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ROBERT ALAN AURTHUR (1922 - 1978) |
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Plays by Robert Alan Aurthur |
Carry Me Back To Morningside Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | Golden Theatre, New York | 27 Feb 1968 | ||||
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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 | #120479 | |||
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Kwamina | ||
| 1st Produced: | 54th Street Theatre, New York | 23 Oct 1961 | ||||
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: | ang-64891 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Angel (64891) 1961 | doollee no | #120480 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Robert Alan Aurthur and Richard Adler | |||||
| A West African village on the eve of independence for the country it is in. The chief is dangerously ill - the witch doctor can do nothing - but the white doctor - Eve Jordan - does save him. The chief's son Kwamina arrives from London he has studied to be a doctor. Ako and Naii are unhappy at his return Kwamina was betrothed to Naii at birth - but she has fallen in love with Ako. Kwamina goes to the hospital and causes a storm by going in through the Europeans only entrance. He and Eve quarrel over black rights. Naii and Ako run away. Eve and Kwamina fall in love. The runaways are brought back and the chief insists that his son and Naii marry. But he drops dead before anything can happen. The witch doctor insists that tribal custom be practiced - when a chief dies three others must also die and he had Naii and Ako killed much to the horror of Kwamina | |||||
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Very Special Baby, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, New York | 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1312 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Joey Casale is thirty-four years old, the youngest of a family of six children; except for a brief period of glory during the war, he has stayed at home all his life, never held a steady job, and lived on the allowance his father has given him. His father is a self-made man, generous with all his children, outwardly very fond of Joey and of Anna, the eldest daughter who lives at home and keeps house for her father and brother. The two older sons are successful professional men, and his father teases Joey about his lack of achievement. But Joey knows what he wants-he's not made to be a dentist, as his father wanted him to be. Joey is good with his hands, at repairing things. He and his ex-Sergeant have been planning for years to set up a television repair shop. The Sergeant has slowly saved his half of the money to start the shop, and Joey has never doubted that his father would advance him his share out of the family funds. But the father is hostile to the whole idea-Joey would move away from home, the eldest | |||||
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