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GEORGE S KAUFMAN (1889 - 1961) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
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Plays by George S Kaufman |
American Way, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Theatre, NY | 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18674 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 24 | Female | 20 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Moss Hart | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1896, Martin Gunther, a German immigrant, sends for his wife and children so that they may enjoy the advantages of America. The play covers fifty years of their life as Americans. Martin, a cabinet maker, proves to be a man of such strong principles that he gives up a $1,000 order rather than refuse to fill a $1.25 order of a scorned suffragette friend. Later he urges his son Karl to fight against his own German kin in World War I. Martin's honesty and skill are rewarded by prosperous years, but he sacrifices all in 1933 trying to save his benefactor's bank. In 1939, his grandson, Karl, embittered by his inability to find a job, is about to join an fascist organization, when Martin intervenes. While pleading for a renewed faith in Democracy, he is struck down by the mob. Martin dies, as he has lived, an American, fighting for that which gives meaning and richness to life-Freedom. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Amicable Parting | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1957 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18675 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min sketch One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 dog | |||||
Notes: | written with Leueen MacGrath | |||||
Synopsis: | Has to do with Alicia and Bill Reynolds, an attractive young couple who have quarreled and are planning to separate. Right now they're in the process of dividing all their possessions, and quarreling considerably more in doing so-everything at all desirable they both claim-all the junk each generously offers to the other. The real trouble comes when the dog walks through the room-a fight over custody of the animal reaches really monumental proportions. Alicia walks out as Bill puts a sentimental record on the phonograph Alicia, who has furiously been labeling everything in the room with her name, reappears, with a label plastered on herself, labeling her as Bill's | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Animal Crackers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Forty-fourth Street Theatre | 1928 | ||||
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 | #39626 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by George S Kaufman with Morrie Ryskind. Music and lyrics: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. | |||||
Synopsis: | When a celebrated painting goes missing from Mrs. Rittenhouse's fancy house party in honor of African explorer Captain Spalding, her guests set out to find the thief in a series of madcap antics and exploits. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Band Wagon, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Amsterdam Theatre, NY | 1931 | ||||
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: | Original cast recording: Sepia (1056) | doollee no | #39627 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act revue Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Be Yourself | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sam H. Harris Theatre, NY | 1924 | ||||
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 | #39628 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 21 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Lewis E Gensler and Milton Schwarzwald; lyrics by George S Kaufman, Marc Connelly and Ira Gershwin; book by George S Kaufman and Marc Connelly | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar on Horseback | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, NY | 1924 | ||||
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 | #39629 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Marc Connelly. Suggested by Paul Apel's Hans Sonnenstossers Hollenfahrt. | |||||
Synopsis: | Neil is a serious composer but to make ends meet he writes popular ditties. Cynthia lives down the hall from him and is a terribly nice young lady and she has a thing for Neil. However, Neil is persuaded to propose to the wealthy daughter of an industrialist so that he will be able to carry on with his serious music. That night Neil has a nightmare in which he murders his fiancee and her family. He is put on trial and sentenced to write popular ditties forever. Seeing the error of his ways he proposes to Cynthia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bravo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyceum Theatre, NY | 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18676 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Edna Ferber | |||||
Synopsis: | It is a glamorous and entertaining comedy about a group of refugee theatre people. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Butter And Egg Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Longacre Theatre, NY | 1925 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1925 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18677 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man leaves the country for New York and becomes a very successful Broadway producer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Channel Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth Theatre | 1929 | ||||
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 | #39630 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Alexander Woollcott | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Classic Comics | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
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 | #39394 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner and Gertrude Stein; Music by Michael Rice | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cocoanuts, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, NY | 1925 | ||||
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 | #39696 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by George S. Kaufman; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin | |||||
