FAY KANIN
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Plays by Fay Kanin
Anatol |
| 1st Produced: | 1956 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler. Adapted by Fay and Michael Kanin | ||||
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Gay Life, The |
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theater, New York | 1961 | ||
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Original cast recording: DRG | 1961 | |||
| 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: Book by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin; Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Suggested by "Anatol" by Arthur Schnitzler | ||||
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Goodbye, My Fancy |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Barlow, Judith E. (Ed.), Plays By American Women, 1930-1960" Applause Books | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 12 |
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Grind |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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 | 15 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Music by Larry Grossman. Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh | ||||
Synopsis: Chicago 1933. Harry Earles Burlesk. The Company comprises both black and white performers - this is only allowed because the management have been paying off the authorities. Gus is the top white comedian in the show - but he is going blind and is trying to hide it from management and cast. He keeps loosing "stooges" needed for his act. In despearation he takes on homeless down and out Thomas Doyle. They gel and they start to perfect their act.. However, an on stage accident due to Gus' diminshing sight leads him to decide that it is all over and he commits suicide. Doyle is distraught and runs away and gets drunk. He is found by Satin the black stripper from the show. and she looks after him after he is attacked by a gang of yobs.LeRoy, the black comic in the show is jealous and attacks Doyle when he returns to the theatre this leads to racial tensions with the cast. Then during Satin's act a gang of racists yobs attack - differences are put behind everyone when they fight to defend each other. | ||||
His And Hers |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: written by Fay and Michael Kanin | ||||
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Rashomon |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1959 | ||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from stories of Akutagawa. written by Fay and Michael Kanin | ||||
Synopsis: A trial ensues after the wife of a Samurai is assaulted and the Samurai killed. | ||||