theater...
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  • Seal. An off-Broadway production by the Equity Library Theatre opened on March 17, 1962, at the Master Theatre, starring John Cazale. The play was performed...
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    Pernell Roberts (category American male musical theatre actors)
    and ballets with the North American Lyric Theatre, with the Shakespearewrights, at the Equity Library Theatre, and later on Broadway with performances...
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  • Susan Browning (category Broadway theatre people)
    Susan Brown. After Browning finished college, she acted with the Equity Library Theatre. Impresario Julius Monk saw her in a musical production there and...
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  • premiere was the Equity Library Theatre, New York City production in March–April 1982. A concert performance was given at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane...
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    Desdemona in Othello at the Equity Library Theatre (1946), Betty Shapiro in The Grass is Greener at the Downtown National Theatre (1955), Melanie in Conversation...
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    appeared in The Servant of Two Masters, an Equity Library Theatre-sponsored production performed at the Harlem Library auditorium in April 1946. That July she...
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  • York Studio Theatre, and the Equity Library Theatre production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. Overmire also worked at many regional theatres across the...
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    Broadway; December 1946 - February 1947 1946 This Property Is Condemned Equity Library Theatre 1947 Yellow Jack Busch Broadway; February 1947 - March 1947 1947...
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    time to time, including an appearance as J.B. Biggley in the 1972 Equity Library Theatre revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Allen...
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  • Jeff Conaway (a Boy). The play was revived Off-Broadway at the Equity Library Theatre in October 1979, directed by Jamie Brown. The play was revived off-off-Broadway...
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    UK (1936) Yale University (1940) Bellingham, Washington (1947) Equity Library Theatre, New York (1947) BBC radio production (1948) BBC radio production...
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