Rare 1976 Gilbert Lesser "Best Friend" Broadway Window Card Barbara Baxley

Description: A very rare and hard to find Broadway Theater Window Card by famed artist Gilbert Lesser. This play was not very successful and ran for only 8 days before closing down. Beautiful green, pink, red and white colors. Very 1970's look. This framed window card is in nice shape with no visible damage. Get it now as you may not see another for a very long time. Outside frame measures 14.25 by 22.25 inches. Gilbert LesserLesser managed to make a stunningly successful career out of that failing, becoming the creator of posters for about 50 theater productions. His others include "Equus," "Amadeus," "The Elephant Man" and Arthur Miller's "The Price" and "The American Clock." All of those and lots more are on view in the institute's show "All About Me," a retrospective tribute to an alumnus and native Baltimorean who went on to a major but too brief New York career as a graphic designer (Lesser died in 1990 at the age of 55).He graduated first in his class at the institute in 1956 and was also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. Posters were actually a relatively late interest; his career, primarily in New York, included promotional work for a number of publications including Fortune, People and Life. In 1978 he became promotion director for Life. He did stage and costume design, interior design, created company logos and also designed events, such as corporate celebrations.He was almost 40 when he designed his first theater poster, for Peter Schaffer's "Equus," a horse made of geometric units (squares, triangles) but reminiscent of Picasso's "Guernica." It remains Lesser's most famous poster, but there are other memorable works here that combine the almost stark Lesser style with an image that picks up an idea from the play and makes it visual. The poster for "The Elephant Man," about a deformed man, shows essentially a stick man with an enormous circle for a head, inside of which is a quote from the character: "Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams." "Morning's at Seven," about four sisters who live close together and whose lives interact, has the image of a house made of four interlocking sections.Best Friend (play)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchContents1Setting2Plot3Original production4References5External linksSetting[edit]In the present at an apartment on the Upper West Side.Act I - 5;30 p.m., late AugustAct II - Two hours later, the same eveningPlot[edit]It's a character study of a neurotic woman disrupting her friend's romance by falsely claiming to have a lesbian relationship with her.Original production[edit]The show was directed by Marty Jacobs, scenery Andrew Greenhut, costumes Miles White, lighting Richard Winkler, production consultant Doug Tayler, production stage manager Michael Wieben, stage managers Victor Raider-Wexler and Ingrid Sonnichsen, and press by Lewis Harmon and Sol Jacobson.The opening cast starred Barbara Baxley (Carolyn Parsky), Liz Sheridan (Mary Tagliavini), Mary Doyle (Anita Fitzgerald), and Michael M. Ryan (John McGovern).

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