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Sylvia Regan

SYLVIA REGAN  (1908 - 2003)

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

 44 West         Fifth Season, The         Golem, The         Great To Be Alive         Hundred Million Nickles, A         Marianne         Morning Star         Safe Harbor         Twelfth Hour, The         Zelda

44 West

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Fifth Season, The

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Two partners at a fashion house have beautiful products, beautiful premises, beautiful models - but no business. A last ditch attempt to get trade succeeds but it is the models that attract the buyer rather than the product

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Original title: "Business Is Business"

1st Produced:
Cort Theatre, New York    1953

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Samuel French Inc, New York 1953   978-0573608919

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Comedy

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Golem, The

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Written by Sylvia Regan And Abraham Ellstein

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New York City Opera    1961

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Great To Be Alive

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Music by Robert Russell Bennett; Abraham Ellstein; lyrics by Walter Bullock; book by Walter Bullock; Sylvia Regan

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Winter Garden Theatre, New York    23 Mar 1950

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Hundred Million Nickles, A

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Marianne

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The Nazi occupation of France

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Music by Abraham Ellstein; lyrics by Beatrice Metzl; Lothar Metzl; Robert B Sour; book by Sylvia Regan; Kenneth White

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National Theatre, Washington D C    10 Jan 1944

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Morning Star

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Becky Felderman has brought her four children to America so they might have a better life than they would in Russia. She flings herself into her new life and says, "Everybody can be somebody, and only good can come to us." One daughter works in a factor; another marries a young songwriter, who later goes into pictures; one dies in a factory fire. While domestic unhappiness threatens to overwhelm one daughter and her husband, somehow the good sense of the mother finds a way. The young school teacher who is ambitious; the older woman who is doing her best to learn American history; the exasperatingly amusing Brownstien who sputters implications against capitalism and the bourgeois-these are only a few of the many entertaining and truly drawn characters that grace the stage of MORNING STAR The World War comes, takes its toll, and passes, bringing us up almost to today; and throughout the whole family history we are presented in the most entertaining and vivid fashion with the ups and downs, minor tragedy or broad comedy that go to make up the day-to-day life of this essentially healthy and sane family of ex-emigrants.

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The title was changed for the London run to "The Golden Door" Emnassy Theatre, London 1951

1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York    1940

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Safe Harbor

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Twelfth Hour, The

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Zelda

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In a beach cottage on Long Island, the family of Alexander Hartman, a retired Brooklyn druggist, gathers for the Labor Day weekend. They quickly learn that in cahoots with his grandson, Alexander has been stockpiling supplies and has purchased a fishing boat from the man next door. To their consternation, they further discover that Alexander is convinced "this world is not long for this world." He is certain that man's genius for self-destruction, in the form of meddling with his environment, has so disturbed the balance of nature that the world will actually come to an end that very Sunday morning at 10:30-daylight saving time! The deluge will descend on them through a final catastrophic hurricane, to which he has whimsically given the name "Zelda." Convinced that Papa is completely off his rocker, the family sends out an urgent call for a psychiatrist. As Papa's behavior goes from bad to worse (as they see it) , the others are certain that he will have to be committed. Only his wife Rose puts up a valiant but losing battle against this sad inevitability. But meanwhile that weather grows steadily more ominous. Earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes and other become so bad that the psychiatrist never does make it to the beach cottage. When hurricane "Zelda" finally strikes, the family concedes that Papa may not be crazy after all. As the play ends, Papa is herding his family out of the cottage to board his boat-as the storm closes in with a roar, and the cottage begins to collapse around them.

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1st Produced:
Barrymore Theatre, New York    1969

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