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ALFRED UHRY (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ("Driving Miss Daisy," 1988), an Academy Award (Adapted Screenplay, "Driving Miss Daisy," 1989), and a Tony Award (twice, in fact).
Plays by Alfred Uhry
America's Sweetheart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hartford, Connecticut | 1985 | ||||
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 | #35177 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | from novel by John Kobler, music by Robert Waldman | |||||
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Angel Reapers | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street, NY | 29 Nov 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 | #134296 | |||
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Genre: | dance theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Alfred Uhry; choreographer: Martha Clarke | |||||
Synopsis: | Angel Reapers, a collaboration between Pulitzer, Tony, and Academy Award winning writer Alfred Uhry and MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient director/choreographer Martha Clarke, is a multidisciplinary work suggested by the life of Ann Lee (1736-1784), founder of the Shaker movement. Mother Ann, as she became known, was a visionary, mystic and powerful spiritual leader. Preaching celibacy, she demonstrated that through shaking and trembling movements, sin could be purged from the body. These gesticulating, dancing motions gave the Shaker sect its name. Angel Reapers is not biographical in the usual sense; the staging is more loosely constructed, slipping in and out of reality and embracing Ann's visions and those of her followers. The plot is woven throughout with movement, song and dance to bring to life this extraordinary 18th century woman and the singular world she created. It examines the contradiction between the prim prudery of Shaker tenets and the wild, sexual nature they suppressed. | |||||
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Driving Miss Daisy | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35178 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Slowly and steadily the dignified, good-natured Hoke breaks down the stern defenses of the ornery old lady, as she teaches him to read and write and, in a gesture of good will and shared concern, invites him to join her at a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. As the play ends Hoke has a final visit with Miss Daisy, now ninety-seven and confined to a nursing home, and while it is evident that a vestige of her fierce independence and sense of position still remain, it is also movingly clear that they have both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible-and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit. | |||||
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Here's Where I Belong | ||
| 1st Produced: | Billy Rose Theatre, New York | 1968 | ||||
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: | BP-67713 | |||
| Music: | Blue Pear 1968 | doollee no | #35179 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Robert Waldman; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Book by Alex Gordon; (Uncredited) book by Terrence McNally (McNally asked that his name be removed from the credits of the show); Based on the novel "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck | |||||
| Setting: 1915-1917. Salinas, California | |||||
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Last Night Of Ballyhoo, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Helen Hayes Theatre, New York | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35180 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Incidental music by Robert Waldman | |||||
Synopsis: | takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah (Boo) Levy, and their also widowed sister-in-law, Reba. Boo is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born and bred, and furthermore is of Eastern European heritage-several social rungs below the Freitags, in Beulah's opinion. Lala, however, is charmed by Joe and she hints broadly about being taken to Ballyhoo, but he turns her down. This enrages Boo, and matters get worse when Joe falls for Lala's cousin, Reba's daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are. | |||||
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Little Johnny Jones | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, New York | 1982 | ||||
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 | #35181 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by George M. Cohan; Lyrics by George M. Cohan; Book by George M. Cohan; Book adapted by Alfred Uhry | |||||
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Lovemusik | ||
| 1st Produced: | Biltmore Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Manhattan Theatre Club | |||||
| 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 | #64124 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Kurt Weill; Lyrics by Kurt Weill; Book by Alfred Uhry; Featuring songs with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash and Elmer Rice | |||||
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Parade | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vivien Beaumont Theater, New York | 1998 | ||||
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: | 09026-63378-2 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (09026-63378-2) 1999 | doollee no | #63222 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Book by Alfred Uhry; Music by Jason Robert Brown; Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown | |||||
| The true story of convicted murderer Leo frank, and his wife's crusade for justice. In 1913 Atlanta, Frank, a Jewish man, was convicted of the murder of 13 year old factory worker Mary Phagan. As the press frenzy and public hatred surrounding the trial grew, Frank's wife continued to campaign for justice. In a time of religous intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the musical explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds., | |||||
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Robber Bridegroom | ||
| 1st Produced: | Musical Theatre Lab at St. Clement's Church, New York | 09 Oct 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Drama Book Specialists, New York, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: CBS (P-14589) 1976 | doollee no | #35182 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Book by Alfred Uhry; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Music by Robert Waldman; Music arranged by Robert Waldman; Based on the novella by Eudora Welty | |||||
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Swing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1980 | ||||
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 | #35183 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music by Robert Waldman | |||||
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