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Hartford, Connecticut

1985

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from novel by John Kobler, music by Robert Waldman

New York

1987

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987

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The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Slowly and steadily the dignified, good-natured Hoke breaks down the stern defenses of the ornery old lady, as she teaches him to read and write and, in a gesture of good will and shared concern, invites him to join her at a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. As the play ends Hoke has a final visit with Miss Daisy, now ninety-seven and confined to a nursing home, and while it is evident that a vestige of her fierce independence and sense of position still remain, it is also movingly clear that they have both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possibleand that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit.

Billy Rose Theatre, New York

1968

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Music by Robert Waldman; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Book by Alex Gordon; (Uncredited) book by Terrence McNally (McNally asked that his name be removed from the credits of the show); Based on the novel "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Setting: 1915-1917. Salinas, California

Helen Hayes Theatre, New York

1997

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997

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Incidental music by Robert Waldman

takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah (Boo) Levy, and their also widowed sister-in-law, Reba. Boo is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born and bred, and furthermore is of Eastern European heritageseveral social rungs below the Freitags, in Beulah's opinion. Lala, however, is charmed by Joe and she hints broadly about being taken to Ballyhoo, but he turns her down. This enrages Boo, and matters get worse when Joe falls for Lala's cousin, Reba's daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.

Alvin Theatre, New York

1982

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Music by George M. Cohan; Lyrics by George M. Cohan; Book by George M. Cohan; Book adapted by Alfred Uhry

Biltmore Theatre, NY

2007

Manhattan Theatre Club

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Music by Kurt Weill; Lyrics by Kurt Weill; Book by Alfred Uhry; Featuring songs with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash and Elmer Rice

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Vivien Beaumont Theater, New York

1998

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Original cast recording: RCA (09026-63378-2)

1999

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Book by Alfred Uhry; Music by Jason Robert Brown; Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

The true story of convicted murderer Leo frank, and his wife's crusade for justice. In 1913 Atlanta, Frank, a Jewish man, was convicted of the murder of 13 year old factory worker Mary Phagan. As the press frenzy and public hatred surrounding the trial grew, Frank's wife continued to campaign for justice. In a time of religous intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the musical explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds.

Musical Theatre Lab at St. Clement's Church, New York

1974

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Drama Book Specialists, New York, 1978

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Original cast recording: CBS (P-14589)

1976

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Book by Alfred Uhry; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Music by Robert Waldman; Music arranged by Robert Waldman; Based on the novella by Eudora Welty

Washington, D.C.

1980

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music by Robert Waldman