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By Samantha Reiches, Sarah Hill
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Keith W. Johnson Theatrical Designs collection documents the Eastern Kentucky University theater program from 1976 through 2003. Mr. Johnson was responsible for the set design of all theater productions during that time period and these papers consist of his original drawings, blueprints, images and play programs. The images are of sets as well as those taken during performances. The photographs should be supplemented with the EKU Negative Collection, which also includes thousands of images of these plays. Programs for the productions should be supplemented with the EKU Ephemera collection.
The collection also contains slides and ephemera from some of Johnson's earlier work at Millikin University and with other theater companies.
Biographical Note
Keith Johnson was a native of Ashland, KY and got his start in theater when he attended Ashland Community College. He later transferred to Eastern Kentucky University where he got a bachelor of arts degree in drama. Johnson worked in the theater in various capacities and taught at Millikin University for three years. In 1976 he returned to Eastern to teach and received his master's in fine arts from the University of Cincinnati in 1979. Johnson designed sets for Eastern theater productions until his retirement in 2003.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Johnson, Keith
Acquisition Method:
gift
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Photographs],
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Series 2: Blueprints and Programs],
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Series 3: Original Drawings],
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- Series 1: Photographs
- Box 1
- UnitID: 31234013790710
- Folder 1: 12th Night
- Folder 2: 50 Years of American Musical Theatre, 1976
- Folder 3: 1776, 1975
- Folder 4: Aberlard and Heloise, 1974
- Folder 5: All My Sons, 1982
- Folder 6: Angel Street, 1981
- Folder 7: Agnes of God, 1984
- Folder 8: Ann Frank
- Folder 9: Armond Hammer Collection
- Folder 10: Arms and the Man, 1975
- Folder 11: The Bacchae
- Folder 12: The Basset Table, 2001
- Folder 13: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1989
- Folder 14: Blithe Spirit
- Folder 15: The Blue Kangaroo, 1980
- Folder 16: In the Boom Boom Room, 1983
- Box 2
- UnitID: 31234013790728
- Folder 1: Born Yesterday, 1988
- Folder 2: Broadway Knights, 1983
- Folder 3: The Caretaker, 1984
- Folder 4: A Chorus Line, 1986
- Folder 5: Crimes of the Heart, 1988
- Folder 6: The Cripple of Inishmaan, 2001
- Folder 7: Da, 1982
- Folder 8: Dancing in the Endzone, 1986
- Folder 9: Death of a Salesman, 1976
- Folder 10: The Diviners, 1987
- Folder 11: Equus, 1985
- Box 3
- UnitID: 31234013790736
- Folder 1: The Fantasticks, 1978
- Folder 2: Ghosts, 1985
- Folder 3: Godspell, 1981
- Folder 4: The Gondoliers, 1983
- Folder 5: I Do, I Do
- Folder 6: Kaleidoscope, 1981
- Folder 7: Key Exchange, 1983
- Folder 8: The Laramie Project
- Folder 9: Lend Me a Tenor, 2000
- Folder 10: Lion in Winter
- Folder 11: Little Shop of Horrors (1), 1988
- Folder 12: Little Shop of Horrors (2), 1988
- Folder 13: Little Shop of Horrors (3), 1988