Synopsis: | launches a string of get-rich-quick schemes to bail out his bankrupt resort. And although he's aided by a pair of goofballs, they mostly succeed in fouling things up. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dark Tower, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Morosco Theatre, NY | 1933 | ||||
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 | #39697 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Alexander Woollcott | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Deep Tangled Wildwood, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Frayzee Theatre | 1923 | ||||
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 | #39698 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Marc Connelly | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dinner At Eight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box theatre, NY | 1932 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Six Plays [Heinemann Edition], 1932 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18678 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Edna Ferber | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dulcy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Frazee Theatre, New York | 13 Aug 1921 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1921 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18679 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Marc Connelly and George S Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | Dulcy loves to meddle. She tries to "help" her husband land a big business deal. She tries to get a visiting millionaire interested in the wife of her husband's business partner. She tries to get a movie script writer to elope with her friend | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fabulous Invalid, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, NY | 1938 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1938 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18680 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 75 parts | |||||
Notes: | written with Moss Hart | |||||
Synopsis: | A series of romantic and comic episodes glorifying show business on Broadway | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fancy Meeting You Again | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royale Theatre, NY | 1952 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1952 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18681 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Leueen MacGrath | |||||
Synopsis: | In the words of Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune): ". . . an attractive and energetic female. . .has spent 5,000 years tracking down her man, without ever trapping him into matrimony. We first meet her in a wedding gown, in the year 1952, as she is about to make a marriage of convenience with somebody else. But she cannot go through with it." and she chucks the prospective bridegroom. "This is the cue for the first of several flashbacks, and we pick up our determined lass in the stone age, begging to be tapped by her negligent cave man. Later, we see her as a Roman slave-girl, still on the trail, hot for her lover whose current reincarnation has turned him into a shepherd boy." In her contemporary manifestation Amanda Phipps discovers that the art critic Heybore, who has come to interview her, is none other that the man she has been in love with for five millennia. Ultimately Amanda meets the fate she has awaited for so many centuries. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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First Lady | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box theatre, NY | 1935 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1936 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18682 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Katharine Dayton | |||||
Synopsis: | The conflict centers upon the feud between two Washington hostesses, who show no quarter in their struggle for the position of First Lady. Irene Hibbard, wife of a Supreme Court Justice, incurred the undying hatred of Lucy Chase Wayne, wife of the Secretary of State, when she stole the latter's cook. For revenge Lucy, to discourage Irene's interest in a young Senator, lets a false rumor circulate that the party is considering Hibbard for the Presidency. Irene immediately returns to the family hearth to "stick with her husband in his hour of need." But the rumor goes out of Lucy's control and threatens to become a reality. Realizing she would be responsible for thwarting her own husband, Lucy frantically tries to repair the damage. The battle between them rages at social functions and in congressional lobbies. When all seems lost Lucy gets a brilliant inspiration and with the help of the foreign office learns that a former marriage of Irene's is still in effect, the foreign obtained divorce not being recognized in this country. Using this she forces Irene to retire from the field. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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George Washington Slept Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyceum Theatre, NY | 1940 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1940 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18683 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Moss Hart | |||||
Synopsis: | The story chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves-and gets-"a little place in the country to call his own." Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted elopement of the daughter with a summer-theatre actor, and the usual invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt. It is discovered that the neighbor really doesn't own Newton's roadway, and that Newton's wife, who began by showing disgust over her husband's idiocy in wanting to live in the country, decides that he was right all along. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Fellow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, NY | 1926 | ||||
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 | #39699 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Herman J. Mankiewicz | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Helen Of Troy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Selwyn Theatre | 1923 | ||||
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 | #39402 | |||
