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Musical comedy
Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden
Music by Cy Coleman
Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a
play by Bruce Milholland
Characters: 17 Principal roles, plus chorus (doubling
possible)
Whether performed with elaborate scenery or on a simple scale,
this brilliantly comic musical appeals to audiences everywhere. As
in the classic original, the story concerns the efforts of a
flamboyant theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe to persuade glamorous
film star (and former amour) Lily Garland to appear in his next
production while outwitting rival producers, creditors and
religious nut Letitcia Primrose. And all this before the 20th
Century Ltd. reaches NYC
"Spectacular, funny and elegant...civilized wit and wild
humor."-The New York Times
"A perfect musical...A gorgeous show "-New York Post
"A rare delight: a musical that tells a story and does so with
delicious wit. A hilarious American sequel to My Fair
Lady."-Hartford Courant
Comedy / Characters: 17 males, 5 females
Set Requirements: Interior
An irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in the
news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a
belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands
falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop
desk and phones his scoop to his managing editor. Their job is to
prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the desk and
finding their story. Some hoods are enlisted to remove the desk,
but they get mixed up with a Boy Scout troop and the mayor and a
cleaning woman, among others. It's a whirlwind wrap up with Hildy
finally making his breakaway, but the cynical managing editor has
him arrested before he leaves town for having stolen a watch he
planted on Hildy.
"Gorgeously melodramatic. One of the funniest and most exciting
of American plays." N.Y. Times.
"Fast, explosive, funny." ABC TV.
Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first
published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of
Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New
York during the Second World War and after. "His manners are not
always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting
autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being
intensely interesting."-Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time's
list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the
un-put-downable testament of the era's great multimedia
entertainer."
Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a
decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex
symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood
as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film
industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe
DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells
of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with
the Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as "the
kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty
bottle of sleeping pills in her hand." The Marilyn in these pages
is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was
far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on
screen. Lavishly illustrated with photos of Marilyn, this special
book celebrates the life and career of an American icon -from the
unique perspective of the icon herself."
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
The columns in 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago are scruffy time
capsules of an earlier Chicago, an era that is long gone but still
recognizable to readers' imaginations. Michigan Avenue, Lake
Michigan, street names such as Dearborn and Adams and LaSalle and
Wabansia, places such as the Art Institute of Chicago-they're all
here, sprinkled amid Hecht's nervous little haikus of urban life.
He calls Chicago 'a razzle-dazzle of dreams, tragedies, fantasies,
' and his tales capture gorgeous scraps of it, vivid vignettes
starring businessmen and hobos and cops and socialites and
janitors. . . . Thanks to Hecht, the Chicago of 1922 and the
Chicago of 2009 bump into each other, shake hands, exchange
greetings. Then, this being Chicago, they go for a drink and talk
about old times. New ones too
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