- Box 4
- UnitID: 31234013790744
- Folder 1: Love For Love, 1977
- Folder 2: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, 1986
- Folder 3: Marigolds The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon, 1974
- Folder 4: Medea, 1978
- Folder 5: Music Man, 1974
- Folder 6: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 1977
- Folder 7: Oklahoma
- Folder 8: Once Upon a Mattress, 1977
- Folder 9: Otherwise Engaged, 1978
- Folder 10: Picnic
- Folder 11: Pippin (1), 1979
- Folder 12: Pippin (2), 1979
- Folder 13: Promises Promises, 1973
- Box 5
- UnitID: 31234013790751
- Folder 1: The Rivals, 1987
- Folder 2: The Robber Bridegroom (1), 1980
- Folder 3: The Robber Bridegroom (2), 1980
- Folder 4: Romeo and Juliet (1), 1987
- Folder 5: Romeo and Juliet (2), 1987
- Folder 6: Shadow Box, 1979
- Folder 7: Showboat Majestic, 1972
- Box 6
- UnitID: 31234013790769
- Folder 2: The Tempest, 1984
- Folder 3: Time of Your Life, 1974
- Folder 4: Tintypes, 1985
- Folder 5: Tooth Of Crime, 1989
- Folder 6: Under Milkwood, 1977
- Folder 7: Unidentified Play 1
- Folder 8: Unidentified Play 2
- Folder 9: Unidentified Play 3
- Folder 10: Unidentified Play 4
- Folder 11: Unidentified Play 5
- Folder 12: Vanities, 1978
- Folder 13: West Side Story (1), 1980
- Box 7
- UnitID: 31234013790777
- Folder 2: West Side Story (2), 1980
- Folder 3: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, 1980
- Folder 4: Working, 1985
- Folder 5: You Can Never Tell, 1984
- Folder 6: You Can't Take It With You, 1976
- Series 2: Blueprints and Programs
- Box 8
- UnitID: 31234013790785
- Folder 1: 1776, 1975
- Folder 2: Agnes of God, 1984
- Folder 3: Albert Taylor Hall- Milkin University
- Folder 4: Alice in Wonderland
- Folder 5: All My Sons, 1982
- Folder 6: All My Sons Tour UK
- Folder 7: And the World Goes Round, 1994
- Folder 8: Angel Street, 1981
- Folder 9: Antigone, 2002
- Folder 10: Arms and the Man, 1991
- Folder 11: Baby, 2002
- Folder 12: The Bacchae
- Folder 13: The Bartered Bride, 1986
- Folder 14: The Basset Table, 2001
- Folder 15: Bell, Book, and Candle, 1996
- Folder 16: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1989
- Folder 17: Beyond Therapy, 1995
- Folder 18: The Birds, 1999
- Folder 19: The Blue Kangaroo, 1981
- Folder 20: Born Yesterday, 1988
- Folder 21: Brighton Beach Memoirs, 2003
- Folder 22: Broadway Knights, 1983
- Folder 23: Brock Auditorium
- Box 9
- UnitID: 31234013790793
- Folder 1: Cabaret, 1997
- Folder 2: The Caretaker, 1984
- Folder 3: Chicago, 1991
- Folder 4: A Chorus Line, 1986
- Folder 5: Cinncinati Playhouse in the Park
- Folder 6: Crimes of the Heart, 1988
- Folder 7: Cripple of Inishmaan, 2001
- Folder 8: Da, 1982
- Folder 9: Dance into Spring, 1996
- Folder 10: Dancing in the Endzone, 1986
- Folder 11: Death of a Salesman, 1976
- Folder 12: The Diary of Anne Frank, 1995
- Folder 13: The Diary of Anne Frank, 2000
- Folder 14: The Diviners, 1987
- Folder 15: A Doll's House, 1998
- Folder 16: Down the Road, 2000
- Folder 17: Dracula- Lighting Glass Project, 1982
- Folder 18: EKU Dance Theatre, 1990
- Folder 19: Equus, 1985
- Box 10
- UnitID: 31234013790801
- Folder 1: Extremities, 1994
- Folder 2: Fantasia
- Folder 3: The Fantasticks, 1978
- Folder 4: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1993
