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Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Mineapolis

1964

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in "The Ritz and Other Plays", Dodd Mead, New York

1976

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Play/Drama

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2

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Notes: aka There Is Something Out There

Synopsis: The play is about fear and negation. Ruby is its hero, Sigfrid and Grandpa its conscience, Clarence and Lakme its victims. It is also a play about choice: the choice of evil, which is a constant, over chaos, which is not necessarily a good. It is a tragedy of intelligence. Ruby perceives too clearly many truths but does not see the basic one: We cannot destroy everything without destroying ourselves. Her error is her negation of all links with mankind. Her way of life must end as it does, in a colossal suicide. Her Message to the World has come true. For herself, for Sigfrid, for all of them. But she does not flinch before the steady trend of her approaching fate. She will not grovel. She cannot beg. She meets it head-on and defiant, like a female Prometheus.

New York

1988

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in "The Way We Live Now", Theatre Communications Group, New York

1990

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Ten Min

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Notes: in Urban Revue

Synopsis: about the person who is often forgotten in HIV/AIDS dramas - the mother who can neither understand, accept nor forgive.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Three Short Plays

One Act

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Synopsis: In TOUR, we encounter an American couple being chauffeured through Italy, imagining themselves to be ambassadors of good will despite their fatuous, patronizing chatter. Mixed in with their inane comments, to their driver and others, are references to their son in Vietnam and to the carnage there; but somehow they remain unable to comprehend the reality of the world they live inand to be comfortable with the sense of privilege their money and freedom provide. (2 men (plus 2 bits), 1 woman) NEXT is set in an Army Induction Center, where an overweight, over-age, and overwrought draftee has reluctantly reported for his physical. Confronted by an Amazon-like female sergeant, he tries every evasion he can think of to disqualify himself, but is ultimately shattered by the realization that nothing will stave off the inevitable. His final monologue, a harrowing exposure of bitterness and confusion, reveals the dilemma of a man to whom the meaning and purpose of his country have become unclear. (1 man (plus 3 bits), 1 woman) BOTTICELLI finds two American soldiers in the wilds of Vietnam (or any battle area) playing an intellectual guessing game while waiting for a trapped enemy soldier to show himself. They smoke, reminisce, play their game and wait. When the enemy soldier appears they coolly shoot him down and then go on reciting the great names of literature, philosophy and music; their total lack of reverence and concern for the man they have killed, the life they have taken, contrasting starkly with the humanistic concepts and erudition to which they have been exposed. (2 men (plus 1 bit)). The plays can be produced separately as one-acts, or all together on a single bill. This latter basis is the only one on which the omnibus title, APPLE PIE, may be used.

East Hampton, New York

1971

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1974

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Two Plays

Play/Drama

6

2

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Synopsis: In the first play, Dunelawn, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence of such "bad habits" as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity - which seems to work wonders for his patients, whose wacky case histories are each examined in hilarious detail. In the second play, Ravenswood, the approach is quite the opposite. Here the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straight-jacketed charges with tranquilising drugs to calm such urges - but again the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.

Los Angeles

1971

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in "Sweet Eros, Next, and Other Plays", Random House, New York

1969

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One Act

2

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1 bit

Notes: televised 1968

Synopsis: finds two American soldiers in the wilds of Vietnam (or any battle area) playing an intellectual guessing game while waiting for a trapped enemy soldier to show himself. They smoke, reminisce, play their game and wait. When the enemy soldier appears they coolly shoot him down and then go on reciting the great names of literature, philosophy and music; their total lack of reverence and concern for the man they have killed, the life they have taken, contrasting starkly with the humanistic concepts and erudition to which they have been exposed.

New Haven, Connecticut

1969

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in "Three Plays", Dramatists Play Service, New York

1990

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Comedy

One Act

3

3

(plus 4 non-speaking roles for men

Notes: -

Synopsis: While brother and sister bicker meanly about pot-smoking and illicit pregnancies at their high school, father makes leering phone calls to strangers, and mother blots it all out with a portable hair dryer. Then the coffin with the body of their eldest son, Jimmy, who died in Vietnam, is deliveredfollowed by a television crew to film a human interest feature on the family's grief. Reacting on cue they make much of their loss and the noble sacrifice this embodies, but with a glib superficiality which is both saddening and shocking. Their attention soon shifts to more immediate concerns, however, and Jimmy rises up in his coffin to address the audience. He knows now that the reason he wishes he were still alive is so he can figure out why he is deadand so, perhaps should we all.

