George Abbott papers

Collection

George Abbott papers

• 1930-2013 (Production)

7.00 linear feet (6 record storage cartons and 1 flat archival box)

George Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was a famous and well-renowned playwright, producer, and director who worked out of New York City for most of his life until he retired and passed away in Miami Beach, Florida. Over the course of his career on Broadway, he received many awards and accolades for his work, including several Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1960), and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director (1983). To celebrate his vast contributions to the world of theater, George Abbott also had both a theater building, which was unfortunately demolished in 1970, and a street in New York Times Square, George Abbott Way, named after him.

His papers feature photographs, playscripts, playbills, financial documents, official records, music sheets, and other materials associated with his life and work on Broadway.

This collection is unprocessed but open for research.

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

George Abbott papers Finding Aid © 2021 University of Miami. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

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Gift of Hertzberg, Daniel and Amanda; Hertzberg, Robert and Jill; Newman, Selma and Jeff, July 2021.

Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 07-09-24.

• Theater
• Playbills
• Theater -- Production and direction
• Theater -- New York (State) -- New York
• Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
• Theater -- New York (State)
• Theater -- Production and direction -- United States
• Theater -- Production and direction -- United States -- History -- 20th century

• New York (State)

• Abbott, George (Sujet)

• Plays (performing arts compositions)
• Playscripts
• Playbills
• Photographies
• Financial records
• Partition de musique
• Notes