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Genre: | Musical comedy, prologue and 2 acts Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 23 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Bert Kalmar; music by Harry Ruby; lyrics by Bert Kalmar; lyrics by Harry Ruby; book by George S Kaufman; book by Marc Connelly | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hollywood Pinafore, or, The Lad Who Loved A Salary | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18684 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Sir Arthur Sullivan | |||||
Synopsis: | Joseph Porter heads Pinafore Pictures amid a swirl of recognizable Hollywood types: Louhedda Hopsons, a gossip columnist; a veritable chain gang of imprisoned screen writers and "dumb blondes" looking to become famous; a devious agent; and Brenda Blossom, a love-struck starlet pining for a lowly writer, yet promised in marriage to the studio head by her father (a director looking to advance his own career). What's Brenda to do? If she marries the poor, starving screen writer, Ralph, she'll be tossed out of Hollywood and forced to make a living on (gasp!) the stage. It's too much to be endured. Fortunately, everything turns out for the best for everyone when it is discovered that a mix-up in Louhedda's column was responsible for Ralph's fall from grace. In reality, it was Ralph who was meant to head the studio instead of Porter. Upon this classic turnaround, happiness befalls each of the characters in turn-just what you'd expect from a Hollywood picture. | |||||
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I'd Rather Be Right | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre | 02 Nov 1937 | ||||
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 | #39869 | |||
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Genre: | Musical revue, 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Moss Hart; George S Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | Phil and Peggy are attending a Fourth of July concert in Central Park. They are downcast because Phil did not get a raise at work and that means they wont be able to get married. They blame President Roosevelt - who unexpectedly turns up. He promises to help them but he cannot balance the budget - he tells them to get married anyway - they will survive somehow | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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If Men Played Cards as Women Do | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39700 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The four men playing cards talk and act as if they were women. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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June Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vaudeville, London | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18685 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written By Ring Lardner And George S Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | talented young lyricist arrives in New York in 1929 to make money, returns to true love after adventures with money grabbing vamp | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Land Is Bright, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, NY | 1941 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1941 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18686 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Edna Ferber | |||||
Synopsis: | The exciting and picturesque story of a family of "Robber Barons," who at the end of the nineteenth century brought their millions to New York and founded one of those get-rich quick dynasties, which make our history a colorful pageant. The play dramatizes episodes in the life of members of the family from the 1890s on, showing the high spots in the lives of three generations. | |||||
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Late George Apley, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyceum Theatre | 1944 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1946 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18687 | |||
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Genre: | 3 acts and epilogue Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by George S Kaufman and John P Marquand. Based on Marquand's novel of the same name | |||||
Synopsis: | The Apleys and their in-laws furnish delightful and incisive comedy and drama against which we see George's two children, a young man and a young woman, each of whom strives heroically to break away from the shackles of family and tradition: Eleanor manages to do so and makes a satisfactory life for herself, while John, who falls in love with a young woman who had the bad taste not even to be born in Boston, is crushed by his father and all his father stands for | |||||
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Let 'Em Eat Cake | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imperial Theatre, New York | 21 Oct 1933 | ||||
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: | sony-42522 | |||
| Music: | Studio cast recording: Sony (42522) 1987 | doollee no | #39875 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by Morrie Ryskind and George S Kaufman | |||||
| The sequel to "Of Thee I Sing". President John Wintergreen is ousted and Tweedle Dee becomes president. Wintergreen starts a counter revolution - the Blueshirts and marches on Washington. The new president is in turn ousted and Wintergreen becomes dictator. The White House becomes the Blue House. The League of Nations takes action against him. | |||||
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Man Who Came To Dinner, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre | 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18688 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid; ex-convicts are invited to meals; and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. The arrival of strange gifts from his friends further destroys domestic tranquility. It would take a stoical housewife to harbor penguins in her library, an octopus in her cellar, and 10,000 cockroaches in her kitchen. When Maggie, his secretary, falls in love with the reporter, Bert Jefferson, Whiteside summons a glamorous actress, Lorraine, to win the affections of the young man. Knowing the girl's charms, Maggie enlists the aid of a clever impersonator who, affecting the voice of Lord Bottomley, whom the actress hopes to marry, asks her by phone to return to him and be married. The ruse almost works, but Whiteside, becoming suspicious, finds that no calls have come through from London. In revenge, Lorraine suggests a three-week rewrite on a play of Bert's in which she feigns great interest. Lake Placid is to furnish the quiet for his inspiration, and she is to be his collaborator. The unexpected arrival of a mummy case, just as the relenting Whiteside is frantically seeking to get rid of Lorraine, furnishes a malicious idea. Tricking her into stepping into the case, he shuts the lid and blackmails his host into having the case carried to the airport, preparatory to a round-the-world cruise. Whiteside departs from the Stanley's home triumphantly, but a second later a crash is heard-he has again slipped and fallen! | |||||
