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SUMNER LOCKE ELLIOTT (1917 - 1991) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Sumner Locke Elliott |
Buy Me Blue Ribbons | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10915 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jordan Sable, at 18, is a forgotten child movie idol, attempting a comeback via the stage. Against the advice of his agent and friend, Liz Kendall, he buys a swashbuckling verse play about pirates in which he plans to star on Broadway, hires a top producer and a female star and embarks on a colossal publicity campaign to launch himself in the play. He is abetted in this by Daisy, his mother, an overwhelming and dizzy woman who was once a Ziegfeld girl. His father, a hosiery tycoon, has always opposed Jordan's career, and the parents have divorced over this disagreement. During a hilarious rehearsal scene, Jordan is found totally inadequate as the pirate chief and is forced out of his own production, his hated rival replacing him and scoring a hit, which leads to a Hollywood contract. Jordan, penitent and defeated, vows he will retire forever, but Liz talks him into starting again, at the bottom, and he accepts a small bit in a revival of Hamlet," having learned his lesson that one cannot "buy" success. | |||||
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Invisible Circus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1946 | ||||
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| 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 | #99433 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Life on a commercial radio station | |||||
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Rusty Bugles | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190303 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52387 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Soldiers in an isolated ordnance depot | |||||
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