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The Man Who Came to Dinner
by: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman,year 1939
Full length play divided into 3 acts, act I into 2 scenes
9w(with extras) , 15m (with extras)
A run time of nearly three hours, with two intermissions.
http://media.www.usmfreepress.org/media/storage/paper311/news/2008/11/17/ArtsAndEntertainment/The-Man.Who.Came.To.Dinner-3547795.shtml
Genre:It's an amusing and unusually well controlled farce. A highly referential, period-specific text... is a dramaturgical minefield. -Alex Merrill http://media.www.usmfreepress.org/media/storage/paper311/news/2008/11/17/ArtsAndEntertainment/The-Man.Who.Came.To.Dinner-3547795.shtml
..such a perfect blend of high comedy and low farce, populated by such an extravagant array of eccentric but believable characters. -Elyse Sommer http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/mandinner.html
The ebullient 1939 farce one of the greatest American stage comedies of the giddy, comedy-hungry 1930s.- Lisa Schwarzbaumhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,277111,00.html
Bio:
Born in Pittsburgh in 1889, American dramatist, journalist, screenwriter, and theatre producer George S. Kaufman was influential in raising the standards of theatrical criticism as drama editor for The New York Times. Often dubbed “the great collaborator,” Kaufman joined with 16 other playwrights, most notably Moss Hart and Edna Ferber, to create over 40 plays and musicals.Playwright, director, actor and producer Moss Hart is considered one of the brightest stars of Broadway’s
golden age.Born in a tenement in New York City on October 24, 1904, Hart became a flourishing theatre artist who was often considered the “Prince of Broadway.”
Kaufman and Hart wrote the play as a vehicle for their friend Alexander Woollcott, the model for the lead character Sheridan Whiteside. At the time the play was written, Woollcott was famous both as the theater critic who helped re-launch the career of the Marx Brothers and as the star of the national radio show The Town Crier. Woollcott was well liked by both Kaufman and Hart, but that did not stop him from displaying the obnoxious characteristics displayed by Whiteside in the play. http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/The_Man_Who_Came_to_Dinner_Moss_Hart_Biography_EN.asp?SnID=1487159310
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman,year 1939
Full length play divided into 3 acts, act I into 2 scenes
9w(with extras) , 15m (with extras)
A run time of nearly three hours, with two intermissions.
http://media.www.usmfreepress.org/media/storage/paper311/news/2008/11/17/ArtsAndEntertainment/The-Man.Who.Came.To.Dinner-3547795.shtml
Genre:It's an amusing and unusually well controlled farce. A highly referential, period-specific text... is a dramaturgical minefield. -Alex Merrill http://media.www.usmfreepress.org/media/storage/paper311/news/2008/11/17/ArtsAndEntertainment/The-Man.Who.Came.To.Dinner-3547795.shtml
..such a perfect blend of high comedy and low farce, populated by such an extravagant array of eccentric but believable characters. -Elyse Sommer http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/mandinner.html
The ebullient 1939 farce one of the greatest American stage comedies of the giddy, comedy-hungry 1930s.- Lisa Schwarzbaumhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,277111,00.html
Bio:
Born in Pittsburgh in 1889, American dramatist, journalist, screenwriter, and theatre producer George S. Kaufman was influential in raising the standards of theatrical criticism as drama editor for The New York Times. Often dubbed “the great collaborator,” Kaufman joined with 16 other playwrights, most notably Moss Hart and Edna Ferber, to create over 40 plays and musicals.Playwright, director, actor and producer Moss Hart is considered one of the brightest stars of Broadway’s
golden age.Born in a tenement in New York City on October 24, 1904, Hart became a flourishing theatre artist who was often considered the “Prince of Broadway.”Kaufman and Hart wrote the play as a vehicle for their friend Alexander Woollcott, the model for the lead character Sheridan Whiteside. At the time the play was written, Woollcott was famous both as the theater critic who helped re-launch the career of the Marx Brothers and as the star of the national radio show The Town Crier. Woollcott was well liked by both Kaufman and Hart, but that did not stop him from displaying the obnoxious characteristics displayed by Whiteside in the play. http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/The_Man_Who_Came_to_Dinner_Moss_Hart_Biography_EN.asp?SnID=1487159310
Publication Date: 1936-06-01
Available to purchase on Dramatists Play Service, Inc. website for $7.50/copy
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1848
Also available on Amazon, along with many similar web sites:http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Came-Dinner/dp/0822207257
Amateurs: Rights controlled exclusively by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. Further professional inquiries should be addressed to Anne Kaufman Schneider, c/o Dramatists Play Service, Inc. $75 per
performance.http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1848
Available to purchase on Dramatists Play Service, Inc. website for $7.50/copy
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1848
Also available on Amazon, along with many similar web sites:http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Came-Dinner/dp/0822207257
Amateurs: Rights controlled exclusively by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. Further professional inquiries should be addressed to Anne Kaufman Schneider, c/o Dramatists Play Service, Inc. $75 per
performance.http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1848
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