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Allan Rieser

ALLAN RIESER  

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

 Boy Meets Family         Dorian         Embracers, The         Jar of Marmalade         You're Fired

Boy Meets Family

Synopsis:
Lancelot Oke has met Polly out West, and has returned East to take on all the Womblys at one dinner party. Lancelot is an extremely shy person, who abhors meeting people and is invariable tongue tied with strangers. Imagine his feelings as he enters the Wombly parlor for the fatal interview. Here Polly steps in with a stratagem which serves to set Lancelot at ease and make a good impression. All Lancelot has to do is memorize the pet hobby of each member, and talk about it. There's Mr. Wombly, Sr., for instance is a Republican who always welcomes a joke on the Democrats. So Lancelot, though a Democrat at heart, has learned three. Mrs. Wombly's chief interest is poetry, and he has mastered a poem in tribute to her. He has even worked up a belated enthusiasm for baseball and the movies, the respective hobbies of Polly's brother, Ned, and sister, Vera. Simple, yes? But Lancelot proceeds to get his rehearsed speeches mixed up and then. . .

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
farce One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dorian

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Music by Gary Levinson; lyrics by Allan Rieser; book by Allan Rieser And Don Price. Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Judith Anderson Theater, New York    1994

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Genre:
Musical

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Embracers, The

Synopsis:
The story of the young French artist Henri Gaudier and his affair with Sophie Brzeska who was twenty years his senior

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Music by Amy Englestein; lyrics by Allan Rieser; book by Allan Rieser And Don Price

1st Produced:
Hudson Guild Theatre, New York    2002

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Musical

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Jar of Marmalade

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Samuel French Inc 1938   -

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One act

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You're Fired

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service 1940   -

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Genre:
One act

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