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JACK ROSENTHAL (1931 - 2004) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
Jack Rosenthal, who died on 29 May, 2004, at the age of 72, was a prolific television dramatist whose groundbreaking work behind the screen entertained millions and won him countless awards
Plays by Jack Rosenthal
Bar Mitzvah Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Her Majesty's Theatre, London | 31 Oct 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | smk-53498 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Sony (SMK 53498) 1978 | doollee no | #62653 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Jack Rosenthal; Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Don Black | |||||
| Elliott Green thinks he will be unable to cope with the adult world and runs away from his bar mitzvah | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30133 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Dear Anyone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge Theatre, London | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30134 | |||
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: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dreyfus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30135 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
Synopsis: | it tells the story of a group of small-time amateur actors in 1930s Poland trying to come to terms with the 1890s military scandal in Paris, the one that unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism which, it could be argued, was still in evidence 50 years later in Vichy France. The trouble is that in the end Grumberg doesn't seem to want to face any of those issues fully enough; he is more concerned with an update of Shakespeare's rustic players in A Midsummer Night's Dream in which we now get Harry Towb as the bully-Bottom figure, a local barber intent on hijacking the play, along with some very good jokes about the ways in which amateur dramatic societies are the same the world over and always have been. But the serious side of Dreyfus, and what it says about the ways of a world about to go up in the flames of the late 1930s, sits uneasily alongside the Yiddish sentimentality of a kind of non-musical Fiddler on the Roof | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Our Gracie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oldham Coliseum | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66980 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | treatment of Gracie Field's life and singing career | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang And Other TV Plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Longman, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30136 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang; Polly, Put The Kettle On; Well, Thank You, Thursday; Mr. Ellis Versus The People | |||||
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Smash! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richmond Theatre | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124994 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | inspired by the problems engendered by the production of the musical Bar Mitzvah Boy | |||||
Synopsis: | Smash is Jack Rosenthals hilarious but scathing look at the journey to get a musical from page to stage, complete with a cantankerous composer, a fantasist lyricist, a neophyte female novelist turned playwright, a cocksure director and a bombastic producer. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI Issue 07 Page 348 | |||||
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