Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Mayo, Nick and Faye
- 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.
- Extent:
- 1.54 linear feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Faye Mayo, 03/04/2002.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Documents
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research use.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.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.
- Preferred citation:
-
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual, or see the Citing Archival Materialsguide.
- Location of this collection:
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18111 Nordhoff StreetNorthridge, CA 91330, US
- Contact:
- (818) 677-4594