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Arthur Laurents

ARTHUR LAURENTS   (1918 - 2011)

Nationality:   USA    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  

Arthur Laurents (Arthur Levine), playwright, screenwriter and director, born 14 July 1917; died 5 May 2011. Arthur Laurents - Guardian Obituary >>>

Plays by Arthur Laurents

ARTHUR LAURENTS

Anyone Can Whistle

1st Produced:

Majestic Theater, New York

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Rodgers & Hammerstein, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

CK-2480

Music:

Original cast recording: Columbia ( CK-2480) 1964

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

4

Female

2

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents

Anyone Can Whistle

A town is so broke that the council will consider anything to make money. One day a small girl and her mother arrive. The girl licks a bolder and water pours out of it. A miracle. The town is saved.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Bird Cage, The

1st Produced:

Broadway

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A dramatic tale of a hardboiled owner of a night club, The Bird Cage, in which not only the owner but all the employees symbolise a phase of metropolitan life which is both ironic and tragic.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Clearing In The Woods, A

1st Produced:

New York

1957

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Random House, New York, 1957

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

With the help of her psychiatrist a depressed woman looks back over her life to see if she can pinpoint the moment that it started

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are

1st Produced:

New Brunswick: George Street Playhouse, NJ, USA >>>

09 Oct 2009

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc - New York (2010) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

78-0-573-69817-0

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are

Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, a play by the widely-acclaimed, Tony Award-winning theatre legend Arthur Laurents, is an intimate, emotional drama about a cabaret singer coping with the devastating death of her husband, while trying to navigate her overbearing, controlling mother-in-law and the aggressive advances of a sexually persistent, handsome, new suitor. Recently widowed Sara must comes to terms with her husband's death but is haunted by visions of him. Her fixation on his posthumous messages dampens her historically lukewarm relationship with Marion, her therapist mother-in-law, who is disturbingly pragmatic about the passing of her son. Sara's grief is also altered by Michelle, her under-appreciated sister-in-law, who is struggling both with her sexual identity and her relationship to her deceased brother. All is complicated by Dougal, a picture framer who is struck by the earnest Sara. Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are is a gripping drama about grief and the ability of a family to cope with loss. But at its heart, it is a play about love

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Do I Hear A Waltz?

1st Produced:

46th Street Theater, New York, NY

1965

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:

SK-48206

Music:

Original cast recording: Sony (SK-48206) 1965

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

5

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents; Based on the play "The Time of the Cuckoo" by Arthur Laurents

Do I Hear A Waltz?

In a Dolce Vita era Venice, a plucky American secretary, takes a vacation. Romance is in the air.

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Enclave, The

1st Produced:

Washington D.C.

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1974

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

6

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A group of friends have bought and renovated a row of houses and plan to move in as a group. One of their number has kept a secret from them - he is gay and is going to bring his much younger boyfriend too.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Gypsy

1st Produced:

Broadway Theatre, NY

1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Tams-Witmark, 757 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017,

ISBN/ASIN:

SK60848

Music:

Original cast recording: Sony (SK60848) 1959

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy

Rose with her two young daughters June and Louise tour American vaudevilles. The girls have an act centring on June with a backing group of boys. Rose has big ambitions for the girls. She persuades Herbie to become their manager. Vaudeville is in decline and as the girls grow up venues are closing. One of the boys shows June an act he has been working on and asks her to be part of it. They elope and start up on their own. Rose now makes Louise the centre of the act - but she replaces the boys with girls. One day they arrive at a venue to find they have been booked into a burlesque show. Louise says that as they are being paid they should go on with the booking. Rose realises that they have reached an end and accepts Herbie's proposal they get married at the end of the run. The lead stripper gets arrested - Rose says that Louise should take her place. Horrified Herbie leaves for good. Louise does go on but only removes a glove - the audience goes wild. This becomes the basis of Louise's act - never take everything off - leave them wanting more. She now restyles herself as Gypsy Rose Lee and ditches her mother. Rose is left embittered knowing that she herself could have been a star

