Ariel S. Ballif, Jr. papers, 1930s-1992

Ariel S. Ballif, Jr. papers, 1930s-1992

Overview of the CollectionCreator Ballif, Ariel S., 1926-1994

Title Ariel S. Ballif, Jr. papersDates 1930s-1992 (inclusive)

1930 1992Quantity 215 linear feet

Collection Number ACCN 2127Summary The Ariel S. Ballif, Jr. papers (1930s-1992) consists of original

costume and set designs, production scripts, architectural designs,and personal and teaching materials. Ballif was a prominent stagedesigner and co-founder of Theater 138, Salt Lake City's first"alternative" theater. He was born in Rexburg, Idaho, raised in Utah,graduated from Brigham Young University, and received a M.F.A.from Yale University. He was with the theater faculty at the Universityof Utah and designed major productions for the Pioneer TheaterCompany, Ballet West, Utah Opera, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company,and others.

Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott LibraryUniversity of Utah295 South 1500 EastSalt Lake City, UT84112-0860Telephone: [email protected]

Access Restrictions Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must beused on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted underprovisions of state or federal law.

Languages English

Historical NoteAriel Smith Ballif, Jr. (1926-1994), a prominent stage designer and co-founder of Theater 138, SaltLake City's first "alternative" theater, was born in Rexburg, Idaho, the son of Ariel S. and ArtamesiaRomney Ballif. He was raised in Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University, and later received amaster's of fine arts degree from Yale University. During the 1950s through 1970s, Ballif directed andco-produced productions for little theaters in Richmond, Virginia; taught design at the Yale School ofDrama; and worked in the Yale Resident Theater. Later in life, he served with the theater faculty at theUniversity of Utah and designed major productions for Pioneer Theater Company, Ballet West, UtahOpera, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and others.

Content Description

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The Ariel S. Ballif, Jr. papers (1930s-1992) consist of original costume and set designs, productionscripts, architectural designs, and personal and teaching materials of Ballif's. Most of the materialsare arranged by size and listed by theatrical production for which they were designed. There are fourdifferent sizes of oversize materials, thus there are instances where a production is listed with severaldifferent boxes. Some work by designers other than Ballif can be found throughout the collection.

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Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. WillardMarriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationAcquisition Information

Box 98 and painter's sketch donated by Pioneer Memorial Theater via George Maxwell in 2012.

Separated Materials

Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P1154).

Processing Note

Processed by Lisa DeMille in 2005.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2012.

Detailed Description of the CollectionPersonal and Family Materials

Container(s) Description Dates

Box Folder

1 1-3 Correspondence 1944-1992


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1 4 Ariel Smith Ballif Sr., Speech 1975

1 5 Arta Romney Ballif, Poetry and Art List

1 6 Maralyn Ballif, Artwork 1947

1 7 Biographical Sketches

1 8 Calendars 1971; 1983

1 9 Genealogy

1 10 Miscellaneous

School and Teaching Materials


Box Folder

2 1 Artwork by Ballif

2 2 Class Lists 1965-1967

2 3 Drama ClassCorrespondence, examinations, and an outline.

1970

2 4 Graphic Representation, Notes and Illustrations 1944

2 5 Light Labs 1950-1951

2 6 Making Murals, Notebook

2 7-9 Notebooks 1946; 1950

3 1 Val Deane Rice, Art History and Appreciation Journal

3 2 Student Writings circa 1950s

3 3 Television Class, Notes and Assignments 1950




3 4 Theater Classes, Notes and Assignments 1960s-1980s

3 5-6 Yale UniversityCorrespondence, newsletters, notes, questionnaires, andother papers.

1949-1991

3 7 Miscellaneous

Subject Files


Box Folder

4 1 American Community Theater Association (ACTA),Newsletters and Announcements

1971

4 2 Architecture History and Elements, Notes and Pictures

4 3 Babcock Gallery, Wall Sketches

4 4 Ballet West, Hanger Logs 1990

4 5 BiographiesThese are biographies of designers.

4 6 Tom Carlin, Personal Materials 1945-1962

4 7 Cast and Contact Lists

4 8 Center Stage Theater, Inc., Articles of Incorporation 1987

4 9 Robert Stewart Falconer, Personal Materials 1937-1946

4 10 Financial Materials 1950s-1980s

4 11 Furniture History, Sketches and Descriptions

4 12 Zola Rae Law, Artwork

5 1-4 News Articles 1920s-1980s




5 5 Pioneer Memorial TheaterMemoranda, notes, expenses, and announcements.

