BERLIN, Irving, & Robert E. Sherwood.

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Miss Liberty. Rehearsal script for the musical concerning the model for the Statue of Liberty, including the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor". which the composer hoped would become another "God Bless America". This appears to be an early version of the script, as it includes three numbers that were not recorded on the original Broadway cast recording.Three years after Annie Get Your Gun had proved a triumph, Berlin returned to Broadway "with a show that had all the earmarks of a hit" (Deutsch, p. 14). In competition with South Pacific, Kiss Me, Kate, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the show achieved a respectable run of 308 performances but has never been revived on Broadway.The script comprises the title page, a listing of characters, a listing of scenes, the script of Act 1 (57 pages), Act 2 (52 pages), and a concluding blank. This copy has the ownership signature of Ted Adolphus on the title page. Theodore Adolphus (1894-1969) was a German-born dancer and choreographer who worked on All the King's Horses (1934) and Sweethearts (1947). Dances and musical numbers for Miss Liberty, however, were staged by Jerome Robbins. Nevertheless, there are pencil annotations throughout ("all applaud and exit", "Countess comes back for bow and into scene", "singers and dancers do a 32 bar parade before fig proper starts", "boys loud shirts rowdy atmospheres", etc.), two loosely inserted notes, and one diagram of staging positions (on the verso of leaf 2-7-41).The three musical numbers p

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