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LAST MINUTE ACQUISITIONS and NEW RELEASES 2006

GEM OF THE OCEAN August Wilson This is the ninth play in the two-time Pultizer Prize winning author's epic ten-play chronicle of the AfricanAmerican experience in the 20th Century. THE WILDEST!!! HIP, COOL AND SWINGIN'! Randy Johnson, Thomas Porras, Luanne Prima and Toni Elizabeth Prima The musical sounds of Louis Prima and Keely Smith set the stage afire. SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES Del Shores Hilarious and compelling, this new comedy by the popular author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who 's Got the Will?) has won many awards. SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD Ken Eudwig The mischeivous magic of moviedom sparkles in this hilarious comic romp by the author of Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo and other hits. LEADING LADIES Ken Ludwig Two Shakespearean actors are reduced to performing in the Amish country of Pennsylvania in this new comedy. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Music by Marvin Hamlisch / Lyrics by Craig Carnelia / Book by John Guare The popular novel by Ernest Lehman and MGM/United Artists notion picture is now a captivating musical. STORYVILLE Music and lyrics by Mildred Kayden / Book by Ed Bullins This New Orleans musical is about love and jazz. PACIFIC 1860 Nol Coward, adapted and revised by Barry Day This beautifully scored piece is new to American audiences. THE IMMIGRANT Book by Mark Harelik / Lyrics by Sarah Knapp / Music by Steven M. Alper Here is a touching biographical musical about the realization of the American dream. MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) Music by Eric Rockwell / Lyrics by Joanne Bogart / Book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogar New York audiences applauded this hilarious, witty satire of musical theatre. WHITE CHOCOLATE William Hamilton Smart and farcical, this comedy provides a unique look at race and identity in our culture. ANATOMY OF GRAY Jim Leonard, Jr. The author of The Diviners has written a unique coming of age story. PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES Alan Ayckbourn The comic masters latest masterfully crafted play drew critical acclaim in England. THREE SHORT PLAYS Young Jean Lee These are exciting, challenging new works from the rising avant-garde playwright. ON THE SHORE OF THE WIDE WORLD Simon Stephens Love, life and the size of the galaxy are explored in this stunning new play. THE ARGUMENT, THE AIRPORT PLAY, and THE WEDDING PLAY Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros These three poignant new comedy/dramas are by the coauthor of Omnium Gatherum. BRENDA BLY: TEEN DETECTIVE Book and lyrics by Kevin Hamonds / Music by Charles Miller Everyones favorite teen sleuth solves the crime, catches the crook and saves the day. WHITE BUFFALO Don Zilidos This new play garnered the prestigious Princess Grace Award for playwriting. JASPER LAKE John Kuntz Here is the winner of the ACTF Student Playwriting Award. DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD Adapted by David Wood from the story by Roald Dahl This heartwarrning story is beautifully adapted to the stage by a prolific writer of plays for young audiences. **JUST RELEASED** THE GRADUATE Adapted for the stage by Terry Johnson

HONORS AND AWARDS 2006

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Book by Harvey Fierstein Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman Based 011 the book by Jean Pioret 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical Drama League winner for Distinguished Revival of a Musical Drama Desk A ward winner for Outstanding Revival of a Musical Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Musical GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play Drama League nomination for Distinguished Revival of a Play Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play DEMOCRACY by Michael Frayn 2005 Tony nomination for Best Play Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Broadway Play Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play GEM OF THE OCEAN by August Wilson 2005 Tony nomination for Best Play Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Broadway Play SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD by Ken Ludwig Winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play JOURNEY'S END by R.C Sheriff Olivier A ward nomination for Best Revival of a Play HURLYBURLY by David Rabe Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Revival of a play Drama League nomination for Distinguished Revival of a Play A NUMBER by Caryl Churchill OBIE Award winner for Playwriting Drama League nomination for Distinguished Production of a Play SPOT'S BIRTHDAY Adapted by David Wood from the book by Eric Hill AATE Distinguished Play A ward OUTWARD BOUND by Sutton Valle Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES by Del Shores 2000 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater Production Multiple LA Weekly Awards, Los Angeles Critics A wards, Ovation A wards, Backstage West Garland Awards and Robby Awards MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) Music by Eric Rockwell Lyrics by Joanne Bogart Book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart Drama League nomination for Distinguished Production of a Musical Critics Award for Best Production FEET OF CLAY by David Caudle Heidemann Award Finalist SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Craig Carnelia Book by John Guare Based on the novel by Ernest Lehman and the MGM/United Artists motion picture Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Musical 2002 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical Book FIRST KISSES by Jay D. Hanagan Winner of the Babylon Players World Premiere Playwriting Contest Winner of the Backdoor Theatre (Wichita Falls) 20th Annual New Play Project THE IMMIGRANT Book by Mark Harelik Lyrics Sarah Knapp Music by Steven M. Alper Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Book Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Orchestration CHILDRENS LETTERS TO GOD Book by Stuart Hample Music by Davie Evans Lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen Based on the book by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Lyrics WHITE BUFFALO by Don Zilidos 2004 Princess Grace Playwriting Award QUEEN MILLI OF GALT by Garry Kirkham Winner of the 2004 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Contest JASPER LAKE by John Kuntz Winner of the ACTF Student Playwriting Award

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BAD DATES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 1 f. Int. "And then I realize, in this sort of strange, hallucinatory moment, that the bug guy is looking kind of good, and the things he's saying about bugs are really kind of fascinatingand it is then that I realized that maybe it has been too long since I've been on a date." So confesse's a single mother and self-described restaurant idiot-savant in this thoroughly charming and slyly sweet one-woman play by the author of The Butterfly Collection and Spike Heels. This idiosyncratic journey of self-discovery involving the Romanian mob, a Buddhist rainstorm, a teenage daughter, shoes, and a few very bad dates enjoyed an extended run Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. $6.50. (#4900) (Royalty, $60-$60.) BARRYMORE. (Little Theatre.) Biographical monologue. William Luce. 1 m. plus 1 off-stage m. voice. Int. Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of this work by the master of onecharacter biographies for the stage. "A portrait of riveting complexity."-N.Y. Times. "As good as one-man shows get."-New Yorker. "A staggering success. . . . Must be seen, must be savored." -N. Y. Post. "A rare show that leaves you wanting more." ---Gannett Newspapers. "A perfect image of Barrymore."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4294) BLOWN SIDEWAYS THROUGH LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Claudia Shear. 1 f. Simple set. What began as an autobiographical one-woman show Off Broadway (originally developed at the New York Theatre Workshop) became a national phenomenon. This story of jobs lost and found (from nude model to waitress to whorehouse phone girl), wisdom in strange places and, above all, the joys of adventure and obsession transcends the personal to achieve universal appeal. "The birth of a true dramatist. . . . A touching striptease of the soul . . . that will stop your heart."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4272) A DISTANT COUNTRY CALLED YOUTH. (Little Theatre.) Biographical monologue. Steve Lawson. Adapted from the early letters of Tennessee Williams. 1 m. Spanning the twenty-five years from boyhood to the opening of The Glass Menagerie, this one-man show evokes the evolution of an American genius through his extraordinary correspondence with family, friends, lovers and other writers. Hilarious, raunchy and poetic in tum, the piece spotlights these fairly obscure years in William's life. Here is a young Thomas Lanier Williams growing up, exploring and finding his artistic voice as Tennessee Williams. "Lively, amusing, vivid, evocative, poetic."-Variety. "Appealing and enjoyable."-Chicago Tribune. "[An] unplugged and intimate look at the making of an artist."-Berkshire Eagle. "Gentle and enlightening."-Washington Post. "Quite wonderful."-HartJord Courant. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#6234) GOLDA'S BALCONY. (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. William Gibson. 1 f. Unit set. Broadway applauded this reworking of the author's 1977 play Golda into a complex one-woman tour de force. This tight-knit story of war and peace opens in 1973, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, and uses flashbacks to let Golda tell the story of her life: her journey from her birthplace in Russia to Milwaukee where she became a teacher and married. She describes her role as a socialist Zionist, her emigration to Palestine in 1921, the birth of her two children and the breakup of her marriage. These details form an intriguing backdrop for a dramatic look at idealism, power and the strength it takes to shape the destiny of a nation. "Seldom has history embodied itself in one person as clearly as it did in Golda Meir. . . .Gibson gives us a great understanding of Golda's personal and public life ... and conveys magnificently the fearlessness and dedication that made Golda so powerful a world leader."-N.Y. Daily News. "Fascinating."-N.Y. Times. $12.95. (Royalty, $60(#505) $60.) Restricted. NOBODY DON'T LIKE YOGI. (Little Theatre.) Biographical comedy. Tom Lysaght. 1 m. Int. In 1985, 16 games into the season, George Steinbrenner fired Yankee manager Yogi Berra, and he insulted the Berra family. Yogi never told anyone what was said, but he vowed not to enter Yankee Stadium as long as Steinbrenner owned the team. And he didn't-until 1999 when the ghosts of Yankee greats tugged at his heart and he returned to throw out the first pitch of the season, replacing the recently deceased Joe DiMaggio. Set in the clubhouse of the cathedral of baseball, this play recreates that day and shows why Yogi Berra is a national treasure and a New York icon. Starred Ben Gazzara in New York. "A home run." -N. Y. Post. "Comical and tender, capturing the sensitivity and rare sensibility that made Berra such a popular public figure."-AP. "A one-man tour de force."-New Yorker. "Emotionally rewarding and terrifically entertaining." -Variety. "It's 'Field of Dreams' on stage."-N.Y. Times. "A dazzling balance of humor and pathos. . . . A personal experience."-Southampton Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted.

ROSE. (Little Theatre) Drama. Martin Sherman. 1 f. Bare stage w. bench. Rose, played by Olympia Dukakis at The Royal National Theatre in London and in a Lincoln Center production in New York, is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to the Warsaw ghetto, aboard a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona Canyons and salsa-flavored nights in Miami Beach. This play by the author of Bent is a vivid portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a reminder of events that shaped the twentieth century. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Please state author when (#20152) ordering. SECOND LADY. Drama. M. Kilburg Reedy. 1 f. Simple set. Originally seen Off Broadway starring Judith Ivey, this remarkable 70-minute performance piece about a fictional political wife has been applauded nationally and internationally. "A searing and soaring experience."-Hollywood Reporter. Published with Astronaut and Fairy Tale Romance in Second Lady and Other Ladies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35$35 or $60-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#20941) SECOND LADY AND OTHER LADIES. M. Kilburg Reedy. Three marvelous monologues for an actress. See Second Lady (above); the shorter Astronaut and Fairy Tale Romance are listed with one-act monologues. See Index for descriptions.

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SHAKESPEARE FOR MY FATHER. (Little Theatre.) Biographical monologue. Lynn Redgrave. 1 f. The renowned actress's first foray into play writing began as family reminiscences and developed into a complex, funny and moving portrait of a child's longing for the love of the daunting and charismatic Shakespearean actor who was her father. "A pleasure and a privilege to watch."-N.Y. Times. "Enormously entertaining."-N.Y. Post. "Combines wit, technical skill and human feeling."-London Times. "Offers a glimpse of life in the rarefied company of Olivier, Burton, Lunt and Fontanne, sister Vanessa and brother Corin. . . . By turns funny, (#21546) poignant and melodramatic."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) SHIRLEY VALENTINE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Willy Russell. 1 f. Int., ext. The heroine in this classic tour de force for an actress is an ordinary middle-class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure. When her husband shuns the egg and chips, Shirley escapes to Greece, has an "adventure" with a Greek fisherman and decides to stay. This hilarious and honest play was a hit in London and New York when performed by Pauline Collins. "Absolutely smashing." -N. Y. Post. "A joyful, captivating piece of theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "It's a funny, wise and at the same time very moving play." -The Stage. "A thrilling, cheer-raising piece of theatre." -Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Posters (#21131) TALKING HEADS. Alan Bennett. See Index for descriptions. TEA AT FIVE. (Little Theatre.) Biographical monologue. Mathew Lombardo. 1 f. Int. Tea at Five captures the fiery spirit of Katharine Hepburn in a one-woman show that recounts her journey from a well-heeled Yankee childhood to winner of four Oscars. Ensconced at her beloved Fenwick home, Ms. Hepburn reflects on the dizzying heights and emotional lows of her upbringing, her adventures in show business and her heartbreaking romance with Spencer Tracy. Audiences leave with new memories of one of the most dearly loved ladies of an era. "Marvelous! Wellwritten!"-N.Y. Times. "Skillfully written and sheer fun!"-N.Y. Daily News. "Hepburn would love it!. .. Honors ... without sentimentalizing."-Boston Globe. "A poignant exploration of the universal joy and anguish of love."-Variety. "A tour de force! Dazzling! A compelling, loving portrayal."-Providence Journal. "Amazing."-New London Day. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#22589) $60.) Slightly Restricted. VIA DOLOROSA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. I m. Bare stage. "There he is, unmistakably, the Englishman abroad . . . . This particular Englishman is making his way through Israel and the Palestinian territories, and he finds himself in the presence of a ferocious, unconditional commitment to a place and an idea called home. Something to kill and to die for . . . . Such is the persona worn by ... David Hare in his sad, funny and deeply engaging one-man show . . . . It finds, as good play always will, the echoing poetry within the dangerous chaos that is life."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#24000) WOMEN ON FIRE. (Little Theatre.) Monologues. Irene O'Garden. 1-12 f. Unit set. This evening of twelve emotionally-charged monologues starred Judith Ivey Off Broadway, where its run was extended twice. From ad exec to Midwest mom to care-giver to construction worker, each character is on fire in her own way-with passion, fear, self-discovery, even shopping! Exploring the breath of women's issues with humor and wisdom, the monologues offer excellent roles for one or more

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mature actn:sses. Women on Fire earned the highest rating for audience satisfaction from the mall Street Journal/lagat Theatre Survey. "Bewitching . . . astounding ... heartbreaking."-NY. Times. "Heartwarming, riveting drama."-NY Theatre.com. "Fresh, spirited . . . plumbing the secret depths of ordinary women. "-Backstage. "Hot pick."-NY. Newsday. "A rare and exquisite evening.. . Lyrical, touching substantial and oltimately profound.. . Cancel all other appointments and treat yourself to this extraordinary evening of sublime writing."'-Southampton Press. "Passionate and insightful. . . . Each character [is] (#25755) memorable."-Riverhead Ind~pendent. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) THE BELLE OF AMHERST. (AU Groups.) Biographical drama. William Luce. A play based on the life of Emily Dickinson 1 f. Int. The Belle of Amherst delicately explores th(: life of America's greatest woman poet at various stages in her experience from the age of 15, when she was full of hope and success, until she died at 56, a virtual recluse with her door closed against society. Her life is recreated with liberal excerpts from her poetry-and by the method of her playing the roles of her father, teacher and friends. Julie Harris played the role on Broadway to great acclaim and won the 1977 Tony Award as best actress. "Magnificent. . . . Full of passion and poetry and heart. . . . An arresting, riveting experience." -N Y. Daily News. "One of the most singularly beautiful evenings I've ever spent in the theater. ... A beautiful play."-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#262) BRONTE. (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. William Luce. 1 f. Int. Julie Harris played Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, in this captivating monodrama by the author of Lucifer's Child, The Belle of Amherst and The Last Flapper. "An immaculate work of theater. "-L.A. Times. "A psychological window-opening."'-S.F. Examiner. "A miniature treasure."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4173) BULLY. (All Groups.) Biographical drama. Jerome Alden. 1 m. Simple set. This brilliant play captures the essence of Theodore Roosevelt and ranges from his emotional reaction to his oldest son's death on the battlefield to his involvement in politics to his emphasis on physical fitness and much more. He faced problems creatively, applying the Anti-Trust Act to attack powerful business interests, introducing conservation measures, and raising America to a first-rate power. This graphic, expansive portrait shows his deep attachment to his family, his sickly childhood and his WiIIffi friendships. "Truly history without peer. . . . The best of its (#4136) kind." -N. Y. Times. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) CINCINNATI. Drama. Don Nigro. I f. A lectern on a bare stage. This complex and terrifying play is about a woman who has embraced the illusion of central positionshe believes she is the center of the universe, that when she moves from one location it is disassembled by evil demons and reassembled elsewhere, and that the universe exists simply to tonnent her, distract her from the true nature of things, and give her as much pain as possible. Powerful, funny, disturbing and disorienting, this play stretches one actress to the limit of her abilities and takes theatre to the edge of madness. In Cincinnati and Other Plays: Monologues for the Theatre, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5773) CONFESSIONS OF A NIGHTINGALE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charlotte Chandler and Ray Stricklyn. I m. Int. Tennessee Williams' private persona is shown to have been just as fascinating as his plays in this delightful and moving ninetyminute drama. The play is structured as an interview with a reporter, to whose unheard questions Williams responds directly to the audience as if they are doing the asking. "IIIuminating."-NY. Post. "A thrilling evening."-Hollywood Reporter. "Tennesse,~ would have loved it."-L.A. Herald Examiner. $6.50. {Royalty, $50$40.) (#5761) CLARENCE DARROW. (All Groups.) Drama. David W. Rintels, based on Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone. I m. Simple int. Here is the famous attorney reminiscing over his long and renowned career, touching on many of his famous trials including the "Monkey" trial and the sensational Leopold-Loeb case. Darrow reviews much of America's legal history with salty humor, courtroom gusto and human relish. His private life and many contemporary events, including labor conditions, are woven into this story of a man who accepted unpopular cases and defended unpopular causes. This champion of dissenters and underdogs was also a writer and lecturer and he conjures up many famous people of his life and times. "Socko theatre. .. Gutsy, exciting, inspiring, funny, beautiful. "-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#5112) DRINKING IN AMERICA. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Eric Bogosian. I m. Bare stage. These 12 monologues were originally perfonned in New York by the author, but can be played by as many as 12 actors. "Bogosian's gallery of crazy drunks straddles the social gamut, from a wino lying in the gutter. . . to a coked-up Hollywood. talent agent. What they all share is their pathetic need to be 'special' . . . and their reliance on drink and drugs to fool them into thinking that fantasy is real. "-N Y. Post. "A breakneck, hair-raising comic tour of the American psyche." -N Y. Times. "Cleverly written . . . . It sinks its teeth deep into American and gives us something to chew on."-N.Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6175) IT IS NO DESERT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dan Stoeh. I m. Bare stage. This moving account of the author's struggles against neurofibramotosis, a progressively debilitating disease for which there is no cure, won the 2001 American College

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Theatre Festival Award. It was perfonned at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#11689) KRAPP'S LAST TAPE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. I m. The OffBroadway sensation, a tour de force for one man, is the most affectionate portrait of a character that Beckett has ever done: an aging man who lives a lonely and shabby existence in a darkened room, At year's end he takes out a bottle of wine, a banana and his tape recorder, and he listens as his own voice of times past recounts the glories and hopes of his more youthful years. There is sharp, ironic contrast between the vibrant youth that he was and the shabby life into which he has declined. In Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces, $11.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#625) THE LAST FLAPPER. (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. William Luce. 1 f. Int. Based on her letters and stories, this exciting play is the definitive portrait of Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald: the glamorous, fun-loving and tragic Zelda. As in The Belle of Amherst, Lucifer'S Child and Bronti?', Luce reveals the contradictions and mysteries of an extraordinary woman while fashioning a moving yet witty play. Set in an insane asylum on the last day of Zelda's life, the play unfolds as a hypnotic session. Zelda tells of her innocent rebellion as a southern belle, of her destructive marriage aQd of her mental disintegration. "A cry of the heart that relentlessly delivers the truth."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#28001) A LOVELY LIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. 1 f. Dorothy Stickney. This biographical dramatization of the poems and letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay is divided into three sections: the fledgling poet in her ecstatic early years, her most productive years-both personally and professionally, and finally, the lonely last years of declining professional reputation and her husband's death. "Tender and beautiful."-NY. Times. "Enchanting."-NY. World-Telegram and Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14149) LUCIFER'S CHILD. (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. William Luce. I f. lnt. Julie Harris starred on Broadway and in a highly acclaimed national tour as Baroness Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa. This one-woman tour de force vividly portrays a gifted woman who triumphed over adversity to become one of the great writers of the century. "It's a devil of a story that casts wisdom and wicked humor like star dust. . . . Ferociously entertaining."-Raleigh News & Observer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14199) MISS MARGARIDA'S WAY. (Little Theatre.) Allegory. Roberto Athayde. I f., I m. extra. Int. Audiences and critics in over 50 countries have cheered this allegory about totalitarianism which uses as its central metaphor a biology classroom. The teacher is dictator and the audience is the student body. Miss Margarida, an engaging though grotesque monster, often digresses from biology to taunt and harangue. She warns that we could be sent to the principal's office and that sometimes students never come back. She asks how to divide 12 bananas among 35 people and answers that the strongest gets 9 and the second strongest 3. The audience is encouraged to talk back and even to write graffiti on the blackboard during intennission! "Mordant, funny, sometimes subtle and ultimately moving."-NY. Times. "A tour-deforce for an actress. . . . Part tirade, part political allegory, part expressionist (#15117) vaudeville show."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) POUNDING NAILS IN THE FLOOR WITH MY FOREHEAD. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Eric Bogosian. I m. Bare stage. This cavalcade of characters from a nightmare scored a hit on Broadway. Like Drinking in America and Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, these dead-on monologues horrify and amuse. "Rough and riotous . . . . [This author] is, quite possibly, our most vibrant bringer of bad tidings." -N. Y. Times. "No one can better articulate the anger and absurdity of urban America. "-AP. "It's brilliance still has me laughing in incredulous admiration."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#18216) THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Wagner. I f. Unit set. Lily Tomlin's one-woman tour de force won the New York Drama Desk Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as well as a Tony for Best Actress. This side-splitting parade of characters is successful when performed by one or several actresses. "Genuinely subversive comedy."-NY. Times. "A human comedy that strikes home so sharply it brings gasps of recognition as well as outbursts of laughter." -Newsweek. "A buoying search for signs of intelligent life in the theatre."-Time Magazine. "Makes you laugh until you hurt."-WABC-TV. "Wide-ranging social-sexual hilarity."-USA Today. $14.00. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Restricted. (#21288) SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eric Bogosian. 1 m. Bare stage. This non-stop tour through some oddball minds enjoyed a lengthy run Off Broadway. Originally perfonned as a one-man show. the hilarious and often disturbing monologues can be presented by several actors or actresses. "BrilIiant.. . Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a culture hero."-NY. Times. "Clever . . . spiky, stinging, caustic . . . . and funny."-NY. Magazine. "Terrific. "-AP. "Continuously funny."-New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21629) A TALE OF TWO CITIES. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Everett Quinton. I m. Int. An aspiring transvestite club perfonner opens his door and finds-' 'what in the gay heW?!"-a baby left on his doorstep. "He's a straight baby, but we can coexist. I know it can be done." And the man proceeds to tell the baby a Grimm fairy

CHARACTERS tale. When this proves insufficient to stop the baby's crying, the man performs the entire narrative of Dickens' classic of the French revolution, playing all the rolesmale and female! "An always fascinating, sometimes funny and finally moving evening."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60--$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#22057)

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their shabby beachfront ranch is next to Barbra Streisand's mansion. As the play opens, Jerry is working himself into a frenzy over the media circus surrounding their famous neighbor's 1998 wedding. Limos are clogging the streets, helicopters hover noisily overhead and news crews are broadcasting from their front lawn. Jerry, an out-of-work television actor whose only claim to fame was a small role as a wacky neighbor in a sitcom, is reminded by all of the commotion of his own obscurity-he wasn't even invited to the wedding! He rages against Streisand, Hollywood, the media, his wife and anything else that comes to mind. An argument escalates into a full-blown fight with his wife that threatens to wreck their marriage; she'd leave if only Arnold Schwartzenegger's Humvee wasn't blocking the driveway. This antishow business comedy by a Hollywood insider is a hilarious send-up with a happy ending. "Really something."-The New Yorker .. "An amusing . . . play in the mold of Elaine May's comedies about people brought near to madness by the quirks of life."-N.Y. Post. "There are plenty of jokes that work."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#4901) THE BLUE ROOM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Adapted by David Hare from Lo Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler. 1 m., I f. Unit set. A sensation in London and one of the most sought-after tickets of the Broadway season, The Blue Room depicts a daisy chain of ten sexual encounters between five women and five men (all portrayed by one actor and one actress). Freely adapting the original play from which the wellknown movie was made, Hare has moved the action to modem London and infused the sketches with witty modem nuances. "Generates enough erotic energy to raise the dead . . . . A funny, intelligent and razor-sharp satire."-N.Y. Daily News. "Pure theatre Viagra."-London Daily Telegraph. "The hottest show in town."N.Y. Post. "A range-stretching exercise for actors."- N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#4275) DECADENCE. (Advanced Groups.) Verse drama. Steven Berkoff. 1 m., 1 f. Simple set. Two actors play two couples in a story of excess that is based on hatred of the upper class. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#6552) EARS ON A BEATLE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Mark St. Germain. 2 m. Unit set. Veteran FBI agent Howard Ballantine and new recruit Daniel McClure are assigned a job of critical importance to 1. Edgar Hoover and the White house: get politically outspoken John Lennon out of the country before Richard Nixon runs for reelection in 1972, an election in which eighteen-year-olds can vote for the fust time. Based on actual FBI documents declassified through the Freedom of Information Act and filled with humor and heartbreak, Ears on a Beatie explores the personal relationship between the two agents in light of the changing social climate from the early seventies until Lennon's death in 1980. Set in a time when the country was sharply divided by an unpopular war, lies flowed from the White House and individual liberties were threatened in the name of national security, this play is as contemporary as today's headlines. "A funny but deeply involving piece of theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "Theatrically rich."-Time Out. "A compelling ethical/political exploration." -Boston Globe. "Fascinating, ,funny and nostalgic."-Denver Post. "I love the show. Anyone interested in the Beatles or John Lennon should not miss it!-Sid Bernstein. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#7904) GREATER TUNA. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. 2 m. Ints., exts. (simply suggested). What do Aries Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? They are among the upstanding citizens of Tuna-Texas' third smallest town-in this hilarious send-up of small-town mores, and they are all played by two actors! In.this OffBroadway hit two actors create the entire population of Tuna in a tour de farce of quick-change artistry, both of costumes and of comic characterizations. There are twenty wild characters in this show and you may wish to use up to that many actors, but that isn't nearly as much fun. "Howlingly funny. "-Variety. "The audience . . . all but exploded the theatre with laughter."-N.Y. Post. (Also see A Tuna Christmas, listed in Christmas Plays.) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted. Posters (#9690) JACK AND JILL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. I m., I f., 4 extras. Simple unit set. With her signature offbeat humor and fierce p<!sion, the author of Keely and Du and other well-known plays examines the many labors of love in a modem comedy of manners. While most romances focus on the search for Mr. or Ms. Right, Jack and Jill explores what happens after two people find the right fit. From an awkward courtship to marital bliss and beyond, the author playfully portrays the hard work of love that requires balancing intimacy with commitment, selfdiscovery and personal change. "There's humor, there's pathos, but mostly there's yeaming throughout."-Rocky Mountain News. "Actors Theatre audiences have come to count on playwright Jane Martin . . . for an undeniably superior play. She's done it again with Jack and Jill. Martin has delivered another hit."-Louisville Courier-Journal. Winner of the 1997 American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best New Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12902) NEW YORK WATER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 1 m., 1 f. 4 simple sets. A receptionist and a CPA, two single people who have just met, feel living in New York City is holding them back. Linda and Albert try to make a go of it in Davenport, Iowa, and in Los Angeles. No longer together, they meet back in New York. Linda has become a dynamo with killer instincts and is now a major player in the movie business. Albert is falling further and further down the ladder of success and, although his love for Linda is overwhelming, he slowly realizes he is no match for her. This bittersweet comedy is by the author of Norman, Is that You?, Murder at

TONGUES AND SA VAGEILOVE. See Index for description. 21A. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Kevin Kling. I m. Bare stage w. chairs. This oneman tour-de-force originally starred the author playing all eight of the people on a Minneapolis bus. Structured as a series of monologues in which events occur simultaneously, this hilarious and decidedly different work had them rolling in the isles at Actors Theatre of Louisville's famed Humana Festival, where it won the Heidemann Award. Characters include the drool driver, an odd lady, a religious proselytizer, a drunk with a 12-pack over his head, a business man who is not Dave (no matter how fervently the drunk insists he is) and a mysterious intruder. "Stunning." U.S.A. Today. "Astonishing." Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35) (#22237)

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*THE COLLECTOR. (Little Theatre.) Suspense. Mark Healy. Adapted from the novel by John Fowles. I m., I f. Int. John Fowles' classic story of possession, obsession and love, now considered one of the great works in modem literature, comes to the stage in an intense, chilling version. Frederick Clegg appears to be a genteel and ordinary, slightly shabby clerk. When he wins aJortune in the lottery he buys a remote country house and furnishes it with everything he thinks an artistically minded girl could desire. He decorates it with the glass cases full of the butterflies he collects. He then abducts a beautiful girl.he has worshiped from afar and imprisons her in the cellar, but collecting girls is not the same as collecting butterflies. The relationship between this ill-matched couple progresses in an atmosphere of increasing tension. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5334) *FIRST KISSES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Jay D. Hanagan. I m.,1 f. or flexible cast of varied ages. Unit set. In this prize-winning love story, Mary and John grow up and grow old together. It starts with their first kiss at the age of eleven when John's hamster dies and continues through sixty-one years of joys and losses, bad dresses and old girlfriends, and even condoms in their daughter's sock drawer. Here is a delightful tour de force for two exceptional actors or a tremendous opportunity to show off a company's extraordinary talent base. Winner of the Babylon Players World Premiere Playwriting Contest and the Backdoor Theatre (Wichita Falls) 20th Annual New Play Project. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8586) *HOT FLASHES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dori Appel and Carolyn Myers. 2-20 f. Unit set. What previously forbidden subject is a hot topic for baby boomers and beyond? Hot Flashes is a fast-paced, original comedy about menopause that has been delighting audiences throughout the United States. A main stage hit at the 2004 Senior Theatre Festival in Las Vegas, its nine lively scenes include a finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors competition and a slam poetry winner. Hexible casting possibilities allow from two to twenty actresses to perform in this hilarious look at the unique challenges and comical adventures of menopause. "Firmly on the pulse of local Baby Boomers. . . . Should appeal to men and women of all (#10947) ages. "-Ashland (Oregon) Daily Tidings. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) *SNAKE IN THE GRASS. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 f. Ext. Miriam has cared for her father in the family home all during his vituperative last years, helped by a creepily polite nurse. Miriam's older sister Annabel, an attractive divorcee who has lived for more than thirty years in Tasmania, returns home when their father dies and finds that he has left the bulk of his fortune to her. After being sacked by Miriam, the nurse tells Annabel she can prove that Miriam did away with the old man-and she intends to blackmail her former employer. Highty Miriam and tough Annabel join forces and the blackmailer's body is soon hurtling down the well. But that is only the beginning! "A scarily, eerily enjoyable evening."-London Sunday Times. "It's a suspense drama about murder, blackmail and haunting. . . . There is . . . depth and subtlety."-Financial Times. "Subtle and powerful." -Guardian. $8.95. ($60-$60.) (#21961) *WHA T THE NIGHT IS FOR. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Michael Weller. I m., I f. Int. Ten years after they ended an affair, two lovers meet in a hotel far from their homes. Both are married, both have children and both have been wondering about the road not taken. What begins as a casual meal and an evening of catching up turns into a passionate, painful and hilarious voyage that could change their lives forever. Uncompromising in its attitude toward modem marriage and infidelity, What the Night Is For poses timeless questions (Am I with the right person? Is my real soul mate still out there, living another life?) in a fresh and lively drama that premiered in London's West End. "Weller's great virtue is his unflinching honesty and ability to show how two people who have a desperate need for each other can still entertain different dreams . . . . [He) weaves a play both painfully honest and unexpectedly funny. "-Guardian. "Superbly crafted exploration of intimacy . . . [that is) direct, humorous and moving."-L.A. Weekly. $15.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#25269) BARBRA'S WEDDING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Daniel Stem. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Jerry and Molly Schiff are the only non-celebrities in their Malibu neighborhood; in fact,

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the Howard Johnson's and other well-known plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16596)
THE OUTRAGEOUS ADVENTURES OF SHELDON AND MRS. LEVINE: A Son's musive Search for His Mother's Happiness. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobri<:k and Julie Stein. 1m., 1 f. Unit set. In an exchange of hilarious letters between an overbearing mother and her adult son, he blames her for breaking up his marriage and ruining his life. She can't understand why things so trivial should bother him The angst, aggravation and madness of the love-hate relationship between Sheldon and Mrs. Levine, unforgettable characters who are thousands of miles apart and still too close, fills the stage with outrageous comedy. Successful in a variety of settings, the play can be presented with or without intermission by actors who can but need not be reading as they perform. "Hilariously warped."-Pasadena Weekly. "Entertaining, hilarious, outrageous."-Arizona Summer Wildcat. "Hilarious."-lllinois Quarterly. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21485) SAME TIME, ANOTHER YEAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 1m., 1 f. lnt. A memorable evening with two of the world's favorite characters, this sequel to Same Time, Next Year (see below) continues the yarn of an extramarital affair conducted one weekend a year into the last quarter of the twentieth century. Hilarity and tenderness are perfectly balanced against the changing backdrop of life in the United States. "Very funny."-Pasadena Star-News. "Clever, insightful, touching . . . and always entertaining."-Hollywood Reporter. "This is one delicious evening." -Rose Report. "Has wonderful comic moments." -Daily Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#955) SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 1 m., 1 f. Int. One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, was a successful motion picture, and remains one of the most widely-produced plays in history. It follows a love affair between people who rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners, morals and attitudes are hilariously mirrored by the lovers. "Delicious. . wit, compassion, a sense of humor and a feel for nostalgia."-N.Y. Times. "Genuinely funny and genuinely romantic."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40. Slightly Restricted. Posters

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS can businessman who sells defective baby formula in third-world markets and one by his wife, portray an idealist who has succumbed to the corruption so endemic to modem America. "What mai<es Mr. Baitz an exciting writer is . . . the humanity, lacerating wit and theatricality with which he levels his charge."-NY. Times. "Deftly written."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#22701) VALLEY SONG. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. Incidental Music by Didi Kriel. 1 m., 1 f. 1 simple set. This is the moving story of an old man's love for his dutiful grandchild. He is anxious to shield this dreamy, restless sixteen-year-old from temptations beyond his isolated valley. She is equally anxious to be a singer in faraway Johannesburg. "Fugard's miniature masterpiece [is) . . . an instant classic-a complex play, simply and beautifully done."-N.Y. Times. "[The) latest in the awesome line of Athol Fugard's plays ... is a charming work of delicacy and Iyricism."-London Sunday Times. "Enthralling. . . . It is among the playwrights's finest works."-Star Tonight. "Eloquent and visionary . . . . It glows with a triumphant human spirit. "-Variety. $6.50. Music Lead Sheets, $10.00. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (Music Royalty, $15-$10.) (#24013) VITA & VIRGINIA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eileen Atkins. 2 f. Ext. The author starred in the West End with Penelope Wilton and Off Broadway with Vanessa Redgrave in her adaptation of the correspondence of kindred spirits Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. This is, in a sense, a seduction both literary and physical involving two of the century's most fascinating literary figures. "An adventure in beauty to draw on joyously as long as heart and memory endure." -N Y. Magazine. "Works like a magic charm."-NY. Post. "A lot of intelligence and entertainment."-New Yorker. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24626) THE WOMAN IN BLACK. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Stephen Malatratt. Based on the novel by Susan Hill. 2 m., 1. extra. Bare stage. The framework of this spinetingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long-troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night. "A real theatrical spine-chiller. . . . A truly nerve-shredding experience."-Daily Mail. "Provides a pleasurable ripple of fear down one's spine and an uncomfortable lurch in the pit of one's stomach."-Time Out. "A brilliantly-effective spine-chiller. . . . The narrative is gripping." -Guardian. "A gripping-tale, grippingly told."-Financial Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25199) BRA VO, CARUSO! (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. William Luce. 2 m. Int. The author of The Belle of Amherst, The Last Flapper, Bronte and Lucifer's Child tai<es you backstage at the Metropolitan opera, Christmas 1920, to meet the greatest tenor in history. You become a reporter conducting an interview in Enrico Caruso's dressing room as his valet Mario helps him prepare for a performance which, unknown to both men, will be his last. "An exciting, funny, bittersweet play . . . . Eloquent . . . [and] engaging.-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4740) BREAKING UP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Cristofer. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Breaking up is hard, especially when two people are meant for each other. In a series of scenes, some comic and others sad, Steve and Alice try to separate but each new scene finds the young couple back together. Increasingly desperate measures are employed, including a wild attempt at marriage as the ultimate solution for a failing relationship. Finally, they do part, marry others, have children and build separate lives. And then, one night they meet again. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4927) THE COLORADO CATECHISM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Vincent 1. Cardinal. 1 m., 1 f. 1 set. Ty Wain, played by Tim Daly in Los Angeles, is at the bottom of his life in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Colorado. He meets Donna Sicard, a teacher in rehab for the third time; if she fails this round she may lose her child to foster care forever. They form a bond that helps them understand their situation and then realize that to overcome addiction, they must sacrifice their relationship. Three years later Ty is struggling to paint a portrait of Donna and, as he paints, he discovers the true nature of love. "A slow dance filled with acerbic wit, playfulness, appreciation and love." -Outlook. "The play has truth . never becomes maudlin and has honest affection."-L.A. Times. "'As an acting exercise, this thing is perfect. . . . Mai<es the actors look wonderfully flexible, and the director devilishly clever." -N Y. Magazine. "Though serious in its subject matter the play is full of laughs. Cardinal's dialogue is sharp and witty."-Daily Bruin, UCLA. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#5253) CONJUGAL RITES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Roger Hall. 1 m., 1 f. Int. This amusing and insightful look at marriage focuses on one middle-aged couple, Barry and Gen, in whose marriage it is possible to see most of the agony and the ecstasy of the institution. Barry, for example, has difficulty accepting that Gen wants to have a career-and, indeed, an identity---of her own. She wants to be more than merely Mrs. Barry. Eventually, of course, he comes around. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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THE SECRI:T LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA. (Advanced Groups.) Verse drama. Steven Berkoff. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set. Hamlet and Ophelia express the infinite variety of their passion in an epistolary play written in verse. $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

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SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Alfieri. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A formidable woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give her lessons in her gulf-front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Antagonism between this gay man and this widow of a Southern Baptist minister gives way to profound compatibility as they swing dance, tango, foxtrot, cha-cha and execute contemporary dances while sharing secrets, joys and fears. During the sixth and final lesson, she reveals a closely guarded secret-she is terminally ill-and he shares his greatest gifts-loyalty and compassion. As Michael tai<es Lily in his arms for their last dance, he helps her transcend fear and mortality. Their friendship melds with the music, the dance and a brilliant sunset. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restrict(#21510) ed. SUN IS SHINING. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Matt Wilkinson. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set. Two pt~ople, two cultures and two outlooks equal one unlikely love affair told at the breakneck speed of city life. A recovering alcoholic, she is a petite Scottish artist who likes to look at the stars. He is an Anglo-Chinese stockbroker-all flash suits, fancy cars, fast dogs and endless bottles of champagne. A macho workaholic with three phones, he rushes through life, even squeezing a two-week vacation into eight days. This razor-sharp portrait of their doomed affair, set in London, Corfu, Reykjavik and New York, garnered rave reviews at the King's Head Theatre and appeared twice on the Time Out Critics Choice List. "A searing tale of love, betrayal and the quest for identity. . . . Slick, solid and blindly up to date . . . Wilkinson's writing is sharp but fluid. . . . Includes some hilarious mobile phone rifts and a tour de force down the\logs."-Time Out. "This is theatre for the adrenaline culture, a pumping, throbbing, finger snapping portrait. . . . Here the culture clash is as much about art and the city as it is about elusive notions of national identity." -Evening Standard. "Effortlessly enjoyable. "-Guardian. "Top notch. See it, like it, love it."-Highbury and Islington Express. "A tough, Mamet-style two-hander, brilliantly played."-What's On. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted.

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THRALL. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Alvin Cooperman. 1 m., 1 f. lnts. Moral and mental servitude are explored in two surreal settings. In the first, a man who is desperate for a relationship enslaves a woman who wants no part of him and yearns to return to a place where there are no men. She turns the tables on her captor by overwhelming him with information about their relationship and escapes on a bed of flames. Higher beings manipulate two puppets in the second, controlling what they say and do with computers. The "avatars" are transformed by the game in which they are enslaved, but the central question remains: who is the master and who is the (#22277) thrall? $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) THREE HOTELS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jon Robin Baitz. 1 m., 1 f. Int. This long-running Off-Broadway hit from New York's famed Circle Repertory is by the author of The Substance of Fire. Monologues set in hotel rooms, two by an Ameri-

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DEAR MRS. MARTIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kate Aspengren. 2 f. Int. Barbara Martin is surprised when her new cleaning woman, Gloria, begins writing her personal notes-stories about her son who plays football for an inept team and becomes a hero when he catches his cleats in his pants and cartwheels over the goal

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line or about her trips to her psychic and her belief in an afterlife. Barbara gets caught up in the letter writing and a warm friendship develops between these two women from different social and economic spheres. When Barbara's husband dies unexpectedly, it is Gloria who is able to provide support and understanding. Told through Barbara's and Gloria's letters, Dear Mrs. Martin is a play about friendship, family, grief and hope. Published with Mother's Day, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $60-$40 when performed with Mother's Day.) (#6918)

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challenging thriller. At first, their conversation seems innocent. Gradually the truth emerges: it is not Rick's house at all; he engineered their meeting; he knows about Jane's marriage to a violent and unsavory man and he wants that man dead for his own reasons. Jane is happy with his plan, but she is not what she appears to be either. The encounter becomes combative as the characters alternate between predator and prey. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13617) LIFE SUPPORT. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. George Tricker. 1 m., I f. Int. A man whose wife is hospitalized for exploratory surgery is joined in the lounge by a woman who has just brought her husband to the emergency room as a precaution. She is educated and wealthy; he dropped out of school and barely gets by as a house painter. The painful discovery that their spouses are both critically ill overrides their differences and they develop a co-dependency that evolves from offering and receiving moral support into a physical and emotional relationship. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#14713) MARRIAGE IS MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Exspouses Paul and Polly Butler write murder mysteries together. They act out the crimes in Paul's apartment: poisoned chocolates and lethal martinis, alibis and fingerprints, bodies in a trunk and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns and even an axe all contribute to the hilarity. Nobody gets hurt, but their egos take some hits as they find that their marriage was mixed up with their work. There are many fast-paced comic twists as they attempt to outdo and surprise each other and they learn that marriage, like murder, is in the details. The final witty complication is a real murder which they and the audience should have seen coming. This murderously funny twocharacter comedy is by the author of Accommodations. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

DECEPTIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Paul Wheeler. I m., I f. Comb. int. Juliana Smythe is a psychiatrist who spedalizes in treating walk-ins rather than referrals. One day a mysterious young man comes into her office to be treated for impotence and a tendency toward compulsive lying. The analyst becomes hooked on the case and she cures him to the point where he actually stops lying and falls in love with her. Or does he? Patient and analyst marry before the doctor learns to her horror the lurid truth about this strange man and his efforts to control her. The audience is plunged into a complex, perverse situation right, it almost seems, out of Jacobean drama. "A powerful and moving drama."-The Stage. "An intriguing game for the audience, neatly structured and snappily written."-The Independent. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6734) DECK CHAIRS. (Little Theatre.) Short plays. Jean McConnell. 2 f. Ext. Five twistin-the-tail playlets for two women, all set on a seaside promenade, are by turns funny and poignant. In Shoppers, two well-to-do shopaholics have a surprising secret. Early Blight is a heartbreaking exploration of a doomed mother-daughter relationship. Dancers wittily dissects the tea-dancing world of two skittish widows. In Late Frost, a woman finds out her best friend had an affair with her late husband. Doggies is a hilarious tale about two dog owners. Each delightful play runs approximately fifteen minutes. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40 when performed as a set or $20(#6214) $20 per play.) DECK CHAIRS 2. (Little Theatre.) Short plays. Jean McConnell. 2 f. Ext. Four seaside plays with surprising twists feature colorful and animated characters and delicate observations on life that are sometimes humorous, sometimes touching and always compassionate. In Day Trippers, coworkers, one confident and one prudish, learn more about themselves and their colleagues than they ought to during a brilliantly funny outing at a nudist beach. The Guilt Card concerns a woman whose life is blighted by the machinations and emotional blackmail of her sickly elder sister. Theatrical Digs is a farcical battle of wits, work, agents and mobile phones between a glamorous, conceited actress and an eccentric older performer. Short Changed finds a retired headmistress facing revenge from a social services official who is an ex-pupil. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40 when performed as a set or $25-$20 per play.) (#6215) DECK CHAIRS 3. (Little Theatre.) Short plays. Jean McConnell. 2 f. Ext. The third and final volume of short plays set variously on an ocean liner, a seaside esplanade and in a garden contains moving stories of human loving and longing that could be set anywhere in the world. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60 or $20-$20 per play.)

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THE MOONS OF ALNYRON. (All Groups.) Drama. Brandy Walker. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set. In this mysterious and unpredictable play about space, young scientist Francis Webb is confronted by his employer for falling behind in his work. Embarrassed and apologetic, Francis explains that he has become obsessed with his research on the planet Alnyron and its three moons. He is sent to an elderly, asthmatic psychiatrist, Grace Stafford. To her horror, he arrives at her office with countless boxes overflowing with papers and ftles documenting everything from unique geology to extraterrestrial poetry. He describes strange peoples and odd-colored sunsets and gives lectures on alien holidays and moon colonists. Undaunted, Dr. Stafford attempts to unravel his intricate, deep space world with unexpected results. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$40.) (#15171) MOVING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lee Kalcheim. 2 f. 3 int. (simply suggested) or unit set. Moving profiles the friendship of two quite different women over twelve years. Act 1 finds Megan helping Diana, a bright recent college graduate from Philadelphia move into her first New York apartment and cope with the realities of self-sufficiency. Six years later (Act 2), Megan, a lusty lapsed Catholic, is moving into a loft following a devastating divorce. Six more years pass. As Act 3 opens, Diana, now an anthropology professor, is moving into a charming village apartment. She and Megan are now in their mid-thirties. While their priorities have changed and their relationship has deepened, their possibilities are no longer limitless. They feel they must settle, have families and be what they have rebelled against-before they lose their chance. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15962) MUSIC FROM DOWN THE HILL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Ford Noonan. 2 f. Int. The setting is a psychiatric clinic atop a hill in the beautiful town of Woodstock, New York. A young schizophrenic who loves Bruce Springsteen to death and cannot for the life of her tell the truth encounters a middle-aged hysteric with a huge heart, a frightened body and an abiding love of 60's rock-n-rol!. Is rock-n-roll truly deep and loud enough to heal the mentally disturbed? Can the music penetrate the disturbed heart and create a miracle of mental health? "Has a delicacy of feeling that is rare in theatre pieces today . . . . A cannily constructed melange of alienation (#15275) [and] nostalgia."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) MY DINNER WITH MARK. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 2 m. Int. The author is held spellbound by the story of his immigrant Jewish cousin's initiation into the American business world and the harrowing tale of his escape from the Nazis as a child. This amazing story is recorded in the Steven Spielberg. In My Family, The Jewish Immigrants, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15287) THE MYSTERIOUS MR. LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Karoline Leach. 1m., I f. Unit set. What begins as a period drama about a man who woos and weds plain young women with a little money stashed away becomes a taut thriller with a startling climax. After persuading his brides to transfer their savings to his account, this dapper smoothie takes them to a cheap boarding house and treats them to one night of wedded bliss before he disappears. Mr. Love has selected another victim: a plump milliner's assistant. All goes as planned until the wedding night, when his new wife reveals that she has her own shrewd agenda. "A compelling evening that creates a spell of charm and menace which keeps you hooked throughout."-Daily Telegraph. "Engagingly crafty, . . . unusual and entertaining."-Independent on Sunday. "Keeps you guessing throughout." -Time Out. "Full of suspense." -Sunday Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15291) THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP. A Penny-Dreadful. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Ludlam. 2 m. (playing Var. roles). Simple sets. This definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas, recently revived Off-Broadway to raves, is a quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles. "Far and away the funniest two

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GIRL TALK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Dori Appel and Carolyn Myers. 2 f. (to play 12 characters). Seven funny and often poignant scenes provide a fast-moving comedy about women's friendships. This play is replete with lively monologue and scene material, and it can be staged very simply. "Feminist, funny and powerful."Southern Oregon State College. "For women a journey of recognition, for men a journey of discovery. "-Daily Tiding, Ashland, Oregon. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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GRACE AND GLORIE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Ziegler. 2 f. Int. Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz starred on Broadway in this charmer set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A feisty 90-year-old cancer patient and a hospice volunteer recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York gain new perspectives on values and life. "A sentimental odd-couple crowd pleaser . . . [with] easy laughs."-NY. Times. "Good humor . . . artfully designed to confirm hopes . . . . Offers the opportunity for good, honest, grandstanding acting."-NY. Post. "A slick entertainment."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9944) "JUMP, I'LL CATCH YOU!" (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Cy Young. 1 m., 1 f. Ints., exts. (simply suggested). This wacky comedy is abouttwo people who meet on a bus in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and discover they've both had out-of-body experiences. Bennie survived the car crash that killed his family; Merriam attempted suicide. As their relationship develops, Merriam's neurotic tendencies surface and Bennie's unflappable cheerfulness drives her bananas. She realizes that he is not over his tragedy and she leaves. They meet a month later on the bus. When it arrives at Bennie's stop, the cemetery, he decides to stay on the bus with Merriam. $6.50. (#12052) (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted New York City. KILLING TIME. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Richard Stockwell. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A chance meeting brings Rick and Jane together at Rick's house in this clever and

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hours on (Ii New York stage. . . ." -N. Y. Times. .. A really good laugh .. . . The story has to be seen to be believed." - N. Y Post. "Lunatic fun that keeps you in stitches."--N.Y. Daily News. "It's wonderful."-Time. "A hearty mixture of thrills, laughter and extravagant showmanship."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Tape of original music and special sound effects used in the New York production: reel-to-reel, $21.00 or cassette, $15.00. (Tape Royalty, $10 per perfor(#15718) mance, payable when ordering.) PARADISE ISLAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Benjie Aerenson. 2 f. Unit set. Only the scenes fly by faster than the insults and accusations that Emma and her unmarried daughter Terri throw at each other while they are on vacation in the Bahamas. The harrowing exchanges between this ordinary mother and daughter over clothes, dieting, shopping, TV and other commonplace activities provide an engaging and original dramatic adventure. "Paradise Island is no vacation, but Emma and Terri are worth the arduous trip. .. The dialogue here carries the dull sheen that develops when oft-told anecdotes, opinions and accusations have rubbed up against each other so often they lose their sting, until suddenly some seemingly innocuous barb draws blood."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17828) PLA YLAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m. Ext. Written by the powerful d:ramatic voice of South Africa, Playland is set on New Year's Eve outside a Karoo town where a small, shabby travelling amusement park is encamped in the red clay dust. Martinus Zoeloe, the black night watchman, is repainting a bumper car when Gide:on Ie Rous wanders in. He is white, a former army noncom whose car has stalled outside the park. The park's bright lights will not go up till after dark. The bumper car is being refurbished; Gideon needs Martinus' help to get his car started. It's the eve of the century's final decade: the millennium approaches. "A metaphor set to the sad and sour music of apartheid." -N. Y. Post. "Fugard provides some meaty, at times searing arias for both men."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75(#18193) $50.) RAMEAU'S NEPHEW. (Little Theatre.) Comic dialogue. Denis Diderot. Translated and adapted by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader. 2 m. Simple int. The two characters in this amazing, almost theatre-of-the absurd play are an aloof 18th-century philosopher and a callow youth who happens to be the nephew of a great Fr~nch court composer. The young man has recently offended his rich patron and been cut loose. The philosopher maintains that he should swallow his pride and beg forgiveness. A~ they argue, this taur de force becomes more and more manic. "It has the charm of Amadeus, the irony of Shaw . . . . The whole evening is one to be seen, (#19985) savored and treasured." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) SECOND TIME AROUND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Derek Benfield. I m., I f. Int. Bernard and Marion haven't seen each other in over twenty years when they meet by alxident and get together to talk over old times and catch up on what has happened since they parted. And so begins a journey of memories: their first meeting, their love for each other, their marriages and children. All is underscored by a nagging question: why have they remained strangers for so long? Two actors portray Bernard and Marion at fifty and as younger people, as well as others from the past. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20944) SNOW LEOPARDS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Martin Jones. 2 f. Ext. This haunting gem of a play was a crowd-pleaser Off Off Broadway. Set in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in front of the snow leopards' pen. it is the story of two sisters from rural West Virginia. Sally has run away from home to find her big sister Claire June. whose life up north she has imagined to be filled with all the promise and hope lacking down south. Even though life in the big city isn't all Sally and C.J. thought it would be, Sally is going to stay and try to make her way. The play may be staged simply and inexpensively and is a treasure trove of scene and monologue material. "Affecting and carefully crafted. . . . A moving piece of work." -N. Y. Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) The first act may be produced independently. (Royalty. (#21245) $35-$25.) SOFT CLICK OF A SWITCH. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Carter W. Lewis. 2 m. plus voices. Two strangers teetering on the edge of violence (dubbed "The Rosencrantz and Gildenstern of the Streets" at London's Royal Court Theatre) meet and figure out, using a borrowed library book, how to build bombs out of air conditioning parts. Drive-through photomats begin exploding and they become notorious in the tabloids, but things go awry. The glow from the neighboring apartment gets unus~lally bright, an irate mother threatens them, and the damaged pictures-the bomb victims~ome alive. And even worse, Earl's gin sours as the bombers' world explodes in a surreal escape from the darkness of their crime spree into the light. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21366) STANDING BY. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Norman Barasch. 1 m., 1 f. 3 ints. Jeffery, a television writer, is delighted to be seated next to Ellen, an attractive flutist, on a Hight from Los Angeles to New York. but she rebuffs his attempts to get acquainted. Upon arrival, Helen discovers it is impossible to get a hotel room and is finally cajoled into accompanying Jeffery to a borrowed apartment. An intense fourday affair ensues, but the idyll is cut short when Ellen learns her leukemia is no longer in remission and she must return to Houston for treatments. Against her wishes. Jeffery accompanies her. In the days that follow they learn the meaning of love and (:ourage. "Joyous . . . . Norman Barasch is a very funny man."-Greenwich News. "Flows as smoothly as champagne."-Hollywood Reporter. "Warm, engaging ... charming characters."-N.Y. Law Journal. "A fine play."-River

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Reporter. "Tight ... and intelligent."-Times Herald Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21354)
SUCCESS. (All Groups.) ComedylDrama. Norman Beim. 1 m., I f. Int. A loving young couple come to New York from the midwest to forge a career in the theatre. She is willing to stop at nothing to further their careers while he is guided by moral principles on their climb to the top, This play which makes a rueful comment on business principles in America ran for over a year in Holland and had an extended engagement in Belgium. "An outstanding play."-De Telegraf. "Achieves the sublime depth of great universality."-Vlaams Weckblad. In Plays: At Hame and Abroad. $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21944) TRIANGLES FOR TWO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Wiltse. 1m., 1 f. 3 ints., simply suggested. This comedy by the author of Doubles and Temporary Help consists of three, witty one-acts about the difficulties inherent in relationships between men and women. In To Wit and to Whoma husband returns home just after leaving for work because he suspects his wife has a lover. A clumsy, tongue-tied man struggles to find a way to ask an attractive, recently divorced woman to marry him in Otis Proposes. Triangles for Two introduces a long-married couple who are dressing for a black-tie affair. He is officious with a disdainful view of women while she clearly doesn't think much of men. Even so, each respects and loves the other. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 if performed together or $20-$15 per play.) Triangles for Two (collection) (#22221) To Whit and to Whom (#22204) Otis Proposes (#17073) Triangles for Two (#22206) TWO CENTURIES. (All Groups. ) Comedy. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 1 f. This two-part love story reflects changing attitudes over time. In the first part, a chauvinist husband abandons his wife and goes to San Francisco in 1850. After all. he is a man entitled to do just as he pleases. The second part takes place in the 1990s. A feminist uses charm to teach a man respect and love. "A beautiful love story. Moving, (#22935) stimulating, revealing! "-N.1. Voice. $4.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) WHO SHALL BE HAPPY .. ? (Little Theatre.) Drama. Trevor Griffiths. 2 m. Int. This spell-binding reverse cat-and-mouse drama garnered rave reviews in London and Dublin. It is 1794 and a hero of the French Revolution has been jailed amid the terror he helped unleash. To confound any attempt to free the fabled prisoner, a convicted actor is kept in an identical cell at another location. The prisoner employs all his guile to convince his guard to convey a letter to the outside world. "A barnstorming dranla of infinite subtlety . . . . A master at work."-Daily Mail. "Pins down the past and reverberates in the present triumphantly . . . . This is political theatre at its most intelligent."-Guardian. "Powerful." -Independent. "The action . . . has the shape and sense of a duel . . . that lingers in the mind."-Irish Times. "Dazzles. . . . Absorbing and gripping."-Belfast Telegraph. "A work of brilliance."-Irish Independent. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25258) WILLIE & ESTHER. (Black Groups.) Comedy. James Graham Bronson. I m., I f. Ext. Two middle-aged Black lovers fantasize about robbing a branch of the Bank of America on a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles. This hilarious and emotional daydream triggers a close examination of their intense love and need for each other. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25707) THE NOVELIST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Howard Fast. I m.. I f. Int. The author of numerous best-selling novels has written for the stage a rivetting portrait of Jane Austen during the last year of her life. To her amazement, the reclusive English novelist is being courted by a retired navy captain who has read all of her books and feels that she is a kindred spirit. Captain Crighton's eamest charm overwhelms Miss Austen's initial coolness and they become friends. The dashing captain's further pursuit of his lady love is interrupted when he is recalled because Napoleon has escaped exile and again threatens England. Sadly, they have very little time together. "Well-written."-N. Y. Times. "A gentle, romantic love story [and] ... a charming play. "-U.P.I. "It's repartee takes off on romance, writing and society in high style."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#16084) PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Israel Horovitz. 1 f.. I m. I int. One of the author's acclaimed Gloucester plays, this resounding success throughout America and Europe starred Judith Ivey and Jason Robards on Broadway. The hilarious and deeply-moving tale is about the toughest, meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High. Now he is dying and he hires a mousey, middle-aged woman to look after him during his final year, forgetting that he t1unked her . . . and her mother and father . . . and her recently deceased husband. "Israel Horovitz has written his best play."-New Yorker. "Tickles, provokes, soothes and entertains. . . . The best outing since we drove along with Miss Daisy."-N.Y. Magazine, "A bright and shining gem!"-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, (#17973) $75-$50.) THE PETITION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Clark. 1 m., 1 f. Comb. int. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred on Broadway in this play by the author of Whose Life Is It Anyway? "After fifty years of marriage, Gen. Sir Edmund Milne, British Army. retired, and his wife, Elizabeth, are faced not only with divergent political stands (she has signed a petition against use of the H-bomb; he is shocked at her anti-establishment action) but, with the suddenly revealed existence of the wife's terminal illness . . . . Points of view, angers and passions never spoken are aired,

CHARACTERS . . . reveal[ing] the stuff of two well-lived lives with charm, sharp wit and surges of emotional strength." -w. W. Daily. "Entertaining . . . . [with] a melancholy sweetness-the kind. . found in On Golden Pond."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17970)

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FIRST NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Romantic comedy. Jack Neary. I m., If. Int. This warm and wise comedy about dreams, life and love occurs on New Year's Eve. Danny is waiting to close up the video store where he works when Sister Meredith Louise walks in. In the eighth grade, Danny was in love with Meredith, but she went out of his life to pursue her vocation. Sparks fly when Danny learns she has left the convent to seek him out. "A psychological boxing match that escalates into frenzy with ridiculous speed. . . . Neary keeps the characters and the encounter fresh . . . . Honestly funny.-Boston Globe. $5.25. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#8119) OSTRICH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Marianne Hesketh and Barrie Hesketh. 1 m., 1 f. Int. James Stockwell, a respectable professor of history, is a man who talks but never says anything and listens but never hears. He once "lost" a week of his life by taking absent-mindedness too far. His assistant Frances tries to keep his feet on the ground and his thoughts from the Ivory Tower. In the last moments of this delicate, perceptive and endearing play, these two find qualities of mutual benefit when redundancy notices are handed out and the real world must be faced. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17664) DOUBLE DOUBLE. (Little Theatre.) Romantic thriller. Eric Elice and Roger Rees. I m., I f. Int. Phillipa James has plucked down-and-out Duncan McFee from London's Embankment and installed him in a luxury apartment, purely as a business arrangement based on Duncan's uncanny resemblance to her late husband Richard who unfortunately died just prior to his forty-fifth birthday when he would inherit a million-pounds. All Duncan has to do for a half-share is impersonate Richard at a birthday party and convince the family solicitor that Richard is alive, well and still married to Phillipa. But Phillipa didn't expect to fall in love with Duncan-and has she told him the whole truth? A stunning climax leaves the audience gasping. "A glossy romantic thriller-I enjoyed every minute . . . . It should be seen to be believed."-London Sunday Times. "A classic of whodunitry . . . . Unbeatable."-Times Educational Supplement. "The play ends with a brilliant coup de theatre."-Sunday Today. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6155) THE AFFAIR IN 22 B. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jay Christopher. 1 m., I f. Int. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#239) INTIMATE EXCHANGES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckboum. 1 m., 1 f. 2 sets. There are no less than eight intimate exchanges in this ingenious tour de farce-and each has two different endings; you can see Intimate Exchanges sixteen times and not see the same play twice! And-one actor and one actress play all 10 characters. This is Ayckbourn's most unusual look yet at the foibles of middle-class living. "There are scores of side-splittingly funny lines derived from Mr. Ayckbourn's acute observation of the middle classes at bay, floundering under the pressures of trying to lead, or to be seen leading, respectable lives. The comedy is wry, sardonic and bitter." -London Spectator. Published in two volumes, $16.95 each. (#594) (Royalty, $60-$40, whichever version is performed.) BEDROOMS. (Little Theatre.) Five comedy playlets. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. Includes David and Nancy, Bill and Laura, Alan, Betty and Riva, Nick and Wendy, Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wexel. $6.50. See Index for individual descriptions. (#244) (Royalty, $50-$40 when presented collectively under the title Bedrooms.) SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. I m., I f. Int. This fine work in the Pendragon cycle of plays enjoyed a sold-out, critically acclaimed production at the world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The play is set in a beach bungalow. The young man who lives there has pulled a lost young woman from the ocean. Soon, she finds herself trapped in his life and tom between her need to come to rest somewhere and her certainty that all human relationships tum eventually into nightmares. The struggle between his tolerant and gently ironic approach to life and her strategy of suspicion and attack becomes a kind of war about love and creation which neither can afford to lose. This is an offbeat, wonderful love story. Note: The play contains a wealth of excellent monologue and scene material. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21060) RUSSIAN MASTERS. (Little Theatre.) Two portraits for the stage. Keith Miles. I m., I f. (may be done with up to 4 m., 4 f.). See Index under Chekhov and Dostoevsky for descriptions. $6.50. (#20093) IT HAD TO BE YOU. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. New Revised Version. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. I m., I f. Int. This delightful comedy which starred the authors on Broadway is about Theda Blau, a failed actress, health-food nut, analysand and would-be playwright who wants to find love and success in New York, and Vito Pignoli, a hugely successful TV commercial director. By holding him hostage in her apartment on a snowy Christmas Eve, she somehow manages to convince him to be her partner-both in dramaturgy and in marriage. "A cartoon comedy of great dexterity and loving warmth." -N Y. Post. "Something of a comic miracle. . . . A funny, funny, and finally touching play. "-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#11085) TRICKS OF THE TRADE. (Little Theatre). Romantic thriller. Sydney Michaels. I m., I f. Int. Nothing is as it first appears in this gripping story of a New York psychologist and his female patient. Something is wrong about the therapy sessions between Dr. August Browning and the beautiful but possibly very ill Diana. Just when we are about to wring our hands at August's tricks of the trade, we learn that, . in addition to being a psychologist, he is a spy for the CIA. Or is he? Is he perhaps a

