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Tina Landau

TINA LANDAU

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Tina Landau's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         1969         Beauty         Dream True         Floyd Collins         Space         Stonewall: Night Variations

1969

Synopsis:
1969 captures the horror of high school and the chaos of the late 1960s. In a swirl of images, events and music of that year, a lonely high school senior takes a psychedelic journey towards sexual and political identity. Unable to conform and needing to escape, he travels along a Yellow Brick Road of the mind, encountering such personalities as Dr. Timothy Leary, Janis Joplin and Neil armstrong--he is propelled headlong into the terrifying, hot center of the counterculture. Here, in the collective hallucination of the revolution, he embraces the possibility of reinventing himself and discovers the quirky spirit which will lead him into the gay Greenwich Village of the early 1970s. 1969 captures a generation's yearning to expand outward--into psychedelia, over the rainbow, to the moon.

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1st Published:
Humana Festival 1994: the Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1994   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Beauty

Synopsis:
Based loosely on the fairy tale of SLeePING BeaUTY. In a medieval timescape, a young girl comes of age just as the world around her slips into the modern era. at the same time, a young man living in a modern metropolis sets off on a journey into the past to search for beauty, which has been lost to the world for some time. Can true love reach across the centuries, or will the trials and tribulations along way force romance and passion to remain asleep forever? With its contemporary view of a classic fairy tale, the memorable characters and haunting poetic imagery of BeaUTY will enchant young people and adults alike as it takes them on a transformative journey filled with magic, music, mystery and, above all, beauty.

Notes:
Scheduled for productions in 2004-5.

1st Produced:
La Jolla Pla    2003

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  musician

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Dream True

Dream True
Two boyhood soulmates meet again as adults and attempt to incorporate the magic of their unique childhoods into their now disparate adults lives.

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Written by Tina Landau in collaboration with composer Ricky Ian Gordon. Will receive concert staging And recording Spring 2003 via Cooper-Union New York City.

1st Produced:
The Vineyard    16 Apr 1999

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Music:
Studio cast: PS Classics Inc (PS- 9641) 2004

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  2b

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Floyd Collins

Floyd Collins
Based on true events which transpired in Kentucky, in 1925, when a caver named Floyd Collins became trapped one hundred and fifty feet underground and the rescue attempts above ground led to what was considered the "first great American media circus" - or "Deathwatch Carnival" - as tens of thousands of people flocked to the barren hills near Sand Cave to witness the happenings surrounding the rescue. FLOYD COLLINS focuses both on the carnival-like atmosphere above Floyd, and the interior journey of a single man as he faces his own solitude and impending death.

Notes:
Music, lyrics And book by Adam Guettel. Book And Additional lyrics by Tina Landau

1st Produced:
Amtf, Philidelphia    1994

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1st Published:
Published in an anthology along with ReNT, PaRaDe, and WILD PaRTY, TCG, 2003   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Nonsuch (79344) 1996

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Space

Synopsis:
a highly theatErical journey into a mysterious landscape where science meets faith, as a nueropsychiatrist investigates the claims of people who believe they have been abducted by aliens. On his path towards increasingly dark and dangerous territory, Dr. allen Saunders meets and falls in love with a female astronomer. Through her teachings as well as his own research, allan learns to embrace the the mystery of such phenomena as the night sky, the human brain, and ultimately, faith itself.

Notes:
Produced At Steppenwolf theater Company (TIMe magazine Ten Best of the Year), later produced At Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, And New York Public theater

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Stonewall: Night Variations

Synopsis:
Gay World a retrospective theme park on all things gay from the past. There are booths with different kinds of homosexual in them from the closet case with his Judy Garland collection to a James Dean lookalike lesbian boxer. And there is a re-enactment of the Stonewall riots and some of the people taking part. The rent boy who is having an affair with one of the policeman, a Vietnam vet and a man just out of aversion therapy

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Genre:
Gay Play with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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