1962-1967

5 6 "Plate Tectonics and Joseph Smith's Vision" 1974

5 7 Poetry, Quips, and Quotes

5 8 Postcards

5 9 Production Lists

5 10-13 ProgramsFor theater and miscellaneous productions and events.

1930s-1980s

6 1 Prop and Stage Specifications

6 2 Recipes

6 3 Sheet Music 1966-1971

6 4 Silver King TheaterCorrespondence, notes, expenses, drawings, and otherpapers concerning the remodeling of this building.

1964-1965

6 5-7 Theater 138Notes, programs, and sketches.

1960s-1980s

6 8 Utah Theater Association, Constitution

6 9 Miscellaneous

Scripts and Production Notes


Box Folder

7 1 After the Fall

7 2 All Faces West 1962

7 3 Anne of the Thousand Days 1948




7 4 As Is

7 5 The Ascent of Oscar Cable

7 6 Bad Dreams and Be Bop 1984-1985

7 7 The Bride Wore Red Pyjamas

7 8 Christmas without Mr. C. 1985

7 9 Cole

7 10 The Colorado Plateau 1984

7 11 The Crucible 1961

7 12 Doin's at the Ruins

7 13 Dracula 1968

7 14 Europa

8 1 55 Minutes

8 2 The Geranium Is a Hardy Flower 1966

8 3 The Gypsy Baron

8 4 High Tea

8 5-8 Irene Gilmore, Lady Editor

8 9 It's Only the Beginning

8 10 The Jeweled Cross

8 11 Johnson's Boardin' House

8 12 The Lady's Not for Burning 1972

8 13 Light




9 1 Nevertheless

9 2 The Nutcracker 1990-1991

9 3 On the Park Bench

9 4-5 Papa and the Playhouse 1962

9 6 Prometheus

9 7 Promised Valley 1958-1967

9 8 The Red Plush Parlor

9 9 To Rise One Day

9 10 The Silverk Key

9 11 Stage Door

9 12 The Star Spangled Girl

9 13 This Is the Place

9 14 The Three Muskateers 1989

9 15 Uncle Vanya 1992

9 16 When the Sun Rises

10 Untitled Scripts

Fashion and Costume History

Container(s) Description

Box Folder

11 1 German and French Costume Prints

11 2 Oriental Costume Prints




11 3-9 Twelvth-Twentieth Century Costume Prints

11 10-12 General Costume Prints

12 1-3 General Costume Prints

12 4-8 Eleventh-Twentieth Century Costume Notes

12 9 Miscellaneous

13 1-2 Oversize Fifteenth-Eighteenth Century Costume Prints

13 3-4 Oversize General Costume Prints

Costume Designs


Box Folder

14 1-2 Barber of Seville

14 3-6 Berkeley Square

15 1-3 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

15 4 A Man for All Seasons

15 5 The Marriage of Figaro

15 6 Rigoletto

16 1-5 Romeo and Juliet

16 6-7 Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.)