TOYER. (All Groups.) Mystery-Drama. Gardner McKay. I m., I f. I set. This psychological thriller is a favorite in acting workshops. It is a mind-game play. Toyer is someone who toys; he is a mass paralyzer who toys with his victims. He does not murder or rape, he seduces and them immobilizes. Following productions in Los Angles and the Actors Studio, it was produced at the Eisenhower Theatre and the Kennedy Center with Kathleen Turner and Brad Davis, directed by Tony Richardson. 'Strong stuff. . . . Outlandish mind games. Riveting, breathtaking."-HeraId Examiner. "A classic mystery that always keeps you guessing on the edge of your seat."-Variety. "Powerful."-Washington Post. "Deeply disturbing and entirely relevant."-Public Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC, LA & London. (#22741) TALKING THINGS OVER WITH CHEKHOV. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Ford Noonan. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. Jeremy is an aspiring if off-the-wall playwright who draws inspiration from extended conversations with Chekhov. His first play is about to be produced and his ex-girlfriend is determined to star in it. The agony of releasing his play to the sharks of theatredom drives Jeremy to induce someone to kill him during rehearsals. He survives only to have the Times critic laud Marlene's performance in an insignificant vehicle unworthy of her gifts. "Very amusing . . . . Noonan's brand of looniness is unique."-NY. Daily News. "A joyride."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#22147) SQUARE ONE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Steve Tesich. I m., I f. Unit set. This unusual play by the author of Division Street, Nourish the Beast and the screen play for Breaking Away is set in a benign Orwellian state. Loveable, zany Dianne escapes from the tiny apartment she shares with hordes of screaming elderly relatives by marrying Adam. He is an Artist Third Class (host of the Patriotic Variety Hour) and lives in the spacious artist complex. Living with complacent Adam turns out to be like life in the hermetically sealed, icy and inhuman apartment and Dianne eventually finds she must escape from the spiritual numbness. "A dizzily satiric comedy [with] a freshness, a whimsicality and even a pathos. . . . [A] splendid play."-NY. Daily News. "A pungently potent play of disarming simplicity-a fantasy of the day after tomorrow, or perhaps, more dangerously, an allegory of today."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21337) STORIES ABOUT THE OLD DAYS. (Black Groups.) Comic drama. Bill Harris. 1m., 1 f. Int. A former blues singer living in a decaying church in Detroit never ventures out into the world that rejected him. While playing checkers he and Ivy, one the last members of the congregation, move from animosity to friendship. Both have secrets from the old days: he conceals his struggle of faith and despair and she withholds a searing loss as they rescue each other from emotional numbness and terminal loneliness. This wonderful play with superb roles for older Black actors was produced to acclaim in New York at the Henry Street Settlement. "Totally convincing."-New Yorker. "Delightful."-NY. Amsterdam News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21345) CARELESS LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Olive. I m., I f. Unit set. Here is a play about commitment and responsibility in love. Jack, an aspiring actor is serious about his career but not about his girlfriend Martha, an aspiring dancer. They drift along on a cloud of good times until Martha gets pregnant. By the time Jack realizes he wants to make an emotional commitment to Martha and their child, she has had the baby and put it up for adoption. Martha becomes a self-sufficient contemporary woman; it is Jack who will hurt forever from the pain of eternal separation from his child. "In the delicacy of its writing, in the truth of its details ... it is a most lovely, most satisfying evening in the theatre."-Chicago Tribune. "Works a winsome magic."-Philadelphia Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5237) ACTS OF FAITH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Marilyn Felt. I m., I f. Int. Shi'ite Muslim terrorists have hijacked a jetliner in this hit drama from New York's Mosaic Theatre. Ahmed is assigned to guard the plane'S one Jewish passenger, an American named Barbara. Whereas Ahmed is ready to die for his beliefs, Barbara has no particular faith. In the course of this riveting drama, she begins to understand what it means to be Jewish while Ahmed is moved to question some of his fanatical assumptions. A wary friendship develops as each learns about and develops sympathy forthe other. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) The song "Angel of the Morning" may be used upon payment of $7.50 music royalty for each amateur production. (#3677) SEPARATION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tom Kempinski. I m., I f. Comb. into Middle-aged and over-weight British playwright Joe Green hasn't been able to write since the premiere of his play about a woman faced with a lifetime in a wheelchair (a play not unlike the author's Duet for One). A young American actress who is suffering the debilitating effects of the illness that plagues the character in Joe's play wishes to procure the rights to perform in it Off Broadway. A trans-Atlantic telephone romance develops which shatters when Sarah finally meets Joe and realizes he is not the man of her dreams, but a mass of unkindness and self-loathing. "An odd-couple romance."-Punch. "Tender, heartbreaking."-London Sunday Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21073)

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smuggler? Why is he so suspicious of Diana? Could she be Nadia, a KGB agent who has already finished off three of his associates and is after the microfilm in August's possession? During this strange and compelling game of cat and mouse which takes place during Diana's therapy sessions, love rears its tender head. As in all good thrillers, there is a surprising and shocking final twist. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22209) TWICE AROUND THE PARK. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Murray Schisgal. I m., I f. 2 ints. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson starred on Broadway in these hysterically funny one-acts. In A Need for Brussels Sprouts a middle-aged actor hopes to land a TV commercial for pizza by playing opera full blast and pretending to be the tenor. Enter the irate lady cop who lives upstairs. In A Need for Less Expertise, a couple uses a self-help audio tape designed to improve their spiritual awareness, their health and their sex life as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. This hilarious show is perfect for dinner and community theaters. "Wackiness and broad satire abound." -Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-40 when performed together or $35-$25 per play.) Sound tape, $10 rental fee plus refundable deposit of $25. (Tape Royalty, $10 per performance.) (#22788) DUET FOR ONE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Tom Kempinski. I m., I f. Int. This immensely moying play won the London Theatre Critics Award for best play of 1980. Both stars won every major London West End acting award for their portrayals of roles that are truly each a tour de force. The story concerns a famous concert violinist who is stricken with a disease which necessitates her retirement from the stage and which threatens her marriage as well. The play is structured as a series of interviews between the violinist and her psychiatrist in which she tries to cope with her illness and its effect on her life. "As moving a piece of theatre as you could wish for or perhaps bear." -London Daily Mail. "A wonderfully sensitive play, positive and optimistic."-London Financial Times. "A first-rate play."-London Sunday (#6133) Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) SPECIAL OCCASIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 1 m., 1 f. Var. ints.lexts. (simply suggested) or unit set. Amy and Michael Ruskin are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary-and their upcoming divorce. Michael is a reformed te:levision writer turned playwright. Amy is competitive but inwardly insecure. The play is structured as a series of flashbacks. After the opening scene, the play goes back in time ten years and recreates the various special occasions which make up marriages: anniversaries, weddings, funerals, play openings and other catastrophes. And, after all is said and done, the couple ends as they began-on their fifteenth anniversary, dancing to a recording of "Love Is Here to Stay". "Mixes the conventions of the situation comedy and soap opera."-N.Y. Times. "Slade's best play to date."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21279) SEA MARKS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gardner McKay. 1m., 1 f. Unit set. Winner of L.A. Drama Critics Circle Best Play Award, this is the touching story of a fisherman living on a remote Irish island who has fallen in love with a woman he's glimpsed only once. Unschooled in letter-writing, he tries his utmost to court by mail and after a year-and-a-half succeeds in arranging a rendezvous at which, to his surprise, she persuades him to live with her in Liverpool. Their love affair ends when he IS forced to return to a life he understands. "A masterpiece."-Tribune, Worcester, Mass. "There's abundant humor, surprisingly honest humor, that grows between two . . . people who love each other but whose lives simply cannot be fused . . . . It could easily last forever in actors' classrooms and audition studios."-New Yorker. "Funny, touching, bittersweet. "-A. P. "Deserves the fame it has achieved in regional theaters around the country." -Albany Times-Union. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21053) THE BRIXTON RECOVERY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jack Gilhooley. 1 m., 1 f. Int. The prizefighter hero in this play by one of America's most widely-produced and prolific playwrights is an indestructible loser. After still another defeat, this time in London, he finds himself in the black section, Brixton, being cared for by a barmaid :from Jamaica who goes to night school and dreams about a career in politics. This meeting of apparent opposites turns out to be a union of kinsmen as, over the course of several weeks, each learns to respect and love the other. "A wistful romance with a steeliness beneath the surface. . . . Has a precise sense of character, atmosphere and imagery."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4118) THE WOOLGATHERER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Version. William Mastrosimone. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Rose, a shy five-and-dime salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard-working, hard-drinking truck driver. He is rough and witt) and just as starved for love as she is. This little gem of a play was a success at New York's Circle Repertory starring Peter Weller and Patricia Wettig. The WOOlgatherer features several excellent monologues. "Energy, compassion and theatrical sense are there."-N.Y. Times. "Another emotionally wrenching experience no theatre enthusiast should miss."-Rex Reed. "[Mastrosimone] has a knack for composing wildly humorous lines at the same time that he is able to penetrate people's hearts and dreams."-Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#1207) EDUCATING RITA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Willy Russell. 1m., 1 f. Int. Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and ,bury himself in his books. Enter Rita. She is a forthright 26-year-old hairdressl!r who is hungry for education. Rita quickly wins over the very reticent

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teacher by her native shrewdness and her refusal to accept secondhand academic opinions. In the course of the play she gives Frank a new lease on his life by making him believe in himself once again. 'Warmly written. ., It is the interchange of feeling and realization of new approaches to life on both sides that make this play of particular interest. "-London Sunday Telegraph. "A marvelous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7012) DOWN AN ALLEY FILLED WITH CATS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-Thriller. Warwick Moss. 2 m. I set. Timothy Timmony is the elderly, cultured proprietor of a book shop in a Sydney area that is being redeveloped. The bookstore is in the last building still standing. Simon Matthews, an uncultured but not insensitive adventurer, comes to the shop in pursuit of a particular volume at closing time. Just as Simon discovers that the book been .."old to his arch enemy, the landlord locks he and Timmony in the building for the night. It soon becomes obvious that the book contains a code which identifies the whereabouts of an invaluable artifact. Through the night the two combatants manoeuvre for position. The revelation that the artifact is in the shop creates a climax that allows the two men to discover themselves through each other. Best New Australian Play, 1983. "The sort of old-fashioned suspense drama calculated to raise the fur on the back of your neck. . . . A nice, creepy dramatic adventure."-N.Y. Post. "A tight, bright play,"-N.Y. Times. "Out-Agathas Christie in twists and turns that delight."-The Australian. "Classy."-Dallas Times Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6160) NOT ABOUT HEROES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Stephen MacDonald. 2 m. Unit set. "Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori", facetiously penned British poet Wilfred Owen, who was soon to die in the Great War. (It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.) This moving play is about the poetic life and the inter-relationship between two of the finest Great War poets: Owen (who died) and Siegfried Sasson (who didn't). Told by means of letters and poetry Not About Heroes paints a vivid picture of the war. It was staged to great acclaim at the Williamstown Theatre (#1~7) Festival and had an Off-Broadway run. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE GIN GAME. (Little Theatre.) Tragi-comedy. D.L. Coburn. I m., I f. Ext. This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize that uses a game as a metaphor for life originally starred Jesica Tandy and Hume Cronin. It was revived in 1999 with Julie Harris and Charles Durning. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self-righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy so they begin to play and to reveal intimate details of their lives. "A thoroughly entertaining lesson in the fine art of theatrical finesse. . . . The closest thing the theatre offers to a duel at 10 paces." -N. Y. Times. "Extremely funny, sad, profane, eloquent, touching, beautiful."-WABCTV. "Perfect. . . . A vibrant study on loneliness, disillusion, old age and death yet fiercely funny."-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#135) REUNION. (Little Theatre.) Three short plays. David Mamet. 1m., 1 f. Bare stage. The theme of these one-acts is the dislocation of male/female relationships. See Index under Reunion, Dark Pony, and The Sanctity of Marriage for individual descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 when performed together.) (#20029) SOME MEN NEED HELP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Ford Noonan. 2 m. Int. This off-beat comedy about male friendship begins with Harley T. Singleton III face down on his kitchen floor dead drunk. His neighbor, an ex-mafioso, is determined to save Harley from himself. "It is like a cross between Pinter and Shepard with a little pleasing sweetening."-N.Y. Daily News. "A contemporary, oddball version of the Good Samaritan parable . . . . [with] a compassionately upbeat theme."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21734) THE EMIGRANTS. (Advanced Groups.) Comic allegory. Slawomir Mrozek. Translated by Henry Beissel. 2 m. Int. This important play from one of Poland's most prominent playwrights has had successful stagings in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C. and New York. It takes place on a New Year's Eve in an unnamed country in the home of two immigrants. One is a political exile, an intellectual who gets his money from a mysterious source. The other is a ditch digger who is saving money to bring over his family. At fust it seems the laborer is uncouth and dependent upon the intellectual, but gradually we come to see that the situation is the opposite. "It's a political-philosophical discussion of modem life skillfully wrapped in a comic package."-Minneapolis Tribune. "A provocative political document and stimulating theatre."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#7029) SLEUTH. (All Groups.) Anthony Shaffer. 2 m. Int. Your program will list five names for five roles, but the actual cast is two, for no one is ever what he seems in this whodunit and every event is bizarre. In a cozy English country house owned by a famous mystery writer, a young guest walks in and they begin a convivial round of scotch and dialogue. Suddenly the host says, I understand you want to marry my wife and, from that moment, the two are locked in a mortal encounter. The games that are devised-the murders plotted and subverted-add up to increasing suspense and unsolvable crime. Winner Best Play Award of the Drama Critics Circle. "Ingenious skulduggery . . . replete with skillful suspense and inventive tricks." -N. Y. Post. "Clever . . . intricate . . . . It is good, neat, clean and bloody fun, and I most cordially recommend it."-N.y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Posters (#113)

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who rants about the mistreatment accorded her by a penurious Senate, by her one remaining son who instituted the trial that led to her commitment, by the judge, the witnesses and other people as well-all sentiments favoring Mrs. Lincoln. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14117) DIALOGUE FOR LOVERS. (Little Theatre.) Platform reading. Sonnets of Shakespeare Arranged for Dramatic Presentation. Eve Merriam. 1 m., 1 f. (3 optional on-stage musicians.) Unit set or bare stage. Estelle Parsons and Fritz Weaver starred in New York in this intriguing presentation. "Eve Merriam's arrangement . . . unleashed the raw emotion behind Shakespeare's flights of rhetoric.' ,-Theatre Journal. "Celebrates the beauty of the sonnets and the ever-changing interaction of men and women in a duet for lovers. "-Hollywood Reporte;. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#385) $35.) MY HEART REMINDS ME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Thomas M. Sharkey. 1 m., I f. Int. This uproarious, fast-moving comedy of marital (near) infidelity defies easy classification in that it actually has six continuing characters-but they are played by only one man and one woman. "Fast but controlled, racy but elegant. . . . Leads one on a light-hearted way from the word Go." -Weekend Review, Chicago. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15002) WHERE ARE YOU GOING HOLLIS JAY? Comedy. Benjamin Bradford. See Index for description. THE WOODS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Mamet. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Ruth and Nick are two young lovers who spend a night in a cabin in the woods. During the play a whole anatomy of the relations of men and women in love is laid out. Both are euphoric, but love takes them different ways. The sense of being loved turns her outward; she talks nonstop about many different things surrounding them, but Nick does not seem to care; all he sees is Ruth and he takes her inside to make love. Later, practically all is destroyed between them. He turns fretful, fearful; after desire is appeased she becomes the thinnest wisp against a threatening world to him. Her efforts to maintain their kingdom disintegrate as he turns in on himself. The closeness between them conceals an immense distance; they have a violent quarrel and she prepares to leave. Suddenly they cling to each other without joy or hope, simply from need. "He has never written better."-N.Y. Times Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#25187) THE SQUARE ROOT OF LOVE. (All Groups.) Four comedies. Daniel Meltzer. I m., I f. 4 simple ints. This full-length evening portrays four preludes to love-from youth to old age, from innocence to maturity. It is best when played by a single actor and actress. In The Square Root of Love, two genius-level college students discover that Man (or Woman) does not live by intellectual pursuits alone. A Good Time for a Change finds a successful executive and her handsome young male secretary ready to make a change. The Battling Brinkmires are George and Marsha Brinkmire, a middle-aged couple who have come to Haiti to get a "quickie" divorce. This one has a surprise ending. In Waiting for to Go, we are on a jet waiting to take off for Florida. He's a retired plumbing contractor who thinks his life is over-she's a recent widow returning to her home in Hallandale. The play, and the evening ends with a beginning. This Off-Off-Broadway success requires only minimal settings. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40, or $20-$15 when performed separately.) (#21314) DO YOU TURN SOMERSAULTS? (1\11 Groups.) Play. Aleksei Arbuzov. Translated by Ariadne Nicolaeff. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set w. wagons and drops. What begins as a doctor-patient relationship develops into a full-blown romance in this charming love story set on the Baltic coast. Rodion, chief surgeon at a sanitorium, is a crusty widower. Lidya's life has been varied-and unhappy. An actress, she lost a son and left the stage, remarried a musical clown and joined the circus, and was deserted by her second husband. Despite her many sorrows, Lidya maintains a cheerful outlook. She is still in love with life and the world and so manages to melt Rodion's lonely heart. Mary Martin returned to Broadway as Lidya. "Bright and sunny as a spring day in autumn. . . . Shows off Arbuzov' s skill at dramatic confrontation." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#372) BLOOD KNOT. (formerly The Blood Knot.) (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Edition. Athol Fugard. 2 m. Int. In Africa, London, and New York this play enjoyed long runs and critical success. The plot is simple: in South Africa lives a White and a Negro brother, born of the same woman. They live in a hovel, the White man as the Black brother's servant. The White man cooks and the Black man brings home the money. They are saving to buy a farm to which they hope to retire. The threat to this dream is that the Negro wants a woman. The White brother's solution is a lonely hearts club, and the answer that comes back is a picture of a very attractive White woman. The White brother wants to burn the letter, but the Negro invites her to visit. Brotherly love devolves into humiliation as they await a visit that will never occur. "Best play of the year." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#275) SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD. (Black Groups.) Drama. Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. 2 m. (to play 3 roles). Bare stage. In Port Elizabeth, South Africa, a Black worker whose passbook is not in order stumbles across the body of a dead man whose passbook is. Sizwe Banzi "dies" by taking on the dead man's identity and, in so doing, lives again and can now find work to support his family. "A joyous hymn to human nature."-N.Y. Times. "Hypnotic. . . . Overwhelming compassion. . . . Powerful."-N.Y. Post. In Statements, $12.95. (Royalty, $50(#985) $40.) 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GOOD EVENING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy revue with music. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. 2 m. Cabaret set-pieces. A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witn~ssed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it. 'Hilarious."-N.Y. Daily News. "Uproarious activities . . . . It will astonish me if anything else this season will supply equal fun." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PianoNocal Score, $10 rental fee per performance plus $10 refundable deposit. (#489) THE ARCHITECT AND THE EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Fernando Arrabal. 2 versions: translated by Jean Benedetti and John Calder and by Everard D'Hamoncourt and Adele Shank. 2 m. Ext. A brilliant and disturbing allegory vividly depicting Arrabal's views regarding religion, the master/slave relationship and the perversity of civilization. The Benedetti and Calder translation is in manuscript, $25.00. The D'Ham~ncourt and Shank translation is in Guernica and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translators when ordering. Benedetti and Calder translation (#3105) D'Hamoncourt and Shank translation (#3115) STAIRCASE. (Little Theatre.) Charles Dyer. 2 m. lnt. Two seedy old "hair stylists" on their off-day give each other trims, manicures, and what only they can give one another, the love of outcasts. One is a motherly old boy and the other is a middleaged juvenile actor; both are failures. Two events are the center of the evening: the younger has been caught in a transvestite situation. The other has consolation of having once fathered a daughter and now he is awaiting her first visit in 20 years. "Blunt honesty . . . . Succeeds in being compassionate without losing humor or (#21317) dignity."-N.Y. Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Wendy Kesselman. 2 f. Comb. Int. Like Ms. Kesselman's Maggie Magalita, this piece deals with a young woman's coming to terms with her ethnic heritage-in this case, her Jewishness. Daisy is visiting her grandmother in the country. Daisy is neurotic and unhappy in her home life and is on the verge of a troubled adolescence. Her grandmother offers her an emotional anchor and she teaches her about being an adult by offering gentle advice, good books, and good cooking-and by telling Daisy of her life at Daisy's age-when she was in Auschwitz where she lost her two sisters. "Kesselman is clearly a writer of considerable sensitivity." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11047) GERTRUDE STEIN AND A COMPANION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Win Wells. 2 f. Unit set. This extraordinary play won first prize at both the Edinburgh Festival and the Theatre Festival in Sydney, Australia, as well as the Vita Award in South Africa as Best Play. The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed. Mr. Wells has truly captured the feeling, art, music and literature of Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. It flits back and forth in time as the actors play not only Gertrude and Alice but a host of famous people who were part of their lives. "An imaginative and compelling entertainment."-Christian Science Monitor. "The evening is a joy. .. Brisk, fun and literate." -Gannett Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9150) A COUPLA WHITE CHICKS SITTING AROUND TALKING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Ford Noonan. Music by Loudon Wainwright III. 2 f. Int. This zany comedy takes place in the kitchen of the archetypal suburban housewife in Westchester County, N.Y. Maude is having a tough day: her husband is off on a weekend spree with his secretary and she can't get rid of her pesky neighbor who has just moved up from Texas. The neighbor pesters Maude until they become friends and eventually join forces against their errant and erring husbands. This long-running Off Broadway hit features terrific roles which may be played by actresses from twenty to fifty. "Dandy."-N.Y. Daily News. "A Iighter-than-air comedy."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Two music tapes: $10 rental fee plus $50 refundable dep~it. (Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) Posters (#339) LETTERS HOME. (All Groups.) Drama. Rose Leiman Goldemberg. 2 f. Unit set. Since her tragic death, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate readers of her poetry and her autobiographical novel. Letters Home explores the enigma of the great poet's life by dramatizing the correspondence between Ms. Plath and her mother. Every line of this engrossing drama comes from these letters, previously edited into a book by her mother. "An interesting and adult evening-a sort too rare-and often extremely touching."-Cue. "The life of Sylvia Plath has been dramatized sensitively and powerfully . . . . Goldemberg has succeeded in sustaining dramatic tension in her editing and adaptation of the letters." -Hollywood Reporter. Produced in New York Off Broadway by the Women's Project. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14072) Slightly Restricted in L.A and a 50-mile radius. LOOK AWAY. (All Groups.) Drama. Jerome Kilty. 2 f. Int. Based on Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, Look Away is set in an insane asylum on Mrs. Lincoln's last night of residence. She dreams she is surrounded by crates of her effects and that her Negro seamstress in the White House is with her. This is a sympathetic treatment of her sorrows and bitterness. Elizabeth Keckley, who wrote a book about her experiences, is the companion and a pillar of strength and wisdom to her irascible and often difficult friend

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THE ISLAND. (Black Groups.) Drama. Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. 2 m. Ext. On a small Atlantic island is one of South Africa's maximum security prisons for political prisoners. There, two cell mates, Winston, a lifer, and John, in for ten years, have developed strong bonds of friendship. This bond is about to be brokt~n, for John is soon to be released. This arouses hatred, envy and loss in Winston. John's feelings at his early release are mixed. The two have also devised a homespun version of Sophocles' "Antigone" and its presentation as a prisoner "entertaimnent" is a tremendous theatrical moment. It is also a scathing, ironic and symbolic indictment by these two Black prisoners of White South Africa. "A most compelling experience."-N.Y. Times. "A political play with humanism and laughter. ... Compassionate and original."-N.Y. Post. In Statements, $12.95. (Royalty, (#582) $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. THE MONKEY'WALK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Murray. I m., I f. Int. Myra, an uptight intellectual who fears sex, is soon to marry an archaeologist with whom she shares a relationship based more on convenience than emotional involvement. Danny, a lonely divorced taxi driver, natural philosopher and homespun psychiatrislt comes to her aid. The fun starts when Myra turns to domestic life with burning eagerness, but messes up the simplest chores. And the fun takes a teasing turn when trouble looms and Myra, now ecstatic after weeks of love with Danny, becomes more assertive. "Sophisticated . . . light entertainment."-Sydney Morning Herald. "Warm and delightful . . . with a pleasant dash of romanticism."-Sydney Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15007) JESSE AND THE BANDIT QUEEN. (Little Theatre.) Western fantasy. David Freeman. I m., I f. Platform stage w. cyclorama. Jesse and the Bandit Queen is an intriguing, many-sided saga about the stormy relationship between Jesse James and Belle Starr. Interwoven into the play are tales of their outlaw contemporaries and of the people close to Jesse and Belle-friends, foes, family and lovers. The two actors switch in End out of various roles to present a sweeping spectrum of the American West-Iegl~nd, myth and reality. "Unquestionably a play I would recommend."-N.Y Times. "Fascinating from beginning to end."-N.Y. Post. "Sparkles with intelligence and sly humor."-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12003) RUSTY ANI> RICO and LENA AND LOUIE. (Advanced Groups.) Leonard Melfi. Two one-act plays for a full evening presentation. See Index for individual descriptions. BEFORE YOU GO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Holofcener. 1 m., 1 f. (Also requires trained dog.) Int. A lonely, mousey girl-a bookkeeper-has embraced the cultural revolution by becoming a psychodrama actress. One rainy day, she ducks into a Greenwich Village doorway and the boy who offers her shelter turns out to be a perfect match. He's a department store buyer and to spice up his dull life, joined the arts movement as a sculptor. They find love together in a dingy room one rainy day. "Amiable, delightful slapstick."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4026) DEAR LIAR. (AU Groups.) Biography. Jerome Kilty, adapted from the correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. 1 m., I f. Compo int. Shining in the bewitching repartee between two great wits, Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne played Mrs. Campbell and Shaw on Broadway. The play toured this hemisphen! and Europe for two years before its return to Off Broadway. It is a masterful <:ompendium of badinage with Shaw and Mrs. Campbell in scenes of both confrontation and distancing. Here is Shaw in all his contradictions; he adores the actress, Mrs. Campbell, most ascetically, and persuades her to play in Pygmalion. He frets with her when she leaves for America, and yet he refuses permission to publish tht: letters that would save her from bankruptcy. Mrs. Campbell is his match; she published them anyway. Here is a strange and intriguing romance fought around the world. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6040) DEAR LOVE. (All Groups.) Biography. Jerome Kilty. I m., I f. Drawing on the poems ane! letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Mr. Kilty presents a portrait of a couple whose poetry and love are legendary. Their first correspondence begins before they meet, when she thought of him as "an acquaintance." But his poetry moves her deeply and soon they meet. Then comes the terrible period of parental torment and the story of how Elizabeth felt herself to be the cause of her brother's dleath. Browning courts her and finally persuades her to marry and go with him to Italy, where their love might grow in splendor-a difficult thing for a crippled girl to do, especially in the face of a sternly antagonistic father. But love endures all things and Elizabeth Barrett loved Robert Browning beyond all endur(#6038) ing; here she recounts the ways. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) HELLO AND GOODBYE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 1 m., 1 f. Int. This deceptively simple play is about a South African who is' visited by his sister after a very long absence. Yes, he says; he and Dad have been getting along well enough, but no, she can't talk to him because he's asleep in the next room. Sister has really come home because she believes Dad has secreted 500 Pounds somewhere in the house, and she wants to make a deal with her brother; he can keep the house as his part of the heritage, if he'll let her find and keep the money. Their memories work back and forth, and the brother tries to keep passions down so that father will not be awakened. But in the end the terrible truths of this family drama develop into an image of the disastrous plight of the entire nation of South Africa. Father is dead; the only inheritance they have is the land, the squalor and the misery. Kim Hunter

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS and Colleen Dewhurst played the role of the sister in separate Off-Broadway pro(#10070) ductions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Manhoff. 1 m., 1 f. Int. From a San Francisco loft, a stuffy author focuses his binoculars on a prostitute plying her trade. He complains to the landlord, has her evicted and finds he has trouble pounding on his door with vengeance. She figures he owes her a pad for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity. She is practically illiterate but quickly absorbs language skills; it does trouble her that having learned to pronounce "impeccable" she can't find a sentence to fit it into. He begins to melt and they find themselves falling in love, a circumstance that can lead only to two things: suicide (which they try with clumsy abandon) or turning square-he as a bookstore clerk and she as a bona fide receptionist. "The first-nighters laughed maniacally."-N.Y. Daily News. "Animated . . . vivid and comic . . . . Startling intensity and truth."-N.Y. Times. "It is a long time since I recall two characters who creep so effectively into the heart of the audience." -N. Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50 -$35.) (#90) A GIRL COULD GET LUCKY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Don Appell. 1m., 1 f. Int. A two-character play about a taxi driver and a secretary, their romance, marriage, and first months together. Marriage is never easy, and this is a fond portrait of the period of adjustment. "Husbands nudge their wives every time the wife in the play does something silly, wives dig their elbows into their husbands' ribs . . . . A knack for writing real-life dialogue."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "Mixes laughs with occasional tremors of emotion, but neither is overdone. It is observant and painstaking about the minutiae of light housekeeping in the modem New York way."-N.Y. Times. "Bright, funny, tender. ... Wholesome and honest comedy."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#480) THE AU PAIR MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Leonard. I m., I f. Int. The play concerns a rough Irish bill collector named Hartigan who becomes a love slave and companion to an English lady named Elizabeth. She lives in a cluttered London town house which looks like a museum for a British Empire on which the sun has long set. Even the door bell chimes out the national anthem. Hartigan is immediately conscripted into her service in return for which she agrees to teach him how to be a gentleman rather after the fashion of a reverse Pygmalion. The play, a wild view of the never-ending battle between England and Ireland, was produced to critical acclaim at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#235) THE TWO OF US. (Little Theatre.) Michael Frayn. A collection of short plays: Black and Silver, Mr. Foot, The New Quixote and Chinamen. See individual titles for descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 when done together; $20-$15 when done individually.) (#22247) TWO FOR THE SEESAW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Gibson. 1 m., I f. Compo int. This is the long-run Broadway hit that gained stardom for Anne Bancroft in the role of girl from the Bronx whose love for a lonesome lawyer brings a few months of happiness into their lives. The lawyer is married to a beautiful, well-to-do girl in the midwest whose family sets the pace in local society and intends to run his marriage and his career as well. He has rebelled, come to New York and taken up residence with this intriguing young woman. He is lonely and in need of consolation; she is one of those rare women whose only purpose seems to be making others happy. Their briefly fulfilling relationship is unhappily destined to failure: he is a cultured gentile with a wife and painful memories while she is a plain Jewish girl with little education and a horrible Bronx accent. They share happy and humorous moments together, but they both see with sadness the utter hopelessness of the affair. "It's a whale of a hit, a bittersweet joy ride."-N.Y. Mirror. "An absorbing, affectionate, and funny delight."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) NOTE: Following instructions from the author, this play may be released only to amateur groups at which the audience is non-segregated. (#116) THE FOURPOSTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy Jan de Hartog. I m. 1 f. Int. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred on Broadway in this moving chronicle of a husband and wife from their wedding night in 1890 until they pack and move 35 years later. They fret and quarrel, laugh and cry and make love in the same loom in which they began their married life. And throughout the evening, standing in the comer, is the old fourposter, scene of all their endearing memories. You will find it very hard not to laugh when Michael discovers his son has had his first drink, or not to cry when he steals from under the pillow the silly memento his wife has left for the new bride and owner of the fourposter. "Pleasantest comedy of the season."-N.Y. Times. "It's good to have another hit on Broadway. It's good to chuckle again, to be moved again."-Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#59) HAPPY DAYS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. 1m., 1 f. There are only two characters, a man and a woman, in Beckett's intellectual tickler, but there is always a plentitude of ideas and incisive comments on life. In the first of the two short acts Winnie is buried to her waist, but still has access to all the civilized accoutrements: toothbrush, mirror, pistol. In the second act she is buried to her neck, and left to work with only her eyes and her mind. This is sufficient, though, for her happy days. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state author's name when order(#10025) ing. Slightly Restricted. THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jean-Claude Carriere. American version by Jerome Kilty. 1m., 1 f. Int. A lawyer once listed his romantic

CHARACTERS conquests in a little black book. He is about to record No. 134 when a beautiful girl appears, and, against his protestations, moves in. He eventually falls in love and gives up his profession to devote his life to making love to her. "A brittle charm."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14091)

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*SCRAMBLED EGGS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Robert Amos Kahn and Gary Richards. 1m., 2 f. Unit or various sets. Funny and poignant aptly describe this play about a woman who is reevaluating her life at a time of crisis. Karen Hoffman revisits the choices she's made and considers the people who have affected and influenced them. Written with humor and candor, Scrambled Eggs is a captivating portrait of a person struggling to live a meaningful life while coping with crazy parents, inner doubt, marital strife, familial responsibilities and hormonal hysteria. All roles are rich and challenging with one actor playing Karen and two others performing all of the other characters. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21626) *THE ZERO HOUR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Madeleine George. 1m., 2 f. Simple set. The Zero Hour takes the subway through a Holocaust-haunted triangle of closeted love and family ties. 0 and Rebecca want love to be all they need, but the fact that Rebecca has not yet come out to her mother is threatening their happiness. Meanwhile, Rebecca's classroom teachings of the Holocaust are seeping into her evening subway rides. This tour-de-force for two actresses who play most of the roles won the 2002 Princess Grace Playwriting Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#28004) A BENCH IN THE SUN. Comedy. Ron Clark. 2 m., I f. Ext. Harold and Burt, longtime friends, live in a retirement home and spend their days on a bench in the garden bickering. A once-famous actress has just moved in, giving them something new to argue over. When they learn that the home is about to be sold and they will have to find a new residence, the three join forces to prevent this upsetting deVelopment. "Very wise, very moving, but most of all, very funny."-Mel Brooks. "A sunny comedy. . It charms throughout."-Stamford Advocate. $6.50. (Royalty, (#4266) $60-$40.) THE CAPTAIN'S TIGER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., I f. Bare stage with stool and boxes. On board the SS Graigaur a young sailor begins to pen his first novel. Assisted by his muse, a portrait of his mother come to life, and supported by his friend, an illiterate ship's mechanic, he struggles to balance romance and reality. This most personal of Athol Fugard's works is strictly autobiographical; at twenty he abandoned his university education, hitch-hiked up Africa and ended up on a tramp steamer in Port Sudan. This play reflects his attempts to come to terms with the conflicting emotions evoked by memories of his courageous mother and flawed father. "Charming . . . . Admire The Captain's Tiger and the lovely way in which it is told."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#4950) COPENHAGEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Frayn. 2 m., I f. Int. In 1941German physicist Werner Heisenberg traveled to occupied Copenhagen to see his former mentor, colleague and friend, Niels Bohr. Together they had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but they ended up on opposite sides of a war that unleashed atomic weapons on humanity. What actually transpired between them is unknown. In this extraordinary play which premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London and opened to rave reviews on Broadway, the prominent British playwright offers intriguing speculation about what may have taken place during this mysterious visit. "The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year. An electrifying work of art." -N. Y. Times. "Superb. Dynamic." -New Yorker. "Gripping. A brilliant play."-Guardian. "The word 'tremendous' is often used but seldom deserved. In this case it is. Copenhagen is an intellectual and theatrical tour de force."-London Sunday Times. Winner of 3 Tony Awards, including Best Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#5809) DIRTY BLONDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Claudia Shear. Original score by Bob Stillman. 2 m., I f. (with doubling.) Int. A funny, bawdy NeW York hit with dream roles for actors, Dirty Blonde combines transformation and drama with a fabulous dollop of show biz magic. "Hands down the best new American play of the season. . . . Take off your hats, boys Mae West is back on Broadway. . . in a compact Rolls-Royce of a vehicle . . . written by and starring Claudia Shear . . . [and directed by James Lapine.] . . . This is no evening of mere impersonation. . . . Dirty Blonde is a multilayered study of the nature of stardom, as experienced by one of its avatars and two adoring fans. Shaped with remarkable fluidity and inventiveness, Dirty Blonde presents one of the canniest portraits on record of that floating dialogue between icons and idolizers that remains so much a part of American culture . . . . Ms. Shear finds the enduring substance in the smoke and mirrors of one actress's stardom, allowing Mae West to shock and delight once again."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Vocal Score available on rental. (#6929) Rental fee, $10.00 per performance plus a $25.00 refundable deposit. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Steven Berkoff. 2 m., I f. (with doubling). Simple set. The author takes Edgar Allan Poe's horrific tale and explodes the text to create a new form that retains the story's central core. In Agamemnonfl'he Fall of the House of Usher, $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8589) FOR REASONS THAT REMAIN UNCLEAR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mart Crowley. 3 m. Int. A screenwriter in Rome to shoot a movie on location meets an American priest who is in the city to attend a religious conference. He invites the priest to join him for a drink in his suite at the Hassler Hotel without revealing that he recognizes the man as the teacher who molested him years ago. The dark past and its consequences slowly emerge in this spellbinding drama by the author of The Boys in the Band and The Menfrom the Boys. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8203)

THE SEA HORSE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Edward J. Moore. m., I f. Int. Tender, ribald, funny and suspenseful, this complex love story is set in a waterfront bar where seaman Harry Bales spends his shore leave. "The Sea Horse" is run by Gertrude Blum, with whom Harry enjoys a purely physical relationship; they have never shared their private yearnings. Gertrude has encased her heart behind a facade of toughness following a failed marriage. Now Harry has a dream; he wants to buy a charter fishing boat and to have a son. The play progresses through a ritual courtship as these two outwardly abrasive characters fight, make up, fight again, spin dreams, deflate them, make love and reveal their locked-up secrets. "I was touched close to tears."-Village Voice. "A must! An incredible love story. A beautiful play!"-Newhouse Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21009) THE HAUNTED HOST. Tragi-comedy,. Robert Patrick. 2 m. lnt. This underground classic is the first play by Off-Off-Broadway's most-produced playwright. Jay, an extravagant Greenwich Village homosexual, fears he has caused his lover's suicide. A look-alike for the lover, a straight young man, offers him an opportunity to reenact the past and absolve himself. "A play of muted madness, brilliance, overwhelming sadness."-Wm. Raidy. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10614)

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* ANNOYANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 2 m., I f. lnts. In the first scene a very annoying man sees a therapist in the hope that she will help him become less annoying. He drives her over the edge. In the second scene he consults her husband, also a therapist, and drives him to maddened heights. When he comes to see them both in the third scene, they take drastic measures to rid the world of his (#3745) lethal personality. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) *CANDIDA AND HER FRIENDS. Comedy. Mario Fratti. 2 m., I f. This hilarious play follows the misadventures of a college professor. "A delightful comedy. Real fun."-nytheatre.com. Published with Suicide Club, $6.00. (Royalty, $60-60.) (#4986) *FICTION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Steven Dietz. 1m., 2 f. Unit set. Linda and Michael Waterman, both successful writers, are happily married. They thrive on the give and take of their unusually honest and candid relationship. However, the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down when they decide to share their diaries with each other. No Iife, as it turns out, is an open book. "A work of uncommon insight-an adult, unsparing and yet often witty look at the intimate relationship between a tnan and a woman during a time of crisis."-Associated Press. "Everything about the play has an elegance and richness our theater sees too seldom."-N.Y. Daily News. "A provocative spin on the eternal love triangle.' -Variety. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$60.) (#8211) *FROM DOOR TO DOOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Sherman. 3 f. Unit set. A woman mourning the death of her husband relives sixty-five years of her life in this bittersweet comedy with rich roles for three actresses by the author of Beau Jest. Mary Goodman is a product of the 'greatest generation' and, despite her daughter's urging, she is reluctant to end her period of bereavement and unsure that she wants to experience independence. As her past unfolds in heartwarming and hilarious scenes with her daughter and granddaughter, it is apparent that three generations of women in this family have risen to meet the expectations of the past and bravely faced choices for the future. "Hilarious and deeply moving."-N.Y. Daily News. "Because Sherman has all the details right, they hit home hard, and they touch us with their gentle, tried and true sentiment."-Chicago Tribune. "A bittersweet comedy about blessings and compromises."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Sherman's women are Jews, but their trials and trails are universal."-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8689) *MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Chris Newbound. 2 m., I f. Ext. The Smight's middle-aged son is moving across the country and he is visiting his aging parents before he goes. Morning finds his mother and father having coffee by their swimming pool before he wakes up. Over lunch at Noon John and his mother have a frank conversation while they watch John's children swim. That Night John and his father smoke cigars by the pool as they try to connect with each another for the first and perhaps the last time. Please state author when ordering. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14850) *PIED A TERRE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Anastasi. 1m., 2 f. Int. Lives are about to collide. Long buried secrets will be revealed and nothing is what it seems. As the play opens, Giovanna, a wife and mother in her forties, is going through a Manhattan townhouse, a hideaway owned by her husband. She uncovers a side of his life she never knew-or never took the time to find out about. Her musings and pain are interrupted when Katie suddenly appears. This beautiful young woman seems to know Giovanna's spouse a little too well. Three very different people, each carrying a tremendous burden, now have a chance to begin to heal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#17814)

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JUMP I CUT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Neena Beber. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Three bright urbanites \\<ant to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony and distance, is a hardworking film-maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must get on with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a lifelong buddy whose brilliance is being consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic-depression, is camping on Paul's couch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Paul into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day, capturing up-close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love, friendship and ambition take this hip trio? "Could not be more timely . . . . Fearlessly dives into provocative issues and ideas."-Washington Times. "Savvy, solid play ... about our fascination with victims and voyeurism, . . . friendship and ambition, striving and its worth. Beber builds her characters . . . carefully with efficient and graceful layers of personalities and ideas. . . . An accomplished piece of work-structurally sound, snappily written and shot though with humor."-Washington City Paper. "Fresh and compelling . . . clever and witty."-Arlington Weekly News. "A sharp, funny, heartbreaking play that just pulls you in."-Montgomery Community Television. "Qui<:k and sharp ... [with] something to say about the emotional environment we li ve in." -The Georgetowner. "A remarkable, absorbing, complex and intelligent play."-Variety. Winner of the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#12918) LEBENSRA1JM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Israel Horovitz. 2 m., I f. 1 set. Using a cast of three to play 40 sharply drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to Germany and promise them citizenship and jobs. A resulting scenario unfolds that explores the effects of the policy on Jews and Gentiles with widely varying outlooks: an out-of-work Jewish dock worker from Massachusetts who brings his Irish wife and his son to Bremerhaven to start a new life, a survivor of Auschwitz who returns to find the woman who betrayed his family to the Nazis, a young German smitten by a Jewish American teenage girl, an unemployed German laborer and scores of others. The actors make quicksilver changes from one character to the next, occasionally using masks or character cut-outs to enhance the transformations. The logical progression of this artfully drawn script raises the terrifying possibility that history may repeat. "Powerful and touching."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13839) LIGHT SENSITIVE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Jim Geoghan. 2 m., I f. Int. Thomas Hanratty, lifelong resident of Hell's Kitchen and once the most dangerous white cab driver in New York, was blinded eight years ago in a drunken accident and is fading into a routine of self-pity and alcohol. His bartender and only friend, who was partly responsible for the accident, is moving. to Vermont with a new lady friend, but he can't abandon Tom. He recruits an unattractive, slightly handicappt:d volunteer reader from the Lighthouse who battles her way through Tom's shell. By the second act, they are falling in love. His buddy returns with tales of his "Christmas from hell" in Vermont, and doubt arises as to who will hold the number one position in Tom's life. "Geoghan brings his characters to life and the audience to its feet cheering." -L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#14596) LOVERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 1m., 2 f. Int. A timid wife involved in her first lesbian affair finds herself mired in a hellish web of jealousies instead of part of the benign sisterhood she imagined. The play builds to a surprise conclusion. "Vibrant theatre. An evening alternating the dread of suspense with liberating laughter, leaving the audience with a justified feeling of fulfillment." -New Jersey Voice. Published with Sister, $10.00. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13802) MAHALIA. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Tom Stolz. 1m., 2 f. Simple set. Including JrllUsic by various gospel composers as well as hymns and spirituals made famous by Mahalia Jackson, this is a joyous celebration of the life and music of the world's greatest gospel singer: a humble, deeply religious woman whose expressive, full-throated voice carried her from a three-room shanty in New Orleans to appearances before presidents and royalty. The joy and inspiration of her heartfelt songs provide a counterpoint to the urgent messages delivered by her friend, Martin Luther King. Standing at his side, Mahalia Jackson became the musical voice of the civil rights movement. Mahalia uses simple staging. only three actors, and piano and organ accompaniments to showcase 22 great gospel numbers in a moving, often humorous musical tribute. "A first-rate tour of the throbbing world of gospel music."-Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Superb in every way."-Christian Chronicle. "A rare joy, a balm for the spirit. This is not a night in the theatre but a soulcleansing I~xperience. Don't miss it!"-Sun Newspapers. $6.50. CD, $17.50. (Roy(#15546) alty, $60-$40.) 'MASTER HAROLD' . AND THE BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 3 m. (1 white, 2 black). lnt. The role that won Zakes Mokac a Tony brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwittingly triggers his inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid. "One of those depth-charge plays [that] has lasting relevance [and] can triumphantly survive any test of time . . . . The story is simple, but the resonance that Fugard brings to it lets it reach beyond the narrative, to touch so many nerves connected to betrayal and guilt." -N Y. Post"Fugard creates a blistering fusion of the personal and the political. "-N Y. Times. "This revival brings out [the play's] considerable

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS strengths."-NY. Daily News. "An exhilarating play . . . . It is a triumph of playmaking, and unforgettable."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Certain music must be used in production; write for information. (Music Royalty, $5.00 per perfor(#15636) mance.) MEN IN SUITS. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Jason Milligan. 3 m. Simply suggested sets. Charles Durning, Dan Lauria and James Handy starred at Westport Country Playhouse of this portrait of up-and-coming Mafia soldiers: Bobby who does as he's told and never questions the legendary Boss and Max who is haunted by the screams of people they've killed. They whack the wrong guy in Grand Central Station and are seen driving to Vermont to confess their error. Short scenes chronicle the drive; settings en route are easily suggested with set pieces. "You're gonna love Men in Suits."-CRN Radio. "Hilarious. . . . Milligan's dialogue is at turns funny, biting, and sad."-Fairfield Country Weekly. "Races by in an everchanging montage of emotional loyalty, humor, betrayal, and blood. . . . A fascinating play."-Connecticut Post. "Should go to Broadway."-Westport News. Published with Any Friend of Percy D'Angelino Is a Friend of Mine and Family Values in Men in Suits: Three Plays About the Mafia, $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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MY OLD LADY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Israel Horovitz. 1m., 2 f. Int. When a down-on-his luck middle-aged man inherits an apartment in Paris, he plans to solve his financial woes by selling it. He arrives on the doorstep and discovers, to his dismay, that the elderly woman living there has lifetime habitation rights under an arcane French law-and she is not about to give them up. Because he has no other place to go, she invites him to stay in the spacious apartment. A spiral of friendship, romance with the old lady's outspoken daughter and some uncomfortable revelations about his unmourned father affect all in this poignant play with strong roles for all three actors. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#15742) QUINT AND MISS JESSEL AT BLY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 2 m., 1 f. Unit set. Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Tum of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated with the master. As Quint and Miss Jessel's affair develops, the rivalry between servant and master builds to a frightening and haunting climax. This complex and hypnotic piece of theatre is by the author of The Transylvanian Clockworks and Ravenscroft, among many others. Published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#19025) SISTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 2 f. lnt. A brother is exceedingly jealous of his sister and, applying a double standard, condemns her for promiscuity while exonerating himself for similar behavior. A surprise ends this unpredictable drama. "Stunning .. .' . The relationship among the characters is not the one we saw and imagined. Fratti must be in love with Strindberg's world. An unforgettable play."-Bridge, New York City. Published with Lovers, $10.00. (Royalty, $60-

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SKYLIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Broadway and the West End applauded this intensely clear-sighted and compassionate play about a love affair. Kyra is surprised to see the son of her former lover at her apartment in a London slum. He hopes she will reconcile with his distraught, now widowed, father. Tom, a restless, self-made restaurant and hotel tycoon, arrives later that evening, unaware of his son's visit. Kyra, who was his invaluable business associate and a close family friend until his wife discovered their affair, has since found a vocation teaching underprivileged children. Is the gap between them unbridgeable, or can they resurrect their relationship? Originally produced at London's Royal National Theatre, Skylight won the Guardian's coveted Best New Play award. "David Hare's luminously beautiful and wildly truthful Skylight is deeply and truly about people. . . . It is a fascinating play . . . [that] tears at the heart . . . . Theatre going today doesn't get much better than this."-NY. Post. "Absolutely splendid."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21547) SOCCER MOMS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kathleen Clark. 3 f. Ext. Three engage ing women reluctantly take the field in a mothers vs. sons soccer game. They intend to let the children win, but as the game unfolds they become intent on scoring. The competition ignites a fierce desire to recapture their youthful good-humor, independence and sexiness, paving the way toward a better understanding of themselves, their families and changes they need to make in their lives. "Let's hear it for Soccer Moms, a diverting comedy with a slick style and attention-holding crisp dialogue."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#21486) SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank McGuinness. 3 m. Int. An American doctor and an Irish journalist are being held captive by terrorists in Beirut. They exercise and they argue, supportive in their mutual determination to survive. They are joined by an English academic. The three display their national biases and prejudices, which are intensified in the cramped confines of their cell. As time passes, resentments and recriminations give way to an acknowledgment of their characters, strengths and weaknesses. They learn that humor is their surest weapon against their captors and the safest armor to protect themselves. They shoot imaginary films, they throw a big party for each other, they

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playa fantastical game of tennis, they laugh at and with each other, and they learn to lament what was lost in their lives before captivity. Each comes to know himself through listening to the stories, sorrows and joys of the others. At the end of the play, they are capable of standing together and alone. "Brings its own light touch to grim matters."-N.Y. Times. "A beautiful play."-The New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#21306)

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play him. Published with Men in Suits and Family Values in Men in Suits: Three (#3577) Plays About the Mafia, $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) ARCHIE'S COMEBACK. (All Groups). Comedy. Norman Beim. 2 m., I f. Int. Lily believes that her husband Archie drowned while on a usa tour. After seven lonely years and an uphill struggle as an actress she decides to marry a stuffy business man for security. In pops Archie, freshly rescued from a desert island where he has a delightful time with the native girls. Lily is happy to see her beloved husband, but he must pay for his transgressions. "Delightful, sophisticated comedy . . . [with] clever dialogue."-Ventura County and Coast Reporter. "Norman Beim ranks with the best in America today."-WHBI Radio. In Plays: At Home and Abroad, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3865) AUTUMN VIOLINS. (Little Theatre.) Tragifarce. Jacques Languirand. Translated by Albert Bermel. 2 m., I f. Int. This play sets up a classical triangle with a twist. Two men, both named Eugene, compete fiercely for Marie Rose. All three are in their late seventies! Crackling comic touches and activities abound. In A Dozen (#3717) French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE BALCONY SCENE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Wil Calhoun. 2 m., I f. Ext. Alvin has had it. He sees civilization crumbling around him and wants no part of it. The only place he feels safe is inside his Chicago high rise apartment, so that's where he stays-until Karen moves in next door. She is a die-hard optimist with a high pressure job and a relentless ex-boyfriend who won't take no for an answer. Alvin and Karen meet on their adjoining balconies and form a friendship that sets their two worlds on a collision course. "A sunny salute to romance."-L.A. Times. "Instantly engaging. . . . Wonderfully appealing."-Drama-Logue. "Artful and unfashionably heartwarming.... A dog day tonic, breezy and citrus sweet."-N.Y. Newsday. "A small gem. . Charming and delicious."-Gannett (#4308) News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) BELOW THE BELT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Dresser. 3 m. Int. Judd Hirsch starred in this hilarious Off Broadway comedy set in a soulless corporate world. Dobbitt has been posted to a dismal distant place, a grim industrial compound that uncomfortably resembles a prison where his quarters have bunks (one freezing cold and the other boiling hot), a table and an ancient typewriter. He is a checker; he checks (though he has no idea what is being made) with an irascible coworker who has been in this place for years. Their inept boss possesses a singular talent for fomenting dissent. The comic interplay among these men (one bullying and truculent, one ambitious and evasive and the third a trembling mass of insecurity and arrogance) is irresistibly funny. As they comically maneuver in their pointless quest for status, sinister little animals are encroaching on the compound. "Gloriously funny but also wickedly insightful, [this] bright new play. . is never short of laugh lines. ., Lurking beneath the almost farcical hilarity is a bundle of 20thcentury angst. . . . The jokes are beautifully in place, permitting the three gorgeously combative figures to emerge."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4297) THE BEST OF FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Hugh Whitemore. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This unusual play by the author of Breaking the Code is adapted from the letters and writings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw, close friends who exchanged a flood of correspondence during their lives. Their letters and essays are cleverly woven into a play about friendship, love of learning, and the inquiring mind's incessant search for answers to the big questions. Staged as a play in New York, The Best of Friends works equally well as a platform reading. "A literate, engaging evening of theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "A delightful interlude."-A.P. "Terrific. . . . A valuable tribute to the art offriendship."-Gannett Newspapers. "Wonderful."-WPAT. "Animated and engaging . . . . A conversation of the highest order."-The New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Please state author when ordering. (#3951) DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ariel Dorfman. 2 m., I f. Int. Tony-award winning Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman starred on Broadway in this political thriller. Set in an unnamed country that is, like the author's native Chile, emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after-effects ofrepression on hearts and souls. Paulina Escobar's husband Gerardo is to head an investigation into past human rights abuses. A Dr. Miranda stops at Escobars' to congratulate Gerardo. Paulina overhears them speaking and is convinced that Miranda supervised her prison torture sessions. She ties him to a chair and conducts her own interrogation, gun in hand. Escobar doesn't know whether to believe his distraught wife or his persuasive new friend. This white-knuckle thriller is a rivetting intellectual and emotional tug-of-war. "Searing." -Christian Science Monitor. "Magnificent. . . . One of those rare plays which. . seem to grasp the pulse of the century."-London Financial Times. "A terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion." -London Sunday Times. "Suspenseful, rivetting . . . [and] movingly personal."-N.Y. Times. Winner of the Sir Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season (1992). Winner of 5 Dora Awards (1996). $8.95. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#6586) DUNGEONS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. David L. Paterson. 2 m., I f. Int. A catastrophic steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan catapults Michael, an anxious, corporate-climbing yuppie, and his recently purchased Mercedes several stories below ground into access tunnel 3F on level C, also known as Leonard's living room. Leonard is a cantankerous homeless man in his early fifties who shares

SPEED-THE-PLOW. (Advanced Groups.) Serious comedy. David Mamet. 2 m., I f. 2 ints. (simply suggested). Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver and Madonna starred on Broadway in this hilarious satire of Hollywood, a microcosm of American culture. "Hilarious and chilling ."-N.Y. Times. "Mamet's clearest, wittiest play."-N.Y. Daily News. "I laughed and laughed. The play is crammed with wonderful, dazzling, brilliant lines."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21281) STONE THE CROWS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David L. Paterson. 2 m., 1 f.Int. Lydia Johansen is teetering between a collapsing marriage and self-destruction when a new man arrives on her doorstep. This stranger is her husband's long-distant brother and a self-proclaimed professional drifter. He claims to be passing through on his way to Alaska. Charmed by his self-deprecating humor and easy-going existence, Lydia attempts to seduce him. Within a twenty-four hour period, the bonds of marriage, family and friendship are challenged to the breaking point while secrets better left buried are revealed. "Genuinely moving . . . eloquent and emotionally powerful."-Mystic River Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21476) TALKING HEADS: Alan Bennett's Six Classic Monologues. (Little Theatre.) Comic monologues. Alan Bennett. Four of the monologues in Talking Heads and two from Talking Heads 2 (see below) were presented Off Broadway in 2002 with a stellar cast headlined by Lynn Redgrave. These passionate and funny snapshots of lonely lives were presented in two evenings of hilarious and touching theatre: The Hand of God (in Talking Heads 2), A Lady of Letters and Bed Among the Lentils (in both volumes and available separately); Her Big Chance, A Chip in the Sugar and Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet (in Talking Heads 2). Other classics in the original collection are A Cream Cracker Under the Settee and Soldiering On. Written by the inventive author of such hits as Beyond the Fringe and The Madness of King George, the half-hour plays in this volume originally aired on the BBC starring Maggie Smith. "Diamond-cut monologues . . . . Several . . . instantly became cult classics . . . . Mr. Bennett's work is too seldom seen on these shores."-N.Y. Times. "A touching and very funny playwright, Bennett manages to combine the satiric, cold-eyed sharpness of Flaubert with an embracing human compassion." -N. Y. Post. "More goes on in each of these skirmishes than in many plays with a lot more characters. . . . Each character has his or her own verbal music . . . . Talking Heads has brought great joy to this . . . season."-N.Y. Daily News. $12.95. Bed Among the Lentils also available separately, $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 per monologue.) Slightly Restricted. Talking Heads (#22061) A Chip in the Sugar (#5248) Bed Among the Lentils (#4709) A Lady of Letters (#13824) Her Big Chance (#10692) Soldiering On (#21725) A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (#5786) TALKING HEADS 2. (Little Theatre.) Comic monologues. Alan Bennett. Additional monologues retain the gripping stories, intensity of delivery and masterly style of the original pieces (see Talking Heads, above). $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per monologue.) Slightly Restricted. Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet (#14820) The Hand of God (#10560) The Outside Dog (#17074) Playing Sandwiches (#17815) Nights in the Garden of Spain (#16109) Waiting for the Telegram (#24974) THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. John Olive. 2 m., 1 f. (to play many roles). Unit set. As the play begins, an old hobo named Poppy by his avid companion, young Davey Quinn, is telling a tall tale. It is the early 1890s and itinerant story tellers like Poppy are the voices of the prairie. Years later, Davey is discovered by a radio entrepreneur while he is telling stories about Poppy and Frankie, a blind girl he rescued from a cruel father. Quinn becomes famous on radio as the Voice of the Prairie. Frankie reenters his life and the FCC threatens them all for broadcasting without a license. "Endearing."-N.Y. Times. "A skillful play with a deft heart."-L.A. Times. "First-rate entertainment."-Torrington Register (#24047) Citizen. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) ANY FRIEND OF PERCY D' ANGELINO IS A FRIEND OF MINE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m., I f. Simply suggested sets. Presented in Los Angeles with Peter Falk, Christian Slater and Jean Smart, this side-splitting Mafia comedy begins with a mysterious stranger arriving at the Long Island estate owned by a renowned mob boss. Why is "Tony" there? To kill the venerable Frankie? To work for him? The mobster's bombshell wife has her own theories. Hilarious antics designed to divine Tony's purpose end with the discovery that he is a soap opera star signed to play Frankie in a feature film! Frankie detests movies and determines to have his guest fitted for cement shoes, but he warms to the idea of being glorified in a Hollywood epic. Laughs abound as he coaches Tony on how to

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this space with a mouse-like girl named Francis. Unhurt but trapped, the threesome share imprisonment as well as a few secrets while waiting to be rescued. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#6747) DIVIDENDS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Gary Richards. 2 m., I f. Unit set. Part memory play and part commentary on present relationship, Dividends is a warm and tender play about tradition, caring, change and love. How well does any grandson really know his grandfather? Dividends explores the generation gap between a struggling young artist and his grandfather who is in the hospital near the end of his life. Even though their relationship has always been distant. Neal finds himself forced to look after Pops and he learns a great deal about his early life, his romantic inclinations and his unfulfilled dreams. Neal's sense of alienation from the older generation lmd his instinctive desire to overcome it leads him to want to give his grandfather something he never had because his family was too busy being poor-a bar mitzvah. Through it all, Pops' wife of fifty-nine and one-half years hovers over both as only a grandmother could. Critics have described Dividends as delightful, (#6194) absorbing, charming and heartfelt. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) DRIVING LESSONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jason Katims. 2 m., I f. Int. The Garden of Earthly Delights Suite at Honeymoon Paradise hotel and resort is Laurel's destination for a post-nuptial idyll, except she is alone in the hotel van driven perilously by a bellboy-psychiatrist-raconteur. By the time Laurel has changed out of her wedding gown, the play is half through and she is dizzy from the bellboy's hotly spinning repartee, infatuated by his attempts to teach her to drive, and ready to flee from her new husband. Screwy. absurd and gently thought-provoking, this humorous piece never offends and provides excellent roles for young character actors. "Solid and hilarious."-Athens Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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not have the heart to refuse? "Quirky, clever, teasing and sometimes enervating."-London Times. 'Excellent."-Sunday Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#9991) JERRY AND TOM. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Rick Cleveland. 3 m. Various sets (simply suggested). A man who is tied to a chair with a bag over his head is telling jokes to Jeny and Tom while they wait for a phone call instructing them to kill him. In a series of similarly intense vignettes, a Chicago hit man plays mentor to his impatient cohort in this horrifyingly hysterical comedy. The film version of Jerry and Tom was selected for screening at the Sundance Film Festival. "A hilarious slice-of-life about a blue-color hit man and his protege."-L.A. Weekly. "Viciously funny comedy."-L.A Times. "Terrifyingly funny little gem. . . . Cleveland's grisly scenarios are offset by humorously skewed dialogue (including a riotous retelling of an associate having his nose bitten off)." -L.A. Reader. "A nice, neat piece of nasty business [withJ . . . a good balance between hilariously cartoonish and gruesomely noirish elements."-Chicago Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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THE LAST GIRL SINGER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Deborah Grace Winer. Incidental music by Barbara Carroll. 1m., 2 f. Int. Produced Off Broadway by the distinguished Women's Project, The Last Girl Singer stars a.n aging, reclusive film legend best-known for her sex-siren role in Princess of the Pampas. Having deserted Hollywood for Spain to become a cabaret singer, Ila Farrell is manipulated by her ex-husband who begs her to appear in his directing comeback, a horror movie, and by a socialite anxious to flaunt a friendships with someone famous. This neighbor agrees to launch Ila's singing career in the nightclub owned by her husband. Opening night is a disaster; Ila disappears and is presumed dead by both of her tormentors. But she is tougher than that and is happily singing anonymously in a cabaret else. "Offers a bracingly cynical view of show business and has some acidic, funny lines . . . . A knowing spoof."-N.Y. Times. "Fetching."-N.Y. Daily New. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14592) LOVE IN THE TITLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Hugh Leonard. 3 f. Ext. When Katie arrives in the field of Corcamore to paint a watercolor of the legendary stone of Clough-e-Regan, she is accompanied by youthful versions of her mother and grandmother. Katie exists in the present while the others are in their own time. Their conversations--companionable and hostile by turns-reveal family history and its intricate relation to the wider story of Irish culture. Humorous discussions of social prejudice, religious fervor and perennial man trouble movingly evoke the mixture of nostalgia and progressiveness that characterized the twentieth century. "Romantic [and] well-written. There is a lovely understanding of human beings."-Examiner. "Leonard is a master of the witty one-liner [and] he has a ... gift for words with musical quality."-News of the World. "An Irish play about Irish themes [that] speaks with a universal heart."-Monterey Country Herald. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-

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FAITHFUL. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Chazz Palminteri. 2 m., 1 f. Int. This comedy thriller revolves around a hitman and his target. Tony, the cool killer, has his world turned upside down by Maggie, who planned to commit suicide on the night she was to be his victim. Distraught over her failing marriage to Jack. whom she suspects is having an affair, Maggie learns that Jack hired Tony to kill her because he thinks she is unfaithful. Tony's presence awakens Maggie's desire to live and she begins to fight for her life, coming at Tony from all angles. She claims that she hired him because she didn't have the courage to kill herself and she tries to convince Tony to kill Jack instead. A strange symbiotic relationship develops that propels the story through a series of violent and comical twists. Jack's arrival pushes the tension and the pace up another notch. He convincingly denies having hired Tony. Roles and allegiances shift. Who hired whom? Is Tony a hitman? Is Jack a cold-bloodt:d killer or just a cuckolded husband? Are Tony and Maggie conspiring to extort money from Jack? And ultimately, who will die? $6.50. (Royalty, $50-

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FATHER'S PRIZE POLAND CHINA. Farce. (Little Theatre.) Shirley Sergent. 3 f. Compo int., ext. Once upon a time there lived in the heartland of America a farmer who had a successive string of prize Poland China hogs and two daughters, one plain and home-grown, the other pretty and home-flown. A gigolo enters their lives in a most upsetting manner. The plain daughter misconstrues his attentions and tumbles head-over-heels for the man, his charm and his high shining boots. It's the pretty one, however, who spends her nights entertaining the gigolo and ends up a fool for love-with a black eye. The plain daughter intends to lure the gigolo into marriage by sharing with him the deed to the farm. But a third women who has lured father into marriage also has her eye on the deed. A lot of squealing ensues from both humans and hogs when the gigolo is found shot to death and discovered to have been marril!d with children. Who did it? And what's wrong with father? Is he dead or alive? And what has become of the prize hog? It's a rollicking ending to a cleverly funny play. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival XXVI. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8600) FINGER PAINTING IN A MURPHY BED. (Little Theatre.) Romantic comedy. David L. Paterson. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Myra Smuldanski, a hardworking secretarial temp from Queens, has done the unconscionable-in her brother Ludlow's opinion: she has accepted a date with a dashing young executive. Not prone to dating because of priorities involved in caring for young Ludlow, Myra is taking one last swing at romance. For twenty-four hours, a comedic tugof war rages in her cramped apartment. Ludlow, an aspiring finger painter who suffers manic episodes, is determined to destroy the budding relationship that threatens his exclusive hold on his sister's love. Reginald must fight for Myra's affection and ultimately Ludlow discovers that acceptance affords him a measure of dignity. "Wholeheartedly recommended . . . . Truly moving . . . [and] consistently witty, often brilliantly so."-Garden Grove Journal. "Hilarious ... [and] surprisingly touching." -Orange County Register. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#8178) HERE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Frayn. 1m., 2 f. Int. Two people move into an empty room and begin to construct a life together in this work by the author of Noises Off, Copenhagen, Benefactors and numerous other well-known plays. Should the bed go here and the table go there? Or the bed there and the table here? Everything inside this small space is for them to decide. The responsibility is daunting-especially when they reflect that it has taken the whole history of the world to get them together in this particular place at this particular time and that the whole future of the world will be different if the table is here instead of there. But how can they decide amthing when the other person keeps disagreeing and when the woman downstairs maddeningly dumps unwanted furniture on them that they do

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LOW LEVEL PANIC. (Little Theatre.) Play. Clare McIntyre. 3 f. Int. Here is a careful examination of the role of pornography in our society and the way it affects three young women in particular. Short scenes show how popular images of women influence the way they are seen by others and the way they see themselves. Note: This play includes explicit scenes and dialogue. "Extraordinary . . . . The play's fascinating quality lies in its surprising revelations, its subtlety, which enables the trio of girls to be seen as unselfconsciously comic and disturbed. . A promising playwright."-Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14206) MINDGAME. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Anthony Horowitz. 2 m., I f. Int. A prominent author of novels and "true crime"stories enters a secluded mental institution to interview a serial killer who has been confined there for thirty years. The superintendent of the institution does not want the interview to take place and is hostile. In an effort to make the writer to understand what it means to be insane. he restrains him in a straight jacket. Then he pulls out a scalpel; he is the serial killer. The inmates have taken over the asylum and killed all of the staff except for "Nurse Plimpton." Actually a doctor, she tries to intervene and is gruesomely dispatched-{)r so the audience thinks. Mindgame is a riveting hit in London's West End. "A truly gripping thriller [that] keeps you guessing and marveling from its deceptively normal opening to its fearful climax." -The Stage. "Probes the terror of madness .. while exhibiting roguish love of the macabre."-Evening Standard. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#15524) MRS. KLEIN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Nicholas Wright. 3 f. 1 set. Witty, taut and rich in psychological insights, Mrs. Klein tells of a brilliant and unorthodox woman whose single-mindedness threatened to destroy those closest to her. Melanie Klein (1882-1960) came to Britain from Berlin to extend psychoanalysis to young children. The action is set in 1934 when, at the peak of her career. Mrs. Klein is shattered by the news that her son has died in a climbing accident. Her daughter, also a psychoanalyst who publically challenges her mother's theories, thinks he committed suicide to defy their overbearing mother. The battle between these two women spills over into their professional lives, and the childhood events which lie at the heart of the conflict are exposed while a third remarkable woman, a young psychoanalyst on the run from Hitler, enters as a detached observer. Mrs. Klein transferred to the West End after its sell-out run at London's Royal National Theatre and has since been internationally acclaimed. "How rare and refreshing it is to encounter a new play which is so literate, intelligent, amusing and, finally. so moving." -Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#15237)

