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Guide to the Tamiment Playhouse Alumni Oral History Collection
OH.031
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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Horn, Andrew |
| Creator:
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LoMonaco, Martha Schmoyer |
| Title: |
Tamiment Playhouse Alumni Oral History Collection |
| Dates [inclusive]: |
1955-1988 |
| Abstract:
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The Tamiment Playhouse, located at the Socialist Party's retreat, Camp Tamiment, in
Pennsylvania's Pocono mountains, became an important workshop and a major creative
outlet for theater, dance, film, and television in the mid-twentieth century. Actors
such as Danny Kaye, Bea Arthur, Imogene Coca, and Carol Burnett; directors Max Liebman,
Herb Ross, and Joe Layton; choreographer Jerome Robbins; and writers Woody Allen and
Neil Simon are a small sampling of the major entertainment figures nurtured at Camp
Tamiment. Much of the original material performed at Tamiment found its way to the
professional stage, Broadway, and television. All interviewees were involved in the
Tamiment Playhouse, mainly in the 1950s. Most of the interviews consist of recollections
of the Tamiment summer theater, as well as discussions about the importance of the
Playhouse for Broadway. Interviews were conducted between 1980 and 1988 by Andrew
Horn of the Tamiment Playhouse Archives and by NYU Performance Studies graduate student
Martha S. LoMonaco for her dissertation and subsequent book on the Tamiment Playhouse,
entitled
Every Week a Broadway Revue. The collection also contains live recordings of shows at the Tamiment Playhouse,
dating from 1955-1960.
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| Quantity: |
3.92 linear feet in 1 record carton, 1 manuscript box, and five card catalog drawers. |
| Language of Materials note:
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Materials are in English |
| Call Phrase: |
OH.031 |
