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Finding aid prepared by Greta Kuriger Suiter
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Arnold Sundgaard papers, C0226, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.
Donated by Arnold Sundgaard to Special Collections and Archives on October 19, 1978.
Processing and EAD markup completed in October 2012 by Greta Kuriger Suiter.
Arnold Olaf Sundgaard was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on October 31, 1909. He studied English at the University of Wisconsin and then drama at Yale University. Sundgaard taught at many colleges including the University of Texas, Columbia University in New York, Bennington College, and at Trinity College in Dublin.
Sundgaard worked for the Chicago Federal Theatre Project and is best known in this context as the writer of the Living Newspaper production Spirochete. He worked with the FTP from 1936 to 1938 as an author and play reader, after which he was let go since he was starting to make a living as a writer. The main theme of Spirochete is the history and spread of syphilis from the 15th century in Europe to the 1930s in America. The play was politically minded and current in relation to the Marriage Test Law of 1937. This Law would require a blood test for syphilis prior to marriage. The play opened in Chicago on April 29, 1938, and had showings in Seattle, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Portland, Oregon during February of 1939. Even though the play was met with protest in some areas due to its controversial subject matter, it was the second most performed Living Newspaper play after One-Third of a Nation.
After working with the FTP Sundgaard went on to be a successful writer and librettist. As an author he wrote articles, lyrics, plays, and children's books. To his credit are articles for The New Yorker, and the Atlantic; libretti for Down in the Valley by Kurt Weill, and The Greenfield Christmas Tree; plays such as Giants in the Earth (co-written with Douglas Moore), Everywhere I Roam, the Broadway produced Of Love Remembered, Promised Valley, Forests of the Night, The Great Campaign, and Young Abe Lincoln; children's books include An Axe, an Apple, and a Buckskin Jacket, The Lamb and the Butterfly, and Jethro's Difficult Dinosaur.
Sundgaard died in Dallas, Texas, on October 22, 2006.
The Arnold Sundgaard papers includes materials created and collected by Arnold Sundgaard. The collection is divided into eight series: Correspondence; Musical Scores; Newspaper Clippings; Photographs; Playscripts; Programs and Posters; Writings, Reviews, Publications; and Audio Recordings. Series are primarily arranged alphabetically by material type and then alphabetically by folder title. Series eight, Audio Recordings, is arranged by size of material.
Series 1, Correspondence, is arranged alphabetically by play title, organization or person. Plays written about include Akron by Moonlight, Down in the Valley, The Beautiful and Anxious Maidens, Equinox, Everywhere I Roam, Forests of the Night, Giants in the Earth, The First Crocus, The Great Campaign, The Kilgo Run, Knock on Wood, and Nobody's Earnest. Persons and organizations included in the correspondence are: The Atlantic Monthly, George P. Baker, Yale, The Barter Theatre, Louis Bellson, Bing Crosby, Lehman Engel, Archibald MacLeish, The New Yorker magazine, Gregory Peck, E. B. White, Alec Wilder, and Thornton Wilder among others.
Series 2, Musical Scores, is arranged alphabetically by title and comprises sheet music and lyrics written by Arnold Sundgaard. Some of the music is published under title of play and some are handwritten music for individual songs. Plays included are: Buddy, Knock on Wood, Of Love Remembered, Promised Valley, Cumberland Fair: A Jamboree, Down in the Valley, Gallantry, Sunday Excursion, The Lowland Sea, The Lonesome Dove. About one-third of the material is in oversize boxes.
Series 3, Newspaper Clippings, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes primarily newspaper and magazine clippings relating to play productions and writings authored by Sundgaard, as well as scrapbooks, programs, ephemera, and some photographs. Two scrapbooks, one about Of Love Remembered, the other about Federal Theatre Project productions, Spirochete and Everywhere I Roam, are housed in oversize boxes.
Series 4, Photographs, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes photographs of play productions, actors, and Arnold Sundgaard. Photographs of play productions include the plays: Brigham, Down in the Valley, Equinox, Everywhere I Roam, Forests of the Night, Giants in the Earth, The Great Campaign, The First Crocus, Kilgo Run, Knock on Wood, Of Love Remembered, The Promised Valley, Spirochete, This Fallow Ground, and The Truth About Windmills. Images are mostly prints; there are some slides, and some oversize material.
