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JEROME WEIDMAN (1913 - 1998)
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Asteriski Fiorello! I Can Get It For You Wholesale Ivory Tower Pousse-Cafe TenderloinAsteriski
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To the neighbors Seymour Haber appears to be an exemplary son. Never a Sunday goes by without his dutifully trekking from his luxury apartment in Manhattan to his mother's shabby flat in Queens to spend the morning. Actually Seymour's purpose is not as filial as it might appear. His mother is a drain on the budget, a threat to Seymour's shaky (and wealthy) marriage, and a general millstone who has long since outlived her usefulness. So Seymour devises a number of hilariously diabolic ways to convince her that her faculties have deteriorated to the point where her demise would be a service to all. One other minor problem is that Sunday morning is also the time of Seymour's weekly extramarital assignation at the Plaza Hotel, a fact of which he believes his mother to be ignorant - which, of course, she isri t. However; Mrs. Haber takes a step toward independence by advertising a room for rent, and the tenant who drops in to take it proves to be Griselda, an English beauty who, it turns out, is also a high-priced
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1969 -
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Comedy of Terrors
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageFiorello!
The story of New York Mayor and Congressman Fiorello LaGuardia. LaGuardia a lawyer in a poor and deprived part of New York decides to do something to help the local people and runs for Congress
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Book by Jerome Weidman And George Abbott; Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
1st Produced:
Broadhurst Theatre, NY 23 Nov 1959
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1st Published:
- cap-92052
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Original cast recording: Capitol (92052) 1959
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Musical
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Top of PageI Can Get It For You Wholesale
New York 1930. Harry Bogen works in the garment industry and is determined to get to the top. He lies to his mother and girlfriend and then embezzles his firm. He takes up with a dance hall girl. Harry's friends abandon him and he looses all the money. His mother and girlfriend stand by him
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Book by Jerome Weidman; Music by Harold Rome; Lyrics by Harold Rome; Based on the novel by Jerome Weidman
1st Produced:
Shubert Theater, New York 22 Mar 1962
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1st Published:
- Columbia-53020
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Original cast recording: Columbia (53020) 1962
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Top of PageIvory Tower
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Is outlined in the Citizen-Journal: "in 1943 an American poet living in self-exile in Paris made several broadcasts to invading American forces urging them to lay down their arms and stop the bloodshed. This absorbing and disturbing play poses the question: Did he or did he not intentionally commit treason?. . .Simon Otway, the central figure, is so overwhelmingly in detail, so articulate, that he becomes the unwitting artist-on-trial and the ultimate victim of his own character. The trial brings about a kind of catharsis-a mind-bending recognition of his real motives. . .As the poet on trial for his life and career, Grayson Goss is superb. His performance is a plea for artistic freedom, tempered with contempt for mediocrity. He catches the essence of an artist who has a superiority complex simply because he is superior." And while this superiority does set him apart, and even above, the question remains-were his actions harmful to other men, and are they punishable by the laws which all must obey? But the final outcome remains to tantalize, for there is no jury on stage during the trial scenes. The audience is the jury, and theirs is the decision on which a man's fate, and even the meaning of his life, must hinge.
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written by Jerome Weidman And James Yaffe
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Play/Drama
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Male: 11 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PagePousse-Cafe
Setting: In New Orleans, LA in the early 1920s
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Music by Duke Ellington; Lyrics by Marshall Barer And Fred Tobias; Book by Jerome Weidman
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 18 Mar 1966
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1st Published:
- audio-263
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Studio cast recording: Audiophile (263) 1989
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Top of PageTenderloin
1890s. The Reverend Doctor Brock wants to clean up the Tenderloin district of New York and get rid of the prostitutes who ply their trade there. He enlists the help of a young newspaper journalist, Tommy - who also sings in one of the bars in Tenderloin - to help him. But Tommy is in league with a dishonest policeman and they fabricate evidence that the good Reverend had other interests in the girls. Then Tommy meets choir girl Laura and is converted. He refuses to give evidence at the trial of Rev Brock. The clean up of Tenderloin begins - but Brock leaves for Detroit which he has heard is even more sinful
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Book by George Abbott And Jerome Weidman; Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Based on the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 1960
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1st Published:
Music Theatre International angel-65002
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Original cast recording Angel (65002) 1960
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Genre:
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