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Douglas Carter Beane

DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by George Lane

2013: Two shows on Broadway - a new book for Rodgers and Hammerstein's CinderElla and a new play the Nance starring Nathan Lane and directed by Jack OBrien. MUSICALS: Lysistrata Jones (Tony Nom, best book), Sister Act (Tony Nom, best book) and Xanadu (Tony Nom, Best Book, Drama Desk Best Book, Outer Critics Circle Best Musical); PLAYS: the Little Dog Laughed (Tony Nom, Olivier Nom, GLAAD Media Best Play), As Bees In Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle), Mr. & Mrs. Fitch (starring John Lithgow and Jennifer ehle), Music From A Sparkling Planet, the Country Club, Advice From A Caterpillar, the Cartells; ReVUeS: White Lies, Mondo Drama; SCReeNPLAYS: To Wong Foo, Thanks For everything, Julie Newmar, Advice From A Caterpillar. ARTISTIC DIReCTOR: Drama Dept 1994-2006, 2 Lortels, 2 Obies; HONORS: Lortel Playwrights Sidewalk, Ovation Visionary Playwright Award; LIFe: Partner Lewis Flinn, son Cooper, daughter Gaby.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Advice From A Caterpillar         As Bees In Honey Drown         Band Wagon, The         Big Time         Cartells, The         Cinderella         Country Club, The         Devil May Care         Give It Up!         In Your Arms         Little Dog Laughed, The         Lysistrata Jones         Mondo Drama         Mr. & Mrs. Fitch         Music From A Sparkiling Planet         Nance, The         Old Money         Shows For Days         Sister Act         White Lies         Xanadu

Advice From A Caterpillar

Synopsis:
Missy is an artist specialising in video installations. Her best friend is Spaz a performance artist. He is having an affair with an actor called Brat who specialises in performing Brecht and claims to have been in everything Brecht wrote. Missy meets a married man for sex whenever he is available. When her lover, Suit, is away one time Spaz suggests that if she just wants to have a sexual encounter why not have it with Brat as Brat is longing to try hetro sex. Missy thinks about it and then agrees. However, Missy and Brat fall madly in love.

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1st Produced:
American Theatre Works    1990

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Samuel French, NY, 1991   -

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Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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As Bees In Honey Drown

Synopsis:
evan Wrier has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he's not a supermodel; he's a twenty-something New York writer savouring the success of his debut novel. Defined by the media as the "hotyoung" thing-of-the-moment, evan captures the attention of alexa Vere de Vere, a black-dad woman of mystery who's made the world of celebrity her home. In fact, it's her religion. Maybe she's a record producer, maybe she's a film agent; what is dear is that she wants evan to write the screenplay of her life story. Just spend time with me, she says, and you'll learn all you need to know. To evan, who is gay, it's like an invitation into the world of auntie Maine, Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly all rolled into one. But once evan fools himself into believing he loves alexa, she vanishes, leaving him to foot the bill for all the dinners and armani suits they've gone through. Trying to find alexa, evan discovers a chain of people who have fallen under her spell and acted as her meal ticket. For alexa has no mo

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1st Produced:
New York    1997

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  flexible

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Band Wagon, The

Synopsis:
A washed up Hollywood star gets together with a classical director to put on a show

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Music by Arthur Schwartz; lyrics by Howard Dietz; new book by Douglas Carter Beane. Working title: "Dancing In The Dark" Based on the movie "The Band Wagon" by Betty Comden and Aldoph Green

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Musical

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Big Time

Synopsis:
Two down on their luck singers are employed on a U.N. cruise. the ship is subjected to a terrorist attack

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Music And lyrics by Douglas J Cohen; book by Douglas Carter Beane

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Musical

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Cartells, The

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Cinderella

Cinderella
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is coming to Broadway for the first time ever! Four-time Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane's (Sister Act, Xanadu) delightfully romantic and hilarious take on the ultimate makeover story features all the classic elements you remember - the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more - plus some surprising new twists! Rediscover some of Rodgers + Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including In My Own Little Corner, Impossible/It's Possible and Ten Minutes Ago in this outrageously fun Broadway musical for dreamers of all ages.

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Broadway theatre
1681 Broadway, New York, NY 10019    03 Mar 2013

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Applause Libretto Library 2014   -

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Genre:
fairytale

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Male:  14            Female:  15            Other:  -

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Country Club, The

Synopsis:
Soos, young, witty and charmingly neurotic, retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. the type of WaSP domain with the houses "that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish." as party after party unfolds, the getaway weekend gives way to a year, and ultimately the rest of her life. Brittle conversation is bandied about, and Soos is reunited with her onetime boyfriend, the ever charming Zip. She also returns to her circles of old friends: the highly strung party planner Froggy; the wry and sarcastic Pooker; and the drunken good ol' boy Hutch. But cracks soon begin to show in the veneer. Zip falls in and out of an easy relationship with Soos. He starts an affair with Hutch's nouveau wife. Lives are casually destroyed, lives go on and through it all, tragedies are discussed without being mentioned. as Pooker observes between cocktail sips, "We all have our little stories and nobody brings them up. That's what's known as community spirit."