Series 5, Playscripts, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes primarily playscripts but also radio and television scripts, libretti, outlines, drafts, production notes, scores, programs, costume designs, and some correspondence. Multiple drafts of produced plays are here, as is unfinished scripts and scripts for plays not produced.
Series 6, Programs and Posters, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes programs and posters for productions written by Sundgaard as well as programs collected by Sundgaard.
Series 7, Writings, Reviews, Publications, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes writings by Sundgaard that are not scripts. The writings include drafts, outlines, articles, essays, and short stories. Both unpublished and published material is included. There are some books. Also present is research material created by Sundgaard for different projects. One project was a syphilis related research project for a possible book that Sundgaard undertook with O.C. Wenger. Another project represented is research of deafness conducted by Sundgaard in Hermann, Missouri.
Series 8, Audio Recordings, is arranged by size and consists of four boxes that include audio cassette tapes, reel-to-reel audio recordings, and vinyl records. The material includes recordings from productions or songs that Sundgaard wrote, and records featuring Sundgaard's children's books.
This collection is organized into 8 series based on material type.
Series 1: Correspondence, 1933-1988 (boxes 1-5) Series 2: Musical Scores, 1947-1982 (boxes 5-6, 44-46) Series 3: Newspaper Clippings, 1935-1976 (boxes 6-8, 43) Series 4: Photographs, 1933-1982 (boxes 8, 42, 44) Series 5: Playscripts, 1932-1978 (boxes 8-21, 42) Series 6: Programs and Posters, 1925-1988 (boxes 22-29, oversize folder) Series 7: Writings, Reviews, Publications, 1933-1988 (boxes 29-37, 43, 44) Series 8: Audio Recordings, 1955-1980s (boxes 38-41)The Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project photograph collection, as well as numerous other personal papers.
Series 1: Correspondence (1933-1988) is arranged alphabetically by play title, organization or person. Plays written about include Akron by Moonlight, Down in the Valley, The Beautiful and Anxious Maidens, Equinox, Everywhere I Roam, Forests of the Night, Giants in the Earth, The First Crocus, The Great Campaign, The Kilgo Run, Knock on Wood, and Nobody's Earnest. Persons and organizations included in the corresponence are: The Atlantic Monthly, George P. Baker, Yale, The Barter Theatre, Louis Bellson, Bing Crosby, Lehman Engel, Archibald MacLeish, The New Yorker magazine, Gregory Peck, E. B. White, Alec Wilder, and Thornton Wilder among others.
Includes: Theodore Apstein, Giants in the Earth (1951) to Kilgo Run (1968); letters to Mildred Kayden in London and Spain. Apstein, Kayden and Sundgaard collaborated on a play together - Cortes, correspondence continued with Apstein until 1977.
Includes: permission to reprint the article "Jazz: Hot and Cold"; "Autumn of a Virgin"; rejection of "The Drifter".
Correspondence regarding the royalties from Everywhere I Roam.
Note commenting on Sundgaard's first play at Yale.
Correspondence regarding music and Seven Joys of Buddy Biloxi.
Correspondence regarding plays, rights, and membership in the Guild.
Corresondence with Stephen Murray who appeared in Dublin.
In memoriam for Bob Porterfield of Barter Theatre and Stanley Young (playwright); Jerome Hill, film editor of Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation.
Correspondence regarding Man of La Mancha and Cuckoo's Nest and Montparnasse.
Series 2: Musical Scores (1947-1982) is arranged alphabetically by title and comprises sheet music and lyrics written by Arnold Sundgaard. Some of the music is published under title of play and some are handwritten music for individual songs. Plays included are: Buddy, Knock on Wood, Of Love Remembered, Promised Valley, Cumberland Fair: A Jamboree, Down in the Valley, Gallantry, Sunday Excursion, The Lowland Sea, The Lonesome Dove. About one-third of the material is in oversize boxes.
Original draft to Arnold Sundgaard from Louis Bellson.
Cumberland Fair: A Jamboree; Down in the Valley; Gallantry.
