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Samuel French, NY

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Comedy

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Notes: story by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe

Synopsis: portrays a matriarch who fearlessly takes on all the problems of the neighbourhood, in addition to those of her husband and her last unmarried daughter

Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York

1970

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Original cast recording: Blue Pear (1010)

1970

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Notes: by Leonard Spigelgrass; Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn

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New York

1959

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Samuel French, London

1959

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Synopsis: a Jewish widow from Brooklyn accompanies her daughter and son in law to Japan, his delicate diplomatic mission is nearly scuppered by romance

New York

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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drama/comedy

Comedy

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Synopsis: As George Oppenheimer says: "The action takes place in an apartment house in Brooklyn, well designed by Donald Oenslager, that is practically a slum. Harold Axman, the protagonist, is a young liberal of infinite good will who has inherited the apartment after the death of his grandfather&His tenants are a varied lota black woman and her militant son, a sexy Puerto Rican girl who shortly is sharing her landlord's bed, a gently humorous Jewish woman (not another Jewish mother, praise be) who knew him as a boy and uses this knowledge to get favors, a family of strict orthodox Jewsand at first they are filled with distrust of their new landlord. Little by little they begin to cotton to him, all except the black militant, filled with hatred of all whites, especially Jews. When the latter is arrested after the Jewish woman has been assaulted and robbed, a riot breaks out in the neighborhood, a Turkish bath which has been left to Axman burns down and people are wounded and killed. The militant, released from arrest, is triumphant at one more incident to call attention to his cause. Axman is beaten, eager to retreat from the scene of what he believes is his failure and to find a place free of hatred and strife. Mr. Spigelgass sensibly makes him realize that there is no such place in our world today, but he tempers his message with hope."