BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN (1930 - )
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Plays by Bruce Jay Friedman
23 Pat O'Brien Movies |
| 1st Produced: | Place Theater, NYC | 1966 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | adaptation of own story | |||||
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Car Lovers, The |
| 1st Produced: | NYC | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Esquire, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Farewell To Tanya, A |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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First Offenders |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Notes: | written with Jaques Levy. aka Turtlenecks | |||||
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Foot In The Door, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Have You Spoken To Any Jews Lately |
| 1st Produced: | The American Jewish Theatre in Manhattan | 1995 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 - 3 actors | |||||
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| Synopsis: | concerns the situation of two friends who are living in a deserted summer community(during winter) and discover that they are the only two Jews left alive in the world. | |||||
Mother's Kisses, A |
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre, New Haven | 23 Sep 1968 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | 12683 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: demo only | 1968 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Music and lyrics by Richard Adler; book by Bruce Jay Friedman. Based on the novel "A Mother's Kisses" by Bruce Jay Friedman | |||||
![]() | Joseph is 17 tall and gangly. His Mother wants to be there for him all the time - even going to college with him | |||||
New Bit, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Sardines |
| 1st Produced: | East Hampton, NY | 1994 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | starring Peter Boyle; another production Neighborhood Playhouse, N.Y2006 | |||||
| Synopsis: | A love story aboard the Spanish Armada with a Captain who has never been to sea; the ten-year-old bride he left behind; a ravishing mistress who steals aboard to chronicle his adventures; Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Drake, and a whole cast of outrageous characters | |||||
Scuba Duba |
| 1st Produced: | Off Broadway, New York | 1967 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Tense Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | In Richard Watts Jr.'s words: "&concerns the misadventures of an American in the South of France. His wife has just gone off with a black skin-diver, and he is trying to be very fair and non-racial about it, although with indifferent results. His next-door neighbor is a bikini-clad American girl, who drops in chiefly to tell him pointless stories. She is also willing to comfort him, but his main interest is dramatizing himself as interchangeably forgiving and vengeful. The other visitors include a thief and a policeman who, being French, patriotically takes the French thief's side against him. The fatuous psychiatrist shows up, as does an impossible American who thinks he understands other races. The wife and her two black friends arrive, one the skin-diver who puts on a bogusly genial kind of minstrel act, the other a romantic type who makes love poetically. They are a well-assorted and, on the whole, an amusing set of people." And, in fact, perhaps the most singular, hilarious and ingratiating group of characters to be encountered on the American stage since You Can't Take It with You made history of a similar kind in its own time. | |||||
Steambath |
| 1st Produced: | Off Broadway, New York | 1970 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Satirical comedy | Satire | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Life is a steambath and we're all just waiting for our turn in the stalls. From the author of Scuba Duba. The men's area in a steambath is a microcosm into which a girl walks, takes a public shower and then retires leaving the stage to two homosexuals who do a song and dance in lip sinc. After this prelude, a Puerto Rican gives orders to a scanning TV monitor which result in two car crashes, an act of incest and a theft in a bus terminal. Some of the wishes he projects are vindictive: giving one area more unwanted rain or throwing a dart into someone's eye. Some are erotic. A new arrival does not believe that this person has so much power. He himself is a trickster hung up on whiskey sours. There is a scene of transfiguration with beautiful lighting and music to make the audience wonder whether or not this is God. | |||||
Trial, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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