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Tad Mosel

TAD MOSEL  (1922 - 2008)

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  


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

 Alegation Impromptu, The         All The Way Home         Happiest Years, The         Impromptu         Jinxed         Lawn Party, The         Lion Hunter, The         Madame Aphrodite         That's Where The Town's Going

Alegation Impromptu, The

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Written by Lawrence Ferlingetti And Tad Mosel. "This is the first time we called Cafe La MaMa: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, or La MaMa E.T.C. We made it A club to Avoid harrasment by the bureau of licenses."

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All The Way Home

Synopsis:
Jay and Mary have a loving marriage. At times Jay tends to drink too much. After a drinking session he is killed in a car crash. Mary has to face life alone

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Based on the novel "A death In The Family" by James Agee

1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, New York    30 Nov 1960

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Obolensky, New York, 1961   -

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Adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Happiest Years, The

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Amherst, Massachusetts    1942

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Impromptu

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Four actors sit on a darkened stage, awaiting the arrival of the stage manager who has called them together. Lacking his authoritative presence they are merely characters in search of a play to become part of, for their own personalities seem unformed and shallow next to the full-blooded figures they are used to playing. They are also "types," and each of them has absorbed most of what he is from what he pretends to be on the stage. As they wait, the stage lights come up-but still no one appears to tell them what they are to do. They know only that they are not to leave the stage until they have "acted out the play." Suddenly becoming aware that an audience is present, the actors decide to improvise, an idea which finds them slightly flustered. Ernest, the "leading man," exercises the prerogative of star billing and assumes command. He plunges ahead, assigning roles to himself and his colleagues-Winifred, who always plays the "leading lady's best friend"; Lora, the struggling ingenue; and Tony, the juvenile lead. The "drama" which unfolds is a mixture of truth, fantasy and well-rehearsed situations, but out of it, in subtle progression, comes a deepening awareness of the real people behind the theatrical facades.

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This play, conceived in the "Pirandello mode," brings A fresh Approach to A timeless theme-what should be the proper ratio of truth vs. illusion in the balanced life?

1st Produced:
New York    1961

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1961   -

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Genre:
comedy drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jinxed

Synopsis:
George complains long and loud about everything. So much so that a Heavenly Messenger is sent down to look into his claims. The Messenger finds that George's complaints are all unfounded and tells him that henceforward every time he complains a year will be taken off his life

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Samuel French Inc, New York   -

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Genre:
One act Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lawn Party, The

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Lion Hunter, The

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New York    1952

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Madame Aphrodite

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Madame Aphrodite lives alone in a shabby apartment. She hates her neighbours whom she thinks have been unkind to her. She makes a beauty ointment out of items in her kitchen which she wants to sell to them by way of revenge. She gets the extremely good looking but naive young man Barney to sell it on her behalf. He sells some to Rosemary a shy young girl. She and Barney fall in love and as Rosemary feels so much better she believes it is the cream. Madame Aphrodite confesses it is a fake.

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Music And lyrics by Jerry Herman; book by Tad Mosel. Televised 1953

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New York    1962

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Genre:
Musical

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That's Where The Town's Going

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In the words of the NY Daily News, the play "deals with the humdrum life led by two aging sisters whom time has temporarily turned into rivals for the affections of one man, whom, in their youth, they wanted no part of. Locale of the play is a small midwestern town, the setting, a large old home that bespeaks dwindling wealth. . .This stultifying atmosphere and utter uselessness of their existence bothers Wilma Sills more than Ruby who insists she is "contented. Some days, even happy." Not Wilma. . .First, she invites the town wolf, George Preble, to the house for brochures and data on Shadyside, a new housing development she briefly dreams of moving to. Another desperate gesture is to write to Hobart Cramm, once a poor boy from the town who, she learns, has made good in the East." But when he turns up it is quickly evident that it pleases him to see the once influential Sills family brought low. After assuring himself of Wilma's complete humiliation, he asks her to marry him. She has been told she is silly so many years that she now believes it and is terrified of doing the wrong thing at this, the most crucial moment of her life. But she cannot help herself; she refuses Hobart because she does not love him. The blow to his vanity is monumental, and he turns for comfort to Ruby, whose assumed acceptance of life is now penetrated, revealing a reckless, almost conniving desire for escape which Wilma never suspected.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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