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Camping with Henry and Tom

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4m

Mark St. Germain

Winner! 1995 Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play of the season.

"Wonderfully entertaining.... Full of thought and feeling.... A treasure chest that leaves the audience aglow with pleasure." - N.Y. Post.

Camping with Henry and Tom

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Docudrama/Historic
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1995 Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play of the season.

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Summary
In 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took a camping trip together into the Maryland woods to escape civilization; what they couldn't escape was each other. Inspired by an actual event, Camping with Henry and Tom is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership; a comedic and dramatic clash of two great minds and one great heart of the twentieth century.
History

Camping with Henry and Tom was first presented at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City on February 20, 1995. It was directed by Paul Lazarus. 

Cast Attributes
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Performing Groups
HENRY FORD - industrialist, age fifty-eight.
WARREN G. HARDING - twenty-ninth president of the United States.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON - inventor, seventy-four year-old.
COLONEL EDMUND STARLING - secret service man, age thirty-five.
  • Time Period 1920s
  • Setting The woods outside Licking Creek, Maryland. July 24, 1921.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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REVIEWS

"Wonderfully entertaining.... Full of thought and feeling.... A treasure chest that leaves the audience aglow with pleasure." - N.Y. Post.

"Witty, elegant, and enormously entertaining.... Unusually literate, funny and captivating." - N.Y. Daily News.

"Delightful, rollicking, quintessentially American fiction [that] turns us for a couple of hours into the happiest of campers." - N.Y. Magazine.

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Mark St. Germain

Mark St. Germain
Mark St. Germain has written the plays Camping with Henry and Tom(Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award), Out of Gas on Lover's Leapand Forgiving Typhoid Mary(Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Ears on a Beatleand God Committee, all published by Samuel French a ...
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