Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Stott, William, 1940-
William Stott On
Broadway Papers
1977-1978
2 document boxes (0.84 linear feet)
The William Stott On Broadway Papers include a typescript for On Broadway and notes about the interviews, as well as
more than 100 copy slides of images located in the Fred Fehl Theater
Collection.
English
Performing Arts Collection
PA-00195
Acquisition:
Gift, 2007
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Processed by:
Helen Adair, 2007; Daniela Lozano, 2017
Biographical Sketch
William Stott (1940- ), a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is the
author of
Documentary Expression and Thirties America (1973) and a co-author of On
Broadway (1978), a career retrospective of the New York theater photographer Fred
Fehl (1906-1995). The generously illustrated On Broadway, with photographs by Fehl
and text by William Stott and Jane Stott, is a chronological treatment of Fehl’s
career photographing more than 400 premieres and revivals, from Liliom (44th Street
Theatre, 1940) to Golden Rainbow (Shubert Theatre, 1968). Most of the text of On
Broadway consists of excerpts from William Stott’s interviews with theater
personalities such as George Balanchine, Harold Clurman, Hume Cronyn, and Jessica
Tandy.
Scope and Contents
The William Stott
On Broadway Papers, 1977-1978, include a typescript for On Broadway and notes about the interviews, as well as more than 100 copy slides of images located in the Fred Fehl Theater Collection.
The Ransom Center’s Fred Fehl Theater Collection holds additional material for
On Broadway including correspondence and multiple drafts.
Stott’s manuscripts and proofs of
Documentary Expression and Thirties America are located at the University of Texas at Austin Briscoe Center for American History.
Twenty-five audio recordings, including the taped interviews mentioned above, were transferred to the Ransom Center Sound Recordings Collection. Four video tapes were transferred to the Ransom Center Moving Image Collection.
Container List
Notebooks
Re interviews conducted by Bill Stott and Jane Stott, and re material found at Lincoln Center, circa 1978 (2 notebooks)
1.1-2
Re shows in the Fehl collection at Ransom Center, 1977-1978
1.3
On Broadway, photocopy typescript with corrections, 1978
1.4-5, 2.1-2
Oral History Project on the Performing Arts (Southern Methodist University), notes and transcripts of interviews, circa 1977
2.3-5
Slides, undated
2.6