Arthur Kopit Papers
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Abstract
The Arthur L. Kopit Papers contain material generated by Broadway playwright Arthur Kopit beginning in the 1960s. Professional materials include significant documentation of all his major works beginning with "Oh Dad, Poor Dad... " and continuing through "Phantom." Records include research materials, notes, drafts, electronic records, and completed versions of produced and unproduced plays, screenplays, teleplays, novels, and story treatments. Personal materials include correspondence, financial documents, photographs, ephemera and materials generated by Kopit's parents, wife, and children.
Biographical Note
Playwright, writer and director Arthur Lee Kopit was born in 1937 in New York City. His first plays were staged while still an undergraduate at Harvard University. He recieved public and critical attention with his play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition". Written while still in school, the play was published when Kopit was 23 and went on to productions in London and New York establishing his reputation for fusing disparate genres, absurdism, and a darkly comic world view. Later notable plays include "Indians" (1968), simultaneously a review of America's treatment of Native Americans and a critique of the Vietnam War; "Wings" (1978), a more somber story of a stroke victim's recovery; and "The End of the World" (1984), a mordant investigation of the arms race and nuclear destruction.
Additionally, Kopit has written works for television and radio and books for musicals, often collaborating on the latter with composer and lyricist Maury Yeston. These works include "Nine" (1982), an adaptation of the Federico Fellini's film "8 1/2", and "Phantom" (1991), a musical version of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux that has been overshadowed by the more popular (though less critically acclaimed) version by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Kopit has taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the City College of New York and has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships. He currently resides in New York City.
Arrangement
Materials remain in orginal order. Oversized materials were separated and placed at the end of the collection. Folders are untitled; when a title is present in quotations it indicates the material was found in a folder or hanging file or envelope with that inscription. Most materials found in envelopes were placed in discrete folders with the envelope or photocopy of the envelope retained. Later unprocessed accretions were added with boxes listed at the series level at the end of the arrangement.
- Series I: Projects
- Series II: Magazines, Newspapers and Other Media
- Series III: Business Records
- Series IV: Personal Materials
- Series V: Miscellaneous
- Series VI: Scripts and Works by Other Authors
- Series: VIII: Oversize Materials
- Series IX: Unprocessed Materials
- Series X: Unprocessed 2019 Accretion
Scope and Content Note
The Arthur Kopit Papers contain the professional, personal and electronic records covering Kopit's career as a playwright. Kopit began his career while still a student at Harvard, quickly leapt to fame, and continued to produce major works for four decades. This collection thoroughly documents all aspects of his career from work on the stage, in the film industry, and on television. A tireless writer, the collection contains thorough documentation on numerous unproduced works for all media. Records also document Kopit's teaching work, his personal and family life and provide a solid picture of the theater world.
The collection is divided into series as organized by the collection creator. The major series are Projects, Media, Business Files, and Personal Records. The arrangement within each series varies according to how the materials were organized by the creator and received by the depository.
The first series, Projects, is also the largest series, comprising half the collection. The materials are organized alphabetically by project title as there was no order between them. Named project files go back no further than the late 1960's and thus do not include material on the early part of Kopit's career.
The materials for each project present are in no particular order yet the materials fall into identifiable categories. The first category would be books, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper articles, journals, and any other material used as research for the project. This can include government publications in the case of End of the World, or commercial pamphlets in the case of Dream House. Many of the projects contain numerous tapes of interviews with experts, knowledgeable sources or persons relevant to the project's topic. Kopit also seemed to record reflections, notes and thoughts on tape.
The second category would be handwritten drafts of the plays including preliminary outlines, diagrams, and sketches. Kopit worked extensively with index cards to structure the play or piece. He also made use of large sketchbooks and blank notebooks to write out ideas and schematize the work. There are indications that these cards and loose pages would be assembled on bulletin boards or compared against each other to map out the development of a work.
Typewritten drafts make up a large portion of each project's files. Whole scripts as produced, annotated early drafts, and many partial copies of various successive versions tend to be present for each work. In some cases, later productions of the work have their own alterations and unique copies of the script.
Lastly, project files contain correspondence with involved parties, contracts, photographs, promotional materials, material on casting, royalty agreements, publication material, copyright records and other files. These types of material are not as present in each project as the above types but still make regular appearances.
The first part of the series consists of projects with enough records to occupy one more whole boxes. The second part of the series, titled miscellaneous works, are the records of productions taking up less than a single box. While these materials reflect all periods of Kopit's career, there is a particular presence of materials from earlier in his career. These are works which either did not require as much research and preparatory work as later projects, or for which more extensive documentation was never retained. Works documented here include "The Questioning of Nick", "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", "The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis...", "Mhil'daiim", "Secrets of the Rich", "Snatch", "Chamber Music", "What's Happened to the Thorne's House?", "On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next", "An Incident in the Park", "Promontory Point Revisited", and "The Conquest of Everest". Some obscure unproduced works are present including a proposal and drafts of a screenplay or novel entitled "Fresh Game", works entitled "The Frog", "The Poet", "Fat City", "Edgar's Exploits" and other untitled and unidentified works.
Series II: Media, consist of newspapers, magazines, and videotapes not found with or attached to any particular work. They are described as found. A large quantity of computer media is present. Apart from back up disks of operating systems and programs, the majority of the computer media is labeled disks of Kopit's project work. An additional body of media remains originating from leslie Garis and Kopit's children.
Series III: Business Records is composed of files originally kept in filing cabinets and most often coming out of labeled folders and hanging files. These records are in discrete groups, whether by particular location or time period. Groups overlap in subject and nature of the records. Many business files resemble the project files in that they contain notes and research, correspondence relating to projects, productions, rights, royalties and publication. The business files also contain personal financial records including bank account statements, bills, receipts, ledgers, investment records, and home maintenance and property documents.
Series IV: Personal records contains important documentation on Kopit's early life and professional career. While real juvenilia exists here including grade school and high school materials, papers, reports and notebooks, Kopit wrote numerous plays while still in college that went on to be professionally staged and published. Early drafts of works, correspondence relating both to school and writing, documents of Kopit's activities leading up to and past the Broadway premier of "Oh dad, Poor Dad..." and records running until the late 1960s are present here. Kopit kept voluminous scrapbooks of news clippings documenting the success of his plays and his rise in the New York theater world and society. A significant amount of records are present from his parents, a successful couple in New York City whose lives were closely intertwined with Kopit's during these decades.
Series V: Miscellaneous is composed of two boxes of materials not easily identifiable or attributable to any specific project. It is likely that these two boxes will be assimilated into the above series upon further processing.
Series VI: Other Author's Works comprises manuscripts of plays, short stories, story treatments, novels and books by other people. Some of these individuals may have been students, friends or professional associates of Kopit. Some are people Kopit had worked with or planned to work with. Yet others may have been unsolicited manuscripts. They are in order as found.
Series VII: The material in this series was deaccessioned.
Flat boxes at the end of the collection contain oversized material separated from other series. Box description contain notes on separated materials and the materials are labeled as to their origin.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Arthur Kopit Papers; MSS 141; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
These papers were donated to the Fales Library by Arthur Kopit in September 2005. An accretion to this collection was donated by Arthur Kopit in March 2019, the accession number associated with this gift is 2019.021.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.
Born-digital materials have not been transferred and may not be available to researchers. Researchers may request access copies. To request that material be transferred, or if you are unsure if material has been transferred, please contact [repository contact information] with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Separated Material
There are five boxes of books separated from the Kopit collection. One box contains books of Kopit's published plays and works. Other books were either used by Kopit for research or simply ones collected for personal use. These books were only separated from the collection when they were not related to any project work or known or supposed to have been used for project research yet not found with or next to any project or project materials. Relevant books found among project materials were left in place. Additionally, two boxes of duplicated books, mostly multiple copies of Kopit's published plays, were removed from the collection. The list of separated titles follows:
From Media Series
Arthur Kopit, Road to Nirvana (Hill and Wang: New York, 1991) 1 copy paperback, 1 copy hard cover, same pub. date and information
---- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (Hill and Wang: New York, 1960) hardcover and paperback
----, Wings (Hill and Wang: New York, 1978)
----, Wings (Hill and Wang: New York, 1984)
Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston, Phantom (Samuel French: New York, 1992)
Jack Temchin, ed., One on One: The Best Men's Monologues for the Nineties (Applause Theatre Books: New York, 1993)
Arthur Kopit, End of the World (Hill and Wang: New York, 1984) 1 copy paperback, 1 copy hardcover
Daniel Halpern, ed., Plays in One Act (Ecco Press: New York, 1991) with Kopit play "Success"
Daniel Halpern, ed., Antaeus (No.66: Spring 1991) Subtitled "Plays in One Act" with Kopit play "Success"
Arthur Kopit, Three Plays (Hill and Wang: New York, 1997)
Snaja Nikcevic, Antologija americke drame (AGM: Zagreb, 1993) with Kopit play "Indians"
Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky, eds., A Decade of New Comedy: Plays from the Humane Festival Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH, 1996) with Kopit play "Road to Nirvana"
Arthur Kopit, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays (Samuel French: New York, 1993) includes the play of the title, "Chamber Music", "The Questioning of Nick", "Sing to Me Through Open Windows", "The Conquest of Everest" and "The Hero"
Arthur Kopit, Maria Luisa Balseiro, transl. El Interrogatorio de Nick, El Dia Que Todas Las P... Salieron a Juguar al Tenis, La Conquista del Everest, Indios (Editorial Cuadernos para el Dialogo Edicusa: Madrid, 1972)
Arthur Kopit, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays (Hill and Wang: New York, 1965)
Arthur Kopit, Indians (Hill and Wang: new York, 1969)
From Personal Material:
G.B. Trudeau, The Doonesbury Chronicles (Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York, 1975)
Treasures of Early Irish Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 1977)
Nicholas Roukes, Acrylics Old and New (Watson-Guptill: New York, 1990)
Bernard Noel, Magritte (Crown: New York, 1977)
Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist (W.W. Norton and Company: New York, 1980)
Suzanne Delehanty, The Window in Twentieth-Century Art (Neuberger Museum, State University of New York Purchase: Purchase, N.Y., 1986)
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Book of Greek Myths (Doubleday: New York, 1962)
David Macaulay, The Way Things Work (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1988)
Martha Zamora, Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish (Chronicle: San Francisco, 1990)
Andrea Rose, The Pre-Raphaelites (Phaidon: Oxford, 1981)
La Belle Epoque: Fifteen Euphoric Years of European History (William Morrow: New York, 1978)
Miranda Harvey, Piranesi: The Imaginary Views (Academy Editions: London, 1979)
Edward Steichen, The Family of Man (Maco Magazine Corporation: New York, 1955)
Alistair Hicks, The School of London: The Resurgence of Contemporary Painting (Phaidon: Oxford, 1989)
Clement C. Moore, The Night Before Christmas (Golden Press: Racine, Wisc., 1976)
Chas. Addams, Monster Rally (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1950)
Jules Feiffer, Jules Feiffer's America (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982)
Alex Comfort, The New Joy of Sex (Pocket Books: New York, 1991)
Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1972)
Alex Comfort, More Joy of Sex (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1973)
Sheila Kitzinger, Woman's Experience of Sex (G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1983)
Charles Panati, Breakthroughs (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1980)
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, Turin Shroud (HarperCollins: New York, 1994)
Nigel Calder, Einstein's Universe (British Broadcasting Corporation: London, 1979)
William Griffin, Endtime: The Doomsday Catalog (Collier Books: New York, 1979)
John L. Plaster, The Ultimate Sniper (Paladin Press: Boulder, Colo., 1993)
William J. Koenig, Weapons of World War 3 (Bison Books: London, 1982)
The Catalogue, An Index of Possibilities: Energy and Power (Pantheon Books: New York, 1974)
Horace Freeland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1979)
Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (Harper and Row: New York, 1979)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (Signet Classics: new York, 1961)
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (Viking Press: New York, 1958)
Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (Avon Books: New York, 1975)
From Miscellaneous series:
John Gribbin, In the Beginning (Little, Brown: Boston, 1993)
Fred Warshofsky, The Control of Life (Viking Press: New York, 1969)
Robert Cooke, Improving on Nature (Demeter Press: New York, 1977)
Frank Waters, Book of the Hopi (Ballantine: New York, 1963)
Jules Michelet, Satanism and Witchcraft (Citadel Press: New York, 1960)
Judah Goldin, ed., The Living Talmud (Mentor: New York, 1957)
Carlo Suares, The Sepher Yetsira (Shambhala: Boulder, Colo., 1976)
Louis A. Arand, St. Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity (Newman Press: Westminster, Md., 1955)
Andrew Greeley, Everything You Wanted to Know About the Catholic Church but Were Too Pious to Ask (Barnes and Noble: New York, 1979)
Joan S. Gray and Joyce C. Tucker, Presbyterian Polity for Church Officers (John Knox Press: Atlanta, 1986)
Michael Rogers, Biohazard (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1977)
Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters, Making Monsters (Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1994)
Theodor Reik, Masochism in Modern Man (Grove Press: New York, 1941)
Adam Smith, Powers of Mind (Random House: New York, 1975)
Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham, The Myth of Repressed Memory (St. Martin's Press: New York, 1994)
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York: New York, 1961)
Thomas D. Clareson, ed., Many Futures, Many Worlds (Kent State University Press: [Kent, Ohio], 1977)
Nancy Friday, Women on Top (Pocket Books: New York, 1993)
Hoyt L. Edge, et al., Foundations of Parapsychology (Routledge and Keegan Paul: Boston, 1986)
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans (Vintage Books: New York, 1958)
Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden (Pocket Books: New York, 1974)
James Harrison, ed., Scientists as Writers (M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1965)
Morris West, The Clowns of God (William Morrow and Company: New York, 1981)
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Books: New York, 1982)
Wilfrid Sheed, Frank and Maisie (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1985)
Lisa Alther, Kinflicks (Signet Books: New York, 1977)
Moyra Caldecott, The King of Shadows (Hunting Raven Press: Somerset, England, 1981)
Walter Karig, Zotz (Rinehart and Co.: New York, 1947)
Temple Fielding, Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe (William Sloane Associates: New York, 1959)
Ann Beattie, Falling in Place (Random House: New York, 1980)
Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull (Hill and Wang: New York, 1979)
Eleanor F. Ferguson, My Long Island (Scrub Oak Press: Las Vegas, 1993)
Barbara Cohen and Louise Taylor, Horses and Their Women (Little, Brown and Co.: Boston, 1993)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Grosset and Dunlap: new York, 1922)
Jonathan Goldberg, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1981)
Moyra Caldecott, The Tall Stones (Hill and Wang: new York, 1977)
Moyra Caldecott, The Weapons of the Wolfhound (Rex Collins: London, 1976)
Almudena Grandes, The Ages of Lulu (Grove Press: New York, 1994)
Moyra Caldecott, The Tower and the Emerald (Arrow Books: London, 1985)
Moyra Caldecott, Taliesin and Avagddu (Bran's Head Books: Somerset, England, 1983)
Moyra Caldecott, Taliesin and Avagddu (Bran's Head Books: Somerset, England, 1985)
Moyra Caldecott, Child of the Dark Star (Bran's Head Books: Somerset, England, 1984)
Moyra Caldecott, Shadow on the Stones (Corgi: London, 1979)
Richard D. Atluck, Victorian Studies in Scarlet (W.W. Norton: New York, 1970)
Jack Rennert, 100 Posters of Buffalo Bill's Wild West (Darien House: New York, 1976)
Cyclone Covey, ed., Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (University of New Mexico Press)
Wallace Fowlie, Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet (Duke University Press: Durham, N.C., 1993)
Danny Sugerman, The Doors: The Complete Lyrics (Delta Books: New York, 1992)
David Burke, Street Talk 2 (Optima Books: Los Angeles, 1992)
Elissa S. Guralnick, Sight Unseen shrink wrapped book
Martin A. Favata and Jose B. Fernandez, The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion (Arte Publico Press: Houston, 1993)
Joe Adams and Henry Tobias, The Borscht Belt (Bentley Publishing: New York, 1966)
Susan Allport, Explorers of the Black Box (W.W. Norton: New York, 1986)
Stephen hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Bantam Books: New York, 1993)
Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing (Bantam Books: New York, 1990)
Dian Dincin Buchman and Seli Groves, What if?: Fifty Discoveries that Changed the World (Scholastic: new York, 1988)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Ballantine Books: New York, 1982)
Vincent Di Fate and Ian Summers, Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware (Workman Publishing: New York, 1980)
Separated Materials
All material from Series VII: Kopit Family Material within boxes 125, 126 and 127 were deaccessioned and returned to the donor in February 2009.