Kittiwake Island; The Lowland Sea; The Greenfield Christmas Tree.
Sunday Excursion; The Lowland Sea; The Lonesome Dove.
Shepherds, Rise; Gepäck träger Blues (The Baggage Room Blues); An Axe, an Apple and a Buckskin Jacket; Long John; There's Doubt in my Mind (but hope in my heart); Where do you go?
Sheet music for "The Earth Turns Around Without Me Now", "Where do we come from? What are we? Where do we go from here?", "The Ocracoke School song", "That Thing I'm Looking For", "I'm Free at Last", "I Know my Star is There Somewhere", "Hurry Home", "Here Comes Tomorrow", "The Greenfield Christmas Tree", "The Lowland Sea", "Cumberland Fair".
Includes the songs: "No Country Boys Allowed in Chicago", "Laurel, Mississippi (Ora's)", "Here Tiz", "You Can Keep Countin' on me", "Isabella", "Jazz", "The Pie Mau", "On That Judgement Day", "Ora's Song", "Dig Down Deep", "Buddy's Blues", "Blues Singer", "By Surprise", "How do you Buy Back a Dream", "Opening Act part II".
Series 3: Newspaper Clippings (1935-1976) is arranged alphabetically by title and includes primarily newspaper and magazine clippings relating to play productions and writings authored by Sundgaard, as well as scrapbooks, programs, ephemera, and some photographs. Two scrapbooks, one about Of Love Remembered, the other about Federal Theatre Project productions, Spirochete and Everywhere I Roam, are housed in oversize boxes.
Press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings.
Includes newspaper clippings, program, broadside.
Includes newspaper and clippings, promotional letters and mailings.
Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and programs about Of Love Remembered, actress Ingrid Thulin, and Forests of the Night premiere in Dublin.
Mostly newspaper clippings and programs from Federal Theatre Project productions of Spirochete and Everywhere I Roam. Also contains newspaper article and sign relating to Sundgaard's later career.
Includes mostly newspaper clippings, some programs, one photograph.
Series 4: Photographs (1933-1982) is arranged alphabetically by title and includes photographs of play productions, actors, and Arnold Sundgaard. Photographs of play productions include the plays: Brigham, Down in the Valley, Equinox, Everywhere I Roam, Forests of the Night, Giants in the Earth, The Great Campaign, The First Crocus, Kilgo Run, Knock on Wood, Of Love Remembered, The Promised Valley, Spirochete, This Fallow Ground, and The Truth About Windmills. Images are mostly prints, there are some slides, and some oversize material.
Four 16" x 20" oversize black and white prints with thick board backing. Images depict Theatre, Inc. productions of Playboy of the Western World, Henry IV part I, and Oedipus.
Series 5: Playscripts (1932-1978) is arranged alphabetically by title and includes primarily playscripts but also radio and television scripts, libretti, outlines, drafts, production notes, scores, programs, costume designs, and some correspondence. Multiple drafts of produced plays are here, as is unfinished scripts and scripts for plays not produced.
Includes: cassette tape; First you have a dream song lyrics; two "Brigham!" metal pins.
Includes: black and white photographs; program; newspaper clipping.
Outline for a musical comedy and research material consisting of copies of articles, postcards, and a paper written by Edmund G. Love.
Outline for a musical comedy by Sundgaard; playscript written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
Sundgaard's first play written in Madison, Wisconsin.
Scripts for a school opera from 1945, and a film version in 1974.
Performed by the Columbia Opera Workshop March 8 to April 7, 1951.
Performed at the University of Virginia, based on characters witnessed at Hotel Delano, Chicago while working for the Federal Theatre.
Scripts for Village Incident - India; Jack Be Normal; Four Flags of the Confederacy; Beethoven's Fifth.
Written for Williamstown Bicentennial 1953, directed by David Bryant at Williams College Adams Memorial Theatre.
A comic opera written for post-dinner entertainment at Applegreen Old Westbury, Long Island.
Includes: two playscripts, postcard.
Written for first year class in playwriting at Yale during the Fall of 1932.
Yale workshop 47, first play by Sundgaard to be produced at Yale in 1935, directed by Alexander Dean.
