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RUSSELL CROUSE (1893 - 1966)
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Anything Goes Call Me Madam Gang's All Here, The Great Sebastians, The Greek To You Happy Hunting Hold Your Horses Hooray For What! Life With Father Life With Mother Mr President Prescott Proposals, The Red, Hot And Blue! Remains To Be Seen Sound Of Music, The State Of The Union Strip For Action Tall StoryAnything Goes
Billy Crocker falls in love with a young girl he shares a taxi with. His boss is going to England aboard the S.S. American and Billy goes to see him off. He spots the young girl going aboard - she is heiress Hope Harcourt travelling with her mother and fiance. Billy determines to get on board and is aided by two members of Snake Eyes Johnson's gang who have disguised themselves as a clergyman and a missionary worker. Snake Eyes has not turned up so they give his passport and ticket to Billy. On board Billy professes his love for Hope and she for him but says that she must marry her fiance for financial reasons. The ship's captain receives a wire to alert him to the fact that a wanted gangster is on board
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Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Guy Bolton And P. G. Wodehouse; Book revised by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
alvin Theater, New York 21 Nov 1934
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Smithsonian (R-007) 1934
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Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageCall Me Madam
Setting: The play is laid in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg. The other is the United States. Comments: This play was suggested by the 1949 appointment of Washington hostess Perle Mesta as ambassadress to Luxembourg; however, the program announced "neither the character of Mrs. Sally adams nor Miss Ethel Merman resemble any person living or dead."
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Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, NY 12 Oct 1950
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Flare (ROYCD-222) 1950
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: ensemble
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Top of PageGang's All Here, The
Synopsis:
Setting: atlantic City and Nantucket
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Music by Lewis E. Gensler; Book by Russell Crouse, Oscar Hammerstein II And Morrie Ryskind; Lyrics by Owen Murphy And Robert A. Simon
1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, NY 1931
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageGreat Sebastians, The
Synopsis:
as described by Chapman in the New York News, the play "is an artfully deliberate combination of the legends of Graustark and the writings of George Sokolsky. In it Lunt and Fontanne are a vaudeville combo doing a mind-reading act, and their bookings have carried them as far as Prague, Czechoslovakia, in late 1948. They are just in time for the upsurge of the Communists and the purported suicide of Jan Masaryk, and for a pleasant while it looks as though they'd never get out of Prague alive. . .the result is a charming, winsome comedy." The mind-reading duo-the Great Sebastians-have been friends of Jan Masaryk, and had lunch with him the day before his death. The new government in Czechoslovakia asks them to say publicly that Masaryk had been depressed and unhappy about his actions as head of the former government, and when the Sebastians refuse to do this, they are in trouble. They are hired to do their mind-reading act at the home of a Communist official who hopes to use them to uncover a traitor to his government; this backfires, and shortly they find themselves prisoners, with their life savings-in the form of a valuable postage stamp-in the hands of the enemy. after many ingenious intrigues an escape is, of course, managed (for this is a comedy) and even the postage stamp is retrieved, and the Sebastians dash for the border, carrying with them a reformed Communist who's decided he would prefer life outside the Iron Curtain.
Notes:
written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
aNTa Playhouse, NY 1956
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Melodrama/Comedy Melodrama
Parts:
Male: 15 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageGreek To You
Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Russell Crouse; Howard Lindsay
1st Produced:
Unproduced 1937
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1st Published:
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Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHappy Hunting
Liz Livington and her daughter Beth arrive in Monaco for the wedding of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly. They are barred from attending as their names are not on the guest list. Liz determines that she will find a better husband for her daughter than the on Grace Kelly found. She is impressed with the Duke of Grenada who is staying at her hotel. The Duke is in financial difficulties - Liz tells him that if she pays all his bills and if he relocates to Philadelphia with his string of racehorses he can marry Beth. He agrees. However, Beth has fallen for Liz's attorney Sandy. Once back in America rather than marry the Duke Beth elopes with Sandy. The Duke agrees to marry Liz - he is only interested in her money - but she knows that
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Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Lyrics by Matt Dubey; Music by Harold Karr
1st Produced:
Majestic Theatre, NY 06 Dec 1956
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (68091) 1956
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Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHold Your Horses
Synopsis:
Setting: New York City at the turn of the century
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Music by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Louis Alter, Arthur Swanstrom, Ben Oakland And Owen Murphy; Book by Russell Crouse And Corey Ford; from A play by Charles Beahan, Russell Crouse And Corey Ford; With many nonsensical moments by Joe Cook; Lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Louis Alter, Arthur Swanstrom, Ben Oakland And Owen Murphy
1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, NY 1933
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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHooray For What!
Synopsis:
Setting: Sprinkle, Indiana and Geneva
Notes:
Music by Harold Arlen; Music orchestrated by Don Walker; Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; Conceived by E.Y. Harburg
1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, NY 1937
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageLife With Father
What need of outlining the story of this famous play? Father and his wife Vinnie, their young sons, relatives and friends, all are involved in the epic struggle between father and mother to have father properly baptized.
