Through the Years II

 

As promised last week, today's From The Archives features promotional materials from the early 1980s.

Many of you long-standing subscribers will recognize this subscriber newsletter, then known as "Around Roundabout." The Autumn 1983 installment showcased an image from our second production of The Master Builder (the first staged in 1971), and articles about two productions scheduled for later in the season, Old Times (starring Anthony Hopkins, Jane Alexander and Marsha Mason) and Desire Under the Elms (the article mentions Phil Bosco starring but Lee Richardson was ultimately cast). By the mid 1980s, the newsletter's title had changed from "Around Roundabout" to "about Roundabout" and by the early 1990s the newsletter was known as "Front & Center".

This ticket stub and envelope were tucked inside the Playbill for Ah, Wilderness!, our 1983 production starring Phil Bosco and Dody Goodman. The envelope lists both of the original Roundabout stages (Stage Two at 26^th Street and Stage One at 23^rd Street) and the ticket stub lists an additional theatre – the Haft Theatre at F.I.T. – where Roundabout staged this and others productions throughout the 1980s.

 

And finally the Playbill title page from our 1980 staging of Heartbreak House reveals Roundabout's logo from the early 1980s (without star), a stylized R incorporating the company's name and then producers, Gene Feist and Michael Fried.

 

 

Heartbreak House, 1980, title page of Playbill. Roundabout Theatre Company Archives.

The Roundabout Theatre Company Archives are made possible by a generous grant from the Leon Levy Foundation.