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THE ROAD TO MECCA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 1 m. 2 f. Int. This unusual drama by a premiere contemporary dramatist focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she calls her Mecca. A young woman who was once helped by Miss Helen has traveled hundreds of miles to help her in a time of crisisMiss Helen is in danger of being sent to an old-folks' home by a narrow-minded minister who considers her sculptures a public nuisance. A penetrating study of the role of the artist in any society, this important play was produced in London and New York to great critical acclaim. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Play. "The author's most personal play to date, an essential rosetta stone for the entire canon." -N. Y. Times. "Glows with a rare luminosity and intensity. Athol Fugard's latest play ... is also his most eloquent and transforming." -Christian Science Monitor. "One of Fugard's simplest, most beautiful (#20101) plays."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) ROMANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedies. Tom Topor. 2 m., 1 f. 2 ints. This pair of romantic comedies is a real delight. Here to Stay tells the story of a husband and wife who are hopelessly inept bank robbers. The play takes place during the depression, and it turns out the couple have been robbing banks to earn enough money so they can have a baby. But Notfor Me is about a couple who are splitting up and have come to their accountant's office to divide their possessions. Unlike the couple in Here to.Stay, this is an urban, sophisticated, well-matched couple, but love in th~ 80's is just not the same as love in the 30's. "A charming comedy about the odd things that people do, and don't do, for love."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#20084) TEECHERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Godber. 2 m., 1 f. (to play 21 roles). Bare stage. Fast-moving and highly entertaining, Teechers evokes life at a modern school. Using the format of an end-of-term play, the new drama teacher's progress through two terms of recalcitrant classes, cynical colleagues and obstructive caretakers is reviewed. Disillusioned, he departs for a safer private school. Teechers is perfect for advanced high school groups and community theaters. "There is only one fitting description-winner."-London Daily Telegraph. "Freewheeling, highly original entertainment."-London Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22904) A TEXAS ROMANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ellsworth Schave. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. . Daisy Wilson lives in a small Texas town, a widow since her philandering husband was shot by his mistress (an action with which she has some sympathy). In 1928 romance reenters her life when she finds Garland Steinholden in the front yard awaiting permission to call on her despite her older sister's chagrin. What follows are the inquisition, the courtship, the pecan pie and big, loud rocks on a small wooded table. Daisy must balance anger and fear with her need for intimacy and her determination to have a second chance. While Daisy decides if Garland is a worthy cause and he politely, caringly, relentlessly pursues, the food chain and the big wheel of life playa part. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21995) WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy with musie. H.M. Koutoukas. Music by Mark Bennett. 3 m. or f. 2 sets. This hit from the Ridiculous Theatre Co. consists of two one-act plays: Awful People Are 'Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending to Be Hard at Work and Hope That They Will Go Away and Only a Countess May Dance When She's Crazy. Both are tour de forces for comic performers. In the first, a Roosevelt Democrat sits under a tree watching fireflies and bewailing the mists of old age. Next, the same actor plays a countess who has lost everything but her money, her dignity and her looks. She sings while waiting for an epiphany of the soul. "Brilliant." -N. Y. Post. "Quirkily. . . reflects the main currents of American life as if in a funhouse mirror."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 when done together; $50-$35 each when done individually.) Cassette of original music and sound effects used in the New York production, $32.50. (Music royalty, $10.00 per performance, payable when ordering.) (#25679) CAPTIVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jan Buttram. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off-beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down-home philosophy. Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in Texas hoping to borrow money from her brother to pay a debt to gangsters incurred by her husband. Her elderly parents are supposed to be vacationing in Israel, but she is greeted with a shotgun aimed by her irascible father who has been left home because of a minor car accident and is not at all happy to see her. When a news report indicates that Sally's mother may have been taken captive in the Middle East, Sally's hard-nosed brother insists that she keep father home until they receive definite word-and only then will he loan Sally the money. Sally fails to keep father in the dark and he plans a rescue while she finds she is increasingly unable to skirt the painful truths of her life. The ornery father and his loveable but slightly dysfunctional daughter come to a meeting of hearts and minds-and solve both their problems. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5876) LAKE NO BOTTOM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Weller. 2 m., I f. Unit set. This comic drama by the author of Moonchildren, Loose Ends, Spoils of War, Now There's Just the Three of Us, Fishing and The Ballad of Soapy Smith involves a literary critic and his wife who have retired to an idyllic New England lake. Their weekend visitor, a promising novelist whose work was discovered by the critic, has just published a kiss-and-tell trashy best-seller. Ostensibly, the young author is stopping by on his way to lecture at a nearby college. In fact, he has come to see the wife, his former lover whom he still desires. She is bored in the boondocks and

MISERY. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Stephen King. Adapted for the stage by Simon Moore. 1 m., 2 f. Ext., int. This stunning adaptation of the classic thriller is a tour de force for actors. Popular romance novelist Paul Sheldon retires each winter to Colorado to write another work featuring heroine Misery Chastain. Driving while inebriated, he loses control of his car. He regains consciousness in a filthy, dilapidated farmhouse that is cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. Annie, the schizophrenic occupant, is his number one fan and she insists she will nurse him. His legs are crushed and he is virtually a prisoner dependant on her for pain relief. She discovers that his new book is not about Misery and she forces him to destroy it and write another. Thus begins Paul's descent into a living hell of pain, humiliation and degradation. Like Scheherazade, he must write a new chapter every day to stay alive. "It makes seats optional. The audience spent the evening on the edge."-London Daily Express. "Just as the suspense becomes intolerable there is a brilliantly delivered joke before the coup de grace. To make the audience gasp and laugh at the same instant is quite an achievement. . . . This is a compellingly cruel thriller." - London Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15538) MOMENT OF WEAKNESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Donald Churchill. 1m., 2 f. Int. This play by the author of the delightful The Decorator and Mixed Feelings is another comedy about modern marriage. Audrey and Tony are a middle-aged excouple meeting at their old weekend retreat to decide who gets what. Tony is eager to get this matter cleared up. He has re-married and his new wife, who is only eighteen but very mature for her years, is pregnant. She has come along for the ride but goes into labor and is rushed to the local hospital. It transpires that the baby is not Tony's! He is going to stand by Stella anyway, but what really unsettles him is finding out that Audrey is planning to get married again. He still loves her, you see-and she still loves him. The question is will they ever admit this to each other and to themselves? $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14978) MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., I f. Unit set. The great South African playwright confronts the tragedy of apartheid in his native land in this compelling tale about the efforts of a humble and humane black teacher in a segregated township. to persuade just one young person that education, not violence, is the answer to South Africa's problems. "A document of towering stature." -Philadelphia Inquirer. "The drama vacillates superbly between political parable and personal tragedy."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC and LA. (#15218) THE NAME GAME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lisa Soland. 2 m., I f. Int. Three misfits form a hilarious romantic triangle. Rose, a vulnerable girl who is full of life and love, is walking home late one night when she is robbed and abducted by an armed man wearing pantyhose over his head. Her shy abductor, Lincoln, is an iIwurable romantic who only wants to win Rose's heart. His impulsive method of courting is especially unfortunate because Rose is already engaged to Stuart, a rigidly law-loving Beverly Hills police officer. Their humorous relationship and Rose's unmet emotional needs are amusingly revealed when she tells Stuart about the exciting hold up. Delighted by Lincoln's offbeat wisdom, Rose falls in love with him but finds she is pregnant with Stuart's child (the handcuffs are to blame). Lincoln wants to marry Rose just the same, but she insists they seek permission from her guardian-Stuart, who responds with a punch that knocks out Lincoln. At that moment Rose realizes that it is her permission that matters. $6.50. (Royalty, (#16092) $60-$40.) NATIONAL ANTHEMS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Dennis McIntyre. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Long Wharf Theatre premiered this hard-hitting parable about American materialism by the author of Modigliani, Split Second and Established Price. In their sumptuous home, the Reeds have hosted a party for their neighbors. It is late and everyone has gone when a final guest arrives, a fireman who is not of the Reeds' socio-economic position. Nonetheless, the Reeds are gracious until the guest's desperation for material comforts, status and pride surfaces and things get nasty. "Profane, smart and disturbingly funny ... with an acuteness that's as up-to-date as this morning's newspaper headlines."-Rochester Times-Union. "McIntyre demonstrates his visceral sense of theatricality as well as his own state-of-the-heart awareness of contemporary behavior."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly (#15982) Restricted. PARKED. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Rita Norton Mazza. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. A disheveled divorcee doing her best to nurture three kids on her own, a successful freelance artist, and an unfulfilled suburban mom with aspirations of starting her own business seem to have only one thing in common: their children play together. They develop an unlikely friendship until a misunderstanding twists into an emotional battleground. Winner, Mid South Playwrights Award, 1993. "[A]light-hearted look at platonic love between the sexes." ~Commercial Appeal. "Combines witty, thoughtful dialogue with humor and sensitivity and refreshingly strong female characterization."-Memphis Business Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly (#17967) Restricted. THE POOR BEGGAR AND THE FAIRY GODMOTHER. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Allais. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., I f. This proto-absurdist fantasy farce pits an articulate but penniless Parisian beggar against mischievously hostile Fate, despite a sympathetic singing waiter, the purveyor of temporary liquid consolation, and the intercession of a well-intentioned but limited fairy godmother. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18991)

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willingly resumes the affair. When her husband finds out, he suggests that they settle the matter like gentlemen do in books-with dueling pistols. He proposes a hunt to the death in the woods of Lake No Bottom. The "duel" provides male gratification and a thrill for the woman being fought over. As the defeated author limps off with a flesh wound, the marriage he leaves behind is poignantly refreshed. Marsha Mason starred Off Broadway at Second Stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14688) TAKING STOCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Schotter. 3 m. Int. Alvi and Sam, partneJrs and pals, have run a sporting goods store on New York's West Side for forty years. It's Memorial Day and they are taking stock of their inventory and their optiom. The neighborhood has changed, the yuppie landlord is raising the rent and the customers don't know the first thing about sports. Sam wants to renovate; Alvi doesn't want to change a thing. As the two old friends struggle over their future, they reveal their fears, hopes, passions and affection for each other. This wise and witty play delighted audiences at the Jewish Repertory Theatre in New York. "Funny and heart-warming."-N.Y. Daily News. "Light-hearted entertainment . . . [with] sure-fire laughs."-Jewish Week. "Hilarious."-Theatre Week. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22639) HOME GAMES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Ziegler. 2 m., I f. Int. The American Stage Co. and the Hudson Guild Theatre both had hits with this romantic comedy. Mtmle Mae Tucker supports herself, her dad, a canary and a blind cat working as a truck dispatcher. Dad was once a Yankee-he spent the 1955 season on the bench and then retired rather than be traded to Cleveland. He lives in a demented twilight zone, walking around in his uniform and talking to the audience as he would to Casey Stengel. When Mertle Mae takes a night school class, she meets and falls in love with a successful young executive. He loves Mertle Mae but is not so sure about taking on dear old dad. He finds an old-folks home in Cleveland, but Mertle Mae can't bring herself to put him there even though she knows Frank is her big chance in life. Dad, more aware than the lovers realize, informs Casey that he will allow himself to be traded to Cleveland after all. "Beguiling." -N. Y. Post. "Delightful."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10107) A STONE CARVER (formerly, THE UNDERSTANDING). (Little Theatre). Drama. William Mastrosimone. 2 m., I f. Int. Agostino Malatesta, a retired stone mason, refuses to leave his house after the government has condemned it to make way for a new highway, because it is his home, with all its memories of where he lived all his life with his late wife and raised his son Raff, where he grew his own grapes and made his own wine. Raff (short for "Rafael") comes home to persuade his father that he must move. He brings along his "fiancee" (the girl he lives with), and the spa:rks fly as generation does battle with generation. This is an extraordinary play by the author of The Woolgatherer, Extremities, A Tantalizing, Shivaree and Nanawatai. "A blockbuster!"-Rockland County Times. "Packs a mighty wallop . . . 90 uninterrupted minutes of pure dra:matic power. Rarely has raw family conflict looked and sounded so real."-Times Herald Record. "Impeccable theatre.. . An entertaining and powerful dra:ma. . . . A 'must-see' play."-Rockland Review. $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted. (#23028) THE DECORATOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Donald Churchill. 1m., 2 f. Int. Marcia returns to her flat to find it has not been painted as she arranged. A part-time painter who is filling in for an ill colleague is just beginning the work when the wife of the man with whom Marcia is having an affair arrives to tell all to Marcia's husband. Marcia hires the painter (a part-time actor) to impersonate her husband at the confrontation. Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the painter, who takes his acting vel)' seriously, portrays the absent husband. The wronged wife decides that the best revenge is to sleep with Marcia's husband-an ecstatic experience for them both. When Marcia lea:ms that the painter/actor has slept with her rival, she demands the opportunity to show him what really good sex is. "Irresistible." -London Daily Telegraph. "This play will leave you rolling in the aisles.. . I all but fell from my seat laughing."-London Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6173) DANGEROUS OBSESSION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. N.J. Crisp. 2 m., I f. Int. A man obsessed with pinning the bla:me for his wife's accident on someone enters the Driscoll home and shatters their marriage. "Has so many surprises that each new revelation . turned up like unexpected hidden cards in a poker game."-London Evening Standard. "Achieves the near impossible by tightening its grip in a steady way, then exerting greater pressure after the breaking point seemed inevitable."-Daily Mail. "So powerfully applies the tricks of suspense that the audience dared not to cough for fear of missing the next tum of the screw.' '-London Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5959) THEATER TRIP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., I f. I set. In this existential comedy an actor in a one-character play pleads with the author to give him a mate. The results are so disastrous that the author must enter the play to resolve the chaos. He is forced to resolve the plot in a way that a boy-meets-girl play has never before ended. "Clever, funny, warm and entertaining."-Jackson City Patriot. "Best new play for the year. Won a Thespie."-Lansing State Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22136) THREE WAYS HOME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Casey Kurtti. I m .. 2 f. Unit set. This haunting dra:ma consists of inter-locking monologues by a black woman, her disturbed teenaged son, and Sharon, a white social worker. Dawn is a streetwise super-mom with four kids. The other three are fine, but Frankie is faIling into a selfdestructive fantasy world peopled by supernatural buddies. The social worker tries to help Dawn and Frankie and becomes truly committed. At first, Dawn resists

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Sharon's help. Gradually the two women become friends united in a common goal: to save Frankie. "Beautifully constructed and very affecting comic dra:ma." -UP!. "Kurtti's writing is crisp, humorous, sometimes poignant, and always explicit." -Christian Science Monitor. "Contemporary, upbeat and engaging." -N. Y. Amsterdam News. "At the top of your must-see theatricallist."-Black American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22119) GROUCHO: A Life in Revue. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher. 2 m., I f., I m. extra. This inspired bio-musical about The One and Only begins with Groucho as an old man doing his fa:mous Ca:megie Hall show. It then goes back to the beginnings of the Marx Brothers and their struggles to make it in vaudeville, their rise to stardom and their eventual break up. All classic Groucho songs are included. One actor plays Groucho, another plays Chico and Harpo, and one actress plays all the wives, girlfriends and Margaret Dumont. A hit in New York, across the U.S. and in London, this show will delight Marx Brothers fans and the as-yet uninitiated. "Brilliant. . . . Headily funny . . . . An absolutely hilarious evening."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. CD, $17.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music Royalty plus rental fee on application. When ordering please state number of performances. Four optional slides available on receipt of a picture royalty of $10. Note: the slides are not returnable. (#9143) JAMES SKIPWORTH AND THE CATFISH COLONEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Cy Young. 2 m., I f. Int. A playwright has vowed to shoot himself unless someone agrees to option his play immediately. He appears at the office of producer Helen Osborne, an attractive and highly theatrical woman who is the reigning queen on a long-running soap opera. Anxious to be off to an important meeting at Sardi's, the producer doesn't take the increasingly anxious writer seriously until he nails her door shut. Helen uses all of her feminine wiles to escape as the action escalates into a zany free-for-all in which writer ties producer to a chair and, with the help of an actor friend in the hall outside, reads the play to her with side-splitting results. The producer finally turns the tables on the hapless writer as the action explodes into a fast-paced farce uniting all three in an hilarious and madcap finale. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#12009) SUNSETS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Cliff Harville, 2 m., I f. 3 ints.!1 ext. (simply suggested). This unusual look at those in their twilight years consists of two monologues and two one-act plays: George L. Smith and Sara Hubbard (the monologues) and A Silent Catastrophe and Hand Me My Afghan (the one-act plays). See Index for individual descriptions. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40 when performed collectively under the title Sunsets.) (#21387) PAPERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Allen Stratton. m., 2 f. Int. This inventive romantic comedy with a novel twist is by the author of Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii and Bingo. Professor Moira Fitzsimmons is lecturing about a novel by her colleague Martin Edwards. Her hilarious version of the love affair that inspired the novel constitutes the bulk of this sophisticated light comedy. Just as the autobiographical characters in the novel reach a loving resolution, it is revealed that Moira and Martin are happily married, and that the preceding lecture actually outlines the novelist latest book. "A clever script peppered with fiery barbs at academia, . . . provocative one-liners, . . . lots of belly-laughs." -Variety. "Allan Stratton has a gift for a funny line and a witty send-up."-Toronto Globe and Mail. "Stratton's love of theatre and people illuminated his work.. .. Packed with crispy-funny lines."-Toronto Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18678) THE MAINTENANCE MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Harris. 1m. 2 f., I set (2 ints.). This comedy by the author of Stepping Out is a bitter-sweet and perceptive look at the collapse of marriage and the development and decay of an affair. "Very funny indeed."-London Sunday Express. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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CRYSTAL CLEAR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Phil Young. I m. 2 f. I set. This beautiful and moving play confronts the basic question of how successfully two blind people can live in a world made for the sighted. Working on two levels the play is a sharp study of the experience of blindness as well as a picture of love trying to shut out the dark. "A harrowing, desperately moving parable about human selfishness in the face of the unbearable cruelty of fate."-London Sunday ExjJress. "A play of great passion, wit and above all honesty."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC & 100 mile radius. (#5750) BE HAPPY FOR ME. (Little' Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Sterner. 2 m., I f., I m. extra. Int./ext. (simply suggested). Philip Bosco, David Groh and Priscilla Lopez starred Off Broadway in this light-hea:rted tale of two middle-aged brothers on a vacation in Aruba by the author of Other People's Money. The men are searching for fun and adventure (i.e., women) but also for their misplaced happiness. Their father has recently passed away and the brothers decide some fun in the sun might be just the thing to kick the blues away. Phil, somewhat of a swinger, tries to advise his timid (and married) brother Norman on the ins and outs of getting laid. When Phil's exwife Elizabeth arrives to raise a little hell, Norman puts what he's lea:med to use-to hilarious and touching results. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3981) THE BEACH HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nancy Donohue. 2 m., I f., 2 m. extras. Comb. int/ext. Produced at Circle Repertory Co. in New York, this romantic comedy starred George Grizzard as a Yale immunologist and unreconstructed Southern gentleman whose wife left so he has retreated to the house with his teenaged son. Enter Annie, a 37 year-old former nun and hippie who has misread an

CHARACTERS address. Both father and son are charmed by her, and both need her. "A lighthearted romantic comedy."-New Yorker. "A funny, often insightful play."-WMCA-Radio. "Nancy Donohue clearly knows the kind of juicy characters actors love."-N.Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4653)

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life. A success at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Strange Snow became the major motion picture Jackknife which stars Robert DeNiro and Ed Harris. "Steve Metcalfe writes with a sense of humor, and an ear for idiom."-Village Voice. "What recommends Strange Snow is its basic humanity and the credibility of its affirmation."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21785) A LESSON FROM ALOES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., 1 f.lnt. Set in 1963 in a white district of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, this important play gives a compelling portrait of a society caught in the grip of a police state and the effect it has on individuals. A liberal Afrikaner who is actively involved in antiapartheid activity and his wife who is recovering from a nervous breakdown brought about by a police raid on their home are waiting for dinner guests-a Black family. They never arrive, but the head of the family does. He has just been released from prison and plans to flee South Africa-after first confronting the Afrikaner with the charge that he has betrayed him. "Exile, madness, utter loneliness-these are the only alternatives Mr. Fugard's characters have. What makes Aloes so moving is the playwright's insistence on the heroism and integrity of these harsh choices." -N. Y. Times. "Immensely moving."-N.Y. Post. N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Play of the Year. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14146) I OUGHT TO -lJE IN PICTURES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 1 m., 2 f. Int. or wagon. A once-successful Hollywood scriptwriter is having a dry run and his confidence is shaken. He does have some consolation in his off-and-on sleep-in relationship with a movie makeup woman. Suddenly he is confronted with his distant and almost-forgotten past in the person of his teenage daughter who's trekked to Hollywood from Brooklyn to get into the movies. '.'Terrific . . . sweet, dandy and touching . . . . A mature, memorable play that brings joy to the season."-N.Y. Post. "A finely-tuned theatrical blend of hilarity, honesty, directly and deeply-felt emotion. Go. "-WCBS-TV2. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#21) MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSON'S. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick. 2 m., I f. Int. All is fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense-comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. In the first episode, Mitchell, an obvious and commonplace dentist who sees himself as the dashing, heroic type and Arlene, a middle-aged "Femme Fatale" of sorts, plan to murder her husband Paul, a blundering used car salesman. In the second episode, having discovered that Mitchell has been unfaithful, Arlene allies herself with Paul to do away with Mitchell. In the third episode, the two men, feeling foolish and betrayed themselves, join forces against Arlene. This murder attempt, like the others, fails. "Enough laugh lines, mirth-provoking situations and extravagant sight gags to outfit two rapid-fire farces-of-the-absurd. "-Variety. "A holiday of laughter. . . . Beautifully polished, very funny (#730) very American comedy."-WNBC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) AMERICAN BUFFALO. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Mamet. 3 m. Int. Best American Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award 1976-77. In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection. Its existence came to light when the collector found a valuable "buffalo nickel" in the shop. The three plotter-punks fancy themselves as businessmen pursuing the legitimate concerns of free enterprise. In reality they are Donny, the stupid junk shop owner; Bobby, a spaced-out young junkie Donny has befriended and finally "Teacher", violent paranoid braggart. But their plans come to naught and in reality are futile, vulgar verbal exercises. Three excellent roles and character studies. Robert Duvall as "Teacher" returned to Broadway to critical acclaim after a long absence. "Gripping drama. . . . Mamet's first trip to Broadway. It will hardly be his last."-N.Y. Times. "Mamet is an actor's playwright. ... [He] senses the possibilities inarticulateness affords a savvy act9r."-WWD. "It isn't often that a play with a dramatic intensity of American Buffalo comes to the Broadway theatre." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#218) A LIFE IN THE THEATRE. (All Groups.) Comedy. David Mamet. 3 m. (1 nonspeaking). Bare stage w. props, drop and inset. Two actors perform, rehearse, discuss and argue over their work. In a series of play snippets that run the gamut from melodrama and sheer com to pseudo-Chekhov, they portray the reality as well as the illusion of acting. Mishaps of the kind peculiar to the theatre occur with hilarious regUlarity. "A comedy about the artifice of acting . . . . [that] is also about the artifice of living . . . . A glorious comedy."-N.Y. Times. "A comic masterpiece."-N.Y. Daily News. "The warmest (and often the funniest) play in town."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Tape available of music from New York production on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) Slightly Restricted. (#91) NEXT TIME, FOR REAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harry Cauley. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Sydnee Post wants to be the new Piaf. At the festival of San Gennaro, she meets vacationing Mark Webster and invites him to hear her sing. She's terrible and the only person who will tell her the truth is her neighbor Walter-a witty, warmhearted transvestite. Walter tells Mark that Sydnee's only reality is her dream world: her music, her made-up family, her fairy-tale background. Mark is forced to face the life he's running away from, Sydnee decides to face the future more realistically, and Walter gets ajob as a hat check girl. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#16650) CABIN FEVER. (Little Theatre.) Black comedy. Joan SchenkM. 2 m., 1 f. Unit set. This comedy of menace features three malevolent New England oldsters on a country porch reciting horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs.

PIZZA MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Darlene Craviotto. 1m., 2 f. Int. It's a hot summer evening and Julie Rodgers has had a bad day. Her boss made a pass at her and she said no so she got a pink slip with her check. Julie's broke and disillusioned, so she drinks and turns on the stereo full blast to make the pain go away. Then her roommate comes home in the midst of an eating frenzy; her boyfriend has gone back to his wife so Alice has turned to food to forget. Julie suggests another way to vent their man-caused frustrations: they should pick a guy-any guy-and rape him. Men have been doing it for years-why can't a woman try it? Enter a pizza delivery man who agrees to come in and share a beer with them. The evening gets crazier, wilder, angrier, and very, very funny. "A darling comedy of the female dilemma that deserves a long life. "-Dramalogue. "A gem."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#18921) $35.) THE INTERNATIONAL STUD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harvey Fierstein. 2 m., 1 f. See Index under Torch Song Trilogy. PAINTING CHURCHES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Tina Howe. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them-and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art-ineffable and timeless. "Beautifully written. . . . A theatrical family portrait that has the shimmer and depth of Renoir portraits."-N.Y. Times. "A radiant, loving and zestfully humorous play ... distinctly Chekhovian. Howe captures the same edgy surface of false hilarity, the same unutterable sadness beneath it, and the indomitable valor (#871) beneath both."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE BUSINESS OF MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Richard Harris. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A critical and popular success in London, this psychological thriller about revenge centers on the interlocking triangular relationship between Dee, a successful television playwright; Hallet, a detective-superintendent; and Stone, a humorless, prissy man. Dee arrives at Stone's flat, having accepted an invitation to discuss a script by Stone's wife. She is rather surprised when Hallett, with whom she is having an affair, also arrives, apparently to investigate a matter concerning Stone's son and his involvement with a drug ring. But where are wife and son? After many twists and turns, Stone's intentions become clear as he slowly reveals the precise nature of the trio's relationship: all three are very much concerned with the business of murder and the play culminates in another perpetration of the crime. "Welcome to a thriller that achieves it all. ... Sensational."-London Times. "The most ingenious murder mystery to have appeared on the London stage in a decade."-LondonDaily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-40.) (#4140) AGNES OF GOD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Pielmeier. 3 f. Doctor Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, seems bent on protecting Sister Agnes from the doctor, and Livingstone's suspicions are immediately aroused. In searching for solutions to various mysteries (Who killed the baby? Who fathered the child?) Livingstone forces all three women, herself included, to face some harsh realities in their own lives, and to re-examine the meaning of faith and the commitment of love. "Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama . . . . The dialogue crackles."-N.Y. Daily News. "Outstanding play [that] ... deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology."-N.Y. Times. "Unquestionably blindingly theatrical. . . . Cleverly executed blood and guts evening in the theatre."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music, $3.00. (Music royalty, $7.50 for entire production). Slightly Restricted within a 50-mile radius of NY and LA. Posters (#236) VANITIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jack Heifner. 3 f. Var. sets. A bittersweet comedy that is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged-their friendship, which once thrived on assumption as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old-time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common. "Unnervingly funny . . . . Fast-moving, sneakily stinging dialogue."-Newsweek. "Uncommonly attractive."-New York Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Posters (#120) STRANGE SNOW. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Stephen Metcalfe. 2 m., I f. lnt. It is 5 a.m. on the first day of the fishing season and Megs is determined to get his buddy up, but David has a terrible hang-over that is not entirely from last night's drinking. Megs and David served together in Vietnam, and David still blames himself for the death of their pal Bobby. David lives with his sister Martha, a high school teacher who is enjoying a budding romance with the delightful Megs. 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"Cabin Fever" has been produce around the globe. "The real world of the play is the familiar haunted by the unknown, parody colliding into cartoon, as if an antic Samuel Beckett has allowed himself to be kidnaped by a gloomily playful Charles Addams." _. Village Voice. ,. Severe apprehension, chilling suspicion, and the most "Severe type of stomach grinding humor combine to make a relentless play . . . . One of the most unique adult dramas of our time." -Sun Coast Gondolier. "A compellingly ambiguous static drama, at times suggesting an allegory of a society gone sour on itself or a spiteful game played by malevolent gods atop some Appalachian (#5065) Olympus." L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. THE JUNIPER TREE, A TRAGIC HOUSEHOLD TALE. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Wendy Kesselman. 1 m., 1 f. plus small on-stage combo and f. narrator/singer. Ext. "Wendy Kesselman has taken The Juniper Tree, the Brothers Grimm story, and turned it into a haunting little musical in the shape of a ballad. .. The events-including murder and cannibalism-are gruesome, but the telling has a childlike Story Theatre quality . . . as exemplified by her ballad of 'The Juniper Tree' and her earlier play My Sister in This House, the versatile Miss Kesselman has a fabulist's view of guilt and retribution."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music available, write for information. (#12619) BIRTHDAY. (All Groups.) Mystery-Thriller. Mario Fratti. 2 m. I f. Int. A servant welcomes the daughter of a rich gentleman who has come on her annual birthday visit. Are they really father and daughter? What's the role of the servant? "All of Fratti's plays begin with a bizarre dramatic situation. This he then develops and exploits in innumerable ways-but his purpose is always to lead us from distortion of reality to a fuller understanding of it."-Robert W. Corrigan in Masterpieces of the Modem Theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4639) WALLY'S CAFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick. 1m., 2 f. Int. This gag-filled comedy by the authors of Norman, Is That You? and Murder at the Howard Johnson is about a couple who run a diner near Las Vegas. In 1940 their only customer (it seems) is a footsore Illinois girl hitchhiking to Hollywood and certain stardom. Years later she retums-in a limousine-to bailout her old friends. "The best comic explosion you'll see on Broadway this season."-NY. Daily News. "Funny, disarming and engaging."-WINS. "Wonderful wacky comedy."-AP. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25020) I WON'T DANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Oliver Hailey. 1m., 2 f. Int. This intriguing and unusual play was staged originally at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre and brought to Broadway by David Merrick. The story concerns a paraplegic whose brother, a Hollywood celebrity, has recently been murdered. Mr. Hailey's gift for wit and black humor has never been better demonstrated as he explores the relationships between the paraplegic, his sister and a kookie young aspiring starlet. "Who done it", we wonder all along-but it turns out that the murder was yet another example of unexplained, random violence. "The structure is fascinating, the dialogue snaps, it crackles, you could have it for breakfast." -ABC- TV. "Hailey is a (#11082) talented writer." -Newark Star-Ledger. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) MISS JULIE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Strindberg. 3 versions: translated by Harry G. Carlson, by E. M. Sprinchorn and by Truda Stockenstrom. The Carlson version of this great naturalistic tragedy was commissioned for Off Broadway. "Carlson's greatest achievement in the translation is that he's gotten poetry into the images."-American Theatre Maga~ine. The Carlson translation is in Strindberg: Five Plays. $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) The Sprinchorn translation is in Seeds of Modem Drama, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) The Stockenstrom translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Carlson translation (#15674) Sprinchorn translation (#15116) Stockenstrom translation (#15564) MEETINGS. (Black Groups.) Comedy. Mustapha Matura. 1m., 2 f. Int. Set in an ultra-modem kitchen in Trinidad that is well-stocked with everything but food, this comedy is about a successf\ll engineer who pines for some down-home cooking. His wife, a successful executive, is too busy marketing cigarettes to cook. Soon, the local people are coughing up blood and dying. "An amazing piece of theatre. . A highly literal parable about the poisoning of a tropical isle by modem commercialism."--Women's Wear Daily. "A bright, sharp comedy that turns into a somber fable before your eyes." -New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15659) THE KINGnSHER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Douglas Home. 2 m., I f. Ext. Cecil, a seventy-year-old successful novelist living comfortably with his fussy old butler liS contemplating marriage. The object of his affections, Evelyn, has just buried the man she married fifty years ago after being propositioned by Cecil. She is confronted with a candid and channing proposal in this delight that starred Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert on Broadway. "A delightful flight of fancy."-NY. Post. "Delightful comedy."-NY. Daily News. "Bewitching fun! . . . Elegant, civilized." -A.P. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#627) FAITH HEALER. Drama. (Advanced Groups.) Brian Friel. 2 m, I f. Int. In this darkly lyrical tale of a traveling faith healer roaming through Scotland and Wales with his Wife and his manager, the author has created a metaphorical portrait of the artist as both creator and destroyer. The Broadway production starred James Mason. "One of those rare works of art audiences are destined to recall as a deeply personal experience. . A powerful piece of writing."-N.Y. Times. "Mr. Friel writes with a certain Irish lyricism and raises important questions."-Wall Street Journal.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS "Rich in language and imagery."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8023) PEOPLE! (Little Theatre.) Three comedies. John Patrick. 2 m., I f. Int. Each of these plays used the same cast in different roles. Christmas Spirit is about a happy man about to go on a vacation who is hopelessly depressed by a couple who drop in to wish him Christmas cheer. Aptitude concerns a couple who have a guest drop in who claims he can fix anything. He almost wrecks the apartment with his tools. In Boredom, a young couple have a guest who always makes his conversation rhyme, which drives the wife up the wall. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40, or $20-$15 per play when performed separately.) People (#18041) Christmas Spirit (#05851) Aptitude (#18041) Boredom (#18041) THAT'S NOT MY FATHER! (Little Theatre.) Three comedies. John Patrick. 2 m., I f. Int. In Raconteur Mother and son discourage the father from considering himself a peerless wit with contrived boredom. In Fettucine bickering parents are almost cured by the son's prospect of marrying wealth. In Masquerade mother and son become reconciled to the father wearing his wife's clothes to prove his masculinity. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40, or $25-$20 per play when performed separately.) That's Not My Father! (#22048) Raconteur (#19974) Fettucine (#8166) Masquerade (#15583) STEVIE. (All Groups.) Biographical play. Hugh Whitemore. 1m., 2 f. Int. Using a mixture of biography, autobiography, narration and examples of her works, this play dramatizes the tragi-coffiic life of British poetess Stevie Smith. A narrator comments on the action from one side of the set and from time to time enters to represent various characters. "There is enough unassuming laughter in Stevie to provide a steady flow of pleasure."-NY. Magazine. "Warm, engrossing and winning."-WWD. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21336) ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Stephen Levi. 2 m., I f. Int. A beautiful young book illustrator is having an affair with her dream man, a ruggedly attractive owner of a demolition company. When he announces his intention to leave his family, Donna gets looped and awakes in the arms of an angeliclooking man with "Wings" printed on his sweat shirt. He seems to know everything about her, including her present predicament. Complications ensue when the lover shows up suitcase in hand to discover Donna is sharing her apartment with her "guardian angel." Laughs and surprises come fast and furious as the men vie for Donna's affections. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3072) STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT. (little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., I f. Platform w. drop. In South Africa a colored slum-school principal and a white librarian are in love-a love prohibited under the state's Immorality Act. They're caught and arrested, but the play's focus is not on the arrest itself but on the couple and the shadow between them-a crippling one stripping them of their dignity and self-respect. Theirs is not only a forbidden love that must be hidden, but one so fragile and painful due to conditions not of their making. After the arrest, they alternately perfonn a kind of piteous psychological stripping of themselves and finally the colored man wrenchingly describes the complete moral devastation the state has inflicted on him and his people. "Touching, moving and beautiful."-NY. Times. In Statements, $12.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#21329) AN ALMOST PERFECT PERSON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Judith Ross. 2 m., I f. (and one voice off). Int. This sure hit for stock and dinner theaters is about politics, sexual equality-and sex. In New York City on election night Irene Porter, widowed Democratic contender for a congressional seat, has just learned she's been narrowly defeated by the elderly male Republican incumbent. Picking up the pieces, Irene turns to romance-and bed. Her first fling is with her campaign manager and her second (one night later) is with her campaign treasurer. The two men come to blows over her and then they tum on her, accusing her of fickleness. But Irene gets her man and turns her thoughts to running for mayor. Colleen Dewhurst starred on Broadway. "Amusing dialogue."-NY. Daily News. "Interesting and intelligent."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#34) COLD STORAGE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Ribman. 2 m., I f. Ext. An investment advisor in fine art encounters an Armenian fruit and vegetable merchant in the roof garden of a New York hospital. Through intensive probing, the cancerstricken Armenian unravels the paralyzing truth about his companion-the price he paid to survive the Holocaust. "Graceful, intelligent and worthwhile."-NY. Times. "Extraordinary wit. . . . Funny, assertive and entertaining."-NY. Post. "A theatre experience to be treasured."-Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the 1977 N.Y. Drama Critics Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#330) PORCH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Jeffrey Sweet. 2 m., I f. Simple set. A woman, her father and an old boyfriend confront each other on a Midwestern front porch. "A family play about open warfare and buried love between a father and daughter written with subtlety and increasingly compelling emotion."-NY. Times. "It's lovely to watch this finely wrought, gracefully executed play draw an audience completely into its world." -Chicago Tribune. Best Drama Award of 1978: Society

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She ends in an asylum, and the father in his fumbling way tries to tell the son to live the life he must. "The boy is plunged into a world of suffering he didn't create. . . . One of the most electrifying plays I've seen in the past few years . . . . Goes straight to the heart." -Sunday News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4120) THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN. (Little Theatre.) Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., I f. Int. The author of The Subject Was Roses turns his attention to the fascinating arena of romance and broken dreams known as Las Vegas. While a piano-player amasses a bankroll so he can win a fortune and a chorine waits for her married suitor to rescue her, the two fall in love. "Has a distinguished gift for realistic drama. Mr. Gilroy can create believable characters and knows where to put in an amusing line." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC area. (#808) THE SLAVE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. LeRoi Jones. 2 m., I f. Int. Another of Jones' Off-Broadway shockers, this occurs in a time of great conflagration, when the Blacks have risen up wholesale and begun bombing and burning the civilization of white America. Into a professor's house comes a Black with a pistol. He had previously been married to the professor's wife, and the two mulatto girls upstairs are his. It is his iptention to kill both the professor and his wife, and take the girls away with him. But he only partly succeeds, for the wife and children actually die in their own collapsing house. The speech of all three is comprised of no-holds-barred (#21213) words. Published with Dutchman. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$30.) DUTCHMAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. LeRoi Jones. 2 m., I f., extras. Subway car int. This is the first of Jones' successes, and the cause of his critical acclaim. A lascivious blond tries every vulgar way she knows to pick up and seduce a decent negro youth in a subway car. Failing, she resorts to humiliating him. This breaks the facade of his decency, as he descends to her level for a spitfire fight and decrees that murder of the whites by the blacks "would make us all sane." She stabs him and, as other whites dispose of his body, primps for her next Black victim. "A fierce and blazing talent."-N.Y. Herflld Tribune. Published with The Slave, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$30.) (#6129) THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., I f. Int. The action in this engrossing drama is deceptively simple. A son who went away to war as a pampered boy comes back as a man of his own, and the varying effects on his mother and father are devastating. They want to love each other, to relive the good old times and build some better ones together, but each finds it impossible to communicate with either of the others. They have grown irrevocably apart, and can no longer reconcile the dream and the reality. A polka with his mother throws both her and Timmy into fits of laughter; but then, this isn't the boy she remembers at all. His father gives up a lucrative business appointment to take him to a ball game, and they have a whale of a time; but the next morning the rancor of husband-and-wife turns sour the love of father for son. They want to love one another, but do not know how. Pulitzer Prize, 1965; Best Play of the Year, N~Y. Drama Critics. "In this comer, the verdict is roses . . . . Tender and lucid play."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#1009) THE PERFECT SETUP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jack Sher. 1m., 2 f. Int. A public relations man has a lovely wife in Westchester and a girl friend in New York City. When he then discovers his wife is seeing another man, she says she's only practicing his theory of marital freedom. And so our man bounces back and forth between the two ladies. Finally, he returns, contrite, to his wife and learns she's never loved anyone but him. "Funny, engaging, tender, even poignant."-N.Y. World-Telegram and Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18055) BEGINNINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Patty Gideon Sloan. 2 m., I f. Ext. A comic retelling of the biblical myth of man's beginnings in light of what we know has happened to him since; a look at the way the world is, not as we may suppose God wanted it to be. Thus, man is given self-will by a God who knows he will abuse it-yet knows also man cannot redeem himself without it. Depicted are such human frailties as pride, worship of "progress" and dogged refusal to believe those things which we do not wish to believe. It is, paradoxically, through comedy the contemporary playwright seems best able to present such a serious, significant statement about (#261) man, God and the world in which we live. $6.50. (Royalty $25-$20.) RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Dyer. 2 m., I f. Int. Tammy Grimes impersonated a trollop with a vivid imagination in the Broadway production of the English hit. With an aristocratic background borrowed from novels she's read, she picks up a lonely man who's come down to London for a frolic, and takes him off to her basement apartment. His pretension to worldliness quickly goes sour, for he has no experience with women and is totally gauche in this new situation. Neither of them is really what he seems. One by one they strip away the pretenses that mask their loneliness. "Honest and comic and pathetic." -N. Y. Times. "Caustic, funny and winning goings-on."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20011) CHAMPAGNE COMPLEX. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Leslie Stevens. 2 m., I f. Int. A lovely young girl who works on a magazine in New York is engaged to a serious and pompous young business executive. He adores her in his fashion, but has a ragtag time smoothing relations between the carefree girl and his stuffy familyespecially after that night at a champagne reception when she started to disrobe. Now he must be eternally vigilant to prevent any further embarrassing strips. He calls on his uncle, a psychiatrist, for assistance. It seems that, deep down inside, the girl does not love her stuffy fiance; hence her champagne complex. With Donald

LOVE NEST FOR THREE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Patrick. 2 m., I f. Three one-act plays reveal amorous events in different apartments on the sixth floor of a New York building. The actors play different roles in each apartment. In Decisions a girl who has been living with two men and invites them to a conference to decide which one she will marry. Strategy reveals how a single girl successfully discourages her predatory male guests. Progression is a story of light-hearted infidelity and a trapped lover who escapes dressed as a Puerto Rican maid. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40, or $25-$20 per play when performed separately.) Love Nest for Three (#14011) Decisions (#6635) Strategy (#21603) Progression (#18602) TREATS. (Little Theatre.) Play. Christopher Hampton. 2 m., I f. Int In the enclosed, insulated world of a London flat-the only intrusion into which is a brief outburst of demonstrators' voices against the Home Secretary who lives nearby-are worked out the permutations and combinations of Ann and her two lovers. Dave, her previous companion, a journalist, has been away and on returning finds that he has been replaced by Patrick, a conventional man of the office, amiable but dull. Though Ann rules the roost, she herself is weak enough to be unable to do without one of them; and in the end Dave is reinstalled and Patrick dismissed. But how long this will last is anybody's guess. In three of the nine scenes the stage is occupied by each of the three characters-alone; so that a glimpse is afforded of their behavior during their unobserved and private moments, to be set against the pattern of their interchanging relationships. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22002) THE CATALYST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ronald Duncan. 1m., 2 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5039) A GENTLEMAN AND A SCOUNDREL. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 2 m., I f. Int. An underpaid worker hires himself-in disguise-as his own assistant to increase his income. His sweetheart falls for his phony self and he becomes his own rival. "Side-splitting. "-Lerner-Voice. "A comedy with the accent on fun."-Beacon-News. "Delightful . . . lighthearted, fast-paced quality entertainment."-Daily Chronicle. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9018) LANDSCAPE AND SILENCE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Harold Pinter. 2 m., I f. Bare stage with bed and chairs. Two short plays transcend the previous uses of language on stage, becoming less literal and more subliminal to give voice to unspoken thoughts. In Silence a young girl's encounters with two male friends are told in contrapuntal triad, swimming with memories. In Landscape the memories of a hired couple who have been untrue to the other flow subliminally though their conversations. The things said are the things usually left unsaid. The Lincoln Center production presented Silence, Landscape and Silence again. "The most important English-speaking playwright of our time, and this double bill is very possibly the best yet of his work."-N.Y. Times. "Unspeakably beautiful, unutterably moving."-Cue Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35, or $25-$20 per play when performed separately.) Slightly Restricted. (#14031) BOESMAN AND LENA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., I f. Ext. Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions-the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans but nothing to cook in them. They are the dregs of society, the stepped upon, the spat upon. "The play is carefully structured as a dance-first with Lena's solo, then with a pas de deux, then with Boesman's verbal self-expression. An old man stumbles on the two Hottentots, and becomes the physical catalyst of their relationship, precipitating a crisis and a credible resolution." -Hollywood Reporter. "Athol Fugard, the South African playwright, has written some fine plays, but certainly none better than the amazing Boesman and Lena, which is great; absolutely superb."-ABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, (#39) $50-$35.) ECHOES. (All Groups.) Drama. N. Richard Nash. 2 m., I f. Int. A young man and woman build a low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizingly, to determine the difference between illusion and reality. The effort is lightened by moments of shared love and "pretend" games, like decorating Christmas trees that are not really there. The theme of love, vulnerable to the surveillances of the asylum, and the ministrations of the psychiatrist, (a nonspeaking part) seems as fragile in the constrained setting as it often is in the outside world. "Even with the tragic, somber theme there is a note of hope and possible release and the situations presented also have universal applications to give strong effect. . . intellectual, but charged with emotion." Rex Reed. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7003) A BREEZE FROM THE GULF. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mart Crowley. 2 m., I f. Unit set. The author of "The Boys in the Band" takes us on a journey back to a small Mississippi town to watch a 15-year-old boy suffer through adolescence to adulthood and success as a writer. His mother is a frilly southern doll who has nothing to fall back on when her beauty fades. She develops headaches and other physical problems, while the asthmatic son turns to dolls and toys at an age when other boys are turning to sports. 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Cook in the role of the psychiatrist, it's easy to see why the girl finally settled for his bedside manner. "It shimmers and is cheerful."-N.Y. Daily News. "The dialogue is bright [and] funny."-N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#311) THE WORLD OF CARL SANDBURG. (All Groups.) Reading. 2 m., I f. The best of the Pulitl.er Prize winner's verse and prose is interspersed with optional American folk songs. "Playful and serious, childlike and wise. commonplace and fresh, homespun and poetic. distinctively American and daringly boundless. . . . Dry in its wit, like a prairie philosopher, and passionate in its convictions like one of the Lord's prophets."-N.Y. Times. "The snappers that mark the endings of so many Sandburg aphorisms are unfailingly comic."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Alllerican Songbag, a collection of folk music anthologized by Carl Sandburg, $24.00. (#122) COWBOY MOUTH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sam Shepard and Patti Smith. 2 m., I f. Int. The slapdash of the speeches and the spontaneousness of its two central characters, Slim and Cavale, make a shape that is a paw print of the universe. It is an organic motion that is representative of the action of the physical mind-the mind of the author's body and ultimately everyone's body. In Fool for Love & Other Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5158) THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Shaffer. 2 m., I f. Unanimous critical acclaim greeted both the London and Broadway productions of these delightful one-act plays: The Private Ear and The Public Eye. "They are silky-smooth, literate, witty and irresistibly human."-N.Y. Daily News. "Th!y have in common a most winning quality of humor, sympathy, fresh characterization, imaginative observation and brightly artful entertainment.' -N. Y. Post. See index for individual descriptions. Published separately, $4.25 each. (Roy(#97) alty. $50-$35 when performed together or $25-$20 per play.) SLAG. (Adv:anced Groups.) Drama. David Hare. 3 f. 3 simp. ints.!1 simp. ext. Militant feminists running an exclusive school pledge to create an ideal community without men. "A tOllr de force of marked originality." -London Times. "Stunning dialogue, assured wit and theatrical virtuosity. .. Revels in blunt, vulgar, uninhibited, sometimes even poetic, lines that keep this curious play always alive and throbbing."-London Evening Standard. In Early Plays by David Hare, $18.00. (#21175) (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC & 100 mile radius. THE MAIDS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 3 f. Int. Carries on Genet's fixation upon the netherworld of life, showing us two maids who are sisters. They are servants, the servile dregs of society, and expendable. But Genet does not look upon them at all; rather he sees through their eyes and minds the rest of the nightmare world. Alone, the sisters take turns in pretending to be the rich lady of the house, and acting out their own vicious charades. It is this ability to'pretend to be other than they are that keeps them alive; while at the same time the charades vitiate them. The scenes occur while Madame has gone for a rendezvous with her lover. In The Maids and Deathwatch, $13.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15036) EYES OF THE AMERICAN. (Advanced Black Groups.) Drama. Samm-Art Williams. 2 m .. I f. Unit set. A CIA agent posing as a tourist in the Caribbean meets the taxi driver who is leading a revolution because he wants to be a king. "Gives some political and moral thought food, and also nourishing roles for three actors . . . . It is nice to have a play around willing to raise issues-especially such issues as power. dictatorship and colonialism."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#414) CRIMINAL MINDS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Robin Swicord. 2 m., I f. Ext. This humorous, compelling play is set at an abandoned mini-golf course. An exconvict. hi, long-suffering wife. and an escapee named Renfro are hiding-out. The husband is convinced Renfro is a criminal genius, even though it is impossible for him to remember anything longer than 30 seconds. The play is a series of hilarious episodes in which they try to help Renfro remember so they can employ his talents to strike it rich. Eventually. they succeed only too well. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5189) IT'S A DOG'S LIFE. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. John Patrick. 2 m., If.. Int. The Gift: When a couple receive news that they are to receive an inheritance they are all aflutter-until their legacy turns out to be a small dog named King Kong. It turns out, though, that the dog's collar is encrusted with diamonds. CoIncidence: Prudence keeps a dog in a luxury New York apartment, which is against her lease. Her efforts to breed the dog and stay out of trouble form the core of this farce. The Divorce: Adam and Peggy are getting a divorce. Of course. it is their dog who eventually reconciles them. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 when performed together or $25-$20 per one-act play.) It's a Dog's Life (#11087) The Gift (#9186) Co-Incidence (#5897) The Divorce (#6931) ORPHANS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Lyle Kessler. 3 m. Int. Off-Broadway audiences gave this moving drama standing ovations. Two brothers live in North Philly, the older one supporting himself and his slightly-retarded brother by petty thievery. He brings home a guy to get him drunk and roll him. Harold is very richand on the lam. He establishes a base of operations and, in a strange, hilarious and

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS moving way, becomes a father figure for the orphans. "A weird, wonderful thriller filled with suspense, pathos and packing an emotional wallop."-WMCA Radio. "Keeps you transfixed."-N.Y. Daily NeIl'S. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Optional music by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays used in the Off-Broadway production is available on cassette. $21.00, or on two reel-to-reel tapes, $35.00. A cue sheet is included. (Music Royalty, $5 per performance. payable when tape is ordered.) (#17059) Please specify author when ordering. THE INTERVIEW. (Advanced Groups.) Play. Thorn Thomas. 3 m. Int. An American reporter flies to Rome to interview a reclusive celebrity. With disarming wit, the enigmatic subject lures the reporter into revealing a great deal about himself until he pushes the young man to the limits of his ambition and leaves him shattered by selfrecognition. "Creates a Pinteresque mood of menace from which the only possible release is violence."-N.Y. Times. "Beautifully written."-Pittsburgh Post-Ga(#11059) zette. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE MAN IN 605. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Alan Gross. 3 m., Int. Eldon Schweig, a once-famous poet: is on the skids. He is eking out what is left of his lungs and guts in a seedy Greenwich Village hotd. When he isn't struggling with writer's block, he drinks and smokes in the White Horse Tavern, not unlike Dylan Thomas. His life is complicated by an uncooperative desk clerk and by an energetic college freshman. perhaps Eldon's last fan. Set in 1966, the story of this confrontation between hopeful youth and disillusioned old age is seen though the eyes of the youth. "The playwright is a man of emerging talent."-NY. Post. "Engaging."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15049) MEDAL OF HONOR RAG. (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Edition. Tom Cole. 3 m. (2 white, I black). In an army hospital, a black winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor and a psychiatrist, both guilty survivors of Viet Nam, verbally spar until the doctor draws out the horror and disgust that has traumatized OJ. His barriers crumbling, OJ. turns on the psychiatrist and exposes the man behind the professional facade. Yet DJ. desperately hopes-and the psychiatrist believes-he can be helped. Before another interview takes place, OJ. goes AWOL to get money for unpaid bills and is killed in an attempted robbery. "'Twenty-five years ... since [its] premiere, Medal of Honor Rag retains its relevance, its power, its tortured compassion. .. [It] remains absorbing theatre and a bracing reminder of time past and distance yet to be traveled." N. Y. Times. "Cole has handled explosives with great intelligence and rich human understanding.. . Beautifully written."-WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Tape, $10 rental fee per performance plus a $25 deposit. (#691) FRIDAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Hugo Claus. Translated by Hugo Claus and Christopher Logue. 3 m. Int. A comedy which seems to satirize a particular working-class way of life-phlegmatic. materialistic. TV and football oriented, with the slightly cynical quality of life lived on the edge of the urban sprawl. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) . (#8647)

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*MOTHERHOUSE. (Black Groups.) Drama. Victor Lodato. 2 m., 2 f. Various sets. The play follows an African-American family in a low-income neighborhood as their lives are destroyed by their surroundings. Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his mother and his sister. He claims that he is fleeing from the police- but perhaps it's another one of his delusions. He is not aware that he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, his sister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. As fate seems bent on shattering the walls, Mother Mae valiantly attempts to keep house. The author is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of the 2002 L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Motherhouse. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#15726) *THE STRAITS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Gregory Burke. 3 m., 1 f. Unit set. During the Falklands War four teenagers spend an extraordinary summer stuck in Gibraltar, where their parents are on diplomatic assignment. In this archaic remnant of the Empire, these young people try to figure out how to approach adulthood and become whoever it is they are going to be. The playwright draws on his own experiences growing up as part of a family stationed in Gibraltar to enrich this drama. "A terrific find !"-Ilytheatre.com. "Burke once more proves himself a writer with something important to say."-Evening Standard. $15.95. (Royalty. (#21968) $60-60.) ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Frayn. 2 m.. 2 f. Simple sets. Eight short playlets examine with hilarity difficulties modem technology has added to life. In Alarms, two couples embark on a dinner party that is doomed to failure as, one by one. labor-saving devices and even furniture become hostile. Doubles sees two couples having similar problems in adjacent hotel rooms. In Leavings. the dinner-party is revisited to great amusement. In Look Away Now. passengers ignore the airline's safety lecture. Hean to Hean deals with the impossibility of communication at a noisy cocktail party. Glasnost presents a political speech that is sabotaged by a harassed autocue operator. Toasters shows the problems of trying to eat and work standing up at a social function. The last play, Immobiles, is acted out entirely over the phone as a couple try to decide where they should meet their German guests: Gatwick or Heathrow'J $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly restricted. (#3846)

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worn for a horrific purpose. In the final scene, the boy and girl, now wed, are seeking refuge from a global conflict-even the animals are on one side or another. "Ravishing, deeply disturbing . . . . Has the picturesque form and gentle rhythms of a fairy tale. There is an uncommon density and sureness of purpose. . . . Each carefully chosen detail seems to vibrate with unsettled depths. And each summons anxieties both primal and mercilessly particular to the times in which we live. . . . With each new play, Ms. Churchill seems to come up with new rhythms and language to match, in exhilarating theatrical terms, what are scarcely trivial subjects."-N.Y. Times. $11.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#7968) FOR THE LOVE OF JULIET. (All Groups.) Comedy. Luigi Jannuzzi. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Here is a whimsical romantic comedy by the popular author of Night of the Foolish Moon, A Bench at the Edge and other plays. The irresponsible love of Juliet's lift returns from a five-year voyage to find himself and now he wants to recapture her heart. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8209) THE GOOD GERMAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Wiltse. 3 m., I f. Int. Despite his prejudices, Karl Vogel offers refuge to a fugitive Jew during World War II to please his wife. Karl strongly dislikes Wilhelm Braun, but even after his wife dies he refuses to betray his devotion to her and her faith in IUs decency by evicting him. Karl's friend Siemi, a man who has anti-Semitic sympathies but does not agree with the German government's campaign to demonize Jews, has even become fond of Braun. Even so, Siemi becomes convinced he must betray Braun to the Gestapo in order to save Karl and himself. Karl is forced to decide whether his sense of decency is stronger than his sense of self preservation. Should he protect his unwanted guest or -allow him to be turned over to a regime he finds repugnant? "Very powerful."-lewish Ledger. "You will be on the edge of your seat."-WNHU. "Jolts . . . with brilliance and compassion." -New Haven Register. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#9707) GREEK. (~dvanced Groups.) Tragedy. Steven Berkoff. 2 m., 2 f. Simple set. This modem adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus is set in London. In Steven Berkoff: Plays I, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#9198) I REMEMBER YOU. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 2 m., 2 f. 2 int. This unusual love story by the author of Same Time, Next Year blends laughter, tears and nostalgic songs to weave a charming valentine to romantic plays of the past. Austin "Buddy" Bedford, a lounge pianist/singer who has seen better days, is haunted by a short, passionate affair he enjoyed with an English woman twenty-five years ago. When a young beauty comes into the lounge one rainy evening, he is stunned by her resemblance to his lost love. The affair that ensues is brought to a screeching halt when Austin meets the girl's eccentric mother: the woman he once loved. Buddy is forced to choose between the two women while a number of twists and turns result in a surprise ending. Romantic songs counterpoint the action which reveals the mix of fantasy and reality that forms our lives. First produced at the Madach Theatre in Budapest, Hungary, I Remember You is one of the most successful plays in that (#11615) country's rich theatrical tradition. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) IN THE PENAL COLONY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Steven Berkoff. 4 m. Simple set. In this strange tale of torture and suffering, the Officer wishes to preserve his way of life and the punishments that were a feature of the Colony. These attracted avid response in the past, including a machine so fiendish and diabolical that it could have been designed in Hell. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 3, $1l.95. (Royal(#11140) ty, $60-$60.) THE KING'S HORSES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. David L. Paterson. 1m., 3 f. Int. Carter, a carpenter with a mysterious past, steps into unknown territory when he accepts a job from Cassie, a graduate of the same high school. Cassie is overseeing the recovery of her older sister Hannah, who was savagely beaten and thrown into a ditch. This random act of violence has created a surreal scene of sibling rivalry around Carter, who is flattered by the attention but knows trouble when he sees it. As Hannah physically improves, her competitive interest in Carter grows. Old resentments, including how each sister handled the illness and recent death of their mother, further antagonize the sisters, to the detriment of all. Sparkling humor punctuates the sharply drawn characterizations in this winning play by the author of Finger Painting in a Murphy Bed, Pieces of the Sky and other works. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13059) LAST DANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marsha Norman. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Claiming that she is tired of love, an aging but still beautiful poet from the American South who now lives on the coast of France has decided to give away her young lover. But how can this be? Her goddaughter thinks she has actually fallen in love with a local fisherman while her dashing friend believes she is finally ready to accept his proposal. The young lover is equally certain she really wants to marry him. This bittersweet comedy of manners is a tribute to the grandeur of Southern style and a musing on what a smart woman might really want toward the end of her life. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13754) A NIGHT IN THE THEATRE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Casler. 2 f., 2 m. Int. Margaret and Stanley Locker and their friends, Donna and Walter Pace, are at the theatre for their weekly dose of culture. This week's ordeal is Hamlet. After they seat themselves (with some confusion), the play consists of their incessant and hilarious chatter about themselves, their children, a dead friend and even occasionally Shakespeare's play. Secrets emerge and friendships unravel amid the audiences's laughter. You may even recognize these rude playgoers as the obnoxious people

BAD AXE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. PJ. Barry. 2 m., 2 f. Ints., exts. In August of 1832, immediately following the Black Hawk Indian war, a woman's life is in jeopardy. During a battle at Bad Axe, Captain Conrad's wife inexplicably shot and scalped him. Was she forced by Indian captors to perform this heinous act-{)r was it murder? Lt. Romens is dispatched from Washington to the Illinois territory to conduct an inquest. While his inquiries proceed, revelations from Mrs. Conrad, another officer's wife and a wry-humored sergeant cast their own lights on the incident. Final judgment is in the hands of Black Hawk. "Intriguing." -Sacramento Bee. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4904) BLUFF. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Jeffrey Sweet. 2 m., 2 f. Simple set. Emily and Neal are doing fine as a new couple in New York until her brash and vulgar stepfather comes to town for a convention. Gene brings' with him all of the contradictions Emily has been trying to bury. Incorporating theatrical techniques pioneered by Chicago's Second City comedy troupe, Bluff alternates between farce and drama to build a disturbing comedy about love and family on a collision course. This provocative play, a hit at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre, was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work. "A new American play I simply cannot get out of my mind. Gene and his. . . view of frayed family ties haunt the memory. Bluff . .. leaves a very big impression. 1 want to see it again. "-Chicago Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4933) CATASTROPHE. (I"ittle Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. 3 m., I f. Published in Collected Short Plays of Samuel Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#5591) CHESSMAN. (AU Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 4 m. Int. Four actors replay various aspects of Caryl Chessman's twelve-year fight to avoid execution, portraying him as a petty criminal with a brilliant, erratic mind who has been given the death penalty for kidnaping and transporting the victim across state lines. Published (#5848) in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) COCK OF THE WALK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Norman Beim. 2 m. Int. Joe Orton and his emotionally disturbed lover, Kenneth Halliwell, share a claustrophobic apartment and struggle for success, first as actors and then as writers. Halliwell guides and educates his young lover. When Orton becomes enormously successful, Halliwell murders his protege in a jealous rage and then takes his own life. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5849) CRIMINAL HEARTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. 2 m., 2 f., Int. In total darkness, a burglar breaks into Ata's apartment. She wakes and claims to have a gun. The burglar turns on a light revealing a luxury apartment totally denuded of furniture. Ata has been cleaned out by her lawyer husband. In revenge for his philandering, she slept with his best friend and he took all of the furniture in his rage. The burglar-actually a female grifter-and Ata join forces to take the husband for everything. The grifter and her male partner have lost their "shimmy" (the woman who pretends to the mark to have been victimized) and it is clear that Ata would make an excellent replacement. She eventually agrees and embarks on a life of crime. Fans of the author's Talking With, Vital Signs, Cementville and What Mama Don't Know will delight in the quirky humor of this cross between Thelma and Louise and The Grifters. "Loads of fun . . . . Wonderful farcical comedy."-Detroit News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5793) DEFILED. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Lee Kalcheim. 3 m., 1 f. Int. A nerdy, technophobic librarian clutching in his sweaty hands the detonator that will obliterate the library if his beloved card catalog is carted away is pitted against a harried police negotiator in this fast-paced debate on society'S obsession with computers. Jason Alexander and Peter Falk starred in the California premier. "Kalcheim has written fine, funny parts . . . . His ending is a coup de theatre that's both logically satisfying and genuinely startling."-Time. "A bomb threat play . . . fueled by the librarian's primary fear: that the printed word will soon go the way of the buggy whip, and computers will suck us all into their maw."-L.A. Times. "Entertaining, thoughtful." -Hollywood Reporter. "Harry's not your typical terrorist; he's a bookish nerd who's taken all he can take of so-called progress . . . . Similarly, Falk's Dicky is a fully dimensional character [in this). . lighthearted drama."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6563) THE DYING GAUL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Craig Lucas. 3 m., I f. Various sets. Here is a modem American tragedy about a grieving screenwriter who compromises his ideals to make a small fortune. His gay lover had endured protracted suffering before he helped him to die and his subsequent struggle to come to grips with his own incomprehensible survival pushes him into an intoxicating world of sexual ecstacy and intrigue. With breathtaking speed, he is caught in a love triangle with a rapacious film producer and his fascinating wife. Lies become inextricably interwoven, each person lying to themselves as much as to their partners and the ones they are betraying. Killingly funny and heart-stoppingly elegiac, this play is a (#6754) thrilling dramatic experience. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) FAR AWAY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Caryl Churchill. 1 m., 3 f. Various sets. This hour-long futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusteed. Written by the celebrated author of Top Girls and Cloud Nine, this innovative work consists of three brief scenes. In the first, a young girl spending her first night in her new guardian's house witnesses a bloody slaughter. Next, the girl, now grown, is spending her first day working in a hat factory. There, she and a young man concoct funny and elaborate hats that are to be

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who sometimes sit behind you. This comedy with bite can be simply staged with a single set (four adjacent theatre seats), or it can be enhanced with an abbreviated, mimed version of Hamlet that provides six additional non-speaking roles. In this version, the audience sees but does not hear Hamlet and hears but does not see the Lockers and the Paces. $6.50. Revised and updated. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS tunity to gross millions. It's not going to be easy and a ghost writer is required. This is a touching, funny and unpredictable romantic frolic by America's favorite Pulitzer-prize winning writer of comedies. The Off-Broadway premiere starred John (#170) Cullum. $6.50. (Royalty, $100-$100.) Slightly Restricted. SAINT LUCY'S EYES. (Black Groups.) Drama. Bridgette A. Wimberly. 1m., 3 f. Ints. A riveting drama for mature audiences, this explosive play set in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 delves into the issue of illegal abortions. Many realities, some of them contradictory, are presented. The drama was first produced as part of the Women's Project Theatre mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. "An insightful, . . . satisfying drama by a promising new playwright.."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21465) SORROWS AND REJOICINGS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 1m., 3 f. Int. Two women meet in a small Karoo village after the funeral of David, the man they both loved. One is white and was his wife. The other is black and the mother of his child. David, who was driven into exile because of his political activism against apartheid, reappears in the searing memories of the women. During a hot afternoon of truth and reconciliation, treaties of love are painfully hammered out. The young confront the old, and what is hope for these individuals is hope for the new South Africa. "Fugard's most magical, heartbreaking study of South Africa."-N Y. Post. "Eloquent, moving and piercingly sad, . . . Athol Fugard's play is rich in moments of intense anguish."-New Yorker. $6,50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted.

