doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Dore Schary

DORE SCHARY

  (1905 - 1980)
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Dore Schary's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Dore Schary's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Banderol         Brightower         Devil's Advocate, The         Herzl         Highest Tree, The         One By One         Sunrise at Campobello         Too Many Heroes         Zulu and the Zayda, The

Banderol

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Forest Theatre, Philadelphia    17 Sep 1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Brightower

Synopsis:
To protect his privacy a writer moves to a Vermont retreat

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
John Golden Theatre, New York    28 Jan 1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Devil's Advocate, The

Synopsis:
dying priest sent to verify dead man's claim to sanctity, was he a holy man or sinner?

Notes:
Novel By Morris L. West

1st Produced:
Billy Rose Theatre, NY    1961

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1961   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Herzl

Synopsis:
The story of Theodor Herzl father od Zionism

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Palace Theatre, New York    30 Nov 1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Highest Tree, The

Synopsis:
As told by McClain, "[Schary's] hero is a physicist who has been working on a military project and is brought up sharp with the pronouncement that he has acute leukemia and has only six months to live. the realization affects his relationship with his children and relatives, with the young woman who has fallen in love with him after his wife's death, and most importantly with his profession. Finally he decides to devote his remaining days to work with his son, who is a geneticist, in a world-wide effort to abolish further experiments in atomic weapons."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Forest Theatre, Philadelphia    Oct 1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

One By One

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, New York    01 Dec 1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Sunrise at Campobello

Synopsis:
Atkinson in the New York Times, describes "the play covers thirty-four months when F.D.R.'s crisis was a private onefrom the day in August, 1921, when he was stricken by infantile paralysis at his summer home at Campobello, in Canada, to the day at Madison Square Garden in June, 1924, when he was able to stand on his feet long enough to nominate Al Smith for President of the United States . . .."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cort Theatre, New York    30 Jan 1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama, full length

Parts:
Male:  19            Female:  5            Other:  a few of the parts can be doubled

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Too Many Heroes

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Hudson Theatre, New York    15 Nov 1937

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Zulu and the Zayda, The

Zulu and the Zayda, The
As outlined in the Hollywood Reporter: ". . ..Has to do with finding a 'grandpa sitter' for Zayda, who has a habit of wandering off and getting lost somewhere on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Harry Grossman's South African servant, Johannes, convinces him that his brother, Paulus, would be the ideal man to keep a watchful eye on the old man. the two of them hit it off immediately, with Zayda learning Zulu expressions, and Paulus in turn being taught Yiddish. Pretty soon, it becomes the relationship almost of Father and son, going on long walks together, with some amusing discourses on the differences as well as similarities in customs and traditions, and this fraternization inevitably leads to trouble with the authorities, who impose sever penalties for traveling without a pass, or going "where you don't belong," or for being a host to a new-found companionship, Zayda inevitably gets Paulus and his circle of friends into the police mesh. One complication follows another, with Paulus eventually being dismissed and sent off by Harry Grossman, the trouble-plagues son of Zayda. It breaks the old man's heart. However, in the end, all winds up happily."

Notes:
Music by Harold Rome; lyrics by Harold Rome; book by Theodore Mann; book by Dore Schary

1st Produced:
Cort Theater, New York    1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (6480) 1965

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page