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TOM ATTEA |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Tom Attea, when a member of the Playwrights Unit of the Actors Studio, had a ten-year apprenticeship in musical theater with Charles Friedman, the original director of the stage classics "Pins and Needles," "Sing out the News," the musical version of "Street Scene," "Carmen Jones" and other shows. At that time, Friedman had been collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein (who had died). Charles also found a young composer to work with named Arthur Abrams, who would become Attea's long-time musical collaborator. The trio collaborated on the revue,"Brief Chronicles of the Time," which premiered at the Actors Studio in 1982. This is Attea's fifth musical with Arthur Abrams to be presented by TNC, which has also produced one of Attea's plays, "Life Knocks" ("Great humor and ebullience . . . good, genuine laughs . . . Attea's talent as a playwright is evident." -- Kessa De Santis, PunchIn International, now with electroniclink.com). Attea has received a TNC/Jerome Foundation emerging playwright grant and is an active member of The Dramatists Guild. He wrote a feature film that was produced by Showtime and created a sit-com that was optioned by CBS, but he has opted to devote himself primarily to the theater. He holds a doctorate in the healthcare field but has always made his living writing copy for pharmaceutical and consumer advertising and now writes websites, too. He lives in New York and Connecticut.
Plays by Tom Attea
Abstinence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | - - - | ||||
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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 | #122166 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Tom Altea. Music by Arthur Abrams. Direction by Mark Mercante | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Brief Chronicles of the Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Actors Studio | - - - | ||||
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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 | #122163 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | wrote sketches and lyrics with the director Charles Friedman. Music by Arthur Abrams | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Capitalist Ventriloquist, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 06 Oct 2011 | |||
Company: | Theater for the New City | ||||
| 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 | #133887 | ||
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Genre: | musical comedy 120 min | ||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | |
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Notes: | Book & Lyrics By: Tom Att; " Music By: Arthur Abrams | ||||
Synopsis: | A timely and pointed new musical comedy about dynastic hedge funds, the demands of billionaire investors, misguided parental expectations, and the struggle of the son of an imperious hedge fund owner for self-determination. He's a mathematical whiz-kid whose father expects him to report directly to work after graduate school and create a trading algorithm that will protect the firm against lightning-fast computer trades, which sway the market to perplexing and perilous extremes. But the son's inner voice since childhood tells him he'd rather be a ventriloquist specifically, a singing ventriloquist. | ||||
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Dropping in on the Earth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122165 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Tom Altea. Music by Arthur Abrams. Direction by Mark Mercante | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It's an Emergency, Don't Hurry | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122164 | |||
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: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Tom Altea. Music by Arthur Abrams. Direction by Mark Mercante | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life Knocks | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122167 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Tom Altea. Music by Arthur Abrams. Direction by Mark Mercante | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Lincoln Plaza | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122168 | |||
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: | musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Tom Altea. Music by Arthur Abrams. Direction by Mark Mercante | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Living in a Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 04 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #111939 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | Music By Arthur Abrams; Book and Lyrics By Tom Attea. http://www.livinginamusical.com/ | |||||
Synopsis: | Living in a Musical is a contemporary story of a young man who is a song-and-dance talent in the tradition of Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. Not surprisingly, he finds that today's rock- and rap-dominated world has no place for him. To console himself, he has created an imaginative world in which he lives: the world of the classic American musical. His comforting but fragile illusion is most clearly represented by his apartment, where photos and mementos from the musical world of the 1930s and 1940s abound. The musical explodes dramatically when the world of heavy-metal rock unexpectedly intrudes on his otherwise rather placid life. One night, outside his doorstep, he rescues a young woman who is being verbally and physically mistreated by her lover, a heavy-metal bandleader. She moves in with her new hero, setting the stage for a conflict not only in terms of love interest but also between styles of singing and dancing, between the elegant life as portrayed in the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s and the earthier life of today's rock-and-rap world. The musical merrily dramatizes the joys and sacrifices of going your own way and believing in your dreams. | |||||
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