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TED TALLY (1952 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Ted Tally |
Coming Attractions | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33888 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Jack Feldman, lyrics by Feldman and Bruce Sussman | |||||
Synopsis: | talent agent dresses man as a skeleton who goes door to door murdering people, his celebrity waning he tries to kill Miss America | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gettysburg Sound Bite, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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| 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 | #33889 | |||
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Hooters | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33890 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two young men, both nineteen and visiting Cape Cod for an adventuresome weekend, spot two attractive girls, slightly older than themselves, and set about trying to pick them up. The eagerness of the boys is contrasted with the disinterest of the girls-although the prettier of the latter (knowing very well what is in the air) is more intrigued than her friend would like. Events then move on to a very funny beach picnic, with much beer-drinking and suggestive talk, after which one of the boys does indeed "score" with the more attractive girl. But, in doing so, he sheds his "macho" image, and the relative naivete of the boys is effectively and humorously contrasted with the unsuspected worldliness of the girls. In the end the boys' bravado is shattered completely, but it is clear that a new and valuable awareness of the ways of the world (and "older" women) has replaced it. | |||||
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Little Footsteps | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33891 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ben and Joanie, in their mid-thirties and married eight years, are an upwardly mobile "Yuppie" couple about to become parents for the first time. Ben (who is Jewish) works in television, Joanie (a quintessential WASP) is a would-be artist. As the play begins they are redecorating the dining room of their Manhattan apartment for use as a nursery, an activity which both underscores the impending changes in their lives and reinforces Ben's uneasiness about it. The scene is filled with funny lines as Ben tries to make light of his misgivings, but his fears lead inevitably to dispute and, by the end of Act One, Ben has departed and Joanie suddenly finds herself a single parent-to-be. In Act Two, which takes place several months later, a christening party is in progress attended by Joanie's parents, Charlotte and Gil, an affluent older couple who are not hesitant to point out that they never much cared for Ben in the first place. As for Ben, having avoided the formal christening, he now sneaks in through the nursery window determined (in a gesture towards his own religious background) to intone a few Jewish prayers over his newborn son-which, when the others suddenly return, leads both to a series of wildly funny misunderstandings, and also, in the end, a tenuous reconciliation and a commitment, by both Ben and Joanie, to try to grow up before their offspring does. | |||||
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Night Mail and Other Sketches | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||||
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 | #33892 | |||
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Silver Linings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Cabaret Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33893 | |||
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Genre: | Revue Sketches Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | flexible casting: minimum of 2 men and 1 woman | |||||
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Synopsis: | Ranging over a wide variety of topics and situations there is no story line as such but, instead, a clever mosaic of telling observations and brightly funny events, all dealing with matters of particular moment to today's young people. In one sketch a visiting Soviet comedian, through a long-suffering interpreter, amuses himself but not his audience with stale jokes and turgid punch lines long out of date in America; in another two men and a woman, who find themselves in bed together, decide to get acquainted; while in still another a couple meeting at a party engage in a long conversation which runs backward-ending with their introduction. In these, as in the other sketches, the keynote is freshness and wit, blending into a lighthearted, highly theatrical and fast-paced program which will bring pleasure to both sides of the footlights. | |||||
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Taxi From Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
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 | #33894 | |||
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Genre: | Musical revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | in Urban Blight, with others | |||||
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Terra Nova | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of the play blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of their ordeal, with flashbacks of Scott and his young wife and with fateful glimpses of his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, whose party beat him to the South Pole. Refusing the use of sled dogs as unsporting, Scott and his team struggle to drag their heavy gear across a frozen wasteland, only to find that Amundsen has preceded them to their goal. The play is also a study of British pride and upper-class resolve-Scott's aristocratic sense of destiny and command and his young bride's ability to understand her husband's compulsive drive while failing to accept his motivations. But it is in the tragic trip back, as the members of the expedition die one by one, that the play reaches its dramatic apogee, capturing with chilling intensity the awesome bravery of men who must accept the bitter knowledge that suffering and death will be the only reward for their heroism. | |||||
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Word of Mouth | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 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: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33896 | |||
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Notes: | written with others | |||||
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