RAY LESLEE
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Plays by Ray Leslee
Avenue X |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons, New York | 1994 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: RCA (9026-63208-2) | 1997 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 8 | |||
Notes: Music by Ray Leslee; lyrics by Ray Leslee and John Jiler | ||||
Synopsis: Set in a racially divided Brooklyn neighborhood in 1963, Avenue X captures both the nostalgic harmonies of an innocent age and the rumblings of future discord. As in New York and other American cities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, teenagers gather on stoops and sidewalks to pass the time singing together-the best groups win contests and dream of record deals. In Avenue X, the Italian American and African American groups wouldn't think of singing together-until Pasquale and Milton find that their shared love for the music transcends the escalating racial tension. Press release | ||||
Standup Shakespeare |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1998 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | comedy drama | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1-4 musicians (flexible casting) | |||
Notes: words by William Shakespeare, music by Ray Leslee, book by Kenneth Welsh | ||||
Synopsis: sets the timeless language of the Bard to the exciting rhythms of jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock original music. A fractured love story is performed by a modern-day Fool and two glorious singers. | ||||