Eugene O'Neill playbill
Reviewing some of my old posts from about three years ago on another blog, I found a piece of ephemera that seems appropriate for this blog, which didn't get going until last year. This is a 1963 playbill for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night , which I found tucked away inside a worn copy of the book. The play was being performed at the McCarter Theatre of Princeton University during October and November of tht year. As a playbill, there's nothing remarkable or interesting about it, except it features an up-and-coming young actress in the play and a concert ad for a young singer-songwriter beginning to make his mark in the music world. First, the ad. Flipping through the program I came across a concert ad for Bob Dylan, " America's newest folksong sensation " appearing in person November 16th, his only college appearance that fall. And shouldn't that be "America's newest folksinging or folksinger sensation?" Grammatica...