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Leonard Melfi

LEONARD MELFI  (1935 - 2001)

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Helen Harvey Associates  


Born in Binghamton, NY on February 21, 1935. Attended St. Bonaventure U, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied with Uta Hagen/ Herbert Berghof. Author of Notes of a New York Playwright in each issue of Dramatists Guild Quarterly; two novels, The End of Marriage Forever! and Bright Angel Bright; film for Sophia Loren, Lady Liberty; Earplay, The Flower Girl; poetry in Exodus and Provincetown Review; Channel 13. TV plays, Puck. Puck, Puck! and What a Life!; artist of abstract paintings, show-ing, May, 1978 at The Stanhope, NYC. Recipient: Two Rockefeller Grants for Playwriting; Guggen-heim Fellowship for Playwriting; Kennedy Cen-ter Commission; New York State Council on the Arts Commission; State University of New York Commission.Playwright Leonard Melfi died at age 66 of congestive heart failure. In a bizarre twist, Mr. Melfi's body was lost at the hospital where he died. It was found several months later buried in a potter's field.
Address (in 1981): 45 West 87th St., 5-A, New York, NY 10024 (212) 873-9445 - home, (212) 582-4240 -service
Agent (in 1981): Helen Harvey, 410 West 24th St., New York, NY 10011 (212) 675-7445

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 Ah! Wine!         Alive!         Amorous Accidents         Baby Kids, The         Bang         Beautiful!         Bellevue of The Westside, The         Birdbath         Breech Baby, The         Butterfaces         Charity         Cinque (Horse Opera)         Club Hellfire         Dear Carmine DeSapio         Disfiguration         Dispossessed, The         Eddie And SUSAnna In Love         Elevator Escapade, The         Erotic Behavior Upstate         Eve Is Innocent         Fantasies At The Frick         Ferryboat         Flower Girl, The         Friends and Monsters         Frost Fire, The         Halloween         Having Fun In The Bathroom         Horn of Plenty         Horse Opera         Jack and Jill (from Oh! Calcutta!         Jones Man, The         Late Drummer Boy, The         Lazy Baby SUSAn         Lena And Louie         Lily Lake         Little Venice Makes A Good Drink, The         Lunchtime         Midnight Mass         Mr Tucker's Taxi         Niagra Falls         Night         Oh! Calcutta!         Out-of-Town Traffic         Porno Stars At Home         Port Authority         Pussies And Rookies         Raven Rock, The         Rosetti's Apologetics         Rusty And Rico         Shirt, The         Son of Redhead, The         Springtime Man, A         Stars And Stripes         Stimulation         Sunglasses         Sweet Suite         Taffy's Taxi         Teaser's Taxi         There's No Sugar in Scotch         Times Square         Toddy's Taxi         Tripper's Taxi         Uptight All Right         Watch the Cars and Lights         Wet And Dry, And Alive

Ah! Wine!

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New York Theatre Ensemble, NYC    1974

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Alive!

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Amorous Accidents

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Los Angeles    1981

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Baby Kids, The

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A modern play dealing with a group of ex-teenaged alcoholics (and also pill ad-dicts), all living together in a "communal type" New York City brownstone, under the spirit and guidance of a much older woman who has just suffered a stroke.

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full length Play/Drama

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Bang

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BANG was A production in which 29 plawrights each wrote A three minute sketch. It was A benefit because the Buildings Department made us do extensive electrical repair. It was organized by Robert (O'Connor) Patrick. The following is A list of the plawrights involved: Joyce Aaron, Anthony Bastiano, Jean Claude Van Itallie, Walter Brown, Daniel Clark, Tom Eyen, Ted Harris, Robert Heide, William Hoffman, Douglas Kahn, Donald Kavares, Bruce Kessler, H.M. Koutoukas, Leonard Melfi, Mary Mitchell, Harvey Perr, Jean Reavey, Phill Bill Niblock, Lanford Wilson, Ruth Yorck.
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Beautiful!

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Bellevue of The Westside, The

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in One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties (ApplAuse Acting Series)    978-1557831521

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Monologue

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Birdbath

Synopsis:
deals with the relationship between Frankie, a poet in his late 20s, and Velma, a nervous and troubled twenty-something waitress.

