DuMont Howard papers
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Title: DuMont Howard papers
Dates: 1969-1988
Collection Number: 1991-18
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 5 linear feet (4 cartons)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Dumont Howard (1954-1988) was a music critic and librettist who was the author-in-residence for the Lilliput Players children’s
musical theater, producing works that his Bay Area Reporter obituary called “marked by wit, intelligence, and sophistication
missing from most children’s theater, an adroit blend that appealed to adults and young people.” The collection includes scripts,
scores, and publicity for Howard’s musicals, as well as personal and business correspondence, subject files, photographs,
scrapbooks, and personalia.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. DuMont Howard papers. Collection Number: 1991-18. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Jeffrey Escoffier, literary executor of the estate of Dumont Howard, on January 30, 1993.
Biography/Administrative History
Dumont Howard (1954-1988) was a music critic and librettist who was the author-in-residence for the Lilliput Players children’s
musical theater, producing works that his Bay Area Reporter obituary called “marked by wit, intelligence, and sophistication
missing from most children’s theater, an adroit blend that appealed to adults and young people.” Howard was also the music
critic for the San Francisco Sentinel, and his short stories, reviews and celebrity interviews appeared in numerous other
publications, including Cracks in the Image, an anthology of gay fiction.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes scripts, scores, and publicity for Howard’s musicals, as well as personal and business correspondence,
subject files, photographs, scrapbooks, and personalia. There are also drafts of book proposals, interviews, music reviews,
plays, screenplays, short stories, and works of nonfiction.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004301; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008497;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004300
Gay men
Theater
Journalism
Music