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Majestic Theatre, New York

1954

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Original cast recording: RCA (68074)

1954

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

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Notes: Written with S.N. Behrman. Music and lyrics by Harold Rome. U.K. Theatre Royal Druray Lane, London 1956

Synopsis: Marius and Fanny have been lovers since their teens. Fanny loves Marius with all her heart but Marius is afraid of commitment. He signs up to go to sea for five years. Fanny is determined to wait until he returns but on discovering that she is pregnant she marries Panisse an older but wealthy man. A boy is born and named Cesario. On his first birthday Marius returns but is sent away by Fanny. Twelve years later Cesario yearns for the sea and runs away to join his father. The shock proves to be the final blow for Panisse. Marius brings the boy back and Panisse tells him that he must marry Fanny when he is gone.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Notes: written by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan. Winner of the 1948 Tony Award for best play

Synopsis: This rowdy, realistic saga of a group of American sailors aboard a Navy cargo vessel in the Pacific shows the crew suffering from that deadly boredom that is part of the routine of war. To the ship's company, the Skipper is a cantankerous, small-minded man and every one of them conspires against him as the ship pursued its runs from Apathy to Tedium and back again. They are on a cargo mission, so little else is going to happen. That Mr. Roberts, [a lieutenant] shared the crew's dislike for the Captain was one reason for his popularity. Roberts joined the world to fight; he hates being inactive almost as much as he hates the Captain. Privy to the crew's hijinks against the Skipper, Roberts still feels it's his duty to retain some discipline. After winning many ingenious battles against the Skipper, Roberts at last wins himself a transfer to combat duty. It was this transfer that cost him his life on a destroyer off Japan.

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Original Broadway cast: RCA (68326)

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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

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Notes: Music by Harold Rome; lyrics by Harold Rome; book by Arthur Kober; book by Joshua Logan. Based on the play "Having a Wonderful Time" by Arthur Kober

Synopsis: Teddy and Fay arrive at Camp Carefree for two weeks of relaxation. Teddy is soon to marry the rich Herman but hides the fact. Chick a waiter is ordered by the camp boss to mix and mingle with the guests. Chick is trying to save up for college. He and Teddy agree to strike up a just good friends pose. but they fall in love.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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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

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Notes: Though based on The Cherry Orchard, The New York Times calls it. "&a new American play' and not an American version of The Cherry Orchard&one of the most absorbing plays of the season."

Synopsis: When the lovely Lucy Andree Ramsdell is told by her practical business advisers that she must drastically alter all the traditions and extravagance of her individual way of living, she refuses to believe that a mere matter of debts could possibly endanger her home or gracious habits of hospitality. She does, however, make feeble and ineffective gestures in the direction of economy. But it is no use; everything that made life pleasant and leisurely begins to crumble, and Lucy finds herself powerless to act, or even to think, effectively. Meantime, modern "progress" takes over. Wisteria Plantation will soon be only a memory, and Lucy begins to realize what is happening. As she takes a look out of the window of her old home she muses: "We're ridiculous people! We're jokes! We don't even know how to keep a roof over our heads."