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GOREY, EDWARD. (ART.) AMPHIGOREY THE MUSICAL. Pen and ink. 55x90 mm; 2 1/4x3 1/2 inches, image. Archivally framed in a handsome grey linen matte and silver-painted wood frame. The best known ink vignette used in advertisements, printe ads, Showbill illustrations, and merchandise for the 1992 Philadelphia Plays and Player's Theatre production of Amphigorey, A Musicale. [1992]
Not long before his death, Gorey contributed the artwork he had created for the set designs from this production to help raise funds for the 2000 production of The Gorey Details, the third and final incarnation of the play that began as Tinned Lettuce; or, the New Musical before it was reworked as Amphigorey, A Musicale and finally to The Gorey Details. The lettering on the drawing is different because after the artwork was completed, the name of the show was changed slightly from "A Musical" to "A Musicale" and the lettering was rearranged to reflect the change in the title of the show rather than redrawn. The Gorey Details was in progress when he died and produced posthumously.
