Shmulnik's Waltz

Shmulnik's Waltz

Author: Allan Knee

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780573693830

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This whimsical fable was a success at the Jewish Repertory Theatre and Off Broadway. Shmulnik is a big hearted, penniless schlemiel. He falls in love with the daughter of a prosperous merchant but is turned away by her father. Her family emigrates to America and Shmulnik attempts to follow, but he gets on the wrong boat and is halfway to China before he realizes his mistake. Finally, he gets to San Francisco and works his way across the country to New York City only to find that his beloved is engaged. Shmulnik ends up writing love letters for his rival. At the wedding, shmulnik learns that the older sister, a straight laced school teacher, actually wrote the wonderful letters he has been answering, and he finds that she the better matrimonial choice


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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 608

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Advertising expenditure data across multiple forms of media, including: consumer magazines, Sunday magazines, newspapers, outdoor, network television, spot television, syndicated television, cable television, network radio, and national spot radio. Lists brands alphabetically and shows total expenditures, media used, parent company and PIB classification for each brand. Also included in this report are industry class totals and rankings of the top 100 companies in each of the media.


Theatre World 1991-1992

Theatre World 1991-1992

Author: John Willis

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781557831439

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Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season


The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992

The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992

Author: Otis L. Guernsey

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-05-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9781557831477

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(Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.


Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004

Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004

Author: Ben Furnish

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780820461977

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Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.


Late Nite Comic

Late Nite Comic

Author: Allan Knee

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 0573662428

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David Ackerman, a young pianist working at a piano bar in New York City, wants nothing more than to stand on a stage and make people laugh. He meets Gabrielle, an attractive and slightly eccentric young woman who yearns to be a professional ballerina. These two hungry dreamers climb the shaky ladder of success from seedy bars to comedy clubs to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, their on-again, off-again romance propelling them along in heartfelt pursuit of love, fame and laughter. This engaging musical features a contemporary pop score and great casting flexibility. -- Amazon.com.


Awake & Singing

Awake & Singing

Author: Ellen Schiff

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781557835307

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(Applause Books). Jewish playwrights and plays of Jewish interest intended for general audiences have been increasingly conspicuous on the American stage since the early 20th century. No wonder. The evolution of Jewish life in America teems with richly dramatic material: immigration, "making it," intergenerational family relationships, the impact of the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, and the emergence of feminism and alternative life styles. And pre-eminently and enduringly, the dilemma of identity: how to acculturate without losing one's Jewish identity. A retrospective of the American Jewish repertoire of the last 80 years tells us a good deal about how Jews have perceived themselves and America and how America has perceived Jews. Schiff's collections, Awake and Singing (1995) and Fruitful and Multiplying (1996) were the first ever to represent the magnitude and importance of the American Jewish repertoire. This new edition brings together five plays from those pioneering anthologies: Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law ; Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! ; Sylvia Regan's Morning Star ; Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man ; and Herb Gardner's Conversations with My Father . They are joined by Broken Glass , Arthur Miller's first play to focus specifically on deeply disturbing American Jewish problems: assimilation, self-hatred and terrified awareness of the Nazi threat to European co-religionists. The introductory essay provides a cultural and historical overview and there are generous headnotes to each play.