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A NUMBER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Caryl Churchill. 4 m. Int. Human cloning is the subject of this unsettling hour-long psychological thriller that blends topical scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and their sons. Sam Shepard starred in New York. "Stunning . . . . A gripping dramatic consideration of what happens to autonomous identity in a world where people can be cloned. . . . Every word, gesture and pause in this dramatic fugue for two actors ... sets off echoes of multiple meaning . . . . A great event." __NY. Times. "Rarely in my theatre-going experience has a new play conveyed such a disturbing or enthralling impression.. . An astonishing event."-Evening Standard. "Magnificent. . . . Contains more drama, and more ideas, than most manage in a dozen full-length works . . . . It combines elegant structural simplicity with an astonishing intellectual and emotional depth.. . What a tremendous play this is." -Daily Telegraph. "Churchill's power to grip an audience is an extra-ordinary thing."-Observer. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play. $11.95. (#16116) (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. ON EDGE. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 1 f. Int. A racketeer turns state's evidence and finds his decision has tragic repercussion for the brother he loves. Meanwhile, his attempts to reconcile with his estranged daughter stir up festering re,entments. A composite figure based on several modem gangsters, the lead character provides a compelling portrait of a good man corrupted. "Norman Beim is that"rara avis,' a professional playwright. He is what the theatre needs." Tony Randal. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty,. $60-$60.)

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THE STANWAY CASE. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Sam Bobrick. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Two jurors on a grisly murder trial become romantically involved. As the trial progresses, they realize they disagree adamantly on the verdict. Their story unfolds to a frightening clima" while a couple in a different time frame occupies the same apartment and plays out a bizarre relationship also tied to the Stanway case. Here is a psychological thriller by the veteran playwright of Norman Is that You?, Murder at the Howard lohnson's and Remember Me. "Absorbing . . . . Keeps us on the edge to its chilling denouement."-LA Weekly. "Scintillating and tantalizing. . . . Drama and sensationalism at a surrealistic level. . with a mind-bending plot."-lolucan Times and Canyon Crier. "Lively, entertaining and intelligent. ... A delectable and delicious play with some genuine surprising twists."-NoHo LA. "Wonderfully (#21495) crafted. . . . Delectable."-Valley Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) STRANGER. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Craig Lucas. 2 m., 2 f. 2 ints. Two strangers sit side by side on a night flight across the United States. Gradually, each reveals things they have never spoken about before: Linda is terrified of flying and traveling with a great deal of cash as well as enough pills to kill herself; Hush has just been released from a maximum security prison after serving fifteen years for kidnapping a young girl and keeping her alive inside a trunk for over a year. An alliance grows based on the shocking aspects of their personal histories. They end up together in a crude cabin in the middle of nowhere at night. Here they learn things about themselves and each other that change their lives irrevocably. A mystery, a tragedy, a love story, a requiem and a jaw-dropping shocker, Stranger is not suitable for bedtime reading. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21446) TEMPORARY HELP. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Wiltse. 3 m., I f. Unit set. In this suspenseful and surprisingly funny play noir, a Nebraska farm couple are entwined in a chilling dance of desire, psychological dominance and interdependence that culminates in killing temporary farm workers for profit: The wife is struggling to get away from this murderous relationship. The sheriff, a former boyfriend, and a sympathetic (possibly homicidal) young lover-the new temporary worker who will (#22271) be the next victim-are possible allies. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) THOSE THE RIVER KEEPS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rabe. 2 m., 2 f. Comb. int. Phil, a supporting character in the author's Hurlyburly, takes center stage in this haunting drama about trying to escape the past. A former mob hitman, Phil is in Hollywood trying to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts but is hardly a success, and he is largely supported by his wife Susie, a waitress. Unfortunately, Susie desperately wants something in return, something Phil is not prepared or eager to give: a child. Phil is going nowhere fast when Sal, a mysterious man from his past, appears and offers him the chance to return to an exciting life of crime. Sal is in town to hit a guy and he wants Phil to be his partner. To Sal. Phil has become a "mook," a nobody. Phil is tempted with this opportunity to redeem himself as a man. "Commands attention."-NY. Post. "A two-fisted. . riveting (#21987) piece of theatre. "-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) TRUE WEST. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Sam Shepard. 3 m.. I f. Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to a producer when Lee, a demented thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to the producer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak love story and write Lee's trashy Western. "Shepard's masterwork. ... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed. by a 37-year old genius."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#1116) WAS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ryan Kelly. ~ m., 2 f. Int. Many years after the tragic loss of his father, a young man who has become the presumptive head of his family is moving out so he can pursue his own destiny. He and each member of his family face a crossroad. Sean feels he must leave or he will always be living his life for his

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POWER PLAYS. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Elaine May and Alan Arkin. 2 m., 2 f. 3 ints. Consists of The Way of All Fish, Virtual Reality and In and Out of the Light, three short plays about the collision of wills that were an Off-Broadway comedy sensation starring the authors. "Classic comedies . . . with subversive 'details that keep catching you off guard. . . . percolate with actorly inventiveness and a willingness to pursue a warped logic step by step into the land of absurdity. Has a heady sense of discovery, of seeing prototypical situations being twisted and spun to the: point of dizziness, of disparate comic minds bouncing off each other."-NY. Times. "A giddy delight."-NY. Post. "Hilarious as well as thoughtful."-NY Daily News. For individual descriptions, see Index under The Way of All Fish. Virtual Reality and In and Out of the Light. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.)

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THE PROFESSIONAL. (Little Theatre.) Tragi-comedy. Dusan Kovacevic. Translated and adapted by Bob Djurdjevic. 3 m., I f., plus optional 1 m., 2 f. Comb. int., ext. Written by a winner of three Yugoslav National Awards for Best Play and the Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or, The Professional has played to acclaim in 20 countries in \0 languages. Set in a once powerful publishing house in post-communist Eastern Europe, it is the story of a man who walks into another's life knowing more about him than he knows himself. The encounter between the intellectual upstart and the former establishment's representative results in deception and selfdiscovery, redemption and loss. "Fascinating, ingenious, provocative. An intricate puzzle play whose pieces snap together with a satisfying click." -N Y. Times. "WOW!"-NY. Post. "Marvelous."-NY. Daily News. "Magnificent."-NY. Maga~ine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18219) QUARTET. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ronald Harwood. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred reside in a home for retired opera singers in Kent, England. Each year, on the tenth of October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva and refuses to sing. But the show must go on in this funny and poignant play by the author of Another Time, The Dresser and Interperters that premiered at the Albery Theatre, London. $14.95. (Royalty, $60$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#19007) THE RAMP LINGS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Stephen Levi. 2 m., 2 f. Int. "Nothing is as it appears and everything is as it should be" is the motto of coastal Maine's Singapore Inn, where three guests pursue different ends on a snowy Christmas eve. Hector, a celebrity race car driver and an impeccable Irish drunk who speaks with a lilting brogue, desperately seeks an elusive bottle of Irish whisky. His wife wants to lay a wreath on her mother's grave on this first anniversary of her death in an automobile: accident she blames on Hector. The only other guest also has plans for that bottle of whiskey: it will certainly coax her husband-who also died exactly a year ago-from his grave. Invisible cats, flying ghosts and an ageless innkeeper who mayor may not be an angel spell madcap merriment that concludes with lives restored and relationships healed. This holiday delight is by the author of Good Morning Miss Vickers and other popular comedies. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

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CHARACTERS mother in his father's image. His sister, a woman unmoved by sentiment, is faced with shouldering the responsibility of caring for their mother and dealing with the various illnesses she has used, in addition to her brutal work schedule, to control her children. Anger over lost memories threatens to engulf the younger brother, and the mother is forced to realize she must learn to adjust or she will die in the shadow of the past. Sharply drawn characters drive this moving family drama. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#24970)

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it yourself. An architect who believes that if you give people good environments they will be good people is forced to design a high-rise, characterless development. When he begins to believe in the project, the high-rise trend goes bust. "One of the subtlest plays Broadway has seen in years, by one of the most extraordinary writers of the English-speaking theater. "-Newsweek. "A high point of the theater season. "-Wall Street Journal. "Dazzling and devastating."-N.Y. Times. "A tour de force. "-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3980) BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dennis Potter. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This clever, disturbing and controversial play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle-aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident. Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean-cut but satanic young man walks into their lives with startling results. "Potter is a mass of contradictions as a writer and in Brimstone and Treacle . .. we see all his paradoxical drives coming fruitfully together: the guilty faith of the instinctive rationalist, the born socialist's comprehension of the rancorous sourness of the middle classes and the pessimist's belief that miracles can happen. . Deeply fascinating." -Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4930) BOLD GIRLS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Rona Munro. 4 f. 2 ints., ext. or unit set. The drama of everyday life in Belfast-burning buses, ravaged blocks, gunfire-are but off-stage events in this stirring play about three women whose men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities. Chilling themes are off-set by many humorous and heart-warming moments in this play about people, not politics, which offers excellent acting opportunities. 1991 Winner, Susan Smith Blackburn Award; Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award. "What a good writer Ms. Munro is. She moves from quick, pointed dialogue to intimate soliloquies, from taut but lyrical metaphors to witty vernacular."-N.Y. Times. "Rona Munro's ear for the authentic cut and thrusts of Belfast's unsung heroines is sharp, abrasive and at times downright painful. ... It is also celebratory and funny."-Daily Mail. "Absorbing, often funny. . . . Exhilarating." -Sunday Telegraph. "The story of love, friendship and betrayal could be set anywhere.' '-Mail on Sunday. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4211) BROKEN ENGLISH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Geraldine Sherman. 1m., 3 f. 2 ints. This black comedy is set in post-war London where Jewish refugees Karl and Trude have finally scraped together enough money to bring their teenage daughter Ruth home from the orphanage where she has been raised as a British school girl. Tension between the family members is heightened by a neighbor, retired Latin teacher Miss Singer, who befriends Ruth. Act One takes place during Ruth's disastrous first night home. She does not share her parents' language, taste in food or sense of humor. They in tum regard her English ways as a kind of treachery. Act Two transpires months later as Karl and Trude try to sabotage the friendship between Ruth and Miss Singer. This observant and surprisingly funny play lays bare all four characters, each an exception to mainstream British society, while it painfully captures the domestic hell families can create for themselves. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4745) BROTHERS OF THE BRUSH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jimmy Murphy. 4 m. Int. Lauded as one of the year's best in London, this remarkable first play is a gripping study of shifting alliances fueled by cut-throat economics in the building trades . Three house painters working for a shifty contractor live in states of financial desperation: Lars is a family man with a crippling mortgage; Hemo has five kids and a drinking problem, and Jack has just taken out a loan. When Lars, not Jack, is asked to be the foreman on the upcoming factory job, <\ strike and a bloody battle for survival are triggered. "Do not, repeat, do not miss."-London Sunday Times. "Tremendous. . . . Shares with Skylight the title of Best New Play in London."-Guardian. "Riveting."-Evening Star. "A brush with genuine talent." -London Independent. "A masterpiece of carefully observed naturalistic writing, of unforced political irony and cleverly concealed emotion. . Characters are brilliantly drawn." -Daily Mail. $15.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4733) CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Mark St. Germain. 4 m. Ext. 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. "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 [thatl turns us for a couple of hours into the happiest of campers."-N.Y. Magazine. Winner of three 1995 Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding (#5872) Play of the season. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) COMING APART. (Little Theatre.) Romantic comedy. Fred Carmichael. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A successful humor columnist and a romance novelist whose marriage is on the rocks each remember different versions of their romantic past and each has a different future in mind. They attempt to divide their belongings as they continue to live in the same apartment for a six-month waiting period. Startling revelations bring about a warm and mirthful happy ending. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5892) CRAZY AND A HALF. (Little Theatre.) Comedies. D.R. Andersen. 2 m., 2 f. (to play 12 characters.) Ints. Six insanely hilarious and touching short plays take a sly

WHAT WHERE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. 4 m. Published in Collected Short Plays of Samuel Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#25071) YOU SAY TOMATOES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 2 m., 2 f. 2 ints. This laugh-filled comedy by the author of Same Time, Next Year explores differences in British and American attitudes and manners that surface during an unlikely romantic liaison. A New York fIlm producer hopes to revive her fading career by acquiring the movie rights to some popular British mysteries. She tracks down the reclusive writer, only to discover that he loathes Americans as much as she dislikes the British. A surprising incident finally brings them together. "Will amuse audiences for seasons to come."-Vineyard Gazette. "Slade's characters are colorful, the dialogue glib and spicy. . . . You Say Tomatoes is easy summer theatre-light, juicy, warm."-Martha's Vineyard Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#27026) ABOUT ALICE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles Laurence. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Alice Hogan, the widow and favorite model of renowned American sculptor Matthew Hogan, is having a bad birthday. In London, she has attended her best friend's funeral with Ned, an old friend who is critical of the way she devoted her life to her husband's genius. To make matters worse, she has to deal with Peggy, the manipulative representative of an American publisher interested in compiling a biography of the famous sculptor, and a delightful hustler from New York. Peggy has a hidden agenda; she maneuvers Alice into revealing secrets from her younger days. Ned, who is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered Alice, is driven to indulge his own insatiable curiosity. Peggy and Alice realize that facing the future will require some fundamental adjustments. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3848) ACADEMIA NUTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gregg Kreutz. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Professor Peter Smedforson lives in a quiet New England college town, in the former home of poet E.R. Lennox whose writings are the subject of his scholarly life's work. Reclusive Peter finds his sedate life is suddenly turned upside-down when he is invaded by Tammi, a free spirit from Atlantic City whose luck has run out, by Judith, another Lennox scholar determined to unearth a lost manuscript in his home, and by Stuart, Judith's reprehensible ex-husband who is trying to beat her to the manuscript. Peter is confronted with house-breakers, mistaken identities, hide-andseek chases and unexpected romance. Laughter abounds as Tammi (Life won't leave me alone) and Peter (Life? Sorry, I'm busy) find each other amid the chaos created by the manuscript-hunting rivals. The discovery of the manuscript and the revelation of its surprising secret provide a hilarious climax to this urbane and quick-witted comedy by the author of the popular farce Bottoms Up!"Double over with laughter funny."-WSTVIWRKY. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#3578) AND FAT FREDDY'S BLUES. Comedy. (Little Theatre.) PJ. Barry. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Fat Freddy Caputo, a "reformed" mobster, faces a crisis in Jericho, R.I. in 1952: the reuniting of his daughter and her former boyfriend who married another but is now separated. His schemes, including a million dollar bribe, backfire with hilarious and heart-warming results. "A standout!"-Forth Worth Star-Telegram. "Funny, lovable."-Dallas News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3871) ANTIGONE IN NEW YORK. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Janusz Glowacki and Joan Torres. 3 m., 1 f. Ext. Selected by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays of the year, Antigone in New York concerns a homeless Puerto Rican woman who wants to steal the body of her lover from Potter's Field and bury it in a city park. She and her accomplices, two homeless Eastern European refugees, end up with the wrong body and a myriad of problems. "Witty and acerbic."-TIME Magazine. "As comic as it is devastating, this dark, giddy play derives its power from the sinister fusion of impossibility with truth."-Time Out. "Hilarious."-N.Y. Times. "Homelessness, Glowacki seems to be saying, ... is a condition of the soul."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3581) AUTUMN ELEGY. (Little Theatre). Drama. Charlene Redick. 2 m., 2 f. Comb. int.lext. An elderly married couple named Manny and Ceil live a spartan existence in a cabin in the woods, even though they are financially well-off due to Manny's canny stock market investments. For over a half century, Ceil has taken care of Manny, indulging his quirks and turning the bucolic cabin into a refuge against the world's often harsh realities. Now, Ceil is dying of cancer and Manny cannot accept the inescapable reality of her illness: that she must leave him to go into a hospital. He is selfish and irascible-yes-but he deeply loves his wife and knows that, once she is gone he himself will cease to exist. This lovely drama with two superb roles for elderly performers was the surprise hit of the 1989 Humana Festival at Actor's Theatre of Louisville. "A wistful, thought-provoking tale."-New Albany Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3142) BENEFACTORS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Michael Frayn. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This long-running Broadway and London hit is about doing good and do-gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change

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look at therapists, patients and the way love drives everyone just a little over the edge. The first three, collectively called New York Crazy, deal with two therapists fighting for the only hour left in their shrink's day, a divorced couple struggling over custody of their dog Harry, and a shy Mafia wife demanding, with gun in hand, that her therapist make her happy. California Crazy shifts to the west coast for three equally funny sessions: an annoyed psychiatrist tries to end therapy with a burnt-out rock star who can only sleep soundly during his weekly sessions; a wacky young woman teaches a stuffy head doctor a thing or two about love; and a married couple with interga.lactic problems seeks treatment with a husband and wife team of marriage counselors who are- on the verge of divorce themselves. Whether performed individually or as a two-act, full-length entertainment, the laughter will be therapeutic. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 if performed together or $20-$15 per individual play.) Crazy and a Half (#5830) 1'1/ Take Manhattan (#10978) Yes Sir, That's My Baby (#27022) In Other Words (#10981) Everywhere (#7106) You Oughta Be in Pictures (#27053) They Can't Take That Away from Me (#22293) DEAD GUILTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Richard Harris. 1m., 3 f. Int. A tense psychological study of guilt and obsession by the author of The Business of Murder, Dead Guil~1 concerns an attractive young graphic artist whose leg is badly injured in a car crash Ilhat occurred when a business associate suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel. Housebound and depressed, Julia is tonnented when things disappear, a Mexican orange-blossom materializes on her shambling Victorian terrace and someone prowls upstairs at night. While a kindly counselor contends with Julia's suicidal tendencies .illd a besotted handyman helps around the house, the excessively solicitous widow invades Julia's life. Suspense builds as the question becomes whether the affair Julia was enjoying with her now-dead colleague will cost her her own life. "An enjoyable affair."-NY. Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6576) THE DEARLY BELOVED. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Philip Osment. 4 m. Simple ints., exts. When a successful London television producer returns to his rural hometown, his rurival heralds suffering and domestic turmoil in this sensitive and compelling depiction of varying family relationships. "Exceptionally poignant, and there is no mistaking the overall richness of this play. Osment's penetrating observation of character a:ad heartening generosity of spirit mark him out as a dramatist of exceptional and distinctive promise."-Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6206) DOG LOGIC. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Strelich. 2 m .. 2 f. Ext. The setting of this fascinating play by the author of Neon Psalms is a run-down pet cemetery in the California desert. An intoxicating mix of the sublime and surreal, this dark comedy is a hilarious but disturbing study of devotion to ideals in the face of urban sprawl. Hertel Daggett is the physical and spiritual caretaker of the pet cemetery he inherited from his father. His solitude is intruded upon by an aspiring real estate magnate (a janitor who took a cable television real estate seminar) who enlists Hertel's ex-wife (a jaded deputy sheriff who wants to move to Vermont or Australia) and his longlost mother (presumed dead but actually living in Sacramento) to tum the property into a shopping mall. Hertel's fight to protect the forty dried-up, burnt-out acres of dead pets from the forces of real estate and reality weaves dinosaurs, cave men, Egyptians, amoebas, television evangelists, Godzilla, and gospel music, answering the primal question: what makes man different than all the other animals? "Shaggy sense of humor is the driving force."-NY. Times. "Dog-gone it's good."-NY. Post. "Witty and crisp."-St. Louis Post Dispatch. "A daring and intriguing play."-SI. Louis Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6588) DOGS BARKING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Richard Zajdlic. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Alex and Neil have ,plit up but it's not over yet. Neil is back, his torrid affair with his boss concluded, and he wants his share of their London flat even though it was Alex who paid the deposit and made the mortgage payments following their acrimonious break-up. Neil may also want Alex back, but she is seeing one of his best friends. Alex's glamorous but callous sister and Neil's friend Splodge, a chubby fellow whose wife left him because he was boring, get caught up in the ensuing domestic civil war. This hard-hitting look at contemporary relationships was a hit in London. "A da:zzling, stylish evening."-Guardian. "A grippingly powerful play . . . . A modem love story-raw, true, sometimes funny but more often deeply painful. You leave feeling wrung out yet curiously elated by encountering such bracing talent."-Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6935) DREAMS. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama. Norman Beim. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Best New Play, No Empty Space Theatre. The love and wit of two great stars is illuminated in this play about Archie and Lily Lowe, renowned actors who reluctantly agree to come out of retirement to do a play they think is ugly but brilliant with fascinating roles. When a stroke forces Archie out of the play, both strive to realize their creative potential in spite of life's unforseen obstacles. "Very well done . . . . Simple and moving."-Katherine Hepburn. "Skillful and touching."-Hume Cronyn. "Comes right off the page and flows beautifully."-Rosemary Harris. "A lovely, poi.gnant play."-Don Levy, Lodi Arts Commission. In Six Award Winning Plays, $17.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6751) ESTABLISHED PRICE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dennis McIntyre. 4 m. Int. This timely comedy by the author of Split Second and Modigliani is a tale of white-collar angst in this age of corporate takeovers. The central character, Frank Daniels (played

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in regional productions by both Kenneth McMillan and Jason Robards), is the former general counsel for a cannibalized corporation and he does not intend to go gently into forced retirement. He refuses to pack, tears up the office, and tries to get his fellow executives to decline their golden parachutes as a protest. "Taut and heart-felt."-Philadelphia Daily News. "Knowing and extremely timely."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7085) FAULKNER'S BICYCLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Heather McDonald. 1m., 3 f. Unit set. Blossoming wallflowers, the terrors of senility, the isolation of intellect and fear of failure are themes of this play about a journalist who, dispirited at the lack of passion in her life, returns home to Oxford, Mississippi, where her sister and ailing mother have an irritating neighbor: Bill Faulkner. While mother plays Chopin, plans a lavish garden, and dresses for a final tea party with the illustrious writer she has known since childhood, he rides his bicycle drunkenly about town at night and throws apples at strangers. He doesn't write anymore, but he does bestow lifeinfusing gifts in this lyrical play by the author of Dream of a Common Language. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7998) THE FINAL TWIST. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Ken Whitmore and Alfred Bradley. 3 m., I f. Int. This classic thriller packs intrigue and humor into an ingenious plot. An author with writer's block is offered a commission that will meet his debts before he meets the enforcer. An actor with specific needs wants a script. It must feature a theatrically convincing, perfect modus operandi and alibi for the murder of his young wife. She is to remain in the dark so the play will be a surprise. The actor's extreme approach to rehearsal worries the writer, but he is forced to remain silent. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8159) THE FLATTED FIFTH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A would-be Jewish film-maker searches for love, identity and his Jewish roots in this fast-paced look at modem relationships in a multicultural world that was first produced Off Broadway. An eclectic group travels to Israel and encounters hostile soldiers, sympathetic guides, a nightmarish talk show host, a Hebrew hip-hop bartender, Masada, the Wailing Wall and, most poignantly of all, themselves. "A quick-moving, cinematically paced drama."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8947) FLESH AND BLOOD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Philip Osment. 2 m., 2 f. Int., ext. Rural craft is no match for the onward march of modem [mance in this captivating portrayal of a farm family trapped by forces beyond their comprehension. In 1950, two brothers and a sister inherit a faltering farm in Devon. They take a mortgage to install a modem milking parlor, only to be hit by a disease that decimates their herd. The younger son wants the others to buy his share of the encumbered farm so he can marry and escape from the family'S dreary existence. The sister, a woman obsessed with tradition, ritual and maintaining dead ideals, foils his dreams. Thirty years later, the devastating aftermath of regrets and missed opportunities is heart-breakingly apparent. "Powerful and compelling drama at its best! . . . It made me laugh; it made me cry. "-Western Morning News. "A very good new play. It gets inside the farming crisis."-The Stage. "A triumph. . of strong drama."-The Independent. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8185) FORTUNE'S FOOLS. (Ljttle Theatre.) Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m., 2 f. Var. sets. The rocky road to romance is tr.od by four people in their late twenties in this snappy look at love and marriage. Fortune's Fools was first produced Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre. "Stroppel is a lovely and witty writer. And he knows how to create immensely likable characters. . . . A fun play indeed." -N Y. Post. "A rather tasty slice of wedding cake."-Newark Star Ledger. "An old-fashioned love story [that is]. . funny, fast-paced, entertaining, delightful."-Stages. $6.50. (#8194) (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. FREEFALL. (Black Groups.) Drama. Charles Smith. 3 m .. 1 f. Comb. int., ext. This story of two brothers, a thief and a policeman, a dramatic portrayal of what family means in a society that has splintered the traditional institution. Though the brothers express mutual disdain, they can't resist seeking each other out. Their forays into each other's turf result in increasingly hostile confrontations that culminate in tragedy. "Mr. Smith has a sharp ear for idiomatic dialogue . . . . [He] is an expert in presenting crime as a seductive, and understandable, option in a world of battered expectations."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8192) FULFILLING KOCH'S POSTULATE. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Joan Schenkar. 2 int. 4 m. and f. In this internationally acclaimed comedy, Typhoid Mary is featured as the live-in chef of Dr. Robert Koch, the scientist who identified the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her delectable cooking. In up-to-the minute, lightning-swift comic book style, the beauties of art and the dangers of science are balanced in this murderously funny comedy about cooking and eating. Published in Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8198) GUMSHOE RENDEZVOUS. ( Little Theatre.) One-act mysteries. Eliot Byerrum. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Two one-act plays combine comedy, mystery and romance in fastpaced detective stories. In Remedial Surveil/ance, would-be private investigator Irene (a buyer for Bloomingdales) takes detecting lessons from hard-luck P.I. Buzz. He wants her out of the class, but she perseveres and, in the process, uncovers Buzz's personal history and his dangerous liaison with a femme fatale. By Deja Rendez-vous, Buzz and Irene are partners in a new office next door to a Singing Bees telegram service, which drives Buzz cra:zy. The return of the femme fatale could prove fatal when she arrives to exact revenge on Buzz. Irene is intent on

CHARACTERS snagging a reward for turning in this lethal lady. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 per play or 60-$40 if performed together.) Gumshoe Rendenz-vous (#9205) Remedial Surveillance (#20600) Deja Rendez-vous (#6564)

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MURDER BY MISADVENTURE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Edward Taylor. 3 m., I f. What happens when two writers who have worked together for years start to hate each other? The tearn has won awards and made money. Harry Kent has saved and invested and now lives with his glamorous wife in a sun-drenched luxury flat high above the Sussex coast, where the play is set. It is a hi-tech paradise with only one snag-it's build on the site of an Ancient British sacrificial stone where black magic was practiced and now there are strange noises in the night. Paul Riggs has spent his fees on booze and birds, and he lives in dread of bookies' heavies. Harry wants to break the partnership that is Paul's lifeline, but Paul knows a sinister secret from Harry's past. They are therefore locked together in a dance from which murder seems the only escape-and they have just plotted the perfect crime for their latest TV film. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#15252) MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Charlotte Keatley. 4 f. Unit set. This award-winning play is about four generations of women growing up in England during this century. "A warm, poignant elegy about growing up, growing old and growing or not growing wise. It's about debts and responsibilities; the grim burden of puritan inheritance; and how it takes generations to learn about the value of real feeling."-London Sunday Times. "Both demanding and rewarding in its complexity."-London Independent. "Humorously and compassionately, the play explores the emotional inheritance each woman receives from the other. . . un peeling the characters to their bones, on occasions with such intensity that I cried." -London Guardian. "Totally engrossing, warm, funny, [and] human . . . . Ms. Keatley refuses to preach about a woman's nature and her place in the world. "-Manchester England News. "Like Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, this is a play which will influence the next generation of writers."-City Limits. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#15238) MY THING OF LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Alexandra Gersten. 2 m., 2 f. 2 int. This dark comedy is about a marital triangle in which the wife tries to save the marriage, the husband seeks self-understanding and the waif-like mistress craves attention. Originally produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago to glowing reviews, My Thing of Love made its way to Broadway. Often hilarious, the play returns in the end to the serious issue of infidelity and its effect on a family. "The kind of play that makes us want to go to the theatre. . . . Offers an emotional and intellectual charge that no other form can touch." -Chicago Tribune. "Chums with passionate energy. . . . Has a screwball passion that is genuinely theatrical."-Chicago Sun-Times. "A funny yet searing contemporary study of infidelity (#15279) and marital breakdown."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) ON A DARKLING PLAIN. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 1 f. Unit set. Winner of the David Ellis Memorial Award. In 1964, an actor who has been blacklisted for twelve years faces a dilemma: should he accept the lead in a Broadway show and the subsequent movie even though they are directed by the man who named him to the McCarthy commission or should he swallow his contempt for acting in commercials and do a toilet paper ad. Bitter confrontations and amusing banter are woven into the ironic twists of the plot. ''Comic and dramatic sides complement and enrich each other. . . . A must see."-Daily Oklahoman. "Norman Beim is that 'rara avis', a professional playwright. He is what the theatre needs."-Tony Randall. "Norman Beim ranks with the best in America today."-WHBI Radio. In Six Award Winning Plays, $17.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

GWEN A.ND GWEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Nancy Kiefer. 4 f. Int. Gwen has just been released from the home where she has been under psychiatric care and is trying to reestablish her life, her identity and her relationship with her estranged young children. After the social worker who has provided emotional support during the last year leaves her dingy apartment, a disturbing side of Gwen appears as a separate character. In a tour de force for two actresses, Gwen's alter ego torments and goads her toward self-destruction. Spiced with dark humor, this psychological drama is a captivating evening of theatre. "A powerful work that rivets viewers to their seats. . . . Suspenseful drama at its finest. ... Emotions erupt like Mount Vesu(# 9210) vius." -Chagrin Herald Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) JEWEL THIEVES!. (All Groups.) Comedy-Mystery. Norman Beim. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Best New Play, Ferndale Repertory Co. When the legendary Mandarin necklace disappears out of former film star Gloria Desmond's safe, it becomes apparent that the countess visiting her, the new butler and the mysterious stranger with car trouble may not be who they claim to be. This is a wonderful play for those who love the slick, sophisticated comedy-mystery films of the 30s. "Norman Beim is that 'rara avis', a professional playwright. He is what the theatre needs."-Tony Randall. "Norman Beim ranks with the best in America today."-WHBI Radio. In Six Award Winning Plays, $17.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12059) LOVE FORTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank Vickery. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This taut and cleverly-constructed drama from the acclaimed Welsh playwright affords a sensitive overview of marriage. Marcia and Ralph are preparing to celebrate their fortieth anniversary with a grand family party. Ralph has opened a bottle of champagne while Marcia reflects on their years together, years of suffocating loneliness and frustration in a loveless marriage. She and Ralph as they were when they were young and full of hope are conjured from her memories. As the hour for the party draws near, she relives the years of self-deception, lies and infidelities and her anger boils over. She and Ralph fight and she resolves to leave. But forty years is a long time, and Ralph lets slip news that shocks Marcia. The lie is buried again and they (#14207) celebrate their ruby anniversary. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) LUNACY: A BATHROOM TRILOGY. (Little 'Theatre.) One-act comedies/drama. Richard Turtle. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Three short plays-a tragedy sandwiched between two comedies-are set in an apartment bathroom on the full moon. Revealed are the hilarious, tragic and touching secrets, dreams and realities of tenants whose lives change when they are unable to open an unpredictable bathroom door. In The Lunatic from Number Seven manic self-discovery ensues when a failing artist is trapped in the bathroom while his girlfriend is away. Sing a Pretty Song is the chilling tale of an abused woman who confronts her demons and tires to make sense of her life. A young man finds himself tongue-tied when the plumber he called turns out to be the woman of his dreams in Search and Rescue. If only he could get the door open and his foot out of his mouth. "OverWhelming. "-Trentonian. "Quirky, haunting, engaging and playful."-"Peterborough Examiner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40 when produced together or $20-$15 per play.) Lunacy: A Bathroom Trilogy (#4261) The Lunatic from Number Seven (#14719) Sing a Pretty Song (#21542) Search and Rescue (#20947) LUSTING AFTER PIPINO'S WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Henry Kass. 2 m., 2 f. Unit set. This cleverly constructed comedy about the never-ending war between the sexes centers around a restaurant owner and his best friend. They cannot understand how the nobody dishwasher can have such a gorgeous wife while romance eludes them. This play contains some wonderful monologue and scene material, much of which has been anthologized elsewhere. "Mr. Kass spins out his tale in a series of quick scenes that begin plausibly enough and then take almost surreal twists. The dialogue is sharp and witty, nearly Mametesque at times."-N.Y. Times. "Very funny . . . . I believe you'll be a happier and better person if you see Lusting After Pipino's Wife."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14205) THE MANAGER. Comedy. Darrin Shaughnessy. 2 m., 2 f. Int. In this full-length comedy in one act, a student begs off a date with his girlfriend because .of his heavy workload only to discover that the lusty and loquacious female manager of his . residence, a boarding house, is determined to have her way with him this night. Phone calls from the girlfriend are off and on as visits from the manager occur at embarrassing moments. The manager's muscular boyfriend and the suspicious girlfriend arrive simultaneously to throw a monkey wrench into the delirious fun and games. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15578) MISSING/CROSSING. (Little Theatre.) One-act dramas. Reza de Wet. Crossing translated from Afrikaan by Steven Stead. Two folkloric pieces of Afrikaner storytelling eloquently deal with liberation from an oppressive matriarchal order. In Missing, a mother tries to keep her daughter under strict supervision, but a Harlequin induces her to dance out into the night. Two sisters, one severe and straight, the other hunch-backed but beautiful, run a guest house on the bank of a mighty river in Crossing. They warn travelers of the river's danger in flood, offer shelter, and identify and bury those drowned so the spirits of the dead will not haunt them. On a

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PLA YING THE WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Hayman. 2 m., 2 f. Int. In this brillianll study of August Strindberg's misogyny, the renowned author is rehearsing an autobiographical play in what seems to be the ruin of a theatre. The script focuses on the break-up of his marriage to Siri Von Essen and the actress playing Siri is on the verge of becoming his next wife. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#18690) PYGMALIOS AND GALATEA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Norman Beim. 2 m., 2 f. 2 ints. A wealthy socialite is transformed into a beauty by a famous plastic surgeon in this play which ran over a year in Holland. She divorces her husband and marries the doctor, who has decided to give up his philandering. He is brought up short when he finds that his new wife's whole life is dedicated to preserving the beauty he created. "Unpredictable and funny."-De Telegraf "A skillful writer . . . something quite new . . . extremely funny."-Het Parool. In Plays: At Home (#18985) and Abroad, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) REMEMBER ME? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 2 m., 2 f. Int. On the surface, Mary and Brian have an ideal marriage. When Mary's college flame shows up professing undying love, a jealous Brian tries everything to shake Mary free of her passion. Marcia Rodd and Tom Poston starred in the premiere. 'Wacky . . . with punchy one-liners."-Kansas City Star. "The laughter rolled on like the echo of thunder." -Entertainer. "My checks are still aching from laughter. . . . Entertainment fit for even the most discriminating tastes." -Petrolia Topic. "Even funnier than Norman, Is ThatYou? and Murder at Howard lohnsons .. "-Glen Falls PostStar. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20599) ROAD TO NIRVANA. (Advanced Groups.) Black comedy. Arthur Kopit. 2 m., 2 f. 2 exts. Ex-movie moguls on the skids reunite to co-produce the big one-an autobiographical screenplay by the world's hottest female rock star. She will even star as herself-if she can find producers willing to meet her extraordinary terms. "Mr. Kopit arouses audiences with his acerbity, his pitch-black humor and his sheer virulence.'-N.Y. Times. "Careens madly from farce to fantasy . . . . A consistently entertaining evening." -Louisville Courier-lournal. "Gruffly announcing itself as scurrilous talk, it rapidly escalates into a dirty joke-funny enough to make you hoarse, then into an outsize legend before, finally, rounding itself off as the equivalent of a modem morality play."-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Mandatory cassette tape of song "Who I Am" by Frank Wildhorn (music) and Arthur (#20134) Kopit (lyrics), $10.00. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) SPIKE HEELS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four-sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types-a writer, a lawyer and a fiancee in sensible shoes. The setting is Boston, the ending is happy and laughtl:r abounds. "Stinging one-liners."-N.Y. Daily News. "Places a superior wryly pleasing . . . fashionable feminist spin on sexual shenanigans. Neatly written with smart funny lines."-N.Y. Post. "Full of tart wit, feminist insight and quirky detours."--Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21296) THE STARS WITHIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Susan Schooleman and Christopher Sewell. 2 m., 2 f. 3 int., comb. int or unit set. An overweight radio talk show astrologer and a Lutheran minister are attracted to each other during an on-the-air debate. Wi!thout being preachy, this two-act, ninety-minute comedy examines how our beliefs can create immutable universes that even love cannot cross. Winner of the Colorado Dramatists Staged Reading with Peter Shaffer and the Salt Lake Acting Company's Free Play Reading Series, finalist in the Ann White New Play Contest and the Sierra Repertory Theatre's Mavin Taylor Playwriting Contest, and recipient of an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest National Script Writing Contest, The Stars Within has been produced in Colorado by the Stanley Hotel Theatre in Estes Park and the Albundegus All-Stars Theater in Greeley. "Very witty and light. But it's also extremely profound. Well done."-Peter Shaffer, author of Equus and Amadeus. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21416) THE SUM OF US. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Stevens. 3 m., 1 f. Int., ext. (simply suggested or played on apron). The surprise hit of the 1990 Off-Broadway season, this play by a gifted Australian writer is about a widower and his gay son. Jeff is in love with a young gardener he met in the local pub, but Greg is waryparticularly when he meets dear old Dad. Meanwhile, Dad is developing a relationship with a woman he met through a dating service, but she is put off by Jeffs homosexuality and she pulls away just before he suffers a stroke. The Sum of Us includes st~veral terrific monologues. "A father-son play with a big heart. Its first act has plenty of laughs, while the second half balances humor and pathos and includes a surprising conclusion. . . . Ought to run in resident theaters and summer stock for years to come."-Variety. "An old-fashioned play in the best sense. There's a real story and fully developed characters an audience can care about." -AP. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21812) SUNDAY ON THE ROCKS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 4 f. Ext. On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid October, three house mates decide to have scotch for breakfast in this play by the author of Spike Heels, The Family of Mann and Loose Knit. Elly is pregnant and considering an abortion, Jen is being harassed by a co-worker who is obsessed with her, and Gayle just feels a bit lost. Their problems are compounded by a fourth roommate, Jessica, a religious young woman who has little compassion for their confused attempts to make sense of life in the nineties. As they drink, joke and argue, it becomes clear how difficult it is to make a

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moral decision in an increasingly complex world. "It's rare to encounter a domestic comedy that speaks to an entire generation, but Sunday on the Rocks hits a raw nerve for today's generation of Angry Young Women."-Boston Globe. "Goes down as smoothly and hits as hard as a gulp of good bourbon."-South End News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21828) TESLA'S LETTERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jeffrey Stanley. 2 m., 2 f. Set in 1997 in the Balkans, Tesla's Letters is a drama of ideas about war and peace, the exercise of humanity and the uses of science. Daisy Archer, an American doctoral candidate arrives at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to examine its archives for her dissertation on the great scientist's life. She is not prepared for the museum's director, a Serb with family in Croatia, who probes her knowledge of Yugoslav history and of Tesla, the Croatian-born Serbian genius who immigrated to the United States in 1884 and gave the world alternating electric current, wireless electric transmission and, perhaps, a death ray capable of inflicting instantaneous death. He also tests her willingness to risk her life and American innocence by entering Croatia to gather photographic evidence in Tesla's birthplace. "Is there a more timely play in New York? This well-written, well-constructed drama ... constitutes pertinent, intelligent, . . . and often witty and suspenseful theatre. . . . Its first act ends with a bang. . . . Tesla's Letters provides a multitude of rewards."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21972) THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 2 m., 2 f. Int. An ingenious set greets the audience of this award-winning play: the crosssection of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats. The owner, a fastidiou~ executive, contentedly occupies the male-free ground-floor. In the basement, a boorish postman and handyman is painting a nude study of his landlady, while her school friend shares the upstairs with her finace. Unexpected and violent passions disrupt the entire household. "Handles a potentially tragic theme with a rueful comic zest. . . . This is a Private Lives for the nineties." -London Guardian. "It comes at you with a sense of new-minted inspiration, and of wit and comedy. . . As with all of [Aychbourn's) best work, the structure of the play and the structure of the set are expressions of the play's subject." -London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#21974) THE UNIVERSAL WOLF. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Joan Schenkar. 4 m. and f. Widely produced in colleges and little theatres, this is the quintessential sendup of both the Little Red Riding Hood tale and modem French criticism. It features the Big Bad Wolf as a French structuralist, Grandmother as a retired butcher with a very good cutting arm, and Red Riding Hood as an insufferable brat whom everyone wishes ill. Even the audience has a role. This side-splitting comedy has delighted audiences across the country and around the world. Published in Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#23039) WHEN I WAS A GIRL, I USED TO SCREAM AND SHOUT. ComedylDrama. (Little Theatre.) Sharman MacDonald. 1 m., 3 f. Ext, int. "MacDonald recounts with sympathy and delicious detail the sexual misadventures of Fiona, growing up with her repressive mother and best friend Vari in 1950s Scotland. She shows how the girls' excitement and expectations atrophy, so that in their thirties they have become sober stereotypes of the modem woman."-Time Out. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25711) WRONG TURN AT LUNGFISH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Garry Marshall and Lowell Ganz. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Audiences in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where George C. Scott starred, applauded the comedy and the drama of this story about a blind and bitter college professor and a saucy, street-wise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital. The clash of intellect and wit takes the two from animosity and fear to friendship and understanding. "Humongous laughs!"-ABC-TV. "A compassionate, humorous comedy of character with philosophical overtones and occasional excursions into profundity.' '-Drama-Logue. "Wlitten with comic flair and intellectual probing, the play provides an enthralling evening of theater."-Near North News, Ill. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#25209) ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Douglas Carter Beane. 2 m., 2 f. I unit set w. int. Ally Sheedy and Dennis Christopher starred Off Broadway in this delightfully hip comedy by the author of the screenplay for To Wong Foo . .. Missy, an avant garde video artist, specializes in adding disparaging remarks to re-runs of her family's home videos. Her alienation from the middleclass family values she grew up with makes her very au courant but strangely unhappy. She has a successful career and a satisfactory love-life with a married businessman named Suit. Something's missing, though, and Missy isn't sure what it is until she meets Brat. He is a handsome aspiring actor-and the boyfriend of Missy's best friend. Sound familiar? It isn't-because Missy's best friend is a gay man named Spaz! Spaz has been urging Missy to find an unmarried boyfriend, but this is too much-too much for Spaz, too much for Suit and, possibly, too much for Missy. Does she want a serious relationship (ugh-how bourgeois')? Can a bisexual unemployed actor actually be her Mr. Wonderful? "Very funny. . A delightful evening."-Town & Village. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3876) THE AUNTS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Bonasorte. 1m., 3 f. lnt. This drama, set in the living room of a house in Pittsburgh in 1979, is about three women--one niece and two aunts. Aunt Meg has come to be with her sister Nan, whose husband is upstairs in agony, dying of cancer. She is also taking advantage of this opportunity to flee her abusive husband. The niece, Pita, arrives to try and cheer everyone up;

CHARACTERS but the only effect she has is to make everyone even more nervous and upsetparticularly when they learn that ungainly, plain, not-too-bright Pita is going to have a baby. It is obvious to everyone but Pita that her boyfriend is decidedly not Mr. Wonderful. Neither is Meg's husband Chuck, who shows up in the end to stir things up, only to receive his come-uppance at the hands of none other than the thick Pita! "A thoroughly satisfying play. . . . The situation ... is certainly sad, but the play is anything but depressing."-New Yorker. "Has a familiar truth to it."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3141)

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Ann Landers, a nice Fran Lebowitz, and an eloquent cartoon Cathy and you've got . . . Cynthia Heimel."-N.Y. Daily News. "She's your best friend, Jewish mother and analyst, with a better sense of humor than the three combined."-USA Today. "Like Dorothy Parker, Ms. Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing x-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies."-N.Y. Times. $6:50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9146) DOMINO COYRTS/COMANCHE CAFE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic playlets. Revised Version. William Hauptman. Int. Comanche Cafe: 2 f. Outside a seedy Oklahoma diner two waitresses are talking. Mattie once had a fling, but has settled for minimal creature comforts. Ronnie, a regretful virgin, wonders about the future. Domino Courts: 2 m., 2 f. Four years later (1939), two former bank robbers and their wives meet in a drab Oklahoma tourist cabin. Floyd went straight and married Ronnie, the waitress. Roy joined a northern mob. The reunion turns into an ugly confrontation as the realities of their lives are revealed. "Haunting, terrifying, funny, beautiful."-Village Voice. Winner of an Obie: Distinguished Playwright. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 when done together; Domino Courts, $35-$35; Comanche Cafe, $20-$15.) Domino Court (#6089) Comanche Cafe (#5686) LLOYD'S PRAYER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kevin Kling. 3 m., I f., plus I m., I f. to play var. parts. Bare stage w. set pieces. The author of 21A has fashioned a hilarious comic parable about Bob, the Raccoon Boy, and what happens to him when he is rescued from the raccoons who raised him and taught what it means to be human. This brilliant comedy was the hit of the Actors Theatre of Louisville 1988 Humana Festival. "A whirlwind of original humor that comes in waves."-Lexington Herald-Leader. "Fresh, funny and charming."-Columbus Dispatch. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13997) MURDERER. (Little Theatre.) Drama-Mystery. Anthony Shaffer. 2 m., 2 f. Simple sets. A macabre beginning sets the audience's nerves twitching before any dialogue confuses their minds! Norman murders his girlfriend Millie and is disposing of her body when he is interrupted by Sergeant Stenning. The ensuing hunt for the victim and the ghoulish discovery of a head burning in the stove is fiendishly climaxed by the revelation that it is a dummy. Is Millie really dead or is she a party to .Norman's obsession for re-enacting bizarre murders from history? Meanwhile, Norman's wife sets in motion an elaborate hoax to cure him of his addiction and almost provides his alibi for her own demise. NOTE: This play contains violent scenes. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC, Chicago and LA; Slightly Restricted elsewhere. (#15208) ONE FOR THE ROAD. (Revised version.) (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Willy Russell. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This wickedly observant comedy by the author of Educating Rita finds Dennis, on the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, making a last-ditch attempt to break away from his middle-class existence. Imprisoned on Phase Two of the housing estate and surrounded by Tupperware parties, Weight Watchers and wife-swapping, he longs to revert to an easy-going way of life. He reaches breaking point when neighbors Roger and Jane arrive with presents that epitomize the hated way of life. In between giving directions on the phone to his parents (lost in the maze of bungalows) and keeping his vandalizing aerosol sprays hidden, Dennis attempts to pack a rucksack. When he finds that Jane, Roger and his wife want to come too, he sinks in front of the TV, unable to make his escape. But there is always next year ... and the year after. "You will thoroughly enjoy yourself."-London Daily Express. "Beguiling-comedy with a rip-roaring display of slapstick." -Listener. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17068) REAL ESTATE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Louise Page. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. This is a lovely play about the choices made by a woman and her daughter and their consequences. Jenny, a 38-year old pregnant career woman, returns to the home of her mother and step-father whom she has not seen in twenty years. Ostensibly, she wants to know if she ever had German measles, but it soon becomes clear that her reasons for coming are more complex. She needs help from her mother of a sort which she is unprepared to give. "Beneath the spare, truthful writing lurks a vast subtext. . . . A fine piece of writing."-Time Out. "Accurate, detailed, loving writing has created four real people, sensitive to the needs of others yet each, ultimately, with an instinct for self-preservation. "-London Spectator. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) (#20097) THE ANASTASIA FILE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Royce Ryton. 2 m., 2 f. (to play var. roles). I simple set representing a variety of places. Did the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II die with the rest of the imperial family in 1918? Or was she the girl found in an asylum in 1920? This brilliantly executed drama presents the case for and against "Mrs. Manahan" using only four actors-Mrs. Manahan, a police inspector who later plays his own son, and a additional actor and actress who play between them thirty parts. Audiences are spellbound by this compelling play with a final surprising twist. "Dramatic, poignant, beautifully plotted."-London Guardian. "First-rate. . . . Pulls at your mind afterwards like a puzzling dream."-London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3096) HARD TIMES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Stephen Jeffreys, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. 2 m., 2 f. (minimum) playing various roles. Various ints. and exts. The wide expanse of Dickens' novel on the riches and hardships of the Industrial Revolution is triumphantly brought to life in his skillful adaptation of Hard Times for a cast of four. 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THE ROOT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Richards. 4 m. lnt. Vinny Testatorre runs an auto body shop that he inherited from his hard-working father. He has allowed himself to be sucked into a pact with some local shady characters, including a corrupt cop, and his business is now a chop shop for stolen automobiles. When Vinny decides he no longer wants to be part of the operation, he learn who his friends are and how difficult it is to escape from the arrangement. "A smart, tightly written and thoroughly engrossing modem morality play."-Asbury Park Daily. "One hot squirm-on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller." -Star-Ledger. $6.50. (RoyaJ.ty, $60-$40.) (#20664) SERVY -N- BERNICE 4EVER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld. 2 m., 2 f. 2 ints. A young black model living in Boston has fabricated a splendid new background for herself. Having been beaten by a former boyfriend, she sends an urgent message to a white lover she has not seen in years. Fresh out of prison, he breaks parole to visit her. When they travel back to New York they are each forced to face their demons. "Servy-N-Bernice scores! Tough, wisecracking, funny."-N.Y. Post. "Pushes intrepidly into dark passion's mined field . . . . I left the theater wanting to jump up and click my heels twice."-Amsterdam News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20994) THE WINTER WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Biographical drama. Claire Tomalin. 1m., 3 f. Unit set. This stage biography of gifted short story writer Katherine Mansfield is set in the tuberculosis sanitarium where she went with her devoted companion, Ida Baker, to regain her health over the winter of 1920-1921. The play focuses on the relationship between these two ladies and on this important literary figure's sensibilities as a writer and a woman while revealing harsh truths about her marriage to a writer and critic who treated her with selfish insensitivity. "An excellent play. "-London Sunday Telegraph. "Most biographical dramas make one wish one had stayed home and read the book, but not this one."-London Daily Telegraph. "Elegant ... exquisite . . . a compelling study of feverish genius forced to admit dependence on someone who wiil never pronounce Avignon correctly." -London Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25212) NIEDECKER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kristine Thatcher. 1m., 3 f. Comb. int.lext. This is a lovely play about an obscure but fine American poet, Lorine Niedecker. It focuses on the relationship between, the poet and a young woman who is determined to make the world acquainted with Ms. Niedecker's work. Produced Off Broadway. "A lovely play."-N.Y. Post. "Ms. Thatcher's gentle play is the best kind of tribute. It's not a eulogizing staged reading of her work, but a subtle. warmly humorous drama that explores the creative process with the same surgical precision that makes Peter Shaffer's Amadeus so fascinating."-Detroit News. "A tender, (#16080) touching play." -Grand Rapids Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) NOT SHOWING. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. James Ryan. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. May wants to get pregnant. She's been trying for the last seven years. Red, her impotent husband, gives his tacit approval to an idea she has hatched: seduce her unsuspecting brother-in-law. She is convinced he can solve her problem. The idea of the plan is soon confronted with the reality of actually doing it. It takes place in one evening on a Vermont farm. By the author of Dennis. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#16068) THE PUPPETMASTER OF LODZ. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Gilles Segal. Translated by Sara O'Connor. 3 m., I f. Int. Samuel Finkelbaum hides in a Berlin boardinghouse, unconvinced that the war has been over for five years. Fearful that he will be sent back to the death camp from which he escaped, this master puppeteer builds a world he can control in the environment of his mind. He is rehearsing a grand puppet show to produce when the war ends: The Tragicomic Life of Samuel Finkelbaum, Puppetmaster. He will answer for all time one question: If there is a God, why has he permitted such suffering? The Puppetmaster of Lodz is a theatrical hall of mirrors in which creation, existence and illusion are questioned: Who is Samuel Finkelbaum, what is his war, and will it ever be over? "A theatre experience that at various moments is startling, moving, mesmerizing, humorous and tragic."-Milwaukeelournal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18676) REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Charles Ludlam. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. This hilarious farce by the author of The Mystery of Irma Yep is about a husband and wife, both psychiatrists, who are each having an affair with a patient of the other-who are also husband and wife! "Well-crafted and sharply-written . . . . An intricate, madcap farce."-N.Y. Times. "When it comes to comedy, farce and allaround anarchy, I don't know an artist more talented than Charles Ludlam."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Cassette tape of original music used in the New York production, $10.00. (Tape royalty, $5.00 per performance, payable when tape is ordered.) (#20119) A GIRL'S GUIDE TO CHAOS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Cynthia Heimel. 3 f., I m. Bare stage. Material from the author's the immortal Sex Tips for Girls brings the facts of life for the contemporary heterosexual women to the stage. "Combine a hip

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two actors and two actresses, each of whom also takes a share of the passages of direct narration; the various interior and exterior settings can be simply but effectively suggested with a minimum of props and furniture. Equally, the author stresses the play can be produced on a larger scale with each role cast individually, thus providing greater opportunities for more elaborate staging, in such scenes as the entry of Sleary's Horse-Riding Circus, the Union Meeting and the rescue from the Old Hell Shaft. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10096) LOCAL MURDER (The Maroon Cortina). (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Peter Whalley. 2 m .. 2 f. I set. When Alan is accused of murdering a neighbor's daughter, a domestic thriller with surprising twists is set in motion. Alan's father eventually discovers the truth and takes matters into his own hands. with tragic results. $8.95. (#14669) (Royalty. $50-$40.) TAKE A PICTURE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Susan Champagne. 2 m., 2 f. Comb. int. Charles. a divorced ex-doctor, and Lily, a shy electrologist who's just moved to Los Angeles, are spending Christmas together in Ensenada. Mexico. Their hilarious attempts to connect take them from a room with only one bed in The Flamingo Motel to a bar where they are pounced upon by bored party animals. "As eccentric as Champagne's characters are. they assume flesh-and-blood credibility. endearing charm and affection . . . . It's a lovely experience."-Downtown News. "This show is touching and funny and true; it's a gem."-L.A. Weekly. L.A. Weekly award winner. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#22118) I LOVE YOU, TWO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Laura Cunningham. See Where She Went, What She Did and The Man at the Door in the Index for descriptions. $6.50. (#11094) (Royalty, $50-$40.) WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. (Little Theatre.) Serious comedy. Raymond Briggs. 3 m., I f. Int. This is an off-beat version of the famous English anti-nuclear cartoon parable. Jim and Hilda Bloggs hear that a nuclear strike is headed their way. Armed with govemment leaflets, they construct a refuge with the solid cheerfulness they felt during the blitz. Trusting in the powers-that-be, they emerge after the bombing and wait for government assistance. Radiation sickness takes them, still loving each other and uttering prayers. "Unforgettable." -London Times. "Remarkable"-London Financial Times. "Possibly the most bizarre theatre I have seen."-London Observer. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25078) WEEKEND COMEDY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jeanne Bobrick and Sam Bobrick. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The celebrated co-authors of such classics as Norman, Is That You?, Murder at the Howard Johnsons and Wally's Cafe and his wife have created another sure-tire winner in which two couples rent the same Catskills cabin for the same weekend by mistake. One couple is staid and middle-aged; the other freewheeling a.nd young. They decide to share and before the weekend is over the youngsters have leamed how to add stability to their relationship and the oldsters have leam{:d to loosen up. "Thoroughly enjoyable. . . . A steady rat-a-tat of laugh lines." -Kansas City Star. ''Contemporary and spunky. . . . It's home-spun humor strikes cholrds regardless of a viewer's age and the laughter it kindles is as warm and spontaneous as the play's dialogue and situations." -Calgary Sun. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) (#25054) NEON PSALMS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Thomas Strelich. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. The setting of lhis off-beat play is an isolated trailer near Boron, California: site of the world's largest open-pit Borax mine. A fragile truce between Luton Mears, a retired heavy equipment operator, and his born-again wife Patina is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of their daughter Barbara, a divorcee in her thirties. Lost and bottomed-out, she moves home just to get back on her feet and finds herself trapped in a comic but progressively brutal cross-fire between Luton who wants her to stay and Patina who wants her to go. This wasteland receives a blast of hilariously fresh air from the pmpane delivery man, Ray, who describes a bizarre but strangely comforting future. The play asks: Is there a substitute for the love of another human being. and if so, what are the consequences of that substitution? "A gentle, funny play."-N.Y. Daily News. "Gently sardonic."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty. $50$40.) (#15988) CAT'S PAW. (Little Theatre.) Drama. William Mastrosimone, 2 m., 2 f. Int. This gripping drama about a brilliant and articulate terrorist was a hit at Seattle Repertory Theatre and at San Diego's Old Globe. Victor is responsible for a bomb attack on the White House that killed 27 people. His obsession is the destruction of the world's water supply. A cat-and-mouse game between a young woman reporter and this terrorist becomes increasingly tense and culminates in a shocking and violent conclusion .. "A grabber." -Seattle Times. "Entertaining. informative, thoughtful and scary."-The Weekly, Seattle. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#5056) GUILTY CONSCIENCE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Richard Levinson and William Link. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A brilliant and ruthless criminal attorney plots to kill his wife and tests j~ach scenario in the courtroom of this mind. He creates an imaginary prosecutor and he pits himself against this alter ego in a series of witty, sometimes hostile exchanges. Again and again he is frustrated, unable to formulate the ultimate alibi. He i~. shocked when he learns that his wife and someone else are simultaneously planning to kill him. "The playwrights have a dandy time manipUlating us into believing one thing, then switch on the lights and merrily exclaim. 'Surprise!' . . . Wonderful dialogue and satiric jabs at criminal justice."-Miami SUIl-Sentinel. "Abundant humor. intricate puzzles. and pure escapism."-San Diego Leader.

