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Ketti Frings

KETTI FRINGS

  (1915 - 1981)
Nationality:    USA
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Ketti Frings's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Angel         Beautiful Stranger         Dazzling Hour, The         Long Dream, The         Look Homeward, Angel         Mr Sycamore         Pippin         Walking Happy
Angel

Angel
a young man growing up in a small town in North Carolina in the early part of the twentieth century

Notes:
Written by Ketti Frings And Peter Udell; music by Gary Gold; lyrics by Peter Udell. Based on the novel "Look Homeward Angel" by Thomas Wolfe And the stage Adaptation of the novel by Ketti Frings

1st Produced:
Minskoff Theater, New York     15/1978

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Music:
Original cast recording: GUa (001) 1978

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Genre:
Musical

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Beautiful Stranger

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Dazzling Hour, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anna Bonacci. Original Title - "L'Ora dElla Fantasia"

1st Produced:
-     1953

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Long Dream, The

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1st Produced:
Ambassador Theatre, New York     1960

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Play/Drama

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Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel
Youth struggles to escape from emotional conflicts within a family

Notes:
from Autobiography by Thomas Wolfe

1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York     1957

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1959   

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Mr Sycamore

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1st Produced:
Guild Theatre, New York     1942

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1st Published:
Rialto Service Bureau 1942   

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Pippin

Pippin
Maggie against her father's wishes and her intended's protests determines to marry Will Mossop the boot maker in her father's shop. With her business sense and his boot making skills she can see nothing but success ahead

Notes:
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Kahn; book by Roger O Hirson; Ketti Frinfs. Based on the play "Hobson's Choice" by Harold Brighouse

1st Produced:
-     23 Oct 1972

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Original cast recording: Motown (9088) 1972

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Walking Happy

Walking Happy
Henry Hobson has three daughters. George Beenstock two sons. the two youngest daughters flirt with the two sons. Hobson tells his oldest daughter Maggie her time is past she is too old to get married. Maggie marries Will her father's chief boot maker and they set up in business. Hobson's two remaining daughters cannot cope running the business. eventually Hobson and Maggie resolve their differences and become partners in the shop

Notes:
Written by Ketti Frings And Roger O Hirson; music by Jimmy van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater     26 Nov 1966

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Original cast recording: angel (65133) 1966

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Genre:
Musical

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