New York

1978

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Synopsis:

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, NY

2005

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Musical

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Notes: Written by Terrence McNally; Original Songs by: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

Synopsis:

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1998

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play/Drama

13

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Synopsis: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: "We are going to tell you an old and familiar story." But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels the New Testament's, and its subject is nothing less than the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. But McNally's Christ figure is a character named Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1950s. Different from the other boys because he is homosexual, Joshua grows up in isolation and torment, an object of scorn. He flees Corpus Christi in search of a more accepting environment, gathering along the way a group of disciples who are bound to him by his message of love and tolerance. Joshua delivers his Sermon on the Mount, and officiates at a gay marriage ceremony, but, inevitably, his radical teachings (like Jesus') will not deliver him from his fate. Returning to Corpus Christi, he is betrayed by his lover, Judas, and crucified in front of the jeering throngs who hated him as a boy, and still do. His plea, that we look upon all souls as equal in the sight of God, falls unattended.

Provincetown, Massachusetts

1968

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in "Sweet Eros, Next, and Other Plays", Random House, New York

1969

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Play

One Act

1

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Armed woman guerrilla confronts diametrically opposed liberal reporter in New York's Central Park.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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One Act

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Synopsis: Quentin and his sister Veronica, together with his wife Pat, gather at the beach to scatter their mother's ashes. The act itself is a closure of sorts, but it stirs up conflicts between the three as marital wounds and sibling rivalries never dealt with are finally confronted

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: In a small upstate New York town, Lou, a speech and drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer at The Dapper Dog, bring joy to their community through running an amateur theater company. They become obsessed with buying a derelict movie theater and turning it into Captain Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theater for Children of All Ages. The only obstacle in reaching their dream is Annabelle Willard-a terminally ill and manipulative widow who owns half the town. Will these naive dreamers be able to grasp the brass ring, and at what cost?
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Music Box Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2007

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Play/Drama

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3

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Notes: -

Synopsis: about two former doubles tennis legends, reunited at a championship match.
nytheatre.com

New York

1988

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dialogue only

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Notes: in Urban Blight

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Comedy

One Act

6

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married where the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straight-jacketed charges with tranquilizing drugs to calm such urgesbut the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.

Bay Street Theatre of Sag Harbor

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in By the Sea By the Sea By the Beautiful Sea, Dramatist Play Service, NY

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Play

One Act

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2

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Notes: part of By the Sea By the Sea By the Beautiful Sea, Three one-act plays by Joe Pintauro, Lanford Wilson and Terrence McNally

Synopsis: focuses on Willy, a hunk at the beach, and the two women, Dana and Marsha, who would do anything to have him. We discover that all three suffer from their own personal prisons from which they need to escape, and luckily they seem to have found the right place and time to do so.

New York

1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1989

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Thrre Short Plays

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Notes: Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Leonard Melfi

Synopsis: In the first play, FAITH, by Israel Horovitz, a group of 1960s radical writers hold a reunion, twenty years later, in front of the statue of the Polish King Jagiello in New York's Central Park. Reared in an age of sex, booze, drugs and explicit language, the group finds that time, and the demands of making a living, have both drained their passions and left their dreams half-realized. But the daughter of one of them, speaking for her own generation, confronts them with the legacy of cynicism and hopelessness which they have passed on, whether or not they realize it. The second play, HOPE, by Terrence McNally, takes place in the same setting, but this time the central figures are a young brother and sister who have come to the park before dawn to honor the memory of a close friend who has committed suicide after becoming ill with AIDS. They meet a nun in civilian clothes (who is really not a nun at all, but who nevertheless admonishes the boy for his salty language); a man listening to Mahler on his headphones; and a chatty lady who has come to feed the pigeons. Although they meet by chance, and have little in common, somehow they manage to infuse each other with a sense of hope as the sun, at last, comes up over the quiet city. In the third play, CHARITY, by Leonard Melfi, the action again takes place at the same site in Central Park, but this time after nightfall. A woman swigs brandy and talks to the statue and then, suddenly, draws a gun and accosts another woman, an artist who has come to capture the statue on canvas. But the gun isn't loaded. In fact, as she demonstrates by persuading the artist to "hold up" another pair of evening strollers, the gun is really a way to spread love and good cheerwhich, with infectious whimsy, the play most certainly does.

