BERNSTEIN LEONARD Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed and In

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SKETCH FOR A MARCH FROM UNFINISHED ADAPTATION OF A BRECHT PLAY BERNSTEIN, LEONARD. Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, sketch for "(Marches--(Prologue))" in Exception and the Rule, 10 bars notated on three systems of two staves each with holograph title and notes, in pencil. Inscription at lower right, "Sketch for march-tune / in Prologue to new / musical on Brecht's 'Exception / and the Rule' / Leonard Bernstein / 1968," in brown ink. 1 page, small folio, sheet with 12 printed staves on each side; slightly trimmed on two sides (without affecting text), minor toning at extreme edges. Np, 1968

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Between 1967 and 1969, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, and John Guare collaborated on creating a musical adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play, The Exception and the Rule. Bernstein wrote eight songs for the show, one of whose working titles was A Pray by Blecht; it was scheduled to open at the Broadhurst Theater in February of 1969 starring Zero Mostel and produced by Stuart Ostrow. The show never opened. Robbins made another attempt in 1987, this time under the title, The Race to Urga, but after a brief workshop production, it, too, failed to reach the stage in final form.