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- JAMES WARING and PETER HARTMAN seated on the step-unit in front of the sound booth (1967?) JAYNE HARRIS’ headshot beside Peter’s head. Photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE, courtesy of MAGIE DOMINIC.
- H.M. KOUTOUKAS (looking astonishingly like JOE CINO) pursues JERRY RAGNI on Christopher Street. Photo courtesy Lisa Jane Persky.
- Gloria Foster (left) and MICHAEL SMITH (right) watch as ELLEN STEWART and JOE CINO acknowledge their joint Obie, 1965. Photo, collection of Robert Patrick.
- Musician/singer JANET HESSLER (far left) and performer/director BILL MITCHELL (far right) watch diva extraordinaire SHIRLEY STOLER in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real, 1961. Photo courtesy Ben Martin.
- OBIES:1967. LOU ZELDIS, CHARLES STANLEY, ARNOLD HORTON, MARSHALL W. MASON, ROBERT PATRICK, Allison Harper, Unidentified, BOB SHIELDS. Collection Robert Patrick.
- An Archivist’s Problem: Only by posting this Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox very small can I make it even approximate a clear image. In case you can’t tell, that’s TINY TIM almost indiscerible between MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA and JACQUE LYNN COLTON, wishing them farewell as they sail for Europe to introduce Off-Off Broadway theatre (TOM EYEN’s The White Whore and the Bit Player, 1964).
- TINY sings goodbye to MARI-CLAIRE.
- 1969. Left, top to bottom, ROBERT PATRICK, LANFORD WILSON, Leonard Melfi. Right, top to bottom, Israel Horowitz, Terrence MacNally, Jack Larson.
- Gathered atop the Chelsea Hotel to pose for Realites Magazine, 1966, in what looks like the peak of winter: MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA, JOHN KRAMER, LUCY SILVAY, and MICHAEL WARREN POWELL. Photo: Herve Gloaguen
- Gathered to pose for The New York Times (July 9, 1967). 5: Jackie Curtis. 8: Beth Porter. 9: John Bakos. 11: Kevin O’Connor.12: TOM EYEN. 14: SHELLEY FELDMAN. 15: ROB THIRKIELD 18: ELLEN STEWART. 19: CLARIS NELSON. 20: Leonard Melfi. 21: TOM O’HORGAN. 22: VICTOR LIPARI. Photo collection James D. Gossage.










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Dear Mister Melfi–How good to know that my website brings you some satisfaction. Leonard was a dear man. Have you any photos of Leonard’s plays? I would be glad to post them for other interested people to see. You may e-mail scans (jpgs please) to me attached to e-mails to rbrtptrck@aol.com or if you wish, you could snail-mail items to me and I will scan them and have them in the mail back to you the next day after receiving them. My snail-maili address is
1837 N. Alexandria Ave,
#211
L.A. CA 90027
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So nice to see these pictures of my brother Leonard in his early days in NYC.
Thank you.
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