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Processing Information
Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2019 have not been recorded. In 2019, materials were re-housed in acid-free boxes with unfoldered items grouped and labelled in acid-free folders. Oversize materials were rehoused appropriately. Information on born-digital material from this series was added into Medialog, but not imaged.
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Series I: Projects
Scope and Contents note
This series contains material and records of plays, screenplays, teleplays and other works that Kopit wrote. There is material from one work he directed. Among all the named projects in the series, many were unproduced. These include the works The Shroud, The Frogs, Cheeky Peeky, Deception, Scientific Process, Norman in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Between the Wars, Deep Purple, Discovery of America, Dream House, MK-Ultra, and Starstruck. Other projects Kopit worked on eventually reached the stage or screen without his final involvement or credit. These include Dr. Zhivago, Sweet Smell of Success, Till Death Us Do Part, In a Child's Name, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Yet among these records is material on some of Kopit's greatest popular and critical successes such as Wings, Indians, Nine, Phantom and End of the World as well as other endeavors such as the TV movies Roswell, Hands of a Stranger and his adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts. The quality and particular nature of documentation for each project varies. Some works contain greater record of the actual inception of the play through notebooks and index cards and research. Other projects contain a greater amount of material documenting the staging and production. The more successful projects such as Phantom, End of the World and Road to Nirvana contain considerable information on regional, touring and international productions.
Animal Hospital, 1986
Scope and Contents note
Several typescript drafts of teleplay with hand edits and annotations; index cards, handwritten and typewritten research notes, animal care pamphlets and magazines
10 spiral and cloth bound notebooks of handwritten notes, research, and play development, most only partially filled
"Los Angeles" Magazine, July 1985
Audio Cassettes:
"Dr. Limehouse (Holistic Medicine) Interview and Description of Clinic"
"Steven May--Pet Limo Interview"
Two sketchbooks moved to Flat Box 1
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619218
The Bell Witch Variations by Betty D. Matarese, May 27, 1987, 1987
Location of Materials
Scope and Contents note
Script and scene fragments, handwritten notes, production notes, memos; pamphlets, articles, and other research material on small Tennessee towns and the legend of the Bell Witch, audition applications and head shots, administrative materials relating to Kopit's position in Tennessee, "Vanderbilt Review" Spring 1986, Austin Peay State University Directory, index cards; 4 small notebooks, all only partially filled.
Publications
Tennessee Trivia Compiled by Ernie and Jill Couch, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville.1985
The Tennessee Sampler by Peter Jenkins and Friends, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville. 1985
Zone 3Spring 1986, poetry journal of Austin Peay State University
The Bell Witch of Tennessee by Charles Bailey Bell, Harriet Parks Miller, Published by Charles Elder, Nashville. Original edition 1934, facsimile edition 1972.
Authenticated History of the Bell Witch and Other Stories of the World's Greatest Unexplained Phenomenon by M.V. Ingram, Rare Book Reprints, Nashville. Original edition 1894, facsimile edition 1961.
Audio Cassettes
"The Bells of Adams 1 and 2"
"The Bells of Adams Sides 3 and 4"
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619226
Between the Wars, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents note
Work (in one instance titled "The Testing Ground") on an unproduced screenplay based on a stage play by Ellen Kesend ("To Have and To Hold") about the Spanish Civil War and Robert Capa. Notebooks, news articles, research, screenplay drafts.
Audio Cassettes
"Spanish Civil War thoughts (pre-meeting)"
"Spanish Civil War phone call with Disney 4/29/92"
"2nd Disney Meeting in L.A. (I did not record the first)"
"Some of my comments re: Disney notes"
"Between the Wars Tape no. 1 3/5/1992" 1 micro cassette in env.
"Sp. Civil War tape no. 2 3/16/92" 1 micro cassette in env.
Note: One folder oversized material at end of box.
One sketchbook has extensive post-it note annotation.
Extensive historical news clippings that might be indexed and discarded.
Need on audio tape case
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619234
Note: Once the oversized materials in this box have been stored separately, the remaining folders can be fit into Box 2, hence the box designation 2a, 1997
Scope and Contents note
Blindsight
Plot summary, research materials, correspondence
Audio Cassettes
"Marianne May '98" (miniature cassette)
"Arthur to Marianne, 10/24/97"
"Marianne Shennefield, Oct. 6th" 3 tapes
"Marianne, Oct 24th"
"Alexi on Marianne"
"Dick Russell Talks About Marianne Shennefield"
"Dick Russell, May 14, 1998
"Marianne"
Video Cassettes
"Marianne", VHS, T-120
Computer Media
unlabeled 3 1/2" diskette
Need case for audio tape and diskette
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619242
Blue Angel Box 1, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Contracts, receipts, other documents with HBO for work; index cards, sketches and notes; typescript "very rough first draft" 4/25/93; first Draft 5/21/93; 3 bound notebooks, sketchbooks including disbound signatures
Audio Cassettes
"'Blue Angel' Notes on opening. If Stuck, listen!" 1 micro cassette
"Spoto Interview, NY, 9/16/92" 2 tapes
"Spoto second visit, 10/8/1992"
"Spoto 3rd Interview 10/21/1992" 2 tapes and two back up tapes
"Interview with Burt Bacharach re: Marlene, 7/19/93" 1 tape and 1 backup
"Burt Bacharach 1st meeting my remarks"
"Blue Angel HBO notes tape #1 Sue Pollacs(?), Laurette Hayden
"Blue Angel HBO notes tape #2
"Ella on Dietrich in Berlin"
"Donald Spoto"
Unlabeled tape
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619259
Blue Angel Box 2, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Publications most heavily annotated
Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich (Bloomsbury: London; Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1992)
Donald Spoto, Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich (Doubleday: New York, 1992) 2 copies
Steven Bach, Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (William Morrow and Company: 1992)
Marlene Dietrich, Marlene (Grove Press: New York, 1989)
Donald Spoto, Lenya: A Life (Ballantine Books: New York, 1990)
Note: Books heavily marked with annotated post-it notes
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619267
Cheeky Peeky, 1995-1996
Scope and Contents note
Note: All folder titles reflect original labels of hanging files these records were stored in. Cassettes scattered throughout box. One empty folder labeled "outline and notes"
Script, notes, articles and research, correspondence, especially between coauthors.
Audio Cassettes
"Cheeky Peeky" micro cassette
"Arthur's Notes--Cheeky Peeky"
"Phone interview with Sam Cohen 'father of the neutron bomb' on 'Red Mercury'"
"Cheeky Peeky Jan '96 (Alex's Comments)"
"Sergei, Alex, Arthur 11/18/95" 2 tapes
"Conference Call 6/27/96, Arthur, Zach, Douglas Reuther, Nana Greenwald, Brian Alexander" 2 tapes
Alex on Cheeky Peeky"
Computer Media
3 1/2" Diskette, "Cheeky Peeky"
5" floppy diskette "ASCII (DOS) Kopit 2; Lois Porro Transcription"
PublicationsStephen Handelman,
Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya (Yale University Press: New Haven, Conn., 1995)
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619275
Deception Box 1, 1988
Scope and Contents note
Note: Titles on folders reflect titles of original folders.
Index cards, notebooks, one large sketchbook, magazine and newspaper clippings, drafts, revisions with comments.
Audio Cassettes
Micro tape "Carole Hart: 2 phone calls re: 3rd draft of Deception Jan '88" Envelope says 3 tapes but only one present
Publications
Peter Sheldon, ed. Fodor's Turkey 1987 (Fodor's Travel Guides: New York, 1986)
Marilyn Jenkins, Manuel Keene, Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Museum: New York, n.d.)
Esin Atil, The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (National Gallery of Art: Washington; Harry N. Abrams: New York, 1987)
Note: In this box was found 6"-7" of drafts and index cards for "The Shroud". Material removed and placed with other Shroud materials.
Note: Sketchbook and exhibition catalog moved to Flat Box 1.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619283
Deep Purple 1995, 1995-?
Scope and Contents note
Sketchbooks, photocopies of images
Video Cassettes
VHS "Video of Deep Purple recording studio in Orlando"
VHS "Deep Purple BBC Interviews"
Compact Discs (published)
Deep Purple, Deep Purple in Rock: Anniversary Edition c1995
Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers c1994
Deep Purple, Made in Japan c1973
Deep Purple, Machine Head c1972
Deep Purple, Who Do They Think They Are c1992
Deep Purple, Nobody's Perfect c1988
Audio Cassettes
"'Bitchin'--Mystery Band"
"Roger Glover---Tunes"
"Trog---rock band fight"
"Orlando-Tuesday evening, I talk with Rodger Glover"
"Deep Purple's recording studio in Orlando"
"DP--Orlando 2nd visit"
Micro Audio Cassettes in labeled env.s
"Orlando Wed night I talk with Roger Olner...Tape 1" 1 tape
"Orlando (Sunday) My Comments and Reactions" 1 tape
"Nina Play...." 1 tape
"Tape 1 Orlando (9/1/95)...and Tape B 9/2/95" 2 tapes
"Orlando Sat night DURING dinner" 1 tape
"Sat morning, Rose Glover" 1 tape
"Orlando Monday #1, 2, 3" 3 tapes
"Sat night in Orlando (9/2) 3rd tape of the evening" 1 tape
"Saturday, RG Montserrat!" 1 tape
"Orlando 9/1/95, 9/2/95" 3 tapes
"Tape 101 9/2/95" 1 tape
"Orlando (Tuesday)" 5 tapes
"Orlando Monday and Tuesday 2nd visit" 7 tapes
Discovery of America
Handwritten and typescript drafts, pamphlets, research material.
Note: legal sized script pages and photo copies moved to Flat Box 2.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619309
Discovery of America, unknown
Scope and Contents note
Scripts, large amount of handwritten drafts, contracts. Includes folders of notes and thoughts for other possible works including The Woblns (tentative title).
Photographs in last folder in box.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619317
Dream House, 1981-1991
Scope and Contents note
Notebooks, tapes, typescripts and handwritten drafts, news clippings, magazines, home supply catalogs, mail order house plans, brochures.
Video Cassettes
"VHS "Security [20/20]
Audio Cassettes (many in coin env.s scattered throughout box)
"Oct. Current Dreamhouse" 2 microcassettes
"Dream House microcassettes" 3 microcassettes
"4/30/91 Tapes DreamHouse" 1 micro cassette, one empty container
"Dream House 9/13/91 and 9/16/91 L.A. Mike Manheim" 4 microcassettes
"5/13/91 Leslie's remarks on Dreamhouse" 1 micro cassette
One loose empty case
"TDK tape about treehouse (side A) Dreamhouse current tapes 4/24/91 (side B 5/6/91)" 2 microcassettes
"Computer voice in phone" 1 micro cassette loose not in env.
"Dream House Rollins Interview by Dave Weintraub" 1 micro cassette
"Side A...Jules and Bob" 1 micro cassette
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619325
Dream HouseBox 2, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents note
Index cards, spiral notebooks, correspondence, news clippings, publications, research materials, typescript drafts
Publications
Headquarters, Department of the Army, TM-31-200-1 Department of the Army Technical Manual Unconventional Warfare Devices and Techniques References (Headquarters, Department of the Army: Washington D.C., April 1966)
Headquarters, Department of the Army, FM 5-31 Department of the Army Field Manual Boobytraps (Headquarters, Department of the Army: Washington D.C., September 1965)
Audio Cassettes
"total security #1" 1 micro cassette
"Integrated Security System" 1 micro cassette
"Dream House 3/91" 1 micro cassette
"2 Tapes conversation with Russell and Erica re: the architect" 2 microcassettes in env.
George Carlin, A Place for My Stuff (Atlantic Recording Corporation: New York, c1981)
"Dream House Security Westinghouse #1 #3, Total Security, The Bug" 3 microcassettes in env.
"Dream HOuse" 1 micro cassette in env.
:Dream House Michael Wang Phone Conversation" 1 micro cassette in sealed white env.
"Dreamhouse re: Melvin Douglas Figure" 1 micro cassette in env.
"Rollins Security (Nov. 1990--re. NBC) Sat. Nov. 10" 1 micro cassette in env. with note
"Dream House Interview 'New Canaan Security'" 1 micro cassette in env. with note
"Security Solutions" Sat Nov. 10" 1 micro cassette in env. with note
env. with empty tape case.
Note: Sketch pads, pages and other materials moved to Flat Box 2.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619333
End of the World Box 1, 1983-1986
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, photographs of productions, promotional materials, news clippings, contracts, programs and playbills, records and details of royalties, publication, scripts, script revisions.
Note: stack of photos in folder 2 (with poster to be separated), 4, 5, 11, and second from last folder.
New York Times Magazine moved to Flat Box 2.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619341
End of the World Box 2, 1984
Scope and Contents note
Scripts, many annotated or referring to specific productions, news clippings, research, notebooks, magazines, journals.
Publications
Arthur Kopit, End of the World (Hill and Wang: New York, 1984)
Stewart Steven. The Spymasters of Israel (Macmillan Publishing: New York, 1980)
Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment, The Effects of Nuclear War (May 1979)
Amount of oversized material to be separated
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619358
End of the World Box 3, 1984
Scope and Contents note
Research, correspondence, notes, drafts, extensive series of notes on small slips of paper and clippings inside labeled Manila envelopes, very early preparations for play.
Publications
Ground Zero, Nuclear War: What's in it For You? (Pocket Books: New York, 1982)
Two folders of sketch pages and notes moved to Flat Box 3.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619366
End of the World Box 4, 1984
Scope and Contents note
Diagrams, early notes, research, news clippings, scripts, drafts, newspapers, reviews, foreign playbills and translations, galleys for publication.
Publications
Ground Zero, Hope: Facing the Music on Nuclear War and the 1984 Elections (Long Shadow Books: New York, 1983)
Note: 3 folders of maps, magazines, and research moved to Flat Box 3.
Significant quantity of newspapers and magazines that should probably be listed in a bibliography and discarded.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619374
Ghosts, 1982
Scope and Contents note
Scripts, correspondence, news articles
Snatch
Handwritten early draft, typescript.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619382
Good Friends: A Musical, 1982-1986
Scope and Contents note
Good Friends is an original two person musical by Gil Perlroth. After seeing it in Stanford, Kopit became involved in rewriting the book, possibly under the new title "My Place or yours." It is unknown how far this project was developed. This box contains 10 copies of various versions of the original script from 1982-1986, a rough draft by Kopit, correspondence and contracts.
