Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
SIGNED BY PRINCIPAL CAST (ENTERTAINERS.) POITIER, SIDNEY. Complete Playbill for the 1959 Chicago production of A Raisin In the Sun Signed, on front cover. Additionally signed by Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, above Poitier's signature. 15 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers, staple binding; faint stain at upper left of cover, vertical fold. [Chicago, 1959]; inscription: Np, [1959]

Additional Details

The Chicago production of A Raisin In the Sun opened on February 10, 1959 at the Blackstone Theatre, a month before the Broadway "premiere" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, but the two productions shared the same cast. The same performers also appeared in the 1961 film version.