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CHARLES LEDERER
Nationality: USA
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Charles Lederer's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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KismetKismet
there are usually four beggars sitting outside the mosque but one - Hajj has gone on pilgrimage to Mecca. a poetry seller arrives and unable to sell any poems sits with the beggars to beg alms. the other beggars are not happy with this as it is Hajj's place but he tells them he is Hajj's cousin. the poetry seller has some success with his begging. a big man from the desert - thinking he is Hajj kidnaps him and takes him to the leader of the brigands. Fifteen years earlier the real Hajj had placed a curse on the leader's son and he disappeared - now he wants the curse lifted
Notes:
With Music From Alexander Borodin; Musical Adaptation by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Lyrics by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Book by Charles Lederer And Luther Davis; From the play by edward Knoblock
1st Produced:
Ziegfeld Theatre, New York 03 Dec 1953
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1st Published:
Music theater Inc, NY, -
Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (32605) 1953
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