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Ira Wallach

IRA WALLACH

  (1913 - 1995)
Nationality:    USA
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Ira Wallach's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Absence Of A Cello, The         Dig We Must         Drink To Me Only         Kaboom!         Once Over Lightly         Out Of the Question         Phoenix '55         Smiling the Boy Fell Dead
Absence Of A Cello, The

Synopsis:
As Martin Gottfried describes: "It is about a physicist who needs money so badly he turns to the $60,000-a-year job offered by a big corporation. He wants the job, but does the company want him? Mr. Personnel is sent to find out. What seems to be starting out as a shopworn target-individuality versus conformity-turns out to be an ingeniously conceived comical discussion of honesty and truth. After being coached by a gray-flanneled collegiate on how to be what every company wants, the scientist is prepared to confront the enemy (after quickly trading in his rolled-up trousers and flapping shirt for a neat brown suit). . .He hides the cello he plays with pick-up quartets, he hides the medieval history books his wife writes, he hides all but the acceptable three liquor bottles. He hides, in fact, everything that he and his wife are. And hauls out the television set. . .What follows is a literately comical playaround with industrial conformity that for sheer humor is, well, wonderfully adult."

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1st Produced:
Ambassador Theatre, New York     21 Sep 1964

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1964   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dig We Must

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by David Baker; lyrics and book Ira Wallach

1st Produced:
John Drew Theatre, East Hampton     04 Jul 1959

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Genre:
Musical

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Drink To Me Only

Synopsis:
the law firm Wheelock, Wendell and Farrington are defending playboy Jimmy Porterman who is accused of shooting his seventh wife. the case hinges on whether someone could drink two bottles of Scotch and still remain conscious. Junior lawyer Miles Pringle agrees to put it to the test

Notes:
written by Abram S Glinnes And Ira Wallach

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1958   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Kaboom!

Synopsis:
A youth works at a supermarket. He connives and sleeps his way to become an astronaut only to end up back at the supermarket

Notes:
Music by Doris Schwerin

1st Produced:
Bottom Line, New York     1974

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Once Over Lightly

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Gioacchino Rossini, Dean Fuller, Alec Wilder, Samuel Mathovsky, Ralph Strain And Murray Grand; Lyrics by Marshall Barer, William Engvick And Ira Wallach; Book by Louis Garden And Robert Pierpont Forshaw; Book Adapted by Laszlo Halasz; Americanized from "the Barber of Seville" by Beaumarchais

1st Produced:
Alvon Theatre, NY     1942

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Genre:
Musical

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Out Of the Question

Synopsis:
involves a brilliant but eccentric physicist about to go bankrupt, who is offered a highly paid appointment by an American corporation - but only if he and his family pass a rigorous vetting process.

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1st Produced:
Manchester     1968

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1969   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Phoenix '55

Phoenix '55
Sketches from a revue at the Phoenix Theatre

Notes:
Music by David Baker; lyrics by David Craig; book by Ira Wallach

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, New York     23 May 1955

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc 1957   

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Smiling the Boy Fell Dead

Smiling the Boy Fell Dead
Waldo the poor but honest boy determines to redeem the honour and fortune of his family, win the hand of his sweetheart and thwart the villain

Notes:
Book by Ira Wallach; Music by David Baker; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Originally titled "Horatio"

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre, New York     1961

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original Off-Broadway cast recording: Sunbeam (mx LB-549/50 1961

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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