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Leueen MacGrath

LEUEEN MACGRATH

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

         Amicable Parting         Fancy Meeting You Again         Silk Stockings         Small Hours, The

Amicable Parting

Synopsis:
Has to do with alicia and Bill Reynolds, an attractive young couple who have quarreled and are planning to separate. Right now they're in the process of dividing all their possessions, and quarreling considerably more in doing so-everything at all desirable they both claim-all the junk each generously offers to the other. the real trouble comes when the dog walks through the room-a fight over custody of the animal reaches really monumental proportions. alicia walks out as Bill puts a sentimental record on the phonograph alicia, who has furiously been labeling everything in the room with her name, reappears, with a label plastered on herself, labeling her as Bill's

Notes:
written with Leueen MacGrath

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1957   -

Music:
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Genre:
15 min sketch One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 dog

Further Reference:
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Fancy Meeting You Again

Synopsis:
In the words of Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune): ". . . an attractive and energetic female. . .has spent 5,000 years tracking down her man, without ever trapping him into matrimony. We first meet her in a wedding gown, in the year 1952, as she is about to make a marriage of convenience with somebody else. But she cannot go through with it." and she chucks the prospective bridegroom. "This is the cue for the first of several flashbacks, and we pick up our determined lass in the stone age, begging to be tapped by her negligent cave man. Later, we see her as a Roman slave-girl, still on the trail, hot for her lover whose current reincarnation has turned him into a shepherd boy." In her contemporary manifestation amanda Phipps discovers that the art critic Heybore, who has come to interview her, is none other that the man she has been in love with for five millennia. Ultimately amanda meets the fate she has awaited for so many centuries.

Notes:
written with Leueen MacGrath

1st Produced:
Royale Theatre, NY    1952

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1952   -

Music:
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Genre:
3 act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings
Soviet pianist defects whilst in Paris. He is taken up by an American showbiz agent who wants him to compose movie music. Three Soviet agents are sent to bring him back to Moscow - but they are seduced by the charms of Paris and the West. their superior Ninotchka is dispatched to bring all four back

Notes:
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath And Abe Burrows; Suggested by "Ninotchka" by Melchior Lengyel

1st Produced:
Imperial theatre    20144

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, 757 Third ave., New York, NY, 1955   -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (1102) 1955

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Genre:
2 act musical comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Small Hours, The

Synopsis:
a panoramic spectacle revealing in swiftly moving scenes episodes from the history of a well-to-do famil, and their attempts to establish a way of life that nearly ends in tragic failure. the play is a Dramatic discourse on the value of standards of happiness and success.

Notes:
written with Leueen MacGrath

1st Produced:
National Theatre, NY    1951

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1951   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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