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Herb Gardner

HERB GARDNER

  (1934 - 2003)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Lantz Office  

Herb Gardner's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Conversations With My Father         Elevator, The         Forever Game, The         Goodbye People, The         How I Crossed the Street For the First Time All By Myself         I'm Not Rappaport         I'm With Ya Duke         Love And/Or Death         One Night Stand         Thieves         Thousand Clowns, A

Conversations With My Father

Synopsis:
Conflict between a Jewish immigrant's yearning to preserve tradition and his obsessive desire to assimilate into American Society

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1st Published:
Pantheon Books, NY, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elevator, The

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1st Produced:
New York    1952

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1952   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Forever Game, The

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Genre:
One act

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Goodbye People, The

Synopsis:
about old age and death and about the woes of youthful misfits and their loves all based around Coney Island in February

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1st Produced:
Ethyl Barrymore Theatre, New York    1968

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How I Crossed the Street For the First Time All By Myself

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1st Published:
in Best American Short Plays, Applause Books, NY, 1996   -

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Genre:
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I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport
Two octogenarians are determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture.

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1st Published:
Doubleday, New York, 1986   978-2702881712

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I'm With Ya Duke

Synopsis:
An elderly Jewish fruit merchant is wondering whether to have a heart by-pass operation

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Genre:
One act

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Love And/Or Death

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One Night Stand

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music Jule Styne

1st Produced:
Previewed At The Nederlander Theatre, Ny    1982

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Thieves

Synopsis:
failing marriage as two schoolteachers are lost in little New York while surrounded by colourful street people and stereotyped neighbours, they work on trying to revive their marriage

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1st Produced:
Broadhurst Theatre, New York    1974

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Thousand Clowns, A

Thousand Clowns, A
a bachelor uncle has been left to rear his precocious nephew.

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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1962   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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