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| x Hedda Gabler | American Conservatory Theater | 2007 | Hedda Gabler |
This production used a 2007 English translation by Paul Walsh.
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| x Love Shack | Love Shack | ||||
| x Rebecca | Sep 28, 2006 | Rebecca | |||
| x Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | American Conservatory Theater | 2005 | The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? | ||
| x The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Mar 10, 2002 | The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? | |||
| x Spiel (world premiere) | Jun 14, 1963 | Play | |||
| x Play (English language premiere) | Apr 7, 1964 | Play | |||
| x 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 1952 book of the same name.
The musical opened at the 46th...
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| x 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 produced...
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| x The Gin Game |
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The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by D.L. Coburn that premiered at American Theater Arts in Hollywood in September 1976, directed by Kip Niven. It was Coburn's first play, and the theater's first production.
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey,...
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| x The Vagina Monologues |
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The Vagina Monologues |
The Vagina Monologues is an 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 was recast with...
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| x Mr Shaw goes to Hollywood | |||||
| x 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 by Kern and author-lyricist P. G....
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| x Can-Can |
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Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s.
The original Broadway production ran for over two years beginning in 1953, and the...
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| x 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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| x 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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| x 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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| x 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. However, where Fellini's black-and-white Italian film concerns the romantic ups...
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| x Chicago |
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Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept...
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| x Dancin' |
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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| x Alive and Kicking | |||||
| x Children! Children! | |||||
| x A Chorus Line |
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A Chorus Line is a musical about seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....
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| x 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 original Broadway production was directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, with scenic design by Douglas W. Schmidt and...
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| x 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.
The Broadway production, directed by...
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| x Make mine Manhattan | |||||
| x Dance me a song | |||||
| x Billion Dollar Baby |
Billion Dollar Baby is a musical set on Staten Island and in Atlantic City during the late 1920s. It follows the adventures of an ambitious young woman, Maribelle Jones, in her quest for wealth during the Prohibition era. Betty Comden and Adolph...
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| x Pal Joey |
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Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
Pal Joey was written as a series of...
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| x The Red Priest of Venice |
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Magian Productions | Jul 13, 2007 | The Red Priest of Venice | |
| x The Little Dog Laughed |
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The Little Dog Laughed is a play by Douglas Carter Beane.
The four characters are an actor, Mitchell, his acerbic agent Diane, a hustler named Alex, and Alex's girlfriend Ellen. When Mitchell and Alex become involved in a physical relationship,...
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| x Finishing the Picture |
Finishing the Picture is Arthur Miller's final play. It was produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in the autumn of 2004, just months before Miller's death on February 10, 2005 at his Connecticut home.
At times humorous, poetic, and...
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| x Epic Proportions |
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Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane.
Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to work as extras in the Biblical epic film Exeunt Omnes, directed by the mysteriously reclusive...
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| x The Strip | |||||
| x The Strip | Evidence Room | ||||
| x Rent |
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Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in...
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| x Peter Pan |
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Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by...
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| x Camelot (Original Broadway Production) | Dec 3, 1960 | Camelot | |||
| x Spindrift production of Oliver! | Spindrift School of Performing Arts | Dec 2007 | Oliver! | ||
| x Pier 39 Theater | Insignificant Others Productions | Mar 2008 | Insignificant Others | ||
| x NCTC Workshop | New Conservatory Theater Center | Jul 2006 | Insignificant Others | ||
| x Zeum Theater | Significant Others | Aug 2007 | Insignificant Others | ||
| x JSC Workshop | Significant Others | Oct 2005 | |||
| x Funny Girl | |||||
| x I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony...
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| x Funny Girl |
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Funny Girl is a musical with a book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway, film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with...
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| x The Demon Barber | |||||
| x Insignificant Others |
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Insignificant Others Productions | Feb 16, 2008 | Insignificant Others |
Insignificant Others is an original musical by San Francisco composer and lyricist, L. Jay Kuo. This romantic comedy follows the stories of five friends—Margaret, Jeannine, Kristen, Jordan and Luke—who move to San Francisco from the...
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| x Fiddler on the Roof |
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Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The...
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| x The Cosmic Family | The Solvents Theatre Company | ||||
| x Inside Out | The Solvents Theatre Company | ||||
| x Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia | La cena delle beffe | ||||
| x Cabaret Voltaire, Turin | Nebbia di latte | ||||
| x Boy's Life | Lincoln Center Theater | Feb 29, 1988 | Boy's Life | ||
| x American Buffalo | Goodman Theatre | American Buffalo | |||
| x The Play What I Wrote |
The Play What I Wrote is a musical farce written by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben, and directed by Kenneth Branagh.
It debuted in London's West End theatre district to rave reviews. The show is a celebration of the British double act...
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| x Equus |
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Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/sexual fascination with horses.
Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime...
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| x Annie |
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Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The musical ran for nearly six years on Broadway, setting a...
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| x The Innocents | |||||