FULL - LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS "Ingenious . . . . Sets up certain expectations and fulfills them handsomely."-La (#9139)

Jolla Light. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

MAKING A KILLING. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. John Nassivera. 2 m., 2 f. Comb. int. A Broadway playwright, his conniving producer and his actress wife hatch a plot to guarantee their new play will be a success; they fake the suicide of the playwright on opening night! They then high-tail it up to Vermont where the playwright hopes to disappear, as he hates the public spotlight anyway. After a few weeks the playwright decides he no longer wants to participate in the scheme. Maybe his wife and his producer (who are having an affair) will have to kill him for real! Also on the scene is the playwright's feisty agent, who uncovers the plot and then helps her client deal with his most difficult artistic challenge: foiling his producer and wife! "A magnificent mystery thriller . . . wonderful entertainment."-Bennington Ban(#15200) ner. "Absorbing,"-Schenectady Gazette. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT. (All Groups.) Thriller. Peter Colley. 2 m .. 2 f. Int. Jan. who's reCovering from a nervous disorder, and her husband rent a remote cabin from an odd farmer who tells gruesome ghost tales. When the husband's lustful sister arrives. frightening events transpire. What happens to the fragile wife as bodies appear and disappear gives this classic thriller its horrifying impact. "More spine-chilling than Deathtrap. My ears still ring from the screams of the girls behind me."-Toronto Post. "A tirst rate thriller."-London Free Press. "Wonderfully spooky . . . somewhere between an Agatha Christie mystery and a Hitchcock thriller. Peter Colley sends up the haunted house bit with both witty and maudlin dialogue, and at the next moment interrupts the audience's laughter with a heart-thumping scare. .. A really good ghost story." -Toronto Globe and Mail. $5.25. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Available in the U.S. only. (#11626) WIDOWS AND CHILDREN FIRST! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harvey Fierstein. See Index under Torch Song Trilogy. FUGUE IN A NURSERY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harvey Fierstein. See Index under Torch Song Trilogy. CORPSE! (Little Theatre.) Comic thriller. Gerald Moon. 3 m., I f. 2 ints. Wild and unpredictable, this hit play is set in London in 1936. An out-of-work actor engages a genial Irishman with a shady past to do away with his suave. rich twin. Things do not go as they should and people are not what they seem. "Brilliant comedy thriller. . . . You may die laughing." -N. Y. Post. "If The Mousetrap is the thriller for the fifties; Sleuth for the sixties: Deathtrap for the seventies; Corpse! is surely the thriller for the eighties."-L.A. Times. " A wild, high-camp comedy thriller . . . where anything can happen .. and most of it does!"-London Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5166) VIKINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. New Revised Version. Stephen Metcalfe. 3 m.. I f. Comb. int/ext. This heartwarming play about a contemporary American family delighted audiences at the Manhattan Theatre Club. The Vikings are not Norsemen of old, but an American family of Danish descent who pride themselves on their strength of character. They include Grandfather Yens Larsen. who founded the family carpentry business, his son Peter, and Peter's son Gunnar. After Peter's wife dies, Peter looses interest in life. His father and his son do everything they can to help him, including trying to make a match between Peter and an old school friend of his, Betsy Simmons, who is now divorced-and lonely, too. "A play finely threaded with warmth, pathos, humor and insight." -Palm Beach Daily News. "Beautifully written and deeply moving."-Miami Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24037) EXTREMITIES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. William Mastrosimone. 1m., 3 f. Int. The Associated Press described this drama as "a searing play about rape". That it is, and much more: it is also about the breaking point we all have, the extremity in all of us over which, when pushed hard eilOugh, we tumble into violence. Susan Saran don , Farrah Fawcett and Lauren Hutton have all starred in this incredibly gripping drama about a young woman who is attacked in her own home by a rapist. She manages to overpower the man, and imprisons him, bound, inside her fireplace grate. She then proceeds to exact her revenge. When her roommates return she is so crazy they wonder who to believe-their wild-eyed roommate, or the guy in their fireplace who claims he was attacked when he stopped by to use the phone. Eventually, the roommates have to try to talk the victim out of her ultimate revengeburying the rapist alive! "A good, jolting evening."-N.Y. Daily News. "A whiteknuckle psychological thriller."-USA Today. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#7071) HUSBANDRY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Patrick Tovatt. 2 m., 2 f. Int. An insightful drama about what is happening to small farms in America, this plays revolves around a family on the verge of losing their farm. The farmer's son and his wife have good jobs in the city, but the old man can't go it alone anymore-he needs his son on the farm. The son is tom between his parents and his wife who does not want to leave her job and uproot her family to become a farm wife ... A literate exploration of family responsibilities in a mobile society." -Variety. "The play simmers so gently for so long, as each potential confrontation is deflected with Chekhovian shrugs and silences, that when it boils into hostility it sears the audience." - Time. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#10169) STAGE STRUCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Thriller. Simon Gray. 3 m .. I f. Int. Stage Struck. an inventive thriller that employs a handful of actors to play chamele-

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humor that it handily wins its audience."-Fairpress. By the author of Butterflies Are Free. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21239) DEAD WRONG. (Little Theatre.) Suspense-Thriller. Nick Hall. 3 m., 1 f. Int. Worried that his rich wife Peggy will leave him without a penny, Craig Blaisdell devises a cunning plot that will give him control of her money and get rid of her handsome young escort. It's all just a murderously ingenious game to Craig, but the stakes are high and the game turns real. "A model of its kind: witty, suspenseful and neatly plotted right up to its fInal twist."-Hartford Courant. "Intriguingly written, suspenseful with frequently applied overtones of comedy."-Farmington Valley Herald. "The plot twists are enough to out-Christie Agatha. "-New England Entertainment Digest. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6138) LIGHTING UP TIME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Martin Worth and Peter Yeldham. 2 m., 2 f. I set. This humorous, touching play concerns two couples' different ways of staying married. Ben is unhappy with his job and lifestyle and he smokes heavily. Erica makes him "give up", gets him promoted and generally organizes his life to suit her. He becomes incensed when he discovers her interference and sleeps with Lucy to prove his independence. Erica comes home to fmd Lucy in her bed and threatens to leave with Lucy's husband, Michael. Lucy always turns a blind eye to Michael's infIdelity and when Ben asks her to bring their affair into the open she discovers she hasn't got the courage to change. When Ben discovers that Erica is, after all, prepared to change her ways for his sake, admit her faults and he fInds a new strength which enables him to fulfIll himself-without cigarettes! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14167) MAGGIE MAGALITA. (All Groups.) Drama. Wendy Kesselman. 3 f. (l teenager), I m. (teenager) plus var. voices. Int. A 14-year-old Hispanic immigrant who lives with her working mother in a New York City studio apartment, Maggie is trying hard to blend into the American lifestyle-and she's succeeding. But she's also forgetting the beauty and pride of her heritage. Now that she has an American boyfriend, she wants to have even less to do with her native culture. Grandmother comes from the old country and upsets Maggie's plans: she can't speak English, can't dress American, can't cook American. She just can't blend! When Maggie's American boyfriend comes over for what turns out to be a very non-American dinner, Maggie begins to _understand something very precious: herself. This winner of the Sharfman Competition at Kennedy Center is perfect for high school produc(#15193) tions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) CLARA'S PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Olive. 3 m., I f., Ext. Clara, an aging spinster, lives alone in a remote farmhouse, the last surviving member of one of the area's most prominent families. It is summer, 1915. Enter an immigrant. feisty soul named Sverre looking for a few days' work before moving on. But Clara's farm needs more than just a few days' work, and Sverre stays on to help Clara fIx up and run the farm. It soon becomes clear unscrupulous local businessmen are bilking Clara out of money and hope to gain control of her property. Sverre agrees to stay on to help Clara keep her family's property. "A story of determination, loyalty. It has more than a measure of love, of resignation, of humor and loyalty."-:-Chicago Sun-Times. "A playwright of unusual sensitivity in delineating character and exploring human relationships." -Chicago Tribune. Produced at Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre and at the Great American Play Festival of the Actors Theatre of (#5076) Louisville. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) HACKERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mike Eisenberg. 3 m., I f. Int. W. insert. A hit at Manhattan Punch Line, this is the hilarious tale of three collegiate computer whizzes. Martin is obsessed with writing a program which will make the computer a mental replica of himself. KJ is designing a game based on his life story so he will be able to compete against himself. Mary's chess program can defeat world champions. Your audiences will be "hacking" with laughter at this delightful comedy. "A cybernetic comedy . . . authentic and bug-free. "-N.Y. Times. "Entertaining theatre and an insightful glimpse at the potential of the human-computer conjunction."-Personal Computer News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10008) KNUCKLEBONES. Comedy. (Little Theatre.) Douglas Anderson. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Most people laugh at a funny joke, but Professor Evans sees humor as an intricate puzzle to be reduced to brilliant but dry mathematical equations. He is working on probability textbook and has invited the departmental secretary to his kitchen to help prepare the manuscript. She is overweight and romantic; he is gaunt and scientifIc. Neither has ever been on a date. What are the odds that they will fall in love? Add a pair of eccentrics-Eddie's mother, a bingo player who wins with alarming consistency, and a family friend who happens to be a magician-and the result is a delight. "A most thoroughly enjoyable, delightful comedy."-lewish Telegraph. "Real, funny and entertaining."-Atlantic City Sunday Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13035) COOKIN' WITH GUS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jim Brochu. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can't open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her get over it . . . Walter through hypnotism, Bernie her agent by threats; and even wacky Gypsy Carmen from next door casts spells. Just when she thinks she's cured, the taping turns into a comic nightmare concluding in an all-out food fIght that almost ends the show and her marriage. Cookin' with Gus brings together four unlikely

on-like parts within parts, opens in the living room of one Robert Simon. Formerly a fIrst-rate stage manager in a provincial repertory company, he now he keeps house for his West End actress-wife while amusing himself with various sexual adventures. He is a thoroughly happy man until the clumsy intervention of a psychiatrist destroys his happiness and his marriage. He plans a hideous revenge on his wife and the psychiatrist-a revenge which allows him to rediscover all his old talents. "The suspense never slackens." -Sunday Telegraph. "A witty and ingenious thriller."-Daily Mirror. "Both comic and thrilling."-Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC and LA. (#1039) CALIFORNIA SUITE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This humorous confection tells four stories as an engaging array of visitors from New York, Philadelphia, London and Chicago face unexpected predicaments in a California hotel suite. "Mr. Simon at his ebullient best. . . . makes us laugh so effortlessIy."-N.Y. Times. "The middle-aged visitors had last night's middle-aged audience (#6) laughing heartily."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Casey Kurtti. 4 f. Unit set. This satire of Catholic school life in the 1960's uses four actresses to play the nuns and the fIrst through eighth grade girls at St. George's School in Yonkers. As they experience bonds of friendship, reprimands from authority fIgures and pressures from home and they react to the Beatles, the Addams Family, the Supremes and the election of a Catholic president. an amusing portrait of girls maturing to the threshold of adolescence delightfully emerges. Between classroom scenes monologues give free rein to the students' decidedly secular ambitions. "Fine, funny, loving. "-Hollywood Reporter. "Brilliant. . . . A rollicking comedy that speaks to anyone who has known the terrible fears and insecurities that so often accompany 'the carefree days of youth."'-Westport News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5235) THE REAL QUEEN OF HEARTS AIN'T EVEN PRETTY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Brad Bailey. 4 f. Int. We are backstage in the girl's locker room, at the annual Queen of Hearts Beauty Pagi:!ant at a high school in a small town in Alabama in 1976 with two girls who are competing in the pageant, and two who aren't, for reasons which supply a lot of the humor, and a lot of the drama, in this muchproduced and much-acclaimed new play. Feathers fly when the "new girl", Sherri Lee, wins (she is very popular with the boys, which makes her very unpopular with the girls). There are intimations of Vanities here, as well as Crimes of the Heart. There are four simply superb roles for young actresses, laden with excellent monologue material; in short, this is a perfect show for colleges and the more adventuresome high schools. "Bailey's dialogue is clever, amusing and on the mark, surprisingly tuned to the femininity of his characters. The play is a winner." -DramaLogue. "Funny and poignant."-L.A. Reader. "Deftly mixes comedy and drama."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20106) MY SISTER IN THIS HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Version. Wendy Kesselman. 4 f. Comb. into Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, (and at NYC's Second Stage) is about a celebrated 1930's French murder case, in which two maids (sisters) were convicted of murdering their employer and her daughter. This very cinematically-structured work explores the motivations which led the sisters to commit murder. "A crucible of psychosexual horror."-N.Y. Times. "A subtle, almost tender study of four lonely women whose strange and complex relationship ends in an outrage of violence. . A haunting beauty of a play."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15715) NASTY LITTLE SECRETS. (Advanced Groups) Black comedy. Lanie Robertson. 4 m. lint. wlinserts. Joe Orton satirized the nasty secrets behind middle class propriety in such classics as What the Butler Saw and Loot. This is his story-the tale of a scruffy, poorly educated lad and an older man who saw in him the soul and talent of a comic poet. Orton and Halliwell lived a bohemian existence until they were arrested for playfully defacing library books. Afterward, their relationship deteriorated as Orton's star began to rise. Halliwell's resentment was so consuming that he killed Orton and himself. The acclaimed author of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Back County Crimes and The Insanity of Mary Girard tells their story with humor and compassion, creating a play that could have been written by Orton himself. "1 don't think you'll see a better play ... this season."-N.Y. Post. "It is sad. It is also wickedly funny. This is terrifIc theatre." -N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$50.) (#15980) TOTAL ABANDON. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Larry Atlas. 4 m. Int. A man fIghts efforts to have his two-year-old son removed from life support, having himself brutally beaten the boy. Richard Dreyfuss and John Heard starred on Broadway. (#22735) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) SNACKS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Leonard Gershe. 3 m., 1 f. Int. Set in a' small deli on Manhattan's lower East side, Snacks tells the story of a love affair between the street-wise young Italian deli-owner and a Wasp higher education major at Columbia grad school. Will Marco and Betty reconcile their different backgrounds and fInd happiness in each other's arms? Will Marco ignore his older brother's prophecy that their love is doomed? Will Betty listen to her former boyfriend, who believes that she is being childish in her infatuation with Marco? Will True Love prevail at the fInal curtain? "A truly funny and thoroughly engaging comedy."-Westport News. "So fIlled with human insight and (mostly) spontaneous

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characters in a stew of hijinks and hilarity. Fun for the performers and a great evening for the audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5702) WHAT WOULD JEANNE MOREAU DO? and BOX OFFICE. Comedy. Elinor Jones. Two one-acts for a full evening. See Index under individual titles for descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 when performed together.) AND I AIN'T FINISHED YET. Play with music. Eve Merriam. 2 m., 2 f. Simple set. This piel;e by the author of The Club celebrates the fortitude of black women in history who overcame racism and/or indifference to succeed in their chosen fields. All of these women-from anonymous slaves to freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer, from blues singer Ma Rainey to comedienne Moms Mabley-are portrayed by one actress, assisted by three other performers. "Has a prophetic ring. It suggests that the battle fought by its seven black women is far from over. "-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music, $1.50. (Music Royalty, $2.50 per performance.) (#3076) THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frank Marcus. 4 f. Int. Sister George is a famous character in a BBC soap opera series, a nurse who cycles about singing hymns, doing good deeds, and spreading cheer. Because of the struggle for ratings, and because there is gossip of notoriety in her personal life, the BBC decides to "kill her off' by having her involved in an accident. The woman who comes to make the deathblow announcement is rather pleased to see that the gamey gossip about her home life is true, for here she finds the cigar-smoking, gindrinking, hard-cursing Sister George waited on slavishly by a female lover-whom the woman proceeds to steal from her. A great success in London and New York. "A fine play-audacious and exhilarating, straightforward and strong, comic and cutting. . . . Line after line, scene after scene, the play tops itself. . . . You can laugh yourself out of breath." -N. Y. World Journal Tribune. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#621) THE MURDER GAME. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Constance Cox. 2 m .. 2 f. Int. Brian is financially dependent on his wife Sheila, and he is in love with another woman. An acquaintance convinces him he would be better off if Sheila were to die and then suggests a 'foolproof murder scheme, adding that he only wants the satisfaction of committing a perfect murder. The murder is successfully carried out-but it is not long before Brian realizes he has exchanged the frying-pan for the fire. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15166) NED AND JACK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sheldon Rosen. 3 m., I f. Int. This play about the fr.endship between John Barrymore and playwright Edward Sheldon is set in Sheldon', penthouse in the early morning hours of Nov. 17, 1922, following the opening of Hamlet. Ned's arthritis prevented him from attending so Ethel Barrymore is recounting the triumph when a besotted Barrymore, still dressed as Hamlet, appears with champagne. A poignant and witty encounter ensues between the foremost American actor of his era and the man who cajoled him into developing his talent. "With sympathy, admiration and a good deal of humor, Ned and Jack commemorates two remarkable American men of the theatre." -Christian Science Monitor. "Fascinating."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16009) WHO'S WHO? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. 2 m., 2 f., I m. or f. voice, plus 1m., 2 f. non-speaking musical trio. Int. Who's Who takes place in the lounge of a Brighton hotel-a place of faded elegance where the inevitable tl10 saw away playing sad and dated ballads. In the first act we follow the confusion that Mr. Black and Mr. White land themselves in-as inextricable as the hotel itself--in their efforts to cover up a clandestine weekend; a confusion which ends in no one knowing anyone else's identity and a hint that, even when things have more or less cleared up, it's likely to start all over again. In the second act the male leads discuss the previous events and Mr. White says that if positions and identities had been reversed the confusion would never have happened. The situation is reenacted on these lines, but with even more calamitous results! A solid hit in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25122) THE MAN WITH THE PLASTIC SANDWICH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Roger Karshner, :: m., 2 f. Simple ext. Fired after twenty years, Walter Price encounters three provocative characters while contemplating his options on a park bench: Ellie, a high-spirited ingenue who represents hope; Haley, a distinguished hobo representing wisdom; and Lenore, a hooker who represents reality. "You will laugh until your sides feel as if they will burst, until your eyes begin to water, until you are sure that one more clever line or witty exchange will send you into a laughing fit from which you may never recover."-Chicago Sun-Times. "Truly high comedy . . . . I can't think of a soul who wouldn't love the off-beat characters."-Chicago Reporter/Progress Newspapers. "The best new dinner-theatre play I've yet encountered."-Kansas City Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15050) FANTASIES AT THE FRICK. (Advanced Groups.) Serious comedy. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., 2 f. Int. At the Frick Museum in New York City, "a young male guard in his first day is so nervous about his ability to meet the requirements that he keeps fortifying himself with pills and cognac. A female guard of long standing reprimands him while encouraging him. She's so immersed in her job she's almost ecstatic about it-but it's a mechanical ecstasy. A boy and a girl stroll in looking for pickups. They gravitate to each other instinctively. The two guards' tenuous selfcontrol is shaken as these two trendily-attired dilettantes-preening and posturingachieve a coupling which the guards may sneer at, but which they also envy.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Consolation lies at hand as defenses fall. "The play is loaded with charming senti(#8034) ment." N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $40-$30.) HUNTER. (Black Groups.) Drama. Nuba-Harold Stuart. 2 m., 2 f. (all black). Int. This moving and, at times, very humorous drama is about Jerri, a Black mother, and her new boyfriend, Jake. He has spent the night with Jerri. Jerri fixes him a good down-home breakfast-and introduces him to her teen-aged son, Hunter. Naturally, Jake's pretty surprised to hear that Jerri has a son. He is even more surprised-and filled with consternation-when Hunter comes to breakfast-for Hunter is severely brain-damaged. Jake then has to make a big decision-just how much does he care for Jerri? This touching play, a must for college, Black and community theatre groups, was a success at New York City's Actors Studio. The universality of its subject matter makes'Hunter a sure winner. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10162) BORN IN THE GARDENS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Nichols. 2 m., 2 f., Int. In a mock-Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70-year-old Maud and her younger son, forty-five-year-old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums. An attempt to destroy this happy way of life is made on the occasion of the father's funeral by Hedley, the older son, and by Queenie, Mo's twin sister from California. But the cloistered pair prefer to remain in what is, in effect, a shed in the garden of Heartbreak House. "The play is at once cynical and caring, funny and poignant. It marks the return of Nichols to the top of his form."-What's On In London. "As challenging as it is entertaining and as genuinely contemporary as this morning's milk delivery." -London Financial Times. "A hilarious lament for a family of failures."-London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#151) BROKEN UP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 3 m., If. Int. Meg Owens is in the middle of moving into her new apartment and out of her old marriage. All she has to do is have Tom, her husband, sign the final papers and then she can start her new life. However, signing the final papers becomes increasingly difficult, and her new life, represented by an amorous landlord and a fast-talking divorce expert, is already under way. "It's a hilarious look at a divorce-sort of like marriage, only backwards-that didn't work ... and the second act is nothing short of comedic excellence. Left in Meg's newly rented apartment, the three guys engage in a drinking contest that leaves all three-and the audience, too-on the floor. . . . Some of the best one-liners since Neil Simon was making his initial Broadway splash. . . . Leaves 'em laughing."-Atlantic Constitution. "A fast-moving comedy with excellent dialogu~ and rapid fire laughs."-Multi-Coul1ty Star, Atlanta. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#294) BLOODLINE or HANGED IN THEIR OWN FAMILY TREE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Richard S. Dunlop. 2 m., 2 f., claque, I or 2 pianos. Simple ext. This gem incorporates 17 old-time musical favorites into a thoroughly outrageous tale of villainy with a traditional plot: orphaned, innocent damsel prefers honest young fellow but is pursued by wealthy physician. Everything's settled by a surprisingly liberated "Granny." Excessive overacting is required. A few props and simple costumes make it an easily produced delight. Production notes, ideas and interpretive hints are included. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#4092) MISS ADAMS WILL BE WAITING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Arthur Lovegrove, 2 m., 2 f.. I extra. Int. Kay Brent is returning to her Kensington flat one spring afternoon burdened with many parcels. She is rescued by a stranger in a taxi, John Browne. She's divorced from her husband-he's married and a director in a publishing firm. They discover similar tastes and an affair develops. As the seasons progress, the progress of the affair is lightly but relentlessly followed to its wry conclusion. It's a conclusion-although undoubtedly inevitable-which is finally sealed by the appearance of a mysterious visitor. This man is much resented by John who has gradually changed from a gay cavalier to a jealous, suspicious and pompous man. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15113) CHAPTER TWO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 2 m., 2 f. Compo int. Based on Neil Simon's personal experience, Chapter Two mixes laughter with heartache. A writer whose wife has just died returns to a lonely apartment. His younger brother, a theatrical press agent and born matchmaker, tries to avert an emotional tailspin by arranging unwanted-and unsuccessful--<lates. Then he comes up with a winner, but it's a rocky road ahead for the not-so-young lovers. "Lovely, whimsical, touching and. . downright hilarious."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#7) THE SPONSOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Ira Lewis, 3 m., I f. Int. The Sponsor explores the demands and limits of friendship, the double face of success and failure, the sometimes tyranny of the weak, and the unavoidable passage of time. A prominent stage director is summoned to a nursing home by an actor-friend. The actor is destitute and desperately wants his freedom; and the chance to continue a career which was at best a fancy. Deserted and refused by everyone else, his last hope lies with his visitor. This successful friend is beset with his own difficulties. Although he can think of compelling reasons for refusal-he's trapped by the other's entrapment-and by his own sensibilities. "Humorous and touching . . . . A serious examination of vanity and vainglory."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21003)

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Honey becomes entangled with Harold, with her tranquilized real husband, Henry-:who instead of acting like a betrayed spouse tries to sell everyone life insuranceand with Harold's real wife, Gloria, who wins him back by reversing roles and emerging as the seductive other woman. The climax is a comic on stage fight in which everyone relieves their pent-up frustrations. The Miami Herald and Hollywood Sun-Tattler said: "Sparkles throughout", "sparks snap, crackle and pop", "leaves audiences laughing". $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11067) RICH IS BETTER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Nona is unaware that her husband Gino owns the company for which she does telephone sales-he posed as a laborer during their courtship, fearful of being married for his money, and has yet to explain. When Gino's secretary Pam shows up with papers he forgot to sign, he introduces her as a co-worker seeking advice on a romantic problem. Generous Nona insists Pam bring her lover to dinner. Pam cons her chiropodist into coming on what he thinks is a house-call. By the time the disastrous dinner party occurs, Nona's misguided gossip has caused a strike-she wonders why Gino won't join the picket lines-and Gino inadvertently gives Nona the impression that Pam is his big romance. This comedy was written for Kaye Ballard. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20004) KNOCK KNOCK. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Jules Feiffer. 3 m., 1 f. Compo int. Take a pair of old Jewish bachelor recluses, throw in Joan of Arc who also in another life was Cinderella-add another character who appears in various guises and you have the entire cast but not the story of this wild farce. Cohn, an atheistic ex-musician 'is the housekeeper half of this odd couple. Abe, an agnostic ex-stockbroker, is the practical half. They have lived together for twenty years, are bored to tears with one another and constantly squabble. Cohn, exasperated, wishes for intelligent company and on the scene enters one Wiseman who appears in many roles and is part Mephistopheles, part Groucho Marx. Then Joan of Arc appears before the couple telling them her mission is to recruit two of every species for a spaceship trip to heaven. After that all antic hell breaks loose andlContinues to the mad ending. "A wild spree of jokes. . helium-light laughter."-N.Y. Times. "A kooky, laughsaturated miracle play in the absurdist tradition."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#74) A SEA OF WHITE HORSES. (Little Threatre.) Drama. Peter Dee. 2 m., 2 f. Compo int.!ext. For two years since the death of his wife, Ed Shaw has lived in a seaside shack, having run away from his family. He works as a gas station attendant and has tried to forget the painful past and his responsibilities. One by one, his children descend on this "seaside Lear" to ask his help or to come to terms whh him. "Like the ocean waves that look like white horses moving relentlessly through the night, this family moves unwittingly through its trauma and emptiness. Horses is a poignant play . . . [that) keeps the action tense." L.A. Times. "Fascinatingly complex . . . . The characters are well-written"-Our Town. "Told with tension and poetry . . . . Powerful."-Show Business. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (Music royalty, $5 per production, which includes sheet music.) (#21008) PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Athol Fugard. 2 m., 2 f. The three main characters in this penetrating psychological study of frustration and loneliness spend an evening together in the kitchen of the cheap Johannesburg boarding house where they live. They are Milly, the kind-hearted slovenly landlady; Don, a cynical student layabout engaged in a permanent attempt to find himself and analyze others; and Shorty, a dimwitted postman whose passions are boxing and silkworms. It is Milly's fiftieth birthday and, just jilted by the German lodger with whom she has lived for the last ten years, she asks the other two to join her in a wild birthday party-a gesture of defiance to prove to herself that she too is alive and can have a good time. The others reluctantly agree. "Confirms Fugard's position as perhaps the most important writer in the country today and ensures him a place of honor in the history of South African theatre."-Cape Times, South Africa. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#18010) NOEL COWARD IN TWO KEYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedies. Noel Coward. 2 m.. 2 f. 2 ints. Plays by one of the world's greatest playwrights and produced under this title in New York. See index under Come in to the Garden, Maud and A Song at Twilight for individual descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16911) LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 1 m., 3 f. Int. Forty-seven year old Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late, but he is a gentle, sober soul with a true-blue wife and absolutely no experience in adultery. He utterly and hilariously fails in each of three seductions. "Mr. Simon has created a great character . . . It is extraordinarily funny and also charming. . . . He is as witty as ever."-NY. Times. "Delightfully hilarious and . . . filled with wisdom about human nature . . . . A genuinely brilliant play."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#75) MY FAT FRIEND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Laurence. 3 m., 1 f. lInt. Vicky, who runs a book shop in Hampstead, is a heavyweight. Inevitably she suffers, good-humoredly enough, the slings and arrows of the two characters who share the flat over the shop, a somewhat glum Scottish youth who works in an au pair capacity, and her lodger, a not-so-young homosexual. When a customer-a handsome bronzed man of thirty-seems attracted to her she resolves she will slim by hook or by crook. Aided by her two friends, hard exercise, diet and a graph, she manages to reduce to a stream-line version of her former self-only to find that it was her rotundity that attracted him in the first place. When, on his return, he finds himself confronted by a sylph his disappointment is only too apparent. The newly

KINDLING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Don Appell. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Cyd Charisse premiered this adult comedy. Larry and Mildred Stoller are staying in a posh Las Vegas hotel. They're there to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and to make an attempt at "Swinging." Larry is convinced swinging will "rekindle" their passions. They become involved with a chic couple who have been making the scene for ten years. What transpires is both touching and hilarious. There are no four letter words and the characters are drawn with humor and love. "Miss Chari sse beautifully transforms Mildred from sheltered housewife to reluctant swinger. . . The audience loves it."-Florida Times Union. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40) (#626) ONCE IS ENOUGH (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Authoress Erika Linden is writing a manual on man-snatching. Erika's secretary, unwilling to expose her fiance to Erika's charms, finds substitute Brian Merrick to aid Erika in her research. Brian is actually from Immigration, sent to check up on would-beAmerican Erika's character. Erika finds she's falling in love with Brian but she is too honorable to snatch him away from his supposed fiancee. Her dilemma and gloom prevent her from finishing the book her publisher is anxiously awaiting. This truly delightful romantic comedy was written especially for Elke Sommer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#816) VICTIM. (All Groups.) Comedy-Thriller. Mario Fratti. 3 m. (1 non-speaking), I f. Int. A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas-man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door-step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added-to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was. "More turns than in a classic ballet. . [and) much suspense."-NY. Times. Other reviewers said: "Pure Hitchcock"-Vienna. "A surprising thriller; absolutely unpredictable." -Madrid. "As exciting as Clouzot's Diabolique."-Mexico City. In Four by Fralti, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#24030) P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Kirkwood. 3 m., If. Int. A 38-year-old actor who has been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel) is having a run of bad luck. He is fired from a play, his cat is on the critical list, his girl friend is leaving, and he discovers a burglar hiding in his loft. To avenge the perverse breaks in life, he ties the burglar to the kitchen sink and keeps him prisoner over New Year's. By turns hilarious, shocking and moving, this becomes an upbeat story of disparate characters and an unusual friendship. "A darklyhued comedy. . . . Raunchily funny . . . . Wonderful show biz dialogue that crackles."-L.A. Free Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted N.Y. metropolitan area. (#835) ASHES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rudkin. 2 m., 2 f. (with doubling). Bare stage, movable props, traverse curtains. Here is a poetic and all-too-human drama about a thirtyish couple who desperately want a child. With documentary-like brutality, mordant humor, and graphic realism, their efforts to achieve what comes naturally to most couples are portrayed. From the ashes of unfulfilled dreams and bitter experience, they summon the strength and love to go on. "Probably the most important play of the season. . . . It is entertaining, it is funny, it is bitter, and it is handsomely poetic."-NY. Times. "Astonishing!"-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3128) SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Mamet. 2 m., 2 f. Bare stage, movable props. Sexual Perversity . .. takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game said the New York Times. It is about a couple of months in the lives of four young peopleBernie and Joan, seemingly sexually knowledgeable but who really don't know the score, and Danny and Deborah, quieter and less assertive. Yet it is the latter two who come together, if only briefly. Their courtship is funny and fretful, but it is they not Bernie and Joan-who make love. In the end Deborah is back rooming with Joan and Danny is back girl-watching with Bernie. "Mamet has the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger." - Village Voice. "MarvelousIyobservant. ... A glittering mosaic of tiny, deadly muzzle-flashes from the war between men and women among the filing cabinets and single bars."-NY. Times. Published with The Duck Variations, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40, when done with The Duck Variations.) Slightly Restricted. (#1016) ) BESIDE YOURSELF. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. The ultimate mistaken identity comedy! Four actors each play two parts-twins. Some married, some single, all amusingly characterized-are at a motel for a study of human behavior. What a study! It takes only one twin wanting an extra-marital fling to set off a hilarious chain reaction. Not only is there predictable, farcical confusion, but also a stunning surprise. A comic tour-de-force about who we are now. "Takes the mistaken identity ploy, gives it an imaginative contemporary twist and puts it to delightful use . . . . Uncommonly enjoyable." -Miami Herald. "Delightfully funny. But outside of the laughs, and there are many, the play also says a lot about human behavior. Beside Yourself is one of the finest ever presented in dinner theatre." -Hollywood Sun-Tattler. "Hilarious, a fun-filled, lightweight romp." -Miami Sun-Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4035) IS THE REAL YOU REALLY YOU? (All Groups.) Comedy John Tobias. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Harold arrives home one night, discusses the kids. what's for supper, etc. with his wife, Honey-until he realizes he is the wrong husband, she is the wrong wife and he is in the wrong apartment. So begins this hilarious comedy about love, the life force and the real you in this age of shifting sexual roles and future shock.

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slim Vicky is left alone once more, to be consoled (up to a point) by her effeminate lodger. "Abundant with laughs."-Time. "If you want to laugh, go. "-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#720) A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 3 m., I f. Ext. w. scrim. This play is part of a cycle dealing with the four haunted Tyrones and follows in sequence the previously written Long Day's Journey into Nif.iht. It concerns James, Jr., believed to be the fictional counterpart of O'Neill's elder brother. He is depicted as a hard-drinking, self-destructive Broadway playboy attempting unsuccessfully to blot out a haunting, horrible memory. Tyrone comes to the home of his tenant farmer, Mike Hogan-a wonderfully salty and witty character-and encounters again Hogan's voluptuous and amazon-like daughter, Josie, able to do the work of three men. There is a tremendously moving scene when Tyrone has passed out on the farm porch under a beguiling moon, and Josie can at last hold him to her breast and claim him as her own. But when dawn comes, the moon is gone and so is he-leaving Josie with a new challenge to her dauntless spirit. "Another beautiful play by Eugene O'Neill. . . . A compelling piece for the (#703) theatre."-N.Y. Dailv News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) VERONICA'S ROOM. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. New Revised Edition. Ira Levin. 2 m., 2 f. lnt. This thriller-chiller had a successful revival Off Broadway. It's a totally absorbing spider's web entwining fantasy and reality. Susan Kerner, a young Boston college student and Larry Eastwood, a young lawyer she's just met, have been enticed to the Brabissant mansion by the Mackeys, a charming, elderly Irish couple who are struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, longdead daughtl~r of the family for whom they work. They view Veronica's picture in her room, untouched by time. Susan's induced to impersonate Veronica for awhile to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister living in the past and believing Veronica's alive and angry with her. But once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role-and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935. pretending to be an imaginary Susan? One critic said, "like being trapped in someone else's nightmare. . Jarring and surprising climax." "Neat, elegant thriller."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#1161) BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Leonard Gershe. 2 m., 2 f. Int. When you're a young bachelor in your own apartment for the first time, even if it's a cramped cold-water flat, you know what exhilaration is. If a pretty actress moves into the next apartment, you've got an even better beginning. Don has it better yet: the actress has proposed friendship and the removal of the connecting door. Well into the play, the audience and the actress discover that Don is blind. He is escaping from an overprotective mother and trying to learn if he has the talent to become a song writer. When mother and the girl meet, and the two simply do not mix. Mother breaks up the relationship and the actress packs herself off to live with a director. When mother realizes how she has demoralized her son, and wishes the other woman was back. In comedy wishes can come' true. "A lovely play. It is funny when it meillllS to be, sentimental when it is so inclined, and heartwarming."-N.Y. Daily News. "A charming play. . Humorous, winning and quietly moving."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music, $2.25. (Music Royalty, $3.00 per performance.) Posters (#4) WHO'S ON HRST? (Little Theatre) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m.-and you have this nightmare comedy," Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over-as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Camille is giving the party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife. Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently-and that is what happens. All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again-and againdoomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1197) ACCOMMODATIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Lee Schallert. housewife. feeling she may be missing out on something, leaves her husband, Bob, and her suburban home and moves into a two-room Greenwich Village apartment with two roommates. One roommate, Pat, is an aspiring actress, never out of character or costumes; but through an agency mix up, the other roommate is a serious, young, graduate student-male. The ensuing complications make a hysterical evening. "An amusing study of marital and human relations. . . . A gem."-Lahor Herald. "The audience laughed until it hurt,"-News American. "Superior theatre.. . It is light comedy at its best."-The Sun, Baltimore. $6.50. (#202) (Royalty, $50-$35.) WHY HANNA'S SKIRT WON'T STAY DOWN. (Little Theatre.) Tragic-comedy. Tom Eyen. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This Off-Broadway classic concerns Hanna O'Brien, a half-Jewish. half-Irish 42nd Street ticket taker who spends most of her spare time relaxing ovt:r a breeze-hole in a Coney Island funhouse; a muscular young narcissist who spends his time in the funhouse mirror-maze; Hanna's bald sister, Sophie, an Avon Lady Hanna hasn't seen for twenty years, and a carnival barker complete with fla~hing lights and a mid-way. Of course, Eyen's Fun House is really an American Wax Museum, filled with frustration more than sadness, and it brilliantly exposes the anxiety and the half-madness of the age. "A very evocative play . . . . shabby,

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS sleazy. but defiant. The dog-eared reality of its fantasy and its sense of wasted freak show lives in a crumbling, neon-lit sideshow give the play an aftertaste and a (#25123) validity."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) IN PRAISE OF LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Terence Rattigan. 3 m., I f. lnt. Deception is the linchpin of this sophisticated comedy-drama about a fatally ill wife and her ineffectual husband that starred Rex Harrison and Julie Harris on Broadway. "Well-crafted." -Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11035) WHO SAW HIM DIE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tudor Gates. 3 m., I f. 3 lnt. An obsessive, psychopathic Scotland Yard detective and a likable but murderous master criminal square off in this fast-moving psychological thriller. . 'Super! ., An entertaining thriller with a twist to make the audience gasp out loud." -London Daily Mirror. $8.95. (Royalty. $50-$40.) (#25111) HOT TURKEY AT MIDNIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Roger Karshner. 2 m.. 2 f. lnt. Harry sleeps in pajamas with little bunnies on them. Gloria puts out her cigarettes in food. Harry can't stand Gloria's quirks any longer so immediately following their 25th anniversary he tells his neighbor that he's moving into the Shangri La Club, a swinging singles apartment. But Gloria reverses the situation by leaving Harry for the same reason. his crazy mannerisms. Suddenly Harry is stuck with housework and two ungrateful kids and Gloria is stuck with plastic, high-rise living-roles they're both too proud to admit they hate. Recognizing their plight, their neighbors attempt to mediate a reunion by suggesting that they list their traits and then get together and work them out-like adults. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10135) FIND YOUR WAY HOME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Hopkins. 3 m., 1 f. Int. The play opens in the slightly sleazy London apartment of Julian-known to his friends as Julie. Julie is joined by his middle aged lover, Alan, who has decided to leave his wife and children to live with Julie. As the second act opens they are suddenly confronted by Alan's shocked and outraged wife, and the second act becomes almost a self-contained playas Alan and his wife lacerate each other in a brilliant and ruthless dissection of modem marriage and parenthood. "The most outspoken and honest play about homosexuality that has ever appeared on Broadway."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#436) COLLABORA TORS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Mortimer. 2 m.. 2 f. lint. Collaborators is a comedy about marriage set in a nappy-infested flat in Belsize Park in the late 1950s. Henry Winter, a struggling young barrister, is also struggling to cultivate his writing career. At the invitation of Sam Brown, an American film producer of somewhat hazy credentials, he starts work on a film strip about marriage. His own tempestuous marriage invades the project and Sam becomes increasingly baffled by the attitude of Henry's wife, Katherine. whom he sums up early as a 'ball-cutter'-and indeed of Henry himself. John Mortimer's play is a witty evocation of the period and of the private games of war and peace that epitomize certain (#5122) periods in a marriage. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) MY SISTER, MY SISTER. (Black Groups.) Drama. Ray Aranha. 1m., 3 f., chorus. Compo int. The life of a girl growing up with her sister. a prostitute, and her evangelist mother in a lower class black neighborhood is revealed in scenes that switch back and forth in time to show her as an adult and as a little girl. "Complex, moving, well-written and compassionate."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15170) TWO AND TWO MAKE SEX. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Harris and Leslie Darbon. 2 m., 2 f., extras. Int. Absurdity, taken with seriousness and decorated with the ridiculous, and logic foundering in bizarre situations-these are the farcical formulas well exploited in this play. George is getting into hi~ fifties. his sexual virility nagging at him, one way or another. He is having an affair with twenty~year-old Jane. His wife, Clare, sensing that something of the kind is going on, fixes up a way of dealing with the situation. Jane has a boy-friend, Nick. The quartet play out their charades in a double setting, the living room of George and Clare's home, and Jane's natlet. The cross antics, seen separately and simultaneously, are very amusing. Later on, other characters materialize, and there is a mass confrontation, most ingeniously contrived. "This is bright diverting fun.'-London Stage and Television Today. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1097) GARDEN OF DELIGHTS. (Little Theatre.) Fantasy. Fernando Arrabal. Translated by Helen Gary Bishop and Tom Bishop. 2 m., 2 f., extras. Platform stage, drop & wing. The lovely Lais, who is Bo Peep to nine ewes, is the centerpiece of bizarre fantasies rife with Freudian connotations. In Guernica and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9003) THE WATERING PLACE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Lyle Kessler. 2 m., 2 f. By the author of Orphans. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25040) PROMENADE, ALL! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David V. Robison, 3 m .. 1 f.Int. Four actors play four successive generatiom of a family whose business grows from manufacturing buttons to a conglomerate of international proportions (in the U.S. their perfume will be called Belle Nuit; but in Paris, Enchanted Evening). The Broadway cast included Richard Backus. Anne Jackson. Eli Wallach and Hume Cronyn, Miss Jackson performed as either mother or grandmother, as called for; and Cronyn and Wallach alternated as fathers and grandfathers; with Backus playing all

CHARACTERS the roles of youth. There are some excellent cameos, such as the puritanical mother reading the Bible to her son without realizing the sexual innuendoes; or the 90-yearold patriarch who is agreeable to trying an experiment in sexology but is afraid of a heart attack. "Gives strong, lively actors a chance for some healthy exercise. A~d what a time they have at it! "-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#858)

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NO EXIT. (Little Theatre.) Fantasy. Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted from the French by Paul Bowles. 2 m., 2 f. Int. No Exit was first presented in New York at the Biltmore Theatre with Claude Dauphin, Annabella, and Ruth Ford. Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in hell. The windows are bricked up; there are no mirrors; the electric lights can never be turned off; and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of hell. It is an eternal torment. (#765) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE MARRIAGE-GOROUND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Leslie Stevens. 2 m., 2 f. lnt. This glittering entertainment starred Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer on Broadway. The Marriage-Co-Round is an illustrated lecture on the perils of monogamy, delivered alternately by a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at a suburban ~ew York College and his wife who is Dean of Women at the school. Here the game of seduction becomes an ironic commentary on the war between the sexes. "Delightfully literate and gay, gently scornful and affectionately deprecatory. You expect the best. You are not disappointed."-NY. World-Telegram and Sun. "A triumph."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#686) THE SECOND MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. S.N. Behrman. 2 m., 2 f. Int. One of the most brilliant and successful of Theatre Guild productions. It has to do with Clark Storey, novelist, with whom two women are in love. He is detennined to marry one of them, and though attracted to the other, he throws her over. The second woman then accuses him of playing her false. The play is essentially a brilliant comedy and is treated in a clever and sophisticated fashion. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#21055) $35.) SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Benn W. Levy. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A most entertaining farce. In this play Mr. Levy gives us the blundering and silly-ass character of Henry Dewlip, a wealthy young English bachelor. Henry leads a life of ease 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 I heard such spontaneous laughter in a theater. The audience got up to go with tears in its eyes. Tears that came from laughter." -N Y. World-Telegram. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21308) WISE CHILD. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Simon Gray. 3 m., f. Compo int. Two crooks on the lam hole up in a seedy little hotel, one disguised as the mother of the other. The hotel owner is a middle-aged homosexual who takes a fancy to the younger crook and does his best to enchant him. The crooks take advantage of his lust to get to his till while the crook in drag has his eye on a comely black maid who he tries to strip by plying her with liquor and promises of a future in films. "May I suggest that you don't bother wondering what it's all about. Just ride with it till it catches you up with a zinger of a finish.. . . A wildly funny suspense farce, brilliantly .. ~ fast-moving as the turns of a Feydeau farce."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25158) ENDGAME. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. 3 m., I f. Bare int. "Endgame has outraged the Philistines, earned the contempt of the half-wits and filled those who are capable of telling the difference between a theatre and a bawdy house with a profound and somber and paradoxical joy . . . . A magnificent theatrical experience."-London Sunday Times. $11.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Re(#399) stricted. GO BANG YOUR TAMBOURINE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Philip King. $8.95. (#9061) (Royalty, $50-$35.) HEARTLAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kevin Heelan. 4 m. Ext. We are on the front porch of Earl's house in a small mid-western town. It is evening, and senseless death is on the rampage. That day, several upstanding citizens have been murdered by a psychopath on the loose, and Earl is detennined to do something about it. Earl is a macho-fool, one of life's losers, and he sees this as an opportunity to restore some of his lost status in the community. What he does not see is that the psycho may be closer to home than he could ever imagine. A success on Broadway, Heartland works both as a psychological drama and as an engrossing murder mystery. "A writer who undeniably has the authentic touch of the playwright. . . . Strongly patterned and envisaged ... honestly gripping psychological thriller."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10050) THE AUTHENTIC LIFE OF BILLY THE KID. (All Groups.) Drama. Lee Blessing. 4 m. Int. Set in a one-room shack out west at the tum of the last century, this at times funny and at times chilling play concerns Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid. Now, many years after the famous deed, Garrett lives alone with his memories. Enter the man who wrote the dime novel that immortalized Billy and Garrett. He brings with him a man who he claims is the real Billy the Kid, now middle-aged and very much alive. Is this man Billy the Kid? And, if he is-then who is Pat Garrett? This striking and unusual play took the laurels as Best Play of 1979 at the American College Theatre Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

RELATIVELY SPEAKING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 2 m., 2 f. Unit set. A British hit with reviews describing it as "deliciously heady," "a nearmiracle," and provoking "the proverbial gales of laughter, Relatively Speaking is a hilarious tale of young but not faithful lovers, concerned parents, and incriminating slippers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#914) ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE. (Little Theatre.) Joe Orton. 3 m., 1 f. Int. A youth named Sloane comes in search of a room to rent. The slattern landlady gives him one and then demonstrates the deluxe service by seducing him. Along comes her brother, who is shocked to discover such goings on, but then perversely sets out to capture Sloan's affections for himself. The fourth character, their father, believes he saw Sloan murder someone in the neighborhood. To silence him, Sloane kicks the old man to death. This hardly ruffles the landlady or her brother; indeed, they now have Sloane exactly where they want him: they divvy him up so that each will enjoy his company for six months of the year. Winner of the London Drama Critics Award: best play of the season. "A bizarre black comedy .... Everyone speaks of principle-while tucking away not only the corpse on the living-room floor but the corpse of western civilization as well."-NY. Herald Tribune. In The Complete Plays of Joe Orton, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#401) THE FLIP SIDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Williams and M:u.garet Williams. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Two couples are having drinks when one husband startles them by his declaration that love and sex are independent of each other-the flip side. A little warily, they all cast secret ballots to discover if the theory is true, by swapping spouses. Next morning there is a realignment as each agrees that the new coupling is better. Later, at a reunion, the original spouses are reunited with love the ultimate victor. "An engaging comedy."-Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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A SONG AT TWILIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience for twenty years, the other, one of his former loves. There is a bit of the detective story in this, too, for the former flame produces some old love letters which she is about to tum over to a biographer. He is dead set against it, for it would compromise his impeccable reputation-until she produces still another set of love letters, even more damaging. written to a male friend of his early youth. It remains for the wife of convenience to say that she has known about this all along, and to send the old flame off with an entirely different opinion. The blackmail fails, but the rue remains. ; 'Coward at his zenith."-London Daily Express. Mr. Coward, Lilli Palmer and Irene Worth played in the London production. Produced in N.Y. under the title Noel Coward-In Two Keys. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21269) THE HOLLOW CROWN. (AU Groups.) Devised by John Barton. 3 m., I f., trio. Concert stage. This entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England includes music, poetry, speeches, letters and other writings. The Hollow Crown has been performed in America and England by the such stars from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as Max Adrian, Dorothy Tutin, Peggy Ashcroft, and Marius Goring. The four readers enact the writings of royals from William I to Victoria; the three singers intersperse songs from the proper period-some of which are sad tunes on the death of kings while others are uproariously funny. "A delightfully civilized evening in the theatre, humorous, touching and always warmly human." -N Y. Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music available on rental;. write for information.

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THE KNACK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ann Jellicoe. 3 m., I f. Int. The New York production was directed by Mike Nichols and ran for two years. There is little wonder at that, since this is a riotous comedy of zany dramatic drive, showing us three young fellows in relation to one girl in various attitudes of sex. What happened was, or rather the reason she landed here is that she got lost on her way to the YWCA. Of the youths, there's Tom, who paints the walls of the room various colors and hangs chairs on them just so they won't clutter up the floor; there's Colin, who is nervously eager to learn about sex second-hand from his friends; and there's Tolen, who has only to see a girl go by, and out the window he hops, trailing after, only to return some minutes later with a satisfied grin. The poor girl is severely tested by these three, and so distracted that she begins imagining all sorts of involvements with each of them. "One of the funniest evenings in town."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#13025) THE LATE EDWINA BLACK. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. William Dinner and William Morum. 2 m., 2 f. lnt. Edwina's will leaves her fortune to her impoverished husband and her former companion, even though she knew they were having an affair while she was ill. When the doctor expresses doubt to Scotland Yard about the circumstances of her death, the companion accuses the husband of murdering his wife and attempting to kill her. He insists she did the horrendous deed and is casting the blame on him. This inventive classic melodrama is full of surprises and suspense. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7009)

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A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Thomas Babe. 4 m. Int. An old woman's been killed for a mere $26.15. The suspects are a nervous middle-aged homosexual and his pathetic street waif friend who's on drugs. At the

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police station these two are grilled by a bull-like sergeant and his assistant. They keep shifting and revealing themselves-in many ways the cops are as reprehensible as the culprits. As the accusers take turns grilling each of the accused, we come to know the four intimately and to comprehend the traumas and emotional short circuits that have led them to their individual predicaments . 'Compelling . . . gritty reality."-N.Y. Times. "Dynamite stuff, hard-edged, mean and brilliant."-WABCTV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18114) BEYOND THE FRINGE. (All Groups.) Revue. 4 m. Four devilishly clever comedians were responsible for this madhouse of hilarity in both London and New York: Alan Benndt, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore. Their skits include one about an impassioned preacher whose emotion carries him so far from the text that he can't find his way back. There's a delicious spoof on Shakespeare in beautifully faked speech, and a couple of panel scenes, in one, three experts on nuclear war clobber the subject to death. And these are but samples of a grab bag of hi~hly intellectual fun. "Roaring with joyous irreverence." -N. Y. Times. "Enormously funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.). (#268) ESCURIAL. (All Groups.) Drama. Michel de Ghelderode. 4 m. Set in a room in the palace of Spain that has a despairing sense of decay and total collapse of the kingdom and all it stands for, this play is provocative as well as devastating. The portrait is EI Greco; the message is of a dark and ominous absurdity in the crystal realization of the clown's dying and king's sense that he is an end in himself-and lucky in dl!ath to escape the hounds. In The Modern Theatre: Vol. 5, $23.00. (#7054) (Royalty, $35-$25.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS complicate his frantic attempts to maintain the Lulabell charade. Then Leonard falls hopelessly in love with Harriet and matters become outrageously complicated. This side-splitting tale of cross-dressing and crossed pu:rposes has been hailed across Europe and Australia as a comedy classic. Adapted to appeal to American audi~ ences, it has belly laughs galore, five irresistible characters and a happy ending that qualifies as a comic masterpiece. "Evenings spent in the theatre do not come any better than this." -The Stage. "Bristles with sharply funny one-liners. It has one of the funniest sequences I've seen for a long time. I laughed so much I was gasping (#16919) for breath."-Birmingham Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) *QUEEN MILLI OF GALT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gary Kirkham. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Based on a true story, this charming romantic comedy is a witty exploration of unexpected love. In 1972, the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) dies at the age of 78 while living in exile. Two weeks later in Canada, an 80 year-old woman from the small town of Galt has her tombstone engraved with the startling information that she is the duke's wife. A young journalist appears at her door, eager for answers. Flashback to 1919 as Edward, then the Prince of Wales, visits Canada as a royal emissary. Bored with the pomp and circumstance, he slips away from his official duties and finds romance with a charming young woman. "Breezy, witty, wannly romantic. One of the most promising new plays I have seen in the last five years!" -Robert Mitchell. . 'Engaging, moving, well deserving of the standing ovation."-Citizen. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14836) *SEZ SHE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. 5 f. Bare stage w. chairs. This sequel to Jane Martin's last monologue play picks up where Vital Signs left off to capture these funnier, stranger days of the twenty-first century. Reveling in virtues of brevity, hilarity, surprise and homespun philosophy, these monologues roam the range of contemporary perspective on everythihg from sexual harassment to sleeping in theaters to the erotic appeals of silence. Whether biking across Massachusetts with 23,000 lawyers or reflecting on the meaning of a Pekinese dog with a picket fence stake through its heart, these characters know how to take the stage and make the most of their five minutes offame. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20890) *SIXTEEN WOUNDED. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Eliam Kraiem. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Disparate lives collide in this heart-wrenching and wannly humorous drama. An unlikely friendship evolves between a lonely and emotionally remote Jewish baker and a passionate young Palestinian who is far from home. Both struggle with their identities and their loyalties to the past, their beliefs and, finally, to each other. Ultimately, their relationship cannot stave off the inevitable. "Kraiem's tender humanism leaves room for hope, even in a complicated world." -USA Today. "The very existence of this play strikes a blow for civilization." -N. Y. Times. "Has the advantage of timeliness, but its human issues will thankfully outlive current events."-Time Out NY. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20892) ACTOR! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage with set pieces. This comic odyssey charts the life and times of the title character as he makes his way through the show business jungle seeking fame and artistic fulfillment. As a baby he learns that crying brings nourishment and affection; crying too long and loud results in scolds and smacks. Armed with this lesson about the capricious nature of existence, he launches into his craft as a child playing a Wise Man at Christmas. Then it's on to the acting Mecca of New York and acting lessons, a job in children's theatre and the crushing rejection of auditions. He heads to Hollywood and finds success on television and stardom in movies, but his time at the top is fleeting. Throughout, the Actor encounters a bevy of curious characters who influence his journey through this unnatural world. "Hilarious. .. An entertaining, jaundiced sojourn [with]. . a plethora of satiric gems."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3556) AND SEND FORTH A RAVEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Heavy rain. Impassable roads. Flooding up-stream. Most in town have fled the wild river. Five remain. Why does the owner of the rundown hostelry swear no damn river will run her off? Why does she put others at risk? And why has the Reverend forsaken an aftluent congregation in the East to return to this backwater. This prize-winning mystery-drama explores the lives of five intriguing characters with eloquence and humor. Winner of the Dogwood National Play Contest and the George R. Kernodle Playwriting Competition and a second place in the John Gass(#3738) ner Memorial Playwriting Contest. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) ARTS & LEISURE. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Steve Tesich. 1m., 4 f. Int. Written by the popular author of On the Open Road and other works, this brilliantly caustic play is built around a self-absorbed drama critic who. judges theatre and life by the same criteria, to absurd extremes. He is confronted by the bitter, alienated women who have suffered from his unyielding clinical detachment and his determination to judge suffering, global and personal, by its dramatic impact on him. These include his ex-wife, a former actress who is losing her grip; his tragic daughter, a stand-up comedienne; his forlornly empathetic old mother and his acrimonious housekeeper and confidante. The critic longs for human contact but conducts his life as a series of pat scenes that avoid the messy and tangled issues of real relationships. (#3866) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE BALKAN WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 3 f., chorus. Simple set. This meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women. Men are pitted against women, Christians against Muslims, and Croats against Serbs in a drama that bares the inner conflicts that result when society is governed by illogical ethnic hatreds. A

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* ALONE TOGETHER AGAIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Roman. 3 m.,2 f. Int. In this hilarious Broadway comedy Mom and Dad have spent the last thirty years raising three active sons. How they looked forward to the peace, the quiet and the privacy of an empty nest. After considerable comic turmoil and revelations of deep feelings, the nest is finally empty. Peace now? Quiet? Privacy? Not for long. The house fills up again when their parents arrive unexpectedly. Each has a probl.em to dump on Mom and Dad. How can they empty the nest again? Cleverly comic, witty and wise, Along Together Again has delighted audiences in America and Europe. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3740) *AUDACITY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Simon Mawdsley. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Philip is going through a messy divorce. To make some money and give his life a boost of adrenalin, he devises a cunning scheme to rob the London department store Jarvis and Klein. He needs help, so he enlists John, an ex-stationery salesman sacked for fiddling his expenses, and Dave, a salesman with a hugely expensive lifestyle. The plot is proceeding well until John's wife and Dave's wife join forces to investigate their husbands' odd behavior. "Crisp dialogue . . . [and) skillful plottipg . . . Gripping and amusing." -London Times . . 'Fast, efficient and fun. . Intriguing (#3748) entertainment."-What's On. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) *BAD BLOOD. Thriller. Richard Stockwell. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Years ago, Tom had an affair with Catherine. She became pregnant and had an abortion-or so he thinks. Now he is married to Vie and their relationship is on the rocks because she cannot conceive and Tom is desperate to be a father. Enter Smokey, a nineteen-year-old runaway whose girlfriend is none other than Catherine and Tom's daughter Belinda. Tom's wish to be a father is fulfilled, but remember the saying: be careful what you wish for. Tom's past catches up with him in a terrifying sequence of events involving deception, plots and murder. A final, tragic twist saturates his life with the bitterest irony. Fast moving and savage, this bloody, modem thriller from the author of Killing Time will keep audiences on the edges of their seats as the mystery (#16000) deepens and the body count multiplies. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) *G-FORCE. (All Groups.) One-act comedies. Annie G. 2-5 m., 3-6 f. Unit set. The,e fun imd inventive one-acts, all originally produced at the Edinburgh Festival, are easily ~taged in any venue. See Open and Shut, Hermaphrodite and 9.8 Meters Per Second for individual descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60$60 when performed together.) (#8990) *MAKE ME A MATCH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Roman. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Stephanie Mills is a rich, demanding corporate executive used to having her way. Unmarried and hearing the tick of her biological clock, she would like to have a hu:,band. Through a friend, and urged by her irrepressible mother, she reluctantly hires Robin McFee, a matchmaker who happens to be male, brash and used to having his way! Sex, love and laughter entwine as Robin supplies Stephanie with "suitable prospects," each resulting in hilarity and disaster. This clever and observant romantic comedy about the perils of modem-day matchmaking is guaran(#14799) teed to leave audiences laughing. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60) *NOBODY'S PERFECT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Simon Williams. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Love Is All Round is a feminist publishing house and Harriet Copeland is in charge of their competition to attract new authors of romantic fiction called 'For Women By Women.' To defeat this gender bias, Leonard Loftus submits his novel under a pseudonym-Lulabell Latiffa. He wins first prize and the once bashful statistician with a spectacular alter ego is suddenly a very worried man in the guise of a carefree woman. His wayward daughter and rascally old father hilariously

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CROSSING DELANCEY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Susan Sandler. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int., ext. Isabel is a modem young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother in Manhattan's Lower East Side. This delightfully nosey old lady and her friend the matchmaker have found a "good catch" for Isabel-Sam, the handsome pickle vendor. The end of the play is really a beginning, ripe with possibilities for Isabel and Sam. "An amusing romance . . . that tells its unpretentious story believably, rarely trying to make its gag lines, of which there are many, upstage its narration or outshine its heart."-N.Y. Times. "A warm and loving . . . . addition to the growing body of Jewish dramatic work in this country."-Jewish Post and (#5739) Opinion. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) DEATH DEFYING ACTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Mamet, Elaine May and Woody Allen. 2 m., 3 f. 3 ints. This long-running Off-Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mamet's An Interview is an oblique, mystifying interrogation of a sleazy lawyer who is forced to admit the truth about his life. The why and where provide a surprise ending to this brilliant twenty-minute comedy. In Hotline by Elaine Maya neurotic woman calls a suicide crisis hotline. The counselor who gets the call is overwhelmed-it is his first night on the job. This dark and desperate, wildly funny forty-minute piece ends Act I. A psychiatrist has just discovered that her best friend is having an affair with her husband in Woody Allen's wildly comic Central Park West, an hour of constant hilarity. "A wealth of laughter."-N.Y. Newsday. "Elegant."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. Death Defying Acts (#6201) An Interview (#11686) Hotline (#10578) Central Park West (#4978) EAST. (Advanced Groups.) Dark comedy. Steven Berkoff. 4 m., 1 f. Simple set. Written from Berkoffs personal memories and experiences in the East End of London, East is a testament to youth, energy, and a time of life that knew no holding (#6964) back or reserve. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 1, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) A FOOL OF PASSION. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's step-sister and Byron's mistress, is the central figure in this tale of the scandalous adventures of these brilliant, controversial people who defied social conventions to live exuberant lives and write immortal (#8210) works. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$0.) GOOD BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Martin. 5 m. Ext. A fierce encounter between fathers, one black and one white, opens a deeply disturbing chapter in their lives. The men relive the school shooting in which their sons died, one a victim and the other the shooter. When racial issues threaten to derail all hope for understanding and forgiveness, the black father's other son takes matters into his owns hands. He pushes the confrontation to a dangerous and frightening climax. Good Boys explores the pressures of modem family life and the breaking points of men and boys, and it raises the question: To what extent are parents responsible for their children's behavior? This topical drama by the author of Keely and Du and other contemporary hits premiered at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. "Galvanizing." -St. Paul Pioneer. "A terrifying, terrific piece of theatre that is as memorable as it is unsett1ing."-Star Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Re,stricted. (#9935) JUST SAY YES! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey and Tom Sharkey. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Needing to prove his theories work, an author of books on success through self-confidence 'picks the world's biggest loser and makes him a winner-nearly losing everything to him in the process. Popular author Jack Sharkey's last comedy, Just Say Yes! was written with his brother, the composer and librettist of It's a Wonderful Life. "Delightful."-Oak Leaves. "Downright excellent! Two hours of sheer enjoyment."-Lerner Newspapers. "Surefire crowd-pleaser."-Skyliner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#12662) KILLER JOE. (Little Theatre.) Black comedy. Tracy Letts. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Killer Joe is hired by the greedy Smith family, a dim-witted clan wanting to do away with mother to get her insurance money. Killer Joe decides to bed the Smith daughter as a retainer against his final payoff. Before it's over, nearly everyone is bloodied. "Set in Dallas, Killer Joe revels in its white trash stereotypes, and gives you permission to do the same; it's pulp fiction which has it both ways, deriving humor from dirty realism. It's slick, it's well constructed, it knows exactly where it's going."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13052) KVETCH. (Advanced Groups.) Dark Comedy. Steven Berkoff. 3 m., 2 f. Simple set. Here is a study of the effects of anxiety on the nagging kvetch that keeps you awake. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13630) MAN IN THE FLYING LAWN CHAIR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Caroline Cromelin, Eric Nightengale, Monica Read, Kimberly Reiss, Troy W. Taber and Toby Wherry. 2 m., 3 f. Unit set. This high-altitude comedy based on the true story of Larry Walters, a man dedicated to getting the best view, was developed through improvisation at the 78th Street Theatre Lab. Larry used surplus weather balloons to launched himself to 16,000 feet in an aluminum lawn chair-and lived to tell about it. After being spotted by passing aircraft, he shot several of the balloons with a pellet gun to descend, got entangled in power lines and was arrested for violating commercial airspace in an unauthorized vehicle. His time in the spotlight, which included an appearance on David Letterman, may have been brief but he has become

hard-boiled, devoutly Christian guard is tom by conflicting inner voices as he interrogates a prisoner and her mother about an explosion that killed sixteen of his soldiers. The arrival of a new, wounded camp commandant triggers murder and inevitable catastrophes reminiscent of ancient tragedy. "Theatrically bold and politically moving . . . . The dialogue has an odd and effective stateliness, as though we're listening to a translation of an ancient work."-Variety. Winner of the 199798 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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BECAUSEHECAN. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Authur Kopit. 4 m., I f. Various sets. He calls himself ISeeU, but you can't see him. And if it's you he wants, nothing can stop him. In a plot worthy of Kafka or Orwell, this sinister and erotic tale propels an unsuspecting couple into their worst nightmare: a world with no secrets in which private lives are no longer private. BecauseHeCan was initially produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club under the title Y2K. "Sizzling. A horrifying cautionary tale."-N.Y. Times. "Like Pinter in cyberspace. . . . Kopit mines the terrors of the late 20th century. "-Newsday. "'Underneath the cyber-thriller aspect of Kopit's story, his sense of the bewildering mystery and fragility of relationships comes through loud and chillingly clear."New Yorker. "Mesmerizing."-InTheatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#27058) BINGO BABES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Isabel Duarte. 2 m., 3 f. Int.' Bingo buddies Mary and Peggy face challenges to "improve" from different quarters. Mary has a daughter who longs for middle-class respectability while Peggy must deal with Mary's grudge against her no-good, charismatic boyfriend. Winner of the Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

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BLACKPOOL AND PARRISH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Belke. 3 m., 2 f. Int. For five millennia Harry Blackpool has been the agent for all Evil on Earth, while Rachel Parrish has represented Good. These implacable foes meet in a private club every twenty-five years. With the end of the world scheduled for tomorrow at teatime, they must pass their duties to their oblivious heirs: a mild-mannered physical education teacher and an aggressively Bohemian artist. Caught in the middle of their cosmic gamesmanship is an anxious club manager. As the sole representative of humanity, he may be the key to Armageddon's outcome in this fast-paced comedy of apocalyptic proportions by the author of That Dam Plot. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#4274) $60.) BLOOD MONEY. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. The Heather Brothers. 1 m., 4 f. Int. Mike and Liz have a rocky marriage. She is an alcoholic and he is a philanderer who is having a fling with a young neighbor and a serious affair with his wife's doctor. Mike and Liz have a secret: years ago they left a girl dying at a hit-and-run accident. Mike fakes dying, hoping the shock will kill Liz, but she rushes to the clinic where the doctor finishes her off. But then Liz bursts through the door and murders her "dead" husband and the doctor kills her again, taking revenge for the death of her daughter. "Nothing-absolutely nothing-is what it seems in this smart, riveting ... yam full of gut-wrenching plot twists and hairpin turns, ... surprising special effects and tart wit."-News Journal, Wilmington. "Serves to remind you that in the right hands, live theater can provide a thrill a minute."-WDEL Radio, Wilmington. "Full of thrills and spills. . . . One of the best plays I've seen."-Derby Trader. "A bloody good thriller . . . [with] a lot of laughs."-Daily Express. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4206) THE COOK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eduardo Machado. 2 m., 3 f. Int. As Fidel Castro storms Habana, a wealthy Batistlano is forced to flee to America with her husband and unborn child. Adria begs her cook, a proud and loyal woman who values her mistress's friendship, to promise she will protect the mansion from the communist upheaval. Over the next forty years Gladys keeps this promise, despite tremendous emotional and physical loss. When Adria's daughter vacations in Cuba and comes to see her mother's old house, Gladys is forced to confront harsh truths. Not only has Adria forgotten her, but now Glayds is accused of leading a life of betrayal in a house that isn't hers. Gladys's struggle mirrors the cultural divide in Cuba that separates the delicately preserved past from the need to survive that is molding a rough-hewed future from the majestic determination and nobility of the Cuban people. "Completely riveting."-Newsday. "First rate . . . . Machado uses the kitchen as a metaphor to examine the oppression and betrayals of both exile and revolution . . . . A shining theatrical experience."-New Yorker. "Powerful. [The] writing is political and unflinching."-Miami Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#5321) THE CRAZY TIME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Miles Gladstone has it all: a trophy wife, a successful business and a happy daughteruntil his gorgeous spouse takes off, his conniving partner cheats him out of his company and his daughter's marriage starts to crumble. Worse yet, now that he wants his ex-wife back, she has had a complete make-over and is involved with someone half her age. Is there a happy ever after? Not for this guy! This totally entertaining comedy is by the veteran playwright of Norman Is that You?, Murder at the Howard Johnson's and Remember Me. "Hilarious.... A brilliant script."-Waterloo Record. "A play with one purpose-to entertain. . . . Offers a good time."-Troy Record. "The audience loved [this] clever summer delight." -Schenectady Daily Gazette. "A howling success." -Glens Falls Post Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#5854)

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a cult hero for weird daredevils everywhere. Winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Best of tht: Fringe. A radio version aired on the BBe. "As smart, funny and thoughtful .1S it is wacky and bizarre . . . . It's far more layered that you'd likely expect."-Curtain Up. Delightful. . . . Takes Walters's story and uses it as a metaphor for soaring dreams. . . . Has a wacky edge that matches the craziness of Walters's dream."-The Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#14804) METAMORPHOSIS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Steven Berkoff. 3 m., 2 f. Simple set. This stunning adaptation of Kafka's terrifying metaphysical tale about a man who wakes up one morning to find he is an insect was produced on Broadway starring Mikhail Baryshnikov. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 3, $11.95. (Royalty, $60(#14818) $60.) MOONLIGHT AND VALENTINO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ellen Simon. 1 m., 4 f. Var. SI~tS. This light-hearted comedy by Neil Simon's daughter captures the warmth and spirit of four women seeking answers to life's biggest questions. When Rebecca's family and closest friend arrive on her doorstep following the sudden accidental death of her husband, they bring their own baggage and distinctive personalities: a controlling ex-stepmother, a naive younger sister and an eccentric best friend. When a sexy painter is hired to paint Rebecca's house, each woman learns that, when all is said and done, laughter is the best medicine. This warm and wonderful play is based on the movie that starred Elizabeth Perkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Bon Jovi, Kathleen Turner and Whoopi Goldberg. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#15562) OFFICE SUITE. One-act comedies. Alan Bennett. 2 m., 2 f. See Index under Green Forms and A Visit from Miss Prothero. ON THE LAKE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Reza de Wet. 5 f. Written in response to Chekhov's The Seagull, this play reflects his style, form and content while restaging the symbolist play-within-a-play performed in the original work. Nina's need to free herself from the constraints of her naturalistic role exposes tensions beneath th(: surface of the Chekhovian world. On the Lake opened as part of the program of the Grahamstown South African National Arts Festival in 2001. Published with Three Sisters Two and Yelena in Russian Trilogy, $16.95. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#17717) ONE SHOE OFF. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tina Howe. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This comedy about maniage and the theatre takes place in a farmhouse where slow-moving disintegration is at work. Rooms are drifting into each other and saplings have taken root indoors. The owners, an out-of-work actor and an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. have invited their new neighbors for dinner. When a successful movie director drops in, old memories stir and new passions kindle as vegetables and Dinah's costumes fly. "Rich, gorgeous and compelling. . . . This is an exquisite, funny play."-NY. Post. "A mad-hatter blowout. "-Newsday. "Howe creates a high-wire act of verbal and visual images. . . . This is high comedy."--Theatre Week. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. Eventually there is a knock-down-drag-out fight which opens the eyes of Elyot and Amanda, who then steal off together a second time. A unique play with four successful Broadway runs boasting as stars the author, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. "Gorgeous, dazzling, fantastically funny."-NY. Times. "A gleaming and gleeful comedy."-NY. Post. "A brilliant comedy. A very funny play."-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#99) THE RADICAL MYSTIQUE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Arthur Laurents. 3 m., 2 f. Int. In the New York of the late 60's when the term "radical chic" was coined by Tom Wolfe, friends Josie and Janice are arranging a party to aid the Black Panthers' Self Defense Fund. In the process, their complacency is shaken and they are forced to confront things they would prefer to leave alone. "Achingly earnest comedy of manners. . . . His concern is nothing less than the way in which the most basic relationships are sustained by lies." -N Y. Times. "It holds the interest in the oldfashioned way. It earns it."-NY. Post. "Full of Laurents' caustic wit and moments of wisdom . . . . An unusually civilized evening." -N Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19961) SAFE. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Tony Glazer and Anthony Ruivivar. 4 m., I f. Int. Five people are coerced into a bank vault during a violent robbery. Camaraderie gives way to conflict as the will to survive spawns paranoia and deception. One by one, the captives turn on each other, create alliances, reveal their true selves and even resort to murder. This dark comic thriller, part survival story and part cautionary tale, enthralls and surprises from the opening scene to a final haunting discovery. "Outlandishly amusing . . . . A guilty pleasure."-NY. Times. 'A riveting piece of drama, sprinkled liberally with comedic confrontations and maddening mind games."-Backstage. "A no holds barred version of 12 Angry Men [that has] the makings of an Off-Broadway success and regional theatre hit."-Theatre Mania. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21514) SECOND SUMMER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gary Richards. 2 m., 3 f. Ints. A good-natured, affable man embittered by the death of his beloved wife reluctantly sells his business and home in Brooklyn and moves to Florida. In what he thought would be "God's waiting room," he finds a world of new possibilities as single women his age flock to charm the new, available man. This play by the author of Dividends is about the rebirth of an elderly man who finds that the long dormant teenager in himself still exists. It celebrates the richness of the mature life experience in a warmhearted comedy that clearly demonstrates it's not how old you are, it's how your are old! $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21523) SEEING STARS IN DIXIE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Ron Osborne. 1m., 4 f. Int. It's 1956 and Hollywood has arrived in Natchez, Mississippi with its brightest stars to film Raintree County. Meanwhile at Clemmie's, a Natchez tea room, the widowed proprietor who has a fascination with movies and a secret admirer, oversees her own cast of characters: Tootie, her take-charge friend; Jo Beth, a former beauty queen; Glease, a man more comfortable with women than macho men, and Marjorie, an unethical social climber. Competition for a small role in the movie brings out the best-and worst-of these memorable characters. Twists, turns and revelations lead Clemmie to trade a moment of fame for love and the chance to impact the lives of people dear to her. Originally produced at the Sonoma County (#20943) Repertory Theatre in Sebastopol, CA. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) SILLY COW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Elton. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy with a regular supply of Columbian, a pretty personal assistant who might share her libidinous preferences, and the prospect of her own television show. Being sued by an actress for libel is a petty annoyance, but Doris puts her in her place by revealing her ample cleavage as she flirts with the judge and spouts populist bravado. She is ready to celebrate her victory in court when things begin to go wrong: television materials are missing, a pal she double-crossed wants revenge, her accountant is about to pull a fast one and those she has defamed in her column tie her to a chair during her show and dish out the kind of humiliation she inflicts on others. This is a hilarious play by the author of Popcorn. "Crude, clever and killingly funny."-Daily Mirror. "A cracker of a (#21544) play. "-Stage and Television Today. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) SMALL TRAGEDY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Craig Lucas. 3 m., 2 f. Ints. Backstage and global politics unexpectedly collide during an amateur production of Oedipus. This powerful, timely play investigates the contemporary meaning and relevance of tragedy, launching a surprisingly funny, sharply pointed salvo directly at the heart of a generation. Winner of the 2004 Obie Award for Best American Play. "Anyone who has ever fallen in love with an actor-or, for that matter, with theater itself-will find . . . a whole lot to cherish. Who could fail to be moved by the play's quiet insistence that . . . Greek tragedy can still serve as a guidepost on the rough road of life, that theater still has the power to help us wrest meaning from suffering?" -Variety. "Full of interest, intelligence. amusement, and spine-chilling verity."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21489) SMELLING A RAT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mike Leigh. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Rex Weasel, owner of the Vermination Pest Control Company, returns home unexpectedly and hops into a closet when he hears intruders-who turn out to be his employee and his wife on a spree. They are forced into hiding when Rex's son enters with his garrulous girlfriend. This subversive comedy is by the acclaimed British film

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PERFECT CRIME. (All Groups.) Thriller. Warren Manzi. I f., 4 m. Int. This catand-mouse thriller is one of Off-Broadway's longest-running hits. Margaret Thorne Brent, psychiatrist and author, ha~ returned to America with her husband, also a psychiatrist, and settled in an affluent Connecticut community where at least one bizarre murder has taken place. Inspector James Ascher, the local cop, becomes obsessed with Margaret, her patients and their sitting room, where he believes the solution to the murder lies. "Sends electric thrills up the spine!"-NY. Times. "Shows a fine hand at creating suspense. The psychological curve-balls . . . whiz by." -N Y Daily News. "If Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, and Agatha Christie ever sat around a bar one night and said 'Let's write a murder mystery,' they might have come up with Perfect Crime. "-UPI. "Keeps you right there on the edge of your seat with a delightful blend of suspense, sexuality, and intellectual teasing. "--Texas Triangle. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

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PIECES OF THE SKY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Paterson. 4 m., I f. Int. This drama by the author of The Great Gilly Hopkins and Finger Painting in a Murphy Bed focuses on a strange, intense friendship that develops during World War II in Nebraska. Sarah is an independent and determined middle-aged mother who runs a diner in Deliverance and worries about her son, a soldier fighting in Europe. She becomes the Jewish mailman's only friend in town, partly because she feels that a good relationship with the man who brings notices of war deaths will somehow shield her son from harm. Sarah and Joshua put together complex jigsaw puzzles to pass the time, until Sarah thinks he has betrayed her. "Bristling with character, texture, and wit."-Village Voice. "Riveting theatre."-TimeOut. "Paterson has created anlctress's dream--a strong complex character with many conflicting traits and hidden sides." -Orange County Register. "Funny and fascinating." -Fullerton Observer. "Deals with some weighty issues."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18969) PRIVATE LIVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 2 m., 3 f. 2 int. Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, *Private Lives is one of the most flippant plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger.

