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PHILIP S GOODMAN
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a Good Man, was produced by The Vienna Chamber Opera in austria, in 2006 for a six week run. a Good Man was also seen in a staged reading at Musical Theater Works in New York, and was part of the 2004 Musical Theater Festival of the National alliance for Musical Theater. Goodman's new play, Is The Vigorish Enough? is in development. In summer theater, he directed Brian Donlevy in King of Hearts, and was advance Director of the Patsy Kelly-Jack albertson musical revue, High Time. a member of the Directors Group at The actors Studio, he directed workshop productions of his own plays, Love is a Candy Cane and This Notoriety Business. He directed the feature film, We Shall Return, starring Cesar Romero, and won Video Review's ViRa as Best Director 1983 for the interactive mystery, Murder, anyone? (Paul Gleason, Lea Thompson), also chosen as Best Video Program of the Year. among his documentaries as both writer and director are Japan Reaches for the 21st Century, Pacific Crossroads, and adventures in the China Trade. He wrote several segments in the award-winning PublicTV series, Our Vanishing Wilderness. He wrote television plays for Danger, NBC Matinee Theater, ,Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes), Suspense, Hawk (Burt Reynolds), and for the Peabody award-winning NBC series, Profiles in Courage, including John Peter altgeld (Burgess Meredith), andrew Johnson (Walter Mathau), and Grover Cleveland (Carroll O'Connor). For Robert Halmi Productions he was Writer of the North Pole: the Story and the Movie, Scarlett: the Making of an Epic, and The Making of Return to Lonesome Dove. His screenplays, School of assassins, Road Kill, and Table are under option. His radio plays, Wake for a Warlock, The Water, and aMPaC 6.44 were produced by Stage Shadows at the Museum of TV and Radio in New York City. Mr. Goodman has won over 30 awards including the Best Director award mentioned above, and others including Cine Golden Eagles, Columbus Film Festival (Chris Plaque), Diploma - Italia sul mare, Film and Television Festival of New York.
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Good Man, AGood Man, A
Synopsis:
Blacks have been leaving rural Mississippi just after World War II in droves. Not "Prince" albert - he likes it here. a poor sharecropper - but a strong and gifted farmer - he is proud of his leadership and standing. When he finds out that his wife is pregnant after ten barren years, he decides to fulfill a dream, to fix up and put fresh white paint on his little tenant house. That simple notion turns his world upside down. He soon finds out that many people, not only the whites in town - even his wife, his buddy just out of the army, his sexy sister-in-law, and his Preacher - don't want him to do it. Some are determined to stop him. as the cotton-growing season progresses, passions break out, and resentment and fear gather like a dark summer storm, shattering family and community, ending in a harrowing and unexpected act of violence which, in spite of its pain, brings a new bloom of love and redemption.
Notes:
Music by Ray Leslee; lyrics by Philip S Goodman; book by Philip S Goodman
1st Produced:
Vienna Chamber Opera 2006
Organisations:
amas Theatre
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