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Harry Kurnitz

HARRY KURNITZ  (1907 - 1968)

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

 Girl Who Came To Supper         Once More With Feeling         Reclining Figure         Shot In The Dark, A

Girl Who Came To Supper

Harry Kurnitz
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Notes:
Music by Noel Coward; Book by Harry Kurnitz; Lyrics by Noel Coward; Based on the play "The Sleeping Prince" by Terence Rattigan

1st Produced:
Broadway Theater, New York    1963

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   kos-2420

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (KOS-2420) 1963

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Once More With Feeling

Synopsis:
The central figure is a symphony conductor, a perfectionist, but also one possessed of a temper that causes him to bang instruments on the heads of his musicians, break batons by the scores and tear the shirts off his fiddlers as a form of constructive criticism. His ex-wife, who was never legally married to the conductor, who now wants a divorce, finds herself on the French horns of a dilemma. The conductor's agent, a colorful fellow addicted to larceny, perjury and skullduggery in the interest of a client and his commission. Knowing that the lady in the conductor's life is the only female who can tame him long enough for the sponsors of an orchestra to sign him, he finally brings the two together and out of the resulting cacophony finally creates harmony."

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Reclining Figure

Synopsis:
as told by Kerr in the New York Herald-Tribune: "Playwright Harry Kurnitz has hit upon a background that generates its own chaos: the sleek, effusive and cheerfully dishonest world of the art experts. He has set up a gullible millionaire who keeps ten-cent cigars in a twelve hundred dollar spice chest and who is fond of collecting the recent masters. He runs him afoul of a high-pressure dealer who is given to crying like a baby when parting with his treasures, a hard-drinking 'restorer' with a talent for forgery and a soft-headed young salesman with high ideals and, unfortunately, a hot property on his hands. The chicanery pyramids with an easy logic, throats are cut with casual charm," and the intrigue mounts delightfully as romance and art mix to everyone's satisfaction.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shot In The Dark, A

Synopsis:
good hearted and guileless child of nature charged with murder having been found unconscious, nude and clutching a gun with her lover dead beside her

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marcel Achard

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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