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Don Appell

DON APPELL  (1916 - 1990)

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  


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below is a list of Don Appell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 And Mama Makes Three         Girl Could Get Lucky, A         Hot Shot         Kindling         Lullaby         Milk And Honey         This, Too, Shall Pass

And Mama Makes Three

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1st Produced:
Actors Playhouse, New York    03 Jul 1962

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Girl Could Get Lucky, A

Synopsis:
a taxi driver and a secretary, their romance, marriage and first months together

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1st Produced:
Cort Theatre, New York    1964

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1963   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hot Shot

Synopsis:
In an attempt to promote her career young actress unwillingly takes the rap for a murder pleading self defence.

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Samuel French, NY, 1977   -

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Genre:
Mystery Comedy Mystery

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kindling

Synopsis:
a couple celebrate their silver wedding anniversary in the honeymoon suite to try "swinging" in an attempt to rejuvenate their passions.

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Samuel French, NY, 1978   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lullaby

Synopsis:
Johnny Horton, a truck driver, runs away from home at the age of 38. He elopes to Scranton with Eadie Jackson, a brassy cigarette girl, whom he has met and married all inside of three days. He has done so in an effort to break away from his dominating mother. Eadie has "been around" quite a bit in her time, and it is during the honeymoon night that the realization comes to her that she has married a shy, awkward Herculean man who is nothing more than a momma's boy. The mother in the meantime has discovered Johnny's whereabouts and comes after him in an effort to avoid what to her would be a catastrophe. She arrives at their hotel the morning following their wedding night, and after threatening to have a heart attack, to jump out of window and to go to an old ladies' home, she is finally forced to concede the marriage. She manipulates the young couple into coming home to live with her. Eadie is reluctant to do so, but for Johnny's sake, agrees, hoping that it will all turn out for the best. From here on, the p

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1st Produced:
Lyceum Theatre, NY    1954

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Milk And Honey

Don Appell
Ruth Stein is visiting Israel with a widow's group. She keeps running into Phil arkin another American who is visiting his daughter. Phil invites Ruth to come and stay with him at his daughter's farm. They fall in love. However, there is a problem although long separated he is still married. They attend a local wedding and leave to be together. Later Ruth has second thoughts and leaves for Tel aviv. Phil follows and tries to find her. as she boards a plane back to the US he tells her he will go to Paris and beg his wife for a divorce

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Book by Don Appell; Music by Jerry Herman; Lyrics by Jerry Herman

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theater, New York    10 Oct 1961

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1st Published:
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Original cast recording: RCa (61997) 1961

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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This, Too, Shall Pass

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1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, NY    1946

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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