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Sidney Sheldon

SIDNEY SHELDON

  (1917 - 2007)
Nationality:    USA
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Sidney Sheldon's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Alice In Arms         Dream With Music         Gnomes         Jackpot         Merry Widow, The         Redhead         Roman Candle

Alice In Arms

Synopsis:
Mary returns to her small home town after serving as a WAC in the War. She is due to marry her dull boyfriend when two soldier friends turn up and both start to woo her

Notes:
Written by Sidney Sheldon, Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; Mary Heln Fay

1st Produced:
National Theatre, New York    31 Jan 1945

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dream With Music

Synopsis:
Each night soap opera scriptwriter Dinah dream she is Scheherazade and has encounters with Sinbad, Aladdin and the Genie

Notes:
Music by Clay Warnick; lyrics by Edward Eager; book by Dorothy Kilgallen; Ben Roberts, Sidney Sheldon

1st Produced:
Majestic Theatre, New York    18 May 1944

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gnomes

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1973

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jackpot

Synopsis:
Setting: Turtle Beach, South Carolina

Notes:
Music by Vernon Duke; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon And Ben Roberts

1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, NY    1944

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Merry Widow, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Broadway, NY    1943

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Redhead

Redhead
1900 a young actress has been murdered. the Simpson Sisters Waxworks installs a tableaux of the event which upsets actor Tom Baxter who had a soft spot for the dead actress. So that she can see him again, Essie, the sisters' neice, claims she ahs been attacked by the murderer.

Notes:
Written by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon And David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Dorothy Fields

1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY    05 Feb 1959

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Fynsworth Alley: (61995) 1959

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  chorus

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Roman Candle

Synopsis:
Mark Baxter is a young scientist, drafted to work on a new Army missile program. His stay in Washington wins him the rank of Colonel, the cover of a national magazine, and the hand of his next-door neighbor, Eleanor Winston. Eleanor is the rich, beautiful, and very ambitious daughter of a U.S. Senator, and she is determined that the man she marries will go even further than her father. they are set to go off to a top-secret missile launching when complications arise, in the form of an alluring blonde named Liz Brown, who moves into the adjoining apartment. Liz is gifted with ESP. She tells Mark he won't be leaving town with the others (he doesn't); she predicts a long shot at the race track (the horse wins); and she informs Mark that. . .(but that would be giving away the funniest twist in the play!). At any rate, the first missile fails and spirits go down, a second try makes it and spirits go up, but Mark's romantic difficulties grow increasingly complicated. Along the way the Army, the Navy, official Washington, and the human race in general come in for their share of ribbing but everything gets straightened out in the end.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Broadway, NY    1960

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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