Free adaptation in collaboration with Albert Marre for Joan Dehner).
Adaptation of Sardou play.
Series 6: Programs and Posters (1925-1988) is arranged alphabetically by title and includes programs and posters for productions written by Sundgaard as well as programs collected by Sundgaard.
Two posters from the Williamstown Theatre production of Nobdy's Earnest. One has a yellow background with green text and highlights Nobody's Earnest and The Good Woman of Setzuan, the other has a white background, red and blue lettering and features a drawn map at the top.
America Hurrah; Abssence of a Cello; A Chorus Line; The Actors Studio - Strange Interlude; The Advocate; The Affair; Agatha Sue I Love You; Ain't Misbehavin'; Aldwych Theatre - The Persecution and Assassination of Marat; All American; All the Way Home; Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Absurd Person Singular; ACT (American Conservatory Theatre); After the Rain; The Alchemist; Jack Ruby, All-American Boy; Alvin Ailey: City Center Dance Theater.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial; American Buffalo; American Repertory Theatre; American Shakespeare Festival Theatre; Anne Meacham; Annie Get Your Gun; APA-Phoenix; APA-Repertory Company; Ashes; The Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians; The American Dream; The American Mime Theatre; Amharclann na Mainistreach; Anastasia; Anniversary Waltz; Applause; Apple of His Eye; The Apple Tree; At the Drop of a Fan; Auntie Mame.
The Bad Seed; Baker Street; The Ballad of the Sad Café; Ballet Ballads; The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; Barefoot in Athens; The Beggars Opera; Berkshire Festival; Berkshire Music Center; Big Fish, Little Fish; Black Comedy; Boesman and Lena; Claudia; Breakfast in Bedlam; Bad Habits; Bajour; The Beauty Part; Becket; The Bed Before Yesterday; Barefoot in Athens; The Best Man; Billy Budd; The Blacks; The Blood Knot; Borstal Boy; The Boy Friend.
Brigadoon; Follow the Girls; Buck Clayton; Bullfight; Bye Bye Birdie; Brigadoon; Brooklyn Academy of Music; The Browning Version; Bus stop; By George; Beggar on Horseback; Bravo.
Cabaret; Camelot; Camp Meeting; The Caretaker; Call Me Mister; Camino Real; Can-Can; Carib Song; Carousel; Carnegie Hall; Carry Nation; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Catch Me if You Can; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Chalk Garden; The Cherry Orchard; The Changing Room; Chapter Two.
The Children's Hour; Chips with Everything; Chicago; Chicago Stagebill - High Button Shoes; City Center Joffrey Ballet; The City Center - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The City Center - Marcel Marceau; Coco; Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide with the Rainbow is Enuf; The Chinese and Dr. Fish; The Chinese Prime Minister; A Chorus Line; Circle in the Square; City Center Joffrey Ballet; A Clearing in the Woods; The Climate of Eden; The Cocktail Party; Colette; Come Live With Me; Come Share My House.
Comedie Francaise; Company; Compulsion; The Confidential Clerk; Conversations at Midnight; The Creation of the World and Other Business; Cyrano; Comedians; Comedy; Command Performance; Conduct Unbecoming; Courtin' Time; The Crucible; The Country Girl; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Condemned of Altona.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Damn Yankees; Dances of Bali; Danny Kaye; Dear Judas; The Deputy; Desire Under the Elms; Dial 'M' For Murder; Diary of a Scoundrel; Dames at Sea; The Dark is Light Enough; Dark of the Moon; The Deadly Game; The Deep Blue Sea; The Desperate Hours; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Deputy; Dickins and Jones; Dirty Linen and New-found-land; Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights; A Doll's House; Do Not Pass Go; The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of London.
The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of London; Dracula; The Dybbuk; Dutchman; Duel of Angels; Dylan.
Eastward in Eden; Edward, My Son; Elizabeth I; The Enemy is Dead; Emergency Broadway Theatre Directory; An Enemy of the People; Enter Laughing; The Entertainer; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Equus; Erlanger.
A Far Country; Fiddler on the Roof; Fair Harvard; Family Business; The Farmers Hotel; Frank Merriwell or Honor Challenged; The Fighting Cock; First One Asleep, Whistle; Faust.
