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Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Based on a play by Charles Bruce Milholland
Adapted by Ken Ludwig.
Full Length, Comedy
12 m, 4 f.
Unit set.
Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche starred on Broadway in this hilarious adaptation of the classic play. Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, egomaniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffe boards the Twentieth Century Limited and encounters his former discovery and ex-chorus girl Lily Garland, now a tempermental Hollywood star on the train between NY and Chicago. He pulls out all the stops in persuading her to return to Broadway in his upcoming show.
"[A] fun revival." - N. Y. Post. "Vintage snap and crackle!" - Newark Star Ledger. "A thrilling funhouse ride!" - New Yorker. "A Hoot!" - Wall Street Journal. "A breathless joyride! Hysterical, madcap mayhem!" - NY1. "Makes you fall in love with the theater all over again! . . . A really good time!" - Journal News. "Perfection! . . . A nostalgic moment of flawless parody . . . If you need to laugh, don't miss this one! - Liz Smith.
FEE: $100 per performance Other Ken Ludwig titles available from Samuel French include:
Be My BabyThe Fox on the FairwayLeading Ladies Lend Me a Tenor Moon Over Buffalo Postmortem Shakespeare in Hollywood Sullivan & Gilbert The Beaux' StratagemThe Three Musketeers Treasure Island
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