RONALD ALEXANDER (1917 - 1995)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Ronald Alexander
Accidental Angel |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | a young professor's been engaged a long time and one reason the marriage hasn't taken place is his literally explosive experiments | |||||
Grand Prize |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1955 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | tells about a private secretary, Lu Cotton, employed by and constantly trying to discourage the amorous advances of her attractive, charming millionaire boss, Mr. Robert Meredith. Lu's life becomes humorously complicated when Mr. Meredith forces her to appear on a TV show, and she wins the grand prize: the right to be her boss' boss for 24 hours. Meredith arrives at her one room walk-up apartment and suggests that he start working for her as soon as possible. Outraged by this invasion of her privacy, yet attracted to him, she turns the tables and forces her boss to become her domestic. She makes him rinse her laundry, wash her dishes, and shouts orders at him as though she were a five-star general. Meredith vows vengeance and the basic poor girl, rich man conflict is established, then further involved and heightened with laughter by the advent of Lu's bright, beautiful girlfriend (Kate Wilson) who loves men, and the entrance of Lu's ad-man fiance, who hates Brooks Brothers clothes. From this point in the firs | |||||
Holiday For Lovers |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1957 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Romantic Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | Is the carefree story of the Dean family-Father, Mother and twenty-year-old daughter, Betsy-from Minneapolis, who embark on their first European holiday, to soak up some old world charm and visit with a twenty-three-year-old daughter, Meg, who's been studying music abroad for three years. The situation becomes hysterical when they arrive in Paris, and the quick tempered Mr. Dean finds he doesn't speak enough French to make the elevator man understand he wants to get to the lobby. His wife discovers the fabulous fashions; Betsy encounters a handsome American painter-and love; and the plot complicates when beautiful Meg arrives with a charming, suave, French maestro who, Father is certain, has taken romantic advantage of his daughter. We follow the family to Spain, where Mr. Dean sees his first bullfight and is booed out of the stadium. We travel with them to Rome, where Mr. Dean learns to understand Europe-and his own family! The romance of the two girls in the atmosphere of Latin Europe supplies the chief inv | |||||
Nobody Loves An Albatross |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | As Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune describes the play and its central character: "He's a producer and writer of television serials, except that he doesn't really write any serials, they're written by frostbitten spastics he keeps in closets, and he really doesn't produce anything either, he just keeps dancing around his living room pretending to be as many other people as possible. Sometimes he is Toulouse Lautrec, popping stubby-kneed from his hiding-place behind the black leather furniture, sometimes he is Michelangelo, bestowing a kiss upon himself in the mirror, sometimes he is Father Christmas, sometimes he is Jack the Ripper, and always he is Ananias, the man who cannot tell a lie. 'This is my art form!' He coos in loving self-congratulation as he opens his arms to embrace the ersatz universe he has spun out of whole cloth, a universe in which busy people come and go to listen to his quick and glossy fabrications before interrupting him to articulate theirs." Included in this amazing array of | |||||
Time And Ginger |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Synopsis: | The setting is a familiar one: the former home of Ginger Carol and her family. But now Ginger is Mrs. Edwin Davis, with two children of her own, and a new generation is in residence. Ginger herself is as much of a rebel as ever, but while she believes in her daughter Winnie's sexual freedom, she draws the line at letting her boyfriend, Sam, move in with her. Her husband, Eddie, otherwise a conservative sort, thinks the idea is fine-and might even prompt the young couple to get married. The situation is further complicated when Winnie announces that she is pregnant-and while Sam now resolves to do the right thing, she rebuffs his proposal. At the same time, Ginger's teenaged son, Tinker, is giving evidence of being attracted to his own sex, despite his cozy relationship with Billie, the stunning girl next door. The only one who seems untouched by all this is Ginger's septuagenarian father, who pretends to be ailing and absent-minded, when the truth is that he is the strongest, and sharpest, of them all. Needle | |||||
Time Out For Ginger |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1953 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | According to the Herald-Tribune, "[The story] starts us out with a fairly staid banker who needs some sort of creative release and finds it in lecturing to local high school classes on the need for self-fulfillment. . .It quickly develops however, that one of [the banker's] daughters-the youngest of three-has been very much impressed by her father's exhortations. She has further decided that her own true fulfillment can best be realized by going out for the football team." Any number of complications result: the father's job is jeopardized because the bank president doesn't approve; the girl's elder sisters insist that their social life has been blighted-especially the sister whose boyfriend is captain of the football team; and the girl football player herself finds that playing football and being a girl aren't always compatible, particularly when her own boyfriend disapproves of what she's doing. After any number of riotous mishaps, the play ends on a happily tender note with the whole family going out to see | |||||