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Roosevelt University’s Performing Arts Library Receives Collection for Theatre Students


CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—July 30, 2015. Roosevelt University’s Performing Arts Library has received a large collection of theatre-related books, musical scores, CDs and DVDs from the Ray Lonergan Memorial Library of Actor’s Equity Association. Thirty-seven boxes of materials in all were donated.

“A lot of this new collection is historical in nature, and it contains some gems,” said Richard Schwegel, director of Roosevelt’s Performing Arts Library, which is located on the upper-floor of the University’s Murray-Green Library in Chicago.

There are actor’s biographies, texts on Shakespeare plays, DVDs of Broadway musicals and CDs of a number of famous shows including Ziegfeld’s Follies, by the famed impresario whose father, Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr., founded the Chicago Musical College, which today is part of Roosevelt’s Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA).

Hundreds of books as well as sheet music from Broadway musicals and other shows come from the collection of well-known actor, writer, director and producer Sidney Eden. Approximately 600 CDs and DVDs originally donated to the association’s library by the late actor Leonard Weiner are also part of the new collection.

“This is a wonderful gift that will be used a great deal by our students,” predicted Sean Kelley, director of the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University and associate dean of CCPA.

The gift came about as the result of a conversation at Drury Lane Theatre in Oak Brook, Ill. where Roosevelt Theatre Professor Christine Adair was coaching dialects and Iris Lieberman, chairperson of the Ray Lonergan Memorial Library and a volunteer librarian, was in the cast. Both agreed that Roosevelt’s theatre students could benefit.

Source: www.roosevelt.edu

 


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