Excellent question, sad answer.
None online that I know of. A university library, especially in a school with a strong
theatre dept.,
may have back issues of
Theatre Crafts and
Lighting Dimensions, at least they did in 1980! A fellow named Beeb Salzer used to write an entertaining regular column for
Lighting Dimensions titled "From the
Balcony Rail." It was almost more gossip than informative. I remember one of his comments, (paraphrasing): "The latest trend on Broadway this year seems to be the use of Congo Blue, with a transmission factor or around 2%, requiring multitudes of 2K Fresnels." This was probably about 1982. When I saw Noise/Funk on Broadway in 1996, Jules Fisher (your idol? Mine too, along with Billington. Where did Fisher's quote come from?) had loaded up the box booms with 405s and PAR64-VNSPs, all with Devon 146 glass. Must have been 30 units total.
Anyhow, the mags used to print complete light plots, sometimes across two pages. Lately when the currents ones include a
plot at all, it's a cropped version, or so small that even my 10x lupe just shows pixelation. Since the Diazos deteriorate and yellow so quickly with age, copies are not-viable; and the original vellums in each designer's studio may have been tossed or lost.
You might try contacting the designers directly, or get in touch with Ted Mather or Vivian Leone. Most Broadway LDs went
CAD in the late'80s/early'90s, but probably no longer have the software or computers to print the proprietary files. I've recently lost the ability to print all my Blueprint files (.bp5) as Blueprint will not run on anything >
Mac OS 9.4 and I have no printer <OS X. Even Blueprint's great-grandchild,
Vectorworks, can't open them.
Confidentiality/proprietary issues also arise, more today than in the era to which I think you're referring, but still.
I bet Steveterry may offer some help to this thread.
I'll leave the lights on for ya.