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Sam Waymon

SAM WAYMON  

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

 Black Picture Show         Rhinestone

Black Picture Show

Synopsis:
The destruction of a black artist who realizes too late that art in white America is just another form of politics

Notes:
book by Bill Gunn; music And lyrics by Sam Waymon

1st Produced:
Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York    1975

Organisations:
New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) and Joseph Papp

1st Published:
Reed, Cannon & Johnson, Berkeley, CA, 1975   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Musical

Parts:
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Rhinestone

Synopsis:
Explores the director-writer relationship between a racially insensitive European producer and a sensitive black screenwriter who has been assigned to do a screenplay of a film about a famous black football hero

Notes:
Adapt. by Gunn from his novel Rhinestone Sharecropping (1982). Music And lyrics by Sam Waymon

1st Produced:
New York    1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
3 acts Musical

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