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George C Wolfe

GEORGE C WOLFE

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of George C Wolfe's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blackout         Colored Museum, The         Gilded Six-Bit, The         Jelly's Last Jam         Over There         Paradise!         Queenie Pie         Shuffle Along or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed         Story in Harlem Slang         Sweat         Wild Party, The
Blackout

Synopsis:
The powerful in the City become the underdogs and the underdogs become powerful

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Colored Museum, The

Colored Museum, The
the COLORED MUSEUM has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors since 1986, when the play was first performed. the shows "exhibits", a series of scenes with their own titles, illustrate a different facet of African American life in the 1980's while yet infusing into its themes significant reminders of our earliest American experiences. the play makes hilarious references to A Raisin in the Sun, For colored girls. . .and the Color Purple. the playwright, Mr. George Wolfe, pokes at painful and oppressive moments in our history like slavery, as well as, iconic symbols of African American success like Ebony magazine with his humorous and sometimes biting social commentaries. the "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new and return to the facts of what being black really means. From the first "exhibit," "Git on Board," about the middle passage, to other scenes that address segregation, the loss of African religion, and the role of African Americans in entertainment and the military, Mr. Wolfe is calling upon African Americans to look closely at the history and see the ways we might want move forward without the baggage. This play also calls upon all of us to see clearly the evils of racism and oppression. And while the museum pieces are unchanging exhibits of the past, there is hope that they are not living moments of today or models for the future. Wolfe has commented in interviews that he respects the literature and music he parodies, but just as it is time for African Americans to leave stereotypical attitudes in a museum, so it is time to retire the old forms of art and create new ones.

Notes:
music by Kysia Bostic

1st Produced:
New Brunswick, New Jersey     1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press 1994   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Gilded Six-Bit, The

Gilded Six-Bit, The
An adoring husband is betrayed by his wife

Notes:
By Zora Neale Hurston Adapted By George C Wolfe

1st Produced:
Royal Court, London     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Spunk" published by Theatre Communications Group 1993   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam
Based on the life of the jazz great, Jelly Roll Morton

Notes:
Music by Luther Henderson; Jelly Roll Morton; lyrics by Susan Birkenhead; book by George C Wolfe

1st Produced:
Virginia Theater, New York     26 Apr 1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,    

Music:
Original cast recording: Mercury (510846) 1992

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Over There

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
in Urban Blight

1st Produced:
New York     1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Paradise!

Synopsis:
A family escape the rat race for life on an island

Notes:
music by Robert Forest

1st Produced:
Cincinnati     1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Queenie Pie

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
music by Duke Ellington

1st Produced:
New York     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Shuffle Along or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed

Synopsis:
Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles get the idea back in 1921 to put on an all black musical. With the help of their friends and fellow vaudevillians Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake a show "Shuffle Along" is written. They try it out on the road even though they do not have enough money and have to sell their possessions to help things out. They arrive in New York right in the middle of the Depression. The show is put on in an Off-Broadway theatre but is an immediate and profitable success

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Eubie Blake; Noble Sissle; book by George C Wolfe. Based on the musical "Shuffle Along" original book by Aubrey Lyles; Flournoy Miller

1st Produced:
Music Box Theatre, New York     14 Mar 2016

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Story in Harlem Slang

Story in Harlem Slang
Male prostitutes in Harlem with women only clients

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Royal Court, London     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Spunk" published by Theatre Communications Group 1993   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sweat

Sweat
A callous and domineering husband tries to beat his wife into subservience. To aid him he introduces a snake into their home. The snake bites him and the wife stands by as he dies in agony

Notes:
writtten by By Zora Neale Hurston

1st Produced:
Royal Court, London     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Spunk" published by Theatre Communications Group 1993   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Wild Party, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Music And Lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA, Book by Michael John LaChiUSA And George C Wolfe, Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March

1st Produced:
The Theatre Of The Riverside Church, NY     2007

Organisations:
Columbia Stages

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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