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Michael Leeds

MICHAEL LEEDS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michael Leeds's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Emporer Is Naked, The         First Step: The Diary of a Sex Addict         Gift, The         I'm Going First         Impressions         Lie, The         Lyrical Fable         Mating Habits of the Urban Mammal         Miracles         Pompadour         Read This Play         Red, Hot and Blue         So A Rabbi, A Priest And A Minister Walk Into A Bar         Starmaker         Swinging on a Star         Triple Theatre         Who Killed Joan Crawford
Emporer Is Naked, The

Synopsis:
The Emporer is not naked - it is a fashion statement

Notes:
Dramatists Guild members whose plays are being produced in City Theatre and Island City Stages production of "SHORTS GONE WILD" include CAREY CRIM (Glamping), TONY FINSTROM (The Last Time I Saw Bathhouse Betty), GARY GARRISON (Game On), MICHAEL LEEDS (The Emporer Is Naked) and MICHAEL MCKEEVER (Lion In A Bear Bar and Sarah Stein Sends A Selfie).

1st Produced:
City Theatre & Island City Stage At Empire Stage. Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33304     07 Aug 2014

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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First Step: The Diary of a Sex Addict

Synopsis:
Gay sex addict Joe from his first sex encounter as a boy in a restroom when he could only see the man's foot - black socks maroon loafers to his adult years of pick-ups and one night stands to bath houses backrooms and internet

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Island City Stage, Wilton Manors, FL     18 Jan 2017

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Genre:
Drama - Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gift, The

Synopsis:
A man and a woman are trapped in parallel lifts or is one of them trapped in the other's nightmare?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, Boca Raton, FL     01 Jul 2013

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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I'm Going First

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of "Shorts Gone Wild Three"

1st Produced:
Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale     Aug 2015

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
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Impressions

Synopsis:
Women from four famous paintings tell the behind the scenes story - the matron, the laundress, the dancer and the prostitute

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Abyss Theatre, Wilton Manors, FL     20 Jul 2017

Organisations:
Pigs Do Fly Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lie, The

Synopsis:
An ageing country and western duo find a novel way to get back in the limelight

Notes:
Part of "Shorts Gone Wild 4"

1st Produced:
Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale, FL     Aug 2016

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Music:
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Genre:
Gay short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lyrical Fable

Synopsis:
A small town girl goes to New York - she wants to be a Rockette - but she finds love instead

Notes:
Part of "Shorts Gone Wild One"

1st Produced:
Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale     Aug 2013

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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian short play

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Mating Habits of the Urban Mammal

Synopsis:
One day you turn on the television and they are doing a programme on the mating habits of you. Life in the urban jungle of Manhattan

Notes:
Music by Peggy Gordon; B Lasser; lyrics by Peggy Gordon; B Lasser; Michael Leeds; book by Peggy Gordon; Michael Leeds

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at John Houseman Theatre, New York     12 Sep 1993

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Genre:
Musical - Gay musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Miracles

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pompadour

Synopsis:
The pompadored singers of the 1950s and 1960s

Notes:
Music pop songs of the 50s and 60s; book Michael Leeds

1st Produced:
Stage Door Theatre 2, Coral Springs, FL     26 Dec 2015

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Read This Play

Synopsis:
In an effort to get his play performed a playwright kidnaps a theatre's artistic director

Notes:
Part of "Shorts Gone Wild 1"

1st Produced:
City Theatre, Fort Lauderdale, FL     Sep 2013

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Music:
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Genre:
Gay short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Red, Hot and Blue

Synopsis:
A search is on the find the girl with a waffled bottom. When young she sat on a waffling iron

Notes:
Music and lyrics Cole Porter; book Michael Leeds. Revised version of "Red, Hot and Blue" 1936 music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Russel Crouse; Howard Lindsay

1st Produced:
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT     13 Oct 2000

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
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So A Rabbi, A Priest And A Minister Walk Into A Bar

Synopsis:
Will the barman need a prayer?

Notes:
Part of Shorts Gone Wild 5

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Genre:
Ten minute play - Gay one act

Parts:
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Starmaker

Synopsis:
Henry Willson agent and openly gay discovers the closeted sailor Rock Hudson and makes him a star. Then he fell in love with his creation

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Island City Stage, Wilton Manors, FL     10 Aug 2019

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Genre:
Drama - Gay historical character

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Swinging on a Star

Swinging on a Star
From a Chicago Speakeasy, to the Bowery in the Depression, to the Hope/Crosby/Lamour Road movies

Notes:
Music by Johnny Burke and others; lyrics by Johnny Burke; book by Michael Leeds

1st Produced:
Island City Stage, Wilton Manors, FL    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service   

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
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Triple Theatre

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of Shorts Gone Wild 6

1st Produced:
Island City Stage, Wilton Manors, FL     02 Aug 2018

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play - Gay one act

Parts:
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Who Killed Joan Crawford

Synopsis:
Five gay guys have been invited to a birthday party by a soap opera star friend. They must all come dressed as Joan Crawford in one of her movies roles. Six guys arrive at the house (one has brought his much younger "ghost writer"). There host is nowhere to be seen. Then a tremendous storm breaks out and they find they are cut off. Then someone starts murdering the party guests

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Athenaeun Theatre, Southport, Il     Oct 2019

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Thriller - Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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