THE GOLDEN APPLE
SET DESIGN BY BILL & JEAN ECKART
THE SHOW
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
MEMORIES
PRODUCER’S PAGE
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1. Bill and Jean Eckart
2. The Final Design Sketch, Act I, Scene I. The Eckart’s Stylized background, an apple tree composed of six rectangles of translucent material appliqued with apples/leaves.
3. Beginning thoughts. A rough idea scribbled on inexpensive, lined coffee-stained tablet.
4. The next step: The emergence of apple trees broken into overlapping panels.
5. The orchard has become a single “realistic” apple tree broken into geometrically framed layers of scrim panels.
6. Working drawings showing the configuration of panels to construct the apple tree.
7. The Golden Apple’s show curtain-an expression of the spirit of the piece-a combination of the old (as represented by the 19th century lettering style and botanical print) and the new (a Mondrian inspired composition).
8. The town square. A Celebration for Ulysses and his men as they return from the Spanish American war.
9. Helen’s house, a bit of rural nostalgia-the house, porch, and fence were flat cut-out pieces.
10. Painter’s elevation of Paris’ hot air balloon-the only dimensional element was the basket.
11. The city of Rhododendron-The Eckarts created an illusion of perspective without a single vanishing point.
12. Painter’s elevation of the Rhododendron “main-drop”.
13. The all black and white brokerage office of Scylla and Charybdis.
14. Sketch of “Goona Goona- A garish, tawdry waterfront dive inspired by a coney island souvenir pillow bill had won for jean on the boardwalk.
THE GOLDEN APPLE:
THE COMPLETE VOCAL SCORE
THE GOLDEN APPLE is a highly acclaimed 1954 Broadway musical based on Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey. The score by John Latouche and Jerome Moross has been compared to music from Porgy and Bess and Candide for its opera-like qualities. Experience these marvelous songs with this special edition, which includes favorites such as “It’s the Coming Home Together” and “Lazy Afternoon.”
WINDFLOWERS: THE SONGS OF JEROME MOROSS
WINDFLOWERS offers delectable proof, with selections from his stage shows Ballet Ballads, The Golden Apple, Underworld, and Gentlemen, Be Seated! Alice Ripley, Richard Muenz, Jessica Molaskey, Philip Chaffin and Jenny Giering – five singers equally at home on Broadway, in cabaret and in the recording studio – celebrate an American original, in nineteen selections alternately playful and atmospheric, and always highly melodic.
THE GOLDEN APPLE: THE FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING
When it premiered in 1954, composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche’s THE GOLDEN APPLE was hailed as “the most original musical since Oklahoma!” (The Washington Post), “the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time” (New York Daily News), and “a magnificent achievement. A sensational success. The most imaginative work of its kind” (New York Daily Mirror).