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War Paint (Paperback)
Doug Wright, Michael Korie, Scott Frankel
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R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for
the first half of the twentieth century. Brilliant innovators with
humble roots, both were masters of self-invention who sacrificed
everything to become the country's first major female
entrepreneurs. They were also fierce competitors whose fifty-year
tug-of-war would give birth to an industry. From Fifth Avenue
society to the halls of Congress, their rivalry was relentless and
legendary - pushing both women to build international empires in a
world dominated by men.
Nominee 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Broadway
Musical
Nominee 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New
Score
Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Musical
Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Music
Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lyrics
Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Book of a Musical
Nominee 3 Tony Awards, including Best Original Score, 2013
For 10 hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can
touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing
but hope, humor and ambition, they'll fight to keep at least one
hand on a brand-new truck in order to win it. In the hilarious,
hard-fought contest that is "Hands on a Hardbody" only one winner
can drive away with the American Dream.
Inspired by the true events of the acclaimed 1997 documentary of
the same name by S.R. Bindler, produced by Kevin Morris and
Bindler.
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
From the Obie Award-winning author of "Quills" comes this acclaimed
one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques
dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes
of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay
and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural
hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to
discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once
a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth
century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a
survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the
obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss,
"Chicago Sun-Times").
Williams wrote: "This is a play about love in its purest terms." It
is also Williams's robust and persuasive plea for endurance and
resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine
Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican
cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev.
Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women's
college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and
her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin ("the
world's oldest living and practicing poet"), a family of grotesque
Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda,
all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. This
is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and
comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright,
the author's original Foreword, the short story "The Night of the
Iguana" which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted
Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. "I'm tired of
conducting services in praise and worship of a senile
delinquent--yeah, that's what I said, I shouted All your Western
theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept
of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot
continue to conduct services in praise and worship of
this...this...this angry, petulant old man." --The Rev. T. Lawrence
Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
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