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SHERMAN YELLEN (1932 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency |
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Plays by Sherman Yellen |
December Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | June Havoc Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #43930 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Gloria Temple, the beautiful widow of a renowned musical composer, has devoted her life to protecting her husband's name as a Broadway legend. In need of an heir apparent, she swallows her pride and summons her estranged daughter, Marcie, who fled to New Mexico years ago. As the rift between mother and daughter deepens, Marcie stumbles upon a hidden cache of her mother's un-mailed letters. Filled with dark secrets about her parents, her siblings and herself, can Marcie resist payback? | |||||
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Josephine Tonight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Building, Chicago | 2006 | ||||
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 | #103100 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Wally Harper; lyrics and book by Sherman Yellen | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Josephine Baker from the deep rural South of America to the toast of Paris | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucky in The Rain | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Music Theatre International, | ISBN/ASIN: | MTI9898 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43929 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Jimmy McHugh; lyrics by Harold Adamson; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; book by Sherman Yellen | |||||
| 1927 in a small newspaper office in Paris boy reporter falls for girl reporter | |||||
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Oh! Calcutta! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eden Theatre, Off Broadway, NY | 1969 | ||||
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 | #67755 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Conceived by Kenneth Tynan; Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg, John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan and Sherman Yellen; Music and Lyrics, The Open Window: Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele and Stanley Walden; Musical Director: Norman Bergen | |||||
Synopsis: | Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969. It proved, once again, that sex sells, running in London for over 2,400 performances, and in New York for over 1,600. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!", French for "What an ass you have!". Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. (The original director was Jacques Levy, remembered by most now as the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album Desire.) Most of the sketches (written, amongst others, by Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan himself) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka 'PDQ Bach'), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and in 1972 a motion picture version was also released - in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival at the Edison Theatre ran for thirteen years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history, with a total of 5,959 performances. | |||||
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Rex | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York | 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: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (68933) 1976 | doollee no | #64106 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Sherman Yellan; Music by Richard Rogers; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | |||||
| The life and loves of Henry VIII | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rothschilds, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York | 19 Oct 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Music Theatre International, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Sony (30337) 1970 | doollee no | #43928 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Book by Sherman Yellen; Based on "The Rothschilds" by Frederic Morton | |||||
| The story of the start of the Rothschild banking dynasty. In 1712 Mayer Rothschild returns home after completing a year's banking apprenticeship. His fiancee Gutele and he want to get married - but there is a limit to the number of Jewish wedding permitted per year. Mayer sets up shop and deals in rare coins. At the Frankfurt Fair he manages to persuade Prince William - after he has given him a rare coin - to allow his marriage to take place. Later Gutele and Mayer have had five sons - all work in the shop and all are excellent salesmen. Prince William needs an agent to negotiate terms of a loan with Denmark. Mayer offers his and his sons services. They go to Denmark but while they are away Napoleon invades and Prince William flees. Meyer sends his sons throughout Europe to call in all of the Prince's loans | |||||
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Strangers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38592 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | biographical exploring relationship between Sinclair Lewis and his wife, journalist, Dorothy Thompson | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This Fair World | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berkshire Theatre Festival | 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 | #127696 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Wally Harper; lyrics and book by Sherman Yellen. Also known as "Say Yes" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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