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maker and author of Abigail's Party and Ecstacy. "The play's comic and satiric genius . . . generates a delirious energy . . . [that is] rare and satisfying."-N.Y. Times. "The fun lies in the inevitability that we shall see the bodies come tumbling out of the closet and the skeletons out of the cupboard." -London Guardian. "Hilarious."-London Observer. $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21425) THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jon Robin Baitz. 3 m., 2 f. 2 ints. Isaac Geldhart, the imperious scion of a family-owned publishing house, is under siege. A takeover is being engineered by his son Aaron, who sees the firm's profitability steadily declining and wants to publish a trashy novel to bring in the bucks. Isaac plans to go on publishing scholarly works such as a multi-volume history of Nazi medical experiments. Aaron has the necessary yen from Japanese backers but he needs the votes of his brother and sister. Reluctantly, they side against the old man. The second act takes place in the library of Isaac's townhouse a few years after his forced retirement. He has become so irascible and eccentric that his children have asked the court to judge his competence. Isaac, who survived the Holocaust and transcended the death of his wife to build an important publishing company from scratch, faces his greatest challenge: persuading the psychiatric social worker that he is sane. "A deeply compassionate play."-N.Y. Times. "A remark(#21379) ably intelligent drama."--N.Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) THE SWEEPERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama John C. Picardi. 1m., 4 f. Unit set. Bella, Mary and Dotty have been friends and next-door neighbors in Boston's North End Italian neighborhood since childhood. Husbands and sons are away fighting and World War II impacts the neighborhood, exerting unsettling pressure to assimilate and change with the times on those who cherish traditions, values and cultural heritage. Against this backdrop, Bella's son is about to marry into an affluent Italian American family with connections to Beacon Hill. Secrets are revealed, lies are bared and truths are told as the war winds down and powerful emotions strain lifelong friendships. "Often humorous, eventually gripping. Mr. Picardi renders his characters timeless."-N.Y. Times. "You don't have to be Italian American to enjoy The Sweepers. An appreciation for good writing will do."-Daily Item. "Skillfully written, solidly theatrical."-Patriot Ledger. "Hauntingly dramatic."-American Theater Web. "Picardi deftly moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again. "-Metroland. "Picardi's twists of tale are worthy of a Miller play."-Times Union. 'Invigorating, often galvanic."-Berkshire Eagle. "A hit with audiences." -Schenectady Gazette. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21965) THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 3 f., 2 m. Int. An award-winning hit at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a departure for the well-known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic allergist, is engulfed in a life crisis of Medea-like proportions. She tries to lose herself in a world of art galleries, foreign films and avant-guard theatre, but is barely able to rouse herself from her sofa. Her spirits soar when a fascinating friend from her childhood appears. Lee the savior that infuses Matjorie with life becomes Lee the unwelcome and sinister guest in short order. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award. "A window-rattling comedy. . . . Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream. . . . Wall-to-wall laughs."-N.Y. Times. "Charles Busch comes of age as a comic playwright of the first rank."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters. Slightly Re(#3565) stricted. THEY CAME FROM MARS AND LANDED OUTSIDE THE FARNDALE AVENUE CHURCH HALL IN TIME FOR THE TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD'S COFFEE MORNING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 1m., 4 f. 2 int., ext. or unit set. The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt liftoff with their Dramatic Society'S unique production of a sci-fi thriller. Needless to say, high-tech effects going awry and the limited talents of some group members ensure that the cast remains firmly on the ground-some more than others. As ever, the resourceful Mrs. Reece brilliantly circumnavigates pitfalls as she steers the company into orbit and through space to genteel tea on Mars, where the nail-biting action is interrupted to present the Flower Arranging Award. The tear-jerking culmination has hysterical audiences on the edges of their seats. "Superb, minutely observed spoof with some hilarious set pieces."-Guardian. ''"Hilarious' cried the blurbs; 'I laughed till I cried.' I did."-Guernsey Evening Press. "Some marvelous, almost surrealist moments."-What's On & Where to Go. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#22171) VAMPIRES IN LA. (All Groups.) Comedy. Norman Beim. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Count Dracula, in Hollywood as a film producer, pursues the young woman he believes is the reincarnation of the wife he loved passionately before she committed suicide. The young woman's brother has fallen into Dracula's clutches. She and her fiancee must fight the notorious Count to save the young man. "An original and fascinating modem version of the Dracula tale."-N.Y. Theatre Review. "Marvelous."-Encore. "Sylish and amusing."-After Dark. "Funny and charming."-Chicago Press. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#23998) VINCENT IN BRIXTON. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Nicholas Wright. Incidental music by Dominic Muldowney. 2 m., 3 f. Int. In 1873, at the age of 20, Vincent Van Gogh rented a room in a suburb of London while he was being groomed for a career as an art dealer in his family's business. This heralded play produced by Lincoln Center traces the transforming effects of love, sex and youthful adventure on Van Gogh's still unformed talent, portraying him as he might have been and supposing a poignant affair with his landlady that might have happened. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play. "One of the best plays ever presented at The Royal National Theatre."-London Times. "A fascinating, funny and deeply moving portrait." -Daily Telegraph. "Deeply moving." -Financial Times. "Excellent."-Guardian. "Beguiling. . . . Wright's fact-based fiction transports us with its acute sensitivity to the shifting chemistries between two unlikely, troubled, intelligent soul mates . . . . It is always beautiful. "-Newsday. "Sweetly done [with] magical moments." -N. Y. Post. "A haunting study in melancholy. . . rich with inthe-moment authenticity."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Re(#24634) stricted. THE WAVERLY GALLERY. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Kenneth Lonergan. 3 m., 2 f. Ints. Gladys, the elderly matriarch of the Green family, has run an art gallery in a small Greenwich Village hotel for many years. The management wants to replace her less-than-thriving gallery with a coffee shop. Always irascible but now increasingly erratic, Gladys is a cause of concern to her daughter, her son-inlaw and her grandson, from whose point of view this poignant memory play is told. A wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family, Waverly Gallery was a success at New York's Promenade Theatre, winning an Obie for legendary Eileen Heckart in the role of Gladys. "Deftly . . . presents senility as an exaggerated state of the natural human condition . . . . Deeply theatrical and often deeply funny."-N.Y. Times. "Poignant and strangely comic."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royal(#25628) ty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. WE FOUND LOVE AND AN EXQUISITE SET OF PORCELAIN FIGURES ABOARD THE S.S. FARNDALE AVENUE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Flushed by their successes, the stalwart veterans of the Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet another dramatic idiom: their current production sails the lUXury ocean liner SS Farndale Avenue into the world of thirties musical comedy. The ladies prove that the age of elegance, glamour and enchantment is not dead . . . well, not quite. Circumstances almost beyond their control threaten to wreck the evening's entertainment but the ladies and Gordon, in true Farndale form, soar above such mundane matters to present some catchy numbers and a stunning underwater sequence! $8.95. (#25630) (Royalty, $50-$35.) YELENA. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Reza de Wet. 3 m., 2 f. A response to Chekhov's Uncle Vanya that emulates his style, form and content, this unique play revisits the characters eight years later. It focuses on the destructive effects that love can have on a small group of people connected by marriage and blood. Honored as the Best Production of the Year at the 1998 South African Theatre Awards, this work is by one of South Africa's most esteemed playwrights, a winner of the prestigious Herzog Prize and many other awards for her contributions to Afrikaans literature. Published with Three Sisters Two and On the lAke in Russian Trilogy, $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#27007) ABIGAIL'S PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mike Leigh. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Suburbanites Laurence and Beverly are entertaining their new neighbors Angela and Tony as well as Susan, whose teenage daughter is having at party at which her mother is less than welcome. Over drinks and snacks, good-will, cliches and fatuous small talk abound. Tension escalates as a sense of marital strain between Beverly and Laurence emerges, Susan's anxiety as to what is happening at her daughter's party skyrockets (increasingly evident as rock music penetrates the room), and Beverly and Angela offer some supremely tactless remarks. Horrific reality breaks into their smug world as Laurence has a fatal heart attack. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3588) ACCOMPLICE. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Rupert Holmes. 2 m., 2 f., I. surprise guest star. Int. This unique thriller by the author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood broke box-office records at the Pasadena Playhouse and thrilled Broadway audiences. It begins as a straightforward English thriller. A sex-starved wife and her lover murder her stuffy husband on stage, but he reappears! This is a dress rehearsal and the victim is the playwright and-director, who is actually plotting to murder his wife, the leading lady, so that his affair with her leading man can proceed unimpeded. A surprise character from the audience reveals that something entirely different is actually going on. "A delight."-Pasadena Star-News. "Miss it at your peril." -LA. Herald Examiner. "A breathless ride through an ever-shifting series of planes."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Part murder mystery, part sex farce and completely entertaining."-USA Today. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Write for details about music. (#3144) ALL FOR ONE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Paul Weitz. 3 m., 2 f. Int. All for One is about three childhood friends, now in their mid-twenties, whose weekend reunion is sabotaged by ambition and unrequited love. Tony is the producer of the hit sitcom Model Detectives. He lives in Los Angeles with Lynn, an elementary school teacher who complains that "half the people I know have had plastic surgery, the other half are in the third grade." Jeff is a high-strung law student who is mortified by the fact that he is in love with Lynn, his best friend's girlfriend. Jonny Lightningrod, an aspiring musician ("I'm doing hardcore, but as a solo artist.") wants a guest spot on Tony's show. Farrah is a runaway who has hitch-hiked with Jonny to L.A., and she decides she wants to live in Tony's house. "Very funny."-New Yorker. "Smart, sexy and funny, a cross between The Breakfast Club and The Big Chill."-Liz Smith. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3584) THE BABY DANCE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Anderson. 3 m., 2 f. 2 int. Stephanie Zimbalist starred at the Pasadena Playhouse and Long Wharf Theatre as a woman who has everything she wants-except a child. She finds that adopting an

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unborn child is fraught with unanticipated difficulties. "Lovely and touching."-New Yorker. "Explosive. A stunner. It's funny as well as perceptive."-L.A Times. "Compelling . . . emotional power and nimble humor."-Wall Street Joumal. "Rivetting, heart-gripping drama."-Newhouse Newspapers. "Absolutely gripping . . . comic and stylish. . . . A play not to be missed."-N.Y. Post. $6.50 (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#4305) BEAST WITH TWO BACKS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 3 m., 2 f. Int. In Greenwich Village in the late 1920s AI, an artist, moves into a rooming house on MacDougal Street and finds himself being pulled deeper and deeper into the lives of its inhabitants. Above him live Mary Margaret, a lost actress from Ohio, and her philandering poet boyfriend, Jem. Al meets Mary Margaret when she comes home drunk one night and blunders into his bed. He falls in love with her. The landlord, McLish, keeps bursting into AI's room to help him with his romance. McLish, a failed writer, has his own troubles: a beautiful but compulsively disloyal wife. And somebody keeps playing "The Saint James Infirmary Blues." Al"s attempt to rescue Mary Margaret is the core of this richly atmospheric love story which vividly recreates the world of artists and writers in this era. This play is part of the author's cycle of Pt:ndragon plays; Mary Margaret also appears in his Anima Mundi and Laestrygonians. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4264) BETTER HALF DEAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy thriller. Joan Torres. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Rena is sick of her sinking beach house and her husband Dennot, a disinherited son of "The Landfill King." She's packing, taking a gun and returning to her first husband, the artist Stanley Riverstein. Stanley wants his painting returned with his ex-wife. Dennont protests, there is a struggle, the gun goes off and Rena falls to the floor-dl1ad. Stanley will remove the body, for a price. Dermot agrees. Rena's sister Jodi, who was dumped by Dermot but still loves him. is told that Rena has gone back to Stanley. Dermont fails to mention the gun, the body or blackmail. But wait! Things are not what they seem. Who's shot and who's not? Is another murder imminent? The mayhem includes a storm, a disguise, a strangulation and a murderous fur coa.!. "Wicked dialogue. Very clever."-Chicago Tribune. "Wonderfully wacky."-L.A. DramaLogue. "A real twister! Hilarious!"-Star Telegram. "The play is a howl."-WMAQ Radio. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#4915) BIRTH AND AFTER BIRTH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tina Howe. 3 m., 2 f. Int. A witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of (:hildhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other stories that they forget to actually be parents. "A stunning theatrical experience that explores the magic and madness in family dynmnics."-Main Line Times. "An antic farce and a poignant drama . . . that is laugh-out-loud funny and disturbingly sober. . . . It's a pearl."-Metropoli tan (D.C.) Times. "One of [Tina Howe's] significant works . . . . Will be remembered as the high point of Philadelphia's annual Theatre Week. "-Theatre Week. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#4298) BUTTERSCOTCH. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Barbara L. Smith. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Butterscotch is a candy-yellow 1947 Ford at the center of an unlikely friendship between a New York restaurant critic and a man who loves roadside diners. The critic has (orne to a small Pennsylvania town to persuade his fiancee's father to attend their wedding in New York. The bride, a news correspondents off on assignment. has not even told her cantankerous, ailing father she is getting married. Adding to 'the bucolic fray are an elderly neighbor who has her fading eyesight on the widowl!d father. dad's hunting buddy and a nervous ex-New Yorker whose condo ruined a favorite hunting spot. Father and future son-in-law share only a dislike for each other, but the vintage car brings about a surprising end to a seemingly hopeless impasse. "Very funny."-Martha's Vineyard Times. "Humerous and humane."--Greenwich News. Winner of the New England New Play Competition and Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4232) BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON. (All Groups.) Comic drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. In this memory play the author's uncle. a Jewish immigrant from' Poland, arrives in America in the early twenties after an adventurous life in Palestine. Lost and confused, he marries on the rebound, fathers a son as neurotic as he is and alienates everyone except the sister he adores. This is a compassionate and poignant portrait of an irascible and frustrating man. In My Family, The Jewish (#4944) Immigrants. $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) CHASE ME UP FARNDALE AVENUE, S'IL VOUS PLAIT! (All Groups.) Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 1m.. 4 f. Int. The French farce has arrived at The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society, and the formidable ladies do it like no one else! An unintelligible plot, a plethora of doors and a grand range of characters make this Farndale offering as bubbly as a glass of champagne. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4976) CONNIE & SABRINA IN WAITING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sandra Marie Vago. 2 m.. 3 f.. to play various roles. Unit set. As this unusual, warm and winning comedy begins, Sabrina, a woman in her fifties, is at a funeral home to play her respects to her dearest and oldest friend. Connie. A flashback moves the scene to the 1960s when both women were teenagers meeting for the first time. Sabrina's name then was Wanda Goodman (she changed it after seeing an Audrey Hepburn movie) and Connie was still Madeleine (she changed her name in homage to Connie Francis.) The play follows Connie and Sabrina as they grow up, grow older, grow apart,

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"The kind of domestic comedy that might have been written by Neil Simon if he were gay and 40 years younger!"-N.Y. Times. "A little gem."-Liz Smith. "Guaranteed to keep the laughter in overdrive!"-N.Y. Daily News. 'Sparkles! The first fresh comedy of its type to come along in years. It is not going too far to draw parallels between Neil Simon or Kaufman & Hart at the top of their powers. . . . A rollicking farce with a heart of pure gold." -LGNY Newspaper. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) . (#5821) DARK RITUALS. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Thorn Bennett. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Deep in the northern woods, world famous anthropologist Anne McCauley is researching the dark rituals of America's first nations. Aided by local Shaman Vernon Rivers, she is learning the spine-chilling tale of Windigo, a legendary cannibal creature. Suddenly her son and despised daughter-in-law return to her secluded cottage. A series of diabolical events is triggered that brings the audience and Anne McCauley face-toface with the darkest fears that lurk in all of us: that territory where the supernatural blends with murder and ritual death. Don't be fooled by names in the cast list, for no one is what he or she appears to be and everyone is wearing a mask of deception. "Dark Rituals is a thriller like no other you've ever seen. It brilliantly combines seduction, betrayal, and a dozen 180-degree plot twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat." -North Star. "An exciting and devilish cross between Death (#6187) trap, Psycho, and Basic Instinct.-MCTV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) DATES AND NUTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gary Lennon. 2 m., 3 f. Ints. This romantic comedy by the author of Blackout is about an animal rights activist in Brooklyn who is dumped by her fiancee for a man. Angry at the male species, she searches for Mr. Right (or at least Mr. Right Now) in the dating jungle of New York City. Her attempts are futile and she swears off men. When she actually bumps into the man of her dreams. the event goes unnoticed at first. When they do set out to conquer intimacy, they fight, laugh, love and dance their way into that heart-shaped bed for newlyweds in the Poconos. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#6574) A DISTANCE FROM CALCUTTA. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. PJ. Barry. 2 m., 3 f. Int. It is 1923 in Jericho, Rhode Island. Opposed to her younger brother's pending marriage, a truculent old-maid hairdresser is in constant conflict with him. When he finally moves out with his bride, their widowed mother insists they talee in a boarder. Love blossoms but other pressures interfere. This honest and deeply affecting love story is the ninth entry in the author's twelve play Jericho cycle. "The characters are tough and fascinating and the dialogue is rich, cutting and witty . . . . A triumphant affirmation."-N. Y. Times. "Both touching and dramatic. . The play sizzles with lost emotion."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty. $60-$40.) (#6185) DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Patrick Cargill. 2 m .. 3 f. lnt. Complications abound when Charles and Margery entertain Robert and his new wife, Jane, whom they have never met. Robert arrives without Jane and Charles confides that he had a brief affaire with Jaynie. He has covered his tracks by not giving her his address. Minutes later Jaynie arrives on the doorstep! Charles passes her off as Robert's missing wife, while telling Jaynie that Margery is married to Robert. This wild deception is compounded by the arrival of another attractive girl. As the men struggle to keep the women from revealing their true identities, Margery (#6172) herself is keeping a secret. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) EMINENT DOMAIN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Version. Percy Granger. 4 m., I f. Comb. int. "An engaging play about an academic whose career is threatened by a wife with no social or professional ambitions; a son who is a celebrated poet whose alienation from his parents accounts for part of his celebrity; several academic rivals whose own careers can be advanced by embarrassing him, and a freshman who malee him aware of how little regard the students have for him despite his scholarly eminence."-Women's Wear Daily. "Displays a genuine literate touch plus a concern for both intellectual and human values." -Christian Sci ence Monitor. "There is something engagingly civilized about the play . . . . Should not be missed by anyone anxious to watch the first major league steps of a playwright. Granger is a man of old-fashioned promise. which might stand him in good stead in a new-fashioned world."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#7614) EROGENOUS ZONES. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Frank Vickery. 3 m., 2 f. 3 ints. This ingeniously constructed play by the author of One 0' Clock from the HOl/se, Spanish Lies and Trivial Pursuits is set in three apartments over a holiday weekend. Shifting back and forth in time, it depicts a triangle of relationships: a homosexual man who is in love with his roommate while the roommate is having an affair with a woman whose husband seeks respite from their disintegrating marriage in the arms

CHARACTERS of another woman. "Clever and witty, especially when . . . a character in each room contributes to the dialogue. . . . Each of the relationships is handled with .It is a very rewarding piece. "-London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, sensitivity. (#7919) $60-$40.)

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tempts sometimes made to get published. An author who has written a three thousand page novel can't get an agent, let alone a publisher, because his work is too long to read. He hijacks a publisher over the long Easter weekend and obliges him to sit and listen while he reads his novel aloud. The novel is played out on an inset stage and frighteningly reflects the duplicity of the publisher's own life. The author plays many parts, including psychiatrist, marriage-broker and tireless cabdriver. The publisher is obliged to play himself in several roles. The author, the publisher, his wife and his mistress all play various roles on the inset stage. Over the course of the two acts, a relationship develops between the hijacker and his hostage. Sheer terror on the publisher's part dilutes to irritation and finally to a deep affection. $6.50. (#10908) (Royalty, $60-$40.) I TAKE THIS MAN. (Dinner Theatre.) Farce. Jack Sharkey. 3 m.; 2 f. Int. When lovely young Gideon Hollis (a.k.a. Giddy) spots an unconscious man in a tank-top and shorts lying in Copley Square just after all other Boston Marathon racers have crossed the finish line, she reasons that since nice guys finish last, this must be Mr. Right! She has a helpful policeman tote him to her nearby apartment, shocking her roommate whose fiance is due for a dinner datta. When the comatose dreamboat revives and cannot remember who he is, Giddy tells him they are married and regrets her subterfuge when he tries to be a loving husband. Complications escalate at a furious pace in this outrageous concoction of wild, warm, and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family. "[By] the 'King of G-rated comedy'."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11107) IT CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eric Chappell. 5 m. Int. Based on the author's television series Only When I Laugh, this comedy traces the fortunes of a disparate trio in a men's surgical ward. One is cynical and defensive, one is young and nervous, and the third is a weary hypochondriac. They form an uneasy alliance to combat the confusion and insecurities of hospital life. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10998) THE JOB. (Advanced Groups.) Black comedy. Shem Bitterman, 4 m., I f. lnt. A down-on-his-luck con artist trying to go straight finds a perfect job and then realizes he has been hired to kill someone. He subcontracts the hit to his old partner. There are deals, subdeals, and counterdeals, changes of mind and heart. Was there a murder? Where is the body? What really happened? "Bitterman creates a complex mix of characters while weaving a richly textured moral tapestry."-Vil/age Voice. "Richly humorous." -L.A. Times. "Harshly graceful and haunting comic." -N. Y. Times. Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding New Play of 1999. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12636) KEELY AND DU. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Martin. 2 m., 3 f., 3 extras. 2 ints. (1 simply suggested). From the author of Talking With and Vital Signs, here is a volatile drama about abortion. Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim she is confining, transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them. Keely and Du is a mind-probing issue play with a gripping human face. Who is accountable? What is the extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim's rights? What is a Christian's realities of procreation? Their passionate stories exist on the extreme edge of everyday reality. "Provocative."-Variety. "Compelling. . . . Bound to stir vigorous discussion."-N.Y. Times. "Brings a bit of light as well as heat to an already red-hot topic."-L.A. Times. "Disturbingly important."-Irish Times. "So well-plotted that its build-up is inexorable and gripping, its denouement at once inevitable and shocking."-Financial Times. "Harrowing" -Miami Herald. "Explosive." -Washington Times. Winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award, Best New Play of 1993. $6.50. (Royalty, (#13043) $60-$40.) THE LAST LAUGH. Michael Hardstark, based on works by Anton Chekhov. See Index under In the Cemetery and The Cure for descriptions. LATE FLOWERING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Chapman and Ian Davidson. 1 m., 4 f. Int. Constance Beauchamp, an elegant spinster, runs a marriage bureau that caters to the well-to-do in a fashionable area of London. She is assisted by a hardworking secretary who is set in her ways and prefers an old-fashioned filing systems. Nevertheless, Constance insists on installing a computer. The odd-ball bachelor sent to instruct them on its use feeds his own details through the system to find an ideal mate. Constance, after some trail and error, is alarmed to discover she fits the bill. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13834) THE LAST SUPPER RESTORATION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dan O'Brien. 4 m., 1 f. Int. The deathbed delusions of Bob Sarafin, a contemporary New York shirt designer and artist manque, are portrayed in a dreamlike narrative that weaves the imagined story of Leonardo da Vinci with that of Sarafin's father, an art restorer in Milan during World War II. As the nucleus of contemporary characters, people who are close to Sarafin, are called on to inhabit an eclectic selection of historical figures ranging from Sigmund Freud to Ezra Pound, The Last Supper Restoration becomes a mediation on the power of secrecy, betrayal and the possibility for human transcendence. Performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival, this innovative work won the 1997 National Student Playwriting Award and the National AIDS Fund/CDFA-Vogue Initiative. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#13841) $40.) A LOVE AFFAIR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Mayer. 2 m., 3 f. Int. This award-winning romantic comedy is brimming with hilarious as well as moving moments captured from a 38-year marriage. As Jimmy and Alice Diamond clear out

FAT CHANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jim Brochu. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Although Matisse Salinger is one of the most famous sculptors in the world, she has become a lonely, middle-aged lady who hasn't left her house in years and speaks only to her longtime housekeeper, Aura Johnson, and her domineering mother and agent, Victoria Salinger. Without companionship, she turns her affection to food and does nothing but SCUlpt, sleep, watch TV and eat, eat, eat. Her world is shaken by the arrival of Alex Tyler, a handsome young man whom she hires as a model. Mattie and the young man fall in love and begin a beautiful May-December romance until Mattie finds that she has been set up and the young model is not who he says he is. Fat Chance is a hilariously funny and sexy romantic comedy from the author of Cookin' with Gus and The Lucky O'Learys. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#8164) FIVE TELLERS DANCING IN THE RAIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mark Dunn. 5 f. Southern sass, tears and charm engage as five bank tellers speak their hearts and brew lots of coffee in this comedy by the author of Belles. Set in the break room of a small bank in Mississippi on six consecutive weekday mornings, this warm and gentle play eavesdrops on the conversations of women who have for too long defined themselves in terms of their relationships-recently ended or in the process of falling apart-with the men in their lives. It's a play about broken arms and broken hearts and about finding strength and self-respect through friendships with those who have been down the road before. "Five Tellers dances in [its] world premiere. . . . [It] is a play for just about everyone, proving once again that the theatre is still doing it one better than the networks."-Focus on Denver. $6.5Q (#8174) (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted within 50-mile radius of NY. FLIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Arthur Giron. 4 m., I f. Unit set. The author doesn't claim it happened exactly this way; he has just taken five real-life ~haracters and some basic biographical facts and supposed what it was like for Orville and Wilbur growing up in the dysfunctional Wright family. Flight takes place in Dayton, Ohio, and at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the early 19OOs. Not a documentary, the play explores the lives of the Wright family in in warm and comic theatrical terms. "A witty, touching flashback . . . There is poignancy between the (#8179) laughs." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) FOR LOVE OR MONKEY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Victorien Sardou. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 3 m., 2 f. A pet monkey is the hero in this little-known farce by one of France's most prolific playwrights and librettists. While serving as an unwitting go-between for a duo of young lovers, the monkey leaves a trail of minidestruction among the nosy neighbors before falling into the hands of a spoiled little brat. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage (#8951) French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) GLAMORGAN. (Little Theatre.) Gothic romance. Don Nigro. 2 m., 3 f. Unit set. One of the eccentric Pendragon plays, this darkly poetic drama tells of Jane Lamb's heritage of passion and madness through thrt(e generations. Owen Pendragon, the angry last Lord of Pendragon Castle, who has already buried three young wives, arouses first the pity and then the love of a beautiful servant girl. She dies giving birth to Mary, his child. Mary is mad and she burns the castle with Owen in it before fleeing to American with her schoolmaster, Zachary Lamb. The ghosts of Mary's parents haunt her; the madness returns and, in a series of breathtaking lurches through time and space, the play moves to a horrifying conclusion. The story is told as an intricately interwoven and highly theatrical nightmare that pulls you into a passionate, sardonic and darkly beautiful world. In Glarmorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9189) GREETINGS! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Dudzick. 3 m., 2 f. Int. w. insert. Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and a severely retarded younger brother named Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow-ups are realized. But Mickey, whose entire vocabulary is "oh boy" and "wow," suddenly says "Greetings!" An ancient, wise and witty spirit who is set upon healing the family has borrowed Mickey's body. Though a play for all seasons, Greetings! is ideal for groups wanting something special to put on at Christmas/Hanukkah time. The OffBroadway production starred Darren McGavin and Gregg Edelman. "Hilarious."-New Yorker. "A comic jewel. . . . Stunning and touching . . . . A joyful holiday lift." -N. Y. Newsday. "A loving holiday wonder. . . . Deserves a shelflife long after Christmas." -N. Y. Post. "Glows with . . . warmhearted emotion." -AP. "A winner." - Albany Times Union. "Greetings! should become. as much a part of the fabric of the winter holiday season as It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol."-Berkshire Eagle. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9704) GROTESQUE LOVESONGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Don Nigro. 3 m., 2 f. Written by the author of The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer and other plays, this quirky comedy about a family in Indiana enchanted audiences at New York's WPA Theatre. Note: this play is a treasure-trove of scene and monologue material. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9925) HIJACK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernice Rubens. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Written by a Booker Prize-winning novelist, this is a hilarious tale about the extraordinary at-

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the attic of their Malibu home because a turn of finances is forcing them to move into a cramped condo, they find themselves reliving the flawed masterpiece that is their marriage. Two pairs of actors play the Diamonds, one young and one mature. Throughout, they observe and comment on each other. In one delightful scene, the four confront each other to negotiate the transition into middle-age. The fifth cast member plays six different women who influence the Diamond marriage, offering a tour de force for an actress. "Terrific."-Hollywood Reporter. "Zingy one-liners keep the audience laughing. Critic's Choice. "-Drama-Logue. "Warm of heart, quick of wit."-Variet)'. "Mayer keeps the humor constant but he's careful not to sacrifice humanity for hilarity. "-L.A. Magaz.ine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14937) A LEG OF THE JOURNEY. (All Groups.) ComedylDrama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Glenn and Eleanor Gordon seem an ideal couple until Glenn, who has been writing unpublished novels for years, is suddenly discovered. The success of his book leads prompts an offer to become a Dean at the university where he teaches, but Eleanor is a private person and is unwilling to enter the arena of public life. "A well written, witty play with interesting characterizations."-Show Business. "A cross between Who's Afraid of Virginia WoUfand The Way We Were."-Entertain(#13861) ment. In Plays: At Home and Abroad, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) LETTICE AND LOVAGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Shaffer. 2 m., 3 f., extras. Ints. (may be simply suggested). Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and the theatre. She is a tour guide at Fustian House--{me of the . least stately and least interesting of Britain's stately homes. Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and her le<:ture gains theatricality and romance as it strays from the facts. Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is flot impressed or entertained by these uninhibited history lessons. She fires Lettice, but gradually becomes fascinated by her unusual past, her romantic world-view and her refusal to accept the mediocre and the se,:ond rate. The two women forge an alliance to awaken their fellow citizens to the dreariness of modem life. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broad .... ay. "An evening of enchantment and delight."-N.Y. Post. "Hilarious."-USA Today. "A celebration of the imagination, a celebration of the art of the theatre." -N. Y. Daily News . . 'One of the sharpest, wittiest, most passionate and elegant plays of the year."-Sunday Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#14188) MA ROSE. (Black Groups.) Drama. Casandra Medley. 4 f.. I m. Var. ints. Is Ma Rose, the aging matriarch of a Midwestern African-American family, senile? She considers her wandering mind and her contact with ancestors an opportunity to gain wisdom and make amends. Her daughter and son want to take over the family dynasty, but Ma Rose furiously defends her independence. Her favorite granddaughter Rosa is caught in the battle of wills when she is called home from New York, where she is a successful executive, to help convince Ma Rose to accept intervention. Ultimately, Ma Rose is awakened to the nostalgia of old memories and confronted with the haunting secrets of her childhood and her family's wounded past. Rosa emerges from the trauma with renewed strength and a legacy of love. "Tells the story of three generations of black American women in a specific, funny, moving and refreshingly non-doctrinaire way." -N. Y. Times. "Ma Rose is a larger-thanlife figure who at times approaches the stature of a black Queen Lear."-San Francisco Examiner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14949) MAKING BOOK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Janet Reed. 2 m., 3 f. This biting satire centers arolJnd a feisty, idealistic teacher whose frustration with textbooks unexpectedly lands her a job as' editor of a fifth-grade American history book. She finds that neating this text is about selling to school districts while not offending any group. In a wickedly funny climax, she confronts the business of education and learns the difference between selling textbooks and teaching children. "Clever. . . . A welcome satire on political correctness."-New Yorker. "A veritable roller-coaster ride for the sensitive soul."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Optional detailed slides, $100. (#14946) MAMA DRAMA. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Revised Version. Leslie Ayvazian, Christine Farrell, Donna Daley and Rita Nachtmann. Music by Margaret Roche, Suzzy Roche and Terre Roche. 5 f. Unit set. This version follows five friends through five difficult years. A divorced mother of three fights poverty while a spirited oplimist faces his infertility and health problems. A conunanding mother of two is haunted by the child she gave up for adoption. A young woman uses her droll sense of humor to fend off her overbearing mother and her anxieties about childbirth while a single woman with a acerbic wit chooses not to have children but ends up caring for her ailing mother. All five approach their dilemmas with great humor. "Startling, funny, frank and absolutely true .. " Full of laughter and tears."-C/eveland Plain Dealer. "[A) thoroughly delightful . . . whimsical and celebratory look at contemporary motherhood. "-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) Two tapes available on receipt of $25.00 refundable deposit. Music rental, $10-$7.50. Slightly Restricted. (#14947) MAPLE LODGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Colleen Curran. 2 m., 3 f. Heather, Dennis and Tara are opening their cottage, Maple Lodge, for the summer and are expecting their fonnidable mother. The three (a college administrator, a pharmacist and a twice divorced TV anchor woman) have been coming to Maple Lodge all of their lives and Tara assures everyone that this summer will be the same as alwaysonce this weekend is over. She is wrong. Everything changes with the arrival an

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exotic stranger. In the meantime, Mother has won a Suitcase Dance to Mexico and will miss the big event Tara is hosting: the raising of a covered bridge to replace the beloved one burned to the ground by the Kingman brothers twenty-five years ago. Her co-chairman on the bridge committee, a local lumberman, just happens to be in love with Heather. Maple Lodge has kept many secrets, but they all come out this weekend. Winner of the Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest. $6.50. (Roy(#15512) alty, $60-$40.) MARRIAGE CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Arnold Kane. 2 m., 3 f. Int. When Eddie's mid-life crisis hits, he escapes from his picture-perfect family and establishes a swinging bachelor's pad in New York City, complete with the sexy Miss Tush as his roommate. His new life is a success, so why is he cheating with his wife? She has put her anger at his desertion behind her, done an emotional and physical make-over and is moving on with her life. When Eddie is ready to go back home, will it be too late? This uproarious comedy about relationships new and old touches anyone who has ever fought and , (#15503) forgiven. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Norman Beim. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Gary Vincent, a famous novelist with political ambitions, is persuaded by his campaign manager to conceal his homosexuality by marrying his secretary, a lesbian. Gary finds, to his amazement, that he is closet heterosexual and he falls in love, not with his wife who has fallen in love with him, but with the young daughter of a political boss. His homosexual past comes to haunt him when his bride discovers his past. "A comedy that spoofs politics in a deliciously witty and fun-filled way. "-Entertainment. "Beim is a sensitive writer, able to view the controvetsial issues of today with gentle humor and compassion."-Show Business. "A funny comedy."-Chicago Press. In Plays: At Home and Abroad, $19.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#15558) THE MATING GAME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Robin Hawdon. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Now updated, here is a sparkling and hilarious remake of the comedy that has played around the world since its hit premiere in London. Set in a smart Ma)lair apartment full of gadgets with minds of their own, the comedy zeros in on a trendy television personality whose romantic interludes are always interrupted by accidents, fate or his own incompetence. His bedroom fiascos are especially remarkable in light of his reputation as a notorious stud. "Audiences nearly raised the roof!"-London Daily Telegraph. "Bright, frothy knockout nonsense."-London Daily Mirror. "Audience laughed fit to bust."-Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15068) THE MESSINGKAUF DIALOGUES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett. 4 m., 1 f. Unit set. $16.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14956) THE MIRACLES OF MAY. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Karen Manno. 3 m., 2 f. Int. When Francine Russo suffers a nervous breakdown at "The Psychic Friends Network," she returns to her mother's house. She is broke, alone and about to turn forty. Anticipating nurturing, she finds instead that May, her mother, has taken in Andrew Cunningham, a "wanna be" stand-up comedian. He is an outrageously funny, sick gay man her mother met Oli a pilgrimage to New Jersey where the Virgin Mary was appearing in a garage. May is busy tracking appearances of the Virgin around the world and planning Andrew's miraculous cure. On her fortieth birthday Francine confronts her mother about family secrets that have long rested in denial. keeping them estranged. The miraculous occurs in unexpected ways for all. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (Mandatory Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) (#15563) MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Steven Keyes. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Things are tense in the trailer belonging to a Texas waitress and her unemployed husband. As Patsy prepares for her community theatre debut, Ed harbors suspicions about her growing attraction to her worldly leading man, Bobby Don Flowers. He persuades his reluctant, slow-witted pal to join the cast to keep an eye on the lovebirds. Opening night approaches as Patsy faces the harsh realities of choices she's make. Will she stay in this small town or head for the bright lights of Dallas with Bobby Don. In a style that takes realism to the borders of the ridiculous, the sprightly plot explores human follies with effortless humor. Moonlight Cocktail was first produced at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. "Tightly written and entertaining [with) well-rounded characters."-DramaLogue. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15527) MY HUSBAND'S WILD DESIRES ALMOST DROVE ME MAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Tobias. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This hilarious, cutting-edge comedy has been a hit in American and around the world. Can a modem wife who suspects she is the reincarnation of an eighteenth-cl!ntury French aristocrat find happiness with a macho husband who is wrestling with his feminine side, a voyeuristic apartment super, a nervous burglar, and a sister who has been abandoned by her husband? Can the bold Live Your Fantasies! theories of Dr. Baumgartner save the troubled marriage of a ball-bearing tycoon and his vulnerable wife? The on-stage answers break laugh records allover the world. Winner of the Carlos Prize for Best Comedy in Buenos Aires. "May be the best thing that's ever happened to five actors. "-Courier Express, Buffalo. "Hilarious!"-~ Parisien. "One of the greatest nights of ongoing laugher . . . since I can't remember when."-WNEDT-TV, Buffalo. "The audience laughs its head off."-Veja, Rio de Janeiro. "Very, very funny."-Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15177)

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becoming bogged down in a listless marriage. This provocative and heartfelt play enjoyed a long run in London. "EXhilarating and uplifting." -Daily Express. "Engaging." -Jewish Chronicle. "Enjoyable." -London Times. "Entertaining." -Independent . . 'Even the most leathery old cynic ought to succumb to the overwhelming emotional charge and magic realism of this bitter sweet comedy."-El'ening Standard. "Richly funny and sometimes deeply touching."-Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18689) PIERRE AND MARIE. (All Groups.) Biographical comedy. Adapted.by Ron Clark from the French play by Jean-Noel Fenwick. 3 m., 2 f. Int. In a small laboratory in Paris in the 1800s, Pierre and Marie Curie discover uranium, radium and their love. This intelligent comedy is equal parts science, history and riotously charming comedy. A blunt nanny, a protiteering scientist and a dull, ambitious academic department head round out the company. ,. An engaging, amusing and educational account of Pierre and Marie Curie's personal and professional lives . . . . Laugh-out-loud funny." - Variety. "Charming, funny and scientific. . . . It makes you laugh til you cry."-France-Soir. "It radiates with good humor, freshness and youth."-Le Figaro Magazine.-"A delicious comedy. "-Pariscope. "Intelligent, inventive."-Le Monde. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17841) PLAYHOUSE CREATURES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. April De Angelis. 5 f. Unit set. The year is 1669-a bawdy and troublesome time. Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression. There is a surge in dramatic writing and the fIrst English actresses appear on stage. Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of the most famous-Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton-to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses . 'With delicious absurd extracts from the heroic repertory and frantic dressing-room scenes, the prevailing tone is comic but you are not allowed to forget the gutter waiting to reclaim these glittering tigures."-Independent on Sunday. "Flesh and blood heroines . . . move and inspire . . . a few more female role models stamped firmly on your heart."-Time Out. "An immense talent and witty sensitive dialogue . . . . Thoroughly entertain(#18961) ing." -Tribune. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) A QUIET END. (Adult Groups.) Drama. Robin Swados. 5 m. Int. A teacher, an aspiring jazz pianist and an actor have lost their jobs and are shunned by their families; they have AIDS. Their interaction with a psychiatrist (heard but not seen throughout the play) and the entrance of an ex-lover-healthy yet unsure of his future-provide a forum for exploring the meaning of friendship, loyalty and love. "As quiet in its message as in its ending."-N.Y. Post. "Impressive .. "-N.Y Native. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Optional cassette of music composed by Robin Swados for the New York production: $15.00 rental fee per performance plus a (#19017) refundable deposit of $25.00. SMOKE & MIRRORS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-Comedy. Will Osborne and Anthony Herrera. 4 m., I f. Int. This rivetting mystery-comedy will keep audiences guessing as they go on location to an isolated island off the Gulf coast to watch power-hungry producer-director Hamilton Orr lure his timid screenwriter Clark into a scheme to get rid of the insufferable star of their multi-million-dollar film. The plot hinges on the rehearsal of a suicide scene and the only witness to the murder is Hamilton's wife Barbara, the film's quirky publicist and Clark's former lover. The wily, eccentric sheriff unearths one surprise after another until the final stunning revelation. "A good mystery . . . [with] funny dialogue, well-crafted characters. If Agatha Christie and Noel Coward had collaborated on Robert Altman's The Player, they might have come up with something like this." -Palm Beach Post. "Ought to have lovers of both mysteries and comedies lining up to buy tickets." -Schenectady Daily Gazette. "Superb." -Ashville Citi~en- Times. "Outrageously funny." -Bennington Banner. "Gets an A+ for mystery."-Troy Record. $6.50. (Royalty~ $60(#21160) $40.) Slightly Restricted NYC, LA and Chicago. THE SPEED OF DARKNESS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Steve Tesich. 3 m., 2 f. Simple int. w. inserts. Len Cariou starred on Broadway in this history-making play as Joe, a successful businessman and pillar of society whose chickens come home to roost in the form of Lou, a deranged Vietnam War buddy. During their confrontation, Joe learns that his daughter is not his daughter and the terrible secret of his past is exposed: his climb up the ladder of success began when he and Lou illegally dumped barrels and barrels of toxic waste over the bluff above town, poisoning the water supply. Lou kills himself, leaving Joe and his family to face the consequences of irresponsibility. "A gripping and enthralling evening."-N.Y. Times. "Must be seen."-USA Today. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#21728) STAGES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Storey. 1 m., 4 f. lnt. Stages premiered in the Cottesloe Theatre of the Royal National Theatre in 1992 starring Alan Bates as Fenchurch, a successful novelist and artist from a northern working-class background. Now in his fifties and suffering a mental breakdown, he is visited by four women: his daughter, his ex-wife, his neighbor and his psychiatrist to whom he recounts his past life. "David Storey's starkly observed portrait of an artist in extremis leaves us as close to the core of this eternal enigma as almost anything I have hitherto seen on any stage. He delivers a painful portrait-some suggest a selfportrait-of a man at the very edge of his creative and emotional rationale, a man who, at the very height of his fame as a painter and writer; finds himself going slowly mad . . . . The intrinsic beauty of the of the writing, of the whole production, is that he takes us step-by-step with him on this slow descent among the ghosts of (#21346) his own past."-London Daily Mail. $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

NAOMI COURT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Sawyer. 4 m., I f. Unit set. "A stunning, haunting play that breaks your heart just before intermission and then skewers it with an ice pick in the second act. The toxic effect of Mr. Sawyer's beautifully written five-character play is eerily numbing in its flow of quiet wisdom, pathos and savagery. In the tirst act-after a few lines and five minutes-we are thrust into deep anguish and loneliness. In the second act, our playwright does it again with hair-raising creditability-as the bachelor in Naomi Court, a decent aging homosexual, makes,the mistake of his life. Naomi Court is a thriller that will thrill you and your audience."-N.Y. Times. "What the theatre is all about. . . . A gut experience. . . tense, unnerving, unexpected. . It is a play to see." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16002) NATURAL CAUSES. (Little Theatre.) Black comedy thriller. Eric Chappell. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Vincent is a professional suicide merchant. He has been summoned by Walter Bryce and mistakenly assumes that his potion is for Walter's consumption. Eventually it becomes clear that Walter's wife Celia is the client-or is she? Why are her suicide letters typed and unsigned? Several attempts to do away with various characters result in multiple poisonings of a rubber plant. Will anyone actually drink (# 16586) the potion? $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) NORMAN, IS THAT YOU? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Don Knotts starred in the wildly successful Kansas City premiere of a revised and updated version of this perennial favorite. A dry cleaner from Ohio arrives in New York to visit his adult son after his wife runs off with his own brother. Instead of solace he finds turmoil when he discovers his son is living with a male partner. "This is a new, radical rewrite [that] revolves around a realistic, caring portrayal of a gay man and his parents . . . . Funny and ultimately affecting."-The Kansas City Star. "One laugh after another. ... It doesn't get any better."-Kansas City Kansan. "A real treat."-Sun Newspapers. "A funny play ... about values, love and human behavior." -KC Alive. "Uproarious.. " -NBCTV. "It's funny . . . yards and yards of solid laughs."-ABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#84) THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Mamet. 3 m., 2 f. Ints .. Fierce and funny scenes from a mid-life crisis are outlined in broad, bold strokes as Bobby Gould returns to Chicago to reconnect with the people and powerful emotions of his past. "Heart-piercing . . . In this triptych of short, searing plays, the author of American Buffalo and Glengarry, Glen Ross has created his most emotionally accessible drama to, date."-N. Y. Times. "A funny, moving evening." -N. Y. Post. "This is Mamet unplugged. . . . What we have, in essence, are three dialogues. And Mamet is, of course, a virtuoso of dialogue."-Daily News. "Blistering, highly charged theatre. "-AP. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$60.) Slightly Re(#17710) stricted. ONLY KIDDING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jim Geoghan. 5 m. 3 ints. In this OffBroadway hit, an over-the-hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late-night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia-connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late-night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics from Act 2 is getting his tirst shot. "[This] acidly funny dissection of the stand-up comedy jungle ... crackles with authenticity."-N.Y. Times. "A dazzling comedy. Fresh, clever and above all, funny."-N.Y. Post. "Might make you laugh so hard you won't appreciate what fine writing it is."-N.Y. Daily News. "To be wise about being funnyand still be funny-is a rare accomplishment indeed." -N. Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#16981) OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jerry Sterner. 3 m., 2 f. I set. Wall Street takeover artist Lawrence Garfinkle's computer is going tilt over the undervalued stock of New England Wire & Cable. If the stockholders back his takeover, they will make a bundle-but what will happen to the 1200 employees and the community when he liquidates the assets? Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. "Funny, serious, suspenseful, involving, disturbing, and, above all, expertly crafted. . . . [with] both epic grandeur and intimate titillation."-N.Y. Magazine. "Very fine."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50. Mandatory lyrics royalty, $3.50 each performance.) Optional Cassette, $22.50, or Tape, $35.00. (Tape royalty, $10.00 per performance.) Posters (#17064) PASSION. (Advanced Groups.) Serious comedy. Peter Nichols. 2 m., 3 f., plus extras. Various ints. or unit set. Frank Langella starred on Broadway in this play by the author of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. The story concerns adultery in all its permutations and masterfully reveals the sad and devastating effects it has on an otherwise solid relationship. "Nichols is one of the great theatrical magicians . . . But much more. . . he is a poet." -N. Y. Post. "Nichols' clever use of on stage alter egos puts a fresh spin on the story . . . . This is an intelligent work that's as harsh as it is humorous."-N.Y. Daily News. "The gripping, recognizable world in this play is the . . . most savage view of marriage yet from the author." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18617) A PASSIONATE WOMAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kay Mellor. 3 m., I f., I offstage f. voice. Int.lext. 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THAT DARN PLOT. (All Groups.) Comedy. David Belke. 4 m., 2 f. lnt. Mark W. Transom, one of Canada's greatest playwrights, is at the end of his rope. ]n order to fulfill his contract to artistic director and old friend Jo Harber, he has to create a play in one night or lose everything. Half asleep and half drunk, Transom starts putting theatrical personalities he knows into a simple comedy about putting on a play. As the characters come to life before his eyes, the play seems to be progressing well until, unbidden and without warning, Transom's son Lloyd appears as a character and the play takes on a life of its own. As the playwright struggles to maintain the upper hand. the out-of-control writing process brings him closer and closer to the heart of his estrangement with his son. Hilarious and heartfelt, That Dam Plot is a comedy about playwriting, rehearsals, rewriting and rehabilitating reality as well as a sympathetic look at a creative writer who is unable to connect with the people around him, including his only child. Winner of the 2000 Samuel French Canadian (#6567) Playwriting Contest. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THEFT. (Litt]e Theatre.) Comedy thriller. Eric Chappell. 3 m., 2 f. lnt. Imagine returning from a pleasant anniversary celebration to find that your house has been burgled. In this witty thriller, the culprit is still in the house and, for a while, he convinces the returning couples that he is a policeman. Unmasked as the thief, Spriggs reveals that he knows a number of uncomfortable truths that disrupt two seemingly happy marriages and one formerly strong friendship. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21976) TONGUE OF A BIRD. (Litt]e Theatre.) Drama. Ellen McLaughlin. 5 f. Unit set. Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks. There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick-up truck. The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee. ]n sleep, Maxine is prey to nightmares and fragmented memories of a mother who abandoned her in childhood and was lost to insanity. Cherry Jones starred Off Broadway in this powerful consideration of the notions of loss, motherhood and the vexed yearning for release. "Emotionally powerful . . . and intensely satisfying."-Seattle Times. $6.50. (Royalty, .$60-$40.) (#22746) THE TURN OF THE WORM. (Litt]e Theatre.) Comedy. George Tibbles. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Elderly Italian sisters share an apartment in the inner city and speak to each other only on Easter, Christmas and shopping days. Years ago something happened to cause the rift between them and they only live together because the neighborhood is unsafe. When two young toughs try to steal their valuables, their brother the Priest saves the day. He forces the street kids to move in with the old ladies as experiment in love and understanding. As the worm turns, lessons are learned by all. "Bristles with humor, tempered by thought-provoking content. It's poignant, funny, and a dark commentary on problems of the nineties." -First Coast Entertainer. "The most hilarious, yet bittersweet stage comedy of the century."-Recorder. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22257)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS as he tries to capitalize on preventing the inevitable meetings of husbands, wives and lovers in assorted compromising situations. "The capacity house didn't just laugh, it erupted. . . . Masterly." -Eastboume Gazette. "One exhausts oneself with laughter."-Neue Presse, Hanover. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4197) CHECKMATE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Leslie Sands. 3 m., 2 f. As this witty and unconventional whodunit opens, British television star Peter Conway arrives home to find his wife Stella dead from a drug overdose. Police Sgt. Drummond is assigned to investigate. He is properly star-struck as Conway relates the events which led to his wife's death, all of which are dramatized in a series of flashbacks in which we meet Stella, Conway's agent, and his beautiful young American lover. When Drummond learns that Conway's career is on the skids and that he is in deep financial straights, he begins to wonder if this is a case of "Suicide-or murder. $6.50. ($60$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#5881) IN FOR THE KILL. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Derek Benfield. 3 m., 2 f. When Paula answers the doorbell, it is not her lover Mark but a stranger who claims to be her husband James' friend. The visitor seems to suggest they murder James and a death does occur-Mark, not James, dies in an automobile accident which soon proves to be murder. The ever-increasing tangle of lies and suspicions soon involves Paula's step-daughter. Was Mark the intended victim? Accusations and unexpected revelations culminate in a surprising climax. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11102) JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Keith Waterhouse, based on the life and writings of Jeffrey Bernard. I m. plus 2 m., 2 f. to play var. roles. lnt. Peter O'Toole triumphed in London as Jeffrey Bernard, part-time journalist and full-time drunk. Dead drunk, he is locked in a closed Soho pub so he mixes an eye-opener and tells tales of all the embarrassing, hilarious things that have happell&d to him while under the influence. "To describe this exultant evening of pure theatre as a play is to mislead you. It is a glorious entertainment from the very best of Bernard's worst moments."-London Daily Mail. "Pungently funny."-London Daily Express. "A night of hilarious anecdote."-London Tribune. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12056) V.I. LENIN IS MISSING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. T. H. Tolmasoff. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This satire introduces four intrepid Russian entrepreneurs who are planning to bridge the gap between socialism and a free-market economy by buying and selling contraband Western goods. They are clever, they are resourceful, and they think they are above suspicion because they are the caretakers of the Glorious Remains of the Father of Soviet Communism. Then a KGB colonel wants in on the action, and someone steals Lenin's body just before it is to be displayed for May Day. Sash, Natash, Olya and Viktor are in deep trouble-unless someone poses as Lenin in the (#24058) casket! $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) FAST GIRLS. (Little Theatre). Comedy. Diana Amsterdam. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Lucy Lewis is a contemporary. single woman in her thirties with a healthy sex life. Her mother feels Lucy is too fast, too easy-and too single, while her best friend is envious of Lucy's ease with men. Mother proclaims that no man will marry Lucy and she accepts the challenge, announcing that she is going to get stalwart exboyfriend Sidney Epstein to propose. "Amsterdam makes us laugh, listen and think."-Daily Record. "Brilliantly comic moments."-The Monitor. "Rapidly paced comedy with a load of laughs. . . . A funny entertainment with some pause for reflection on today's [sexual] confusion."-Suburban News. "Takes a penetrating look at contemporary sexual chaos]. Passion, celibacy, marriage, fidelity are just some of the subjects that Diana Amsterdam hilariously examines."-Tribune News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8149) OH, HELL! Comedy. Shel Silverstein and David Mamet. Two one-act plays: The Devil and Billy Markham and Bobby Gould in Hell. See Index for descriptions of individual plays. THE LOWER ROOMS, (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Eliza Anderson. 3 m., 2 f. Compo int. In the underground labyrinths of the soul stalk these creatures. A mother and a daughter, both seeking fulfillment from fleeting strangers-the mother. from a man who brings her a bottle of wine, and lies abed with her with all his clothes on, and who stays on, perhaps to teach the daughter a lesson; the daughter, from a youth with a penchant for theft and sex and with a comrade dedicated to rapine. Scenes jump with startling alacrity and repositionings, as the harried daughter, with dreams of beauty and song, finds instead the bondages of S & M and evil, amid fugitive males. 1990 Winner, American College Theatre Festival, Best New Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14187) SPARE PARTS. (Advanced groups). Comedy. Elizabeth Page. 2 m., 3 f. Unit or Modular Set. The plan is for an unwitting college student to impregnate Lois and then disappear, leaving Lois and her female lover, Jax, with a baby. But young Henry is smitten. What began as a private compact between two lesbians becomes a five-way struggle as the characters jockey for position around the baby-to-be until they become a family. "Intelligent, funny. An evening of social comedy marinated in laughs. "-Newsday. "A bright, intelligent, challenging play."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC, LA, Chicago. (#21282) BEING OF SOUND MIND. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Brian J. Burton. 2 m., 3 f. I set. 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THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Jonathan Tolins. 3 m., 2 f. 2 int. If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in this entertaining drama. All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover that she is pregnant. until a prenatal test reveals that the baby will most likely be homosexual. The news forces the entire Gold family to confront issues of bigotry, evoluti<m and the limits of love. "Funny, thoughtful, and almost eerily topical." -San Francisco Chronicle. "A marvelous achievement at all levels."-USA Today. "A haunting play."-Rex Reed. "An entertaining theatrical tempest."-Washington Times. "A rich, intelligent, articulate piece of work." -L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Use of the song "Killing Me Softly" is mandatory. (Music Royalty: $10 per performance or $50 per week, whichever is less.) (#22254) THE VIEW FROM HERE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Margaret Dulaney. I m. 3 f. ]nt. Set in a small town in Kentucky, The View from Here is a comedy about an agoraphobic. Fern. a woman in her mid-thirties, has not left her house for six years. She takes in neighborhood babies for a living. Her nurturing talents are put to the test when her sister lands on her couch in a catatonic state and her neighbor, whose wife has just left him, moves in along with his abandoned baby. In the midst of this conjiusion. Fern's fears are put to the test as well when she wins a microwave at the SUPfT Krogers, but must appear in person to claim it. The View from Here is ultimately about healing and the pain that hope carries with it. "[Ms. Dulaney has an] ear for regional chatter."-N.Y. Times. "Brings lovable southern eccentrics to life in a play that moves effortlessly between the . . . flamboyantly funny . . . [and (#24048) the] profoundly sad."-N.Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) WHAT I DO> IN THE HOLO>A YS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Philip Osment. 5 m. Simple ints., exts. On a dilapidated British farm in 1963, Morley is coping with puberty, thl! tangles of love within his family, and the desertion of his mother. He is attracted to Andy, one of the Scottish hitchhikers who have sought shelter at the farm. All is not, however, as it seems in this powerful play by the author of Flesh and Blood and The Dearly Beloved. Morley's habit of telling tales about his elders hastens a cllsis. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25654) BEDSIDE MANNERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Derek Benfield. 3 m., 2 f. Int. When Ferris reluctantly agreed to look after his sister's seedy country inn during her holiday, he did not foresee the wild comings and goings that were to burst upon him on a single spring evening. Ferris is engulfed in lies, confusions and bewilderments

CHARACTERS breakdown. Shortly after their arrival, the cottage's owner turns up to check that everything is in order. She runs out of cigarettes and John leaves to buy her some. Thus begins Susan's confusion and terror, starting with the appearance of a man who says he is John and culminating in her being taken to the mental wing of the local hospital. It transpires that Susan is about to inherit all her late father's money, on condition that she is 'of sound mind'. Is she the victim of an elaborate plot? (#4192) $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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tics and war, music versus the disasters of personal life-what an interesting theme (#18132) to mull over."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) LAMPPOST REUNION. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Louis LaRusso II. 5 m. Int. After twenty years, singer Fred Santora brings his right-hand-man to his old barroom hangout in Hoboken following his one-man-show at Madison Square Garden. Friends from the past-Biggie, the bartender; Mac, the local Irish cynic; and Tommy, the happy bookie drink with him into the night. Liquor and memories combine to expose the tragic and humorous truths of their lives. "A humdinger of a melodrama."-N.Y. Times. "Tense, well-written and has guts and earthy dialogue."-NBC. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14004) CREEPS. (All Groups.) Drama. David E. Freeman. 5 m. Int. The play explores the plight of cerebral palsy victims trapped in a Zolaesque sweatshop that masquerades as a rehabilitation center. The entire play takes place in the men's toilet, one room the CP patients can be themselves in. The playwright, himself a victim of cerebral palsy, shows us that even CP victims get bored with rug weaving and block making and folding boxes. "Four stars for Creeps-an over-whelming, beautiful play."-WRC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5176) FOOLIN' AROUND WITH INFINITY. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Steven Dietz. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. "You" comments on the action in this off-beat comic drama about angst in the Nuclear Age which takes place in and around a nuclear missile silo a mile beneath Utah. Characters include the military keepers of the nuclear keys and codes, one's estranged daughter who lives in a fallout shelter, and the mysterious Mr. Anderson who tells the audience: "The play you are about to see contains poetry, profanity, infidelity and monopoly. Nobody sings. Leave now or deal with it." "You" stays until she is standing alone saying, "As you do nothing, the light on you goes to black." "Spell-binding stories accumulate into a bold picture of how we come to terms with, or ignore, impending Armageddon. There are so many ripe images in this rich play. It's an extravagant collision of funny, unthink(#8143) able things. "-Minneapolis Star Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) SPLIT DECISION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kevin Heelan. 5 m., Int. This prizefighting drama about a once-great Black fighter who has to face four more bouts to achieve post-retirement security packs a knockout punch. He is caught in a tug of war between his manager-trainer and his comer man. The manager has an eye on the retirement stake, while the other wants to use him as a psychological talisman for a young fighter he wants to manager. The fighter only wants to fade gracefully away. "It is the most tightly-written drama one could conceive of. . . . Utterly absorbing . . . boiling hard with the bile blood and sweat of life on the raw edge." Philadelphia Daily News. "A prizefight yam that packs a wallop ... a clear winner." Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted metropolitan NYC, Chicago and LA.

MAKING MOVIES. (Little Theatre). Comedy. Aaron Sorkin. 4 m., 1 f. lInt., 1 Ext. This satire on the lovable lunatics who create motion pictures is by the author of A Few Good Men. A screenwriter, director and actress gather for a story conference, during which it emerges that two of them are feuding and two of them have their own idea about the script. On location in the second act, the director prepares the shot that will win him an Oscar: 150 Marines running down a hill at sunset. When three cows wander into the take, the shot is ruined and the budget exhausted. There must be an aesthetic reason for cows in the climactic shot! To be published with Hidden in This Picture, $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#1529) THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES. Five monologues. Don Nigro. 5 f. Simple unit set. Done separately 9r together, these monologues offer funny and compelling investigations into how to survive as a minor character. "Funny. . . . Plays delightful games with language. . . . A great showcase for young talent." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. "This is theatre of ideas that assume flesh and blood because the characters are so strong, so indelible and filled with sly humor."-Akron Beacon Journal. In Cincinnati and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $25 per monologue per performance.) The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (#9696) Dead Men's Fingers (#6722) Axis Sally (3686) How Many Children Had Lady MacBeth? (#10647) Notes from the Moated Grange (#16646) Full Fathom Five (#8673) LADYHOUSE BLUES. (AU Groups.) Drama. Revised Version. Kevin O'Morrison. 5 f. Int. It is St. Louis in 1919 and five women are gathered awaiting the return of the family's men from the war in Europe. The central character is Liz, a youngish, gutsy, widowed woman faced with selling the family farm to pay debts. With her are her four daughters, one dying of tuberculosis, one who' s married into a society family, another who's a blooming activist and the youngest on the brink of discovering sex and losing her innocence in general. As the play unfolds, it's apparent that 1919 is a watershed year in America's history. There are hints of the country heading uncertainly towards a new and different way of life. But essentially, it is about the social and psychological state of women-and the painful solitude imposed by that state. Then at the end, a telegram arrives stating that the family's only son has died, a victim of one of war's side effects. "A strangely atmospheric play ... [that] has the haunting quality of Chekhov."-N.Y. Times. "An exceptionally talented playwright."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Rehearsal cassette of chants and songs accompanying play available upon receipt of a $15 rental fee plus a $5 refundable deposit. Note: use of the cassette is mandatory. (#14024) THE WISTERIA BUSH. (AU Groups.) Comic Drama. Jo Vander Voort. 5 f. 1 set. The Wisteria Bush is set in a fictitious small town in Alabama. Coleridge is the kind of town where everybody knows everybody -else and most of its citizens have lived there all their lives. They venture out of their own community to go to neighboring towns, the way people in the city, mainly would go to the suburbs for commodities they need, but also to do things there, they might not do in their own environs. It's a month before the town's annual Homecoming and the committee to select an exgraduate of the high school for the honor of Homecoming Queen is getting together to make their choice. It's a prestigious honor, as the Queen will be feted with a banquet in the local high school gymnasium and reign over the parade. It's April and very hot for that time of year. This is a play about women's friendships and while a southern accent is in order for this work, these people are country people and that is the way the dialogue is written. This is rural America. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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DAUGHTERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. John Morgan Evans. 5 f., Int. This beautifully-written family drama shows how four generations of Italian-American women deal with crisis. The women gather in the kitchen of the DiAngelo's Brooklyn home while the dying family patriarch is in the downstairs bedroom playing Caruso records. There are five superb roles for actresses and the author has it wonderful ability to find the humor in dire situations. "One of the best written family plays in the last few years. It is funny and harrowing at almost the same moment. Its characters are composites of bravado, fear, selfishness, love, ignorance, and the will to survive-in a word, us."-N.Y. Daily News. "A warm, funny play. "-UPI. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering.

