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Alfred Uhry

ALFRED UHRY

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Paradigm  represented by Jack Tantleff

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ("Driving Miss Daisy," 1988), an Academy Award (Adapted Screenplay, "Driving Miss Daisy," 1989), and a Tony Award (twice, in fact).

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         America's Sweetheart         Angel Reapers         Driving Miss Daisy         Here's Where I Belong         In Your Arms         Last Night Of Ballyhoo, The         Little Johnny Jones         Lovemusik         Other Line, The         Parade         Robber Bridegroom         Swing
America's Sweetheart

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from novel by John Kobler, music by Robert Waldman

1st Produced:
Hartford, Connecticut     1985

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Angel Reapers

Synopsis:
Angel Reapers, a collaboration between Pulitzer, Tony, and Academy Award winning writer Alfred Uhry and MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient director/choreographer Martha Clarke, is a multidisciplinary work suggested by the life of Ann Lee (1736-1784), founder of the Shaker movement. Mother Ann, as she became known, was a visionary, mystic and powerful spiritual leader. Preaching celibacy, she demonstrated that through shaking and trembling movements, sin could be purged from the body. these gesticulating, dancing motions gave the Shaker sect its name. Angel Reapers is not biographical in the usual sense; the staging is more loosely constructed, slipping in and out of reality and embracing Ann's visions and those of her followers. the plot is woven throughout with movement, song and dance to bring to life this extraordinary 18th century woman and the singular world she created. It examines the contradiction between the prim prudery of Shaker tenets and the wild, sexual nature they suppressed.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Alfred Uhry; choreographer: Martha Clarke

1st Produced:
The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth AVenue At 19th Street, NY     29 Nov 2011

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Genre:
dance theatre

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Driving Miss Daisy

Synopsis:
the place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. the person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Slowly and steadily the dignified, good-natured Hoke breaks down the stern defenses of the ornery old lady, as she teaches him to read and write and, in a gesture of good will and shared concern, invites him to join her at a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. As the play ends Hoke has a final visit with Miss Daisy, now ninety-seven and confined to a nursing home, and while it is evident that a vestige of her fierce independence and sense of position still remain, it is also movingly clear that they have both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible-and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Studio Theatre, NY     15 Apr 1987

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Here's Where I Belong

Here's Where I Belong
Setting: 1915-1917. Salinas, California

Notes:
Music by Robert Waldman; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Book by Alex Gordon; (Uncredited) book by Terrence McNally (McNally Asked that his name be removed from the credits of the show); Based on the novel "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

1st Produced:
Billy Rose Theatre, New York     1968

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Music:
Blue Pear 1968

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Genre:
Musical

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In Your Arms

Synopsis:
A company that has amassed an astounding 18 Tony Awards, 4 Pulitzer Prizes, 6 Pulitzer finalist distinctions, 3 Emmys, and 2 Academy Awards joins forces at the Globe for an exuberant world premiere dance-theatre musical! Ten of America's best theatrical storytellers (the minds behind such hits as The Full Monty, Driving Miss Daisy, M. Butterfly, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) join director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, The King and I) and composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) to create a ravishing evening that glides, leaps, and twirls through the giddy extremes of romantic love. This unique event ranges across eras and cultures and tells its stories through the universal language of dance, from classical ballet to swing to tap to ballroom to jazz to flamenco and more. In Your Arms is as intoxicating as a sunset cocktail and as exhilarating as a first kiss.

Notes:
Music by Stephen Flaherty; Vignettes by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred UhryDirection and Choreography by Christopher Gattelli; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Conceived by Christopher Gattelli and Jennifer Manocherian

1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre, CA, USA >>>     24 Sep 2015

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Genre:
dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Last Night Of Ballyhoo, The

Synopsis:
takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah (Boo) Levy, and their also widowed sister-in-law, Reba. Boo is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born and bred, and furthermore is of Eastern European heritage-several social rungs below the Freitags, in Beulah's opinion. Lala, however, is charmed by Joe and she hints broadly about being taken to Ballyhoo, but he turns her down. This enrages Boo, and matters get worse when Joe falls for Lala's cousin, Reba's daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? the family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.

Notes:
Incidental music by Robert Waldman

1st Produced:
Helen Hayes Theatre, New York     1997

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Little Johnny Jones

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Notes:
Music by George M. Cohan; Lyrics by George M. Cohan; Book by George M. Cohan; Book Adapted by Alfred Uhry

1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, New York     1982

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Genre:
Musical

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Lovemusik

Synopsis:
The love story of Kurt Weil and Lottie Lenya

Notes:
Music by Kurt Weill; Lyrics by Kurt Weill; Book by Alfred Uhry; Featuring songs with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash And Elmer Rice

1st Produced:
Biltmore Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
Manhattan Theatre Club

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Other Line, The

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Parade

Parade
the true story of convicted murderer Leo frank, and his wife's crUSAde for justice. In 1913 Atlanta, Frank, a Jewish man, was convicted of the murder of 13 year old factory worker Mary Phagan. As the press frenzy and public hatred surrounding the trial grew, Frank's wife continued to campaign for justice. In a time of religous intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the musical explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds.,

Notes:
Book by Alfred Uhry; Music by Jason Robert Brown; Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

1st Produced:
Vivien Beaumont Theater, New York     1998

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Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (09026-63378-2) 1999

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Robber Bridegroom

Robber Bridegroom
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Notes:
Book by Alfred Uhry; Lyrics by Alfred Uhry; Music by Robert Waldman; Music Arranged by Robert Waldman; Based on the novElla by Eudora Welty

1st Produced:
Musical Theatre Lab At St. Clement's Church, New York     09 Oct 1976

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1st Published:
Drama Book Specialists, New York, 1978   

Music:
Original cast recording: CBS (P-14589) 1976

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Swing

Synopsis:
The band, singers and dancers in ballroomsacross America from 1937 to 1945

Notes:
music by Robert Waldman

1st Produced:
Washington, D.C.     1980

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Genre:
Musical

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