JEROME LAWRENCE (1915 - 2004)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jerome Lawrence
Angels Weep, The |
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| 1st Published: | in Studies in American Drama 1945 to the Present, Columbus, Ohio | 1992 | ||
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Annie Laurie |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Harms, Inc. c/o Warner Bros., Inc., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019 | - | ||
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| Genre: | Musicplay | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Auntie Mame |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1956 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Vanguard Press, New York | 1957 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 25 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | 3 boys (these include numerous bit parts, and extensive doubling is possible): 20 total | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee, aka Mame, work by Patrick Dennis | ||||
Synopsis: This fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America's most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that's been sought after ever since. "Auntie Mame was a handsome, sparkling, scatterbrained and warm-hearted lady who brightened the American landscape from 1928 to the immediate past by her whimsical gaiety, her slightly madcap adventures and her devotion to her young nephew, who grew up to be Patrick Dennis. Through fortunes that rose and fell and a pleasant but brief marriage to a likable Southerner, who had the bad luck to tumble down from the Matterhorn, Auntie Mame's chief concern was that nephew, whom she raised&[the play's] central figure is a woman of spirit, innate kindness and undefeatable courage&"-NY Post. | ||||
Call On Kuprin, A |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1961 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Robert E Lee, novel by Maurice Edelman | ||||
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Checkmate |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Melodrama | Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee; novel by Maurice Edelman | ||||
Synopsis: an American tourist in Russian during the cold war endeavours to help old university friend defect | ||||
City Has Lost Its Angels, The |
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| 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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Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Crocodile Smile, The |
| 1st Produced: | Flatrock, North Carolina | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 boy, extras | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee. As The Laugh maker, Hollywood, 1952. as Turn On The Night, Philadelphia, 1962 | ||||
Synopsis: Tells of two inspired French comedians, both popular favorites. A beautiful woman, in love with both of them, agrees to build them their ideal theatre. Then the rivalry begins: for she agrees to marry the "better actor." In tour-de-force roles which truly give actors a chance to show their talents, each goes to extravagant extremes to prove his mettle. The second act brings the deeply human awareness that genius cannot be handed over, gift-wrapped, to another generation. It is a fierce indictment against retirement, and offers a challenge to continue living in the living theatre | ||||
Dear World |
| 1st Produced: | Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Sony (48220) | 1969 | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux (The Madwoman of Chaillot); with Robert E Lee, music by Jerry Herman | ||||
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Diamond Orchid |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee, aka Sparks Fly Upwards | ||||
Synopsis: Even in her early days as an obscure radio actress, the natively keen-minded Felicia exploits every opportunity to obtain personal recognition. She meets a young army Colonel, who launches her into the stratosphere of society, and who, after a coup, becomes President of the Republic. Arranging to become his wife and the First Lady, Felicia accumulates more and more power for herself, becoming lady bountiful to her adoring "Strongbacks." She begins to overshadow her husband, dominating the wealth and politics of her country and moving toward a kind of sainthood which will make her position unassailable. But despite her triumphant rise, Felicia is unable to gain what she wants most-acceptance by the social and intellectual elite of the nation. Rejection by the Pope is the final indignity which breaks her spirit and health. Her husband falls heir to an empty empire; as the play ends, there are intimations that, without her exotic aura, all will be lost as quickly and dramatically as it was created. | ||||
Dilly |
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| 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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Notes: score, Vernon Duke, Lawrence & Lee | ||||
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Eclipse |
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| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Familiar Stranger, The |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Harms, Inc. c/o Warner Bros., Inc., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019 | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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First Monday In October |
| 1st Produced: | Cleveland | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: confrontation as President appoints a conservative woman to the previously exclusive all male Supreme court | ||||
Gang's All Here, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | World, Cleveland | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: Hastings, the easy going President in the White House, presides over corruption | ||||
Houseboat in Kashmir |
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| 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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Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Incomparable Max, The |
| 1st Produced: | Abingdon, Virginia | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Hill and Wang, New York | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: The play begins with the appearance of "the incomparable Max" himself-critic, wit, caricaturist and satirist of matchless brilliance. The action then moves smoothly on to Max's encounter with Enoch Soames, a down-and-out poet whose arrogance far outstrips his accomplishments. But Soames, convinced of his genius, makes a pact with the devil to discover what posterity will say of him one hundred years hence. His ensuing adventure, which takes him to the eerily computerized reading room of the British Museum in 1997, is funny, touching, and concluded with the kind of masterly ironic twist for which the Beerbohm stories are so justly celebrated. In the second portion of the play, Max meets one A.V. Laider, a young man deeply interested in palmistry, and the glimpses of the future it reputedly can provide. Their casual discussion of the subject turns steadily more gripping-and horrifying-as the action of the play depicts the dreadful moment when Laider, aware that a train is about to be wrecked, lacked the will po | ||||
