Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Wild Boy for American Ballet Theatre for the 1981/82 season. The material in this file mostly relates to that production and comprises

1. Staple bound typed booklet American Ballet Theatre National Tour 1981-1982, giving details of venues, travel arrangements, performances and doctors in each tour city, 12 Oct 1981-7 Jun 1982
2. Seven pages of Rehearsal Call Sheets between 11.9.1981 and 20.11.1981 including rehearsals for Wild Boy
3. Typed note re arrangements for Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer, to see a run through of Wild Boy, 19.11.1981
4. Typed note from the John F. Kennedy Center Press Department with details of an interview by Richard Chistensen of the Chicago Tribune, 10.12.1981
5. Typed note from Nora [Kaye] to Kenneth and Debra, on Herbert D. Ross headed notepaper, enclosing a press review for Wild Boy, 28 Dec 1981, with envelope. The press cutting is stored with the other cuttings for performances of Wild Boy

Six page handwritten letter from San Francisco to Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan before rushing off to rehearse Kevin (McKenzie) and Martine (?), discusses new casts in Wild Boy, Mikhail Baryshnikov's lack of Artistic leadership, and her lack of plans for the coming year, undated

Six page handwritten letter from Chicago to Kenneth talking about staging The Wild Boy in Chicago without Natasha (Natalia Makarova) who will perform it in San Francisco. Lisa Houlton will perform instead, rather than Kenneth's preferred choice of Leslie (Browne). She reports of much sickness amongst the male dancers with Ross Stretton and Brian Adams being given opportunities. Also difficulties with management. She is teaching over the summer for Petrus Bosman at the University of Champagne Illinois and for Stanley Holden in Los Angeles. Mentions her family and their decision to sell their home in London and buy in Manhattan, 4.2.1982

This file contains correspondence between Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan, their Agents International Creative Management Inc., specialist legal advisers and American Ballet Theatre covering the terms of Kenneth MacMillan's appointment as Artistic Associate, for the performance of some of his ballets, and payment of royalties. There is correspondence from a firm of solicitors advising re US Withholding Tax, and from the Consul of the United States confirming Kenneth MacMillan's right to employment in the US