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Thanks, Steve.  I have the play on audio tape only, so I don't have any of the accompanying notes.  Unfortunately, the recording seems to be out of print, but I'm sure I can find an original copy in a library.

Alan B.

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> From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Wright, Stephen K
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> Subject: Re: Noah Greenberg's Ludus Danielis
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> Alan,
> You probably already know this, but the score that 
> accompanies the original 1959 recording includes the following:
> "Notes on staging the play, by Nikos Psacharopoulos": p. 112-114.
> "Notes on costumes, by Robert Fletcher": p. 115-117.
> Does that help at all?
> Steve Wright
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> 	Subject: FW: Noah Greenberg's Ludus Danielis
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> 	P.S.  I did find Brooks Atkinson's review of the 
> original production, in fact--it is coupled with a review of 
> Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft in "Two for the Seesaw," so I 
> didn't see it, at first.  Although Atkinson does mention the 
> costumes, which he says "have the grandeur of medieval 
> painting," but he gives no details about the production 
> questions I'm interested in.
> 	
> 	Alan B.
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> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Baragona, Alan
> 	Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:13 AM
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> 	Subject: Noah Greenberg's Ludus Danielis
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> 	 Does anyone know anything about the actual staging of 
> Noah Greenberg's famous 1958 production of The Play of Daniel 
> by the New York Pro Musica, or know where I might find a 
> description?  The New York Times has articles about a 
> European tour the troupe took in 1960 but no review of the 
> original production and no details about it.  I'm 
> particularly interested in how Greenberg staged the writing 
> on the wall, the lions and the angel carrying Habbakuk 
> through the air.
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> 	Thanks in advance.
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> 	Alan Baragona
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