LEONARD BERNSTEIN   (1918 - 1990)


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Plays by Leonard Bernstein

LEONARD BERNSTEIN
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theater, New York
1976
Company:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Studio cast recording: Deutsche Grammophon (289 463 448-2)
1998
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Synopsis: A history of American Presidents from 1800 to 1900 focusing on race relations.
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Candide
1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, NY
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
Collected Plays, Little Brown; Broadway
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Music by Leonard Bernstein; Book by Lillian Hellman; Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John La Touche and Dorothy Parker; Based on the novel "Candide" by Voltaire
Synopsis: Setting: Westphalia. Lisbon. Paris. Buenos Aires. Venice
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Lark, The
1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, NY
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
in ""Hellman, Lillian, Collected Plays"" Macmillan, London
1972
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh; Incidental music by Leonard Bernstein
Synopsis: Chapman, writing in the New York News called The Lark: ""a beautiful, beautiful play. . .It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church-but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh's way, and Miss Hellman's, is to try to tell the story from two viewpoints. One of them is how we look at the tale now as a piece of history, with our knowledge of how the girl's blundering captors unwittingly created a martyr who became forever a symbol of courage and faith. The other viewpoint has been to try to imagine what it must have been like to be Joan herself. Both approaches to this legend of the Martyr of Rouen have been splendidly realized by the technique of divorcing the drama from the confinements of time, sequence and space. Until the last moment-a thrilling and uplifting one of Joan's greatest earthly triumph, the coronation of the worthless Dauphin for whom she fought-there is no scenery in the usual sense, merely a few levels of steps and platforms,
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Madwoman Of Central Park West, The
1st Produced:
Buffalo
1979
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Phyllis Newman, music by Peter Allen, Leonard Bernstein and others, from play My Mother Was a Fortune Teller by Newman
Synopsis:
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
On The Town
1st Produced:
Adaelphi Theatre, NY
1944
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Based on an idea by Jerome Robbins; Additional lyrics by Leonard Bernstein
Synopsis: Setting: New York City. 1944 - wartime
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Peter Pan
1st Produced:
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1950
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Pantomime
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Written by James M. Barrie; Music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein; Music arranged by Trude Rittman; Music orchestrated by Hershy Kay; Music and Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein
Synopsis: Setting: The Nursery; The Never Land; The Mermaids' Lagoon; The Home Under the Ground; The Pirate Ship; Under the Sea; The Treetops
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Side By Side By Sondheim
1st Produced:
Music Box Theatre, NY
1977
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Additional music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne
Synopsis: A revue in two acts
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
West Side Story
1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, NY
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1959
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
22
Female
12
Parts Other:
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Notes: Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Synopsis: Setting: The West Side of New York City during the last days of Summer. 1957
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Wonderful Town
1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, NY
1953
Company:
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1st Published:
Tams-Wltmark, NY
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Music:
Original cast recording: MCA (10050)
1953
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Music by Leonard Bernstein; Book by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Based on "My Sister Eileen" by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov; Based on stories by Ruth McKenney
Synopsis: Setting: Greenwich Village in the '30s
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