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Merrily We Roll Along | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre | 29 Sep 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1934 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18689 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 35 | Female | 22 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart | |||||
Synopsis: | Told in reverse order starting in 1934 and the opening night of playwright Richard Niles latest success and going back to 1916 and his college graduation. How he used his wife a famous actress to further his career. How he drove his best friend Julia to drink | |||||
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Merton Of The Movies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cort Theatre, NY | 1922 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1925 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18690 | |||
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Genre: | 4 Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | written with Marc Connelly; novel by Harry Leon Wilson | |||||
Synopsis: | story of American youth, an interesting commentary on motion pictures and an intensely human study of character | |||||
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Minick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Booth Theatre, NY | 1924 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 192004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18691 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Edna Ferber. Based on a short story by Miss Ferber. | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Of Thee I Sing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, New York | 26 Dec 1931 | ||||
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-65025 | |||
| Music: | Revival cast recording: Angel (65025) 1952 | doollee no | #39874 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by Morrie Ryskind and George S Kaufman | |||||
| John Wintergreen is running for President. His team are trying to come up with a campaign that will get him noticed. They ask the chambermaid at the hotel what she cares about the most and she says; "love". They decide on their campaign - they will hold a beauty pageant to find America's most beautiful woman and the John Wintergreen will marry her. | |||||
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Once In A Lifetime | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, NY | 1930 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1930 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18692 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 24 | Female | 14 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | Period 1920's, three down and out troupers go to Hollywood and try their luck with the newly invented 'talkies' | |||||
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Pardon My English | ||
| 1st Produced: | Majestic Theatre, New York | 20 Jan 1932 | ||||
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: | el-79338 | |||
| Music: | Studio cast: Elektra (79338) 1993 | doollee no | #115373 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by Herbert Fields | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Park Avenue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre | 1946 | ||||
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 | #39876 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Nunnally Johnson. Music: Arthur Schwartz. Lyrics: Ira Gershwin. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Royal Family | ||
| 1st Produced: | Selwyn Theatre, NY | 1927 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573614941 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18693 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber | |||||
Synopsis: | Three generations of a Broadway acting family. The matriarch Fanny Cavendish in her seventies but about to tour with a play. Brother Herbert a great histrionic player. Daughter Julie is starring on Broadway. Son Tony is a movie actor in Hollywood. Grand daughter Gwen is just starting her acting career. Tony arrives from Hollywood and then flees to Europe to escape a Polish actress. Gwen upsets everyone by marrying someone from outside "the profession" | |||||
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Seven Lively Arts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ziegfeld Theatre, New York | 07 Dec 1944 | ||||
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 | #131292 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Ben Hecht; George S Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Silk Stockings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imperial Theatre | 24 Feb 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Tams-Witmark, 757 Third Ave., New York, NY, 1955 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (1102) 1955 | doollee no | #39877 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows; Suggested by "Ninotchka" by Melchior Lengyel | |||||
| Soviet pianist defects whilst in Paris. He is taken up by an American showbiz agent who wants him to compose movie music. Three Soviet agents are sent to bring him back to Moscow - but they are seduced by the charms of Paris and the West. Their superior Ninotchka is dispatched to bring all four back | |||||
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Small Hours, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, NY | 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1951 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18694 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Leueen MacGrath | |||||
Synopsis: | A panoramic spectacle revealing in swiftly moving scenes episodes from the history of a well-to-do famil, and their attempts to establish a way of life that nearly ends in tragic failure. The play is a dramatic discourse on the value of standards of happiness and success. | |||||
