Carmen Jones
Contributors: Hammerstein, William; White, Onna; Rudel, Julius; Lee, Everett; Merimee, Prosper, 1803-1870; Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875; City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1956
Language: eng
Description: The New York City Center of Music and Drama, the New York City Center Light Opera Company, William Hammerstein, general director presents "Carmen Jones," conceived and adapted by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the Meilhac and Halevy adaptation of Prosper Merimee's story "Carmen," music by Georges Bizet, adapted for this purpose by Robert Russell Bennett, directed by William Hammerstein, choreography by Onna White, musical director Julius Rudel, settings and lighting by Howard Bay, costumes by Raoul Pene Du Bois, choral direction by Leonard Depaur, supervised for the City Center by Stanley Simmons, assistant to William Hammerstein: Michael Shurtleff.
Notes: New York City Center, week beginning Monday, June 11, 1956.

Cast includes: Muriel Smith, Gwendolyn Belle, William Dupree, Jon White, Cozy Cole, Riri Grist, Delores Martin, Jimmy Randolph, Audrey Vanterpool, Joseph James, John Bouie, Walter P. Brown.

Title devised by Library staff.

LC copy imperfect: p. 7-10 with cast list wanting. Has handwritten corrections to program: "Everett Lee" written in for Julius Rudel.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).