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DWIGHT TAYLOR |
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Plays by Dwight Taylor |
Gay Divorce | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York | 29 Nov 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: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131301 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Dwight Taylor | |||||
| Guy Holden an American writer travelling in Britain meets and falls madly in love with a young woman called Mimi. She disappears and to take his mind off her his friend, lawyer Teddy Egbert takes him to Brighton for the weekend. Teddy has arranged for a professional co-respondent to be seen with his client so that she can get a divorce from her boring husband, Robert. The client turns out to be Mimi and she thinks Guy is the hired co-respondent. When Mimi's husband arrives he refuses to believe that she has been in a hotel room with another man. But the waiter lets slip that Robert has been staying at the hotel with another woman. | |||||
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Out Of This World | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Century Theatre, New York | 21 Dec 1950 | ||||
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 (48223) | doollee no | #128978 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Reginald Lawrence; Dwight Taylor. Based on "Amphitryon" by Plautus | |||||
| The Greek God Jupiter has become enamoured of a mortal woman an American Helen Kenyon and he comes down from Olympia to find and seduce her. Juno his wife is not best pleased she leaves Olympia to find and thwart him. Mercury Finds Helen and leads her to an inn and Jupiter in the disguise of her husband seduces her. Next morning Helen discovers what has been going on and rejects Jupiter's offer of immortality saying all she needs is the love of her husband | |||||
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