Audio Cassettes
"My Place or Yours? A Musical (Demo) Kopit/Perlroth""
"Background Music"
"Good Friends Demo c1986 Perlroth"
"Good Friends c1986 Gil Perlroth Demo tape 8 songs"
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619390
Hands of a Stranger, 1985-1987
Scope and Contents note
Screenplays, drafts, notebooks, index cards, promotional materials, news clippings.
Publications
Robert Daley, Hands of a Stranger (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1985) Advanced uncorrected proof with heavy annotations
Note: One legal notebook moved to Flat Box 4.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619408
High Society, 1997
Scope and Contents note
Playbills, notebooks, sketchbooks, script fragments and revisions.
Audio Cassettes
"Why Don't We Try Staying Home?"
"1) Why Don't We Try Staying Home? 2) Say it With Gin"
"Babies, Crying and Giggling"
"True Love"
"Wild Wedding Bells"
""Ted Sperling Plays Piano"
Note: Includes oversized sketchbook moved to Flat Box 4.
One script copy contains extensive post-it tabs.
One audio tape needs container.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619416
IndiansBox 1, 1968-
Scope and Contents note
"Cody's Will" (early version of play), extensive type- and handwritten drafts and revisions ca. 1968-1969, notes, playbills of the American premier, handwritten scenes with edits, Swedish translation of 1969, galley proofs, contact sheets of photographs of London production, correspondence, reviews.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619424
IndiansBox 2, 1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Royalty records, reviews, programs, handwritten and typewritten scripts and script fragments, prompt book (London), promotional materials from film.
Note: Color production photos in front of box.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619614
IndiansBox 3, 1968-1976, 1994
Scope and Contents note
Research materials, articles on film, large amount of original newspaper reviews and articles, notebook, playbills.
Mindcontrol
Research materials.
Audio Cassettes
"Wendy/Arthur"
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619622
Legacy of a Mother's Murder (In a Child's Name) Box 1, 1987-1989
Scope and Contents note
Project with Peter Maas for ABC miniseries. When it aired in 1991 Kopit's name was not credited and it had been renamed "In a Child's Name". Notebooks and handwritten notes, correspondence, story treatments, script drafts, transcripts of conversations with Maas, copies of court documents, audio tapes.
Audio Cassettes
Note: all recordings are microcassettes unless indicated with an asterisk.
Loose:
"My response to second interview with Ken Taylor"
"Jack Venturi"
"...Peter Mass stuff"
*"Peter Maas #2 Friday Oct. 16"
*"Peter Maas #1 Friday Oct. 16"
In cardboard box:
"12/29/87 P. Maas"
"Peter Maas 2 tapes [at Highdale] Tuesday July 7" 3 tapes in env.
"Third tape Sunday July 19th Staten Island trip..." 2 tapes in env.
"2nd meeting" 1 tape in env.
"Dec. 15th conversation with Janice Miller" 1 tape in env.
"Al Benigno phone call 1/14/88"
"12/24 Janice Miller phone call" 1 tape in env.
"Al Benigno" 1 tape in env.
"10/16 N.J. Janice Miller 2 tapes" 2 tapes in env.
"NJ tape Oct 16th Paul Chaiet" 1 tape in env.
In Manila env.:
*"Paul Chaiet Oct. 16th New Jersey" 1 tape in env.
*"Peter Maas 3rd meeting June 19th Tape #2" 1 tape in env.
*"Peter Maas 3rd meeting June 19th Tape #1" 1 tape in env.
*"Peter Maas 2nd meeting June 12th one tape" 1 tape in env.
In plastic bag:
"Sunday Night...Tom Taylor...#2A" 2 tapes in env.
"Sat afternoon Oct 15, 1988...first interview...Taylors, Marion, Ind." 3 tapes in env.
"Other tapes...#5" 3 tapes in env.
*"For Lois Porro 'Peter Maas Tape'" 1 tape in env.
"Taylors Sunday #2" 3 tapes in env.
"Tuesday Oct 18th 1988...Taylors day four #4" 3 tapes in env.
"Ken Taylor Wed." 2 tapes in env.
"Ken Taylor Thursday..." 4 tapes in env.
"Taylors day #3...#3" 3 tapes in env.
In second plastic bag:
"Transcribed" 2 tapes in env.
"plane ride to Ft. Wayne...#6" 1 tape in env.
The following tapes were in the plastic bag inside a large Manila envelope marked "Peter Maas stuff to be transcribed":
*Peter Maas, Dan Wigutow(?), ALK" 2 tapes in env.
"Peter Maas/Dan Wigutow" 1 tape in env.
"Visit to Celeste and Jeff's House" 1 tape in env.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619630
Legacy of a Mother's Murder (In a Child's Name) Box 2, 1989-1991
Scope and Contents note
Notice of tentative writing credits, script drafts, some memo pads, copy of original manuscript of book of the same name by Peter Maas, some handwritten notes and correspondence.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619648
Legacy of a Mother's Murder (In a Child's Name) Box 2
Scope and Contents note
Notebooks, handwritten notes, plot outlines, scripts and script fragments, copies of legal documents and statutes, interview and conversation transcripts.
Note: 3-4 inches of research and notes moved to Flat Box 4.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619655
MK-Ultra Box 1, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Research material. articles, notebooks, interviews, handwritten notes, plot outlines, correspondence.
Audio Cassettes
"Tape of Haft Conference Call MK/Ultra 9/22/94
"MK-Ultra notes in limo 9/15/94 and other notes" 1 micro cassette
"Steven Haft, Dick Russell and me meet in NY re: MK-Ultra 9/20/94" 2 microcassettes in env.
"MK/Ultra tape Dick Russell and ALK" 1 micro cassette in env.
"MK/Ultra around the time Dick Russell was here" 1 micro cassette in env.
Note: Sketch pages moved to Flat Box 5.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619663
MK-Ultra Box 2
Scope and Contents note
This group of materials, all found in a file box marked "MK-Ultra miscellaneous notes", have suffered severe water damage at some point and have significant mold growth. They have been tied into a plastic bag and removed for conservation. Materials seem to be preliminary research, articles, magazines, etc. One audio tape.
Nine Box 1, 1981-1983
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten scripts and script fragments, scene revisions, drafts, notebooks, playbill, 1979 book of musical by Mario Fratti, correspondence, advertising information, auditioning and casting information for out of town companies and national tour, Japanese playbill, show magazine, royalty records, cast album information, news clippings, articles, reviews.
Audio Cassettes
"Thematic underscoring for opening scene"
#1 tape of the first parts of the audition"
"Carla crossover music"
"'Nine' Inspired by Fellini's 8 1/2"
Note: 2 folders of contracts and legal pads moved to Flat Box 5.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619671
Nine Box 2, 1981-1983
Scope and Contents note
Most of this material was taken from labeled folders. Scripts, script fragments, annotations and revisions, writings and input from the cast, head shots, audition notes and material (?), handwritten scene drafts, notebooks, opening night telegrams and correspondence. The bulk of this material is edits and revisions made in preparations and rehearsals for the initial Broadway production.
Audio Cassettes
"Nine (transcript of film" 1 micro cassette
"Nine"
1 empty tape case.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619689
Phantom Box 1, 1986-91
Scope and Contents note
Phantom was first conceived by Kopit and Maury Yeston as a musical around 1983, then recreated as a non-musical teleplay although the teleplay was aired (in 1990) before the musical premiered (in 1991). Notebooks, handwritten drafts, and typewritten scripts of the teleplay exist here, dated beginning 1988. Also included are correspondence, financial information, chronologies of events, scripts and drafts for the musical, score fragments, reviews, programs, casting notes.
Publications
George Perry, The Complete Phantom of the Opera (Pavilion Books: London, 1987)
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (Perennial Library: New York, 1987)
Audio Cassettes
"#2 Phantom" 1 micro cassette
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619697
Phantom Box 2, 1986-1996
Scope and Contents note
Index cards, handwritten drafts and revisions, typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, articles, image research on the Paris Opera House; large quantity of information on regional productions of the musical including programs, reviews, casting, magazines; reviews and press for teleplay; detailed financial records of Phantom production of Theater Under the Stars, Houston; photos; cast album material; royalty agreements.
Note: Some photos in folder marked photos.
Note: 4 folders of sketch pages and pad, notes, magazine and photo research moved to Flat Box 5.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619135
Phantom Box 3, 1989-1996
Scope and Contents note
Materials on local productions, interviews, news clippings, teleplay script and revisions, notebook, correspondence, teleplay shooting schedules and other records of time in Paris, production schedules.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619143
Roy Steinberg Project, 1997
Scope and Contents note
Small amount of material for an apparently undeveloped project at that time titled "Carry and Dump"; handwritten notes, character summaries, script for episode of daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" (Roy Steinberg was a producer)
Audio Cassettes
"Norma in Wonderland" 1 micro cassette in env.
Note: Small amount of materials, will fit into Ms. box. Small amount of oversized sketchbook pages moved to Flat Box 6.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619150
The Road to Nirvana Box 1, 1989-1995
Scope and Contents note
Records of publication, reviews, materials on various regional productions (correspondence, rights and royalty material, script amendments, auditions, etc.), receipts and expenses, correspondence, programs; early copies of script.
Audio Cassettes
"Nirvana--Who Am I" in padded env.
Note: Roll of posters from Steppenwolf production, handbills, three legal folders of galleys moved to Flat Box 6.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619168
The Road to Nirvana Box 1a, 1988-1995
Scope and Contents note
Early copies and drafts of the script. Many of these drafts use the working title of the play: "Bone-the-Fish"
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619184
Roswell Box 1, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Research materials, including books, video tapes, news clippings and articles, issues of the "Skeptical Inquirer", notebooks, correspondence, galley copy of "UFO Crash at Roswell", screenplays and revisions.
Publications
John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse (Abacus: London, 1973)
Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell (Avon Books: New York, 1991)
Video Cassettes
"Ron Reagan Show on UFOs" VHS
"CNN-Don Schmitt UFO Crash at Roswell" VHS
"UFOs, The Unsolved Mystery" VHS
"Unexplained Mysteries, UFO sighting army base, England" VHS
"JFK-Bill Cooper"
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619176
Roswell Box 2, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Research articles and notes, news clippings, correspondence, screenplay copies, drafts and revisions, plot summaries, materials concerning arbitration for credit by the Writers Guild of America(also in previous box), previous screenplays and treatments by Paul Davids and Jeremy Kagan.
Publications
Valdamar Valerian, Matrix II: The Abduction and Manipulation of Humans Using Advanced Technology (Arcturus Book Service: s.l., 1990)
Computer Media
3 5" floppy disks, each carrying drafts or components of the Roswell script, all labeled as Wordstar 5.0
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619192
Roswell Box 3, 1989-1997
Scope and Contents note
Research articles and notes.
Publications
Keith Thompson, Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Addison-Wesley Publishing: Reading, Mass., 1991)
Budd Hopkins, Missing Time (Ballantine Books: New York, 1989)
Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell (Avon Books: New York, 1991)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1989-1990)
Script fragments, transcripts of discussion, correspondence, production schedule, initial contract, advertising information.
Publications
Baroness Orczy, Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Buccaneer Books: New York, 1985)
Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Bantam Books: New York, 1992)
Baroness Orczy, adapted by Beverly Cross, The Scarlet Pimpernel: A Play (Samuel French: London, 1988)
Video Cassettes
"William Cooper Exposes Top Secrets"
"Roswell Press Conference TV News Reports Rod Serling...."
"CNN Interview Don Schmitt re: UFO book"
"Roswell-Smith, Dugger, Knight"
"Intruders Part 2"
Audio Cassettes
"Pimpernel Ockrent meeting in NY Feb 4, 5, 6" 2 tapes in env.
"Nan and Frank and Arthur Act II Pimpernel"
"Tape 2 Nan Frank, Arthur"
"Pimpernel Worktape #1 10/89"
"Pimpernel: conversation with Nan Broglio" 1 micro cassette
"Frank and Nan" 1 micro cassette
"Pimpernel 2/7/90" 1 micro cassette
Note: One large legal-sized photocopy of complete manuscript (by Valdamar Valerian, see above) and small amount of other materials moved to Flat Box 7. These are Roswell materials from previous box.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619200
The Scientific Process Box 1, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
Notebooks, index cards and research and reference books.
Publications
Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe (Random House: New York, 1976)
Howard Blum, Out There: The Government's Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1990)
William J. Broad, Star Warriors (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1985)
Michio Kaku, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Oxford University Press: New York; Oxford, 1994)
Carlos Castaneda, The Second Ring of Power (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1977)
Robert Heilbroner, Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Oxford University Press: New York; Oxford, 1995)
David Rorvik, In His Image: The Cloning of a Man (J.B. Lippincott: New York, 1978)
June Goodfield, Playing God (Random House: New York, 1977)
Micro Cassettes
"6/22/79 Scientific Process"
"Side B: Orano Central Camera Argument 3/10"
"Nadia" et al. 5 tapes in cardboard box
"Scientific Progress" et al. 6 tapes in plastic box
Note: Material is very musty and yellowed but not evidently water damaged or moldy. Two sets of tapes are unfoldered due to size of cases.One folder of sketchbook pages moved to Flat Box 7.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619705
The Scientific Process Box 2
Scope and Contents note
Publications
Stephen RosenFuture Facts (Simon and Schuster: New York, 1976)
Howard Gardner, The Shattered Mind (Vintage Books: new York, 1974)
Brett Bolton, Edgar Cayce Speaks (Avon: New York, 1969)
Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (Penguin Books: New York, 1978)
Sir Richard Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot trans., The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana (Panther Books: London, 1963)
W.Y. Evans-Wentz ed., The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (Oxford University Press: New York, 1977)
Carl Sagan ed., Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1973)
Daedalus Summer 1967
Robert S. de Ropp, The New Prometheus (Delta: New York, 1973)
Steven Rose, The Conscious Man (Vintage Books: New York, 1976)
Louis E. Rhine, PSI: What is it? (Harper and Row: New York, 1976)
Brian N. Ball, The Probability Man (Daw Books: New York, 1972)
William Sears, The Wine of Astonishment (George Ronald: s.l., 1972)
Jess Stearn, Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet (Bantam Books: New York, 1971)
Isaac Asimov, The Genetic Code (Signet Books: New York, 1962)
Isaac Asimov, Words of Science (Mentor Books: New York, 1959)
Ted Howard and Jeremy Rifkin, Who Should Play God? (Dell: New York, 1977)
Gerrit L. Verschuur, Cosmic Catastrophes (Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1978)
Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (Bantam Books: New York, 1972)
Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, Impossible Possibilities (Avon: New York, 1973)
Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection (Dell: New York, 1975)
Robert E. Ornstein, The Psychology of Consciousness (Penguin Books: New York, 1972)
James D. Watson, The Double Helix (Mentor: New York, 1969)
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619713
Secrets of the Rich Box 1, 1976-1977
Scope and Contents note
Scripts and script revisions, all pulled from carefully labeled cartons (retained), fragments and revisions.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619721
Secrets of the Rich Box 2, 1976-1976
Scope and Contents note
Script fragments and revisions, handwritten notes and drafts, index cards and notebooks.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619739
The Shroud Box 1, 1979-1987
Scope and Contents note
Road maps, plats, AAA tour guides to Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and other areas; handwritten notes, typescript screenplay of "The Shroud", manuscript entitled "The Shroud: a Novel", a "treatment for a film" of same, large sketchbook notes and schematics, notebooks, character summations.