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WAITING FOR THE PARADE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic Comedy. John Murrell. 5 f. Unit Set. This warm, wise and winning play by a leading Canadian playwright is about World War II from the point of view five women left behind to wait and to work for their men. Produced at New York's Hudson Guild Theatre, it shows the walking wounded are not always at the front. "An honest play that captures precisely the texture of ordinary hopes and despair." -London Guardian. "A small masterpiece."-Ottawa Citizen. $12.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25016) VOICES. (All Groups.) Drama. Susan Griffin. 5 f. Unit set. A play in poetry about the lives of five women who don't know one another, nor speak to each otherrather they're telling their life stories to the audience. Each is facing some crisis in life. Erin speaks bitterly of suicide. Kate, near the end of a life in which she always overcame circumstances, is fearful of death. All the voices speak in counterpoint to one another, leaving an unspoken dialogue as they echo one another. The play moves in counterpoint and resonance until the women speak in chorus-their voices exchanging scenes from a common history. Then each sees where her-life has moved her. In the end these women's voices are no longer isolated, nor are their lives separate. Voices opened to great audience acclaim in New York City. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24042) GETTING THE GOLD. (Little Theatre.) MysterylDrama. PJ. Barry. 1m., 4 f. Int. On the eve of her 80th birthday, wealthy Cammy Cobb fears she is about to be murdered by her son-in-law or her only daughter. She confides in her granddaughters, but they attribute her fears to age and a recent stroke. Following a harrowing night during which she protects herself with a pistol, Cammy disinherits her daughter and son-in-law to leave her fortune her granddaughters. But unforeseen events and a bizarre murder defy a predictable conclusion, enabling the feisty old lady to triumph. "Excellent. . . . There should be lots of regional theaters willing to wel-

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ALMOST AN EAGLE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Michael Kimberly. 1 older man, 4 boys. Int. This hilarious play is about an old scoutmaster trying to hold his troop together. There are only four boys left and they would rather be off drinking beer than listening to "The Colonel" rattle on about the values exemplified in the Boy Scout Code. Almost An Eagle takes place on the night before and immediately after the annual Memorial Day ceremony, which is a disaster for the troop. The Colonel is dismissed as Scoutmaster, but the boys rally around him and the play ends on an optimistic and poignant note. "A sweetheart of a play." -Boston Globe. "A winner . . . to please almost anyone [with] humor, a chasmic generation gap, adolescent anguish and lots of raw wit. "-WNEW-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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THE POTSDAM QUARTET. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Pinner. 5 m. Int. In Potsdam, 1945, Churchill, Stalin, Truman, and Attlee are carving up Europe. Between conferences a string quartet plays to soothe the statesmen. When they are not playing, they wait in an anteroom where twenty years of love, squabbles, jealousies, jokes and music-making unfold. "The joy of the play lies in the rich complexity of the relationships . . . . Wonderfully unforced humor."-N.Y. Post. "Not many plays ... offer this much . . . . Musical transcendence versus the insanity of poli-

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come [a) truly unforgettable grandma."-South Shore Record. "Each individual character has been given an intriguing personality."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, (#9615) $60-$40.) MORE FUN THAN BOWLING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Steven Dietz. 2 m., 3 f. Ext. Jake: owns the bowling alley in a small Midwestern town. He is sitting on a hilltop where two of his three wives are buried, replaying the key frames of his life. From time to time he is visited by his daughter who has become adept at talking women into marrying her father (for love and free lane time). But who is that nattily dressed man with dark glasses and a revolver lurking nearby? A very funny and eccentrically philosophical comedy. [ACTORS TAKE NOTE] In addition to inventing vivid cartoonish characters and giving them wacky-tragic actions, Mr. Dietz is a master of the comic monologue."-Washington Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15212) RETROFIT. (Little Theatre.) Satire. Marc P. Smith 4 m., I f. Int. An agent for the Bureau of Special Events is creating a trail of dead bodies when his bosses discover that their star operative's true identity is lost in the computer. Fear turns to desperation as the 'loose gun' implicates them in a string of political murders. These circumstances hardly enhance the day for a new administrative assistant who frantically trie~, to find out what she does in an office that doesn't seem to have a function. Counter plays ensue when a senator's aid demands the ultimate termination of the serial murder problem. "A good, witty satire-targets the insanity of modem government bureaucracy with cleverly sharp dialogue and zany, surrealistic situations." - Worcester Telegram. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20118) MEDEA. (Advanced Groups.) Tragicomedy. Charles Ludlam. 2 m. or f., 3 f. plus chorus. From the Ridiculous Theatrical Company comes a comic adaptation of the play by Euripides. "A succinct deconstruction, not a broad parody, and its laughter derives less from mocking Greek tragedy than from ruthlessly and insightfully exposing its conventions. . . . Medea is at its best when rudely pointing up the continuity between Euripides and Hollywood melodramatists of the 1930's and 1940's."--N.Y. Times. "Delightfully zany . . . . Homage is paid to the classical tragedy without compromising the integrity of Ludlam's high-camp vision."-Downtown. "Ludlam has converted the play into a boisterous tragicomedy that's over in less than an hour, yet retains not only the basic plot about a murderous mother, but such key Euripidean concerns as the fragility of democracy, the whimsy of the gods, and Medea's status as a stranger in a strange land. . . . Ridiculous? You bet. And also a near-perfect example of its enduringly mischievous breed. Ludlam lives."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#15196) OLL Y OLLY OXEN FREE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Charles R. Johnson. 3 m., 2 f. I int/ext. set. George is a successful children's writer who acts out his books with the help of his collection of stuffed animals. In fact, George becomes so preoccupied playing with his puppets, his wife Kitty is forced to get his attention in various dastardly ways, which results in the appearance of George's guardian angel, Henry. Henry informs George that his coca has poison in it much to George's amazement. "What do you suppose it was doing there?" "Reeking havoc on the marshmallows, most likely." The idea of having one's very own angel to watch over him is rather appealing to George, especially since no one else can see the angel. Now, more than ever, George remains in his make believe world-until the angel is exposed as a fraud. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17082) IMAGINARY LINES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Reggie Oliver. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int. This :IS a dotty look at life and love which was originally directed by Alan Ayckboum. The imaginary lines are the things we wish we could say, or had saidusually to the opposite sex. Here, they are asides in the dialogue which provide amusing counterpoints to what the characters are really saying to each other. Will Sir Michael get Wanda to go off with him for a weekend frolic? Will Wanda decide who she wants? Will Howard win Wanda or get stuck with Carol? Will Mrs. Burlap ever find a copy of Snow-ed Up with a Duchess by Mrs. Arnold Frogmore? This witty, literate romantic comedy is sure to delight and amuse. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#11092) A STING IN THE TALE. (Little Theatre.) Mysterytrhriller. Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner. 3 m., 2 f. lnt. Two once-successful playwrights are writing a blockbluster to payoff their mounting debts-or are they fulfilling their full potential by plotting the perfect murder? The nagging wife is the ideal victim, especially as she is heavily insured. It all seems plausible until their secretary is mistakenly killed and a stagestruck detective appears on the scene. "It is a glorious spoof, a send up of almost every mystery thriller written for the stage with some wickedly witty (#21339) lines." -Maidenhead Advertiser. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) HONEYMOON. (Advanced Groups.) Black comedy. Susan Champagne. 3 m., 2 f. I int. Newlyweds Sarah and Stanley have just moved into their new apartment! But Stanley sent the furniture to the wrong address and leaves Sarah while he goes fishing and bowling with his best friend. Things aren't what they seem to be. "Honeymoon is one of those jet-black comedies that audience members laugh at loudly . . . and there's more to the story than meets the eye."-N.Y. Daily News. "Honeymoon has a grim humor . . . it contains scenes of power and in(#10103) sight. "-S. F. Chronicle. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) CLAPTRAP. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ken Friedman. 2 m., 3 f. Unit set. A writer who never manages to get beyond page one convinces his girlfriend that he can take

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS care of the funeral services for her father, hoping to ingratiate himself with the wealthy widow. He conducts the service in a fast food joint. When an out-of-work actor stumbles in thinking he's auditioning for a role, hilarity breaks loose. "I was laughing so hard that I couldn't possibly write down the wild, fanciful and outrageous lines which Mr. Friedman concocted to keep this funny, funny play going. Nothing is sacred including an art deco funeral urn which may set new standards."-WEEI Radio, Boston. "Hilariously . . . captures the finest elements of farce."-Palm Beach Post. "Wonderful moments of ., slap-stick and wit."-N.Y. Daily News. "Screwball comedy. . manic laughter."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5599) BINGO! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Allan Stratton. 3 m., 2 f. Int. David Pearce, Associate Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to pretty coed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration-and to romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman's wife barges in with plans to make her husband jealous by telling him she is having a torrid affair with David. David is shocked (and worried about his tenure review). He is even more shocked when the chairman arrives, boiling, and finds his wife in one room and the love-smitten coed in another. Matters become hilariously complicated until David finally manages to deny involvement in an affair, get rid of a persistent life insurance salesman, and conclude that the poetical coed has possibilities. "A barrel of laughs. A farce in the true tradition of that very specific and demanding form. There are plenty of funny lines, a lot of comic business, vigorous action and a lot of ... banging doors!"-CJBB Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40; in Canada, 10% of gross box office receipts.) Restricted (#4165) NYC. A NARROW BED. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ellen McLaughlin. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int. (very simple). Loved by audiences and critics nationwide, this compassionate and reflective play about two women coping with loneliness and loss was also successfully presented Off Broadway. The women are the last members of a rural commune founded in the 60's. One's husband was killed in Vietnam and she still clings to his memory. The other's wisecracking husband is hospitalized and dying. Both women find the courage to accept their "narrow bed" and get on with their lives. "McLaughlin is a good writer who writes good talk; . . . the large chunks of soliloquy are interesting and moving. Women will surely love this play ... [of] such welcome warmth."-N.Y. Post. "A penetrating study of friendship and idealism under stress."-N.Y. Times. Note: excellent source of monologues. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16073) BLOODY POETRY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Howard Brenton. 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage. This fascinating drama, staged to acclaim in London and New York, has in its cast of characters Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Goodwin. The play is about radicalism-artistic, political and more. Taking place in Italy, it concerns the characters' various ideas about radical politics and free love. Along the way, a number of serious questions are raised, not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to be done in by their reprehensible characters. At the end of the play Byron attends the cremation of Shelley on the beach at Viareggio and delivers a stunning ovation over the pyre: "Bum him. Burn us all. A great big bloody beautiful fire." "Radicalism, artistic defiance, an intellectual rage. These are the virtues celebrated in this extraordinary dream play which begins, as it ends, on a foreign shore."-London Financial Times. "A phantasmagoric play. . . . Brenton is celebrating the idea of the committed artist who seeks to stir and provoke sullen, defeated, bourgeois England. At the same time with clear-eyed honesty, he shows how difficult it is to upset the moral order."-London Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4093) CLOUDS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Frayn. 4 m., I f. Several simply suggested sets. Owen Shorter, professional journalist, and Mara Hill, well-known lady novelist, discover at the beginning of the play that they have been sent to Cuba to write for rival color supplements. We follow their progress, together with Ed, an author from Illinois, and their guide, Angel, on their fact-finding mission, as they do the obligatory rounds of official visits to sugar cane processing plants, new towns and other industrial show-pieces. Michael Frayn shows how their impressions of the country are colored by their emotional reactions-to the heat, the bad food and the difficulties of writing their stories-but mainly determined, in the case of the men, by their respective successes with Mara, who plays havoc with their feelings. The relationship between Owen and Mara is at first riddled with rivalry and suspicion, but finally mellows into an uneasy romance. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering (#5209) THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE, A Suspense-Thriller. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Ludlam. 3 m., I f., I m. or f. Unit int. Chester Nurdiger lives in the back of his pet shop with his mother and his bored wife. One day a drifter comes along and they hire him to work in the shop. Sparks are ignited between the bored wife Roxanne and the slick Zachary Slade. They plot to murder Chester and feed him to the piranhas. "The audience at Mr. Ludlam's omnibus reply to Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice and Little Shop of Horrors . .. is likely to die laughing." -N. Y. Times. "Barely 20 seconds into the play the audience is already chortling . . . . Lust, murder, maternal devotion . . . it has everything."-N.Y. Daily News. "Wildly hilarious."-N.Y. Post. "A triumph of sheer sustained burlesque . . . mined with some of the loudest-detonating belly laughs ever heard in New York."-Vil/age Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3932) ALTERATIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. Leigh Curran. 1m., 4 f. I set. Erica, a successful, artistic and outspoken New Yorker, is caught between the needs

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lovers and preachers and teachers to the funny chronicle of the poor mixed-up Jew who ends up in the wrong cemetery. Both the solid and humorous sides of life are portrayed, with fetching ballads, and the free verse form of Masters. "A dramatic presentation reduced to its simplest terms. . . . moving and beautiful. . . . An evening of astonishingly stirring emotional satisfaction."-N.Y. Post. "A glowing theatre experience. . . . A brooding and loving American folk poem brought to life on a stage."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Vocal Selections from Spoon River Anthology, $9.95. Posters (#16) FUNNY VALENTINES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dennis R. Andersen. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Children's book author Andy Robbins has been an unhappy bachelor since his divorce eight months before from his former collaborator, Ellen. On one incredible day, Ellen re-enters his life eight months pregnant; his agent arrives with a TV contract that needs both Andy's and Ellen's approval, a beautiful lawyer appears to wrap up the TV deal and seduce Andy, and Ellen's mother makes an unexpected appearance. Completely rattled, Andy lies and introduces the lawyer as his agent's fiancee while he tries to get Ellen to sign a contract she opposes. By the final curtain, Andy has grown up just enough to straighten out the mess and win back his wife. "All sorts of funny things go in this farcical play and it is stuffed full of fun."-Detroit Free Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8110) A BIT BETWEEN THE TEETH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Pertwee and Brian Rix. 3 m., 2 f. I set. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4091) TOUCH AND GO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Derek Benfield. 2 m., 3 f. 2 ints. When Brian takes up jogging, his wife Hilary is not surprised. She has often told him he should exercise more after all the business lunches he consumes. But when Brian is ostensibly running round the park, he is, in fact, spending a couple of hours with his girl-friend, Wendy, in his good friend George's flat. The arrangement works well for some time, for while Brian is visiting Wendy, helpful George knows that there is no danger of his own dalliance being discovered; for the object of his affection is Brian's wife, Hilary! It is all plain sailing until George's wife Jessica returns too soon from a business trip to America and puts the cat among the pi~eons. "A particularly well crafted domestic farce . . . [that] could have many an audience falling off their seats . . . . Frothy fun some where between Feydeau and Felixstowe."-London Guardian. "Deceit, deception and mistaken identity are skillfully blended. "-London Stage. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22175) WHY NOT STAY FOR BREAKFAST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gene Stone and Ray Cooney. 3 m., 2 f. Int. George Clarke is a civil servant, a respected member of the Establishment, once married, now on his own. He lives in a flat in a converted Hampstead house. The apartment above is inhabited by hippies, and their noise often disturbs his peace. One evening young Louise Hamilton arrives on his doorstep. She has had a row with young Davey in the "pad" upstairs. She is also very pregnant. The clash between the happy and the square types is at full strength when Louise suddenly starts labor pains. George takes charge, the baby is born, and both it and Louise remain in the flat for the time being. Gradually their relationship deepens, and despite many crises a bridge seems to have been built between a drop-out from, and a member of, present-day society. Produced at the Apollo Theatre in London. (#25128) $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE BRAZILIAN. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Two amorous actresses are out to capture the affections of a wealthy Paris producer. The wily Micli"eline spreads the rumor that Rafaella is being courted by a murderously jealous Brazilian, but her plot backfires in this mad romp that is in the best tradition of French bedroom farce. $6.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4158) TWO MASTERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank Manley. 2 m., 3 f. 2 simple ints. Winner of the coveted Great American Play Award at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville, Two Masters is made up of two distinct yet thematically inter-related parts entitled The Rain of Terror and Errand of Mercy. See index for individual descriptionS. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22795) AFTER YOU WITH THE MILK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Travers. 3 m., 2 f. I Set. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3593) HOMESTEADERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Nina Shengold. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int.!ext. It is 1979 on an island in southeast Alaska. Fisherman Neal Raftery returns from a week-long stay in town with his deck hand, a New Yorker who calls herself Jake. In Alaska for summer adventure, Jake soon discovers she has joined a complicated household. Over the course of the eventful summer, its five troubled inhabitants struggle to come to terms with themselves, each other, and the past. "Striking new playwright and play .... What an extraordinary debut."-L.A. Herald Examiner. "Remarkable for eviscerating honesty."-L.A. Times. "Fine new play with a view of an unusual world. . . . Each character is a fully developed real human being and all are colorful. . . . There is humor and tragedy in this always absorbing and suspenseful drama."-New Haven Journal-Courier. "Landmark American drama."-Fairpress. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#10118) GHOSTS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. 4 versions: translated by Christopher Hampton, by Arthur Kopit, by Bjorn Koefoed. and by Nicholas Rudall. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This famous play by the father of modern drama is a pinnacle in the annals of dramatic composition. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the maid who, it turns out, is his

of Biesel, her frail, willful mother and Phoebe, her distant, spiritual daughter. In an attempt to improve her relationship to Phoebe, Erica decides to put her mother in a nursing home as she has come to believe Biesel is responsiblefor Phoebe's growing belief that her mind is unimportant as it prevents her from having a direct experience of God. A battle of wills ensues that brings all three women face to face with their own anger and the ways in which they do and don't love each other. The play takes place in New York City and has one set consisting of 2 rooms . . . a living room and a sewing room. "Funny and observant."-Newsday. "Truly comical."-New Yorker. "Excellent."-Variety. "Fascinating."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#3592) PRECIOUS SONS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. George Furth. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This finely wrought autobiographical drama is about a Chicago family'S financial struggles in the late 1940's. Fred Small has a chance for a promotion that would necessitate moving to another city. The youngest son (the central character) is caught between his desire to be an actor and his father's determination that he finish. high school and go to college. Add mother, who has her own ideas about how the family should be run. "Contains an emotional force that approaches terror. . . . Is Bea the monster she seems? . . . Is Fred an insensitive hulk who deserves to have his dreams trampled by a wife he's unwittingly repressed? Where does love fit into all this?" -Newsweek. "Furth creates convincing people and he appreciates the timeless give-and-take of family life, its perilous candor and its resilience."-Time. "Wonderfully real characters . . . . A play about real things [with] honest emotions ... couched in comedy."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18159) SHIV AREE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. William Mastrosimone. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int. This wonderful play by the author of Extremities and The Woolgatherer concerns a young, overprotected hemophiliac and an itinerant belly-dancer. Before long the delightful Shivaree and the innocent Chandler are in love, much to the consternation of Chandler's mother. He climbs out the fire escape-his first venture outside his hermetic world-to go after his love. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly (#21689) Restricted. WE WON'T PAY! WE WON'T PAY! (Little Theatre.) Political (Marxist) Farce. Dario Fo. Translated by Ron Jenkins. 3 m., 2 f.lnt. Dario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity-a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend (the accomplice's husband) notice the bulge, of course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project. "Hilarious comedy . . . funnier than anything I've seen in 15 years." -Village Voice. "The work of a social reformer with a fractured funny bone ... Mr. Fo's manic farce should be obligatory viewing for anyone battling, i.e., succumbing to, the high cost of living." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40). (#25064) A WEEKEND NEAR MADISON. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Kathleen Tolan. 2 m., 3 f. Int. This hit from the Actors Theatre of Louisville is an ensemble play about male-'remale relationships that takes place during a weekend reunion of college friends. "Warm, vital, glowing . . . full of wise ironies and unsentimental hopes. "-Newsweek. "A new playwright of sharp perceptions, humor, and tender sensibilities." -Christian Science Monitor. "Appealing characters and fresh-fromthe-vine dialogue."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40) (#25051) THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY MURDER MYSTERY. Revised Version. (All Groups.) Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 1m., 4 f. 1 set. The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a strange note as the ladies present their ambitious and cunning whodunit, Murder at Checkmate Manor. An added bonus: there's a Film and Fashion Show and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete with a prize. The crunch comes in the denouement when the "murderer," about to be revealed, has to rush home to bandage an injured daughter. The doyenne of the group rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation with a final inventive twist. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8041) THE GOOD DOCTOR. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 2 m., 3 f. Var. settings. This Broadway hit offers three hilarious sketches that are composites of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. The stories are droll, the portraits affectionate, the humor infectious and the fun unending. "There is much fun here . . . . Mr. Simon's comic fancy is admirable." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Note: The musical scene "Too Late for Happiness" must be used in all productions. Sheet music, $12.50 per copy or sound tape available on receipt of a $20 rental fee plus a $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $20-$10.) Posters (#65) SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. (Little Theatre.) Readings. Charles Aidman, conceived from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage. Via musical interludes, we are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. There are 60-odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of roles and impersonations, from young

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father's illegitimate daughter. The orphanage burns down, the maid runs off in disgust when she learns the truth about her parentage, and Mrs. Alving is left alone to care for her hopelessly insane son who has fallen prey to the social disease that killed his father. The role of Mrs. Alving, considered one of the greatest in the modem repertoire, has been played by Liv Ullman, Eva Le Galliene, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alia Nazimova and Eleonora Duse. Hampton translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Kopit translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Koefoed translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Rudall translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde; see Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays. Please specify translator when ordering. Hampton translation (#9034) Kopit translation (#9056) Koefoed translation (#9033) Rudall translation (#9164) DO LORD REMEMBER ME. (Black Groups.) Drama. James de Jongh. 2 m., 3 f. Int. "Firsthand memories of former slaves, recorded in the late 1930's under the Federal Writer's Project, form the basis [of this] moving evocation of shared servitude."-N.Y. Times. "The show, which is a collage of song, dance and dialogue, deals with the collective Black experience from pre-Civil War days on. It describes the horrors, of course, but also takes account of the humor. . . . Do Lordis like a vivid etching come briefly to life."-N.Y. Daily News. "An engrossing and informative tapestry of daily life as it was lived then. There is great humor and warmth, along with passion and anger. And a sense of triumph in the overcoming."-Women's Wear Daily. "A theatrical event ofrare distinction and achievement."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music ayailable; write for particulars. (#6099)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS LUNCH HOUR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jean Kerr. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Never has Jean Kerr's wit had a keener edge or her comic sense more peaks of merriment than in this clever confection which starred Gilda Radner and Sam Waterston as a pair whose spouses are having an affair. They counter by inventing an affair of their own. He, ironically, is a marriage counsellor and a bit of a stick while his wife is a real go-getter who easily juggles husband, lover and mother. The other is a kook married to a very rich man. All ends forgivingly. for both couples. "Civilized, charming, stylish. . . . Very warm and most amusing . . . . Delicately interweaves laughter and romance."-N.Y. Times. "An amiable comedy about the eternal quadrangle . . . . The author's most entertaining play in years."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-40.) Please state author when ordering. Posters (#674) "SUITEHEARTS". (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 3 m., 2 f. Int. A young couple from Pennsylvania checks into a posh New York hotel to fill their weekend with bliss, only to have it filled with strangers. Timothy and his wife have inadvertently booked the same honeymoon suite as Frankie and Wanda, an older couple from New Jersey. After they scuffle over the accommodations, no one is where or with whom they should be. Filled with sight gags and one-liners, this play broke the house records at New Jersey's Dam Site Dinner-Theater. During the course of the evening, Timothy grows into a man, Elizabeth learns about trust, Frankie learns to respect women and Wanda learns to respect herself. "Even the off-stage lines bring guffaws! I'll bet a lot of the audience will be back a second time!"-Asbury Park Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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ROGER'S LAST STAND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dimitri Frenkel Frank. Adapted by Peter Thwaites. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Plucking up his courage-Roger has left Lucinda-and taken a literally empty apartment in search of peace and solitude. He has scarcely moved in when people begin moving in with their mattresses. From two to four to two and then comes a horrifying shock for the characters-and another for the audience. A hit in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20055) TISHOO. (All Groups.) Comedy. Brian Thompson. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Frank and Barbara have spent years searching for a cure for the common cold and are close to a breakthrough, but the university is about to shut down their lab, the Vice-Chancellor is questioning whether anyone wants a cure, and Frank's relationship with Barbara has become uncertain. A trade-unionist porter, a sexy young student and an inadvertent phone call to the Urn AI Quaiwan branch of the Samaritans add to "Frank's troubles in this black comedy from London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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IT'S A SCREAM! A Ho"orbly Funny Comedy. (All Groups.) David DeBoy. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Spencer has just inherited his father's film studio and thinks he knows better than his late father how to produce movies. The studio specializes in horror films and their biggest star is Alexander Moreau, a KarlofflPrice/Carradine sort in whose mansion this comedy takes place. Spencer has come to inform Moreau that he is not renewing his contract. Moreau offers to demonstrate that he is still one scary guy. His proposition: if he can scare Spencer out of his wits, he gets a contract and creative control. Moreau pulls it off in wacky thriller style. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#11086) $35.) MURDER BY THE BOOK (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Duncan Greenwood and Robert King. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Crisp, witty exchanges pepper this light-hearted and inventive thriller that unfolds with a series of macabre twists. A thriller writer indulges in vitriolic word duels with his estranged wife until she shoots him. An amateur detective from the next flat attempts to solve the murder before calling the police. More deadly games are in store when the corpse rises and the tables are turned more than once for the victim and the killers. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marc Camoletti, adapted by Beverley Cross. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Bernard has foolishly asked his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday despite the fact his wife Jacqueline is present. He has also invited his oldest friend, Robert-and asks him to pretend Brigit is his mistress. Robert refuses as he is having an affair with Jacqueline, but Bernard cunningly involves him anyway. By chance, a temporary maid engaged for the evening arrives when Jacqueline and Bernard are out-and her name is also Brigit. Robert mistakes her for Bernard's girl friend. Frantic complications in which identities, plots and counter plots-and bedrooms-are exchanged with ever increasing confusion transpire until an unexpected ending makes everyone happy including the maid who has acquired a mink coat and lots of money. A long running success in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author and adaptor when ordering. (#10017) THE BACHELOR PAD! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. W. Randolph Galvin. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Mort and his buddy, workmen in a luxury bachelor pad replete with exotic gadgetry, revel in images of super-spy-lovers until they discover that Francis, the owner, has a date with Mort's daughter. What to do! Mort booby traps the pad with devices intended to humiliate the owner. Francis is duly embarrassed, but not as mortified as Mort when he finds Francis' intentions are honorable. "Filled with one riotous one-liner after another. . hilarious."-Daily Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4013) THE HAND THAT CRADLES THE ROCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Warren Graves. 2 m., 3 f. Int. When Ross Cameron's first novel sold-his wife Alex gave up interior design to become a mother. When his second novel is rejected, Alex returns to the working world and he stays home to watch the baby. Female assertiveness and a male's fears for his masculinity have never been funnier than in this popular summer stock and dinner theater comedy that plays the role-reversal theme from every angle. "A good, funny play . . . racy and comic."-Peterborough Examiner, Ontario, "An outrageously funny farce . . . . A grand evening of good theatre and a sure cure for the blues." -Standard, St. Catherine, Ontario. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10004) PLAYS FOR AN UNDRESSED STAGE. (All Groups.) Gary Apple. Three one-act plays: It, Do and Black & White. See Index for individual descriptions. JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 2 m., 3 f. IntlExt. Dennis spends his spare time messing about in his untidy garage, indifferent to the fact that his wife is being driven to distraction and beyond by his possessive mother. The" hidden tension and antagonisms under an apparently normal surface build up to a climax of bizarre violence and madness. "A beautiful, funny sad play . . . . It doesn't seem inappropriate to evoke Chekhov. Like the Master, Ayckbourn sees life as it is-and life as it ought to be."-Plays and Players. $8.95.

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THE SUPPORTING CAST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Furth. 1m., 4 f. Ext. Ellen, the wife of a successful author, has written a book about friends who are spouses of celebrities and what it is like to be married to Somebody Famous. She has invited them to her house on the beach at Malibu to let them read advance copies-and to break the news to them gently that they are depicted warts and all. All nearly have apoplexy when they read the book because it really does tell all. When the news arrives that the book is to be made into a movie, they change their tune and get excited about which star will play them. "Terrifically funny . . . [with] " enough visual jokes to build a miniature Mack Sennett comedy." -Variety. "Written with the expertise of a humorist who knows the transcontinental scene from New York delicatessens to Malibu beach houses." -Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21924) LAST DAYS AT THE DIXIE GIRL CAFE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy-drama. Robin SWlcord. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Jeri Lee is about to close down her Dixie Girl Cafe in a Georgia town. She's a sweet, if slightly dotty, religious fundamentalist who believes she's destined to bear another Messiah-and she's going to marry widowed Wayne Blossom, Sr., a fanatical right-winger who runs a sheet-metal shop and does a brisk business in bomb shelters on the side. Wayne, Jr., who runs the filling station, is a philanderer married to disillusioned, tomboyish Joy. The youngest of the Blossom family, Lanette, is going to college on a baton-twirling scholarship. These are real pt:ople. Each one faces a personal holocaust; each one is saved from it or succumbs to it. The central idea has to do with the power of love. "Best American comedy of the year."-WWD. "Inspiring, hilarious and touching, it skillfully blends madness, pathos and off-beat philosophy. . A lovely play."-Newark Star-Ledger. $6.50 . (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14040) A PHOTOGRAPH: LOVERS IN MOTION. (Black Groups.) Poem play. Ntozake Shange.2 m., 3 f. Int. This work by the author of For Colored Girls . .. is more of a play than her other choreopoems. It is about a young Black man who is trying to make it as a professional photographer and is surrounded by caricatures of Black people gone wrong. The exception is a girl friend who is a free and sovereign spirit. The young man's confidence is shattered when he is turned down for the grant he has counted on. "Leaves the rainbow behind and deals with the stark and monochromatic spectrum of reality. Poetry runs through the play like veins of ebony, but it is blunted, bent and suffused. It is the play itself which is the poem. "-Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18131)

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the final play sums up with five self-immolated characters on park benches. "Buoyant . . . sad, sharp and funny."-London Guardian. "Runs the gamut of comic technique from faintly pathetic situation comedy tQloutright farce . . . . Ayckbourn has demonstrated once again that even in a trivial situation he can hold the attention with his matchless ear for conversational speech, and in untrivial situations shows himself a comic writer of immortal quality."-London Financial Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#326) I CAME TO NEW YORK TO WRITE Robert Patrick. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. Eight sketches which trace the history of a single New York City apartment over a period of fifteen years (1955-1969). In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $15-$15 per scene when done singly.) (#11005) DREAM LOVER. (All Groups.) Fantasy-Farce. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Who cracked up Moose's Maserati? Why is his business associate the judge at his trial? Did Doreen really make hubby's sloppy Joes out of Alpo? Who's going to do the commercials for Superjock Toiletries? And why is Moose's wife letting Galan Del Suefio go mad with amore while pro-footballer hubby is in the room? Is any of this happening or is Emily ready for the funny farm? When "football widow" Emily daydreams herself an attentive Latin lover, lover boy decides it's more fun being real and no harried housewife ever found herself in a funnier fix. Audiences howl as the frantic fullback tries to fend off a figment of his wife's imagination before the (#6123) figment carries her into the end zone. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) SAVING GRACE. (All Groups.) Romantic Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This zany tale of a warmhearted girl who mistakes a telephone repairman for a burglar, tries to convert him from his life of crime, and ends up having to pretend he's her husband, dismaying her strait-laced sister's evangelist-fiance, had critics and audiences cheering both at the Maryland and the Chicago premier productions. "Consistently fast-moving . . . [and) witty."-Baltimore News American. "A light-as-a-feather, smooth-as-silk comedy with not so much as a smidgeon of smut. . . . Delightful. "-Jejfersonian , Towson, Md. "A light, fun night out to forget your troubles and laugh."-lnside. "Smash hit . . . delightfully lighthearted play, all fun and games, perfect theatre fare." -Downers Grove Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#963) OUT ON A LIMB. (Little Theatre). Comedy. Joyce Rayburn. 3 m., 2 f. Composite (#17004) int.-ext. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE LADY WHO CRIED FOX!!! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Edward Clinton. 3 m., 2 f. I int. When a jealous actor who's always on the road finds out his wife has taken on a young male roommate to meet expenses, the show does not go on. He immediately returns home to find out what's going on. The roommate, an inventor who likes to roller skate, is caught in the middle between a jealous husband and frustrated wife. Eventually, all five of the characters get into the act and the result is just plain fun. "Clever script. . . intriguing sense of humor coupled with a powerful knack for drama."-Fort Lauderdale News. "Funny, delightful and above all devoid of the off color material so many writers feel is essential.' ,-Hollywood Sun Tattler. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#642) GOING APE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Nick Hall. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This hilarious farce has some serious undertones. An idealistic young orphan is at his uncle's house to commit suicide, but it is proving difficult. He is constantly attended by his uncle's attractive nurse/secretary and interrupted by a stream of increasingly incredible visitors. He realizes all the visitors are the same three people and his attention is drawn toward the preposterously Victorian plot in which he is trapped. In a startlingly theatrical climax, he begins to understand. "A grab bag of surprises [and) ... some of the funniest characters you'll ever see in a tight dramatic package. "-News, Fort Myers. "Every scene transcends not only the imagination, but melds into a literally death-defying whole."-Sarasota Journal. "Truly zany. . The wackiness is infectious."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#486) IS LOVE EVERYTHING? (All Groups.) Comedy. Edward Dudowicz. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Tony Arcatti is on the run from the police and a rival mob. He takes refuge in Constance Meredith's basement on New York's East Side. These two strong-willed individuals produce many comic sparks in their confrontation with each other. Tony thinks he's macho and a big-time gangster, but Constance sees b~neath the facade and convinces him he is capable of much more. He also makes her face the truth about herself. Into this situation comes Iris Hanson, Constance's friend. She is a pseudo-intellectual and when she discovers Tony's identity, she is kept prisoner too. Fred Conklin, Constance's old boy friend, makes a surprise visit and is det<rined too. Millie Papendrou, Tony's love interest, also becomes enmeshed in these proceedings. These five characters become involved in various comic situations which make pertinent comments on love, life and friendship. "A solidly constructed play [with) highly amusing characters."-Ridgefield Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#581) CONPERSONAS. (Little Theatre.) Play. Stephen Lim. 3 m., 2 f. Compo int. A "successful" young advertising layout artist invites three "friends" for Thanksgiving dinner at his posh New York place. But just before they arrive, he commits suicide. The unsuspecting guests are a wealthy, middle-aged homosexual, an unhappy copywriter and her precocious young daughter. They're stunned by the unexpected arrival of the dead man's identical brother-a Jesuit priest who recreates and relives the years leading up to his brother's suicide. Demanding truth from the guests, he becomes involved in the same complex and problematic human relation-

(Royalty, $50-$40.) For use of song "Happy Birthday to You," write SummyBirchard Music, Box 2072, Princeton, N.J. 08540. (#12039) STRANGERS. (All Groups.) Drama. Sherman Yellen. I m., I f., var. roles for 3 actors. Unit set. This biographical drama explores the relationship between Sinclair Lewis and his wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson. "Marvelous."-NY. Post. "Maintains a handsome level of literacy, and will deserve what should be its wide popularity."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1040) TWAIN BY THE TALE. (All Groups.) Revue of Mark Twain stories, Sketches and Monologues. Dennis Snee. Bare stage with pieces. Flexible cast, 5 characters minimum. A brilliantly composed theatre piece bringing to life the unpredictable wit and timeless perceptions of the great humorist. Done in the Story Theatre and Thurber Carnival form, some of Twain's favorite targets are laid bare: Bigots and bureaucrats, monarchs and moralists, cowardly duelists and frustrated suitors. There are also Twain's unreserved, razor-sharp thoughts on friendship, vice, good breeding and politicians. Makes for a delightful evening. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Interlude (#22238) music available, $7.50. (Music Royalty, $5, each performance.) PORNO STARS AT HOME. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., 3 f. Int. All those people who live fantasy-lives up there on the not-so-silver porno screen-what might they be like at home, away from the tacky lighting and cheap interiors of their workaday world? What might they fantasize about? What might they really, really want? One wants to be discovered as a serious actress (well, they all more or less want that); one, a star of gay porno, is actually heterosexual and wants to be recognized as such; another wants a child. At Georgia Lloyd Bernhart's birthday party which wish, if any, will come true? "Melfi's affection for spiritual vagabonds shines through, and there's a fine glitter to the work in its best moments.' ,-Village Voice. "A play well worth doing. . . this is the kind of play that makes the N.Y. stage live rather than just exiSI."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, (#18105) $50-$35.) CENTERFOLD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. W. Randolph Galvin. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Herman has a recurrent fantasy that it would be exciting to take photos of lovely nude ladies. So he borrows Floyd's professional photo studio only to discover that some fantasies should not be attempted. "A certified hil."-lndianapolis Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5067) A TIDE OF VOICES. (All Groups.) Drama. Suzanne Granfield. 4 m., I f., f. singer/guitarist. Bare stage, optional platform. The American Revolution's first seventeen months are vividly re-created in vignettes in this touching, haunting play about ordinary people who were caught up in the cataclysmic events. "Haunting and touching."-Village Voice. "Thrilling and truly evocative."-Kenneth Campbell, Producer-Director of Theatre in America. Published with Whisperings in the Grass, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22097) THE PARANORMAL REVIEW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Erik Brogger. 4 m., I f. Bare stage, movable props. Traces the events during one evening of occult theatre and involves the membership of The Charles Flynn Society-a fictitious union of psychic malcontents-bent on dramatizing their own encounters with the Paranormal and the Bizarre world. The late Charles Flynn is their mentor and muse. In a collection of short playlets-Flynn's loyal followers illustrate that not only are we not alone and may in fact be outnumbered. The play projects, if there is a realm beyond the Five Senses-it must include the Sense of Humor. "A cornucopia of delightful skits." -Plays and Players. "Great fun, witty and funny." -London Stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18021) A SINGLE THING IN COMMON. (Little Theatre.) Romantic Comedy. William F. Brown. 3 m., 2 f. I set. Three divorced friends pool resources to rent a large Manhattan apartment. When one has to leave, a dull and dreary friend is invited to share. A blow to his head causes amnesia and they take the opportunity to recreate him. In two months he is a new person. But his memory could return anytime-then what? Other complications with old spouses and new lovers spice up this fastmoving comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21706) THE DODGE BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. George Sibbald. 4 m., I f. Int. A small-town big shot is caught in a web of high living and dishonest car dealing, and the detective whose wife he has seduced is out to get the goods on His Honor, the Mayor. "A blunt, no-nonsense sizzler. . . . Moves and holds your interest throughout."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) . (#6081) SUICIDE IN B-FLAT. (All Groups.) Mysterious overture. Sam Shepard. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Suicide in B-Flat is another bizarre comedy by the author who's been called the most influential young playwright in America. Stumbling through Mr. Shepard's familiar mythical, metaphysical universe are two gumshoes trying to solve the mysterious murder of Niles, a famous jazz musician. Who is the culprit? Who, in fact, is the victim for that matter? A very funny, strikingly original play. "This is Mr. Shepard at his most tantalizing."-NY. Times. In Foolfor Love & Other Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. (#21004) CONFUSIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckboum. 3 m., 2 f. (minimum). Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one-act plays. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate-fraught dinner encounter-and

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ships his brother had with them. Through the sophisticated games he plays with them, the priest discovers the relentless pursuit of truth has sometimes comic, sometimes tragic consequenoes. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5138) ROOMIES! (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Hal Mastik, a masseur on the brink of marriage to emerald-mine heiress Miranda Kerwyn, learns to his hon:or that his college roommate Zenobia Poindexter is dropping by. Though their relatIOnship had been innocent (she had everything a man could want: muscles, a moustache, and a dueling scar), a post-grad hormone treatment has made her a knockout. He cons jockey Bert Pandangus into dressing as a girl to pose as Miranda during Zenobia's visit-except that Miranda meets Bert first and Hal has to introduce Miranda to the real Zenobia-each woman believing the other one is "Hal's sister Gretchen"-while a supposed "Mastik family curse," an eerie thunderstorm, and total confusion of identities creep toward a hilarious climax-and cast and audience have the time of their lives. "Lighthearted full-of-fun confection . . . invested with wit, cleverness and imagination . . . nutty as a Marx Brothers movie . . . . Comedy of a high order."-leffersonian, Md. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#926) EAT YOUR HEART OUT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Charlie's iill out-of-work actor currently working as a waiter. The scene is a series of hilarious encounters in Manhattan restaurants-both elegant and shabby. "A sharp, stunning play. It'll make you howl-but better yet, it might even make you sniffle a bit."-Fort Lauderdale News. "Tightly written and very, very entertaining. I recommend it enthusiastically."-Miami Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#393) THE BEHEADING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Thomas Muschamp. 4 m., I f. Compo int. Set in a Mediterranean country, this powerful play portrays the harm that can be done to people by spiritual corruption and the misuse of innocence. It is a study of maneuver for power between church and state-and in which the frustrations of a woman, the honesty of a man and the faith of a young priest are deliberately involved until all three are destroyed by the bishop and the president who manipulate them like chess pieces. "A beautifully constructed, outspoken and challenging (#4029) play. "-London Daily Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) BULLS HOT CRUMMOND, (All Groups.) Farce. Ron House, Diz White, Alan Sherman, John Neville-Andrews and Derek Cunningham. 3 m., 2 f. Unit set. This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue. "Uproarious."-Int. Herald Tribune. "Marvelous."-London Sunday Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#284) NIGHTLIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kenneth Brown. 3 m., 2 f. Int. An old Italian lady dwells in her almost shabby apartment holding court for those who come through her unlocked door. Her husband had deserted her 15 years ago. Then one day, a purposeless, not very bright and violence-prone young man appears and brings a brutal end to it all. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#16023) THRILLER OF THE YEAR. (All Groups.) Drama. Glyn Jones. 5 f. Int. On her return from a celebration party Gillian finds she has been sent a copy of her own novel The Lody Is Dead. The series of accidents that follow convince her that someone is trying to murder her-by one of the methods described in her book. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22096) THE SECRETARY BIRD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Douglas Home. 2 m., 3 f. Int. A wife whose husband takes her for granted finds romance with a dashing man, but has misgivings when the husband offers to be caught in a compromising situation with his secretary to give her grounds for divorce. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#21063) AGATHA SUE, I LOVE YOU. (All Groups.) Comedy. Abe Einhorn. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Jack and Eddie exist by playing horses-but they haven't picked a winner in three weeks. They're broke and the landlady gives them till eleven o'clock to pay the rent. Eddie com, Jack into stealing Agatha Sue's guitar and hocking it. She thinks Jack is proposing--and to save money moves in with them. Then Jack wins a bundle at the track-picks up a girl and brings her back to the hotel. Jealous Agatha Sue departs for a job in Chicago and Jack talks Eddie into their going along-hopefully to give up gambling and settling down. "Amusing dialogue."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3025) MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Three one-act plays by Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Leonard Melfi. 3 m., 2 f. In Morning, we meet a black fami:ly the morning after they decide to take the pill that will make them white. As everyone discovers from this, color is only skin deep. Enter an irate white father looking for the black boy who got his daughter with child. Not only are there no black folks in this house, but the white father turns out to be "basic black" himself. Noon brings together two men of different sexual constitutions, peppers the situation with a housewife-stripper and boils over with a couple of sadists who throw in whips and chains. Night is for remembrance, as wife, mistress, boy-friend, and other friends recall a cocky squirt, each in his fashion. "Vigorous, lusty ... by turns thoughtful and dazzling, witty, provocative and, in the final play, even poetic."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $25-$20 per play when performed

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separately.) When Morning is done alone, the title is to be Chiaroscuro. Please state author when ordering. Morning, Noon and Night (#15129) Morning (Chiaroscuro) (#15691) Noon (#16635) Night (#16620) THE PAISLEY CONVERTIBLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harry Cauley. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Charlie is an intern and his bride Amy is an artist who spends half her time selling cosmetics door-to-door and the rest trying to find out what went on between Charlie and his former fiancee. During their two month's anniversary celebration, her former boy friend calls unexpectedly to deliver a belated wedding gift: Amy's nude sketches of him done when she was sharing his apartment. Another surpriseAmy's mother arrives a day earlier than expected. One misunderstanding leads to another and the young couple separates. A happy ending finds the young couple back together. "Inescapably disarming." -N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#836) FIVE FINGER EXERCISE. (Advanced Groups.) Tragedy. Peter Shaffer. 3 m., 2 f. Compo Int. " Five Finger Exercise opened to ecstatic reviews and enthralled audiences as an unexcelled experience in ensemble acting and as a play of piercing tension. A German orphan comes to England to tutor the daughter of a nouveau riche family, hoping to be adopted by his new country and to be absorbed into a loving family. Beneath the surface of this family are selfish passions that he unwittingly triggers. As the innocent tutor slowly realizes that the facade of family love is a sham, the shock produces horrifying effects in each person. "Powerful and absorbing." -N. Y. Post. "Brilliant theatre . . . . Hypnotic and fascinating." -N. Y. Mirror. Winner of the New York Critics' Circle Award as "Best Foreign Play of the Year,$6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#440) DREAM WORLD. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 2 m., 3 f. Int. A fastpaced, satire about a pair of aging stars. The wise cracks, laugh lines and zany situations come thick and fast, and never a dull moment is to be found from start to finish. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#369) TIME AND TIME AGAIN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 2 f. Int.Ext. The suburban house of the Bakers' adjoins a recreation field, which is useful since football and cricket playa large part in the story. Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancee to the house and Graham, as usual, makes a bee-line for her. However, it is Mrs. Baker's brother, Leonard, to whom Joan strays. Leonard, poetic, a fumbler, who moons around holding conversations with the garden gnome, has always roused the bullying Graham's malice and scorn, who is horrified when he catches the younger man very much with Joan. Joan and Mrs. Baker decide that Leonard must tell Peter at once about the relationship and he tries, half-heartedly, to do so, and the result is wholly unexpected, as Peter's cricket and football supersede all other considerations in his sports-mad mind. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22108) THE GRAND CEREMONIAL. (Little Theatre.) Fernando Arrabal. Translated by Jean Benedetti and John Calder. 3 m., 2 f., extras. Int. The play's central relationship between the cripple Cabanosa and his lover Syl reaches the heights of bizarrerie and imaginatively shows the extent of the characters' emotions and physical sicknesses. It has been successfully produced throughout Europe. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9100) HOME. (All Groups.) Drama. David Storey. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. Two old gentlemen strolling on a terrace greet each other courteously. They discuss the past, school days, climate, the sea, the Vale of Evesham, moustaches, the war, families, and other topics. Are they guests at a small hotel? Eventually it becomes clears that they are patients in a mental hospital. With no plot at all in the conventional sense and sparse, almost skeletal dialogue, the play weaves a spell of compassion, sympathyand respect. N.Y. Critics Award, Best Play of the Year. Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson starred in London and New York. "A remarkable play ... striking and strangely moving and dramatic . . . "-N. Y. Post. "Compassionate and moving. . . . The writing is extraordinarily pungent. . . . Mr. Storey writes brilliantly for actors . . . . A lovely play, a sad play, and a play to lose yourself in."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#538) NO ONE KNOWS HOW. (Little Theatre.) Morality. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Marta Abba. 3 m., 2 f. 2 int. Deals with the realm of mystery in which events occur "no one knows how." Ginevra Vanzi and Romeo Daddi succumb to a moment's passion although they deeply love their respective mates. To add to the complications, the two couples are extremely close; and the original act of passion leads to a final act of violence and four lives are destroyed. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#16030) HERE LIES JEREMY TROY. (All Groups.) Farce. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 2 f. Compo into A lawyer who is up for a partnership is visited by a school chum who lives by sponging off classmates. He blackmails the lawyer into putting him up on the very night the boss is coming for dinner-whereupon the wife leaves. The sponger discovers that the lawyer's degree is a fraud. A model is hired to play the wife's, a dumb beauty whose attempts to help backfire. More trouble erupts when the wife returns. Fortunately the boss thinks such a devious man would make a good lawyer! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#534)

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the background. In Collected Short Plays: Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#7030) FANDO AND LIS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Fernando Arrabal. 4 m., 1 f. Simple Stage. An expressionist tour de force about human relationships, it is a cutting comment on our ability to create suffering as a means to a bitter end which never seems within our grasp. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8009) A STORY FOR A SUNDAY EVENING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Paul Crabtree. 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage, sectional scenery. A young director and playwright rents a theatre to present scenes from his incomplete play hoping to come up with an ending. In this "play" the actor falls in love with the actress and marries her. He meets the "other woman" and has an affair. Soon, it's realized that "cast" are playing themselves and it's a real "Eternal Triangle." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. 3 Record Set, $27.50. (#21350)

BEGINNER'S LUCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nonnan Barasch and Carroll Moore. 3 m., 2 f. Int After eight years of marriage Paul wants a night out. He's supposed to be going bowling, but it's other sport-an affair with a girl from his office. Everything goes wrong and his picture appears in the newspaper, ending his affair and his marriage. A year later, he and his ex-wife accidentally meet. He learns to his chagrin she has many admirers and one wants to marry her. Paul's efforts to balk the marriage and win Sally back provide uproarious laughter. "Fast, funny and sexy."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4028) READY WHEN YOU ARE, C.B.! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Susan Slade. 1 m., 4 f. Int. Julie Harris starred on Broadway as a would-be actress who sublets her apartment to traveling actors. A pinch-penny, she installs a pay phone, keeps her food in a vault, and puts an alarm to her desk. A movie idol who has skipped the set of a multi-million-dollar film offers her $300 a week to hideaway in her apartment. He encourages her to audition but she goofs it up. Drawn to the plain Annie, the idol betrays his locale to call the producer and recommend another audition for her. He has to go back and face the carneras while she clicks on her second try. "Pleasant."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#910) WOMAN OF PARIS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Henry Becque. Translated by Jacques Barzun. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Becque's classic commentary on the affairs of Paris' haute monde, circa 1890. In The Modern Theatre, Vol. 1, $10.95. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#25174) JANUS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Carolyn Green. 3 m., 2 f. Int. The respectable wife of a midwestern tycoon leads a double life: every summer she joins a lover in New York to write a best-seller under the pen name Janus. Robert Preston, Claude Dauphin, and Margaret Sullivan starred on Broadway. "Wild and enjoyable."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#603) SOLDIER'S WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Rose Franken. 2 m., 3 f. Int. An officer returns from the war to find his wife has become a self-reliant, successful writer, turning their world topsy-turvy. "Delightful."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21252) POOR RICHARD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jean Kerr. 3 m., 2 f. Int. While a raffishly charming poet is in America to consult with his publisher and to attend the dedication of a hospital wing to the memory of his late wife, his publisher's secretary determines to marry him. Beneath his charm, the poet is insecure. His public image of having written beautiful verses on the death of his wife and then turning in sorrow to drink is a facade. He fears that he did not love her at all, and he refuses to attend the dedication. The secretary forces a confrontation with the truth, and from the pages of the loving wife's diary coines the hope of peace at last. "A thoroughly delightful evening. . . . Not only steadily funny but remarkably touching." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18098) CAT IN THE BAG. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Joyce Rayburn. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Olive Ashton is not pleased. Her 60-year-old father refuses to "act his age" and he plans to marry again. The woman in question is not at all of the caliber of Olive's late mother as far as Olive is concerned. Many comic scenes ensue before things get worked. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5036) ANGEL STREET. (Gaslight.) (AU Groups.) Melodrama. Patrick Hamilton. 2 m., 3 f., 2 extras. Int. This Broadway hit, first produced in London as Gaslight, Angel Street, tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in the 19th Century. When the curtain rises, all appears to be peaceful. It is soon apparent that Manningham, a suavely sinister man, is slowly torturing his gentle, lovely wife into insanity under the guise of kindness. While he is out, Mrs. Manningham has an unexpected caller-amiable, paternal Rough from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Manningham is a maniacal criminal wanted for a murder committed fifteen years ago in this very house. Gradually the hearty and understanding Rough restores Mrs. Manningham's confidence in herself and they build up evidence against Manningham,managing this exciting and fascinating task shrewdly but not succeeding until the author has built up and sustained some of the most brilliant suspense in the modem theatre. The secret of the dimming gaslight and the mystery of the hidden rubies will captivate all. "Comes off the top part of the theatre's top (#33) shelf." N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER? (Little Theatre.) Drama. Christopher Hampton. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Jimmy and Ian share a flat. Jimmy is "straight"; and Ian is "not". Neither are very "gay". One night Jimmy brings a girl home. He tries to get Ian and his friend to go out so he can have some privacy but Ian refuses. In fact, he gets very angry, leading to a fight. Jimmy's mother comes to visit Ian, and there ensues a mutual sexual attraction, which is consummated. The mother tries to get Ian to go to bed with her again; but Ian tells her he only did it because she reminded him of Jimmy. Ian hints Jimmy has a homosexual side which Jimmy is not aware of. This upsets the mother so much she has a fight with Jimmy-which upsets her so much more she has a fatal automobile accident. In the end, Jimmy and Ian come to a deeper knowledge of themselves. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25073) EMBERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Beckett. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. Henry's father ended his life in the sea and for the rest of his life Henry is doomed to the sound of the waves roaring in his ears. For twenty years he has talked incessantly to drown the tempest of his father's watery grave. 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*CROSSING JERUSALEM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Julia Pascal. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Crossing Jerusalem portrays twenty-four hours in the life of an Israeli family as they traverse Jerusalem in March 2002 at the beginning of an intifada. Personal and political histories burst into the present as this complex family drama explodes in the most politically tense city in the world. "Seething and passionate. "-Evening Standard. "The strands of the plot are deftly woven together in what is patently a heartfelt plea for understanding."-The Stage. In Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, $22.95. (Royalty, $60-460.) (#5325) *DIE! MOMMY! DIE! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This hilarious melodrama evokes the 1960's movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward. Faded pop singer Angela Andrews is trapped in a corrosive marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In order to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work television star, Angela murders her husband with a poison suppository. The zany plot adds elements of Greek tragedy to Hollywood folklore as Angela's resentful daughter convinces her emotionally disturbed brother to avenge their father's death by killing their mother. He demands proof of Angela's guilt. A touch of LSD in Mother's after-dinner coffee triggers a wild acid trip that exposes all of Angela's dark secrets. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#6551) *HELEN'S MOST FAVORITE DAY. (Little Theatre) Romantic fantasy. Mark Dunn. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. Be careful what you wish for. Love at second sight and a magic wish doom Helen to repeat the best day of her life ad infinitum, unless she can be rescued by those dearest to her. Romantic love has been an infrequent experience for forty-four-year-old Helen. On a visit to the fairgrounds she is swept off her feet by a carnie who treats her to one of the nicest days of her life. He gives Helen a gift as well: a wish proffered to him by his friend, a mystic. Playing along, Helen wishes for the chance to repeat this special day forever. Her wish is granted and the unforeseen repercussions are dire. Her family and friends rally to extricate poor Helen and, in fact, to save the universe. This gentle comedy in which science and logic take a back seat to the directives of the human heart premiered at the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pa. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#10562) *OPEN SECRETS. (Little Theatre.) One-act plays. Dale Wassennan. See Boy on Blacktop Road and The Stallion Howl for descriptions. (#17230) *OVER MY DEAD BODY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Derek Benfield. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Recently widowed, Gerald hopes to spend the rest of his days alone with his memories. He has reckoned without his late wife's "forward planning," which results in a series of unexpected events. With help from his daughter and son-in-law, Gerald endeavors to maintain his independence and keep unexpected visitors at bay while he recalls past experiences that are both funny and sad. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#17060) *WISE WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron Osborne. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. It's almost Christmas, 1944. In Knoxville, a frustrated mother with a secret and a teenage daughter with a dream take in two roomers who work making bombs at a nearby plant. These young women enjoy asserting their independence, one with servicemen and the other as a Miss Bombshell U.S.A. contestant, an endeavor that offends her father who is a small-town preacher. The daughter, who worries more about an asteroid rumored to be streaking toward Chattanooga than the raging war, bamboozles her mother into allowing her to attend a Frank Sinatra concert at the USO. She brings home a war-bound Marine as young and naive as she is and the resulting uproar triggers twists, turns, revelations, humor and romance. As these women struggle, grow and ultimately succeed for at least one fragile moment in time, they demonstrate that all are "family" and, in each other's company, we may find ourselves. Wise Women is a great way to ring in any season, particularly Christmas. "Offers holiday warmth . . . . Moving and funny."-Bristol HeraldCourier. "A charming, bittersweet comedy for the holiday season."-Washington County News. "Lively and believable characters in a delightful, spicy-sweet story."-Johnson City Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#25720)

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*WHITE CHOCOLATE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Hamilton. 2 m., 4 f. Int. White Chocolate is about a couple who are extremely wealthy and white when they go to bed, but wake up black. Boston Brahmin Brandon Beale hopes to be named Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The announcement is due this very day. His Jewish wife, Deborah Zucker Beale, is a witty columnist whose rich father donated a wing to the Met to help his son-in-law's chances. The competition is one Ashley Brown, a black lawyer. Brandon's sister Vivian, a verbally extravagant and personally disappointed woman, is visiting. She does not recognize the transformed Beales. Neither does their daughter Louise, who arrives from Yale with a first act ending surprise: a Chinese American fiance. During Act II Brandon follows BI~ale tradition as best he can under the circumstances. Ashley arrives and does not recognize the black Brandon. Vivian falls in love with Ashley. The Beales seem to the others to turn back white, but not to each other. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#25273) $60.) ACAPULCO. (Advanced Groups.) Docu-drama. Steven Berkoff. 5 m., I f. Simple set. Written while filming Rambo 2, Acapulco is based on the conversations of the minor characters who were POWs in the film. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3551) ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Elaine May. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. There is a cloud over porn queen Heidi the Ho's cable TV show. Her guests are in mourning for their employer and mentor, a legendary porn film maker. Tired of working for others, this motley group of adult video veterans decides to write and shoot their own extravaganza, an art film. Script one doesn't live up to their expectations so they bring in a new writer, one who insists they read the classics to prepare for their roles. Unexpected light bulbs go off and hilarity escalates. "May's best work. . . surprises us with humanity in the midst of the ridiculous. . . . It's the comedy of the year."-N.Y. Post. "You may feel you're overdosing on laughter. . . . Generates more hoots and giggles than any other comedy this season."-N.Y. Times. "A true, generous-hearted comedy! ... Hilarious and, at its peak, uproarious."-N.Y. Magazine. "A laugh-out-loud comedy!. .. Elaine May is one of our jokers who's still wild."-New Yorker,"Not just funny but uplifting. "-nyrheatre. com. "Only a frenzied comic mind could imagine ... this delight . . . with its giddy, raunchy sense of humor."-Show Business Weekly. $6.50. Sheet music, $10.00. (Royalty, $75-75.) (#3835) AMBER WAVES. Drama. James Still. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This acclaimed one-act about children in a struggling farm family is now available in a full-length version that builds on the emotional strengths of the shorter play. See description of the one(#188) act version for more information. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) AMY'S VIEW. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 3 m., 3 f. Int. After SQld-out performances at the National Theatre prompted a transfer to the West End, Judi Dench canle to Broadway to star in this heady and original drama of love and death. In 1979 Esme Allen is a well-known British actress caught in a changing West End climate that is trying for performers. A visit from her young daughter with a new boyfriend sets in motion a series of events which only find their shape sixteen years later. "A diffuse, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play . . . . A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play."-London Times. "Above all else, Amy's View offers the 8heer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers."-London Daily Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#3709) AMY'S WISH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Sharkey. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Recently retired and newly wed, Sam Galway is flabbergasted when the spring water at his honeymoon retreat transforms dear old Amy into a 19-year-old knockout. His "young" bride attracts a youthful admirer while the sheriff becomes convinced that Sam has murdered Amy. This romantic comedy by the librettist-composer of It's a Wonderful Life, the author of My Heart Reminds Me and the co-author of Just Say Yes! is a charming audience-pleaser. "A romantic comedy the entire family will enjoy!"-Howard Cobbs of Gaslight Dinner Theatres. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#2999) ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. 6 f. Unit Set. This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre. As they pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they are offered some unique solutions to the Three Sister's need to have life's deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of staging a play. "A smart, acerbic crowd-pleaser."-Variety. "Funny, smart, wry and poignant."-Miami Herald. "Addresses, often with aching hilarity, that the world of theatre is growing ever more estranged from the straightforward business of telling stories."-N.Y. Times. Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#3843) AROUND THE CLOCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nick Hall. 6 f. Int. A medieval German clock with life-sized moving figures of a saint, an angel, a knight and a wicked pagan queen has been acquired by a small American town, and six women want to stage a pUblicity event: an enactment of the movements of this amazing clock. The relationships among the ladies are nearly as intricate as the clockworks: two have been married to the same man, the young teacher is after another's husband and, of course, the ex-show girl wants to star. Polly, who is hosting a rehearsal, finds having her bossy adult daughter living in her house again difficult. Hilarious

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complications arise as this explosive group works out the casting and the choreography. Beneath their laughter lurks the truth about who is an angel and who is more like the sinister queen. Fast-paced and funny with a touch of poignancy, this inventive play is by the author of Accommodations, Beside Yourself, Marriage Is Murder and other popular comedies. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3747) BERMUDA AVENUE TRIANGLE. (Little Theatre.) Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 2 m., 4 f. This outrageous comedy by the authors of Lovers and Other Strangers and other uproarious hits starred Nanette Fabray and the authors on Broadway. It concerns the adventures of a Jewish widow and an Irish widow whose successful daughters move them to Las Vegas, where they share a retirement village condo. On an excursion, they are saved from a mugger by a charming if not quite sober gambler who is short on cash. They allow him to curl up on the living room floor and he manages to sweet-talk his way into both ladies' beds. Each situation is rife with the outrageous, excessive comedy that endears these playwrights to audiences everywhere. "Bologna and Taylor possess a lively and friendly sense of the ridiculous and they have a natty way with sight gags."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4914) BORDERLINE CRAZIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Leo W. Sears. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Ellen hopes to ski and put some spark into her dull marriage to Stu, an efficiency author, while at Lake Tahoe in a rustic cabin owned by Stu's publisher. They are startled when a horror author and his sexy wife also arrive at the apparently doublebooked cabin. The women immediately bond but the men squabble like spoiled twoyear-olds and devise several wagers to determine who stays and who goes. Before anyone can leave, a police officer reports that a snowstorm has closed the roads and an axe murderer is on the loose. Stranded with no phone, no television and no radio, the writers may kill each other before the murderer gets to them. It's an avalanche of laughter with more twists and turns than a giant slalom. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4236) THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Theresa Rebeck. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A recent hit at Playwrights' Horizons, this delicious play by the author of Spike Heels and The Family of Mann is an intelligent and funny ensemble drama .. A family of artists are both cruelly destructive and fiercely protective of each other. Paul, a Nobel-winning novelist suffering from writer's block, his elegant but feisty wife, two sons (an actor and an antique dealer) and the actor's girlfriend are together for the first time in ages. Enter Paul's new assistant, a talented and passionate writing student. Bitter, funny chaos ensues. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$60.) (#4231) COMMUNICA TING DOORS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. 3 ints. This intricate time-traveling comic thriller by the British master of farcical comedy delighted London and New York audiences. A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. "A real knockout. . . . A vastly entertaining blend of the West End drawing-room thriller with one of Priestley's plays, where characters go whirling throughout time. Ayckbourn has added innumerable piquant and bizarre details . . . . This is a show to see."-N.Y. Post. "Inventive diversion."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#5301) CONCERTINA'S RAINBOW. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Glyn O'Malley. 1m., 5 f. . Int. The hit of New York's Cherry Lane Alternative Mentor Project 2001, this moving yet witty play takes place during the Serbian bombing of Sarajevo. Fate brings two remarkably different American women together on a flight to Austria. Memories, war, art and an Albanian Gypsy girl help Maisy and Maureen forge a totally unexpected bond of healing and freedom. "A poignant play ... with a timeless message."-Palm Beach Post. "A touching, multihued fable whose emotional resonance is brought home by . . . the new war rising . . . on our own doorstep."-South Florida Sun Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5828) THE DINNER PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Here is a decidedly French dinner party served up in a chaotic mode that only a master of comedy could create. Five people are invited to dine at a first-rate restaurant in Paris. They do not know who the other guests will be or why they have been invited. Tossed together in a private dining room, they have a sneaking suspicion that this unorthodox dinner party will forever change their lives. The evening is filled with playful antics, sudden zaniness and masterful comic dialogue as the mystery unfolds. John Ritter and Henry Winkler starred in the wildly successful Kennedy Center production and on Broadway. "A blizzard of one-liners . . . . The audience can bank on some good laughs." N.Y. Daily News. "Frequently hilarious but also dangerously serious. . . . An invitation you [will bel glad you accepted." N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $100-$100.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#388) DIVA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Howard Michael Gould. 5 m., I f. Ints. Behind the scenes of a tempestuous hit television sitcom, a no-holds-barred confrontation pits movie-turned-television-star Deanna Denniger against her show's creator-producer Isaac Brooks. After this explosive opening the scene shifts backward through time to the show's well-intentioned origins. Shifting allegiances and surprising layers of interlocking relationships surface to provide constantly surprising revelations. Diva was a hit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and at La Jolla Playhouse. "Almost nonstop head-shaking laughter. . . . Refreshing and biting at the same time." -San Diego Union-Tribune. "The funniest play of the season and the most lacerating satire in a long time . . . . A hard, cutting gem." -Advocate. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#6560)

