Mielziner
Subtitle: Master of Modern Stage Design
Publisher: Back Stage Books
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780823088232
Subjects: Biography: general; Sound, lighting, scenery; Stage & theatre management; Theater - Stagecraft; Performing Arts; Stage Design; United States; Stage-setting and scenery; Performing Arts/Dance; USA; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Performing Arts / Theater / Stagecraft; Biography; Theaters; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; 1901-; Mielziner, Jo,; Set designers
First sentence: Ella Lane McKenna Friend, born on March 18, 1873, in Manchester, New Hampshire, was the direct descendant of John Friend, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony probably from Bristol, England, in the early 1630s.
Description: "Jo Mielziner (1901-76) was the most highly acclaimed scenic and lighting designer of the American theatre of the twentieth century. Spanning some five decades, his unusually long career coincided with the flowering of modern theatre in the United States, with the result that he designed many of its most famous productions. So protean were Mielziner's talents that in some years during Broadway's peak, in a single season more than a half-dozen hit shows bore his scenery on the boards.".

"Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design, authorized by the Mielziner estate and published in association with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, is illustrated with sketches and fully rendered designs never previously published, and graced with a foreword by former New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich, this book provides a long-overdue, definitive account of Mielziner's life and work as the preeminent theatre artist of his time."--BOOK JACKET.