Audio Cassettes
" 'Shroud' Stevenson Talk 12/6/81" 1 micro cassette
Note: Some photos in folders at end of box interspersed with notes. One folder also of 16 color 35mm slides.
Note: Two oversized rolls of maps, one legal folder of same with handwritten notes and pages, one folder of contracts and correspondence moved to Flat Box 7; 5 large sketchbooks moved to Flat Box 8.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619432
The Shroud Box 2, 1980
Scope and Contents note
Copies of the screenplay and treatment, script of the film "The Boys form Brazil", revisions and handwritten edits, index cards,
Video Cassettes
"In Search of...The Shroud of Turin" Beta
"re: The Shroud; John Paul and the Vatican" Beta
"Center for Disease Control P3 Lab" VHS
"Shroud" VHS
Audio Cassettes
"Ken Stevenson on the Shroud 12/6/82"
"Shroud Lecture"
Micro Cassettes (in coin env.s)
"for The Shroud; Strat and Leonie(?) on 'The Ambiguon'" 1 tape
"Tape of TV show on Shroud by CBN" 1 tape
"Tom d' Muhala on Long Island" 1 tape
"March 29, 1980 Tom d' Muhala on L.I." 1 tape
"Tom d' Muhala 2nd visit" 1 tape
"McGore's Lab MacGore himself" 3 tapes
"March 29, 1980 Tom d' Muhala on L.I." 3 tapes
"Shroud March 21 1980 Tom d' Muhala" 1 tape
"March 13 #1 Shroud" 1 tape
"Rockefeller University March 13 1980 #3"1 tape
"March 13 1980 #2" 1 tape
"Shroud Rock U. (?)" 1 tape loose
"Monday March 10 Rockefeller University" 1 tape
Note: One folder of numerous 35mm slides in sealed white env.s, located immediately behind video tapes. One commercial filmstrip of still images of the Vatican. All images and microcassettes removed from green plastic index card box labeled "tapes: research The Shroud".
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619440
The Shroud Box 3, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
Scripts, notes, memos, magazines and research, sketchbooks.
Publications
Robert K. Wilcox, Shroud (Bantam Books: New York, 1978)
Ian Wilson, The Shroud of Turin (Image Books: New York, 1979)
Video Cassettes
"World Within a World--The Maximum Containment Laboratory" Large format video tape
Micro Cassettes
"Leslie on Cambodians"
"Leslie on Laotians"
"Lybians"
5 tapes labeled 1-3, 6, 8
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619457
The Shroud Box 4
Scope and Contents note
Articles, brochures, research materials, newspapers and news clippings, magazines, draft of film treatment, index cards.
Publications
United States Conference of Research on the Shroud of Turin, Proceedings, March 23-24 1977
Frank C. Tribbe Portrait of Jesus? (Stein and Day: New York, 1983)
Peter M. Rinaldi, When Millions Saw the Shroud (Don Bosco: New Rochelle, NY, 1979)
Thomas Humber, The Sacred Shroud (Pocket Books: New York, 1978)
Kenneth E. Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas, Verdict on the Shroud (Servant Books: Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981)
Frank O. Adams, Sindon (Synergy Books: s.l., 1982)
John Heller, Report on the Shroud of Turin (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1983)
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619473
The Shroud Box 5, 1981-1992
Scope and Contents note
Magazines, newspapers and clippings, research book lists and bibliographies, book contract extension, notebooks, typed drafts, index cards.
Publications
Geoffrey Ashe, Miracles (Sphere Books: s.l., 1979)
Edward Abbey, The Journey Home (E.P. Dutton: New York, 1977)
Arizona Highways Bound volume of 1984 issues
Micro Cassettes
"Shroud Tapes" 7 tapes in env., 1 empty case
"Shroud David Newman's Comments" 1 tape in env.
"re: The Shroud: Random thoughts on side A" 1 tape in env.
"Shroud Notes March '92" 1 tape in env.
"20/20 Shroud audio part of video" 1 tape
"re: Shroud. LG and ALK after Picker conversation" 2 tapes in env.
"Shroud Lecture Davis, Molander" 1 tape
"5* Heller" 1 tape
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619465
The Shroud Box 6, ca. 1982-1986
Scope and Contents note
Newspapers, magazines, articles.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619507
Sweet Smell of Success Box 1, 1994-1995
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes, sketches, and ideas, index cards, notebooks, background information provided by Livent, script of "Ragtime", script outline, research, heavily tagged script of film.
Publications
Jan Morris, Manhattan '45 (Oxford University Press: New York, 1987)
Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success and Other Stories (s.n.: s.l., s.d.)
Neal Gabler, Winchell (Knopf: New York, 1994)
Video Cassettes
"Walter Winchell" AandE, VHS
"Winchell" VHS
"Sweet Smell of Success" original movie, VHS
Audio Cassettes
"Notes on SS of S Aug '94"
"Cy Coleman's House #1"
"Cy Susan and Arthur review"
"Cy Coleman, 6/23, SSofS" 1 micro cassette.
Note: 2 folders of large sketchbook pages moved to Flat Box 8.
Offsite Barcode: 31142040619481
Till Death Us Do Part Box 1, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents note
Based on work by Vincent Bugliosi. Includes portions of Bugliosi's book, notes, index cards, drafts, revisions, draft fragments, notebooks.
Publications
Vincent Bugliosi, Till Death Us Do Part (Bantam Books: New York, 1979)
Audio Cassettes
"Gary Hoffman phone call" 1 micro cassette in env.
Till Death Us Do Part Box 2, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents note
Portions of the book, copious index cards, notebooks, letter from Bugliosi, handwritten notes.
Note: Small amount of oversized sketchbook pages moved to Flat Box 9.
Treasure Island Box 1, 1993-1994
Scope and Contents note
Magazines and pamphlets on diving, reprints of 19th and early 20th century books on pirates, notebooks, script drafts, fragments and revisions, correspondence, handwritten notes and index cards.
Publications
Howard Pyle, The Buccaneers and Marooners of America (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1990)
Philip Gosse, The History of Piracy (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1990)
Ralph D. Paine, The Book of Pirate Treasures (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1992)
Robert Williams, Memoirs of a Buccaneer (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1990)
Harold T. Wilkins, Treasure Hunting (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1989)
Esquemeling, The Buccaneers of America (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1992)
A. Hyatt Verrill, In the Wake of the Buccaneers (Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1990)
Charles Ellms, The Pirates' Own Book(Rio Grande Press: Glorietta, N.M., 1993)
John Huber, Joyce Huber, and Christopher Lofting, Best Dives of the Western Hemisphere (Hunter Publishing: Edison, N.J., 1990)
Video Cassettes
"Raising the Titanic" VHS
Audio Cassettes
"Tape of my meeting...with Mark Ovitz and Glen Carron" 1 micro cassette in env.
"Treasure Island Dec '93"
6 tapes if meeting with Mark Ovitz in L.A.3/14-3/15/94
Note: One folder of oversized material moved to Flat Box 9.
Treasure Island Box 2, 1993-1995
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, magazines, articles, research correspondence, all on diving, sunken treasure and pirates, modern and historical, screenplay drafts.
Publications
Galleon Explorers Club, Spanish Treasure, A VHS tape and one audio tape in case.
Academy of Marine Sciences and Undersea research, Who's Who in Scuba Diving (Best Publishing: Flagstaff, Ariz., 1992)
John Halas, Judy Halas and Don Kincaid, Diving and Snorkeling Guide to the Florida Keys (Pisces Books: Houston, 1984)
Steve Blount and Lisa Walker, Treasure Hunting with a Metal Detector (Pisces Books: Glen Cove, N.Y.,1987)
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc., Open Water Sport Diver Manual (s.n.: s.l., 1984)
Gary Gentile, Ultimate Wreck Diving Guide (Gary Gentile Productions: Philadelphia, 1992)
Audio Cassettes
1 tape, see above
"Conversation with Herwitz re: Treasure Island"
Video Cassettes
1 VHS tape, see above.
Note: Two legal pads moved to Flat Box 9.
Treasure Island Box 3, 1992
Scope and Contents note
Research materials, notes, notebooks, expenses and receipts from travel, pamphlets, maps, books.
Publications
Rebecca L. Johnson, Diving into Darkness (Lerner Publications: Minneapolis, Minn., 1989)
Philip Gosse, The Pirates' Who's Who (Rio Grande Press: Glorieta, N.M., 1988)
Kal Muller, Spice Islands: Exotic eastern Asia (Passport Books: Lincolnwood, Ill., 1993)
Steve Blount, Diving and Snorkeling Guide to the Bahamas, Nassau and New Providence Island (Pisces Books: Locust Valley, N.Y., 1985)
Denise Berg and Daniel Berg, Tropical Shipwrecks (Aqua Explorers: New York, 1989)
Jennifer Marx, Pirates and Privateers of the Caribbean (Krieger Publishing: Malabar, Flor., 1992)
A. Hyatt Verrill, The Real Story of the Pirate (Rio Grande Press: Glorieta, N.M., 1989)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1981)
Paul Woods, Kristiana Sarwo Rini and Margit Meinhold, Indonesian Phrasebook (Lonely Planet: Hawthorne, Australia, 1992)
David Cordingly and John Falconer, Pirates Fact and Fiction (Artebras: New York, 1992)
Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes (Phaidon: Oxford, 1988)
Douglas Botting, The Pirates (Time-Life Books: Alexandria, Virg., 1978)
Bradley Sheard, Beyond Sportdiving! (Menasha Ridge Press: Birmingham, Ala., 1991)
Audio Cassettes
Glenn Caron #1 Nov. 28"
"Glenn Caron #2
Note: Many books heavily tagged. One audio tape needs case. 3 legal note pads and oversized sheets moved to Flat Box 9.
Treasure Island Box 4, 1992-1994
Scope and Contents note
Magazines, pamphlets, books, tapes, brochures, maps, drafts of screenplay.
Publications
Birnbaum's 94 Bahamas and Turks and Caicos (HarperPerennial: New York, 1993)
John S. Potter, Jr., The Treasure Diver's Guide (Florida Classics Library: Port Sakerno, Fla., 1988)
Alan R. Rowe, Relics, Water and the Kitchen Sink (Sea Sports Publications: Norwalk, Conn., 1979)
Fodor's 94 Caribbean (Fodor's Travel Publications: New York, 1993)
Hans Johannes Hoefer, Philippines (APA Publications: Hong Kong, 1991)
Shlomo Cohen and Roni Cohen, Cayman Diver's Guide (Seapen Books: Tel-Aviv, 1991)
Audio Cassettes
"Conversation with Alex re: Draft 2 12/27/94"
"Alex's Comments re: Tr. Isl. Draft 2"
"Alex and ALK in car 9/11/93"
"Bob Marx and helicopters 11/4/93"
"Bob Marx at JFK"
"9/15-9/16 L.A....with Mark Ovitz"
"Last Day in L.A.--Recap with Mark Ovitz"
"Phone Calls"
"Treasure Island second evening"
"Bob and Jennifer Marx part I"
"Bob Marx Part II"
"Robert Baer Part I"
Micro Cassettes
9 tapes in two cases, variously marked, Fall '93
"Treasure Island Tape #3"
"Pimpernel #3"
"Treasure Island Alex Tape" 1 tape in env.
"Tr. Island Conversation with Alex...9/3/94" 2 tapes in env.
Note: Oversized maps, posters and notes moved to Flat Box 9.
Treasure Island Box 5
Scope and Contents note
Magazines, brochures and other publications along with some schedule and planning notes on the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Key West and other tropical locations.
Treasure Island Box 6
Scope and Contents note
Magazines, pamphlets, audio and video tapes, books, maps and notes.
Publications
Eric Oey, ed., Java: Garden of the East (Passport Books: Lincolnwood, Ill., 1991)
Robert F. Marx, Shipwrecks in the Americas (Dover Publications: New York, 1987)
----, The Underwater Dig: Introduction to Marine Archaeology (Pisces Books: Houston, 1990)
Philip S. Olin, Treasure: The Business and Technology (The Printing Division of Mr. Paper: Gainesville, Fla., 1991)
Robert F. Marx with Jennifer Marx, In Quest of the Great White Gods (Crown Publishers: New York, 1992) Inscribed by the author
Cathie Drane and Barbara Hall, Culture Shock: Indonesia (Graphic Arts Publishing Company: Portland, Ore., 1993)
Kal MullerUnderwater Indonesia (Passport Books: Lincolnwood, Ill., 1992)
Kal Muller, East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor (Passport Books: Lincolnwood, Ill., 1991)
Video Cassettes
All tapes are VHS
"Quest for Gold"
"Bali"
"Malaysia"
"National Geographic: Atocha, Quest for Treasure"
"Singapore--Part I"
"Sand and Sea, Treasure of Indian Ocean"
"The Treasure Experience"
"Atlantis Research Submersibles
"The Deep"
"Peak Performance Buoyancy"
"Nanking Cargo"
"Treasure Island Disney 1851"
"Treasure: What Dreams are Made of..."
"James Bond underwater sequence"
"Kopit"
"Treasure Island w;/ Wallace Beery" 2 tapes
"Carl Fismer's Treasure Hunting Made Easy"
Audio Cassettes
"Caymans"
"Key West--Jupiter--Sebastian"
"? Latter part, end of deep submersible"
"Treasure Island Tapes #1,2,3" 3 microcassettes in two env.s
"Dr. Hamilton Tape"
Wings Box 1, 1976-1978
Scope and Contents note
Production scripts and other scripts and script fragments, French adaptation of Wings (undated), handwritten notes and notebooks, much apparently from the production of the Yale Repertory Theater, design and layout of playbill, production contract between Roger L. Stevens and Kopit, and Yale and Kopit, galleys of publication of play.
Audio Cassettes
"Nancy Darboun and Jacqueline Doolittle discussing Wings" 2 tapes with same label
unlabeled tape without case
"demo tape for earplay various persons talking--Laura Killian"
"Earplay '76 demo tape"
Note: One oversized (approx 11x17") production script to separate out.
Wings Box 2, 1979-1993
Scope and Contents note
Material including drafts of screenplay, correspondence, notebook relating to 1991 production in L.A. or also a Hallmark television version of the play. Contract, notes, correspondence, for 1980 "American Playhouse" television production. Contract for National Theater (Eng.) production, Farrar Strauss publication galleys, layout. News clippings, corrected proofs of Samuel French edition, radio script of Wings for Earplay, as originally commissioned. 1983 screenplay draft, index cards and heavily annotated copy of screenplay.
Publications
A.R. Luria, The Working Brain (Basic Books: New York, 1973)
Micro Cassettes
"Wings Jacqui Doolittle...conversation at Livero's Restaurant" 2 tapes in env.
"Wings conversation with Doolittle 4/28/91" 1 tape in env.
"Wings Jacqui Doolittle Tape #2" 1 tape in env.
"Wings 3/92" 1 tape in env.
"Wings--Friday night April 5th" 1 tape in env.
"May (O'Neill)
"no. 2 Bert Leonard"
"12/5"
"Secrets at MacDonell"
1 unlabeled tape
"Jacqui Doolittle"
Audio Cassettes
"Jacqui Doolittle Monday March 25, 1991"
"Jacqui Doolittle on phone March 25, 1991"
The following tapes were found in a single cigar box
"Aphasic demo tape"
tapes labeled #3-7, 9, 10
empty tape case labeled #2
"Th. Feigerson and Jacqui Doolittle"
"Wings at Burke"
The following tapes were found in a bag
Wings comments and conversation with Joe Broido, 3 tapes
Note: 1 folder of oversized material moved to Flat Box 9; 3 folders of oversized material moved to Flat Box 10
Wings Box 3, 1990-1991
Scope and Contents note
Drafts and revisions of the Hallmark production, index cards, large sketch pages, discussion and interview transcripts, news clippings, correspondence, research, notebooks.
