Vintage 1959 Henry Fonda Broadway New York Play bill autograph +2 UK theater

Description

A paper playbill from opening night Dec 3 1959 signed by Henry Fonda in pen in the yellow block at the top. It's the complete playbill booklet, not just the cover. The play ran for 124 performances and closed March 24, 1960. Henry played ‘John’ the male lead opposite Barbara Bell Geddes as ‘Katherine.’ You receive it ready to hang, matted and framed.
Condition is used, frame has light dings and wear. No major issues with the playbill, it was folded down the middle as shown, likely in someone pocket. Paper and pages will have usual scuffs, small creases and tears at the edges of pages consistent with a 62yo handled paper piece.
Silent Night, Lonely Night
: A woman with an unfaithful husband and distant prep-school son and a man with a wife staying in a sanitarium come together in a New England inn on Christmas Eve, unburden their troubles, and sleep together before returning to their old lives.
The Morosco Theatre was at 217 W. 45th St., NYC. The Shubert brothers partnered with Oliver Morosco to create the Morosco Theatre in 1917. The theatre premiered Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in 1949 and Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. The theatre was demolished, along with four other Broadway theatres, in March 1982 to make way for the Marriott Marquis. Performances: 1,405
The +2 items
:
1.
Flower Drum Song
at the Palace theater, 1960. The cover notes it was a musical comedy by Rodgers & Hammerstein. The programme cost 1 schilling. Some spots and small stains, paper and pages will have usual scuffs, small creases and tears at the edges of pages consistent
The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. The Palace Theatre seats 1,400. Richard D'Oyly Carte, producer of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, commissioned the theatre in the late 1880s.
2. Pamphlet [2 sided] for Jerry Gosley's ‘
Smile Show
’ at the British Music Hall in Victoria BC. The show started in 1941, the flyer notes in its ‘fourteenth year’ so it’s from 1955.
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