- Folder 5: Ghosts, 1985
- Folder 6: Gifford Theatre Floor Plan
- Folder 7: Gifford theatre Light Plot
- Folder 8: Gifford Theatre Section
- Folder 9: The Glass Menagerie, 1997
- Folder 10: Godspell, 1981
- Folder 11: The Gondoliers, 1983
- Folder 12: A Grand Night for Singing, 1999
- Folder 13: Grease, 1997
- Folder 14: Guignol Theatre- University of Kentucky
- Folder 15: Hamlet, 1996
- Folder 16: Hamlet-Proposed
- Folder 17: How I Learned to Drive, 1999
- Folder 18: I Hate Hamlet, 1993
- Folder 19: The Importance of Being Earnest, 1997
- Folder 20: In the Boom Boom Room, 1983
- Folder 21: Into the Woods, 1996
- Folder 22: Jelkyl Drama Center-Berea
- Folder 23: Kaleidoscope, 1981
- Folder 24: Kaleidoscope, 1989
- Folder 25: Keely and Du, 1997
- Folder 26: Key Exchange, 1983
- Folder 27: Lend Me a Tenor, 2000
- Folder 28: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1989
- Box 11
- UnitID: 31234013790819
- Folder 1: Little Shop of Horrors, 1988
- Folder 2: Loot, 1991
- Folder 3: Love For Love, 1977
- Folder 4: The Laramie Project, 2002
- Folder 5: The Lion in Winter, 1988
- Folder 6: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, 1986
- Folder 7: Medea, 1978
- Folder 8: Merchant of Venice, 2003
- Folder 9: The Miracle Worker, 1992
- Folder 10: Miscellaneous
- Folder 11: The Miser, 1994
- Folder 12: Much Ado About Nothing, 1999
- Folder 13: Music Man, 1990
- Folder 14: The Nerd, 1989
- Folder 15: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 1977
- Folder 16: The Odd Couple, 1990
- Folder 17: Oedipus, 1993
- Folder 18: Of Mice and Men, 1992
- Folder 19: The Old Maid and The Thief and The Imperessiario, 1992
- Folder 20: Oleana
- Folder 21: Once Upon a Mattress, 1977
- Box 12
- UnitID: 31234013790827
- Folder 1: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1981
- Folder 2: Otherwise Engaged, 1978
- Folder 3: Our Country's Good Enough, 1996
- Folder 4: Pearl Buchanan Theatre Floor Plan
- Folder 5: Pearl Buchanan Theatre Lighting Plot
- Folder 6: Pippin, 1979
- Folder 7: Pirates of Penzance, 1998
- Folder 8: Playhouse in the Park- Shelter House
- Folder 9: Prisoner of the 2nd Avenue, 1977
- Folder 10: A Proposed Theatre, 1976
- Folder 11: Proof, 2003
- Folder 12: Quilters, 1992
- Folder 13: Richmond Ballet
- Folder 14: The Rivals, 1987
- Folder 15: The Robber Bridegroom, 2000
- Folder 16: Romeo and Juliet, 1987
- Folder 17: Scrooge, 2002
- Folder 18: The Shadow Box, 1995
- Folder 19: She Stoops to Conquer, 1990
- Folder 20: Showboat Majestic
- Folder 21: Sleeping Beauty, 1997
- Folder 22: Snooty Fox
- Folder 23: Songs for a New World, 2001
- Folder 24: The Sound of Music, 1988
- Folder 25: South Pacific, 2001
- Folder 26: Space Force and Lily May Ledford, 1989
- Folder 27: Speed-the-Plow, 1994
- Box 13
- UnitID: 31234013790835
- Folder 1: Story Theatre, 1976
- Folder 2: Sweet Charity, 1994
- Folder 3: Tartuffe, 1982
- Folder 4: The Tempest, 1984
- Folder 5: Tintypes, 1985
- Folder 6: Tooth Of Crime, 1989
- Folder 7: Trojan Women, 1990
- Folder 8: Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1991
- Folder 9: Under Milkwood, 1977
- Folder 10: Valley Song, 1997
- Folder 11: Vanities, 1978
- Folder 12: Waiting for Godot, 1993
- Folder 13: West Side Story, 1980
- Folder 14: Whad'ya Know?
