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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1969

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Comedy of Terrors

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Synopsis: To the neighbors Seymour Haber appears to be an exemplary son. Never a Sunday goes by without his dutifully trekking from his luxury apartment in Manhattan to his mother's shabby flat in Queens to spend the morning. Actually Seymour's purpose is not as filial as it might appear. His mother is a drain on the budget, a threat to Seymour's shaky (and wealthy) marriage, and a general millstone who has long since outlived her usefulness. So Seymour devises a number of hilariously diabolic ways to convince her that her faculties have deteriorated to the point where her demise would be a service to all. One other minor problem is that Sunday morning is also the time of Seymour's weekly extramarital assignation at the Plaza Hotel, a fact of which he believes his mother to be ignorant - which, of course, she isri t. However; Mrs. Haber takes a step toward independence by advertising a room for rent, and the tenant who drops in to take it proves to be Griselda, an English beauty who, it turns out, is also a high-priced

Broadhurst Theatre, NY

1959

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Notes: Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott; Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Synopsis: Setting: New York City. Shortly before World War One and ten years later

Shubert Theater, New York

1962

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1962

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Notes: Book by Jerome Weidman; Music by Harold Rome; Lyrics by Harold Rome; Based on the novel by Jerome Weidman

Synopsis: Setting: New York's garment district and the Bronx. 1937

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Synopsis: Is outlined in the Citizen-Journal: "in 1943 an American poet living in self-exile in Paris made several broadcasts to invading American forces urging them to lay down their arms and stop the bloodshed. This absorbing and disturbing play poses the question: Did he or did he not intentionally commit treason?&Simon Otway, the central figure, is so overwhelmingly in detail, so articulate, that he becomes the unwitting artist-on-trial and the ultimate victim of his own character. The trial brings about a kind of catharsisa mind-bending recognition of his real motives&As the poet on trial for his life and career, Grayson Goss is superb. His performance is a plea for artistic freedom, tempered with contempt for mediocrity. He catches the essence of an artist who has a superiority complex simply because he is superior." And while this superiority does set him apart, and even above, the question remainswere his actions harmful to other men, and are they punishable by the laws which all must obey? But the final outcome remains to tantalize, for there is no jury on stage during the trial scenes. The audience is the jury, and theirs is the decision on which a man's fate, and even the meaning of his life, must hinge.

46th Street Theatre

1966

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Notes: Music by Duke Ellington; Lyrics by Marshall Barer and Fred Tobias; Book by Jerome Weidman

Synopsis: Setting: In New Orleans, LA in the early 1920s

46th Street Theatre, NY

1960

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Notes: Book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman; Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Based on the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Synopsis: Setting: The island of Manhattan during the latter part of the 19th Century