8532 - Madonna (3) Signed Photographs from ‘Speed-the-Plow’

Madonna (3) Signed Photographs from ‘Speed-the-Plow’ Three vintage glossy photographs of Madonna from her 1988 Broadway debut in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, each signed in silver ink by Madonna. The first is a 10 x 8 press photo by Brigitte Lacombe of Madonna and Joe Mantegna seated on a patterned couch in a scene from the play, the reverse bearing an affixed typed caption, in part: "Madonna and Joe Mantegna in a scene from 'Speed-The-Plow' by David Mamet...'Speed-The-Plow' opens at the Royale Theatre, Tuesday, May 3rd." The other two are 7 x 9 photos by Victor Malafronte of Madonna leaving the theatre on August 10, 1988. One shows her in a three-quarter-length pose wearing a sleeveless gingham top and carrying a handbag. The other is a full-length shot of her striding past a crowd at the stage door in a gingham top, denim shorts, and flats. Each of these bears a Victor Malafronte/Celebrity Photo credit stamp and an affixed typed caption dated "August 10, 1988" on the reverse. In overall fine condition, with light creasing to the larger photo. Mamet’s Hollywood satire ran at the Royale from May 3 to December 31, 1988, originally starring Madonna opposite Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver. Madonna played Karen, a temporary secretary caught between two film producers. Looking back in a 1989 Rolling Stone interview, she described the run as grueling: night after night she played a character unlike herself, the play's scapegoat, and toward the end of her engagement she was crossing days off the calendar. Still, she summed up her feelings as ‘I hated to love it, and I loved to hate it.'