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DWIGHT TAYLOR
(1902 - 1987)Nationality: USA
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Billie Gay Divorce Goodtime Charlie Out Of This WorldBillie
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Top of PageGay Divorce
Guy Holden an American writer travelling in Britain meets and falls madly in love with a young woman called Mimi. She disappears and to take his mind off her his friend, lawyer Teddy Egbert takes him to Brighton for the weekend. Teddy has arranged for a professional co-respondent to be seen with his client so that she can get a divorce from her boring husband, Robert. the client turns out to be Mimi and she thinks Guy is the hired co-respondent. When Mimi's husband arrives he refuses to believe that she has been in a hotel room with another man. But the waiter lets slip that Robert has been staying at the hotel with another woman.
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Dwight Taylor
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Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
29 Nov 1932
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Top of PageGoodtime Charlie
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Written by Dwight Taylor and John Wulp
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Top of PageOut Of This World
the Greek God Jupiter has become enamoured of a mortal woman an American Helen Kenyon and he comes down from Olympia to find and seduce her. Juno his wife is not best pleased she leaves Olympia to find and thwart him. Mercury Finds Helen and leads her to an inn and Jupiter in the disguise of her husband seduces her. Next morning Helen discovers what has been going on and rejects Jupiter's offer of immortality saying all she needs is the love of her husband
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Reginald Lawrence; Dwight Taylor. Based on "Amphitryon" by Plautus
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New Century Theatre, New York
21 Dec 1950
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Original cast recording: Sony (48223) 1950
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