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Devil May Care

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Give It Up!

Synopsis:
The cheerleaders set out to teach the football team a lesson and just say "No"

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn; book by Douglas Carter Beane

1st Produced:
Potter Rose Performance Hall, Dallas    15 Jan 2010

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Musical

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In Your Arms

Synopsis:
A company that has amassed an astounding 18 Tony Awards, 4 Pulitzer Prizes, 6 Pulitzer finalist distinctions, 3 Emmys, and 2 Academy Awards joins forces at the Globe for an exuberant world premiere dance-theatre musical! Ten of Americas best theatrical storytellers (the minds behind such hits as The Full Monty, Driving Miss Daisy, M. Butterfly, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) join director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, The King and I) and composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) to create a ravishing evening that glides, leaps, and twirls through the giddy extremes of romantic love. This unique event ranges across eras and cultures and tells its stories through the universal language of dance, from classical ballet to swing to tap to ballroom to jazz to flamenco and more. In Your Arms is as intoxicating as a sunset cocktail and as exhilarating as a first kiss.

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Music by Stephen Flaherty; Vignettes by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred UhryDirection and Choreography by Christopher Gattelli; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Conceived by Christopher Gattelli and Jennifer Manocherian

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Genre:
dance theatre

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Male:  11            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Little Dog Laughed, The

Synopsis:
deals with what Beane describes as "sort of the last taboo--which movie stars are gay?" an up-and-coming leading man and his over-zealous agent become entangled with a sexy drifter and his naive girlfriend

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1st Produced:
Second Stage, NY    2006

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007   -

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Lysistrata Jones

Synopsis:
the athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop 'giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end. In this boisterous new musical comedy, Lyssie J. and her girl-power posse give aristophanes' classic comedy a sexy, modern twist and take student activism to a whole new level.
- nytheatre.com

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Book By: Douglas Carter Beane; Music & Lyrics By: Lewis Flinn

1st Produced:
The Judson Memorial Church Gym, 55 Washington Square South, NY    05 Jun 2011

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Transport Group

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Genre:
musical

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Mondo Drama

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1st Produced:
Greenwich House, New York    09 May 2003

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Genre:
revue

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Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

Synopsis:
Meet gossip columnists Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels, when the pressure to create news in our never-ending news cycle becomes just a bit much, it's time to toss back the martinis, toss around the bon mots and realize that great celebrity can just appear out of thin air. This wicked, urbane comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2011   978-0822224693

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Play/Drama

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Music From A Sparkiling Planet

Synopsis:
Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early seventies, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the "future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than they really thought they could know.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nance, The

Synopsis:
A nance, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "an effeminate or homosexual man." In the world of 1930's burlesque, a nance was a wildly popular character, a stereotypically camp homosexual man, most times played by a straight performer. In the Nance, playwright Douglas Carter Beane tells the story of Chauncey Miles (to be played by Nathan Lane), a headline nance performer in New York burlesque, who also happens to be a homosexual. Integrating burlesque sketches into his Drama, Beane paints, with humor and pathos, the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930's New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his messy offstage life.

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1st Produced:
Lyceum theatre
149 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036    15 Apr 2013

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0822230779

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Genre:
Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Old Money

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Shows For Days

Synopsis:
In 1973 a young man wanders into a dilapidated community theatre. He is immediately made welcome by the troupe of actors - mainly because they want someone to paint the set. He stays with them soaking up all their craziness and idealism

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1st Produced:
Lincoln Center, New York    29 Jun 2015

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Gay theme/character full length comedy

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Sister Act

Sister Act
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be found - a convent!

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Music by Alan Mencken; lyrics by Glenn Slater; book by Douglas Carter Beane; Bill Steinkellner; Cherie Steinkellner. Based on the movie "Sister Act" screenplay by Joseph Howard

1st Produced:
Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA    24 Oct 2006

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Genre:
musical

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White Lies

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Genre:
revue

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Xanadu

Xanadu
This is a new musical inspired by the 1980 film of the same name. It's described as "a musical love story about the Greek muse Clio, who descends from Mount Olympus to Venice Beach, California in 1980 to inspire a struggling artist, build the first roller disco and save the world-all while roller skating! But when her forbidden love with a mortal threatens to complicate things, chaos ensues-and the '80s begin." the score includes the hit songs "Magic," "Suddenly," "I'm alive," "Don't Walk away," "Have You Never Been Mellow," and the title tune.
- nytheatre.com

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book by Douglas Carter Beane; music And lyrics by John Farrer And Jeff Lynne

1st Produced:
Helen Hayes Theatre    10 Jul 2007

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Original cast recording: P S Classics 2007

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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