Micro Cassettes
"Wings 5/10/91" 1 tape in env.
"Wings--L.A.conversation" 4 tapes in env.
"Jacqui and Dr. Caravelli 5/11/90....." 2 tapes in env.
Audio Cassettes
"Rhinebeck air show"
"Jacqui Doolittle"
Note: Stack of snapshots of air show at back of box. 1 folder of oversized material moved to Flat Box 10.
Wings Box 4, 1978-1991
Scope and Contents note
More material from unproduced Hallmark teleplay, drafts and draft fragments, notebooks, news articles and research. The following material was removed from two brown cardboard file boxes: press releases, articles and reviews of Wings in its initial Broadway run, programs, correspondence concerning regional productions, magazines. Also found are two copies of script by Kopit: "Starstruck or Pie in the Sky" of unknown date.
Publications
Arthur Kopit, Wings (Hill and Wang: New York, 1978)
Arthur Kopit, Wings: A Drama (Samuel French: New York, 1978)
Franz Rottensteiner, The Science Fiction Book (New American Library: New York, 1975)
Norman in Wonderland Box 1, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents note
Subtitled "Good News/Bad News". Scripts and script fragments, information, articles, magazines and correspondence on soap operas, notebooks and handwritten notes, scripts of episodes of "Northern Exposure", note pads.
Video Cassettes
"Northern Exposure" episodes 78701 and 78703, 2 VHS tapes
Micro Cassettes
In env.s
"Phone call re: soap...July 1, 1991" 1 tape
"Leslie and Arthur...about the suicide of Mr. Moe(?)" 1 tape
"Soap--Brooklyn NBC 'Another World'" 1 tape
"5/14/91...Comments on my script to 'Another World'" 1 tape
Loose
"Soap July 1991
"Norman in Wonderland Oct 3, 1991"
"Norman in Wonderland Oct 31, 1991"
"Kate's Tape Diary"
"CBS Soap July 31st conversation with Leslie"
"LA trip July 23, 1991"
Audio Cassettes
"Ben on complex numbers" no case
"Dalton 8/1/92 Arthur 8/1/92"
Jennifer Alwood re: soap"
"CBS soap pilot...8/23/91" 2 tapes in env.
"'Guiding Light'...9/11/91" 2 tapes in env.
Note: One folder of oversized material moved to Flat Box 10.
Norman in Wonderland Box 2, 1991-1996
Scope and Contents note
Articles, news clippings, notepad, notebooks.
Audio Cassettes
"Wonderland Feb '96"
Micro Cassettes
"...Feb '96 Wonderland" 1 tape in env.
"Wonderland Feb '96"
"Cheeky Peeky and Zhivago (late 2000)"
"Transcribe this Wonderland history of Brock's Party"
"Wonderland (CA) 2/26 etc." 2 tapes in case
1 unlabeled tape
Note: Box is less than half full and will fit into Ms. box.
Zhivago, 1998
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, typescript and handwritten drafts and fragments, research, lyrics, schedules of activity, plot schematics.
Note: Oversized folders moved to Flat Box 10
Miscellaneous Works Box 1, 1973-1976
Scope and Contents note
The Frog
Unknown work fragments
Promontory Point Revisited
Hamburger, French Fries and a Coke
Masters of the Wind
Lewis and Clark--Lost and Found
Asylum
Undated screenplay of "The Frogs." Outline of children's work "The Woblns" (see also box 9) which seems to have morphed into "Masters of the Wind." Proposals, descriptions and outlines for that work, apparently a collaborative travelling show based on ecological issues. "Hamburger...." and "Lewis and Clark" may have been other contributions or evolutions of this concept by Kopit as many of the records are found together and all works were planned around the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976. Handwritten and typewritten script drafts of "Asylum", "Endplay". Pamphlets, ephemera, and other materials on human rights, ecology, arts organizations and miscellaneous materials.
Note: One folder of slides and photographs of art by "Peter Nicholson". 1 folder of oversized drawing from "Lewis and Clark" moved to Flat Box 11.
Miscellaneous Works Box 2, 1991-1993
Scope and Contents note
The Virginian, Envy, Traffik, Haley's Cam.
Newspapers, magazines, index cards and handwritten notes, drafts, scripts (not written by Kopit) of "Another World" soap opera.
Publications
Owen Wister, The Virginian (Grosset and Dunlap: New York, 1904)
Owen Wister, The Virginian (Penguin Books: New York, 1988)
Video Cassettes
"for Traffik: 'Inside edition' Mexican Drug Trade" VHS
Audio Cassettes
"Wings...Envy"
"envy 2/3/93"
"Envy-1/19/93"
"Envy 2nd conversation 1/21/93"
"Envy--conversation with Barbara Lieberman 3/11/93"
"Becky: Virginian" 1 micro cassette
Note: One folder of folded large sheets at end of box to be separated out.
Miscellaneous Works Box 3 (Scripts Box 1)
Scope and Contents note
"Good Help is Hard to Find" ca. 1980
"Secrets of the Rich"
Index cards and notes for "Secrets..."
"The Questioning of Nick" ca. 1957
"Fresh Game" multiple copies of film treatment, undated
"Fresh Game" first typescript parts of novel "fortunately! never finished" undated
"Oh Dad, Poor Dad...." Jan 9. 1962
"Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." 1960. "This is the original script without the extensive revisions which went into the Harvard production of January 7, 1960."
"oh Dad, Poor Dad..." galleys
"Chamber Music" undated draft, ca. 1971
"Chamber Music" French Translation, 1972
"King of the Heap" Undated original typescript with corrections.
"Snatch" undated handwritten script.
Box also contains various index cards and notes, some likely from Lesley Garis.
Notebook of "Lewis and Clark" ideas
"Animal Hospital" 1986
"Mhil'daiim" 3/16/1964 and other dates, extensive rough typescript and finished copies
"What's Happened to the Thorne's House" ca. 1972 (in envelope labeled "Landgrove Play") typescript, revisions, copies, with handwritten production notes.
Miscellaneous Works Box 4 (Scripts Box 2)
Scope and Contents note
"Louisiana Territory or Lewis and Clark...." descriptive booklet
"End of the World...." undated
"Discovery of America" undated, lacking Act I scene 1.
"On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next" ca. 1958
"Indians" Scandinavian translation, undated
series of working drafts and revisions of "Good Help is Hard to Find" ca. 1981
"Business Day" proposal and notes for radio play, undated
"Staying Afloat", teleplay written with Davis Weinstock, 1979, includes handwritten notes and revisions.
"The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis" ca. 1964, typescripts with hand revisions and edits, extensive handwritten drafts
"An Incident in the Park" rough typescript with revisions, ca. 1968
"Endplay" undated, typescripts
"Asylum" ca. 1963, rough typescripts with hand revisions.
Miscellaneous Works Box 5 (Scripts Box 3)
Scope and Contents note
"!" undated screenplay based on other authors' play "Who Wants to Kill Jessie?"
"Treasure Island" 2/28/94 (first draft)and 12/17/94 (2nd draft)
"Discovery of America" undated
"Roswell" undated
"Between the Wars" 12/15/92
"Sweet Smell of Success" plot outlines, ca. 8/23/1994
"Wings" teleplay 11/9/93
"Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." undated copies, one mimeographed copy with hand edits and alterations; scrapbook and news clippings from the early 1960s mostly documenting "Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." and galleys from some early edition.
"Phantom" revisions and typescript.
Miscellaneous Works Box 6 (Scripts Box 7)
Scope and Contents note
"Masquerade", notebooks audio tapes (see below), handwritten notes and magazine for original movie idea, ca. 1996
"Ideas for 'Harvey' as an updated film", "Ideas for adaptation of 'Mr. Blandings...'" ca. 1999
"Sophia Calle" Paul Auster novel, articles, some notes for possible work, ca. 1999
"Sweet Smell of Success" initial contract with Livent, copyright documents and documents relating to project in respect to Livent's bankruptcy, 1995-1999
"The Nina Play", notes, notebooks, tapes and computer media (see below) on work.
"Comfortable Shoes" Clint Holmes musical; video tape, CD, notebook and notes on possible work, 2000
Ephemera including replica of doubloon, permit for public meeting for "Lewis and Clark"
"Hollywood Play" also noted as "City of Faith Part III" ("Discovery of America" was sometimes subtitled "City of Faith Part I"), Typescript with hand edits
"Nine" script fragment
"Hands of a Stranger", various drafts, 1986-1987
"Till Death Us Do Part" final version without Kopit's credit, 1991
"Lewis and Clark..." notebook of handwritten ideas, undated
"A Treatment for the Adaptation of 'Who Wants to Kill Jessie?' (Later titled "!"), undated
Notebook of ideas for "Hamburger, French Fires, and a Coke", "The Wobbls", et al., undated
"Landgrove Play" (later retitled...Thorne's House" typescript draft and hand notes, undated
"Promontory Point Revisited" teleplay script, undated
"Le Placard", French translation of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", undated, and photo of Istanbul production
Publications
Paul Auster, Leviathan (Penguin Books: New York, 1993)
Video Cassettes
"Clint Holmes 4/2000" VHS
Audio Cassettes
"Seduction"
"(Seduction) this tape is at 278" 1 micro cassette
"Masquerade" 1 micro cassette in env.
"Tape recorder and obsession tape" two micro cassettes and recorder in padded env.
"Play about woman who can't remember..." (Nina Play) 2 micro cassettes in env.
Other Recordings
"Selections from 'Comfortable Shoes' CD, 1998
Computer Media
"Louisville play NINA 4/20/95" 1 5" floppy disk
Note: Oversized materials moved to Flat Box 11: one folder of "Notes on 'Men Are From Mars...'; roll of large pencil sketches, apparently studies for "Lewis and Clark"; Oversized sketchbook pages of "Blindsight"; Photocopies of handwritten drafts of "Discovery of America"; photocopied book "The Two Hundred Days of 8 1/2" by Deena Boyer...."; oversized notebook, apparently of "Mhil'Daiim"
Miscellaneous Works Box 7 (Scripts Box 8)
Scope and Contents note
"Discovery of America" copious typescript versions, revisions, and fragments, original notes, notes on "Masters of the Wind" possibly related
Notes on "Hollywood" City of Faith Part III, ca. 1974
"An Incident in the Park", typescript ca. 1964
"Wings", undated
"Hands of a Stranger" various copies, drafts, notes, correspondence and other documents relating to production, ca. 1986-1987.
Miscellaneous Works Box 8 (Scripts Box 9)
Scope and Contents note
"Blue Angel: index cards,, notes; 1st and 3rd drafts, 1993
"'Fat City' or 'The Winner' original screenplay typescript by Kopit and Coco Brown, ca. 1968
"The Questioning of Nick", multiple undated copies
"Asylum" unedited typescript
"Phantom" reject pages, playbill, research
"The Conquest of Everest" undated multiple copies, original typescript with hand edits
"Untitled Play", undated typescript
"Fresh Game" screenplay outline
"The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis" undated typescript
"Snatch" photocopy of typescript, ca. 1968
"Discovery of America" fragment
"Scarlet Pimpernel" act one typescript
"Wings" teleplay draft, 1991
"Indians", correspondence, reviews and other materials focusing on production by Terry Hands ca. 1992 in Germany; large amount of fax correspondence concerning German production, an adaptation renamed "Buffalo Bill" and a subsequent contest of rights and copyright, reviews
"Between the Wars" various drafts, 1992
"Roswell" 1992, plus research
"The Poet" 2nd draft of screenplay, 1991-1992
Note: Oversized materials moved to Flat Box 12: handwritten and typescript drafts, character sketches, outlines, and exploration of names, all for unknown work dated 1975.
Miscellaneous Works Box 9 (Scripts Box 12)
Scope and Contents note
"The Poet", 1st and 2nd drafts of screenplay, 1990-1991
"The Frog" screenplay numerous copies including original handwritten draft and original typescript with hand edits undated
"Fresh Game" 2 different versions of film outline, undated
fragment of unknown work
"Starstruck", materials for unproduced science fiction tv series including binders and notebooks, index cards, script, audiotape, handwritten and typescript notes, character outlines, time lines, etc., ca.1978
Handwritten and typescript drafts of undated work entitled "Sensuous Woman"
"End of the World", two copies of script
Audio Cassettes
"Starstruck 8/13/78" 1 micro cassette
Note: 1 folder of legal size material on "Starstruck" moved to Flat Box 12.
Miscellaneous Works Box 10 (Scripts Box 12)
Scope and Contents note
"The Day the Whores..." "first draft orig. hand-written", undated, and multiple typescripts ca. 1964
"On the Runway of Life..." undated handwritten drafts and finished typescripts
"Mhil'Daiim" multiple copies, undated
"Untitled Play" undated
"Edgar's Exploits" undated script for play, no other records for work found
"Sing to Me Through Open Windows" handwritten and typescript draft, ca. 1961
"Promontory Point Revisited" along with other authors' works included in N.Y. Television Theater, 1969
"Bone-the-Fish" 1st draft, 1988
"Deception" undated
"Hands of a Stranger" 1st draft, 1986
"Legacy of a Mother's Murder" 3rd draft 1990
Drafts and materials of unknown work, ca. 1980s or early 1990s
"partial original typescript of unknown work, 1965?
Note: One folder of draft of "Snatch" legal-sized pages moved to Flat Box 12
Miscellaneous Works Box 11, ca. 1965-1993
Scope and Contents note
Materials relating to development of musical called "Eureka"; letter to Andrew Lloyd Weber regarding Phantom; book and videotapes from "Between the Wars"; writings by Roger Garis including the play, "Some Don't", ca. 1965, and the novella "The Stepping Stone"; Materials on "Dreamhouse" including script fragments, notes and revisions, research including articles and newspapers; "Ropongo" materials; tapes and some materials relating to "Deception", and drafts and script of play by Kopit called "Padding".
Publications
Ernest Hemingway, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1972)
Ground Zero, Nuclear War: What's in it for You? (Pocket Books: New York, 1982)
David Talbot Rice, Islamic Art (Thames and Hudson: New York, 1986)
Video Cassettes
"The Spanish Civil War" 3 tapes
"The War Reporters"
"The Good Fight"
Audio Cassettes
"Songs by Maurice Jarre"
Tape related to Eureka wrapped inside letter in envelope
"Alex's Comments on Dreamhouse"
"Dreamhouse phone call to Michael Mannheim"
"{Dreamhouse July '93" 1 micro tape
"Ropongo Tapes" 5 micro tapes in envelope
"Becky Interviews Police about smuggling"
"Marlo Thomas Deception" 1 micro tape
Note: Oversized material includes folder of "Eureka" Materials, large sketchbook pages for "Dreamhouse", moved to Flat Box 12
Miscellaneous Works Box 12
Scope and Contents note
files on various works, mostly relating to foreign productions including translations, royalties, correspondence, programs, reviews and contracts. Works include "Chamber Music", "Discovery of America", "End of the World", "Indians" (Including the "Original Hand Written Version!"), "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", "Nine" (including snapshots of French(?) company), "Road to Nirvana", and "Phantom". A second set of records then begins composed mainly of finished copies of scripts including "Edgar's Exploits", "The Conquest of Everest", "Untitled Play", "The Questioning of Nick", and "The Day the Whores....".
