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SAM WAYMON |
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Plays by Sam Waymon |
Black Picture Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York | 1975 | ||||
Company: | New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) and Joseph Papp | |||||
| 1st Published: | Reed, Cannon & Johnson, Berkeley, CA, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62418 | |||
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Genre: | 2 acts Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM ,2 BF, 3 WM, 1 WF | |||||
Notes: | book by Bill Gunn; music and lyrics by Sam Waymon | |||||
Synopsis: | The destruction of a black artist who realizes too late that art in white America is just another form of politics | |||||
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Rhinestone | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
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 | #62419 | |||
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Genre: | 3 acts Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adapt. by Gunn from his novel Rhinestone Sharecropping (1982). Music and lyrics by Sam Waymon | |||||
Synopsis: | Explores the director-writer relationship between a racially insensitive European producer and a sensitive black screenwriter who has been assigned to do a screenplay of a film about a famous black football hero | |||||
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