LARRY GELBART (1928 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Larry Gelbart
City Of Angels |
| 1st Produced: | Virginia Theatre, New York | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Applause Books | 2000 | ||
Original cast recording: Columbia (CK - 46067) | 1990 | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: By Cy Coleman and David Zippel, Book Larry Gelbart | ||||
Synopsis: Pulp writer Stine is trying to write his first screenplay using his private eye character Stone. His wife wishes that he would stick to what he knows - writing novels but he perseveres. Stone in the script has been hired to find the missing step-daughter of a voluptuous rich woman. | ||||
Conquering Hero, The |
| 1st Produced: | ANTA Playhouse, New York | 1961 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Moose Charlap; lyrics by Norman Gimbet; book by Larry Gelbart | ||||
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Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A |
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, NY | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart; A musical comedy based on the plays of Plautus | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Two hundred years before the Christian era, a day in spring. A street in Rome in front of the houses of Erronius, Senex and Lycus | ||||
In the Beginning |
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan Theater Club, New York | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Maury Yeston | ||||
Synopsis: Adam and Eve had neighbours in the Garden of Eden. The neighbours got thrown out of the Garden too and they survived Noah's Flood in barrels. | ||||
Jump |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's, London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mastergate |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: satirical farce about a congressional hearing looking into shady doings between a film studio and the White House, yet another '*gate' | ||||
Power Failure |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
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Sly Fox |
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, New York | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1978 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Ben Johnson. play Volpone | ||||
Synopsis: Volpone is moved from 17th century Venice to 1900's San Francisco | ||||