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Act One

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443435317
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Act One written by Moss Hart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Act One

Author : James Lapine
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822232170
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Act One written by James Lapine and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Growing up in an impoverished family in the Bronx, Moss Hart dreamed of being part of the glamorous world of the theatre. Forced to drop out of school at age thirteen, Hart’s famous memoir Act One is a classic Hortatio Alger story that plots Hart’s unlikely collaboration with the legendary playwright George S. Kaufman. Tony Award-winning writer and director James Lapine has adapted Act One for the stage, creating a funny, heartbreaking, and suspenseful play that celebrates the making of a playwright and his play Once in a Lifetime. ACT ONE offers great fun to a director to utilize over fifty roles, which can be played by a cast as few as twelve, and in a production that can be done as simply or elaborately as desired.

Once in a Lifetime

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573613388
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Once in a Lifetime written by Moss Hart and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1960 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a knockabout satiric tale of three on-the-skids vaudeville troupers -- Jerry, Mae, and George -- who decide to head for Hollywood and try their luck at the newest craze: "talkies." After a hilarious series of consistent blunders, the unassuming George is carried to fame and fortune becoming (for a short time, at least) a captain of The Industry. This fast-paced, wild romp offers marvelous character opportunities, while spoofing the absurdities of Tinsel Town. "--Publisher's website.

You Can't Take it with You

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822212874
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis You Can't Take it with You by : Moss Hart

Download or read book You Can't Take it with You written by Moss Hart and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1937 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Sycamore, a young woman from a happy, but very eccentric family, has second thoughts about her relationship with her wealthy boss's son, Tony, after a meeting between the two families goes terribly wrong.

Light Up the Sky

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Up the Sky written by Moss Hart and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside show business, set just before and immediately after a Broadway bound play meets its first audience.

Shows for Days

Author : Douglas Carter Beane
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822234580
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis Shows for Days by : Douglas Carter Beane

Download or read book Shows for Days written by Douglas Carter Beane and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s May 1973 when a young man wanders into a dilapidated community theater in Reading, PA. The company members welcome him—well, only because they need a set painter that day. The young man then proceeds to soak up all the idealism and the craziness that comes with being part of a struggling theater company with big dreams. When a playwright looks back at his beginnings in the theater and decides to chronicle those experiences in a play, all sorts of things can happen. If you’re Douglas Carter Beane, who grew out of his Reading, PA, community theater days to become one of the stage’s master writers, it’s bound to bring a measure of gimlet-eyed reflection, a large dollop of self-deprecation, and a heaping dose of hilarity.

Lady in the Dark

Author : bruce d. mcclung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195120124
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Lady in the Dark written by bruce d. mcclung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Winged Victory

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494045029
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Winged Victory written by Moss Hart and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

I'd Rather be Right

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book I'd Rather be Right written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Theatre, Sam H. Harris presents George M. Cohan in "I'd Rather be Right," a musical revue by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, choreography by Charles Weidman, modern dances staged by Ned McGurn, settings by Donald Oenslager, costumes by Irene Sharaff, modern clothes by John Hambleton, orchestra under the direction of Harry Levant, book staged by Mr. Kaufman.

Merrily We Roll Along

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464049449
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Merrily We Roll Along written by Moss Hart and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merrily We Roll Along, although praised by critics, was a failure on Broadway in 1934 but has since garnered almost cult classic status. It concerns a man who has lost the idealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise.

Kitty, an Autobiography

Author : Kitty Carlisle
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kitty, an Autobiography written by Kitty Carlisle and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of the singer, movie star, and actress describing her personal life and career achievements.

The Royal Family

Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573614941
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Family written by Edna Ferber and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Washington Slept Here

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822204381
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book George Washington Slept Here written by Moss Hart and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The story chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves--and gets--a little place in the country to call his own. Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those

Lot Six

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062097016
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Lot Six written by David Adjmi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventions, this touching, coruscating joy of a book is an answer to that perennial question: how should a person be?” — Olivia Laing, author of Crudo and The Lonely City In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art. Brooklyn, 1970s. Born into the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, David is painfully displaced. Trapped in an insular religious community that excludes him and a family coming apart at the seams, he is plunged into suicidal depression. Through adolescence, David tries to suppress his homosexual feelings and fit in, but when pushed to the breaking point, he makes the bold decision to cut off his family, erase his past, and leave everything he knows behind. There's only one problem: who should he be? Bouncing between identities he steals from the pages of fashion magazines, tomes of philosophy, sitcoms and foreign films, and practically everyone he meets—from Rastafarians to French preppies—David begins to piece together an entirely new adult self. But is this the foundation for a life, or just a kind of quicksand? Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the artist in the throes of a life and death crisis of identity. Raw and lyrical, and written in gleaming prose that veers effortlessly between hilarity and heartbreak, Lot Six charts Adjmi’s search for belonging, identity, and what it takes to be an artist in America.

Moss Hart

Author : Jared Brown
Publisher : Backstage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780823078905
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Moss Hart written by Jared Brown and published by Backstage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He's a legend of The Great White Way whose very name is synonymous with the Golden Age of Broadway: Moss Hart. In Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theater, biographer Jared Brown offers a meticulously researched, sensitive look at the life and work of a major American artist." "More than just an assessment of Hart's career, this is a personal portrait as well. Despite his enormous success in both theatre and film, Hart spent all of his adult life in psychoanalysis, attempting to come to grips with a crushing depression. He was rumored to be bisexual, and this book examines the evidence for that claim. When he married, in his forties, he and his wife, the actress-singer Kitty Carlisle, were said by Hart's friend and collaborator Alan Jay Lerner to be "not only an ideal couple, [but] the ideal couple."" "This is the first biography to be written with the full cooperation of Hart's family and friends. Author Jared Brown had access to documents (such as Hart's diary) previously unavailable to biographers, and conducted lengthy interviews with Hart's wife and children, as well as with some of the most prominent performers he worked with, such as Julie Andrews, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, and Roubert Goulet. This long-awaited biography, featuring dozens of never-before-published photographs, is truly the definitive picture of an extraordinary man and a theatrical giant."--BOOK JACKET.

Act One

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443420891
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Act One written by Moss Hart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Merrily We Roll Along

Author : George Furth
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781636701417
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Merrily We Roll Along written by George Furth and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-beloved musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, available again in print for the first time in 20 years. Written over forty years ago, Sondheim and Furth's spirited and affecting Merrily We Roll Along boasts an innovative structure that begins in the present and moves backwards in time over 20 years, tracing the personal and professional lives of a successful producer and composer and his two (now estranged) friends. With wit, irony, and a crackling score by Sondheim, Merrily poignantly captures the ways success can corrupt youthful ideals, and crumble the foundations of friendship in its wake.