Scene design for Under the El in Sugar
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Artist: Jo Mielziner, American, 1901-1976
Year
ca. 1972
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Media/Materials
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Measurements
11 1/8 x 16in (28.3 x 40.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin
Accession number
TL1999.201
Object type
Department
Location
Theatre production
Musical with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and music by Jule Styne, based on the film Some Like it Hot by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. Produced at the Majestic Theatre, New York, 1972.
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In Sugar, two musicians flee Chicago after witnessing the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In an homage to Paris where Jo Mielziner was born, Mielziner depicted the elevated train in the manner of Monet's paintings of the St. Lazare station.
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