FAY KANIN   (1917 - )

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Plays by Fay Kanin

FAY KANIN

Anatol

1st Produced:

Birmingham: Rep, UK, EUR >>>

1956

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

doollee no

#72558

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

5

Female

6

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler. Adapted by Fay and Michael Kanin

Synopsis:

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Gay Life, The

1st Produced:

Shubert Theater, New York

1961

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

Original cast recording: DRG 1961

doollee no

#63484

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

21

Female

14

Parts other:

doubling

Notes:

Also known as "The High Life". Book by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin; Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Suggested by "Anatol" by Arthur Schnitzler

Anatol is a womanising playboy. He has decided it is time to marry and is due to marry Liesl. However of the morning of his wedding he is discovered in his bedroom with Magda an ex-mistress

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Goodbye, My Fancy

1st Produced:

- - -

1948

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Barlow, Judith E. (Ed.), Plays By American Women, 1930-1960" Applause Books, 1998

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1557834461

Music:

-

doollee no

#18600

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

8

Female

12

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

A woman returns to her old college to accept an honorary degree. She was expelled from the college many years ago when she stayed out all night with a young professor. The professor is now Head of the college

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Grind

1st Produced:

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n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

doollee no

#58066

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

15

Female

8

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

Music by Larry Grossman. Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh

Chicago 1933. Harry Earles Burlesk. The Company comprises both black and white performers - this is only allowed because the management have been paying off the authorities. Gus is the top white comedian in the show - but he is going blind and is trying to hide it from management and cast. He keeps loosing "stooges" needed for his act. In despearation he takes on homeless down and out Thomas Doyle. They gel and they start to perfect their act.. However, an on stage accident due to Gus' diminshing sight leads him to decide that it is all over and he commits suicide. Doyle is distraught and runs away and gets drunk. He is found by Satin the black stripper from the show. and she looks after him after he is attacked by a gang of yobs.LeRoy, the black comic in the show is jealous and attacks Doyle when he returns to the theatre this leads to racial tensions with the cast. Then during Satin's act a gang of racists yobs attack - differences are put behind everyone when they fight to defend each other.

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His And Hers

1st Produced:

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Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#55062

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

10

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written by Fay and Michael Kanin

Synopsis:

A husband and wife writting team have a succession of stage hits. When the hits dry up so does their marriage and they divorce. Both start writing a new play alone and both give it to a mutual friend to read. Both the plays are rather similar - so the couple end up in court again suing each other for plagiarism

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FAY KANIN

Rashomon

1st Produced:

New York

1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French Inc, New York

ISBN/ASIN:

9780573614927

Music:

-

doollee no

#55063

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

6

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

from stories of Akutagawa. written by Fay and Michael Kanin

Synopsis:

A trial ensues after the wife of a Samurai is assaulted and the Samurai killed.

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