MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)
Really Rosie storyboard sketches
with Rosie speech caption “Those men!”
watercolor and pencil on paper
12 × 9 in. (30.4 x 22.8 cm.)
Executed c.1975.

cf. Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work (New York, 2013), p. 123.

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The musical Really Rosie, with book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King, was first created as a CBS television special that aired in 1975 before being turned into a live stage show that ran Off-Broadway in 1980 and again in 2017. The present storyboard shows a glimpse into Sendak's world-building for the initial animated version, showcasing a tableau of Sendak's early characters.