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N Richard Nash

N RICHARD NASH  (1913 - 2000)

 Nationality:    USA
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Born in Philadelphia, PA on June 8, 1913. B.S., University of Pennsylvania. Screenplays: Welcome Stranger (with Arthur Sheekman); Nora Prentiss and Porgy and Bess. Has written widely for TV (Philco Theater, etc.) Novels: East Wind, Rain; Aphrodite's Cave.

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 110 In the Shade         Echoes         Fire!         Girls Of Summer         Handful Of Fire         Happy Time, The         Incognito         Loss Of D-Natural, The         Parting At Imsdorf         Rainmaker, The         Rouge Atomique         Sarava         Scapegrace         Second Best Bed         See The Jaguar         Sky Road         So Wonderful (In White)         Wildcat         Young And Fair, The

110 In the Shade

N Richard Nash
A drought striken mid-Western town. Starbuck - the Rainmaker arrives. He tries to persuade Lizzie to run away with him but she prefers to remain with the sherrif.

Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones. Based on "The Rainmaker" by Nathaniel Richard Nash.

1st Produced:
Broadhurst Theater, New York    1963

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York,    RCA-1085-2-RG

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (1085-2-RG) 1963

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
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Echoes

Synopsis:
couple build low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum only to have it shattered by intrusion of outside world

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Broadway    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fire!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written under the name John Roc

1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York    28 Jan 1968

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1st Published:
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Girls Of Summer

Synopsis:
Setting: Hilda Brookman's apartment, New York City, in early summer of the present day.

Notes:
Written by N. Richard Nash; Featuring the song "Girls of Summer" composed by Stephen Sondheim

1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre    1956

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1957   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Handful Of Fire

Synopsis:
A young peasant girl looses her virginity to the owner of the town brothel. This sends the boy who loved her on a downward spiral and her into prostitution

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, New York    01 Oct 1958

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1959   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Happy Time, The

N Richard Nash
Based on a play by Samuel Taylor, the musical tells the story of a French-Canadian family. The son, Bibi, a teenager, is having troubles at school; while the uncle that Bibi idolizes, Jacques, a photographer, has returned home after a long time away. Songs include "A Certain Girl" and "The Happy Time."
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Notes:
Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by N. Richard Nash; Based on the play by Samuel Taylor; Based on the book by Robert Fontaine

1st Produced:
Broadway Theatre, NY    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    rca-61016

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (61016) 1968

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  13 performers

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Incognito

Synopsis:
The pleasure steamer the S.S. Imperial is in South American waters. On board is a Nazi German agent who is looking for a British spy. He discovers the spy - Charles Locke and radios to a u-boat that is nearby but before he can reveal just which of the passengers is Locke he is murdered. The captain of the u-boat comes aboard to track down the killer and the spy. He determines that one of the women passengers is "Charles Locke"

Notes:
Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York 1941   -

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Loss Of D-Natural, The

Synopsis:
There is a war going on Emily and John live in a bombed out house. Emily's brother Charles arrives wearing jungle fatigues. Their daughter Jessica also arrives with her almost blind and deaf husband and her two children - the daughter has lost her arms. Jessica says they are three months old - but they look like pre-teens

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Genre:
Drama

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Parting At Imsdorf

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum

1st Produced:
Broadway    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc 1941   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Rainmaker, The

Synopsis:
Into the life of a young girl comes a strange and colourful figure with an amazing claim.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Broadway    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1958   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rouge Atomique

Synopsis:
There are two characters, the Wife and the Woman, who love the same man and who sit chatting pleasantly over teacups. They would speak of kind and gentle matters and would be civilized above all. But war and things of violence intrude so they turn to French, most civilized of all languages, for "we do not quarrel in French." But in so saying, they have returned to English and talk while waiting for the phone to ring, to bring them news of the man they love. As they wait they retell their memories of the man, and as each grows possessive and envious of the other's part in his life, they quarrel. Their anguish for the man they love and their anger at each other reaches a peak broken only by the ring of the phone-their beloved "will live. The blood has stopped." And the Wife and the Woman sit quietly, peaceably, again.

Notes:
A verse play which the Author calls An "exercise in one Act."

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

Music:
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Genre:
fantasy drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sarava

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Mitch Leigh, 200 West 59th St., New York, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

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Scapegrace

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by John J Reynolds

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Musical

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Second Best Bed

Synopsis:
The early years of the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Barrymore Theatre, New York    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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See The Jaguar

Synopsis:
In a remote section of the West, Brad owns the sole gas station and store. He also owns a small zoo where he cages the occasional wildcat or whatever wildlife can be caught in the area. The cages are Brad's obsession-they remind him of man's supremacy over nature; they remind him that he is a master in this village where everybody is in debt to him. But he is not master over his daughter Janna, who has fallen in love with Brad's outspoken enemy, Dave Ricks. But if Brad's weapons are force, hatred and violence, Dave's are peace, love and gentleness. The two men battle over Wally Wilkins, an innocent boy of seventeen who was hidden away by his demented mother, and who is now free since his mother died. Because the boy is supposedly in possession of a large sum of money, Brad pursues Wally, whom Dave and Janna are escorting to safety. When Brad catches up them he realizes that his pursuit of Wally has alienated him from his daughter. At the end of a night of wild drunkenness Brad imprisons Wally in a cage. To free Wally and Janna from her father's dominance, and to affirm the deeper strength of the gentle over the violent, Dave gives up his life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Broadway    -

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

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sky Road

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Row, Peterson and Co 1941   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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So Wonderful (In White)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York 1937   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wildcat

N Richard Nash
1912 and a woman prospector - Wildcat Jackson - hunts for oil

Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

1st Produced:
Alvin Theater, New York    1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York,    B000M5DT10

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (60353) 1960

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Genre:
Musical

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Young And Fair, The

Synopsis:
The scene is a fashionable Junior College for young women, and the story shows how a sincere and intelligent alumna returns to her Alma Mater with her idealistic younger sister, who enters as a student. The director of the college, a conscientious elderly woman, is responsible to a hard-headed board of directors, one of whom has a daughter who is a student. This student, a twisted and jealous girl, uses the threat of her father's influence to throw a suspicion of guilt on two students, not to mention a servant, all of whom are innocent. One of the students implicated refuses to be blackmailed and the director of the college must face the issue of compromising with her own best standards of right and wrong. Eventually she takes matters into her own hands, and decides-with the help of the alumna and the latter's sister-to stand by her guns. The director, though she realizes at last that the alumna is right in fighting compromise and deceit, has not the courage to see the fight through to the end, though the alumna and her sister do. Incidentally, one of the forms of blackmail used by the unscrupulous girl who precipitates the crisis is to force a Jewish girl, whose religion has been concealed, to do her bidding.

Notes:
An exciting play for twenty-one women, most of them young. A fast-moving drama And A timely comment on idealism And personal ethics

1st Produced:
Broadway    -

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

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  21            Other:  -

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