"Red, White and Maddox" Program Cover 1968

From the collection of Susan Shalhoub Larkin.

"Red, White and Maddox" on Broadway Promotional Sticker

A promotional sticker for Theatre Atlanta's Red, White and Maddox on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, winter 1969. From the collection of Susan Shalhoub Larkin.

Theatre Atlanta Opening Brochure 1966

Thanks to Susan Shalhoub Larkin for digging into here "archives" for this one.

Vagabond Marionettes at Theatre Atlanta 1967

Red, White and Maddox

After an Atlanta opening in the fall of 1968, Theatre Atlanta sent Don Tucker and Jay Broad's Red, White and Maddox: A Thing With Music to Broadway. The show ran for a total of 41 performances from January 26th to March 1st, 1969 at the Cort Theatre at 138 W. 48th Street. The show featured Jay Garner as Lester Maddox and also Susan Shalhoub Larkin, Fran Brill (later to become the first female Muppeteer hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street), Mitchell Edmonds, Georgia Allen, Lois Broad, Ronald Bush, Karl Emery, Clarence Felder, Gary Cage, William Gammon, Elaine Harris, Ted Harris, Christopher Lloyd (yes, that Christopher Llyod), Bettye Malone, Ted Martin, Sandy McCallum, Muriel Moore, Arlene Nadel, Steve Renfroe, Judy Schoen, William Trotman and James Westin. The show was produced by Edward Padula (William Domnitz and Arthur Miller Associate Producers) and featured sets and costumes by David Chapman, lights by Richard Casler and visuals by Bill Diehl, Jr.

"The Day Atlanta Stood Still" Orly Crash Documentary Online

Here is the link to Georgia Public Broadcasting's documentary on the Orly crash:

http://www.gpb.org/day-atlanta-stood-still

Theatre Atlanta's building on West Peachtree was paid for by a single benefactor, Frania Lee, in honor of her daughter Helen Lee Cartledge who died at Orly Field, Paris, along with her husband and 104 other members of the Atlanta Art Association on June 3rd, 1962. Helen Lee Cartledge had been active in Theatre Atlanta since the company was formed in 1957. The book pictured here, Explosion at Orly: The Disaster that Transformed Atlanta, by Ann Uhry Abrams was published in 2002 by Avion Press. There are references to Theatre Atlanta throughout.