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1st Produced:
St Mark's Church-in-the Bowery, New York City    1965

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Theatre Genesis

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in "Encounters", Random house, New York, 1967   -

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Breech Baby, The

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The Loft Workshop, NYC    1968

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 46/3

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Butterfaces

Synopsis:
A play-within-a-play murder mystery pertaining to a group of actors and actresses, a playwright, a director and a little boy, all participating in an Off Off Broadway production, during the present time.

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Charity

Synopsis:
the action again takes place at the same site in Central Park, but this time after nightfall. A woman swigs brandy and talks to the statue and then, suddenly, draws a gun and accosts another woman, an artist who has come to capture the statue on canvas. But the gun isn't loaded. In fact, as she demonstrates by persuading the artist to "hold up" another pair of evening strollers, the gun is really a way to spread love and good cheer-which, with infectious whimsy, the play most certainly does.

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Part of Faith, Hope & Charity

1st Produced:
New York    1988

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1989   -

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Cinque (Horse Opera)

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in "Spontaneous Combustion", Winter House, New York, 1972   -

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Club Hellfire

Synopsis:
takes a look at one night at an S&M/sex club from the perspective of the proprietor

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Homegrown Theatre, NY    1996

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Dear Carmine DeSapio

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Disfiguration

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Mark Taper Forum, L.A., CA    1967

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Dispossessed, The

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New York    1982

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Eddie And SUSAnna In Love

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New York    1976

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Elevator Escapade, The

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Erotic Behavior Upstate

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A very contemporary American comedy involving a free, unmarried "older woman" and her romantic relationships with young fraternal twin brothers and another young man who has just escaped from a mental institution in his pajamas, now forming a "quaint quadrille."

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Eve Is Innocent

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New York    1983

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Fantasies At The Frick

Synopsis:
at a museum in New York two guards tenuous self control is shaken as two trendily attired dilettantes achieve a coupling which the guards may sneer at but which they also envy

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aka Guard And the Guardess

1st Produced:
The Open Space In SoHo, NYC    1976

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Samuel French, NY, 1980   -

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Genre:
Serious Comedy Comedy

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Ferryboat

Synopsis:
explore the theme of what it means and what it takes for people to ultimately connect in large and often isolated world.

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1st Produced:
New York    1965

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in "Encounters", Random house, New York, 1967   -

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Flower Girl, The

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Troupe Theater, NYC    -

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Friends and Monsters

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Theatre Genesis, NYC    -

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Frost Fire, The

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Halloween

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At the age of 30 Luke has finally left home. He is living in a run down apartment building. He returns home one day to find he has been burgled and everything of his has been taken. He meets the apartment block cleaning lady - they talk - and soon revelations are made

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New York    1967

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in "Encounters", Random House, New York, 1967   -

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Having Fun In The Bathroom

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Horn of Plenty

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New York Public Library, NYC    -

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Horse Opera

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music by Jihn Braden

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La MaMa ETC, NY >>>    06 Dec1974

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Jack and Jill (from Oh! Calcutta!

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revised version As part of Oh! Calcutta!, New York, 1969

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La MaMa ETC, NY >>>    06 Dec1967

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Grove Press, New York, 1969   -

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Jones Man, The

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Act IV, Provincetown, MA    1969

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Late Drummer Boy, The

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Staged reading, NYC    -

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Lazy Baby SUSAn

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Lena And Louie

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couple freeze to death in Central park

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Lily Lake

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Binghamton, New York    1986

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Little Venice Makes A Good Drink, The

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Binghamton, New York    1985

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Lunchtime

Synopsis:
A rich and beautiful married woman is in her apartment waiting for a repair man - he turns out to be very good looking and married too. Both are unhappy with their marriages

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La MaMa ETC, NY >>>    28 Sep 1967

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Midnight Mass

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Bronx Community College, NY    -

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Mr Tucker's Taxi

Synopsis:
Mr Tucker is a taxi driver. As he is unwell he is always accompanied by his wife. One day a woman hails the taxi and wants to be taken urgently to the nearest hospital. When the car has stopped at a red light it is hijacked by a bank robber

Notes:
Part of "Taxi Tales"

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Niagra Falls

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1st Produced:
Cafe La Mama, NY >>>    18 Jan 1967

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in "New Theatre for Now", Dell, New York, 1971   -

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Night

Synopsis:
is for remembrance as wife, mistress, boyfriend and others recall a cocky squirt each in their fashion

Notes:
in Chiaroscuro; in Morning, Noon, And Night, New York, 1968

1st Produced:
Spoleto, Italy    1968

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in "Morning, Noon and Night, Random House, New York, 1969   -

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Satire One Act

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Oh! Calcutta!

