Shenandoah The New Musical Souvenir Program 1975 AUTOGRAPHED by star John Raitt

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Shenandoah The New Musical Souvenir Program 1975 AUTOGRAPHED by star John Raitt. Shipped with USPS First Class.
In very good shape with some spine wear but no markings or tears!
AUTOGRAPHED in the inside cover by leading role star JOHN RAITT!  He played the main character Charlie Anderson in SHENANDOAH!
John Raitt is best known for his stage roles in the musicals Carousel, Oklahoma, The Pajama Game, Carnival in Flanders, Three Wishes for Jamie, Shenandoah and A Joyful Noise, in which he set the standard for virile, handsome, strong-voiced leading men during the golden age of the Broadway musical.
His only leading film role was in the 1957 movie version of The Pajama Game opposite Doris Day. On television, he was seen many times on the Bell Telephone Hour. A clip of a television performance of Raitt singing the final section of the song "Soliloquy" from Carouselis included in the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There. In 1957, also for television, he and Mary Martinre-created their starring roles in the national touring version of Annie Get Your Gun.
On September 29, 1953, he joined Jackie Gleason and Phil Fosterin an appearance on the CBS panel discussion This Is Show Business. On January 26, 1961, he appeared in the last season of NBC'sThe Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Raitt appeared in the 1960 episode, "The Man on the Road", on the syndicatedanthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. He was cast as Jim Dandy, an itinerant peddler who befriends a boy, Pete Rawson (Kevin Jones), whose father, played by House Peters, Jr., has been jailed falsely forhorse theft. The episode also stars Mort Millsas Holt, a leader in the efforts to lynch the suspect. Jim Dandy devises a scheme to find the real horse thief. Raitt also manages to sing one song in this episode. In addition, Raitt made several studio cast recordingsof Broadway musicals, including Oklahoma!(as Curly),The Pajama Game(as Sid), and Show Boat(as Gaylord Ravenal)! In 1945, John Raitt was one of the recipients of the first Theatre World Award for his debut performance in Carousel. In 1965, he starred in the twentieth-anniversary production of the show at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
In January 1992, Raitt was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Famefor Live Theatre, located at 6126 Hollywood Blvd!
From his first marriage, Raitt was the father of singerBonnie Raitt, and former father-in-law ofMichael O'Keefe.