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Max Shulman

MAX SHULMAN  (1919 - 1988)

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 Barefoot Boy With Cheek         How Now Dow Jones         Tender Trap, The

Barefoot Boy With Cheek

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Notes:
Music by Sidney Lippman; lyrics by Sylvia Dee; book by Max Shulman

1st Produced:
Colonial Theatre, Boston    March 1947

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Musical

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How Now Dow Jones

Max Shulman
Kate has been engaged for three and a half years to Herbert. He will only marry her when the Dow Jones index hits 1000. She meets Charley they both want to end it all but at the same time are attracted to each other - they spend the night together. Next day Charley does decide to end it all and climbs out on to a ledge. His boss - Wingate - is looking for someone to sweet talk old ladies into giving up their life savings to his investment company. After a few words with Charley he realises that he is the one to do it and persuades him to come down from the ledge. Kate realises she is pregnant but decides that she should marry Herbert - she tells him that the Dow Jones has hit 1000

Notes:
Music by Elmer Bernstein; Book by Max Shulman; Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York    07 Dec 1967

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Original cast recording: RCA (63581-2) 1967

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Tender Trap, The

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Has to do with Charlie Reader, a young bachelor in New York who's living the ideal life. Or so it seems to Joe McCall, an old friend of his from Indianapolis. Charlie has an elegant apartment, a good job, and millions of girls-all eager to bring him food, tidy up his apartment and fall in with his every wish. The girls are all good-looking, all ladies, and all slightly on the mature side. Joe, who's come to New York because he thinks he's discovered a cure for the common cold, is very much taken with Charlie's set-up and more than somewhat envious. He finds himself becoming interested in Sylvia Crewes, the nicest of Charlie's girls, while Charlie, in the meantime, finds himself getting more and more involved with Julie Gillis, a luscious young morsel just out of college. Julie is in love with Charlie, but she's determined he's going to do things the way she wants them done, which Charlie isn't too enthusiastic about. Charlie juggles his girls till one frantic evening he finds himself engaged to both Julie and Sylvia, and one amusing scene after another results until he finally manages to get rid of the wrong young lady and marry the right one.

Notes:
written with Robert PaulSmith

1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York    13 Oct 1954

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

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