26 results for "Romance"

Me and Juliet

Rodgers, Richard
This show-within-a-show follows the romance between a chorus girl and an assistant stage manager leading to their secret marriage. Their happy union is threatened by the electrician who still carries a torch for the girl and, in a drunken rage, tries to kill them both. A contrasting romance involves the stage manager, whose credo never to fall for a girl in a show he's working on is complicated when a dancer he's been wooing is suddenly thrown into the cast of 'Me and Juliet.' Informed by rich insights into the world of Broadway - how jobs are gotten and lost, the inside tricks of the trade and the pitfalls of backstage romances - Me and Juliet is an innovative, irresistible show that consistently delivers both musically and dramatically.
Samuel French Ltd 2021-09-16 124 pages

Life Under Water

Richard Greenberg
The setting is the present-day Hamptons, that sun drenched stretch of expensive ocean frontage where the rich and privileged while away their summers. Two attractive college girls, Amy-Joy and Amy-Beth, are looking for a good time, and think they have found it in the person of Kip, a handsome preppie who is in flight from the lavish home he shares with his divorced, domineering and bitingly sophisticated mother and her narcissistic married lover. And romance does develop, if not quite in the manner anticipated, as the triangular affair of the young people is deftly counterpointed against the vapid relationship of the older couple. But while high comedy and sharp observation prevail, the play yields a lacerating portrait of a contemporary upper-middle-class that is, sadly and humorously, bored, self-indulgent and emotionally reckless -- Publisher's description.
Dramatists Play Service Inc 1985 42 pages

Dear/: a new play

Drexler, Rosalyn
(Applause Books). The script to "one of the most tender yet devastating plays of the Drexlerian oeuvre is the musical romance Dear . It takes place in the Eisenhower Fifties, the early years of television. There is an elegiac quality for the tragicomedy punctuated by the sentimental music of the era...The play is about Jessie Clup, a Queens housewife whose philandering husband has deserted her. Her only culpa is her fixation on Perry Como, the ex-barber, crooner kin, reigning TV star." Rosette Lamont, StageView .
Applause 1997 64 pages

Springtime for Henry

Benn Levy
Genre: Comedy Characters: 2 males 2 females Scenery: Interior In this play Mr. Levy gives us the blundering and silly ass character ofHenry Dewlip a wealthy young English bachelor. Henry leads a life ofease until he is taken in hand by his apparently prim young secretary who tries to persuade him to forego all his pleasant vices. "Few things on Broadway are so funny. Not for many a night have Iheard such spontaneous laughter in a theater. The audience got up togo with tears in its eyes. Tears that came from laughter." - New York World Telegram
Samuel French, Inc. 2011-09-28 114 pages

North Atlantic

Michael Colby,James Fradrich
Full-Length Play "Playful entertainment-Outstanding Production of the Year!" -Show Business North Atlantic is a uniquely affectionate and comic valentine to the classic style of Rodgers & Hammerstein, set in the land of igloos and ice! On a mysterious and remote island (somewhere on the opposite side of the globe from "South Pacific"), Honey Snodgrass and Melanie Fong, all-American members of the Ioway branch of the Teaching Corps, arrive to teach Eskimo children their 'modern ways.' As with any good R & H classic, the girls soon find unexpected romance, unintentional bigotry, and the dream ballet to end all dream ballets! With every ridiculous cliché thrown in for good measure, this charming family musical takes its origins and springboards into its own idiomatic lunacy. (Play: 5F, 5M, Ensemble)
De Lloyd 2015-05-15 70 pages