- Folder 15: What the Butler Saw, 1996
- Folder 16: Working, 1985
- Folder 17: You Never Can Tell, 1984
- Folder 18: You're Gonna Love Tomorrow, 1994
- Folder 19: Local Theatre Personalities
- Folder OS1: Blueprints and Designs
- This folder contains blueprints for the Brock Theatre (1/4 and 1/8" scale), the Gifford Theatre (in 1/4 and 1/2" scale, and including thrust and catwalks), and the Pearl Buchanan Theatre (including blueprints with universal light plot)
- Barcode: 31235013929953
- Folder OS2: Blueprints and Designs
- This folder contains set and lighting blueprints and design plans created by Keith Johnson. Includes: The Diviners (Oct 1987), Romeo and Juliet (Nov 1987), Little Shop of Horrors (Feb 1988), and Crimes of the Heart (April 1988)
- Barcode: 31234013929946
- Folder OS3: Blueprints and Designs
- This folder contains set and lighting designs created by Keith Johnson. Includes: Story Theatre (Fall 1976), Death of a Salesman (Fall 1976), The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (March 1977), Love for Love (Oct 1977), Medea (Feb 1976), The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Once Upon a Mattress, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (April 1981), and Under Milkwood (Nov)
- Barcode: 31234014260002
- Folder OS4: Blueprints and Designs
- This folder contains set and lighting designs and blueprints created by Keith Johnson. Includes: The Fantasticks (April 1978), The Blue Kangaroo (Feb 1981), Godspell (Nov 1981), Da (Feb 1982), Tartuffe (April 1982), All My Sons (Oct 1982), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Nov 1982), Key Exchange (Feb 1983), and The Gondoliers (April 1983).
- Barcode: 31234014260010
- Series 3: Original Drawings
- Box 14
- UnitID: 31234013790843
- Folder 1: 1776-Beauty and the Beast
- 1776, Aberlard and Heloise, Anges of God, Antigone, Angel Street, Arms and the Man, Baby, The Barber of Seville, The Basset Table, Beauty and the Beast
- Folder 2: The Bacchae-Broadway Knights
- The Bacchae, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Bell, Book, and Candle, Beyond Therapy, The Birds, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Born Yesterday, Broadway Knights
- Folder 3: Cabaret-Dracula
- Cabaret, The Caretaker, Carnival, Candida, Chicago, A Chorus Line, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dancing in the Endzone, A Doll's House, Down the Road, Downtown Richmond, Dracula
- Folder 4: Equus-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Equus, The Exonerated, The Extremities, Fallen Angels, Fool for Love, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Box 15
- UnitID: 31234013790850
- Folder 1: General Building Drawings Floor Plans-A Grand Night For Singing
- General Building Drawings Floor Plans, Gifford Theatre Floor Plan, Ghosts, The Glass Managerie, A Grand Night for Singing
- Folder 2: Hamlet-Keely and Du
- Hamlet, Hedda Gabler, How I Learned to Drive, I Hate Hamlet, The Importance of Being Ernest, In The Boom Boom Room, Into the Woods, Kalediscope, Keely and Du
- Folder 3: The Laramie Project-Mid Summer Night's Dream
- The Laramie Project, Learned Ladies, Lend Me a Tenor, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Lion in Winter, A Little Night Music, Loot, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, Lysteria, Mack and Mabel, Marigolds, Merchant of Venice, Mid Summer Night's Dream
- Folder 4: The Miser-New York, New York
- The Miser, The Miracle Worker, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Man, Music Light Plot, The Nerd, New Thrust, New York, New York
- Box 16
- UnitID: 31234013790868
- Folder 1: Odd Couple-Proof
- Odd Couple, Oedipus the King, Of Mice and Men, The Old Maid and the Thief, Otherwise Engaged, Our Country's Good Enough, Our Town, Pippin, Promises Promises, Proof
- Folder 2: Quilters-The Robber Bridegroom
- Quilters, Rachel Dawson, The Rain Maker, Richard II, The Rivals, The Robber Bridegroom
- Folder 3: Scrooge-The Temptest
- Scrooge, The Shadow Box, She Stoops to Conquer, Shivarees, Songs for a New World, South Pacific, Standard Light Plot, Sweet Charity, Taming of the Shrew, The Temptest
- Folder 4: Tintypes-West Side Story
- Tintypes, Universal Light Plot- Pearl Buchanan Theatre, Vanities, Waiting for Godot, West Side Story
- Folder 5: What the Butler Saw-You Can't Take It With You
- What the Butler Saw, Whispers in the Wind, Working, You Can Never Tell, You Can't Take It With You
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Photographs],
[
Series 2: Blueprints and Programs],
[
Series 3: Original Drawings],
[All]