Note: One oversized folder of material on "Chamber Music", one folder of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." (original film contract); one of "Nine", unidentified handwritten script from 1976, all moved to Flat Box 12.
Miscellaneous Works Box 13
Scope and Contents note
Continues material from previous box; copies of scripts including "On the Runway of Life...", "Sing to me...:, "The Day the Whores...", and "Indians"; also contains sketchbook with notes on numerous works, an outline or short story entitled "Bunny Lake is Missing", handwritten notes and copies of materials on psychiatric and neurological testing; three videotapes and other materials on "Mind Control", and materials from a letter box labeled "Rock/Nina Play" including audio tapes, transcripts and research and a set of files marked "Nina/Rock Play Deconstruction and Mrs. Gaskell".
Video Cassettes
"The X Files"
"Dateline: MPD"
"Conversation at Sotheby's"
Micro Cassettes
"Micro cassette from L400" 1 tape in envelope
"Saturday August 5th Nina notes"1 tape in envelope
"5/25/95 transcribe both sides" 1 tape in envelope
1 unlabelled micro tapeAudio Cassettes
"Nina Strauss interview at her house June 5, 1995" 1 tape in envelope
"6/8/95 Nina Strauss lunch" 2 tapes in 2 envelopes
"Nina Strauss interviewed...5/25/95" 1 tape in envelope.
Miscellaneous Works Box 14
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript copy of book on Marlene Dietrich with annotations, most likely "Blue Angel" by Donald Spoto; a folder concerning a "10 minute play"; a script of "In a Child's Name", materials on "Between the Wars", assorted business files and ledgers, and notes and index cards of "The Poet". Following "The Poet" folder is a set of older records from the 1960s consisting of correspondence, contracts, files on "Lewis and Clark", materials from a teaching stint at Wesleyan, and a mixed folder of various older script fragments and notes. At the end of a box are materials related to an unproduced collaboration with Danny Elfman on a work of his creation called "Jimmy Callicutt".
Audio Recordings
45 rpm phonograph "Ninety-Nine and a Half" by Wilson Pickett.
Audio Cassettes
"Jimmy Callicutt demos"
"Work of Jimmy Callicutt"
Note: One folder of oversized material including correspondence and contracts with ICM and a French translation of "The Day the Whores..." moved to Flat Box 13.
Miscellaneous Works Box 14
Scope and Contents note
Materials on "Scientific Process", a draft of "Phantom", a folder on "Wings", notes and materials removed from a tabbed binder on "Starstruck"; a group of materials including tapes and photographs on "In a Child's Name", magazines and sketchbook on unknown projects. An older series of records begins here including scripts and drafts of student works "Houdini", "To Dwell in a Place of Strangers", "Aubade", records of "Oh Dad...". Additional material,s from that time period here include 2 scrapbooks, magazines, reviews and ephemera.
Video Cassettes
"Ken Taylor 13 Feb 1985"
"Home Movies New Jersey News"
Audio Cassettes
"lecture"
"Teresa Taylor Homicide"
Note: One folder of oversized material, magazine, poster and photo from different years moved to Flat Box 13.
Miscellaneous Works 15
Scope and Contents note
A box composed completely of undifferentiated materials, as if swept from an office floor. Materials include copious amounts of newspaper, magazines, handwritten notes, index cards, etc. Very few folders, envelopes or other sorting and labeling devices are present.
Miscellaneous Works Box 16
Scope and Contents note
The same as previous, seems to contain a large amount of oversized sketchy pad sheets. Most material seems handwritten.
Miscellaneous Works Box 17
Scope and Contents note
The same as previous. A preponderance of spiral notebooks.
Miscellaneous Works Box 18
Scope and Contents note
The same as previous. Quantity of oversized sketchbook pages left in box.
Note: 3 very large sketchbooks from "End of the World" moved to Flat Box 13
MK Ultra, 1950-1999, inclusive
Note cards: Ideas, Characters, City of Faith, The Invisible Dick, The Tour, Gagarins, Houdini
Series II: Magazines, Newspapers and Other Media
Scope and Contents note
This series is divided by type of media into publications, video tapes, computer media and assorted media. Many books were found in the collection. Those that were obviously used for research, and were found with other materials for their respective projects, were left in place. Those that were found in discrete groups were separated from the collection. A list of those books can be found at back. Some of the books seem to have been used as research, some seem to be just discards from Kopit's personal library; many of the books are multiple copies of Kopit's published works. All but one copy of each edition have been removed from the collection. Other publications include magazines, playbills, programs and newspapers. Some have articles by or on Kopit,m some are periodicals acquired for research while others are in the collection for no apparent reason.
The videotapes, a more extensive collection, include research on works (including prior versions of films and stories); home movies; feature tapes of performances of Kopit plays around the world; video copies of the daily reels of the filming of Roswell as well as preliminary versions of the entire film; nineteen U-matic tapes of unknown content though some seem to be home movies and recordings of tv shows.
Computer media consist of a variety of materials. Most of the media are 5 inch floppy disks with numerous applications and programs; Kopit has often included printouts and notes for the contents and documentation of the computer system. Boxes 65 and 67 consist of numerous backups of drafts and scripts of works; among the disks are labels that refer to previously unmentioned works and projects including "The Poet", found on numerous disks and dated 1991; possible work done on an unproduced musical version of Tom Swift; "Tricks of the Trade", a project noted as being a "Bob Brown/Coco idea"; an unnamed project with Audrey Cooper; "The Byte of Love", "Hasten the Bullet", and "Arcata". Box 66 contains similar material as well as a significant collection of writings and materials by Kopit's wife, Leslie Garis (LG), and computer records by Kopit's children Alex, Ben and Katherine (Kat). The materials will be separated into their own box and placed at the end of the collection in their own series. Scattered throughout are disks of applications, operating systems, and utilities.
Conditions Governing Access
Audiovisual and born-digital materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers.
Magazines and Newspapers Box 1
Scope and Contents note
Magazines (particularly issues of "PC Magazine" to which Kopit had a subscription) and Playbills; multiple copies of the PMLA, Playboy,
Magazines and Newspapers Box 2, 1976-1995
Scope and Contents note
Whole papers and newspaper sections, most apparently from ca. 1976; science magazines from the early to mid 1990s.
Videotapes Box 1, ca.1991-1994
Scope and Contents note
Video Cassettes
All tapes are VHS unless otherwise noted
"The Phantom of the Opera" Silent film
"Interview"
"'In a Child's Name' Part I"
"In a Child's Name Part II + Interview with Taylor"
"Wings 8/8/93 Reel 1 of 2"
"Wings 8/8/93 Reel 2 of 2" professional dub
"'Phantom of the Opera' Part 2 of 2 11/9/90" professional dub
"Phantom of the Opera Temp Dub/Work Picture 11/30"
"Roswell"
"Phantom"
"Alien 'autopsy' + Roswell stuff (not my film)"
"Wings" Betamax
"'Roswell' 1 of 1...6/21/94" Professional dub
"Area 51"
"'Phantom of the Opera' Part II...1/8/90" professional dub
"The Cell Cycle: Featuring DNA replication and Mitosis; Ben Kopit"
"The Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Cell Division" Professional dub
"Tape 2, Nov. 14, 1992"
"Tape 1, Nov. 14, 1992""Jesse Marcel and others"
"National Geographic...The Incredible Human Machine"
"Part One-End of the World-Soviet Version"
"Part Two-End of the World-Soviet Version"
"'Nine' Aust. Cast via John Wiedrick"
"Xmas '84"
"Alley Theater Road to Nirvana"
'Phantom of the Opera' Herbert Lom version"
"Chicago Phantom TV Candlelight [Dinner Theater]"
"East of Eden (1955) 1776 (1972) The Phantom of the Opera (1962)"
"'In a Child's Name' Part II"
"Ben's Science Film"
"Ben's Tape--Mitosis, etc."
"'Phantom of the Opera' Part 1 of 2 11/9/90"
"New Year's Greetings to my mother and Jack"
"Phantom of the Opera 10/27/89 Rough cut Erik Productions"
"Phantom of the Opera Claude Rains"
"'Roswell' half hour documentary after the film"
Videotapes Box 2, ca. 1993
Scope and Contents note
Publications
"Theater Arts" Magazine, April, 1961
Video Cassettes
All tapes are VHS unless otherwise noted
"Alien Life at Roswell"
"protein Synthesis"
"A Brief History of Time"
"Ben Kopit, NCCS project, Feb 3, 1995"
"Ben's DNA video, done with Eric"
"Roswell Dailies"
"Reels 119-125 Shot 12-15-93"
"Reels 57-58 Dailies Shot 11/23/93"
"Reels 107-110 Dailies Shot 12/9/93"
"Reels 79, 89-94 Dailies Shot 12/1, [12]/3/93"
"Reel 111 Dailies Shot 12/10/93"
"Reels 13-18 Dailies Shot 11/9/93"
"Reels 36-40 Dailies Shot 11/16/93"
"Reels 95-99 Dailies Shot 12/6/93"
"Reels 59MOS, 60 Dailies Shot 11/24/93"
"Reels 7-10 Dailies Shot 11/8/93"
"Reels 21-25 Dailies Shot 11/10/93"
"Reels 2,4,11,12 Dailies Shot 11/8/93"
"Reels 26-29 Dailies Shot 11/11/93; Reels 30-32 Dailies Shot 11/12/93"
"Reels 19-20 Dailies Shot 11/9/93"
"Reels 1,3,5,6 Make-Up Test Dailies Shot 11/5/93"
"Reels 7-10 Dailies Shot 11/8/93"
"Reels 68-71 Dailies Shot 11/30/93"
"Reels 80-88 Dailies Shot 12/02/93"
"Reels 41-45 Dailies Shot 11/17/93"
"Reels 72-78 Dailies Shot 12/01/93"
"Reels 104-106 Dailies Shot 12/8/93"
"Reels 46-50 Dailies Shot 11/12,17,18/93"
"Reels 51-54 Dailies Shot 11/19/93"
"Reels 112-116 Dailies Shot 12/13/93"
Video Tapes Box 3
Scope and Contents note
Video Cassettes
The following nineteen cassettes are all Sony KCS20 U-Matic cassettes. They are numbered twice on the spine, 1-19 and K122-K140 with additional abbreviated labels. There are extensive content notes with time signatures on the inside covers. None of the labels, interior or exterior, bear any reference to known projects or works by Kopit except some possible recordings of Lewis and Clark.
"1 Huck, Pinball"
"2 Barbershop, Jack-Stalk, Letters, Pieta, Fights"
"3 Lulu+Clark, American Family, Box+Puppets"
"4 Reel of Ahab, Yank"
"5 Fights, subjective fights, samuri, gauze"
"6 Gauze"
"7 End piece"
"8 Lois+Clark, Superman...Tempest, Pinball"
9 [unlabeled]
10 [unlabeled]
11[unlabeled]
12 [unlabeled]
"13 Reception"
"14 #1 Gauze in Circle"
"15 Ahab + the cars"
"16 Circle Game and Raoul Inter."
"17 Morning Wkout"
18 [unlabeled]
19 [unlabeled]
Video Tapes Box 4
Scope and Contents note
Video Cassettes
All tapes are VHS unless otherwise noted; includes both published copies and homemade recordings/dups.
2 unlabeled tapes, Scotch UCA60 U-matic
"Lewis and Clark--Kopit's tape" Scotch UCA60 U-matic
"Marlene NTSC"
"'Morocco' (1930) von Sternberg, Dietrich, Cooper"
"'A Foreign Affair' (1948) Billy Wilder, Dietrich"
"Cabaret"
"Marlene Maria Riva Primetime 2-4-93"
"Dietrich's jewelry"
"M.D. in Berlin '60"
"The Blue Angel"
"Marlene, a film by Maximilian Schell"
"Just a Gigolo"
These materials were added in from the series marked "Miscellaneous".
"Children at Risk"
"True/Not True: When Memories can Be Trusted"
"Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories"
"American Justice--'Satan, Rituals and Abuse"
"CNN 3/3/94 Cruel Memory"
"By Satan Possessed (HBO)"
"Discovery Channel-Nikolai Tesla"
"'The Faerie Queen' dir. by David Pountney"
"Discovery Channel: Invention" 3 volumes
"The Land of Far Away..."
"legend"
"The Monuments of Mars"
Computer Disks Box 1
Scope and Contents note
All computer media in this box are 5 inch floppy disks with numerous disks grouped in labeled plastic cases. They are listed here by case and number of disks. Indications of original applications and programs are usually noted on the disks with printouts of system information and file structure included in each case.
Computer Media
"Phantom 1 disk; Bone-the-Fish 2 disks 11-19-89" 3 disks
"Marlo Thomas, 'Deception' Drafts 1, 2, and 3 (Jan '89); 'Till Death Us Do Part" 7 disks
"FastBack Plus Box #4...Total backup--verify on D: drive and C: drive" 17 disks
"Pimpernel, Pimp draft 2; B-T-Fish; Printer files; Speller files; PTR-Maas; Bugliosi" 7 disks
"Phantom Draft 2 7/6/89"3 disks
"Roswell + Dreamhouse" 2 disks
"Treasure Island...Draft 1 (but not the cut down version...Xywrite III" 5 disks
"Treasure Island" 6 disks
"Animal Hospital" 3 disks
"Wings" 2 disks
"Dreamhouse" 1 disk
"Poet" Draft 2" dated 1991, first mention of this work in archive, 3 disks
"Poet (Draft 2); Norman in Wonderland" 4 disks
"Animal Hospital" 5 disks
"Roswell Drafts 1, 8, 10" 8 disks
1 empty blue case
"Tom Swift Musical; Norman in Wonderland; Deception; Wonderland (Scientific Process)" 5 disks, first mention of "Tom Swift" yet that name not repeated on individual disk labels.
"Archive backup Peter Maas Draft II 7/5/89" 4 disks
"Feb '96 archive files...Soap (both drafts" 1 disk
"Roswell" 9 disks
"Gil Perlroth; 'Customiz' (an odd file), 'The Poet' Draft 1" 6 disks
"Various disks; 'Tricks of the Trade'; 'Hands of a Stranger'; Audrey Cooper project; Gelber disk" 8 disks
Unlabeled box containing labeled disks of "Roswell", Audrey Cooper project, and various applications; 10 disks
"Fastback Plus full backup verify on" 16 disks
"D: drive--C: drive Box #1" 19 disks
"Archive files Gil Perlroth (musical); Phantom (film)...; Phantom (the musical)" 6 disks
"Bone-the-Fish; Arcata; Phantom" 7 disks
"Bone-the-Fish; Arcata; Phantom (film)" 7 disks
Computer Disks Box 2
Scope and Contents note
The following computer media in this box are 5 inch floppy disks with numerous disks grouped in plastic cases. They are listed here by case and number of disks. Indications of original applications and programs are usually noted on the disks with printouts of system information and file structure included in many cases.
Audio Cassettes
"Jamaica Kincaid tapes 8/20/90" 2 microcassettes in env.
Computer Media
One large plastic filing tray of floppy diskettes containing 48 diskettes with the following material: "CRC by Nashua" (probable application); "Wings"; "Dreamhouse"; "Kopit"; numerous disks of the various Phantom incarnations; "Bone-the-Fish"; "The Poet"; "Peter Maas, 'The Legacy'"; "Nirvana"; "The Shroud"; "Till Death Us Do Part"; "Deception"; "Scarlet Pimpernel"; "Correspondence + misc."; "Discovery of America"; disks labeled "Play Padding" and "Plays #1 Perlroth"; along with two or so disks that are unlabeled or with obliterated labels.
