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Herbert Appleman

HERBERT APPLEMAN

  (1933 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Born in Brooklyn in 1933. educated at Harvard, Columbia and Yale.In addition to his stage plays, he's a memoir writer, TV writer (over 20 TV plays and documentaries). He also teaches. He has won an emmy and many other awards and citations.

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

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

         Dauntless Dick Deadeye         Heyday         Hometown Honey         Perfect Gentleman, A         Sailing With Magellan         Terrible Saint, A         Unfair To Goliath         Wave Me Goodbye

Dauntless Dick Deadeye

Synopsis:
revised libretto turns Dick Deadye into a choric figure busily explaining the objects of Gilbertian satire. - Michael Billington, Guardian

Notes:
operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, in A new version by Herbert Appleman

1st Produced:
Open Air, London     2005

Organisations:
New Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Operetta Opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
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Heyday

Synopsis:
based on Ring Lardner story. the 1920s - a flapper has become engage to three young men

Notes:
Music, lyrics And book by Herbert Appleman

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Dramatists, NYC,    

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hometown Honey

Synopsis:
a young women goes to work in a respectable house - but stirs up emotions in the son and his father

Notes:
Based on the book "Rambling Rose" by Calder Willingham

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Perfect Gentleman, A

Synopsis:
a classic story of the generation gap between a famous establishment father, Lord Chesterfield (former statesman, now retired), and his illegitimate son, Philip. Lord Chesterfield intrigues to have Philip made an ambassador, but Philip manages to sabotage these arrangements; risking disinheritance, he becomes his own man. Ultimately, because the Father and son are both civilised and loving, the gap between them is bridged with humour and poignancy. a contemporary play in the tradition of english high comedy.

Notes:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sailing With Magellan

Synopsis:
a young man in 1950s Brooklyn dreams of going to Harvard - but his depressed mother and overwhelmed Father are a drain on him

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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Terrible Saint, A

Synopsis:
the noble yet profoundly comic efforts of Count Lev Tolstoy to transform himself into an ascetic idealist lead to unexpected results: when he is a healthy sinner, his marriage and family life are serene; when he becomes a saint, everyone suffers.

Notes:
doubling possible

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  5            Other:  1c

Further Reference:
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Unfair To Goliath

Synopsis:
lyrics based on work of Israeli humorist Ephraim Kishon. Every day life in Israel

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Herbert Appleman; book by Ephraim Kishon

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theater, NYC     25 Jan 1970

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Wave Me Goodbye

Synopsis:
Shortly before D-Day an American officer meets a young english woman.

Notes:
Music, lyrics And book by Herbert Appleman. Based on the novel "the Americanization Of emily" by William Bardford Huie

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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