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STEPHEN LONGSTREET (1907 - 2002) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Stephen Longstreet |
High Button Shoes | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Century Theatre, New York | 09 Oct 1947 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Tams-Witmark Music Library | ISBN/ASIN: | rca-4572 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (4572) 1947 | doollee no | #124579 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn; book by George Abbott; Stephen Longstreet. Based on the novel "The Sisters Liked Them Handsome" by Stephen Longstreet | |||||
| Conmen Harrison Floy and Mr Pontdue cheat the Longstreet family out of all their money. Pursued by the police the make a getaway to Atlantic City taking Fran - Mrs Longstreet's younger sister with them. Fran has fallen for Harrison. In Atlantic City Pontdue tells Harrison to put all the money they have stolen on a bet. Harrison makes a mistake - he was supposed to bet on Princeton in a football match - they loose - instead he put the money on a horse called Princeton - it wins. The conmen now have more then enough money to pay back everyone they conned | |||||
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