16 8 Volpone

17 1-7 Costume Designs for Unidentified Productions

17 8 Character and Costume Layout Notes




17 9-10 Character Costume Measurements

Oversize Costume Designs


Box Folder

18 1 Ah, Wilderness

18 2 Amahl and the Night Visitors

18 3 The Doctor's Dilema

18 4 Edmund Kean

19 Fenris

Folder

20 1 High Tor

20 2 Joan of Arc

20 3-4 Noah

20 5 The Nutcracker

20 6 The Pie-eyed Piper

21 1-2 Playboy of the Western World

21 3 Salome

21 4 She Stoops to Conquer

21 5 A Streetcar Named Desire

21 6 Sweeney Todd

21 7 The Tempest




22 1 Beaux Arts Ball

22 2 Candida

22 3 Carnival of Thieves

22 4 Goldilocks

23 1 The Heiress

23 2 The Imaginary Invalid

24 1 Inspector General

24 2 Lute Song

24 3 The Magic Flue

25 The Maid's Tragedy

26 The Maid's Tragedy

Folder

27 1 Major Barbara

27 2 Menaechmi

27 3 Les Precieuses Ridicules

27 4 Romeo and Juliet

28 1 Salade

28 2 The Taming of the Shrew

28 3 The Tempest

28 4 Thracian Horses

29 1 The Visit




29 2 Women's Festival

30 1 Alice in Wonderland

30 2 Auntie Mame


30 4 The King and I

30 5 The Lady's Not for Burning

30 6 A Midsummer Night's Dream

30 7 Romeo and Juliet

30 8 Tosca

30 9 Costume Designs for Unidentified Productions

31 Unidentified Costume Designs

32 Unidentified Costume Designs

Set Designs


Box Folder

33 1 Big River

33 2 Driving Miss Daisy

33 3 Girl from Utah

33 4 The Glass Menagerie

33 5 Macbeth

33 6 Salome




33 7 The Skin of Our Teeth

33 8 Streamers

33 9-13 Set Designs for Unidentified Productions

Oversize Set Designs


Box Folder

34 1 Amadeus


35 1 Beethoven

35 2 Blind Alley

36 1 Candida

36 2 Candide

36 3 Cyrano de Bergerac

36 4 Design for Living

37 1 A Far Smiling Land

37 2 The Green Bay Tree

37 3 Hippolytus

37 4 Indian Village

37 5 Inherit the Wind

38 1 Lazardus Laughed

38 2 Lute Song




38 3 A Midsummer Night's Dream

38 4 The Nutcracker

39 1 A Pin to See a Peepshow

39 2 Pirates of Penzance

39 3 A Street in Salt Lake

39 4 Tosca

39 5 Trouble in Tahiti

39 6 Uncle Vanya


40 2 Anna Christie

40 3 Arsenic and Old Lace

40 4 Ballet on a City Rooftop

40 5 Big River

40 6 La Boheme

40 7 Candide

40 8 Dead End

41 1 The Family Plan

41 2 A Far Smiling Land

41 3 Fenris

41 4 Glass Menagerie

41 5 The Great Catherine




41 6 Hamlet

41 7 High Tor

42 1 The King and I

42 2 Lazardus Laughed

42 3 The Liar

42 4 Like Snow Falling

43 1 Love for Three Oranges

43 2 The Magic Flute

43 3 Major Barbara

43 4 Man of La Mancha

44 1 The Merry Widow

44 2 The Mighty Magician

44 3 No Sex Please, We're British

44 4 Pelleas and Melisande

44 5 Peter Pan

44 6 Pit Stop

44 7 Salome

44 8 The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife

44 9 Snow White

44 10 Star Spangled Girl

44 11 Time of the Cuckoo




44 12 Two by Two

45 1 Affairs of State

45 2-3 Amadeus

45 4 Amahal and the Night Visitors

45 5 Auntie Mame

45 6 The Barber of Seville

45 7 Beethoven

46 1 Big River

46 2-4 La Boheme

47 1 Candida

47 2 Candide

47 3 A Choice of Wars

47 4 Death of a Salesman

48 1-2 Fenris

48 3 La Fille Naive

48 4-5 Die Fledermaus


49 2 International Set

49 3 The Lady's Not for Burning

49 4 A Man for All Seasons

49 5 The Mighty Magician




49 6 The Nutcracker

50 1 O Pioneers

50 2 Pirates of Penzance

50 3 Prometheus

50 4 Promised Valley

50 5 Ring around the Moon

51 1 Strike a Match

51 2 The Tempest

51 3 Thracian Horses

51 4 A Thurber Carnival

51 5 Time for Elizabeth

52 1-2 Tosca

52 3-4 Toxcatl

52 5 Triumph of Honor

53 1 La Valise

53 2-3 The Visit

54 Oversize Unidentified Set Designs




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58 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Ah! Wilderness, All God's ChillunGot Wings (1963), All the King's Men, Amadeus (1984),Amahal and the Night Visitors (1980, 1984), and Anthem(1979).

1963-1984

59 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for As You Like It, The Ascent ofOscar Cable (1964), and Auntie Mame (1962).

1962, 1964

60 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Barber of Seville (1966), ABedroom to Scale (1965), Big River (1990), La Boheme(1978), and Born Yesterday (1958).

1958-1990

61 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Cabin, Candida (1965), andCandide (1984).

1965, 1984

62 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Catch Me If You Can (1978),Cavalleria Rusticana (1980), Charley's Aunt (1964), AChoice of Wars, and Cole (1988).

1964-1988

63 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Dance 65, Dangerous Corner,Deadly Game (1989), Death of a Salesman (1963), DesertSong (1976, 1980), Doors (1977), and Driving Miss Daisy(1990-1991).

1963-1991

64 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Fantasticks (1965), La FilleNaive, and Die Fledermaus (1980).

1965, 1980

65 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Girl Crazy (1975), Golden Apple(1979), Habeas Corpus, Hamlet (1987), Hansel and Gretel(1990), House of Bernarda Alba (1983), and The Hyphen.

