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| The Age of Innocence |
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The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s.
In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July – October, in the...
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| Hedda Gabler | American Conservatory Theater | 2007 |
This production used a 2007 English translation by Paul Walsh.
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| Les Misérables |
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Les Misérables (; in French, ), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a musical composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil. Sung through, it is perhaps the most famous of all French...
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| Rebecca | Sep 28, 2006 | ||||
| Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | American Conservatory Theater | 2005 | |||
| The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Mar 10, 2002 | ||||
| Spiel (world premiere) | Jun 14, 1963 | ||||
| Play (English language premiere) | Apr 7, 1964 | ||||
| Waiting for Godot |
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Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which the characters wait for someone named Godot, who never arrives. Godot's absence, as well as many other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere....
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| How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's popular 1952 book of the same name.
In 1961, the show opened...
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| Hello, Dolly! |
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Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955.
Hello, Dolly! was first...
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| The Gin Game |
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The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by D.L. Coburn. The play won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to...
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| The Vagina Monologues |
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The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production; when she left the play it...
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| Show Boat |
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Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book (based on a novel by Edna Ferber) and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song "Bill", which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse...
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| Can-Can |
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Can-Can is a 1953 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with a book by Abe Burrows. It originally opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on May 7, 1953, and played for 892 performances; it closed on June 25, 1955. The original production,...
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| Damn Yankees |
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Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when...
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| New Girl in Town |
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New Girl in Town is a musical with a book by George Abbott and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 gloomy play Anna Christie, about a prostitute who tries to live down her past. New Girl, unlike O'Neill's play, focuses on...
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| Redhead |
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Redhead is a Broadway musical set in London in the 1880s, around the time of Jack the Ripper. It is a murder mystery in the setting of a waxworks museum. The music was composed by Albert Hague and the lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother,...
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| Sweet Charity |
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Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria.
The original Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse,...
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| Chicago |
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Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The book is by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the "celebrity criminal." The musical is based on...
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| Dancin' |
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Dancin' is a musical revue first produced in 1978, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography. The show is a tribute to the art of dance, and the music is a collection of mostly American songs, many with a...
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| Alive and Kicking | |||||
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| A Chorus Line |
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A Chorus Line is a musical with a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.
The original Broadway production was an unprecedented box office and critical hit, receiving 12 Tony Award...
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| Over Here! |
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Over Here! is a musical with a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and book by Will Holt. The show was directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, with scenic design by Douglas W. Schmidt and costumes by Carrie F....
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| Call Me Mister |
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Call Me Mister is a revue with sketches by Arnold Auerbach and words and music by Harold Rome. The title refers to returning soldiers who expected to be addressed as civilians instead of by their military rank.
Broadway production, directed by...
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