Other containers:
"leslie--Backup disks June '92" 4 disks
Unlabeled box of 3 disks; individual disk labels suggest this and the proceeding box contain personal material of Kopit and his family.
Unlabeled box of 4 disks, apparently computer applications
Group of 9 loose disks: "Kat", "Duras", "XyWrite III", Vassar Disk" #s 3 and 5, "B-T-Fish transfer", "Leslie Kincaid", "....Alex's BAS programs", "delta"
"Leslie Disks sep '93" 4 disks
"Leslie's Novel (the willows)" 10 disks
"Backup LG novel" 3 disks
"Amherst" 1 disk
"LG: Diane Keaton" 1 disk
"LG: Duras" 1 disk
"LG: Novel Uncle Wiggily" 1 disk
Unlabeled box containing "The Shroud" as well as disks of material relating to Leslie, Ben, Alex, and other material. 11 disks
Unlabelled box containing disks mostly labeled "Kat", 6 disks
Unlabeled box containing Leslie Garis work, mainly interviews and materials relating to articles on Joan Didion, Dominick Dunne, Jamaica Kincaid (see also audio tapes in this box), and Calvin Trillin. 17 disks
"Tricks of the Trade" 9 disks, apparently all applications and utilities
unlabeled box of LG materials, 7 disks
"LG backup" 4 disks
"Alex backup disk" 2 disks
"Jamaica Kincaid" 1 disk
"Amdek disks" 10 disks
"Garis 6/93" 4 disks
"Inverlochy Castle" 1 disk
"LG: Susan Cheever" 1 disk
"Susan Sontag" 1 disk
The following media are 3 inch diskettes:
"DOS 6 disks and some Leslie backup stuff" 3 disks
"Novel Part II plus journal" 1 disk
"Leslie Garis Novel Oct '93" 2 disks
"Leslie #1 Novel part one" 1 disk
Group of loose disks: "Kat's fifth grade work", "Ben's 7th grade work", "Alex-Dartmouth" (2 disks), "Backup of Leslie's novel".
Computer Disks Box 3
Scope and Contents note
All computer media in this box are 5 inch floppy disks with numerous disks grouped in labeled plastic cases. They are listed here by case and number of disks. Indications of original applications and programs are usually noted on the disks with printouts of system information and file structure included in each case.
Computer Media
"Xywrite\plays\Phantom\Paris\"\films\Phantom\Archive" 12 disks
"Bugliosi, Peter Maas, Phantom, Deception" 9 disks
"Bone-the-Fish" 7 disks
"Peter Maas + files for scripts" 8 disks
"Phantom (film) Arcata + LA" 14 disks
"Storage Wings, Bugliosi" 13 disks
"Deception" 3 disks
"Peter Maas" 3 disks
"Phantom--Paris" 3 disks
"Tricks of the Trade; The Byte of Love"9 disks
"Arcata Project" 2 disks
"'Hasten the Bullet'; Perlroth 'My Place or Yours?'; Marlo Thomas" and other materials, 13 disks
"Archive...Peter Maas" 4 disks
"Multimate files" 8 disks
Unlabeled box of applications, 6 disks
"Phantom" 5 disks
"Phantom" 2 disks
unlabeled box of LG interviews, 5 disks
unlabeled box of "Phantom" and applications
"'Nirvana'; 'Bone-the-Fish'" 16 disks
"to be reformatted and reused" 5 disks, unlabeled
unlabeled box of "Phantom", "Bugliosi", "Idea for Plays" and other materials, 11 disks
"DOS 2.0 and various Ericsson disks" 8 disks
unlabeled box of system material and programs, 14 disks
Computer Disks Box 4
Scope and Contents note
Binders and manuals for DOS, XyWrite, etc. One binder of disks, one large tray of disks and one small case. All computer media in this box are 5 inch floppy disks.
Computer Media
In Binder:
Disks include 'Phantom' ca. 1985, letters, Audrey Cooper proposal, operating system, games, and program backup disks
In small case:
XyWrite program backup disks, 13 disks
In tray:
Program disks, games, instructional disks and the like, 62 disks
Jamaica Kincaid Interview, 1990-08-20
Extent
Scope and Contents
Leslie Garis interviews Jamaica Kincaid. Parts of the interview are quoted in a New York Times article written by Garis called "Through West Indian Eyes."
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Microcassette, Qty.: 2, Total Duration: 120 min.
Series III: Business Records
Scope and Contents note
This series is composed of numerous distinct groups of files apparently organized and accumulated at different times over three or four decades. The contents of each group are similar as records relating to personal and family finances are mixed in with materials relating to various works and productions. Among the personal materials are significant amounts of receipts, expenditure records, checking account and other bank statements, records relating to home maintenance, automobiles, mortgages, and income taxes. There is a significant body of records relating to the separate trusts Kopit established for each of his children and the investment records and taxes on them over the last two decades.
Among the work-related records are significant amounts of correspondence and contracts recording the legal details and royalty payments of foreign and regional productions of his stage plays and publications of them in numerous countries. There are records relating Kopit's work in the television and film industry as well as some records relating the development of specific works. In particular, in this series is the only significant material relating to a small one-act play entitled "Elegy for the House that Ruth Built" that Kopit wrote to include in "Hitting for the Cycle" a production of numerous short plays about baseball, ca. 1996.
Business Files Box 1, ca. 1960s
Scope and Contents note
Two series of hanging files labeled A-Z, many with labeled Manila folders inside and all appartently from the later 1960s. Archival folders indicate most specific label present. Materials include notes and correspondence on various minor projects and proposals, personal material including correspondence, real estate materials, records relating to the birth of at least Kopit's first child; business correspondence concerning royalties and publications, drafts, notes, reviews and other material in various works ("Fresh Game", "Indians", "Sensuous Woman", "The Fox", "The Frog").
Business Files Box 2, 1996-1997
Scope and Contents note
A series of labeled hanging files (in alphabetical order by label) with multiple Manila folders in each. The Manila folders have been retained until their labels can be fully transcribed or photocopied, the hanging files' labels are transcribed on the archival folders. Materials, all apparently from the later 1990s, include financial records of credit cards, banks, attorneys, memberships, receipts, health insurance, and other material.
Business Files Box 3, ca. 1997
Scope and Contents note
A continuation of the previous box including records of investments, home insurance, home maintenance, and document's relating to family medical treatment. Following the folders labeled "Automobiles" and "Automobiles Insurance" a new group of files begin. These are mostly composed of folded pages removed from large financial ledgers used to record checks as well as bank statements for the checking accounts, cancelled checks and other receipts from 1997. Also included are large groups of unsorted receipts of all types, computer disks of tax and financial records.
Computer Media
3" diskettes:
"Taxes '92", "Taxes- '93", "Easy Boot"
"Quicken 92-97" 6 disks in plastic case.
Business Files Box 4, 1995-1997
Scope and Contents note
Continues ledger and checking records from previous box.The ledgers begin in January of 1997 in the last box and continue until August or September here. A group of files are labeled as "Income 1997" and contain royalty receipts from miscellaneous plays, and from specific plays including "Wings", "Nirvana", "Phantom" and others. This box also contains a gigantic mass of unsorted receipts, statements, invoices and other documents; they have been foldered in the order found.
Note: Box includes heavily annotated wall calendar from 1997 moved to Flat Box 14.
Business Files Box 5, ca. early 1990s
Scope and Contents note
Series of hanging files, many with numerous Manila folders as above. These files all pertain to specific works and productions. Records include contracts, correspondence, reviews, permissions, information on regional and international productions, including proposals for musicals based on "Wings". Productions documented include "Phantom", "Wings", "Success" (a one act play), "Legacy of a Mother's Murder" ("In a Child's Name"), "Dreamhouse", "Norman in Wonderland", "Hands of a Stranger", "The Poet", and "Roswell".
Audio Cassettes
"Wings" tape of musical adaptation by Jeffrey Lunden.
"Andrew Rudin: Excerpts from..."
Note: Oversized material, "Phantom" contracts moved to Flat Box 14
Business Files Box 6, 1976-ca. later 1990s
Scope and Contents note
Royalty checks and statements, investment statements, mostly of investments on behalf of Kopit's children, income tax forms for Kopit and members of his family. A second group of files were removed from labeled hanging files. The files are mostly assorted project material such as reviews, research, correspondence, etc., in no apparent order but also include materials on computers, office supplies and the like. Projects include "Blue Angel", "Wings", and an untitled project with Audrey Cooper.
Note: One large folder of material on home appraisal and mortgage, one folder of trust agreements, two award plaques moved to Flat Box 14.
Business Files Box 7, ca. 1970s-1980s
Scope and Contents note
Continues files from previous box. Projects documented include Kopit's work at Austin Peay State University, "End of the World", "Wings" and "Dreamhouse." A separate set of files begins in this box apparently all from 1997 and 1998. These files begin with heaps of receipts for items such as travel, entertainment, and supplies; and family tax returns. Also included are records of "Elegy for the House that Ruth Built" a short one act play Kopit wrote to include in "Hitting for the Cycle" a production of numerous short plays about baseball, ca. 1996.Other files document publications and productions (mostly foreign and regional) of "Nine", "Sweet Smell of Success", "Phantom", "Road to Nirvana ", "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", and "Indians". There are also records dealing with both the Writers' Guild and the Dramatist Guild.
Business Files Box 8, ca. 1980-1998
Scope and Contents note
Various business files in no apparent order including files on the family pets, the Writers' Guild health insurance and pension information, utility bills, documentation of the trusts for Kopit's children. Another group of records begins here with numerous files devoted to various productions including "Wings" (ca. 1978 and 1979), The files include personal and business correspondence, royalty documents, reviews and programs and other materials.
Audio Cassettes
"All Things Considered"
"Jeffrey Nance..." 1 tape in envelope.
Business Files Box 9, ca. early 1970s-mid 1990s
Scope and Contents note
A continuation of files from the previous box. Files on various projects including "Lewis and Clark", Starstruck" and "Wings". Other materials include original playbill and publicity photos of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad", notes on other works, teleplays of "Sparrow" by Domenico Sabatini, and a treatment for a screenplay by Kopit entitled "The Winner", undated. After the folders on Wings, a new set of records begins dated ca. 1976.These include some personal materials but also records of "Lewis and Clark" (significant correspondence) and "Discovery of America", and "Secrets of the Rich" (handwritten and typescript drafts). These project records are followed by travel expense records, personal bills, and other materials from ca. 1994-95.
Audio Cassettes
"Starstruck?"
Audio Recordings
"'Oh Dad, Poor Dad' Lyrics and Music by Elsa Whyte" 45 phonograph.
Note: Folder of "Oh Dad" at front of box contains original publicity photos, playbill and phonograph.
Business Files Box 10, ca. 1975-1990
Scope and Contents note
First folders continue assorted personal bills and records from previous box, ca. 1994-95. Following those two folders is a new set of records found in an unlabeled series (original series III) and dated ca. 1975-85. These files comprise assorted personal material such as club memberships, recipes, property information, etc. These are followed by project materials including a large amount of original correspondence between Ken, Everett and Jean Taylor, figures in legal case upon which "In a Child's Name" (aka "Legacy of a Mother's Murder") was based; a manuscript of the story written by Al Benigno, a detective (or attorney), index cards for "Discovery of America", and assorted material for "Good Help is Hard to Find"
Business Files Box 11, 1969-1992
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous business materials found in different locations. The files include monthly datebooks from 19990, checkbook registers from mid to late 1980s, canceled checks from 1988, miscellaneous news clippings, materials on "Animal Hospital", and some materials relating to Kopit's work at CCNY. There is a set of materials related to "Theater Perspectives" by Audrey Cooper, a documentary project for public television, ca. 1988. Also included are various home records from ca. 1990; receipts and a datebook from 1969-1971, computer printouts of checking account debits and credits, ca. 1992. Finally, there is a small amount of records concerning Kopit's participation (1988?) in the Collaborative Play Project, apparently an annual workshop in California and a significant collection of articles, research, audio tapes, and drafts of a piece Kopit wrote on producer Roger L. Stevens for a Kennedy Center Honors program in 1988.
Audio Cassettes
micro cassettes in envelope
"Bob Whitehead"
"Conversations with Roger Stevens" 2 tapes
"Leonard Bernstein"
"Arthur Schlessinger Jr."
Business Files Box 12, ca. 1993-1996
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous material found elsewhere in the collection. Includes memos and documents from CCNY, an Italian translation of "Wings", synopsis and full script of "Salvage" by Mary Beth Becker, and materials sent to Kopit for possible film adaptation.
Publications
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Interest of Justice (Dutton: New York, 1993)
Video Cassettes
Published information package and VHS tape by Communications Control Systems, a surveillance manufacturer.
Business Files Box 12, 1965-1969
Scope and Contents note
Early business materials found among personal papers and correspondence. Material includes cancelled checks from 1965; cancelled checks belonging to his parents 1965-1968; bills for 1965 and 1967 including mailed monthly tabs from Elaine's, Sardi's, the Harvard club, credit card statements, etc.; a large volume of news clippings, ca. 1969.
Note: One legal folder of material, all royalty statements from 1969 moved to Flat Box 14.
Business Files Box 13, ca. 1980-1995
Scope and Contents note
Business files found elsewhere in the collection and moved. These materials are from hanging files, all apparently from the 1980s, and consist of home improvement records, personal and business correspondence, some personal financial materials and other materials. A second set of records deal largely with the Dramatists' Guild, all materials from the 1990s, and includes a large amount of correspondence regarding various productions and Guild business, newsletters and Guild publications and materials regarding the Tony Awards, playbills and other miscellaneous materials from the period.
Note: One oversized legal folder of Tony Award material moved to Flat Box 15.
Business Files Box 14
Scope and Contents note
These materials have been left in their original hanging files. The materials largely deal with specific projects, including Jekyll and Hyde, "End of the World", "Ropongo" and "Discovery of America" and include scripts and script revisions . There is also material on other topics and some correspondence.
Series IV: Personal Materials
Scope and Contents note
Personal materials in the Kopit collection fall into typical types of records. There is a significant amount of ephemera including high school yearbooks and newspapers, scrapbooks from the 1960" that chart the success of Kopit's plays, their influence on theater and on cultured society of New York, and Kopit's rise in the same community. There is an additional large amount of newspaper reviews, clippings and advertisements saved by Kopit and his family or forwarded to them by Audrey Wood, Kopit's agent, or by friends and professional acquaintances.
A large amount of documentation exists here on Kopit's years at Harvard from which he graduated in 1959. These include papers, exam books and notebooks. Extensive correspondence between Kopit and his parents and friends, and drafts and copies of scripts Kopit wrote while at Harvard including "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", "Sing to Me Through Open Windows", "The Questioning of Nick" and "The Death of Houdini." The correspondence details the development and staging of these works at Harvard and the collection includes ticket stubs, stage bills reviews and notices of them. The personal files also yield records on Kopit's activity following his graduation, when he traveled in Europe, and leading up to and beyond the Broadway Premiere of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...". The files provide a sketchier picture of Kopit's activities after the mid-1960s but help fill in details on the development and staging of "Indians", his marriage to Leslie Garis, and other activities.
Many materials here including correspondence appear to have been in the possession of Kopit's parents, George and Maxine. Mixed in then with materials relating to Arthur are correspondence between Gorge and Maxine Kopit and others, business records, bills and other materials for the elder Kopit's, and records of Arthur's career clearly collected by the parents. There is a large amount of photographs, the greater portion of them from Kopit's childhood up until his first success, his parents, extended family and perhaps further ancestors. None are labeled. Two boxes of material created originating from Leslie Garis (journals, diaries, and extensive documentation of the writing of her unpublished novel) have been moved to the end of the collection.
