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Ralph Blane

RALPH BLANE

  (1914 - 1995)
Nationality:    USA
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Ralph Blane's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Best Foot Forward         Meet Me In St Louis         Tattered Tom         Three Wishes For Jamie

Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward
a High School boy, Bud, asks a famous Hollywood actress, Gale Joy, to be his date for the Prom. Her agent thinks that this would be great publicity so she accepts. But Bud's girlfriend is jealous and at the dance she rips Gale's sash - this leads to a frenzy amongst the other High Schoolers who start ripping her dress to bits for souvenirs. Gale and her agent depart for Hollywood and it looks like Bud will be expelled for being the cause of it all

Notes:
book by John Cecil Holm, Music And lyrics by Ralph Blane And Hugh Martin;

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore theatre    1941

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Revival cast recording: DRG (15003) 1963

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Genre:
Musical

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Meet Me In St Louis

Synopsis:
Based on stories by Sally Benson and the classic 1944 MGM film, Meet Me In St. Louis tells the story of the Smith family as they eagerly anticipate the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Optimism and young love are severely tested and of course finally triumph as the story unfolds with the background of the Great Louisiana Purchase exhibition never far from the hearts and minds of the Smith Family. Songs include "the Trolley Song," "the Boy Next Door," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,"
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Notes:
book by Hugh Wheeler; music And lyrics by Hugh Martin And Ralph Blane

1st Produced:
Irish Repertory Theatre, NY    2006

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Genre:
140 min Musical

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Tattered Tom

Synopsis:
Rags to riches story of a street sweeper in 1890s New York

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Ralph Blane; Hugh Martin; book by Timothy Gray. Based on a short story by Horatio Alger

1st Produced:
Unproduced    1968

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Genre:
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Three Wishes For Jamie

Three Wishes For Jamie
the Queen of the Fairies grants a young Irishman three wishes. He wishes for a wife, to travel and have a son who can speak Gaelic. the first two wishes are easily achieved but then it is discovered that the new wife cannot conceive. the boy they adopt is mute

Notes:
Music by Ralph Blane; Lyrics by Ralph Blane; Book by Charles O'Neal And Abe Burrows; Based on the novel by Charles O'Neal

1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theatre,    21 Mar 1952

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
Original cast recording: angel (64888) 1952

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Genre:
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