PAUL RUDNICK   (1957 - )


Paul Rudnick
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Plays by Paul Rudnick

PAUL RUDNICK
Cosmetic Surgery
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PAUL RUDNICK
I Hate Hamlet
1st Produced:
Walter Kerr Theatre New York
1991
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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - November
1991
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
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Synopsis: Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series; a rich, beautiful girlfriend; a glamorous, devoted agent; the perfect New York apartment; and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. There are, however, a couple of glitches in paradise. Andrew's series has been canceled; his girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction; and he has no desire to play Hamlet. When Andrew's agent visits him, she reminisces about her brief romance with John Barrymore many years ago, in Andrew's apartment. This prompts a seance to summon his ghost. From the moment Barrymore returns, dressed in high Shakespearean garb, Andrew's life is no longer his own. Barrymore, fortified by champagne and ego, presses Andrew to accept the part and fulfill his actor's destiny. The action becomes more hilarious with the entrance of Andrew's deal-making friend from LA, spouting the laid-back hype of the Coast and offering Andrew a fabulous new TV deal worth millions
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PAUL RUDNICK
Jeffrey
1st Produced:
Greenwich, London
1995
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Comedy
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Male
7
Female
1
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Synopsis: Jeffrey, a gay actor/waiter, has sworn off sex after too many bouts with his partners about what is "safe" and what is not. In gay New York, though, sex is not something you can avoid. Whether catering a ditzy socialite's "Hoe-down for AIDS" or cruising at a funeral; at the gym or in the back rooms of an anonymous sex club; at the annual Gay Pride Parade, or in the libidinous hands of a father-confessor, Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the number-one preoccupation of his times-and the source of plenty of hilarity. Suddenly, just after he's reconciled himself to celibacy, Jeffrey's flamboyant friends introduce him to the man of his dreams, who also happens to be HIV-positive. What follows is an audacious and moving romantic comedy with a difference-one in which the quest for love and really fabulous clothes meet, and where unflagging humor prevails even when tragedy might be just around the corner.
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PAUL RUDNICK
Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
1st Produced:
1998
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Comedy
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Male
4
Female
5
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Synopsis: A stage manager, headset and prompt book at hand, brings the house lights to half, then dark, and cues the creation of the world. Throughout the play, she's in control of everything. In other words, she's either God, or she thinks she is. Act One recounts the major episodes of the Old Testament, only with a twist: Instead of Adam and Eve, our lead characters are Adam and Steve, and Jane and Mabel, a lesbian couple with whom they decide to start civilization (procreation proves to be a provocative challenge). Act One covers the Garden of Eden, an ark, a visit with a highly rambunctious Pharaoh and finally even the Nativity. Along the way, Mabel and Adam invent God, but Jane and Steve are skeptical. This brings about the Flood, during which Steve has a brief affair with a rhinoceros and invents infidelity. No longer blissful, Adam and Steve break up only to be reunited as two of the wise men at the Nativity. Act Two jumps to modern day Manhattan. Adam and Steve are together again, and Steve is HIV positive. It'
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PAUL RUDNICK
Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York
1998
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
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Synopsis: This acclaimed one act focuses on Mr. Charles, the most joyously, fiercely, politically incorrect creature imaginable. We watch as he hosts his own late-night cable show in South Florida, taking questions from the audience. What causes homosexuality? a viewer inquires. I do, Mr. Charles replies. Mr. Charles, in his bold yellow slacks, espadrilles and provocatively vivid hairstyle, also introduces Shane, his hunky young companion. Together they confront every hot-button topic from gay marriage to the history of gay theatre, finally delving into the highest matters of identity and flamboyance.
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PAUL RUDNICK
Naked Eye
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Synopsis: Censorship, AIDS and homosexuality
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PAUL RUDNICK
New Century, The
1st Produced:
Mitzi Newhouse Theater
2008
Company:
Lincoln Center Theater
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Genre:
four short plays
Play/Drama
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Synopsis: The New Century is a series of four short plays, which feature everyone from a concerned Long Island mother of at least three gay children, to an accomplished Midwestern craftswoman, to one of Mr. Rudnicks favorites, Mr. Charles, a flamboyant resident of Palm Beach. Ultimately, all of these delicious and distraught people collide under surprising and comic circumstances, and we discover just where our new century might be heading
- press release
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PAUL RUDNICK
On The Fence
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Play
One Act
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Synopsis: In Laramie, Wyoming in 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. The aftermath of this and he finds himself in a nether world where he meets Eleanor Roosevelt - he knows that she is dead but does not believe her
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PAUL RUDNICK
Poor Little Lambs
1st Produced:
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1982
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Synopsis: The antics of an all male Yale singing group the Wiffenpoofs
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PAUL RUDNICK
Regrets Only
1st Produced:
2006
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
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Synopsis: omedy of Manhattan manners exploring the very latest topics in marriage and friendship. The setting: a Park Avenue penthouse. The players: a powerhouse attorney, Jack McCullough, his deliriously social wife, Tibby and their closest friend Hank Hadley, one of the world's most staggeringly successful fashion designers. Add a daughter's engagement, some major gowns, the President of the United States, and stir.
nytheatre.com
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PAUL RUDNICK
Valhalla
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Dramatists Play Service, NY
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Comedy
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Male
4
Female
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Parts Other:
doubling
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Synopsis: intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig of Bavaria, the 1880s Mad King responsible for building a series of storybook castles inspired by Wagnerian operas, and the fictional adventures of James Avery, a wild Texas teenager of the 1940s. These two iconoclasts are tracked from childhood through their deaths, and while they embody separate eras, they are ultimately revealed as time-traveling soul mates. The play explores questions of beauty and madness, as both Ludwig and James pursue lives of operatic passion, bringing them in contact with such diverse figures as a high-school quarterback, the prettiest girl in Dainsville, Texas, most of the characters of Lohengrin and princess Sophie, who declares herself the loneliest humpback in Europe. VALHALLA is a comic epic, confronting the price to be paid for wanting, and getting, everything you dream of.
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PAUL RUDNICK
Very Special Needs
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Synopsis: A gay couple are going to adopt a baby. Timmy is more enthusiastic than partner Trent. When the child arrives it is much older than they expected and is a special needs child too.
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