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written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse, After Clarence Day's book
1st Produced:
Empire Theatre, NY 1939
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: -
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Top of PageLife With Mother
Synopsis:
Most of the familiar figures in LIFE WITH FaTHER are here as their characteristic selves: Mother, Father, the children and some others. This play shows the Day family in their summer home entertaining friends and relatives. The basic plot involves Mother's attempt to provide an engagement ring for one of the boys, who wants it for his fiancee. Though it happens that the engagement is of short duration, the desire for a ring is almost irresistible. Mother, never having had an engagement ring of her own, determines to get one. Mrs. Bessie Fuller Logan comes to visit the Days. She was formerly engaged to Father and when the engagement was broken, Father demanded the return of the ring. The former Bessie Fuller peremptorily refused to give it back. When Mother learns this she insists that Father go into action. This puts Father in a spot. Bessie plays a delightful game with him and, in the end, relents. The plot is further enriched by the introduction of cousin Cora's husband, Clyde Miller. Father almost meets his match in Clyde, who is an offensive know-it-all. When these two get in an argument, the sparks fly. Father practically kicks Clyde out of the house when Clyde blames Father because railroad stock Father had bought for Cora happens to decline a few points. Father characteristically explodes at Clyde's reflections upon his honesty, but that is satisfactorily settled when Vinnie buys back Cora's stock at a loss. The play ends when one of the younger boys sets off to Yale, after having been warned by his mother to be sure to put on warm clothes and eat the right food.
Notes:
written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse, After Clarence Day's book
1st Produced:
Empire Theatre, NY 1948
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: -
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Top of PageMr President
The story of a fictional U.S. president and his family; their last days in the White House; and retirement into civilian life.
Notes:
Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
St James Theatre, NY 20 Oct 1962
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1st Published:
- -
Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (48212) 1962
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Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PagePrescott Proposals, The
Synopsis:
Mrs. Mary Prescott, the U.S. delegate to the U.N., has presented proposals that a U.N. committee should discuss the areas of agreement between the member countries, rather than the differences. On the night Mary is to make an important speech on the proposals, the Czech delegate, with whom she had once had a romantic affair, comes to her home, where he dies of a sudden heart attack. a few minutes after this, the English, French, Russian and Pakistani delegates arrive at Mary's apartment for cocktails. The four delegates remove the body to the Czechoslovakian headquarters where it can be found without compromising Mary or her proposals and they all pledge secrecy. However, one of the four delegates breaks his oath and phones the police. The resulting international complications threaten to wreck the proposals and the lives of those involved, until the guilty delegate reveals his basic humanity and vindicates Mary. There is also a romance between Mary and a radio commentator who has reserved judgment on her proposals, and during the course of the play she wins both the commentator and his approval of her political action.
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written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
Broadhurst Theatr, NY 1953
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Romantic Melodrama Comedy
Parts:
Male: 12 Female: 3 Other: of the 12 men, some are bit parts
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Top of PageRed, Hot And Blue!
Wealthy young widow Nails O'Reilly Duquesne embarks on a search for her boyfriend's former girlfriend. Many years ago Bob Hale's then girlfriend sat on a hot waffle iron - so she can be easily identified. So that she is not aware she is being sort Nails pretends she is running a lottery. The Federal Government declare the lottery unconstitutional
Notes:
Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter
1st Produced:
alvin Theater, New York 29 Oct 1936
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageRemains To Be Seen
Synopsis:
according to Variety, "Yarn involves two main plot lines. . .One is about the apparently natural, but puzzling and complicated death of a rich reformer and collector of erotica, and the efforts of police to unravel the increasingly strange details. The other concerns the romance between a dynamic, redheaded band singer and the milquetoast manager of the apartment house residence of the dead man." But the chief attraction of the play lies in the persons of an irrepressible jazz drummer, and of a delightful band singer, who romp through the comedy in scene after scene of hilarious fun.
Notes:
written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
Morosco Theatre, NY 1951
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Mystery/Comedy Mystery
Parts:
Male: 16 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageSound Of Music, The
Novice nun Maria is sent to be the governess of the Von Trapp children
Notes:
Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Based on "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp
1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NY 16 Nov 1959
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1st Published:
applAuse Books CK-32601
Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (CK-32601) 1959
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageState Of The Union
Synopsis:
The 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Not only is STaTE OF THE UNION a delightfully fresh satire on America's favorite pastime, politics, it's also a sharp challenge to all Americans who are interested in the kind of government they're getting and the kind of government they think they really deserve.
Notes:
written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
Hudson Theatre, NY 1945
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 11 Female: 6 Other: of the 11 men, 3 are major roles, 3 are non-speaking of the 6 women, 2 are major roles
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Top of PageStrip For Action
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Written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse
1st Produced:
National Theatre, NY 1942
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageTall Story
Synopsis:
Thanks to the phenomenal success of its basketball team Custer College has suddenly sprung into national prominence. alumni contributions have tripled, the building program is in high gear and academic standards have been raised-largely because of star center, Ray Blent, a science major who has worked out a mathematical formula which allows him to sink basket after basket with unfailing precision. On the eve of the big game with arch rival ashmore College, however, Ray is distracted by a thorny personal problem. He is desperately anxious to marry co-ed June Ryder but lacks the necessary funds, or at least he does until he receives a mysterious phone call asking him to throw the ashmore game. Knowing he doesn't have the heart to betray his teammates, Ray devises a hilarious scheme which will solve all his problems, on and off the court.
Notes:
Written by Howard Lindsay And Russell Crouse; Suggested by the novel "The Homecoming Game" by Howard Nemerov; Featuring songs by Joe Hornsby, Ben G. Allen And Jerry Teifer
1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, NY 1959
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 21 Female: 8 Other: 1b
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