Mexicana; Funny Girl; The Four Winds; Follies; Find Your Way Home; Flora and the Red Menace; The Foo Hsing Theatre; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Fourposter; Finian's Rainbow; Fiorello!; Flahooley; The Flowering Peach; Fortune and Men's Eyes; Forty Carats.
The Gambler; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Gideon; The Gin Game; The Glass Menagerie; The Golden Apple; Golden Boy; Georgy; Good Evening; The Great White Hope; Guys and Dolls; Gantry; Garden District; Gemini; Generation; The Gingerbread Lady; Gloria and Esperanza; The Grand Street Follies; Grease; The Green Pastures; Gypsy.
Habimah; Hair; Half a Sixpence; Hamlet (at Arena Stage); Harkness Ballet; Hello Dolly!; Hadrian VII; Hail Scrawdyke!; Half in Earnest; Happy Ending and Day of Absence; Harvey; A Hatful of Rain; Helen; Hello Solly!
Henry V; High Spirits; Hispania (at SUNY Stony Brook); The Homecoming; Hope's the Thing; The House of Blue Leaves; The House of Bernarda Alba; How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; Here's Where I Belong; High Button Shoes; The Hollow Crown; Home; The Hostage; Hostile Witness; Hotel Paradiso; Awake and Sing; House of Flowers.
I am a Camera; The Immoralist; Impossible on Saturday; The Incomparable Max; Indians; Inherit the Wind; The Innocents; Inquest; The Iceman Cometh; I Love My Wife; Inadmissible Evidence; Inner City; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts (Phedre); In the Summer House; Inside U.S.A.; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel.
I was Dancing; The Irish Players; Iphigenia in Aulis; Invitation to a March; Ivanov; The Investigation; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Jamaica; Joe Egg; John Loves Mary; Jose Greco and his Company; Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris; Jimmy; The Jockey Club Stakes; The John Drew Theater; John Murray Anderson's Almanac.
The King and I; Kiss Me Kate; King Lear; The Knack; Knickerbocker Holiday; The Killing of Sister George; King of Hearts; Kennedy's Children; The Lady's Not for Burning; The King and I.
The Lady of the Camellias; The Lady from the Sea; Landscape of the Body; La Grosse Valise; La Plume de ma Tante; The Last Analysis; The Latent Heterosexual; Leave it to Jane; Lenny; Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952; Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968; The Little Foxes; Little Murders; The Lark; The Last of Mrs. Lincoln; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Leave it to Jane; The Lion in Winter.
A Little Night Music; London Assurance; On Borrowed Time; Look Homeward, Angel; Lovers and Other Strangers; Lute Song; Luther; Lincoln Center: American Ballet Theatre; Look Back in Anger; Loot; The Love of Four Colonels; Lord Pengo; The Little Foxes.
Madam, Will You Walk; Mademoiselle Colombe; Maggie Flynn; The Magic Show; Malcolm; Mame; The Man in the Glass Booth; Man of La Mancha; Marcel Marceau; Macbeth; The Madwoman of Chaillot; Maggie; The Magic and the Loss; Make a Wish; Mamba's Daughters; APA at the Phoenix fundraising pamphlet; A Man for all Seasons; Marathon '33.
Martha Graham; Medea; The Member of the Wedding; Mark Twain Tonight; Antony and Cleopatra; The Matchmaker; Me and Juliet; Metropolitan Opera; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Mighty Gents; Middle of the Night; Milk and Honey; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Mineola; The Miracle Worker.
Miss Lonelyhearts; Molly; Moonchildren; Morning, Noon and Night; The Mother of us all; Much Ado About Nothing; Mixed Doubles; My Fair Lady; My 3 Angels; Misalliance; Mister Johnson; Monique; A Month in the Country; The Moon is Blue; The Most Happy Fella; Mother Courage and her Children; Mrs. McThing; The Music Man; My Fair Lady.
