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BURTON COHEN (1935 - ) |
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Literary Agent: Harden-Curtis Associates |
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Plays by Burton Cohen |
Chang and Eng | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #75757 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Stephen Hoffman; lyrics by Mark Campbell; book by Burton Cohen. Based the play "Wedding of the Siamese Twins" by Burton Cohen | |||||
Synopsis: | Conjoined twins Chang and Eng made a fortune touring in freaks shows and circuses. They retire from the business and buy a plantation. They both fall in love with the daughters of a local minister. The townsfolk are outraged at the thought of the freaks marrying and burn down their plantation | |||||
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Great American Cheese Sandwich, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7391 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The scene is the kitchen of an "All American" farmhouse, where Father and Mother, abetted by teenage daughter Betsy (who is eight months pregnant) and football player son Tom (who wears women's clothes), are wrestling with a family crisis-the State Fair is approaching but Mother can't make her prize-winning corncob jelly, as all the corncobs are sour. Tom turns for advice to his football coach who, after due reflection sagely suggests that they "Wait til the sun shines, Nellie;" while the others offer bizarre soliloquies recounting the miraculous properties of the good old American Cheese Sandwich, which never fails to come through in an emergency. In fact it saves the day once more, when it is decided that their entry for the Fair will be American Cheese Sandwich Jelly-whereupon happiness is restored and all huddle together for a family portrait smiling in unison and saying Cheese! as the flashbulb pops. | |||||
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Jackie Lantern's Hallowe'en Revenge | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780822205876 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7392 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | It's Hallowe'en night and trouble's brewing on the porch of a "typical" American farmhouse, where a jack-o'-lantern named "Jackie" glows and flickers diabolically. Mother and Father, daughter Betsy, and son Tom, are getting ready for a local masquerade party when the Sheriff arrives with bad news. He's been sent to the farmhouse to find out "whodunnit," even though he isn't sure what it is the culprit "dun." The family is immediately wracked with guilt, certain that one of them has committed a heinous crime. Mother and Father suspect that Tom is the guilty party, and attempt to drown him. Then Mother tries to wing Betsy with a shotgun. And Father, aping the investigations he's seen in the movies, persuades the others into making lurid confessions, including, finally, Mother's tortured admission that "I did it and I'm glad!" What she did, it turns out, was to find Betsy and Tom in a sack at the train station many years before, and to claim that they were her own children. Her revelation throws the family into | |||||
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Sweet Revenge of Louisa Mae, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75758 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Stephen Hoffman; lyrics by Mark Campbell; book by Burton Cohen. Based on the thrillers by Louisa Mae Alcott | |||||
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Wedding Of The Siamese Twins, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7393 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Having amassed a considerable fortune through their world tours, Chang and Eng, the renowned Siamese twins (who were born connected by a band of flesh in the breastbone area) decide to settle in North Carolina, where they buy a prosperous farm. They are also hopeful of finding suitable wives, and when the Yates sisters, Sally and Adelaide, appear on the scene, the two brothers are smitten. Wooing the sisters proves easier than convincing their skeptical parents that the two "freaks" would be suitable husbands, but the lack of other suitors and the fact of Chang and Eng's obvious wealth soon tip the scales-and lead on to an unique double union which produces a total of twenty-one children. The brothers had long since developed an ability to "go away" from each other when privacy demanded, to achieve a state of detached oblivion which gives them as much "separateness" as their physical situation will permit, and this allows their marriages to work. But, in time, Chang and Eng begin to weary of touring and of be | |||||
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