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STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama
Plays by Stephen Schwartz
A. . .My Name Is Still Alice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe, San Diego, CA | May 1992 | ||||
Company: | Old Globe Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc., 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134330 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A. . .My Name Is Still Alice premiered at the Old Globe in San Diego, moved to Second Stage in New York, and has since been produced around the United States and Canada. Dan Berkowitz is co-author; other contributors include Stephen Schwartz, Carol Hall, Michael John LaChiusa, Amanda McBroom, and David Zippel. | |||||
Synopsis: | A musical revue with a feminist slant; sequel to A. . .My Name Is Alice. Dan's contributions are the sketches: THE GROUP: in the conservative near-future, when abortion is illegal, four very pregnant women find themselves arguing with the Matron in the David Souter Home for Unwed Mothers. GROSS ANATOMY LECTURE: at the First Women's Medical School, a Professor lectures the students about the problems women physicians may encounter with male patients. COVER-UPS #1, 2, and 3 (the show's running gag): a woman lets the audience in on a top-secret new makeup which can make anyone - even a housewife from LaJolla - look like Madonna, Queen Elizabeth, or the Pope. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baker's Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles | 11 May 1976 | ||||
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: | tht-891 | |||
| Music: | Broadway cast recording: Take Home Tunes (891) 1976 | doollee no | #112410 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; book by Joseph Stein. Based on the film "La Femme de la Boulanger" screenplay by Marcel Pagnol | |||||
| Aimable has opened a bakers shop in a small French village in the 1930s. He has a much younger wife - Genevieve. Amongst the people in town that day is the local Marquis with his chauffeur, Dominique. Dominique mistakes Genevieve for the baker's daughter - but she tells him that she is a happily married woman. Later that night she runs away with the chauffeur and they take the marquis' Peugeot. Aimable bereft with the loss of his wife refuses to make bread. The villagers know the only way he will make it again is if they find and return Genevieve to him | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Captain Louie | ||
| 1st Produced: | York Theater, New York | 08 May 2005 | ||||
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: | ps-530 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: PS Classics (PS-530) 2005 | doollee no | #66608 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Anthony Stein; Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | |||||
| A small boy escapes loneliness by entering a world of his own imagining | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Children of Eden | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prince Edward, London | 1991 | ||||
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: London (828234) 1991 | doollee no | #63423 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Stephen Schwartz; lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; book by John Caird | |||||
Synopsis: | The themes of families, relationships, and learning to let go weave their way through 'Children of Eden' - a musical based on the first nine-and-a-half chapters of the book of Genesis. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Godspell | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Feb 1971 | |||||
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: | ARCD-8304 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Arista (ARCD 8304) | doollee no | #108376 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book by John Michael Tebelak, Composer: Duane Bolick (new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz for Broadhurst Theatre, NY, production 22 Jun 1976) | |||||
| Jesus and the disciples portrayed as a group of hippies. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 414 | |||||
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Magic Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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: January Records 1998 | doollee no | #119284 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At the night club "The Top Hat" the resident magician, Feldman, is about to be replaced as he is always drunk. His replacement, Doug arrives with his assistant Cal. Two members of a pop group who also perform at the club have arranged for a big Broadway producer to come and see their act. When Doug hears this he decides that Cal is too ugly for a magician's assistant and replaces her with the lovely Charmaine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pippin | ||
| 1st Produced: | CAP21/THE SHOP, NY | 2007 | ||||
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 | #64270 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Roger O. Hirson; music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | |||||
Synopsis: | The musical follows the young prince Pippin who longs to discover the secret of true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power. In the end, he finds it in the simple pleasures of home and family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rags | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York | 21 Aug 1986 | ||||
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: Sony (42657) 1986 | doollee no | #70093 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; book by Joseph Stein | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seance On A Wet Afternoon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center Theater | 19 Apr 2011 | ||||
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 | #127146 | |||
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Genre: | opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the novel by Mark McShane and its 1964 film noir adaptation, the opera focuses on Myra Foster, a trance medium who involves her passive husband in a plot to kidnap the daughter of a neighboring family. Myra intends to find the girl through psychic communication with her own dead son, and so gain the fame she cravesbut the plot goes awry, as her fragile sanity begins to break down. | |||||
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Wicked | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gershwin Theatre, NY | 2003 | ||||
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 | #62055 | |||
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Genre: | 165 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; book by Winnie Holzman | |||||
Synopsis: | musical based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. It takes place in the Land of Oz, and tells the story of many of the characters before Dorothy arrived. Elphaba, a smart, good-hearted, but misunderstood young woman will green skin, meets the pretty, popular, but snobbish Galinda at school. They become friends, and go on a journey together that takes them to the Emerald City, where they meet the somewhat corrupt Wizard of Oz, and eventually forces them to take different paths in adult life. Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, while Galinda becomes Glinda, good witch and ally to the Wizard. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Working - the Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | 46th Street Theater, New York, NY | 14 May 1978 | ||||
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: Fynsworth Alley (302 062 114 2) | doollee no | #61768 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with Nina Faso. Lyrics by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz and James Taylor. Music by Michele Brourman. Based on the book "Working" by Studs Terkel. | |||||
| A celebration of the common working man and woman. Based on interviews given to Studs Terkel for his book. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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