Personal Materials Box 1, 1960-1964
Scope and Contents note
6 large scrapbooks, composed almost solely of clippings from newspapers and some magazines from the years 1960-1964. The clippings are typically of society columns, theater news, gossipy pieces, as well as reviews. One or two playbills inserted.
Personal Materials Box 2, 1960-1967
Scope and Contents note
Same as previous. 5 scrapbooks ranging from 1960-1967.
Personal Materials Box 3, ca. 1960-1967
Scope and Contents note
Same as previous. 5 scrapbooks
Personal Materials Box 4, ca. 1960-1975
Scope and Contents note
3 scrapbooks ranging from 1958-1962; leather portfolios of magazines and news clippings, correspondence, financial documents and many materials of Kopit's parents; 1967 correspondence between Kopit and his parent while in Spain; photographs including family pictures and set visits to the film of "Indians" and a portrait of Robert Altman, the director.
Personal Materials Box 5, 1953-1970
Scope and Contents note
Materials mostly from Kopit's college years at Harvard: handwritten and type script drafts of "One Morning in June", student papers and examination books, notebooks, high school newspapers, clippings from the NY Times relating to Kopit works, tickets playbills and ephemera relating to student productions, some magazines of the period; one folder of assorted correspondence to and from Kopit along with many envelopes enclosing reviews and notices of various productions; a mostly empty photo album with photos dating as late as 1970, playbills, reviews, photographs of various productions of "Oh Dad...", numerous promotional photos of Kopit,
Publications
Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms (Signet: New York, 1958)
Audio Recordings
"Les Petits Chanteuse de la Renaissance" 45 phonograph.
Personal Materials Box 6 Oversize
Scope and Contents note
Gigantic amount of newspaper, mostly copies of the Harvard crimson with other assorted clippings, check register from 1964-1965, a copy of the hardcover periodical "Eros", a red handmade flag with a white letter "H", a framed news clipping of 1963 and a framed Drama Desk Award from 1962; roll of three photocopies of 1962 Outer Circle Award,
Audio Recordings
Two LP phonographs, labeled "Harvard Radio Network"
Note: Realia to possibly deaccession include a completely blank appointment book, a wire "in" basket, a brass box and a box containing a variety of bibelots including tie pins, dice, and a hash pipe moved to box 101a
Personal Materials Box 7, ca. 1955-1987
Scope and Contents note
More juvenilia and material from Kopit's college days including early handwritten and typescript drafts of "Sing to Me Through Open Windows", "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...", and "The Death of Houdini"; correspondence to Kopit and to and from his parents George and Maxine Kopit, among them a letter from Edith Adams Kovacs (the comedienne Edie Adams), humorous pencil sketches possibly by Jerome Robbins, a large quantity of photographs, particularly from Kopit's sojourn in Italy (numerous copies of various sizes of most of them); various travel documents; some correspondence and clippings from 1967 relating to productions; a large amount of congratulatory telegrams upon the 1962 premiere of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." including messages from Tennessee Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Edie Adams, Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Beaumont, Edward Albee, and others. After the files of telegrams, a new set of records begins composed mostly of correspondence. One small group of letters dated ca. 1974 are between Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Audrey Wood concerning the production of "Discovery of America". Thence follows a large group of correspondence ranging from 1981, to 1988 including mailings from the Writer's Guild and the Dramatists Guild, a fifteen page letter from Kopit to Andrew Lloyd Weber discussing his views on Phantom of the Opera, various personal and casual letters, some correspondence between Kopit and Edward Albee, birthday cards, etc. Finally there is a small group of older correspondence (ca. 1955-1958) at the back of the box mainly of letters between Kopit and his parents during his time at Harvard and a group of "childhood photos-older photos"
Audio Cassettes
"Music for 'Open Windows'" 1 cassette of casual music composed for regional production, in envelope with letter.
Personal Materials Box 8, 1961-ca. 1990
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Correspondence, ca. 1961-1968, between Kopit and various friends, Leslie Garis and Kopit's parents, much written during the production of "Indians" in London. Box also contains monthly appointment calendars from the years 1978, 1980-1984, 1986, and 1988-1989; desk diaries from 1979, 1980 and 1982, and a folder of numerous playbills.
Personal Materials Box 9
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Oversized materials from previous box including wall calendars and large sections of newspapers. Realia separated from previous boxes includes a silver box of foreign currency and a red garter, completely blank appointment book, a wire "in" basket, a brass box and a box containing a variety of bibelots including tie pins, dice, and a hash pipe, Life magazines, deck of playing cards, rock. matchbox car, painting by Kat Kopit, box of sleeve patches (such as are found on overalls)
Personal Materials Box 10
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Large amount of unsorted color photographs (some fairly recent) and slides; older black and white photographs; large box of unsorted 35mm color slides (completely unlabeled but possibly research on "Indians"); quantity of negatives 35mm and larger, 1 undeveloped role of color film; 3 unidentified reel to reel audio tapes; framed photographs and certificate, chromatic harmonica, medallion from Legion of Honor, oversized photocopies of Drama Desk Award and newspaper articles;Audio Recordings
Reel to reel tapes
"Lewis and Clark Interviews"
"Rose Lischner Shenandoah"
"Raul, Len, Ahab(?) and interview"
Personal Materials Box 11, ca.1950-1963
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Degrees, certificates and some photos, all framed, high school yearbooks, childhood catcher's mitt.
Personal Materials Box 12, ca.1950-1963
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Personal materials removed from "Miscellaneous" boxes". Includes letters from letter files marked "to be answered" ca. 1978-1979; materials from a box marked "very important Harvard scripts" and including handwritten script, possibly from "The Questioning of Nick", handwritten and typescript materials on "The Runway of Life...", unidentified script drafts possibly from "Sing to Me Through Open Windows", correspondence and other materials dating throughout the 1960s; the next group of material is random family documents, particularly of Kopit's children; maps, train schedules and Zagat's restaurant guide.
Publications
Zagat Survey, 1998 New York City Restaurants (Zagat Survey: New York, 1998.
Note: One folder of oversized sheets of handwritten script of unidentified play ("Sing to Me..."?) moved to Flat Box 15. Realia moved to box 117, includes deck of playing cards, rock. matchbox car, painting by Kat Kopit, box of sleeve patches (such as are found on overalls)
Series V: Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents note
These materials can best be described by reading the individual box descriptions. They were among materials received from Kopit marked as "Miscellaneous". Most of the materials marked this way, however, were merged into the more appropriate categories of projects, personal or business records. Upon further processing, the following two boxes may be dissolved as well.
Miscellaneous Box 1
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Photographs, stray pamphlets, programs, religious materials, date book with entries from 1969 and 1982, articles, notebook and file of materials on musical concept "Don Juan", mess of materials found jumbled together and seemingly related to various projects, much of the material seems to be stuff collected in pants pockets from business meetings (kleenex, pens, matchbooks, etc.).
Publications
Otto von Pivka, Armies of the Middle East (Mayflower Books: New York, 1979)
Note: One folder of legal sized materials moved to Flat Box 15 including film rights contract for "Indians". Box includes fez.
Miscellaneous Box 2
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Album of news clippings and other odd materials.
Publications
Robert C. Aldridge, The Counterforce Syndrome (Institute for Policy Studies: Washington, D.C., 1978)
Note: One folder of oversized material, possible research material on "End of the World", files marked "Ropongo" moved to Flat Box 15
Series VI: Scripts and Works by Other Authors
Scope and Contents note
These materials were found in two or three discrete groups among Kopit's papers. Many are pieces by authors Kopit had worked with or was expecting to work with. Some appear to be unsolicited and some may be by current or former students of Kopit. While most of the works are plays or books for musicals, there are a handful of manuscripts of novels and nonfiction works as well.
Scripts Box 1
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"Comfortable Shoes" by Clint Holmes, 1998
"Wellwishers" by Katherine Lynn Louis, 1995
"Sabina" by Willy Holtzman, 1993
"The Death of Baldur: A Study of Idealization" by Nancy L. Neiman-Hoffman, 1986
C.V. of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 1997
Various pieces by Lauren Rosenberg, ca. 1997
untitled work by William Beruh, 1995
"The Crash Victims" by Ole Bornedal, 1996
"The Hour" by John Sisk, 1996
"The Produce King of Hub City" by Richard Molson, 1996
"A Fair Country" by John Robin Baitz, 1995
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by David Edgar, 1991
"Half Past Love" by Marilyn A. Hatch, with criticisms and annotations by Kopit
"Script 82/83", annual publication of NYU student work
"Liberal and Other Arts" by Howard Junker, 1984
Work by or about "Helen Whitten". possibly titled "The Journey", ca. 1986
"The Smile of Smiles" by Sidney Hart, undated
"Leo and Ellie" by Gil Perlroth, 1993
"Dancing With You" by Gil Perlroth, 1993
"A Chambers Play" by jack Gelber, undated
"Cancer in Laboratory Animals" by Louise Williams, 1987
"These are the Jokes" by Max Wilk, 1988
"Mandy" by Joan Sorkin and Gene P. Bissell, 1988
"Goodman Brown" by Stephen Sheppard, , undated
"This Winter's Hobby" by Jack Finney, undated
Scripts Box 2
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Information on the Collaborative Theater Project, 1988
"Czar of the Movies" by Tony Macaulay and Larry Shue, 1984, treatment, book and correspondence
"The White Crow: Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Donald Freed, 1985
"Jekyll and Hyde" by Frank Wildhorn and Steven Cuden, 1986
"Place Your Bets" by Gianni Bozzacchi et al., undated
"Common Men" by Jeffrey Gallagher, 1985
"Dusky sally" by Granville Burgess, 1982
"The End of the Trail" by Francine Sterey, undated
"Inner Logic" by Keith Reddin, 1978
"Grant" by Edward Grinnan, undated
"One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor" by Keith Reddin, undated
"Cabaret Piece" by Keith Reddin, undated
"Funnies?" by Keith Reddin, undated
"Exhibition(ists)" by Keith Reddin, undated, also other fragments posssibly by Reddin
"A New World's Record" by John Gehm, undated
Various course materials or records
"Keepsakes" by Nancy Beardsley, undated
"Rush Act" by Harry Kondoleon, undated
"Back to Normal" by Harry Kondoleon, 1978
Unknown fragment.
"Lorenzo in the New World" by Gerald Walker, undated
Xerox of "The Dream Lover" by Lawrence Sanders, 1987
"Helltown" by Jon Freeman, 1992
"La Verite sur Maman" by Giles Laurent, 1992
"The Cork in Heaven" by Simeon Hellerman, 1993
"Cross my Heart and Hope to Live" by Claire Sylvia and Robert Bosnak, 1992
"The Lady Who Swings the Band" by Eric Overmyer, 1990
Series VIII: Oversize Materials
Extent
Scope and Contents note
The following boxes contain oversized materials separated from throughout the collection. The boxes include newspapers and magazines, legal documents, note pads, sketchbooks sketch pads and pages from such books, posters, photographs and the like. Materials are in folders marked with their box and series of origin and the folders are described below. Notes describing oversized material located here are also contained within each originating box description.
Box 1 Projects: two sketchbooks from "Animal Hospital"
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Box 8 Projects: sketch pads and exhibition catalog used for "Deception".
Box 9 Projects: legal sized notes and script copies of "Discovery of America".
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Box 12 Projects: sketch pads, pages and notes for "Dreamhouse".
Box 13 Projects: magazine for "End of the World".
Box 15 Projects: two folders of sketch pages and notes for "End of the World".
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Box 16 Projects: three folders of maps, magazines and research for "End of the World"
Box 19 Projects: notebook from "Hands of a Stranger".
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Box 20 Projects: sketchbook from "High Society"
Box 26 Projects: Research and notes form "In a Child's Name" ("Legacy of a Mother's Murder") work with Peter Maas.
Box 27 Projects: "MK-Ultra" sketch pages and notes.
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Box 28 Projects: two folders of contracts and legal pads from "Nine".
Box 31 Projects:four folders of sketch pages, research materials, magazine from "Phantom".
Box 33 Projects: sketch pages from "Roy Steinberg Project"
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Box 34 Projects: roll of posters from Steppenwolf production, handbills, three legal folders of galleys of "Road to Nirvana".
Box 38 Projects: One large legal-sized photocopy of complete manuscript by Valdamar Valerian and small amount of sketches and notes from "Roswell"
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Box 39 Projects: "Scientific Process" sketch pages.
Box 43 Projects: three folders including two oversized rolls of maps, one legal folder of same with handwritten notes and pages, one folder of contracts and correspondence.
Box 43 Projects: Five sketchbooks from "The Shroud"
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Box 49 Projects: tow folders of sketchbook pages and notes from "Sweet Smell of Success".
Box 51 Projects: folder of sketchbook pages from "Till Us Do Part"
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Box 52 Projects: Folder of sketchbook pages and legal pad, "Treasure Island".
Box 53 Projects: Legal pads, "Treasure Island"
Box 54 Projects: legal pads and sketchpad, "Treasure Island"
Box 55 Projects: sketch page, maps from "Treasure Island"
Box 59 Projects: Galley proofs, manuscript fragments and notes from "Wings".
Box 59 Projects: 3 folders on "Wings".
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Box 60 Projects: "Wings" sketchbook pages.
Box 62 Projects: sketchbook pages from "Norman in Wonderland".
Large sketchbook pages and other materials from "Dr. Zhivago".
Box 65 Projects: folder of oversized drawing from "Lewis and Clark"
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Box 70 Projects: one folder of "Notes on 'Men Are From Mars...'; roll of large pencil sketches, apparently studies for "Lewis and Clark"; Oversized sketchbook pages of "Blindsight"; Photocopies of handwritten drafts of "Discovery of America"; photocopied book "The Two Hundred Days of 8 1/2" by Deena Boyer...."; oversized notebook, apparently of "Mhil'Daiim".
Box 72 Projects: folder of handwritten and typescript drafts, character sketches, outlines, and exploration of names, all for unknown work dated 1975.
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Box 73 Projects: folder of legal size material on "Starstruck"
Box 74 Projects: folder of draft of "Snatch" legal-sized pages
Box 75 Projects: two folders of "Eureka" Materials, large sketchbook pages for "Dreamhouse"
Box 76 Projects: one oversized folder of material on "Chamber Music", one folder of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad..." (original film contract); one of "Nine", unidentified handwritten script from 1976.
Box 78 Miscellaneous: two folders of oversized material including correspondence and contracts with ICM and a French translation of "The Day the Whores..." moved to Flat Box 13.
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Box 79 Projects: folder of oversized material, magazine, poster and photo from different years.
Box 83 Projects: 3 very large sketchbooks from "End of the World".
Box 97 Business: heavily annotated wall calendar from 1997, plaques.
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Box 98 Business: folder of "Phantom" contracts
Box 99 Business: folder of material on home appraisal and mortgage, one folder of trust agreements, two award plaques.
Box 106 Business: legal folder of material, all royalty statements.
Box 107 Business: folder of Tony Award material
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Box 120 Personal: folder of oversized sheets of handwritten script of unidentified play ("Sing to Me..."?)
Box 121 Miscellaneous: folder of legal sized materials including film rights contract for "Indians".
Box 122 Miscellaneous: folder of oversized material, possible research material on "End of the World", files marked "Ropongo".