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, NY, USA >>>

1987

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Nick Hern Books, London

1989

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Comedy

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1

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Synopsis: The setting is a walk-up apartment on Manhattan's West Side where, as the curtain rises, Frankie (a waitress) and Johnny (a short-order cook who works in the same restaurant) are discovered in bed. It is their first encounter, after having met several weeks ago on the job, and Frankie is hopeful that Johnny will now put on his clothes and depart, so she can return to her usual routine of watching TV and eating ice cream. But Johnny, a compulsive talker (and romantic), has other ideas. He is convinced that he loves Frankie, a notion that she, at first, considers to be ridiculous. She has had more disappointments than delights in life, and he is the veteran of one broken marriage already. And neither of them is in the bloom of youth. Yet out of their sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious interplay the promise of a relationship beyond a "one-night stand" does begin to emerge and, as the lights dim, the two are back in bed again, but this time side-by-side, holding hands before the glowing television screen.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Drama

One Act

2

2

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Synopsis: explores the power of perfection when set against the reality of human loss and longing as three disparate American tourists in Florence are instructed by their guide to immerse themselves in the beauty of Michelangelos David.

Gallery Players of Park Slope, NY, USA >>>

2005

Katie Adams/The Gallery Players

Applause Books, New York

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Film Adaptation

Musical

11

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extras

Notes: Book by Terrence McNally, music and lyrics by David Yazbek

Synopsis: Will they or won't they? Six steel workers strive for success doing 'The Full Monty.' Come and see if the cast in this new musical of the acclaimed film go all the way!

Billy Rose Theatre, New York

1968

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Musical

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Notes: Music by Robert Waldman; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Book by Alex Gordon; (Uncredited) book by Terrence McNally (McNally asked that his name be removed from the credits of the show); Based on the novel "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Synopsis: Setting: 1915-1917. Salinas, California

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Play

One Act

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13 men and women

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Synopsis: satirical look at non-profit arts institutions that depend on the various whims of their subscribers wishes, the beneficence of the National Endowment for the Arts, charitable patrons and the passing fashions of the times

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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One Act

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Notes: part of Faith, Hope and Charity

Synopsis: akes place in the same setting, but this time the central figures are a young brother and sister who have come to the park before dawn to honor the memory of a close friend who has committed suicide after becoming ill with AIDS. They meet a nun in civilian clothes (who is really not a nun at all, but who nevertheless admonishes the boy for his salty language); a man listening to Mahler on his headphones; and a chatty lady who has come to feed the pigeons. Although they meet by chance, and have little in common, somehow they manage to infuse each other with a sense of hope as the sun, at last, comes up over the quiet city

New York

1982

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Nelson Doubleday, New York

1986

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Comedy

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Synopsis: It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer (Julia Budder) is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs where a group of insiders have staked themselves out in the producer's bedroom, waiting for the reviews to come in. Included are the excitable young author; the brilliant but unstable director (who courts failure and is devastated when his work is well received); the pill-popping leading lady (who is hoping to revive her career after a series of flop movies); and the playwright's best friend, an egotistical but insecure comic actor who passed up a chance to star in the play for a television serieswhich has since been cancelled. Also present are a fawning, hypocritical drama critic (who is a closet playwright); a would-be singer working as a part-time servant; and a hard-boiled lady taxi driver who has seen it all, many times over. The good natured bonhommie with which the evening begins grows steadily bitchierand funnieras the reviews (all bad) come in, and those assembled seek desperately to pin the blame on each other. But, as euphoria slides into despair, the narcissism, ambition, childishness and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre and its denizens take over, and as the curtain falls plans are eagerly afoot for their next venturethis one sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.

Purchase, New York

1990

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Samuel French Inc, New York

1993

Revival cast recording: Mercury (526526)

1994

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Adaptation

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Notes: Book by Terrence McNally; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Based on the novel by Manuel Puig

Synopsis: In a South American prison two men share a cell. Valentin a revolutionary and Molina accused of corrupting a minor. To while away the time Molina tells stories of B-films he has seen

Winter Garden, NYC

1963

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Adaptation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils

Synopsis:

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Drama

One Act

6

6

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Synopsis: First presented on New York's channel 13 (Educational Television) as part of FOUL!, a special program on pollution and conservation, this imaginative short play offers an affecting, but also chilling, observation on the awful fate which mankind will face unless he curbs the misuse of his environment. Moving quickly from one vignette to another, the play presents a cross section of individuals, all quite different and yet all facing the same inexorable horrorthat terrible moment when breathable air is exhausted and human life no longer possible.

New York

1972

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New York

1991

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