JOHN WEIDMAN
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Plays by John Weidman
Assassins |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizon, New York | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group | 1991 | ||
Original cast recording: RCA Victor (60737 2 RC) | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Book by John Weidman; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | ||||
Synopsis: Political assissination in the United States from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald | ||||
Big |
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theater, New York | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Universal (53009) | 1996 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by David Shire; lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr | ||||
Synopsis: Josh is thirteen and very self conscious. He likes Cynthia but cannot tell her so. At the carnival he is humiliated when he is not allowed on a ride with his friends because he is too small. He comes across a fortune telling machine. It tells him he can have a wish. He wishes that he was big. When he wakes up next morning he is thirty years old.... | ||||
Bounce |
| 1st Produced: | Goodman Theatre, Chicago | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: Nonesuch (79830-2) | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Contact |
| 1st Produced: | Mitzi E Newhouse Theatre, New York | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Studio cast recording: RCA (09026 63764 2) | 2000 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | Dance/Play | Dance Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Susan Stroman | ||||
Synopsis: Three stories told through dance and dialogue as the characters struggle to connect with one another | ||||
Pacific Overtures |
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, NY | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: RCA (4407) | 1976 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: Japan. July, 1853 and on | ||||
Road Show |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2008 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: Spanning 40 years from the Alaskan Gold Rush to the Florida real estate boom in the 1930s, Road Show is the story of two brothers whose quest for the American dream turns into a test of morality and judgment that changes their lives in unexpected ways. This show has been seen, in earlier forms, under the titles Bounce, Wise Guys, and Gold! - press release | ||||
Take Flight |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: by Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire, with book by John Weidman | ||||
Synopsis: Take Flight weaves together fact and fiction to tell the funny, moving and inspirational stories of the pioneers of flight the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart | ||||