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The Pit, London

1998

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2005

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Musical

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Notes: Music by Jenny Giering; lyrics by Beth Blatt; book by Marsha Norman

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1978-79

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in Marsha Norman I, Smith & Kraus

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5

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Synopsis: An exploration of the private struggles facing a small family circus in its final days perfoming in a shopping mall parking lot

Broadway Theatre, NY

2005

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Original cast recording: EMI (0946 3 42954 2 0)

2005

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160 min

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Notes: book by Marsha Norman; music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray

Synopsis: musical based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It tells the story of a woman who, through love, finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. The score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray features gospel, jazz, ragtime, and the blues.

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1991-92

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By Southern Playwrights: Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky , The University Press of Kentucky

1996

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Two Acts

Play/Drama

7

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Notes: aka Loving Daniel Boone

Synopsis: In a cluttered historical museum, a cleaning woman disillusioned in love seeks romance and adventure with a mythic hero. Leaving her dustpan, broom and several men behind, the woman pursues her historic fantasy by fighting Indians and British alongside Daniel Boone--but she finds herself pursued by her most unlikely lover. This magical comedy travels the timewarp of love to put a human face on heroics--then and now

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1977

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Avon, New York

1980

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Drama 2 Acts

Play/Drama

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5

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Notes: Marymount Manhattan Theatre, Off Broadway, NY, 1978

Synopsis: Released from prison "Arlene" returns to a rundown apartment in Louisville, intent on starting her life over. Rebellious and disruptive as a young girl, she has found strength in religion and wants to put her youth (as "Arlie") behind her. But her struggle to find her way in the present (as "Arlene") is counterpointed by flashbacks of her past (as "Arlie"), her two personalities being represented by two performers, who sometimes appear on stage simultaneously. We meet the guards and prison officials with whom "Arlie" waged a running battle; and the unfeeling, slatternly mother, the lecherous former prison guard, the pimp ex-boyfriend, and the touchingly friendly neighbor with whom "Arlene" is confronted in the present. Ultimately the play, like life, offers no simple answers-but it conveys, with heartrending honesty and compassion, the struggle of someone fighting for her life against incredible odds.

San Francisco

1983

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1987

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Comedy/Drama

Comedy

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Synopsis: In 1914 in a remote shack on the New Mexico prairie, two young brothers, Archie and Henry Tucker, await the eventual arrival of a wheat threshing crew. Instead they are visited by "The Outlaw," a grizzled, aging gunfighter who has shot his injured horse. They are also joined by Lily, a former dance hall girl who now owns the biggest hotel in town and a new car. Henry, the hot-headed older brother, is also an avid student of western lore. After recognizing that The Outlaw is indeed the genuine article, he pumps him for stories of his glory days and then, to his fatal regret, tries to beat him to the draw. After Henry's demise the action moves back and forth from high comedy to affecting sentiment. Lily consoles Archie by indoctrinating him into the rewarding mysteries of sex, as The Outlaw, in a rare fit of repentance, makes a stab at committing suicide. Now with his first flush of manhood, Archie decides to go off to battle in World War I, while The Outlaw-cowed at last-meekly follows Lily off to her shiny Bu

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

2003

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Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, Off Broadway, NY

1998

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1979

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Short Play

One Act

3

3

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Notes: in Holidays

Synopsis: A family copes with their mother's sudden deafness when she is released from the hospital for Christmas

Cambridge, Mass

1982

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Hill and Wang, New York

1983

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Synopsis: The scene is the living room/kitchen of a small house on an isolated country road, which is shared by Jessie and her mother. Jessie's father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in divorce; her absent son is a petty thief and ne'er-do-well; her last job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale and unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father's service revolver and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself. At first her mother refuses to take her seriously, but as Jessie sets about tidying the house and making lists of things to be looked after, her sense of desperate helplessness begins to build. In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment-a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.

New York

1993

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1987-88

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Smith & Kraus in Marsha Norman Volume I: Collected Plays

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Two Acts

Musical

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Synopsis: Day one, we begin the rehearsal process of an improvised drama based on the Biblical story of Sarah and Abraham. Conflicts intensify as the lives of the performers and those of their Biblical counterparts begin to intersect.

Norfolk, Virginia

1990

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Original Broadway cast: Sony (48817)

1991

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Notes: novel Frances Hodgson Burnett. Music Lucy Simon

Synopsis: an orphan is sent to stay with her reclusive uncle. Bossy, snobbish and aloof, Mary does not at first fit into her new life, and important changes are wrought in her.

Louisville

1978

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1980

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Comedy Drama

One Act

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Synopsis: The setting is a dreary, empty laundromat at 3 A.M. Alberta, a rather formal older woman, enters and begins to sort her laundry. She is soon joined by Deedee, a brash and rough spoken young woman who, at first glance, seems to be the complete opposite of the reserved, carefully spoken Alberta. As they go about their chores a conversation begins, and it becomes apparent that Alberta might prefer to be alone. As for Deedee, her natural ebullience leads her to reveal more than Alberta cares to know about her childhood and, although she makes light of it, the heartache she feels now that her husband is cheating on her. In time Alberta unbends, confessing that her own life is not as tidy as Deedee had assumed. In the end, the two hear each other out and come to a better understanding of how to deal with the isolation and rejection that life can inflict.

Louisville

1978

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1985

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Drama

One Act

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Synopsis: The scene is a rundown pool hall next door to the laundromat; the time, again, is shortly after 3 A.M., Shooter, a successful young black disc jockey, stops by to visit the owner, Willie, a bosom friend of his late father. But their meeting is not easy. Willie brings up memories of the close trio known as "The Three Blind Mice," which was comprised of Shooter senior, himself and another pool shark named George, whose daughter, Sondra, the younger Shooter has married. Recalling their glory days, Willie is resentful of Shooter's success, his philandering, and the gulf which time and circumstance have opened between them. The appearance of a young white girl (Deedee from THIRD AND OAK: THE LAUNDROMAT) who brings over Shooter's laundry and is obviously smitten by him, only serves to deepen Willie's distrust. But gradually, as Shooter reveals both the tensions and uncertainties of his present life and his compassionate respect for the way in which Willie and the others had dealt with the problems of their own time

Cambridge, Mass

1984

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1991

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Synopsis: A brilliant surgeon and cancer researcher, Sam basks in the aura of success and adulation that his career has brought him. But suddenly his world is shattered when his longtime nurse and confidant, Mavis, dies on the operating table because he failed to detect the seriousness of her condition in time. Gathering up his neglected wife and possessively loved son, he returns to the home of his aging father, a revivalist preacher with whom he has long been at odds. Guilty about his relationship with Mavis, his childhood sweetheart whose love he never returned, and jealous of his father's affection for her, Sam finds that the older man is unable, or unwilling, to assuage the guilt that torments him. In essence the play becomes an eloquent, deeply felt debate about the conflict between science and religion-Sam's growing doubts about the values he has lived by and his father's flinty unwillingness to relax his own strongly held beliefs. As the play ends there is a tentative reconciliation between father and son, with

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1995

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Heinemann in A Decade of New Comedy: Plays From the Humana Festival; by Smith & Kraus in Marsha Norman Volume I: Collected Plays; and by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '95, The Complete Plays

1995

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Comedy

One Act

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Notes: MCC Theater, Off Broadway, NY, 1999

Synopsis: Determined not to submit to mid-life malaise, a successful writer named Ginger embarks on a wildly irreverent spiritual journey. Her traveling companion and guide is Trudy Blue, the main character from her new novel. This comic, sexy, revisionist Doll's House for the 90s investigates what happens after "happily ever after."