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Leonard Spigelgass

LEONARD SPIGELGASS

  (1908 - 1985)
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Leonard Spigelgass's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling         Look to the Lillies         Majority of One         Remedy For Winter         Wrong Way Light Bulb, The

Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling

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

Notes:
story by Gertrude Berg And James Yaffe

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Look to the Lillies

Look to the Lillies
An Africa-American soldier has gone AWOL and is in hiding in New Mexico. the Mother Superior of a convent "persuades" him to build a chapel for her nuns

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

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York    29 Mar 1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Blue Pear (1010) 1970

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Majority of One

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York    1959

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1959   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Remedy For Winter

Synopsis:
A historian falls for an actress

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1965

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Wrong Way Light Bulb, The

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 lot-a 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 Jews-and 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."

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1st Produced:
John Golden Theatre, New York    04 Mar 1969

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama/comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  1b

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