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Shubert Theatre, NYC

1975

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Knopf, NY

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Original cast recording: Columbia (SK 65282)

1975

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Notes: Book: James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante; Music: Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics: Edward Kleban; Conceived By: Michael Bennett

Synopsis: he seminal musical conceived, directed, and choreographed by Michael Bennett about a group of dancers auditioning for a Broadway show

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Samuel French, London

1987

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Comedy

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Synopsis: producer with sure fire commercial script but no credibility has difficulty attracting stars to play in his putative Broadway production

Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY

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Samuel French Inc New York

1976

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Comedy

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Synopsis: Jimmy Zoole, a 38-year-old actor, who has recently been robbed twice, the second robbery relieving him of the only copy of his first novel, is merely at the beginning of his run of bad luck. By New Year's Eve, the run escalates to a full gallop. He is fired from a play, his cat is on the critical list, and he catches his girl friend, Kate, packing to leave him. After she's gone, Jimmy, on the brink of a breakdown, discovers a burglar, Vito, hiding under his bed about to rip him off for the third time. Jimmy Zoole sets out to avenge himself and all of us for the perverse breaks in life. He knocks the burglar out, ties him to the kitchen sink and keeps him prisoner over New Year's. What happens when he does this is the upbeat story - by turns hilarious, shocking and moving - as these two disparate characters develop a most unusual friendship, interrupted by the return of Kate with her new boyfriend and later on by a trio of merrymakers who turn out to have more on their minds than just making merry. A darkly hued comedy, it deals with surviving and opening oneself up to friendship and new experiences.

John Drew Theatre, NY

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six summer theatres (Westport, Ogonquit, etc.)

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Helen Hayes Theatre, NYC

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Samuel French, NY

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Farce

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Synopsis: a whacky organization dedicated to righting the world's ills by summary extermination of all the nasty people in it. The leader is a blind man, and his present target is an erstwhile actor whose 94-year-old mother won't give him the money to pro-duce the play in which he wants to make a come back, and whose demise he therefore intends to hasten with an assortment of Gothic tortures. The UTBU leader has an arsenal of two devices: a devastating cane that's hard on shins, and some detonations which he is inspired to use on stage mothers and other assorted villains, and which have caused him to be headlined as the mad bomber. At the climax, the head-on confrontation of the UTBU leader and the actor is capital com-edy. We regret to advise the next of kin of both that neither survives the unhealthy encounter.