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Solid Gold Cadillac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belasco Theatre, NY | 1953 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House 1954 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1122771564 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18695 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with George S Kaufman | |||||
| According to Chapman in the New York News, "begins with the annual stockholders' meeting and election of officers of a colossal manufacturing empire called General Products. Some new officers (old ones being moved up a notch) must be elected because the president of the corporation has taken a big government post in Washington and has been forced to sell his stock at a profit of three million dollars. The election is going smoothly and the meeting is about over when a timid old lady who owns 10 shares. . .asks if she can ask a question. She has read every page of the annual report and she wants to know why the chairman of the board is being paid $170,000 a year, and how many hours he works to earn this money. . . She puts one mild query after another, and pretty soon the new officers hush her up by giving her a phony job at $150 a week." She is to be a kind of liaison officer for the other minority stockholders. She takes her job seriously and writes chatty, friendly letters to the other minority stockholders-asking about their health, their children, and the weather, and makes solid friendships with the small stockholders. The officers of the corporation become a bit uneasy at this, and they're all set to fire her when she discovers that a small firm that General Products has just forced into bankruptcy is its own subsidiary firm! Using this as gentle means of prodding the directors, the little old lady keeps her own job. When the former president learns what a mess the current directors are making of his business, however, he resigns from his government job, and the big fight is on to regain control of his own business. Things look dark indeed, the wicked directors are about to triumph, and our nice old lady is fired, when the proxies of all the small stockholders start pouring in, and thanks to them the little old lady and former president foil the wicked Board of Directors. | |||||
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Someone in the House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Knickerbocker Theatre | 1918 | ||||
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 | #39873 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | With Larry Evans and Walter Percival | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Stage Door | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre | 1936 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1936 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18696 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 21 | ||
Parts other: | 16 of the 21 women are young women | |||||
Notes: | written with Edna Ferber | |||||
Synopsis: | The play concerns a group of young girls who have come to New York to study acting and find jobs. The scene is Mrs. Orcutt's boarding house, where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen young women are revealed in scenes of entertaining comedy. Contrasted with this are the cases of the girl without talent and the elderly actress whose days are over. The central plot has to do with courageous Terry Randall, who fights against discouragement to a position in the theater where we are sure she will conquer. One of her fellow aspirants gives up in despair, one gets married, and one goes into pictures, but Terry, with the help of idealistic David Kingsley, sticks to her guns. Color and contrast are offered by Mattie, the maid; Frank her husband; a few young men callers, a movie magnate and young Keith Burgess, the playwright who "goes Hollywood." NOTE: Can be presented in a single setting. Direction on this and instructions covering slight alterations in the play are sent upon request. | |||||
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Still Alarm, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | in The Little Show, Music Box Theatre | 1930 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39872 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The hotel is on fire but decorum and doing the right thing must be observed. One of the firemen thinks that playing "Keep The Home Fires Burning" might be appropriate | |||||
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Strike Up the Band | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tines Square Theatre, NY | 14 Jan 1930 | ||||
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: | Studio cast recording: Elektra (79273) 1990 | doollee no | #39871 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | With Morrie Ryskind. Music: George Gershwin. Lyrics: Ira Gershwin. | |||||
Synopsis: | Owner of the Fletcher American Cheese Co - Horace J Fletcher is outraged when Switzerland imposes tariffs on imported cheeses. He persuades The US government to declare war. Fletcher finances the war and has it named after himself - The Horace J Fletcher Memorial War. He sets sail for Europe to conduct the war - but there is a spy in his entourage | |||||
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To The Ladies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liberty Theatre, New York | 20 Feb 1922 | ||||
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 | #39870 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Marc Connelly and George S Kaufman | |||||
| n/a | |||||
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West Of Pittsburgh | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1922 | ||||
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 | #132571 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Marc Connelly and George S Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Can't Take It With You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Booth Theatre, NY | 1936 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1937 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18697 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 3 men extras | |||||
Notes: | written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman | |||||
Synopsis: | At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax. | |||||
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