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Mayo (Nick and Faye) Valley Music Theatre, Inc.
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Nick and Faye Mayo Valley Music Theatre, Inc. Collection
Creator:
Mayo, Nick and Faye
Identifier/Call Number: URB.MAYO
Extent:
1.54 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1962-1966
Abstract: The Valley Music Theatre was formerly
located at 20600 Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, between the Ventura Freeway exits of
Winnetka and Canoga Avenues. Intended to be the first professional local performing arts
center in the San Fernando Valley, the theatre was the brain-child of stage-producer Nick
Mayo who, with partners Randolph Hale, Cy Warner and Art Linkletter, formed VMT, Inc. as a
public corporation. The collection contains the bound playbills and programs given to Nick
Mayo, a scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings documenting construction of and
performances at Valley Music Theatre, and general Los Angeles theater news.
Language of Material: English
The Valley Music Theatre, formerly located at 20600 Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills,
between the Ventura Freeway exits of Winnetka and Canoga Avenues, was the brain-child of
stage-producer Nick Mayo. Mayo formed the theatre with partners Randolph Hale, Cy Warner and
Art Linkletter, as a public corporation, and intended it to be the first professional local
performing arts center in the San Fernando Valley.
The
Nick and Faye Mayo Valley Music Theatre, Inc. Collection
contains the bound playbills and programs given to Nick Mayo, a scrapbook of photographs and
newspaper clippings documenting construction of and performances at Valley Music Theatre,
and general Los Angeles theater news from the mid-1960s. The sixty images include pictures
of the construction of the building as well as cast photographs.
Digital reproductions of selected items in this collection are available electronically as
a part of the
San Fernando Valley History Digital
Library.
Related Material
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Faye Mayo, 03/04/2002.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documents
Photographs
Scrapbooks