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Hallelujah, Baby!:

1st Produced:

Martin Beck Theatre, NY

1967

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:

sony-48218

Music:

Original cast recording: Sony (48218) 1967

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden; Book by Arthur Laurents

Hallelujah, Baby!:

During the Depression Georgina wants to become a singer. Her mother advices her that Afro-Americans should know their place and she should stay being a maid. But she does try and after the Second World War she has fought prejudice and racism and become a famous night club singer. Her fiance back at the start of her career was a railway porter and is now a civil rights activist

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Heartsong

1st Produced:

New Haven, CT

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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Home Of The Brave

1st Produced:

- - -

1945

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A group of American soldiers volunteer for a dangerous mission to a Japanese-occupied island. One soldier develops a complex because he convinces himself that he has failed in his duty to a dying buddy. He imagines that being a Jew and the victim of prejudice in his own group is that fact responsible for his "cowardice." Under pressure of a tense situation, he becomes partially paralyzed so that he cannot walk. He is put under medical care, and with the help of his doctor and fellow soldiers, he is brought to realize that he and his comrades are essentially "just guys," with no difference determined by blood or religion. He recovers and faces the world with confidence.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Invitation To A March

1st Produced:

Music Box Theatre, New York

1960

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Random House, New York, 1961

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Written by Arthur Laurents; Incidental music by Stephen Sondheim

Synopsis:

Setting: The South Shore of Long Island, summertime

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Jolson Sings Again

1st Produced:

Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer Street, PO Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109 >>>

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Loss Of Memory, A

1st Produced:

Southampton, New York

1981

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Best Short Plays 1983", Chilton, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An American tourist is picked up by an Israeli. The American's older self remembers the event.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Madwoman Of Central Park West, The

1st Produced:

Buffalo

1979

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

drg-5212

Music:

Original cast recording: DRG (5212) 1979

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written with Phyllis Newman, music by Peter Allen, Leonard Bernstein and others, from play My Mother Was a Fortune Teller by Newman

Madwoman Of Central Park West, The

A woman tries to tidy up her bedroom whilst writing lists of things to do, having fights with her teenage daughter and reminiscing

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Nick and Nora

1st Produced:

Marquis Theater, New York

1991

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

ter-1191

Music:

Original cast recording: TER (1191) 1990

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr; book by Arthur Laurents

Nick and Nora

Nick and Nora Charles are in Hollywood to attend a friend's wedding. After the service they are approached by an old school friend of Nora's Tracy who is an actress. She wants Nick to investigate a murder - the director of her new movie has been arrested. Nick declines as he is retired - but Nora takes up the case. Nick does not think she will be able to do it - but tags along as her assistant.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Radical Mystique, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1996

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

New York of the late 60's when "radical chic" was in vogue a party to aid the Black Panther's Self Defence fund presents problems

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Scream

1st Produced:

Houston TX

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#20134

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Time Of The Cuckoo

1st Produced:

Broadway

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

5

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

elderly secretary on holiday in Venice finds man is married, face to face with the difference between American and European view of morality she seethes with conflict, she can have a short love affair if she chooses

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

Two Lives

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

4

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Matt Singer, a playwright and his long term partner Howard Thompson a landscape gardener are celebrating Howard's birthday. But tragedy strikes.

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ARTHUR LAURENTS

West Side Story

1st Produced:

Winter Garden Theatre, NY

26 Sep 1957

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Heinemann, London, 1959

ISBN/ASIN:

sk-32603

Music:

Original Broadway cast: Sony (32603) 1957

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Genre:

Musical Tragedy Musical

Parts:

Male

22

Female

12

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

West Side Story

Two rival gangs - the Jets and the Sharks. At the school dance Maria who is the sister of the leader of the Sharks meets Tony who is associated with the Jets and they fall in love - but gang rivalry means there wont be a happy outcome

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