MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Michael Friedman
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | book by Alex Timbers; music and lyrics by Michael Friedman | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version is a fast-paced entertainment that takes a sharp, irreverent look at America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson. This satirical epic reveals questions about the country we live in and the leaders we choose - press release | |||||
Paris Commune |
| 1st Produced: | workshop at La Jolla Playhouse | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Civilians: An Anthology of Six Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN | 978-0-9819099-0-5 | |||
| 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: | music-theatre documentary | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | written by Steven Cosson, Michael Friedman. Collected for the first time in one volume are six inventive theater pieces created by Obie Award-winning theater company The Civilians. Based on the creative investigation of actual experience, and often intertwined with experimental cabaret, their pieces are boldly theatrical and always unique -- from a story about a Hollywood movie and a lost flock of geese (Canard, Canard, Goose?); to a tale about things lost and found, charting a musical landscape of loss (Gone Missing); to a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture, asking a thorny question: how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? ((I Am) Nobody's Lunch). | |||||
 | With actual songs from the period and a text constructed from primary historical materials, Paris Commune employs a bold theatrical form to tell the story of the Parisian uprising of 1871 -the first socialist revolution in Europe. | |||||
Saved |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Mainstage, NY | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music and lyrics by Michael Friedman; book and lyrics by John Dempsey and Rinne Groff | |||||
| Synopsis: | In Saved, good girl Mary and her domineering best friend Hilary Faye are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High Schoolthat is, until Marys boyfriend tells her he thinks hes gay. When Jesus appears in a vision, and Mary heeds his message "to do everything she can to help him," her good deeds are met with dire consequences, and Mary is forced to question everything shes ever believed. Through it all, she finds faith in unexpected places and learns what it truly means to be saved. This new musical is based on the recent film of the same name. - nytheatre.com | |||||
This Beautiful City |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | written by Steven Cosson, Michael Friedman, and Jim Lewis. Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
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Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscrips, Inc - 863, 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 musical comedy | Satire | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | 8 females, 8 males; Running time: 80-95 mins | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The Astounding Krispinsky! The All-American Feminem! The Amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly Amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned se | |||||