Forests of the Night (Dublin); Trouble in Tahiti / Down in the Valley; The Great Campaign; The Greenfield Christmas Tree; Kittiwake Island; Kilgo Run; Cumberland Fair; Giants in the Earth; The Great Campaign; Little Orchestra Society; Lemonade Opera; The Lowland Sea; The Playboy of the Western World; Pygmalion; On Hemlock Brook; The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre presents its 25th anniversary program; National Theatre Conference; The Old Vic Theatre Company; Habimah; The Great Western Union; The Annual Spring Musicale at George School; Of Love Remembered.
Rhapsody; The First Crocus; Everywhere I Roam; Kittiwake Island; Promised Valley; The Sixteenth Annual Dance Concert of the Steffi Nossen School; Spring Opera Night; This Fallow Ground; The Ramapo Lyric Festival; Town Hall - The Little Orchestra Society, Inc.; Virginia Overture Hi Song Daisy Lee; The Waldorf School Spring Festival; Forests of the Night performed at the Weathervane Community Playhouse; Cumberland Fair; Children's Theatre at the 92nd St. YM and YWHA; Central High School Vocal Music Department - Festival of Contemporary Music; University of Denver - Sunday Excursion and Down in the Valley; Canterbury Choral Society - Down in the Valley; Roslyn High School - Americana; Fifth annual conference on American Opera by the Columbia University Student Council; Beatrice and Benedict; Of Love Remembered; Southern Theatre; Spirochete; C.W. Post College - The First Intercollegiate Playwriting Festival; Gallantry.
Two issues of Opera News; Occidental College Music Department - A Festival of Twentieth Century Music; Dublin University Players - Vacant Lot; Beatrice and Benedict; The Orchestra of America; Stadium Concerts Review; Nobody's Earnest.
Nobody's Earnest; Close-Up: A collection of photographs by L. Arnold Weissberger publication; Promised Valley; Forests of the Night; An Evening of Contemporary American Opera; Giants in the Earth.
The National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Association Regional Auditions Finals; The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre; The New Dance Group; New York City Ballet; The New York City Center Light Opera Company; New York City Center of Music and Drama; New York City Opera Company; New York City Theatre Company; No Time for Sergeants; The Natural Look; Nature of the Crime; New Faces of 1962; The New Music Hall of Israel; New York State Theater - Annie Get Your Gun; Next Time I'll Sing to You; Nikolais Dance Theatre; No, No, Nanette; No Place to be Somebody; No Time for Sergeants.
Not Now, Darling; No Time for Sergeants; Narrow Road to the Deep North; New York State Theater - Kind Lear.
Oakdale musical theatre; The Odd Couple; Of Love Remembered; Oh What a Lovely War; Old Times; Oliver!; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Ondine; On Stage; Orpheus Descending; The Observer film exhibition program; Oh Men! Oh Women!; Oklahoma; Old Acquaintance; Ondine; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' so Sad; On the Town; On Whitman Avenue; Otherwise Engaged.
Oxford University Players - The Alchemist King Lear; Operation Sidewinder.
Philemon; Paint Your Wagon; Pal Joey; Park; Peg; Lord Pengo; A Penny for a Song; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Photo Finish; The Physicists; Pacific Overtures; A Passage to India; The Passion of Josef D.; A Patriot for Me; The Paul Taylor Dance Company; Peter Pan.
Pilobolus dance theatre; The Pirates of Penzance; Players; The Playroom; Plaza Suite; Picnic; The Pinter Plays - The Dumbwaiter and the Collection; Paint Your Wagon; Plain and Fancy; The Playhouse Company; The Plumstead Playhouse - Our Town; The Ponder Heart; Poor Richard; Porgy and Bess; Portrait of a Queen; The Prescott Proposals; King Lear at Brandeis University; The Price.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Prescott Proposals; Private Lives; Promenade; Purlie; Pygmalion; Purple Dust; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Potting Shed; The Private Ear and the Public Eye; The Promise; Promises, Promises.
The Rainmaker; The Rape of Lucretia; The Rat Race; The Red Mill; The Rehearsal; The Reluctant Debutante; Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center; The Right Honourable Gentleman; The Robber Bridegroom; Rabelais; A Raisin in the Sun; The Real Inspector Hound After Magritte; Red Roses for Me; The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker; Rhinoceros; Ring Round the Moon; The Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center - Yerma.
