Production Script for Sweet Thursday Musical
Pipe Dream: Based on Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
Notes: A production script for an undetermined production of this musical based on the characters from Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The initial 1955 production was widely panned, but it has been produced in smaller theaters around the US.
This version, with Leslie Abbott's Comedia Productions imprint is undated, but may be from the 1960s or 1970s. Abbott (1925–2012) spent most of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he taught at Diablo Valley College and directed more than 150 plays. Why this script has a Los Angeles address, your cataloguer does not know.
The script is a photocopy of a much photocopied script, bound with prong fasteners into a blue paper folder. A costume designer has made note on various pages and on the verso (back) of the last leaf, including "Pad Sandee['s] Boobs."
Edition + Condition: Prong binding somewhat rusted. With notes from the bookseller Peter Howard (Serendipity Books in Berkeley) on the first page.
Publication: Los Angeles: Comedia Productions, [n.d. but 1960s?].
Item No: #361749
Price: $150