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GRETCHEN CRYER
(1935 - )Nationality: USA
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Gretchen Cryer's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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American Girls Review Anne Of Green Gables Getting their Act Together Again Gorges Motel, The I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road Last Sweet Days Of Isaac Now Is the Time For All Good Men ShelterAmerican Girls Review
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book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford
1st Produced:
American Girl Place, Chicago 19 Nov 1998
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1st Published:
alfred Publishing (June 1, 1999) 978-0769271101
Music:
Studio cast recording: Pleasant Company ( THCD) 2000
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageAnne Of Green Gables
Synopsis:
based on the classic novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. the show tells the story of a wildly independent and adventurous red-haired orphan who is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly bachelor and his spinster sister to help with the family farm. This show is recommended for kids ages 8 and up.
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book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford
1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY 2007
Organisations:
TheatreworksUSA
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageGetting their Act Together Again
Synopsis:
Getting their act Together again is a heady and hilarious trip through Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford's professional and personal lives. With a relationship that spans four decades, musical theater team Cryer and Ford have been together longer than most marriages. From their undergrad years at DuPauw University, through children and marriages, and professional successes on and off Broadway, Cryer and Ford mine the hits (and a few of the side-splitting misses!) that have made them musical theater's most successful and enduring female writing team.
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Notes:
book And lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; music by Nancy Ford
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Musical
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageGorges Motel, The
Synopsis:
A series of short plays that intertwine to tell one story. 'Lives intersect in comic and dramatic fashion in a motel that has seen better days in Watkins Glen, New York. Break-ups, make-ups, a teddy bear and a drone attack, the ridiculous and the sublime all come together in one unlikely place.'
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written by: Gretchen Cryer, Craig Pospisil, Arlene Hutton, Lynne Halliday, James Hindman, Isaac Himmelman and Ankur Parikh
1st Produced:
TBG Theatre at The Barrow Group Studios (312 West 36th Street 3rd Floor), NY 07 Oct 2015
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short plays
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Top of PageI'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road
a forty year old songwriter wants to make a come back. She now wants a more feminist slant in her work - her agent wants her to stick to the middle of the road stuff that was a success before
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Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics And book by Gretchen Cryer
1st Produced:
Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York 14 Jun 1978
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York -
Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (X 14885) 1978
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageLast Sweet Days Of Isaac
Modern solitary lives. Two people are trapped in a lift and two people in separate cells communicate through the dividing wall.
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Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer; book by Gretchen Cryer
1st Produced:
Eastside Playhouse, New York 26 Jan 1970
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, -
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Original cast recording: RCa (1169) 1970
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageNow Is the Time For All Good Men
the new teacher at a school in a small Mid Western town encounters hostility because he was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War
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Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
1st Produced:
Theatre De Lys, New York 26 Sep 1967
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York -
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Original cast recording: DRG (OS-3130) 1967
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageShelter
Michael writes commercials. He lives with a super computer called arthur. Maud an actress friend turns up in a distressed state and Michael comforts her. She is still there in the morning when his young cleaner who is madly in love with him arrives for work. then Michael's wife turns up. . .
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Music by Nancy Ford; lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
1st Produced:
John Golden Theater, New York 06 Feb 1973
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York -
Music:
Studio cast recording: Original Cast Records (9785) 1997
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: -
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