""Oklahoma!", the Broadway Musical " Lot no. 2203
By George Wachsteter (1911-2004)
March 31, 1943 (Estimated)
10.00" x 15.50"
Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signed Lower Right
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Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), promoting `Oklahoma!` the Broadway Musical, with Harold (Howard) Keel replacing Alfred Drake in the lead role of Curley, ca 1946. He is depicted with (l to r), Bruce Hamilton as Jud Fry, Ruth Weston as Aunt Eller, Mary Hatcher as Laurey, Dorothea McFarland as Gertie Cummings and David Burns as Persian Peddler. This production ran March 31, 1943 - May 29, 1948 at the St James Theatre. Bruce Hamilton appeared as Jud May-Sept, 1946.
This illustration is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board with a 10.00" x 15.50" image. Used for the New York Journal-American. Some soiling.
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From the dawn of TV, from 1937 to 1967, George Wachsteter (1911 - 2004) was a prominent in-demand American illustrator and caricaturist. Next to Al Hirschfeld, Wachsteter was one of the most visible American theatrical caricaturists at the time. He produced theatrical, radio, television and film related images for the 3 major radio and television networks, NBC, CBS and ABC. Wachsteter's humorous and elegant line drawings were seen displayed in almost every American living room through the syndicated TV View guide, and prominently placed in most major newspapers, including the Times, Herald Tribune, New York Journal American, and New York World-Telegram. A gradual loss of his vision ended his career prematurely in the late 1960s.