Ceremonial Tribute to Robert Emmet Sherwood (at ANTA Theatre); Romulus; Rosa; The Rose Tattoo; Ross; The Royal Family; Ruth Draper; The Rockland Foundation; Rooms; The Rose Tattoo; The Rothschilds; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; The Runner Stumbles; The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker.
Sandhog; Saint Joan; Say Darling; A Scent of Flowers; The School for Scandal; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Seventeen; The Seven Year Itch; 1776; Shakespeare in Harlem; She Loves Me; Shenandoah; Shelter; The Saint of Bleecker Street; Salvation; The School for Wives; Seascape; Second Threshold; The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild; Shadow of a Star; The Shadow Box; Sheep on the Runway; Sherlock Holmes; Shakespeare Festival.
Show Boat; Shoestring Revue; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window; Side by Side by Sondheim; Skyscraper; Sleuth; The Soldier; South Pacific; Stars in Your Eyes; The Sleepers' Den; Silk Stockings; Sing Me No Lullaby; Slapstick Tragedy; Slow Dance on the Killing Ground; Soldiers; Spofford; Staircase.
The Star Spangled Girl; Sticks and Bones; Story Theatre; Stop the World I Want to Get Off; The Sudden and Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson; The Subject was Roses; Sugar; The Sunshine Boys; Sweet Bird of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; Street Scene; Sunday Breakfast; Sunrise at Campobello; The Square Root of Wonderful; Sweet Charity; Summertree.
Tamburlaine the Great; The Taming of the Shrew; A Taste of Honey; Tea and Sympathy; The Teahouse of the August Moon; That Championship Season; Theives Carnival; Third Person; The Threepenny Opera; Tchin-Tchin; Telemachus Clay; A Temporary Island; The Tenth Man; A Texas Trilogy; Theater 1969; 3 for Tonight.
Ti-Coo; Tiger at the Gates; The Time of the Cuckoo; Top Banana; Touchstone; Traveler without Luggage; Travesties; Treemonisha; The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald; Two by Two; The Actors Studio Theatre productions 1963-1964; Those That Play the Clowns; Tiger Tiger Burning Bright; Tiny Alice; Town Hall; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Time Limit!; The Trip to Bountiful; Two on the Aisle; Two Gentlemen of Verona;
Under Milk Wood; Ulysses; The Unknown Soldier and His Wife; U.S.A.
Very Good Eddie; Vivat! Vivat Regina!; The Visit; Visit to a Small Planet; Via Galactica; A View from the Bridge.
Waiting for Godot; Wait a Minim!; The Way of the World; West Side Story; Who am I?; Who to Love; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Wait Until Dark; Walking Happy; Where's Charley?; The Whole World Over; Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?; Wilson in the Promise Land; The Winslow Boy; Witness for the Prosecution; The World of Gunter Grass; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The Zulu and the Zayda; The Young and Fair; Zorba; Your Own Thing; You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running; You're a Good Man Charlie Brown; Ziegfeld Follies of 1931.
Promised Valley; The Great Campaign; Theatre Arts magazine (June 1947); Utah Centennial; Utah Symphony Orchestra.
Series 7: Writings, Reviews, Publications (1933-1988) is arranged alphabetically by title and includes writings by Sundgaard that are not scripts. The writings include drafts, outlines, articles, essays, and short stories. Both unpublished and published material is included. There are some books. Also present is research material created by Sundgaard for different projects. One project was a syphilis related research project for a possible book that Sundgaard undertook with O.C. Wenger. Another project represented is research of deafness conducted by Sundgaard in Hermann, Missouri.
Short story published by Norske Tidende of Brooklyn.
Article in Living magazine.
John Brown for Erich Hawkins; Forty-Second Street.
Written for the Federal Writers' Project New Orleans.
Text for film written with and for Anton Refregier.
Correspondence, ephemera on Hermann, Missouri.
Report written for Dr. Edna Levine of New York University and deafness research. Includes photographs.
"Postwar Relaxation, a Story" article by Sundgaard.
Articles "The Realtors" and "The Lesson of the Potato".
Speech written for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1948, at the request of Buck Hood, editor of Austin "Item". It was recorded and broadcast over cotton fields from a helicopter.