Inherit The Wind |
| 1st Produced: | Dallas TX | 1955 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1955 | ||
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| Genre: | Human Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: The critics talk about the play: "Magnificently written&one of the most exciting dramas of the last decade." -NY News. "A tidal wave of a drama&More than any other play in memory based on history and aiming at a contemporary parallel, INHERIT THE WIND makes its point immediately applicable." -NY World-Telegram & Sun. "A new play of power, humanity and universal truth." -Dallas Morning News. "Brilliant&a colorful, picturesque and absorbing exciting essay in dramatic Americana&As exciting and absorbing a show as we have been privileged to see in recent seasons." -NY Post. "A masterpiece. This is the test: to see a play once, twice, three times. And each time to leave the theatre as deeply moved, as enlightened, as lifted up, as magnificently entertained. And as convinced that it is one of the truly great American dramas of this century." -Columbus, Ohio, Citizen. | ||||
Inside A Kid's Head |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Radio Drama in Action, ed Erik Barnouw, Farrar and Rinehart, NY | 1945 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
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Jabberwock |
| 1st Produced: | Columbus, Ohio | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 26 | Female | 17 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: Improbabilities Lived And Imagined By James Thurber In The Fictional City Of Columbus, Ohio | ||||
Laugh Maker, The |
| 1st Produced: | Hollywood | 1952 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1972 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 boy, extras | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee. As The Laugh maker, Hollywood, 1952. as Turn On The Night, Philadelphia, 1962 | ||||
Synopsis: Tells of two inspired French comedians, both popular favorites. A beautiful woman, in love with both of them, agrees to build them their ideal theatre. Then the rivalry begins: for she agrees to marry the "better actor." In tour-de-force roles which truly give actors a chance to show their talents, each goes to extravagant extremes to prove his mettle. The second act brings the deeply human awareness that genius cannot be handed over, gift-wrapped, to another generation. It is a fierce indictment against retirement, and offers a challenge to continue living in the living theatre | ||||
Laugh, God! |
| 1st Produced: | Ohio State University, OH | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Six Anti-Nazi One Act Plays, Contemporary Play Publications, NY | 1939 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Live Spelled Backwards |
| 1st Produced: | Beverley Hills, California | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1970 | ||
| 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: | Moral Immorality Play 1 Act | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The scene is the American Bar in a sleepy Moroccan town, where a varied group of jaded expatriates gathers each evening seeking respite from the emptiness of their existence. This evening the bartender, Frank, offers them a special treat-a variety of mind-enhancing drugs. Accepting eagerly they are soon experiencing the eerie thrill of expanded awareness, until Frank announces that it is all a hoax, and drugs merely harmless powder. Their reactions vary from anger, to disenchantment, to a sudden determination to return to the mainstream of life. But there are also those who defy his allegation and cling desperately to the joyous release the "drugs" have brought them. As the play ends, an uncertain Frank tentatively samples his own wares-and slowly but surely begins to experience the unearthly sensations for which he had scoffed at the others. | ||||
Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' |
| 1st Produced: | Adelphi Theatre, New York | 1948 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Decca (B0003571-02) | 1948 | |||
| 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 Hugh Martin; lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence; book by Robert E Lee | ||||
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Mame |
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, New York | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Random House, NY | 1967 | ||
Original cast recording: Columbia (3000) | 1966 | |||
| 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 | 25 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | 3 boys (these include numerous bit parts, and extensive doubling is possible): 20 total | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee, aka Mame, work by Patrick Dennis | ||||
Synopsis: This fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America's most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that's been sought after ever since. "Auntie Mame was a handsome, sparkling, scatterbrained and warm-hearted lady who brightened the American landscape from 1928 to the immediate past by her whimsical gaiety, her slightly madcap adventures and her devotion to her young nephew, who grew up to be Patrick Dennis. Through fortunes that rose and fell and a pleasant but brief marriage to a likable Southerner, who had the bad luck to tumble down from the Matterhorn, Auntie Mame's chief concern was that nephew, whom she raised&[the play's] central figure is a woman of spirit, innate kindness and undefeatable courage&"-NY Post. | ||||
Night Thoreau Spent In Jail, The |
| 1st Produced: | Columbus, Ohio | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Hill and Wang, New York | 1970 | ||
| 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: | - | Biographical | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee | ||||
Synopsis: The most produced play of our time: the long journey of the soul of Henry David Thoreau from being a hermit to rejoining the human race - during his one night in jail. | ||||
Only In America |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1960 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robert E Lee, work by Harry Golden | ||||
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Paris, France |
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| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Roaring Camp |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA | - | ||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music, Dvorak; lyrics, Lawrence & Lee | ||||
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Shangri-La |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1956 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Morris Music, New York | 1956 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Robert E Lee and James Hilton, music by Harry warren, novel Lost Horizon by Hilton | ||||
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Short and Sweet |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Robert E Lee and Jerome Lawrence | ||||
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Some Say in Ice |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try | |||