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Gretchen Cryer

GRETCHEN CRYER

  (1935 - )

Nationality:    USA
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Gretchen Cryer's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

        American Girls Review         Anne Of Green Gables         Getting their Act Together Again         Gorges Motel, The         I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road         Last Sweet Days Of Isaac         Now Is the Time For All Good Men         Shelter



American Girls Review

American Girls Review
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Notes:
book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford

1st Produced:
American Girl Place, Chicago    19 Nov 1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
alfred Publishing (June 1, 1999)   978-0769271101

Music:
Studio cast recording: Pleasant Company ( THCD) 2000

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Anne Of Green Gables

Synopsis:
based on the classic novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. the show tells the story of a wildly independent and adventurous red-haired orphan who is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly bachelor and his spinster sister to help with the family farm. This show is recommended for kids ages 8 and up.
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Notes:
book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford

1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY    2007

Organisations:
TheatreworksUSA

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Getting their Act Together Again

Synopsis:
Getting their act Together again is a heady and hilarious trip through Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford's professional and personal lives. With a relationship that spans four decades, musical theater team Cryer and Ford have been together longer than most marriages. From their undergrad years at DuPauw University, through children and marriages, and professional successes on and off Broadway, Cryer and Ford mine the hits (and a few of the side-splitting misses!) that have made them musical theater's most successful and enduring female writing team.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gorges Motel, The

Synopsis:
A series of short plays that intertwine to tell one story. 'Lives intersect in comic and dramatic fashion in a motel that has seen better days in Watkins Glen, New York. Break-ups, make-ups, a teddy bear and a drone attack, the ridiculous and the sublime all come together in one unlikely place.'

Notes:
written by: Gretchen Cryer, Craig Pospisil, Arlene Hutton, Lynne Halliday, James Hindman, Isaac Himmelman and Ankur Parikh

1st Produced:
TBG Theatre at The Barrow Group Studios (312 West 36th Street 3rd Floor), NY    07 Oct 2015

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road

I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road
a forty year old songwriter wants to make a come back. She now wants a more feminist slant in her work - her agent wants her to stick to the middle of the road stuff that was a success before

Notes:
Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics And book by Gretchen Cryer

1st Produced:
Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York    14 Jun 1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (X 14885) 1978

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Last Sweet Days Of Isaac

Last Sweet Days Of Isaac
Modern solitary lives. Two people are trapped in a lift and two people in separate cells communicate through the dividing wall.

Notes:
Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; book by Gretchen Cryer

1st Produced:
Eastside Playhouse, New York    26 Jan 1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York,    -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (1169) 1970

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Now Is the Time For All Good Men

Now Is the Time For All Good Men
the new teacher at a school in a small Mid Western town encounters hostility because he was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War

Notes:
Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer

1st Produced:
Theatre De Lys, New York    26 Sep 1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
Original cast recording: DRG (OS-3130) 1967

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Shelter

Shelter
Michael writes commercials. He lives with a super computer called arthur. Maud an actress friend turns up in a distressed state and Michael comforts her. She is still there in the morning when his young cleaner who is madly in love with him arrives for work. then Michael's wife turns up. . .

Notes:
Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer

1st Produced:
John Golden Theater, New York    06 Feb 1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
Studio cast recording: Original Cast Records (9785) 1997

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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