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MAX WILK (1920 - 2011)
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Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut but now resident in Westport, Connecticut. Author of numerous books including the novelization of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" , books on "Oklahoma" and "The Sound of Music". His novel "Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River" was made into a movie
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Cloud Seven Mr Williams And Miss Wood Musical Jubilee, ACloud Seven
Synopsis:
Newt Reece, who has spent most of his adult life discovering new ways to take the flavor out of frozen foods, rebels. He decides that while he's still young he should take some time for himself to do the things he really enjoys-like being with his wife. Mary, his wife, is aghast at this. It's not part of the proper suburban way of life at all. But Sally, his teenage daughter, is delighted. The neighbors react in various ways; most of Mary's PTA friends are charmed by Newt; but the grocery and the bank cut off his credit immediately. Newt's boss is convinced Newt must have a better offer from another frozen foods firm, and he comes up with one lavish bid after another, in an attempt to persuade Newt to stay with the old firm. Through all this, Newt manages to straighten out the lives of a couple of unhappy neighbors and in the end persuades his wife that they're entitled to a little time and fun for themselves before old age sets in.
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1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut 15 Jan 1958
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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full legth Comedy
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Male: 9 Female: 8 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Seated at two simple desks at opposite sides of the stage the young Tennessee Williams and his agent-to-be speak of his early years as a writer and of his fateful meeting with the remarkable woman who was the first to recognize his potential as a playwright and who was to become his guiding genius as his career developed. Beginning with small fees for short plays and magazine pieces, the fledgling poet-playwright was obliged to work at a variety of drab jobs while he sought the breakthrough that would allow him to come to New York and devote himself exclusively to writing. But his first "big break," when it came, proved to be a crushing disappointment-the disastrous Theatre Guild production of his first full length play, Battle of Angels (which later, substantially rewritten, found success as Orpheus Descending). Daunted, but still determined, the playwright continued to write, and the agent continued to promote her client's work with undiminished zeal, leading, in time, to The Glass Menagerie and sudden, international fame, plus, at last, financial security. After that came the amazing succession of plays which have made the name of Tennessee Williams the most celebrated in the modern theatre, but also the gradual and, to many, unaccountable rupture of the collaboration which underlay this accomplishment. But the fruit of their association, and the fascinating events which led to them, remain and are captured with rare eloquence and understanding in this moving tribute to two singular-and irreplaceable-individuals.
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Told in their own voices, through letters And remembrances, this engrossing play explores the long And fruitful relationship of two towering figures of the modern American theatre-Tennessee Williams And his famous Agent, Audrey Wood. Based on Miss Wood's memoir.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Drama, full length. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageMusical Jubilee, A
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1st Produced:
- 1975
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Genre:
Musical Revue
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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