" OLIVER TWIST" A MUSICAL (FREELY ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK BY CHARLES DICKENS).
[Dickens, Charles]: Rosen, Samuel, and Carleton Carpenter (composer):

[Np]. nd. but likely ca. 1950s. [3],4,53,14,51,3,7,9,10,28 leaves, plus numerous unnumbered inserted leaves. Quarto. Original typescript, with frequent revisions and alterations throughout in pencil and, occasionally, in ink, with a few inserts in carbon typescript. Punched and enclosed in leatherette binder. Generally very good to fine. An original working typescript for this (evidently) unproduced musical adaptation, with text and lyrics by Rosen, to be accompanied by music by Carleton Carpenter. The undertaking was quite ambitious, and this draft stems from a point of ongoing substantive revision. Evidently plans proceeded to a further stage, as tipped in front is a clipping (from an unidentified trade paper) indicating that Cyril Ritchard had been signed for the lead, and negotiations were ongoing for a Broadway run produced by Kermit Bloomgarden. However, IBDB records no such production, though Rosen's, and Carpenter's, other Broadway accomplishments are represented. Rosen is there credited with staging the 1938-9 WPA Production of Shaw's ANDROCLES AND THE LION at the Lafayette Theatre in New York, which ran 104 performances and featured an all African American cast.

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