Scene design for Home Again, Act I, scene 2, in Fiorello
Maker and role
Artist: Jean Eckart, American, 1921-1994
Artist: William Eckart, American, 1920-2000
Year
1959
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Media/Materials
Graphite, ink, gouache, and crayon on paper
Measurements
9 1/2 x 11 1/4in (24.1 x 28.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin
Accession number
TL1999.70
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Location
Theatre production
Musical with book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. Produced at the Broadhurst Theatre, New York, 1959.
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Fiorello Laguardia (played by Tom Bosley) returns home from World War I and resumes the political career that made him a three-term mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945.
Fiorello recounts the early career of New York City's legendary mayor, Fiorello Laguardia, a political reformer whose social programs inspired United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Here, Laguardia, accompanied by fellow WWI soldiers, receives a hero's welcome in New York harbor after his return from the battlefields of Europe.
In the design by Jean and William Eckart, newsreel footage fades into the staged homecoming, complete with red, white, and blue streamers.
Fiorello recounts the early career of New York City's legendary mayor, Fiorello Laguardia, a political reformer whose social programs inspired United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Here, Laguardia, accompanied by fellow WWI soldiers, receives a hero's welcome in New York harbor after his return from the battlefields of Europe.
In the design by Jean and William Eckart, newsreel footage fades into the staged homecoming, complete with red, white, and blue streamers.
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