Leonard Melfi
Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969. It proved, once again, that sex sells, running in London for over 2,400 performances, and in New York for over 1,600. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!", French for "What an ass you have!". Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. (The original director was Jacques Levy, remembered by most now as the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album Desire.) Most of the sketches (written, amongst others, by Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan himself) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka 'PDQ Bach'), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and in 1972 a motion picture version was also released - in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival at the Edison Theatre ran for thirteen years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history, with a total of 5,959 performances.
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Conceived by Kenneth Tynan; Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg, John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan And Sherman Yellen; Music And Lyrics, The Open Window: Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele And Stanley Walden; Musical Director: Norman Bergen

1st Produced:
Eden Theatre, Off Broadway, NY    17 Jun 1969

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Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988   978-09368339486

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Out-of-Town Traffic

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Theatre Geneis, NYC    -

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Porno Stars At Home

Synopsis:
what do porno stars do at home away from the tacky lighting and cheap interiors of their everyday world

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Courtyard Playhouse, NYC    1976

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Samuel French, NY, 1980   -

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Port Authority

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Bronx Community College, NY    -

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Pussies And Rookies

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Raven Rock, The

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La MaMa ETC, NY >>>    20 Apr 1969

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Rosetti's Apologetics

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music by Mark Hardwick

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New York    1983

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Rusty And Rico

Synopsis:
Each night a prostitute meets her lover a politician in Central Park

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1st Produced:
New York    1978

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in "Later Encounters", French, New York, 1980   -

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Shirt, The

Synopsis:
A Southern gentleman in New York meets a young black couple. He invites them to his hotel room and photographs them whilst they dance

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Son of Redhead, The

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Brown Coat Theatre in Wilmngton, N.C    Mar 2011

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Springtime Man, A

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Stars And Stripes

Synopsis:
Six greats of American Literature. Henry James sells balloons; Edna St. Vincent Millay walks through New York naked and Emily Dickinson sells flowers.

Notes:
in Collision Course

1st Produced:
Cafe Au Go Go, NYC    1968

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Random House, New York (also in Collision Course, Vintage Books, New York), 1968   -

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Stimulation

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Sunglasses

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-

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Theatre Genesis, NYC    1965

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Sweet Suite

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Taffy's Taxi

Synopsis:
Taffy a lesbian taxi driver - picks up various fares during the day. Then she she picks up a woman who makes a pass at her. Taffy tells her she is in a relationship. But it is an abusive one

Notes:
Part of "Taxi Tales"

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Contained in: Later Encounters" published by Samuel French Inc, New York   -

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Teaser's Taxi

Synopsis:
Teaser has dreams of becoming a pop star. It is pouring with rain and he offers various passers by shelter in his cab - a rent boy, a young woman with an enormous suitcase and a Contessa with a cat

Notes:
Part of "Taxi Tales"

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There's No Sugar in Scotch

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Staged reading, NYC    -

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Times Square

Synopsis:
encounter between an obsessive young man and a murderous young woman

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1st Produced:
La MaMa ETC, NY >>>    18 May 1967

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in "Encounters", Random house, New York, 1967   -

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surreal fantasy One Act

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Toddy's Taxi

Synopsis:
Toddy likes to listen to "The Firebird Suite" whilst driving. He picks up a drunken businessman and two call girls who want to got to Kennedy Airport

Notes:
Part of "Taxi Tales"

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Tripper's Taxi

Synopsis:
Tripper picks up a married couple and their teenage daughter - they proceed to initiate an incestuous affair in the back of his taxi

Notes:
Part of "Taxi Tales"

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Uptight All Right

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-

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-

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Bronx Community College, NY    -

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Watch the Cars and Lights

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-

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-

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Circle-in-the-Square, NYC    -

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Wet And Dry, And Alive

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-

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1st Produced:
New York    1969

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