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MOLLY NEWMAN
Nationality: USA
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Molly Newman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Quilters Shooting StarsQuilters
Synopsis:
Originally developed and produced at the Denver Center theatre company, this joyous and moving celebration of American Womanhood became a record-setting regional theater success before its presentations on Broadway and at the Edinburgh Festival. Combining music, dance movement and scenes of vivid Dramatic intensity, the play pays eloquent tribute to the courage and spirit of our nation's pioneer woman. "Who would have thought that quilts, quilting-quilters-had so much joy and pain, laughter and tears, so much life, beauty and Drama in them?" -Drama-Logue. ". . .an unqualified success, as bright as the colors used in the quilts themselves." -Hollywood Reporter. "QUILTERS is a show pieced together with love and stitched with pride. . .a thing of beauty, comfort and joy." -NY Post. ". . .a tender and moving theatre work, a human patchwork rippling in the breeze of memory." -Newsweek.
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written by Molly Newman And Barbara Damashek
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: 7 Other: -
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Synopsis:
the time is Christmas week, 1962, the place a locker room in a rundown, small town gymnasium, where a touring women's basketball team, "the Shooting Stars," is getting ready to face off against a local men's team. High-spirited and mostly southern, the girls quickly emerge as distinct personalities as, amid the very funny banter and horseplay, we learn about their personal "hangups" and the lives they left behind to join the group. the entrance of the team's paternalistic owner-manager, Cassius, adds a further dimension to the action as he parcels out assignments, rides herd on their diets, and persuades their star center, Wilma, to forego election to the Basketball Hall of Fame lest the honor divide the loyalties of the team. But then, when Cassius is felled by a sudden, fatal heart attack, "the Shooting Stars" must, for the first time, decide their own fate-whether to give up or go on, whether to really become a team or to acknowledge that, without the guiding hand of Cassius, they are hopelessly adrift. How they rise to the occasion is both funny and moving and, as the play ends, will bring audiences to their feet as the seven women, dazzling in their blue and silver uniforms, set off to the cheers of the waiting crowd-determined to win and keep on winning.
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1st Published:
in "Prima Facie", Denver Centre Theatre Co. Also pub by Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 7 Other: -
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