BROADWAY Something for the Boys COLE PORTER Joan Blondell CHICAGO STAGEBILL 1943

Description

Here we have
a
2-piece lot
of authentic, original promotional items for Michael Todd's Broadway musical,
Something for the Boys
, featuring Cole Porter songs and starring Joan Blondell -- one is the lavish touring program for the Broadway show, and the other is the
Chicago Stagebill
for the show's appearance at the (Chicago) Civic Opera House.***
We have lots of interesting ephemera in our store, to which we add new inventory daily, and we're always happy to combine shipping at actual cost.
***Post-Broadway tour of the COLE PORTER, MICHAEL TODD and HERBERT & DOROTHY FIELDS musical comedy "SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS." The musical opened January 7th, 1943 at the Alvin Theatre in New York City and ran for 422 performances before going on the road. JOAN BLONDELL starred as "Blossom Hart" (the role originated by ETHEL MERMAN in the Broadway production) and featured BETTY BRUCE, MILTON WATSON, MARJORIE KNAPP, EVE McVEIGH, RUSS BROWN, CLARISSA, LEW HEARN, HELEN BROWN, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, RALPH W. CHAMBERS, KEITH HALL and JOHN FREDERICK. JOAN BLONDELL would marry the show's producer, MICHAEL TODD in 1947. CREDITS: Book by HERBERT and DOROTHY FIELDS; Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER ("Anything Goes", "Red, Hot and Blue", "Leave It To Me!", "Du Barry Was a Lady", "Panama Hattie", "Something For the Boys", "Mexican Hayride", "Can-Can", "Kiss Me Kate", "Out Of This World", "Silk Stockings." Sets designed by HOWARD BAY; Costumes designed by BILLY LIVINGSTON; Choreographed by JACK COLE; Directed by HASSARD SHORT; Produced by MICHAEL TODD. The oversized 16 page program includes full production credits, photos and bios of each of the leading actors and members of the creative team, photos of each of
the remaining cast members, a page of excerpts from a number of New York reviews, a photo of the Alvin Theatre on the opening night of the Broadway production and several pages of photos of scenes from the musical.
Vintage
: 1944
Approximate
measurements
: please see photos with rulers
Condition
: Our photographs reveal the condition best -- please enlarge and zoom in on them, and examine them carefully. We often add graphics such as arrows, circles, and text boxes to our photos to point out things of interest that might be hard to see, such as a price tag or maker's mark, as well as to highlight many condition flaws. You'll never find anything sticky, growing or otherwise gross on our ephemera, nor will you ever encounter anything with funky odors. Larger program has an old softened crease at the upper right corner running through the entire piece.  Otherwise, both pieces are in remarkable condition for their age, as minty as 80-year old plus paper publications come. No writing, tears, holes, marks, stains, funky odors, etc.
Rest assured that we will do all we can to ensure that your piece of ephemera arrives exactly as presented in our photos.
We invest time and appropriate materials into shipping all of our ephemera. Most pieces are sent in envelopes that are sandwiched between cardboard before being sent as Priority or first-class parcels in non-bendable mailers, which ship at rates much higher than first-class letters. We never toss our ephemera into thin stationery envelopes with forever stamps stuck to them expecting the USPS to deliver them to you with great care.
We consider funky odors (cigarette smoke, mildew, etc) to be an important part of a condition report. Corndogcache is a 100% non-smoking environment, and we'll let you know if any of our vintage items smell like it (
or anything else
) from activities they may have been involved in before they came to us.
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