Unpublished, music by Alec Wilder.
Scenario for a film commissioned by Jed Harris.
Scenario for a film commissioned by Jed Harris.
Cassette recording of interview with Rudolph Friml, aged 93, made in Hollywood July 24, 1973. He talked of Otto Harbach and his career in the theatre.
Article published in International Musician "Opera in America".
Issue of The New Yorker containing a review for "Everywhere I Roam".
Three issues of The New Yorker containing the articles "Reruns of the Mind", "Money", and "Ken".
During 1939 Sundgaard was working with the Writer's Project in Louisiana and Harper's had asked him to do a book about O.C. Wenger, USPHS chief who was campaigner against syphilis. Because of disagreements with Wenger about what form the book should take i.e., fiction vs. documentary, it was never written.
"Jazz Hot and Cold" in Modern American Reader; "Equinox" in The Best One Act Plays of 1941; "Mid-Passage" in The Best One Act Plays of 1943; "The Picnic" in the Best One Act Plays of 1944; "Virginia Overture" in American Scenes.
About Unesco; "Footsteps of Greatness...along the Lincoln Heritage Trail" in Vista; "Writing with Kurt Weill" in The Dramatists Guild Quarterly; New Masses.
"Gallantry" review in Time and The New Yorker; Sundgaard featured in a survey in the Saturday Review; "Jazz Hot and Cold" in The Atlantic; "The Librettist - Secret Service Man" in International Musician.
The New Talent; Story; Accent; Icarus; Medallion (includes art work by Will Eisner).
Two issues of Manuscript; The New Talent; The Lance.
Story; three issues of Voices: A Journal of Poetry; Scope; author's copy of The New Talent.
Voices: A Journal of Poetry; Everybody's Digest.
Indian Johnny; Autumn of a Virgin; Will You Please Let Me Tell the Story!
Tury; The Invader.
The Gun; The Apple Tree; Elgin Tubbs; Beckley and his Uncle Hamp; Journey to Duluth.
I am Strong as a Horse; The Drifter; The Two of us in Texas; Hot Air, Fiddlesticks and Baloney.
The Skerry Island Country Store; The Blessing of Dreams; Swimming to Damascus; A Child is Born.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp; Rasmus and the Flying Viking; The White City; The Singer; Change at Jamaica; A Lost Identity.
Series 8: Audio Recordings (1955-1980s) is arranged by size and consists of four boxes that include audio cassette tapes, reel-to-reel audio recordings, and vinyl records. The material includes recordings from productions or songs that Sundgaard wrote, and records featuring Sundgaard's children's books.
"Noa Noa" and other songs from musical of Gauguin based on Agee film script, lyrics by Sundgaard, music by D.K. Lee; Chet Baker interview; Maurice Jarre playing piano for Montparnasse music; Montparnasse first version; Montparnasse second version; Michel Legrand singing possible songs for Montparnasse (April 1970); Michel Legrand Montparnasse song ideas; University of North Dakota - Giants in the Earth act I; Giants in the Earth act II; Giants in the Earth act III; The Truth About Windmills - orchestra reading of score; The Truth About Windmills - tape made from performances at Avon, New York October 1973; Kittiwake Island; unlabeled, unboxed 7".
Montparnasse - music by Maurice Jarre, lyrics by Arnold Sundgaard; Gallantry at Columbia University Open Workshop; Buddy Biloxi re-recorded at CBS (1973) jazz musical; Forests of the Night at Gate Theatre in Dublin (1965); Nobody's Earnest demo.
Contains 11 cassette tapes and two 3" reel to reel tapes. Tapes contain recordings of the Brigham soundtrack, The Sun and the Moon, Chet Baker, Alec Wilder suite no. 2, Kittiwake Island, eulogy to Robert Porterfield and the Tony awards, Truth About Windmills, Eddie Sauter and O Wonderous Earth, Montparnasse, various songs written by Sundgaard.
An Axe, an Apple, and a Buckskin Jacket: A Christmas Story; Columbia University Bicentennial Album; Songs of the South; Bing Crosby tells and sings How Lovely is Christmas; Young Abe Lincoln; Brigham; Down in the Valley; How Lovely is Christmas.