1975-1990

66 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Interface (1978), Java (1980),The Lady's Not for Burning (1969, 1980), Little MarySunshine, Lute Song, and Macbeth.

1969-1980

67 Rolled Set Designs 1964-1983




Included are designs for The Magic Flute (1974), MajorBarbara, and A Man for All Seasons (1964, 1983).

68 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Mary, Mary (1965), The Miser(1990), Modern Dance (1967), Mourning Becomes Electra(1976), Murder in the Cathedral, My Fat Friend (1979),and My One and Only (1987).

1965-1990

69 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Naughty Marietta (1978), NewMoon (1974), Nothing Doing Cabaret, The Nutcracker(1990-1991), and O Pioneers (1993).

1974-1993

70 Rolled Set DrawingsIncluded are designs for Pagliacci, Peter Pan (1963),Promised Valley, and A Pin to See a Peepshow.

1963

71 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Reluctant Debutante (1972),Rhinocerous (1962), Rigoletto (1966, 1981), and Ringaround the Moon (1966).

1962-1981

72 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Rise and Fall and Romeo andJuliet (1989).

1989

73 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Shoemaker's ProdigiousWife (1965), 6 RMS RIV VU (1974), Skin of Our Teeth,Strangers (1981), and The Subject Was Roses (1967).

1965-1981

74 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Tempest (1985), ThreepennyOpera (1977), and The Three Muskateers (1989).

1977-1989

75 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Thurber Carnival, Tipple, andTobacco Road (1977).

1977

76 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for Tosca (1978), Toxcatl, Triumph ofHonor (1966), and Two by Two (1978).

1966; 1978

77 Rolled Set Designs 1964-1991




Included are designs for Uncle Vanya (1991), La Valse(1964), and Veronica's Room (1986).

78 Rolled Set DesignsIncluded are designs for The Visit (1963), Wake Up OldMan, A Water Engine (1983), and You Can't Take it WithYou (1966).

1963-1983

79 Unidentified Rolled Set Designs

80 Rolled Costume Design Prints

Oversize Architecture Designs


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81 Rolled Architecture DesignsIncluded are designs for the LDS administration building,garage roof and plaza slab, Utah (1962); the LDS Colton 2ndWard, California (1966); Gull, Inc. office building, Utah (1972);Park City Center for the Arts, Utah; and Silver King Restaurant,Utah (1964).

1962-1972

82 Rolled Architecture DesignsIncluded are designs for Valley Music Hall, Utah (1964); GeorgeQ. Morris building remodel (1955); Capitol Theater ground plan,Utah; ZCMI mall shopping layout, Utah; and Ballif's, Utah.

1955; 1964

83 Rolled Architecture DesignsIncluded are designs for the Salt Lake Memorial Theater mainfloor (1959); Royce Hall, California; Western State College LittleTheater; Professional Repertory Theater; and the University ofUtah Babcock Theater floor, Utah (1982).

1959; 1982

84 Rolled Architecture DesignsIncluded are designs for the Temple Square Christmasproduction; Yale Cabaret; telephone answering businessbuilding; Judge Memorial High School auditorium addition, Utah(1965); Brandeis Forum Theater; and the Boston Arts Festival(1963).

1963; 1965

85 Rolled Architecture Designs, Theater 138




86 Rolled Architecture Designs, Theater 138

87 Rolled Architecture DesignsResidential plans for Ballif and others.

88 Rolled Architecture DesignsIncluded are designs for Park City, Utah, buildings andmiscellaneous designs.

89 Miscellaneous Rolled Items

General Oversize Materials


Box

90 Oversize Babcock Theater ScrapbookThis scrapbook contains posters/broadsides for variousproductions performed at Babcock Theater.

circa1960s-1980s

91 Oversize Orfeo Framed Item 1960

92 Oversize Artwork

93 Oversize Artwork

94 Oversize Artwork

95 Oversize Artwork

96 Oversize ArtworkThis box also contains very large set designs for UncleVanya (1992) and an unidentified production, possibly TheVisit.

Folder

97 1 Theater 138, Broadsides 1980s

97 2 Theater Broadsides and Program circa 1970s




97 3 Miscellaneous

98 Set Design Model for The Tempest 1985

Mapcase-folder

1 Painter's Sketch for Charley's Aunt 1964

Names and SubjectsSubject Terms :Set designers--UtahTheaters--Utah--Stage-setting and sceneryTheater--Utah--History--Sources

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