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Laurence Maslon

LAURENCE MASLON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Laurence Maslon (Associate Chair) is an Associate Arts Professor at the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, with an affiliation in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. His most recent book is Some Like It Hot: the Official 50th Anniversary Companion (HarperCollins) as well as the South Pacific Companion and the Sound of Music Companion (Simon and Schuster). With Michael Kantor, he has cowritten the six-part PBS series Make em Laugh: the Funny Business of America, as well as the companion volume (Twelve Publishing). He and Kantor were nominated for an emmy for Outstanding Writing of a Non-Fiction Series for this show. He also cowrote two episodes of the emmy-winning Broadway: the American Musical with Kantor and the companion volume (which will be published by Applause in paperback in 2010). He wrote the acclaimed American Masters/Thirteen documentary Richard Rodgers: the Sweetest Sounds and is the editor of Kaufman & Co., the Library of America edition of George S. Kaufman's plays, as well as his official website, www.georgeskaufman.com. In 2005, he wrote Better When It's BAnned, Jane Krakowski's debut concert for Jazz at Lincoln Center and has written concerts and programs for the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and Carnegie Hall. He has hosted the pre-show seminars for City Center's encores! series for a decade. He served on the nominating committee for the Tony Awards from 2007 to 2010. He received his BA from Brown University and his MA from Stanford University's PhD program in Directing and Dramatic Criticism.

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         Cerceau         Community Carol, A         Conquest Of The South Pole         Devine One, The: Sassy Swings Tokyo         Frankenstein         Its the Truth (If You Think It Is)         Stronger, The
Cerceau

Synopsis:
A group of people arrive at a country house owned by the deceased after a funeral. They stay the weekend. An old man arrives and tells them about life in Russia before 1917. They discover an old lawn game - Cerceau

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Original Playwright - Viktor Slavkin

1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Washington D C     1990

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Community Carol, A

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Adapted by Alison Carey, Edward P Jones, Bill Rauch, and Laurence Masion. Based on the book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Washington D C     1993

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Conquest Of The South Pole

Synopsis:
A group of unemployed young men recreate Roald Amundsen's expidition to the South Pole

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Adapted with Silas Jones. Original Playwright - Manfred Karge

1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Washington D C     1989

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Devine One, The: Sassy Swings Tokyo

Synopsis:
there are jazz singers and there are jazz divas-and then there's Sarah Vaughan. Join Sassy as she swings her legendary 1973 comeback concert in Tokyo and takes us behinds the scenes for a poignant glimpse backstage of the heart and soul of the woman who looked for love in the eyes of her man, but found it instead in front of an audience.

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1st Produced:
La MaMa the Club
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     15 Feb 2013

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Play with Music

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Frankenstein

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Based on the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

1st Produced:
City Stage Company, New York     03 Nov 1985

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Its the Truth (If You Think It Is)

Synopsis:
Dramatic illustration of the impenetrability and relativity of truth

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Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
Washington Arena Stage    

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Samuel French, NY,    

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Stronger, The

Synopsis:
Two women meet in a café

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Washington D C     1991

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