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MICHAEL FRIEDMAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
Michael Friedman has composed music and lyrics for The Civilians' Canard, Canard, Goose?, Gone Missing, and (I am) Nobody's Lunch, as well as music for many productions in New York, London, and regionally. He is currently working on an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with Annie Weisman for the La Jolla Playhouse, and musicals for the Kennedy Center and Huntington Theatre. He is an Artistic Associate at New York Theatre Workshop, was the dramaturg for the recent Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and an Associate Artist of the Obie-Award winningCivilians. He lives in New York City.
Plays by Michael Friedman
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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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: | ghostlight844432 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Ghostlight (844432) 2010 | doollee no | #97830 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | book by Alex Timbers; music and lyrics by Michael Friedman | |||||
| 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 | |||||
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Paris Commune | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshop at La Jolla Playhouse | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9819099-0-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55856 | |||
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Genre: | music-theatre documentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
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Porn The Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Center Theater Group | |||||
| 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 | #131411 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman; book by Bess Wohl | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Saved | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Mainstage, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #84186 | |||
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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 School-that is, until Mary's boyfriend tells her he thinks he's 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 she's 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. | |||||
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This Beautiful City | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96585 | |||
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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: | Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61243 | |||
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Genre: | 80-95 min Satirical musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 8 females (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 5-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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 seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs! | |||||
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