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Cambridge astrophysicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death of his father, Felix returns home to be with his difficult and demanding mother. He soon realizes that his search for unity must be expanded to include his own chaotic life. "Sad, very sad; funny, very, very funny . . . . This is a seriously wonderful play."-London Sunday Times. "Rich, original, intelligent, funny and touching. I can't recommend this lovely play too highly."-Daily Telegraph. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award. $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly (#10707) Restricted. KING HEDLEY II. (Black Groups.) Drama. August Wilson. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose .self-worth is built on self-delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying in a world where getting is hard and killing is commonplace are threads woven into this 1980' s installment in the author's renowned cycle of plays about the black experience in America (see page 74). Drawing on characters established in Seven Guitars, King Hedley II shows the shadows of the past reaching into the present as King seeks retribution for a lie perpetrated by his mother regarding the identity of his father. "Grand [with] some of the finest monologues ever written for an American stage, speeches that build gritty, often brutal details into fiery patterns of insight. . . . You may feel the scorch of lightning."-N.Y. Times. "Mesmerizing. . . . Full of powerful images that convey the darkly comic dialogue between hope and hopelessness in African-American life."-N.Y. Daily News. 'Exhilarating. . . . Wilson has endowed his struggling souls with a metaphysical grandeur and a titanic vigor of language that is like no other dramatist's. He takes the idea of tragedy and the common man to Olympian heights . . . [and] boldly tackles the big philosophical questions most contemporary playwrights shrink from. He articulates these questions with grounding, often witty detail and in an inner-city vernacular that soars into both unabashed lyricism and earthy anecdote. . . . There is no denying the transporting, natural music of Hedley and phrases from it haunt the memory."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Restricted. (#13624) LAESTRYGONIANS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow, about to kill herself. A former Shakespearean stage actor, now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story, part of the Pendragon series of plays, is rich with great audition monologues and scenes. Don Nigro:s followers will recognize some of the characters from Chronicles, Anima Mundi, Beast with Two Backs, Autumn Leaves and Dramatis Personae. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#13750) LONDON SUITE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 3 m., 3 f. Int. America's premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of hilarious comedies set in a deluxe London hotel. "Makes laughter easy!"-N.Y. Times. "You'll leave this bright comedy with a smile."-NBC-TV. "Booked solid with merciful laughter."-Newark Star-Ledger. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#25) A MADHOUSE IN GOA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Martin Sherman. 4 m., 2 f. (with doubling). 2 verandas. Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights and bright days of the Greek islands in this two-part play by the author of Bent which starred Vanessa Redgrave in London and Judith Ivey in New York. In A Table for a King, which can also be produced as a one-act, a writer helps blackmail an unpleasant and uncompromising woman who refuses to relinquish her table on the terrace of a Corfu hotel for the King of Greece. Part two, Keeps Rainin' All the Time, moves to Santorini where a disparate group of expatriates, including a famous author, face nuclear rain, terrorism and the impending eruption of the volcano. The same cast may appear in both parts. "The best new play of the London year."-Time Magazine. "Has guts, intellectual playfulness, humor and tenderness." -N. Y. Times. "A piece of theatrical daring." -Daily Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15545) MY HEART'S A SUITCASE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Clare McIntyre. 2 m., 4 f. Int. This play about fear and materialistic longing compares an angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis who are sharing a borrowed, run-down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest (a bad memory) and Luggage (the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens). "Witty and acute."-Time Out. "Brilliantly written . . . . Exhilarating."-Tribune. "Shrewd, humorous and caring."-London Times. $12.95. (Royal(#15289) ty, $60-$40.) NEVER IN MY LIFETIME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Shirley Gee. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. This is a love story about six people. It is also a story of survival and the indomitable human spirit in Belfast, a city reminiscent of any in the world where there is violence and conflict. Tessie and Maire are young Irish Catholics who have been friends all of their lives-. One is fiercely loyal to Irish unity; the other is uncommitted. Tom and Charlie are young British soldiers determined to stay alive in the bitter strife they neither understand nor care about. The other two are Tessie's

DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marc Camoletti. Adapted by Robin Hawdon. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, is packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother's, and has even invited his best friend to provide the alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go wrong? Suppose Robert turns up not knowing why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed. "Hurtling along at the speed of light, [this] breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention."-Guardian. "Nifty."-London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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DOWN BY THE OCEAN. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. PJ. Barry. 4 m., 2 f. Ext. World War II is over, prosperity reigns, and it's summer in Rhode Island. Four brothers-in-law are on the porch of David's beach cottage contemplating life, adultery and the ball game. The tide goes in and out, lives move on, and in 1960 the men gather again. This charming comedy is the flip side of the author's The Octette Bridge Club. "Offers honest laughter . . . [and] characters who recall faces'in your family scrapbooks."-Newark Star-Ledger. "Charming and punchy."-New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6749) THE END OF THE DAY. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Jon Robin Baitz. 4 m., 2 f. This comic foray into greed and indifference stars a dissipated doctor turned hustler in Los Angeles. When the cad abandons his Beverly Hills practice and rich wife, his former father-in-law, a gangster, demands repayment of the hefty sum spent to educate and set him up in practice. He traipses off to London to beg from his estranged family. The doctor is a perfect foil for the remaining cast members, who each play an American and a British role, all of them splendidly hilarious. "Even funnier [than] Substance of Fire . . . . A joy to behold." -Wall Street Journal. "Hilarious . . . . A field day for actors."-N.Y. Times. "Raucous."-N.Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#7088) FLAMING GUNS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. (Little Theatre.) Satire. Jane Martin. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Big 8, the feisty rodeo competitor from Talking With, is back. It's nineteen years later; she is still a bitter critter, now facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one-eyed Ukranian biker named Black Dog ushers in outrageous violence and horror in this shoot- 'em up, knock- 'em up, cut- 'em up comic roast of the cowboy mentality of western writers. Showcasing the antic side of this prolific, award-winning playwright, this macabre cross-over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness .. "Hilarious, rip-snortin' and effusively bloody two-act. . . . This is definitely good." -Scene. "High-style farce, exuberantly played." -totaltheatre.com. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8181) THE FLOATING LIGHT BULB. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Woody Allen. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A bittersweet comedy by the author of Play it Again Sam, Don't Drink the Water and other favorites, this play is set in a Canarsie neighborhood in 1945. Here Enid and Max Pollack grapple with each other and their unfulfilled dreams as they struggle to make ends meet. Meanwhile, their stuttering teenage son retreats from his fear of people into a world of magical illusions. "Makes it clear that [Woody Allen is] an accomplished playwright. The play is suffused with gentle laughter as well as touching insights about the damaging effects of parents on children, the effects of dreams and the incipient artist as insecure adolescent. . . . Should appeal to anyone interested in good theatre."-WQXR. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#8141) GASPING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Elton. 3 m., 3 f. Int. The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive. "A poisonously funny morality play . . . . A remarkable debut." -London Sunday Times. "A sharp-witted satire. . . . Extremely funny."-lndependent. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8997) HOTEL SUITE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A compilation of hilarity, Hotel Suite combines four of the one-act comic masterpieces from the Simon roster of "hotel" plays. California Suite's Diana and Sidney (Visitor from London) and Visitor from Philadelphia comprise the first act. In act two, Diana and Sidney reappear in part two of their story which delighted audiences of London Suite. The classic favorite Visitor from Forest Hills (from Plaza Suite) completes the foursome. "Makes laughter easy!"-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Restricted. (#162) HUMBLE BOY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charlotte Jones. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Humble Boy is a comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of beekeeping. All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a

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mother and Charlie's wife. Tessie's and Tom's paths cross. As they tum to one another, they find something precious in a world of loss and are caught in a ferocious trap which ensnares all s"ix. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#16590) AN ORDIl'ARY WOMAN UNDER STRESS. Comedy. (Little Theatre.) Sandra Marie Vago. 3 m., 3 f. plus extras. Int. Sarah Blackstone Hightower, wealthy but lonely wife of Stanley Hightower, has left her husband of thirty years and checked into a hotel about to be razed. She stopped on the way to buy cookies and a gun. She is a woman with a quest, determined to knock off her philandering husband and perhaps his perpetually young "Mistress in the Tower." She never expected to run into Mr. Rogers or Fred Astaire. Jake P. Little, the ownerlbartender of Jake's Place, is packing up the memories of his once thriving business and preparing to embark on his own journey to a new beginning in a foreign land. He never expected to meet someone like Sarah brandishing a loaded .38 on this, his final night at Jake's Parisian, where the ghost of Fred and Ginger lurk in the "'ig band sounds emanating from Ule jukebox. When her past and his future become entwined, complications ensue thal bring about a poignant and humorous conclusion. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#16969) $40.) PADDYWACK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Daniel Magee. 4 m'., 2 f. lnt. This hardhitting psychological drama swirls around a young Irishman who moves into lodgings in London already occupied by two bigots, one of them Irish, and a student who's slumming to research his thesis. Damien is befriended by the student who appreciates his intellect and by the student's girlfriend, a devotee of causes and an aspiring journalist. When the IRA mounts a bombing campaign in London, it appears that the enigmatic Damien may be involved. Tension mounts as he remains noncommittal in the face of inquires. Gradually, Damien is drawn into an affair with the student's girlfriend, a lady attracted by the IRA specter. Realizing he has mislead those around him, Damien tells her the truth-he's a dispatch clerk with absolutely no IRA tie:s. Back at the lodging house misconceptions and resentments explode into sudden violence. "An absorbing thriller. . . . So entertaining that not until the final scene do you get the. full measure of the intensity."-NY. Times. "Stunning."-CT Post. "Often terribly funny."-Hartford Courant. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS seem to move around, animals disappear and there is something at the bottom of the well. This funny and frightening work was first produced in New York by the Red (#20594) Moon Ensemble. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) SEVEN RABBITS ON A POLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John C. Picardi. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Love, lust, opera and art occupy the Padroni family, Italian immigrants living on a vegetable farm near Boston in the 1930s. Widower Enio is the proud father of three children: Peter, the backbone of the family; Lawrence, the young idealist and duaghter Julia, whose simpleminded longing is for love. A meddling neighbor and a stranger selling rabbits trigger emotional upheavals that uncover secrets and alter lives. Seven Rabbits on a Pole played to sold-out houses in New York City. "An epic in the making." -N Y. Times. "Storytelling at its finest." -Curtain Up. "If you like a good story well told, add this play to your 'must see' list!"-Chelsea Clinton (#21506) News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) SILENCE. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Moira Buffini. 3 m., 3 f. Various sets. Where Shakespeare's cross-dressers meet Monty Python's blithering knights at the end of the first millennium, Princess Ymma of Normandy was forced by England's King Ethelred to marry a young Viking, Lord Silence of Cumbria. This fourteenyear-old doesn't realize that he is really a she. Bride and groom forge a pact to keep this secret and exploit Silence's male advantages, but events conspire to send them dashing through the mud of England fleeing an enraged despot's murderous rampage. Sparkling with deliberate clashes of period and style and with nimble physical comedy, this darkly comic parable won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. "Spilling over with farcical byplay, pointed anachronism and sexual high jinks, the comedy cast a darkness so unsettling that at times you shiver even as you're laughing. . . . Overflows with ideas: sexual politics, intolerance, tyranny, class barriers. . . . You will end up amused, provoked, even a little shaken. For all its humor, it resonates disturbingly in our own age."-Vil/age Voice. $14.95. (Royalty, $60(#21522) $60.) SLIGHT HANGOVER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ian Ogilvy. 4 m., 2 f. Int. At the end of Noel Coward's Design for Living, two men and a woman embark on a menage a trois founded on mutual attraction and a conscious flouting of societal norms. This witty and warm-hearted comedy continues their story. It is 1985. Orson Woodley and Sir Lewis Messenger share a house in the West Indies, their beloved Giselle having died some years before. Their peaceful lives are turned upside down when Giselle's daughter arrives determined to find out which of them is her father. The daughter, a spitting image of -Giselle, stirs memories in a funny and moving exploration of this unusual family's history. The lightness of touch and sureness of (#21483) characterization would even please Coward. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) TAKING STEPS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. Roland, a hard-drinking tycoon, is considering buying an old Victorian house, once a brothel. His solicitor and the vendor, a builder, arrive to complete the deal. Also in the house are his wife, a frustrated dancer who is considering leaving him, her brother and-later---the brother's fiancee, who is uncertain whether or not to run away. In the course of one hectic night and morning, with continual running up and down stairs and in and out of rooms, these characters-each immersed in a personal problem-try to sort themselves out. The fust-act clll't<Jn finds the solicitor in bed with the wife (thinking her to be a ghost) and the fiancee shut in the attic cupboard by the distraught tycoon who has taken refuge there in the spare bed. All this takes place in a highly ingenious and original setting in which all the rooms, passages and stairs are on a single level. "A farce of riotous delight."-Evening News. "Superbly funny-hilarious."-Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22017) TRISTAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. A mysterious young girl appears at the aging Pendragon mansion in Armitage, Ohio one night in the midst of a storm and is rescued by Rhys. This young man is enchanted by the girl, but the servant girl Sara, who loves Rhys, resents her, and Rhys's parents are disturbed by her resemblance to a sorceress who was driven from the house long ago. Betrayal and family violence follow in this darkly powerful chapter in the author's series of Pendragon plays. Fisher King, Green Man, Sorceress, Pendragon and Chronicles also feature some of the characters in Tristan. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#22268) $60.) TORCH SONG TRILOGY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harvey Fierstein. 4 m., 2 f. The International Stud: 2 m., 1 f. Platform set, cyclorama and wings. "Gay Liberation has rarely appeared more liberated. Funny, raunchy, the writing is sharp and clever."-NY. Post. "A real and beautiful little gem. . . . The characters are given their full human dimension without the slightest hint of political or psychological patronizing."-Soho News. Fugue in a Nursery: 3 m., 1 f. 1 set. A continuation of the fortunes of the mismatched lovers in a more complex comedy. "[This] awkward entanglement of a gay couple and a straight one [is] ... a witty combination of satire l sentiment and structuralism."-Village Voice. Widows and Children First: 3 m., 1 f. Int., ext. Even more astonishing was this sequel, the story of Arnold and Ed, their lovers, the family they unmake, and the new one they bravely make. Named best play of 1980: Soho Weekly News. Fierstein's plays have been hits in places as diverse as New York, San Francisco, and Johannesburg and he has been hailed as a major playwright. Torch Song Trilogy opened on Broadway in 1983 to critical acclaim. "A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family . . . . The zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for." -Newsweek. "Under the tragedy ... the play is gorgeously funny."-NY. Post. $7.50. Each play published separately, $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50 or $50-$40 per play when produced separately.)

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THE PARKER FAMILY CIRCUS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Jan Buttram. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Chaos flairs up in an urban Texas household on a day when the old television stops working. Mom and Dad are too caught up in their own crises to deal with their 'slow' son Tommy's behavioral problems, and Grandma simply cannot cope with his racy behavior. "[A] take-your breath-away production. .. The Parker family has many problems, but the telling of their story does not." -Back Stage. "An often hilarious look at a dysfunctional suburban Texas clan." -N Y. Daily News. "Takes the notion of family seriously. . . . Hilarious when it needs to be and poignant when it needs to be."-Chelsea Clinton News. "A powerful, at times darkly funny family drama."--culturevulture.net. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Amateurs may apply for videotaping rights for this title. Write for particulars.

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PERFECT WEDDING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Robin Hawdon. 2 m., 4 f. Int. A man wakes up in the bridal suite on his wedding morning to find an attractive naked girl in bed beside him. His bride-to-be arrives to dress for the wedding and, in the ensuing panic, the girl is locked in the bathroom. The crisis escalates to nuclear levels by the time the mother of the bride and others arrive. This rare combination of riotous farce and touching love story has provoked waves of laughter across Europe and America. "Laughs abound." -Wisconsin Advocate. "The audience roared with delight."--Green Bay Gazette. "A crazy, wonderful evening."-Bonn Schaufenster. "Splendid. . . . Met with lengthy applause and shouts of approval."-Vienna Donnerstag. "Every cue is spot on, every joke a winner."-Cologne Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17835) PROSCENOPHOBIA. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Bettine Manktelow. 2 m.. 4 f. Int. A theater company on tour includes a star and her understudy who were both married to the same man. When the understudy takes the stage at a provincial theater, the gun fires bullets instead of blanks and she is killed. Who was the intended victim? Who loaded the gun? Focus is on human motivation rather than police investigation in this theater mystery that can be set in any locale. $8.95. (Royalty, S60-$60.) (#17851) QUEEN AMARANTHA. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Charles Busch. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. Gorgeous costumes and an ornate setting embellish this robust tale of a lonely Garboesque queen who dresses as a man, a duplicitous courtier who loves the boy in the woman, a conniving countess bent on stealing the throne and the foppish royal cousin she marries to secure her ends. Amarantha, constantly tom between love and duty, renounces her thrown for love and her lover to reclaim her throne. The author starred in the title role in the New York production of this cross-dressing classic about sexual ambiguity. "Covers all bases from The Prisoner of Zenda to Richard III to Mary Stuart." -N Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19021) THE REEVES TALE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. A modem retelling of a spirited and lusty chapter in the Canterbury Tales, this addition to the author's cycle of Pendragon plays is set in 1972. The disreputable Reeves family has rented the decaying Pendragon mansion in east Ohio. Strange happenings begin to plague the family's crude and brutal patriarch and his angry wife, luscious daughter and demented grandfather-in-law as well as their two boarders, both lllstful college drop-outs. Eerie colors appear in the yard at night, trees

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BABES AND BRIDES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eric Berlin. 3 m., 3 f. 2 ints. In first of these one-act comedies, The Line That's Picked Up 1000 Babes (And How It Can Work/or You!) six people in a bar are in search of companionship-a one-night stand or a life-long relationship? Benny is employing the title handbook while his friend Alan insists that women don't fall for pick-up lines. There are surprises for everyone at the bar tonight. In The Midnight Moonlight Wedding Chapel, Peter and Walter are vacationing in Las Vegas. Peter gets drunk with a cocktail waitress and they decide to marry, enjoy a one-night honeymoon, and divorce the next day. When he wakes up his bride has vanished. Both plays are well-suited for scene work. (#4202) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40; $35-$25 per play when performed separately.) BAFO (BEST AND FINAL OFFER). (Little Theater.) Comedy. Tom Strelich. 5 m., 1 f. Int. BAFO is a scathing black comedy set in the declining defense industry. It takes a group of middle-class white men and one black woman from Human Resources (HR) on a hilarious downward spiral from affirmative action to downsizing and then to a disgruntled ex-employee on a small-arms rampage who asks each one for their "best and final offer." Described as Dr. Strangelove meets Dog Day Afternoon, BAFO is an unapologetically testicular satire that asks the millennial question, "Where's the threatT' At its philosophical core, the play is about threats: Precambrian, primitive, emotional, physical, political, social and technical-a whole food chain of threats. Comedy of the blackest stripe is the only way to deal with such primal currents, and the defense industry setting of the play is the perfect metaphor since it is devoted to the process of seeking and neutralizing threats: our national autoimmune system. "Loose cannons at the arms factory."-NY. Times. "Delightfully nasty, Strange love-ian satire."-Village Voice. "Uproarious, cynical, (#4907) shoot-'em-up comedy."-AP. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) BEAU JEST. (Little Theatre). Comedy. James Sherman. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Sarah is a nice Jewish girl with a problem: her parents want her married to a nice Jewish boy. They have never met her boyfriend, a WASP executive named Chris Kringle. She tells them she is dating a Jewish doctor and they insist on meeting him. She plans a dinner party and, over the heated protests of Chris, employs an escort service to send her a Jewish date to be Dr. Steinberg. Instead, they send Bob Schroeder, an aspiring actor who agrees to perform the impersonation. Happily, he is extremely convincing in the role and Sarah's parents are enraptured. Soon, even Sarah falls for Bob. "A light, sweet romantic comedy."-Chicago Tribune. "Hilarious and quite moving. Sherman wonderfully blends farce with a genuine insight."-Chicago Sun-Times. "Very funny . . . . The well-crafted play has a lot to say about nuclear families of any ethnic persuasion."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.)

WIFE BEGINS AT FORTY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Arne Sultan, Earl Barret and Ray Cooney. 4 m., 2 f. 1 set. George and Linda Harper's 17-year marriage has gone stale, but George doesn't seem to be aware of it. When confronted with the problem, he gets a vasectomy, which solves nothing, so he moves out. Linda rearranges her life by enrolling in elf-improvement courses. Trying for an amicable divorce, they agree to use one lawyer and hire their closest friend. When this backfires, George attempts reconciliation by trying to seduce Linda on their living room couch. George botches the seduction due to the pressure of trying to perform well and due to the unexpected return of their son from a date. But it does result in their realizing they still care about each other. . . and that marriages need working at, need to be renewed and renegotiated from time to time-and that their's is certainly worth a second chance. A success in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25109) WONDERFUL TENNESSEE. (Little theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 3 m., 3 f. Ext. This haunting play by one of the greatest modem playwrights finds three couples on a deserted pier in Ballybeg, Ireland. There to celebrate Terry's birthday, they are waiting for a boat that will take them to a mystical island. The boat fails to arrive and drunken hilarity gives way to reflection as the couples play games, tell stories and sing songs to pass the time. "This mythic journey . . . has something of the magical, yes, almost wordless resonance of a Yeats poem."-NY. Post. "Friel's plays overflow with emotion. . . . Poetry rises from his words like fog from the set."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Sheet music rental, $10.00.

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ZARA SPOOK AND OTHER LURES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joan Ackermann. 2 m., 4 f. Ints., exts. (simply suggested). Evelyn is a little woman with a big dream: she hopes to win the nati<mal women's bass fishing tournament sponsored by Bassin' Gal Magazine. She's got stiff competition, legendary champion Ramona, and may have to settle for "Rookie of the Year." Meanwhile, she must contend with her indefatigable boyfriend Talmadge, who desperately wants to marry her and won't take "get lost" for an answer. Ramona, too, has a man in pursuit-her macho estranged husband who was dismissed from Ramona's life for being insensitive. He's out to prove her wrong. This wacky comedy was a sensation at the Humana Festival, Actor's Theatre of Louisville. "Joyously entertaining."-Louisville Courier-Journal. "Wonderfully goofy."-NY. Daily News. "[A] sunny, screwball lark."-Chicago Tribune. "Very funny."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#28002) ASPECTS OF OSCAR: An Entertainment for Five Actors and a Narrator. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Barry Day. 4 m., 2 f. Bare stage w. simple set pieces. Oscar Wilde is the special guest on a current chat show, Aspects. As he and the interviewer discuss his life and views on a variety of subjects - the sexes, politics, society, journalism, America and religion, among others - Wilde's views are illustrated with excerpts from his works presented by four actors, two male and two female. Wilde's famous cross-examination during his trail and a moving monologue in which he talks about what his life has meant conclude this moving portrait drawn from the entire body of Wilde's work: plays, letters, essays and conversations. The play was well-received in New York and Chicago. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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BELLES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mark Dunn. 6 f. 1 set (6 stage locations). This is a play in 2 acts and 45 phone calls. The six Walker sisters hail from Memphis, but now they are scattered allover the country. Only Peggy still lives in Memphis, where she cares for Mama. When the play begins, Peggy is phoning her sisters to tell them that Mama is in the hospital. Nothing serious-she just ate some bad tuna. An intriguing story of vivid characters and involving conflicts emerges in the ensuing phone calls among the sisters. Your audiences will love this endearing play with strong roles for actresses. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#4183) BETTER DAYS. (Little Theatre.) Black comedy. Richard Dresser. 4 m., 2 f. The effect of a factory closing on blue-collar workers is explored ad absurdum in this hilarious comedy by the author of Alone at the Beach, Splitsville and The Downside. Laid off, Ray sits around the house drinking beer. One night boredom drives him to the roof where he hears the unmistakable, inexplicable voice of God-Qr so he thinks. He isn't sure what God said, but he thinks God wants him to organize a church for those dispossessed by economic upheaval. He has practically convinced his unemployed buddies that the new religion is their best hope when a mysterious slicker named Bill shows up. Bill has plenty of money and he has a practical alternative to the "True Value Church"-arson to collect insurance. The meneventually even Ray-end up busily torching cars, burning down houses, etc. They hope this is temporary, just until the plant reopens. Then Bill announces the next big job-torching the plant. The play ends with an oddly comic apocalypse as Ray, sitting on his roof once again, watches the plant burn and waits for the voice of God to explain it all. "Could be regarded as a black comic postscript to Jerry Sterner's Other People's Money . ... [It] has a far-out sense of humor and the timeliest of subjects."-N.Y. Times. "There is plenty of original heat in this satire of approaching S&L apocalypse."-Village Voice. "Good, mean, relevant comic stuff."-Backstage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3952) BEYOND THERAPY. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Christopher Durang. 4 m., 2 f. Ints. (may be simply suggested). Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her unpredictable new boyfriend. They do leam to live beyond therapy in this delightful Off-Broadway hit that moved successfully to Broadway. "Offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter."-Time. "Filled with off-beat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from farcical to absurd."-Women's Wear Daily. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#296) THE CASTRATA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Eugene Scribe. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 4 m., 2 f. A beautiful, young and naive soprano masquerades as a man to

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ASPIRIN & ELEPHANTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Mayer. 3 f., 3 m. Here is an hilarious romantic comedy bursting with witty dialogue about a couple who take their two daughters and their husbands on a cruise from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. Before the boat docks, their marriages change drastically and unpredictably in a laugh-filled comedy that enjoys record-breaking runs in theatre after theatre. "Delightful."-Variety. "Sails on a sea of comedy."-L.A. Times. "Ironic and wise. Clever and perceptive. Superb."-Hollywood Reporter. "A willing audience laughs and cries."-B'nai B'rith Messenger. "A sure-fire audience pleaser in (#3587) the Neil Simon mode."-Drama-Logue. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) AWA Y FROM ME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Susan Champagne. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A nerdy shrink is losing control of a group therapy session. Angry, self-contained Harold baits highly-strung Mandy until she beats him with her Mabel doll. Shy tree surgeon Victor befriends lonely, pregnant Jane. Secrets are revealed when members meet for drinks after the session in this comic exploration of modem day angst. "Delightful . . . [with] clipped phrases and shapely scenes."-L.A.Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3867) THE BATTLE OF VALOR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. In this poignant and sensitive analysis of sexual confusion, Bob Carter returns home to a college town during World War II with a dishonorable discharge. He was a passive participant in a homosexual act and is too ashamed to let anyone know. His sister has just reconsidered having an affair with Greg, a bi-sexual soldier, so the frustrated Greg and Bob spend the night together. This second homosexual encounter leaves Bob confused and frightened with no one to tum to. "Handled in depth, it proves the theatre is capable of ever-expanding awareness of society's hitherto suppressed problems."-Backstage. Affecting and well written. . . . Beim's characters and dialogue ring true . . . . An absorbing play."-Show Business. In Plays: At Home and Abroad, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4304)

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gain entry into an ambitious cardinal's household. Her equally ambitious composerhusband struggles with his much lamented (but richly deserved) artistic oblivion as well as his wife's threatened involvement with the cardinal's handsome nephew. Published in A Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4951) CATCH A FALLING STAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lee Murphy. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. Catch a Falling Star is a coming-home comedy with a hair-pulling, footstomping sister fight, soul-baring revelations and a satisfying epiphany. The concept of unconditional love is put to the test when Ginny Wakely comes home to Dewey, Texas, to tell her parents (before they see it in People Magazine) that Daddy's precious girl and mother's shining star is a recovering drug addict and an ex-porno queen. Mother has her own surprise: a gala town picnic and parade to honor her rising television star. Ginny is swept into old family tensions and a bonafide Texas twister before she learns where home really is. Winner of Theatre L.A.'s Ovation Award for Writing of a World Premiere. "Shines bright."-L.A. Times. "Terrific comedy."-L.A. Weekly. "Humorous character-driven comedy [that is] entertaining and involving."-Daily News. "A sure-fire audience pleaser."-DramaLogue. "An absolute delight."-Entertainment Tonight. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5879) THE CEMETERY CLUB. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ivan Menchell. 1 m., 5 f. Int., ext. Three: Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. "Funny, sweet-tempered, moving."-Boston Globe. "Very touching and humorous. An evening of pure pleasure that will make you glad you went to the theatre.' '--Washington Journal Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#4999) CHERRY SODA WATER. (Little Theatre.) One-act dramas. Stephen Levi. 3 m., 3 f. Ext. On the same night in a northern California coastal town, two families are challenged as reality crashes into fantasy in three related one-act plays. In tone, Cherry and Little Banjo, Red Roses for My Lady and The Gulf of Crimson vary from lost innocence to shattered dreams to revived love. The trilogy enjoyed a long run in Los Angeles and was awarded Distinguished Achievement from Wichita State University. (Also see individual titles.) "An intimate epic . . . . .The Tennessee Williams' legacy comes through honestly!"-L.A. Times. "There is a loveliness in the words. . . that belies the heartache they cover. The tragedy of the play is subtle and confined. . . . This is a profound evening."-Frontiers. "A playful title with playful stage actions . . . filled with tightly written dialogue."-Drama-Logue. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $20-$15 per one-act play.) (#4967) A CHRISTMAS CACTUS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eliot Byerrum. 4 m., 2 f. Comb. int., ext. Christmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus O'Riley, a white-hot redhead with the holiday blues. She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A. Windsor, and considering closing her business. She doesn't need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marky. Cactus also doesn't need Fred's mother, who arrives to take Fred home but decides to stay because she thinks this is the Christmas murder mystery party she has always dreamed of attending. Christmas turns into a dickens of a holiday for Cactus as she solves mysteries, delivers small miracles and takes a second chance on love and sleuthing. Comedy, mystery and romance converge in this charming contemporary Christmas tale where goodwill and justice triumph. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#5901) THE COMET OF ST. LOOMIS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ed Simpson. 4 m., 2 f. Ext. It's a pleasant summer evening at the Throckmorton Ridge Motor Court and owner Chadie Loomis is planning a romantic evening of comet gazing with his exgirlfriend Trudy. The comet Akashi is due to make a rare and mystical appearance in the night sky. Charlie, a decent but lonely man, finds his patience and good humor strained to the limits as his plans are continually disrupted by people seeking help. Annie, the court's teenaged maid, wants advice and reassurance as she awaits the imminent arrival of her baby. Her video-game addict of an air-headed husband is so freaked by the approaching birth that he has developed a disturbing inability to speak to her. Instead, he converses with the unborn child. Martin Gray, the neurotic honorary mayor, is upset because his town is teetering on the brink of insolvency. For some strange reason, he is sure that Loomis can save it. An increasingly frazzled Loomis is then confronted by a stranger from out of town. Jack Miles is everything Loomis isn't-suave, handsome, successful and cynical. It develops that he went to high school with Loomis, and he proceeds to regale everyone with tales of Loomis' hapless school career as the butt of countless pranks and cruel jokes. In fact, Jack has been searching for Loomis. Jack's revelations, interrupted by the onset of Annie's labor. force Jack and Loomis to confront their shared past and uncertain future in this gently comic play about survival during hard times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#5267) $40.) THE CRIMSON THREAD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mary Hanes. 6 f. or 2 f. Int., ext. This lyrical three-act drama is a story of love, loss and survival told through three generations of Irish sisters. The play spans the years from 1869 to 1911. Scenes shift from a poor farm in Ireland to the fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and climax in New York City just after the deadly Triangle Shirt-

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waist Company fire. As the daughters of McDermotts, Connellys and Kenndys pass against this colorful panorama, one thing is paramount in their lives: family. It is the thread that binds them together and strengthens them to survive against all odds. "Sensitive, charming, emotional and entertaining."-Pasadena Star-News. "Warms audiences' hearts, tickles their funny bones and, on several occasions, stimulates their tear glands."-N. Y. Daily News. "Full of wit and wisdom, a touching play that is poetic and prophetic."- Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, 60(#5817) $40.) DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE. Drama. (Little Theatre.) Heather McDonald. 2 m., 3 f., I m. child. Var. or unit set). This intriguing work was inspired by history: women were banned from the dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, Clovis helps with the dinner preparations and, after being excluded, holds a "women only" dinner outdoors. "Ends with a re-creation of Manet's 'Picnic on the Grass.' Here, however, it is a man rather than a woman who is nude. This is the kind of point McDonald makes well."-NY. Daily News. "Well written . . . McDonald shows her own linguistic ability in the not too common language of art history."-N.Y. Post. Winner of three 1995 Helen Hayes Awards including Best New Play. $6.50. (#6191) (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. ECSTASY. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Mike Leigh. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A naturalistic drama that gets painfully and sometimes hilariously under the skin of its sharply drawn characters, this mesmerizing portrait of a desolate young woman carousing with friends in a shabby London flat garnered an Obie Off-Off Broadway and became a sensation during its Off Broadway run. "The freshest, funniest, most invigorating theater I've seen in ages."-N.Y. Daily News. "Through a wealth of casually dispensed personal detail and naturalistic ensemble acting of astonishing intensity and nuance, Ecstasy cheerily bares' the soul of a society on a precipice. . . . Its compassion for its characters goes to the bone." -N. Y. Times. "Unconventional and hard edged, [Ecstasy] casts a spell suggesting a sense of spying on A rewarding play."-N.Y. Post. reality, of casually eavesdropping on life. $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6996) GHOST OF A CHANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Bethany is bright, strong, independent, beautiful and has zero selfesteem. She has brought her finance, Floyd, and his mother, Vema, up to her cabin in the woods, the site of the hunting accident that killed Chance, her first husband. Much to her consternation, he (or rather, his ghost) is still there. Only Bethany can . see him, so Floyd and Vema think she is crazy as she frantically tries to get rid of, well, it seems to them nobody. Chance, meanwhile, is doing everything he can to prevent Bethany from marrying Floyd. Bethany even brings in a delightfully kooky psychic to help deal with the ghost. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9909) THE GOD OF ISAAC. (All Groups.) Comedy. James Sherman. 3 m., 3 f., to play var. roles. Unit set. This hilarious and heartwarming play by the author of Beau Jest tells the story of a young man in search of spiritual identity. Isaac begins by informing the audience that "things may go a little differently tonight because my mother is in the audience" and, from the audience, his mother becomes a persistent presence in the play. Isaac tells how he learned about the threatened Neo-Nazi demonstration in Skokie and he wonders how if this incident should concern him as an American Jew. Various characters that he encounters in funny and touching scenes offer a confounding array of possible positions to adopt and two women significantly affect the path of his journey. Intermittently, Isaac illustrates his inner conflict with fantastical parodies of old movies. "Hilarious, shrewd and touching."-Chicago Sun-Times. "A belated bar mitzvah with some funny shtick and a wide-open heart."-Chicago Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9177) HAUNTED. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eric Chappell. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Aspiring playwright Nigel Burke is neurotic and agoraphobic and hasn't written a word for three months, to the chagrin of his wife, agent and friends. A mysterious man who knows of Nigel's interest in Byron gives him a goblet used by the poet. Drinking from this goblet causes subtle changes in Nigel's confidence and manner. Then, out of nowhere, Byron himself appears. This flippant comedy is by the author of Natural Causes. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10581) THE HAUNTED THROUGH LOUNGE AND RECESSED DINING NOOK AT FARNDALE CASTLE. (All Groups.) Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 1m., 5 f. Ints. The ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society make another spectacle of themselves and their harassed producer. Vigorous sound effects enhance their spine-chilling mystery production, a tale of murder and mayhem that is guaranteed to bring down a substantial part of the set. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10573) I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED. (Little Theatre.) Monologues. Joyce Carol Oates. $6.50. See Index for description. (#11681) IN FLAME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charlotte Jones. 2 m., 4 f. (with doubling). Unit set. This haunting feminist play about two eras of women, one living in 1908 and the other in the present, won the London critics's Most Promising Playwright award for the author. A romantic futility pervades the lives of a present-day cartographer and waitress, their Edwardian counterparts and respective mother-figures as they experience heartbreak, childbirth and aging. "A play about life and death, love and lust, guilt and hope and dreams . . . . Vigorous, poetic and lethally funny, probing hearts with warmth, compassion and irony."-London Sunday Times. "Has

CHARACTERS a wonderful sparkiness and brio."-Guardian. A delightfully quirky piece [that] combin[es] . . . down-to-earth humor with a sense of the numinous. It's a genuinely original work."-Daily Telegraph. "A stoic, rueful comedy of female disillusion that fIres fresh shots in the sex wars."-Evening Standard. $11.00. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#10991)

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bance." -Observer. "The play has bite, anger and tenacity and many of its arguments are true . . . . The supreme merit of Ms. Daniels' combative work is that it makes me want to argue back."-Guardian. "Very powerful."-Financial Times. Published in Daniels Plays One, $14.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15584) MR. RICKEY CALLS A MEETING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ed Schmidt. 6 m. Int. Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Jackie Robinson, and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey meet in 1947 to discuss a strategy for dropping a baseball bombshell: promoting a black to the major leagues. That is the premise of this brilliant and timely play. Issues raised include compensation for the possible demise of the Negro leagues and the advisability of one-at-a-time integration. If you want freedom of opportunity, do you play by the white's rules or do you demand that he play by yours? "Engrossing. . . . A powerful vehicle for analyzing issues of race and society that go beyond baseball."-Variety. "An involving and entertaining civics lesson on the American past-and present."-Chicago Tribune. "Hits a home run."-Chicago Sun-Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15961) MURDERMIND. (All Groups.) Thriller. Bart McGullion. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Gloom overhangs Mayhew Manor, touching all who dare enter. One hundred and fifty years of evil is about to be exposed. Curtis Mayhew, last male to bear the name, confronts a forty-year-old double-murder. His wife Agnes is tortured by mental demons and by Ida, the sadistic servant who knows where all the skeletons are. Daughter Dolores is a famous psychologist who doesn't understand her family or her failed marriages. Clifford Brownell arrives to help Agnes through lonely days and terror-filled nights. Instead he dashes them all back in time where death and destruction await. Is he an actor in this drama of the macabre, or is he the principal player? Sheriff Renfro is not certain where sanity ends and illusion begins. And what was his dead father's role in these twisted lives? His voyage of discovery is filled with heart-stopping thrills, electric-shock laughter and sudden-fear revelations in this non-stop thrill ride through the dark recesses of the mind. This Gothic tale of horror, love and death is sure to brighten a gray day and make restless a still night. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15258) THE NIGHT HANK WILLIAMS DIED. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Larry L. King. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Thurmond Stottle, once the high school football hero, pumps gas in a tiny West Texas town and dreams of making it as a songwriter and country singer like his hero, the late Hank Williams. He whiles away his free time in Gus Gilbert's bar and waits for the right moment to take off for Nashville. The moment arrives with Nellie, his ex-sweetheart who returns home because her marriage is breaking up. Thurmond plans to leave with Nellie if he can get a stake from Gus. When Gus turns him down, he robs the gas station, bludgeoning the owner. He returns to Gus' bar to hide but the sheriff knows just where to find him. "The plot is strong, and there is no lack of incident or characters, but it is the rich Texas vernacular-the rat-tat-tat of startling, bawdy similes and the funny throwaway lines-that gives the show its texture." -New Yorker. "Amusing and ultimately poignant. ... Captures the spirit of Hank Williams' homely poetry while adding a generous helping of Mr. King's Texas geniality and humor. The play is itself a plaintive country-western song."-N.Y. Times. Write for details about music. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#15989) NIGHT SKY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Susan Yankowitz. '3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This extraordinary drama premiered to acclaim in a New York production directed by Joseph Chaikin and starring Joan MacIntosh as an astronomer aftlicted with aphasia following an automobile accident. The play dramatizes Anna's attempts to recover from this devastating inability to speak, and it portrays the affect her condition has on family relationships. The situation also provides a metaphorical springboard to some intriguing speculation on the nature of language, thinking and the universe. The role of Anna is extremely challenging, requiring the actress to learn a completely new language-the gibberish of a person struggling with aphasia. "Absorbing."-N.Y. Newsday. "Tender. . . . Moving."-Variety. "Evocative as well as informative."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.
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IPHIGENIA AMONG THE TAURIANS. (All Groups.) Drama. Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 4 m., 2 f, extras. Unit set. Here is a beautifully playable translation of this classic melodrama about the reunion of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead. It abounds in situations of danger and touching reminiscence. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11925) IT COULD BE ANY ONE OF US. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A thunderstorm. In a windswept country house a family of failures wrangles over a will: a detective who has never solved a case; a writer, an artist and a composer whose works have never been published, shown or performed, and a dysfunctional teenager. Here are the prime ingredients for a murder mystery, but this diversion is by Alan Ayckbourne and it has a number of surprises. The victim is not who it should be, the murder's identity changes overnight and the thrills are leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and ironic comment. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#11930) IT'S ALL RELATIVE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Eugene Labiche and Marc-Michel. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 3 m., 3 f. Seven fiancees have been frightened off by the hero's unappealing step-daughter, a lady twice his age. He is desperate to conceal her from his newest intended, but plans go awry and even a mammoth dowry fails to convince a tippling swashbuckler to take her off his hands. When he inveigles the bride-to-be's widowed father into a marriage of convenience, he creates a maze in which his wife will be his granddaughter and he will become his own grandfather-in law. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and (#11135) Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) KILWOY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy/Mystery. Jerry Mayer.J f, 3 m. Int. Here is an unpredictable, hilarious romantic comedy/thriller with witty dialogue and fascinating characters. Carol is being driven crazy by her charming monster of an ex-husband, Victor, and his new wife, who employ every trick in the book to end Carol's thousand-dollar-a-week alimony. Carol's quirky kids work at Victor's pasta restaurant chain, and Carol is sure Victor is bullying her son into an early grave. When Carol has a passionate affair with Victor's lawyer, they decide Victor has to die and the audience cheers its agreement. "Jerry Mayer has been having hit after hit, focusing on the humor and drama of marriage."-Variety. "Killjoy slays with laughs in this tight tale of deception and torment."-Outlook. "Irrepressibly witty. Mayer's dialogue is crisp, clever and crunchy, sparkles with one-line zingers." -Drama-Logue. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13609) LUCIA MAD. (Advanced Groups.) Dark comic drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 2 f Simple unit set. This lyrical, intensely funny and haunting play about the madness of James Joyce's beloved daughter Lucia traces the imagined course of her doomed love for the young Samuel Beckett and investigates the relationship of creation to love and madness. Joyce is living in Paris and deeply absorbed in the composition of his last great work in progress (eventually to becom~ his enigmatic masterpiece Finnegan's Wake). He adores his beautiful and gifted daughter Lucia, but is unable to give her the attention she craves. Her down-to-earth, no-nonsense mother, Nora, also loves her, but must spend much of her time looking after her absent-minded genius husband. When Joyce's young disciple Beckett appears, Lucia falls madly in love with him and Beckett is tom between his reverence for Joyce, his compassion for Lucia, and his terror of her bottomless need for love. Lucia has a sharp eye and a wicked sense of humor, and she retains both as she slips deeper and deeper into madness despite the best efforts of Joyce, Nora, Beckett, Jung and Napoleon. This is a wildly funny play with complex and vivid characters, rich language and an eerie, eccentric and melancholy beauty. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14197) MAKING HISTORY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 4 m., 2 f Unit set. This brilliant work by Ireland's pre-eminent playwright plunges into the world of Hugh O'Neill, an Irish hero who led an ill-fated uprising in alliance with Spain against the British in 1591, a contlict which culminated in ignominious defeat at the Battle of Kinsale. The play begins shortly after O'Neill's controversial' marriage to the sister of the British "Butcher Bagenal" who is famous for slaughtering Irish villagers. The battle occurs between acts and then the myth of O'Neill is created by his biographer, Archbishop Peter Lombard. O'Neill ends up a hapless drunk in Rome while Lombard rewrites history to satisfy the Irish craving for legend. "The premise is an intriguing one, and Friel sets forth both sides with a clinical and cynical dissection that is fascinating."-N.Y. Daily News. "Friel's most accomplished and important play since Translations. It has the same suppleness of argument and beauty ofwriting."-London Financial Times. "An intelligent and probing play of ideas."-London Spectator. "A superbly crafted and highly articulate . . . continuation of the intensely literate and passionate exploration at the heart of all major new (#14963) Irish plays."-London New Statesman. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) MASTERPIECES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Sarah Daniels. 3 m., 3 f Var. ints. or unit set. This extraordinary, daring play is about the deleterious effects'Df pornography on personal relationships and on the whole social fabric. Rowena, a British social worker, is enraged over the ubiquitous presence of porn in her life and that of her friends. She sees it as ritualized violence against women and she commits a random murder of a man in revenge. "A writer with a natural talent for distur-

NIGHT OF THE FOOLISH MOON. (All Groups.) Comedy. Luigi Jannuzzi. 4 m, 2 f. Int. Roger, a man obsessed with Don Quixote, falls in love with a witness in a murder trial. She is running for her life and seeks refuge at a beach house belonging to the district attorney, Roger's brother. Meanwhile, Sancho Panza breaks through a time warp to bring Roger the quest he has longed for. Coincidentally, Roger's mother is trying to cast Man of La Mancha for the local theater. Sancho comes to her aid and romance blossoms. This wild romantic comedy was a finalist at the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Conference in Waterford, Conn. "An evening of good fun, . . . big laughs."-Princeton Packet. "Inspired. . .Highly imaginative, ... this 'Moon' really shines."-Home News Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#16103) ON THE OPEN ROAD. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Steve Tesich. 4 m., 1 m. child, 1 f. child. Unit set. While fleeing a civil war, Al comes across Angel trussed up and waiting to be hung. Al is pulling a cart loaded with art treasures he has salvaged from bombed-out churches and museums. He hopes to barter his way into The Land of the Free with them, but the cart has become too heavy for Al to pull. He rescues the brutish Angel to help. On the open road Al teaches Angel about literature, music and art history so that he will make a good citizen. When they reach the border, they are told they must execute a troublemaker named Jesus Christ to earn their freedom. He has been severely tortured and is catatonic, though he can still play the cello beautifully. Angel and AI are unable to do the deed so the monk

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in charge takes care of it and has them crucified. "Full of scathing wit . . . and pungent, deeply theatrical images."-N.Y. Daily News. "Exciting."-N.Y. Post. "Had me on the edge of my seat and on the edge of my mind."-N.Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17677) ONE-EYED VENUS AND THE BROTHERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Four brothers gather on a riverbank to engage in male rites of summ(~r. These include the sexual initiation of the youngest at the hands of Patch, a free-spirit who proves unexpectedly reluctant to play her part. This play in the author's trilogy which spans several months in a drought-stricken Ozarks community in the late 1950s sparkles with vivid characters, tart dialogue and gentle humor, providing a tender portrait of a bygone era while exploring themes of contemporary significance. "The dialogue has an engaging pungency . . . and each individual is deftly characterized. . . . A tidily effective offering."-Dramalogue. "An eye and ear for county oddities as well as country joys." -N. Y. Post. For other plays in The Missouri Trilogy, see Pie Supper and Blackberry Frost. Please write for details to obtain a copy of the manuscript. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#16976) A PARTY TO MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes . .3 m., 3 f. Int. Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a twenty-five-year-old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion. "Enough to turn Dame Agatha green with envy."-Oxford Press. "Rather stunning."-Cincinnati Post. "Brilliant-even better than Agatha Christie's And Then There Wae None [Ten Little Indians]."-Saskatoon Free Press. "Cheeky and skillfully crafted mayhem."-London Free Press. "Thrills Christie fashion . . . . A superb climax." -Kentucky Recorder. "Christie meets Deathtrap [with 1 a lot of style."-Cincinnati Enquirer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18975) A POINT OF ORDER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ed Simpson. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Hoping to create a media event that will revitalize Randolphsburgh, a committee is organizing the dedication of a statue of the town's only famous citizen-short, bald space shuttle astronaut Dr. Dick Davidson. With three weeks remaining before the gala event, the former cheerleader, the school band director, the hypochondriacal shoe salesman, the cynical art history professor and the pistol-packing storekeeper are finding that everything that can go wrong has. Rave reviews greet this wacky delight by the author of The Battle of Shallowford and The Comet of St. Loomis. "What a wild, funny, terrific show."-Asheville Citizen-Times. $6.50. (Royalty (#18971) $60-$40.) A QUARREL OF SPARROWS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. James Duff. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A young playwright with an Off-Broadway hit is about to sign a lucrative film deal for his play that includes giving his actress wife, who starred in the play until she became too pregnant to continue, the lead in the movie version. An angel appears to him in broad daylight while he is walking along Fifth A venue. The vision makes Paul feel that maybe he shouldn't sell-out to crass commercial filmdom. This causes great consternation for his wife, who sees her chance at stardom about to evaporate along with her marriage in a lunatic religious haze, and for Paul's agent who has never had a client with this kind of problem. The play takes place at the home of an elderly family friend to whom Paul has turned for advice, but the delightful old curmudgeon refuses to make Paul's decision for him. "Handles both religious faith and skepticism with respect and real wit."-Dallas Morning News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19014) RAVENSCROFT. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Don Nigro. 1 m., 5 f. Simple unit set. This psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening. On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. He becomes involved in the lives of five alluring and dangerous women: Marcy, the beautiful Viennese governess with a past; Mrs. Ravenscroft, the flirtatious lady of the manor; Gillian, her charming but possibly demented daughter; Mrs. French, the formidable and passionate cook, and Dolly, a terrified maid. They lead him through a bewildering labyrinth of contradictory versions of Patrick's demise and that of the late Mr. Ravenscroft. There are ghosts on the staircase, skeletons in the closet, and much more than the Inspector bargained for. His investigation leads into own tortured soul and the nature of truth itself. You will not guess the ending, but you will be teased, seduced, bewildered, amused, frightened and led to a dark encounter with truth-or something even stranger. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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REMEMBRANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Graham Reid. 2 m., 4 f. Ints., ext. or unit set. A warm drama played against the hatred in Northern Ireland, Remembrance charts the love that develops between a Protestant father and a Catholic mother who meet in the cemetery where their sons are buried, both victims of violence. Family members burden the courtship with personal antagonisms. "An absorbing, powerful and touching play . . . . A gripping account of the brutality of bigotry that knows no geography. . . . Remembrance is about how people on both sides succeed or fail at their lives in the circumstances given them and find the faith to continue."-N.Y. Times. "A heart-breaking, heart-lifting comedy, sparkling with wit and ferocity."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#19978) SAFE SEX. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Harvey Fierstein. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. This full-length play is comprised of three one-act plays: Manny and Jack, Safe Sex and On Tidy Endings. See Index for individual descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.)

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THE SECRET RAPTURE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 2 m., 4 f. Var. sets or unit set. The children of light and darkness battle in this brilliant play by the author of Racing Demon. Gentle Isobel happily runs a small graphics design business with her husband until her sister Marion and her father's young widow Katherine demand to be taken into the company. Katherine is a destructive drunk and Marion is a Tory M.P. with the heart of a computer. Isobel accepts capital to expand and her business becomes high-tech and impersonal. She ultimately walks awayfrom her business and her marriage-in this fable about the corruption of art and heart by a soulless, self-obsessed society. "The contradictions and the anguish that motivates these characters is communicated with such wit and controlled passion that one hardly suspects the urlderlying, almost Christian morality, until the play's final moments of surprising violence." -Evening Standard. "Astonishing."-Guardian. "Blazingly emotional."-N.Y. Newsday. "The best play of the year and the most compelling British import in years." -Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#21660) SHMULNIK'S WALTZ. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Allan Knee. Incidental music by David Shire. 3 m., 3 f., to play various roles. Unit set. 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 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. "Touching."-N.Y. Times. "Enchanting."-N.Y. Post. "Utterly charming."-Back Stage. "Glows with good feelings and the joy of possibility."-South Shore Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Write for details about music. (#20960) STAR ON THE DOOR. (All Groups) Comedy. Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser (who is secretly wed to Doreen's son) confirming that "Mrs. Lewis" is pregnant. Doreen is shocked to learn of "her" condition and decides the likely father is Paul (he's never laid a hand on her, but she does tend to be forgetful!). Thinking Paul wants her ousted from the show via her contract's morals clause, she vengefully wears her mink on stage knowing Paul's fur-allergy will reduce his dialogue to sneezes. The producer, a shrieking neurasthenic who fears his backer Nunzio will machine gun his knees if the show flops, is terrified, and the Bavarian playwright is reduced to sobbing uncontrollably as his beautiful play goes "to the dogs." A loony resolution caps this evening of non-stop guffaws. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21408) WITHOUT APOLOGIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Thorn Thomas. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Without apologies to Oscar Wilde, this delightful comedy dares to fill us in on what happened to Gwendolyn, Cecily, Jack and Algernon after the final curtain of The Importance of Being Earnest. It is 1933 and Algy and Gwen have been married and living a cozy middle-class life in London for 34 years. In all this time, they have not seen and have had no desire to seeCecily and Jack (who is now known as Ernie). Now, Cecily has written to tell Gwen that they are coming to visit. Why-after all these years? This question is at the core of the mysterious hilarity that abounds in this boisterous, witty, literate and highly entertaining sequel. "Razor-sharp wit. . . . Sublime entertainment." -Portland Downtowner. "Wonderfully inventive and true to its source."-Rutland Daily Herald. "Rib-tickling delight."-Greenwich Journal. "A charming, stylish comedy."-WNEW Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25241) YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 3 m., 3 f. In!. Here is a screwball comedy by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party and Red Scare on Sunset, among others. A timid young electrologist's act of altruism leads to a ten-million-dollar inheritance, but only after he accidently shocks his benefactor, the elderly Mr. Rosenberg, causing a fatal heart

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CHARACTERS attack. Rosenberg's fiercely materialistic daughter resents sharing her inheritance with Christopher and they do battle on the Oprah-like Wanda Wang Show. The plot becomes even more outrageous when Christopher's flamboyant sister and Mr. Rosenberg's ghost appear. "Utterly winning."-N.Y. Times. "A bright comedy. . . . Busch invariably creates great parts for women." -N. Y. Daily News. "Busch is one of New York's territorial treasures."-Rex Reed. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#27049)

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NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Karen Roggenkamp. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Ben Randall plans to sell his wonderful country home thorough his real estate broker and fiancee Shelia Mitchell. The home was once owned by famous movie star Veronica Chamberlain, who mysteriously disappeared fifty years ago and whose picture still hangs in the living room-facing the wall as the play begins. On a dark and stormy night Miss Chamberlain returns with her escort for the evening, playboy Kingsley Langsford Harrington III. For them, it is not fifty years but only four hours later and she is very surprised to find a stranger in her house. Aghast to learn he has it on the market, she scares the daylights out of the prospective buyer Shelia arrives with. Veronica is furious when she learns she is stuck in the future and leaves in a rage. Ben pretends not to care, but worries that she may pass through the door into a different time and be lost to him forever. In love, Ben must use all of his powers to persuade the charming, tempestuous, time-traveling ghost that, really, there is no time like the present. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16082) SAND PIES AND SCISSORLEGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mark Dunn. 2 m., 4 f. This gentle southern comedy by the author of Belles and Minus Some Buttons is about two sisters and a brother who find themselves at a crossroads in their lives. As children they ran away from an unhappy foster home in Ohio and headed for Disney World. They made it as far as a small resort town on the Alabama gulf coast where they moved in with a couple with Down's Syndrome who became their surrogate parents. It's now one year after the couple's death and tough decisions must be made-about the beach house which has been Parry and Joshalynn and Nicky's home for the last twenty years, and about what these three will be doing with the rest of their lives. It's a play about the sometimes reluctant passage from childhood to adulthood and about how difficult it is to trade the safety and security of youth for the problems and responsibilities of the world of the adult. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#20961) A WARRING ABSENCE. (Little ,Theatre.) Biography. Jody Duncan. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. Winner of the prestigious American College Theatre Festival, this play portrays the tumultuous marriage of the brilliant modern poet Dylan Thomas. It opens with Caitlin toasting his casket as she transports it back across the ocean following his last American tour. It then moves to the point of first decline, when Dylan comes home drunk with one arm broken and learns that their furniture has just been repossessed. There are no more publishers' advances and no more resources, so he decides on "one last pillaging of America." This time Caitlin insists on going with him ("Where?" "To the States." "Yes, the United ones.") because she has discovered some love letters from a woman Dylan met on his last trip stateside. We follow them through an abortion, through drunken bouts in the States, and finally to his final collapse at a poetry reading. Back aboard ship, Caitlin reads the last poem and silently closes the casket. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24995) FOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS. (All Groups.) Comic Drama. Ernest Joselovitz. Includes There Is No John Garfield, Nicky and the Theatre for a New World, The Day I Met William Inge, and Romance. See index under individual titles for descriptions. THE RABBIT FOOT. (Black Groups.) Comic drama. Leslie Lee. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. This wonderful play by the author of The First Breeze of Summer, Colored People's Time and Between Now and Then is about a troupe of rag-tag black vaudevillians travelling through the rural south shortly after World War I and about a black sharecropper family. Both groups are divided about moving north. "Explores themes with great sensibility, and [Lee's] vivid sense of drama-and for that matter, the natural power of his dialogue-make his characters live powerfully."-N.Y. Post. "Raises challenging questions about migration, racism and . . . the (#9162) importance of the land."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) PECCADILLO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Garson Kanin. 4 m., 2 f. 2 Ints. Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography. The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth ghost-writer. The publisher sends pretty Iris Peabody, knowing that Vito is a sucker for the ladies, to gain his cooperation as she ghost-writes the book. The stratagem works-a fact that distresses Mrs. Vito, former opera star Rachel Garland. She hires a handsome young ghost-writer to write her autobiography: Mrs. Maestro. Christopher Plummer, Glynis Johns and Kelly McGillis starred in this light-hearted romp by the author of Bom Yesterday. "Those who adore well-constructed comedy will go berserk."-Buffalo News. "Vibrant."-Miami Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC and LA. (#18950) ANYBODY FOR MURDER. (Little Theatre). Comic thriller. Brian CleD;lens and Dennis Spooner. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Max is planning to murder his wife Janet, collect her life insurance, and enjoy life with his girlfriend when Mary and George arrive on their Greek island with news: Mary and Janet are beneficiaries of a huge fortune. Plans and plots hatch, and soon everyone is bent on murder. All that stands in their way is the presence of a neighbor who knows a thing or two about murder, crime writer Edgar Chambers. This thrilling comedy is by the writer of the television series, The Avengers. "Not only an exciting thriller but an evening of hysterical comedy." -Amateur Stage Magazine. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Forfuture release. (#3695) VALUED FRIENDS. (Little Theatre) Comedy. Stephen Jeffreys. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry (a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne); Paul (a pop music journalist); Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left-wing analysis of the corruption of capitalism under the Thatcher government. They all are perfectly content living

AFTER THE DANCING IN JERICHO. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. P. J. Barry. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Kate Driscoll and Jim Conroy are quite a team in this comic drama by the author of The Octette Bridge Club and Getting the Gold. Jumping back and forth in time, the play introduces these two as teenage dance partners and as adults who meet again in the 1980s. Jim, divorced father of two children, has been eking out a living as an actor and is about to embark on a new enterprise as a partner in a restaurant. Kate is stuck in a comfortable but dull marriage. When they rekindle their friendship, Kate learns that the romantic ideal of her adolescence is homosexual. Can she accept it? "Mr. Barry has written an extraordinarily honest play in that he hides nothing: everyone's secrets are exposed. What gives [the play] its steady rhythm are the kindness and acceptance that permeate the characters." -N. Y. Times. "Charming and evocative." -Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3015) ARE YOU SURE? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Are You Sure? is a play of shifting realities. How much is happening? How much isn't? Does David want to kill Caroline? Does Charley want to kill David? Does Caroline want to kill everyone? The play mixes comedy with high suspense as the audience tries to figure out what and who to believe. One fact is certain: someone did do it. "Sam Bobrick has used his considerable experience and dexterity as a playwright to thread the lines between the indefinite categories of reality and fantasy, gamesmanship and seriousness, even between theater and fact." -L.A. Times. "A clever and literate theatrical Rubic's cube. . . . Pick of the Week."-L.A. Weekly. "A Chinese ring trick. . .. Fantastical phantasmagoria. "-Drama-Logue. "Lucidly crafted." -Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (196) THE GAMBLERS. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Valerie Smith. 5 m., 1 f. Unit set. This suspenseful drama of desire and intrigue explores the dark world of highstakes gambling. Aboard a Mississippi river boat in the antebellum South, a team of professional con men become embroiled in the scheme of an unhappy wife to cheat her wealthy husband of his fortune. A government deputy and the boat's stewart, a free black man, find they too have a stake in the proceedings. Soon the game played for greed is overshadowed by another, deadlier game for control--one in which desperate bluff, ruthless manipulation, and ever shifting alliances lead to the riskiest bet of all. In its Memphis debut, the play was praised by critics for its "wit and eloquent dialogue." The Gamblers provides a penetrating vision of the human struggle for ascendancy in the game of marriage, money and power. $6.50. (Royalty, (#9000) $60-$40.) KOREA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bill Bozzone. 5 m., I f. 1 split set. In 1968, during the height of the Vietnam war, Bobby Costello and Walter Dybek-two young men barely out of their teens-are sent to Korea with their Air National Guard unit. Bobby, "Dear John-ed" by his girlfriend at home, quickly falls in love with a Korean woman named Chae. Walter, feeling abandoned by his lifelong buddy, chooses to befriend Stokes, a domineering bigot he and Bobby bunk with. Constantly haunting all of them are the foreboding radio reports involving the war in Vietnam and the racial unrest in the United States. Sides are being chosen, even among the G.l.'s who have pledged to stand together, and the moral values of both Bobby and Walter soon come into question. By the play's end, Bobby realizes the responsibility he has to himself and to society, while Walter plunges blithely into a darker world of hate. "[Makes] deft observations . . . about the nonmilitant military life and a young man's desire to come of age."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13033) LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Caryl Churc;hill. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. This extraordinary early drama by one of England's most important playwrights is a panoramic collage about the English Civil War, its effect on people of the time, and the effects it continues to exert to this day. The play is structured in brief vignettes in which the actors play many different characters. "Its picture of a society in chaos . . . has an awful sense of contemporary prescience."-N.Y. Post. "A challenging and beautifully written work. "-Variety. "The historical events are lucidly depicted with no sacrifice of theatrical pizzazz."-The Nation. In Churchill Plays: One, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14192) THE MORGAN YARD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kevin 0' Morrison. 4 m., 2 f. 1 set. To Carrie Morgan, the Morgan Yard is a burying ground where all Morgans have rested since 1789. To the Defense Department, it is land owned by them since the little-known Redefinition of Public Lands was enacted in.1934. When the department tries to incorporate the yard into its Indian Landing Depot, the town, the Army and Carrie find themselves on a collision course and the yard becomes a place of mortal struggle. "Sheer dynamite." -London Evening Gazette. "Like an American Mother Courage. . . . Carrie behaved like Brecht's heroine, right down to the shattering last scene when the bodies of her son and grandson are ready to be mourned. It is a play that grows on one."-Evening Herald, Dublin. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Tape, $10.00. (#15128)

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where they are; until, that is, a developer offers them a huge sum of money to vacate. Soon, their talk about music and idealism gives way to heated discussions about real estate, capital appreciation and negotiating tactics. They decide that they can force the developer to raise his offer by renovating the house; and three years of this leave them with a huge capital gain-and a deep spiritual loss. "An amusing and well-observed comedy."-London Evening Standard. "A strong, wiry and unsparingly intelligent play."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) For future release. (#24018) PRIN. (Little Theatre). Comic drama. Andrew Davies. 3 m., 3 f. Comb. int. The egocentri(: and eccentric heroine of this play by the author of Rose is principal of a teachers' college in England. She fights with every fiber of her being against mediocrity in public education and in the world in general. Her world is falling apart: the Directors plan to merge the school with the local Polytechnic, giving her a faculty chair but no authority. Prin is also on shal<y grounds with her lover, a shy, quiet woman who wants to marry the science teacher. While Prin lords it over one and all, one and all are making plans to be free from her. Prin emerges as a character whose noble ideals are doomed by her arrogant insensitivity. "Davies writes with style and comic authority and his play has a solid, serious heart."-Time Out. "A delightful and thought-provoking play."-London Daily Telegraph. "Thoroughly entertaining."-London Sunday Telegraph. "A fine-tuned and entertaining play."-N.Y. Post. "Beautifully, wittily written."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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ALL THIS AND MOONLIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles R. Johnson. 2 men, 4 women. Unit Set. A delightful, romantic comedy about a photographer named Ned, who has the peculiar habit of comparing the unique girl he's dating with his old girl friend, Ellie. In fact, his memory of her becomes so vivid, she actually accompanies him on the dates, comments on the girls, and Ned goes home with his memories. His friend Rick, sees the problem right away. Ned is still in love with Ellie. The only way to exorcise Ellie from Ned's love life, is to set up a meeting between the two. Ned already has the reunion planned. But will Ellie be there? And if she is, what will happen? A play reminiscent of the sophisticated comedies of thirties and forties, All This and Moonlight will have you thinking back to your first true love. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3692) BILL W. AND DR. BOB. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey. 3 m., 3 f., to play several roles. Unit set. This is the amazing and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, and of their wives who founded AI-Anon. Richly textured with the ragtime and jazz of the era, the play tells a magnificent American success story. ' 'A deeply human, audience-embracing tale. "-Variety. "One of the best plays of the year."-San Diego Union Tribune. "Inspiring."-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Boston and 50mile radius. (#4186) STEAMING. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Nell Dunn. 6 f. Int. This comedy had a long run in London before opening on Broadway. A Turkish bath is the favorite haunt of six ladies. Here they can let down their hair and chat, safe from the men in their lives. When the local male-dominated town council propose tearing down the bathhouse to mal<e room for a library, the ladies band together in opposition. They lose the bathhouse, but they gain a new sense of self-worth. "A lovely play suffused with affection."-London Times. "Amusing and seemingly authentic."-N.Y. Times. "Funny and touching."-Londoll Daily Express. Sharp, pointed and witty."-N.Y. Post. Full of lively, ribald humour."-London New Standard. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted certain major cities. (#21360) THE ALTO PART. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. Barbara Gilstrap. 6 f. I set. In 1956 in a small town in East Texas, the mother of an adolescent girl seeks to keep her dreams of a singing career alive. Her fantasies are disrupted by her cantankerous landlady and her tough-talking, practical sister. The arrival of a pretty, young music teacher ignites the daughter's singing ambitions and brings mother and daughter into conflict. The child's only ally is her elderly neighbor, a whimsical spinster who fancie's herself to be a painter. Forced to deal with one reality after another-including a tornado--the mother finally grow up and abandons her visions of a dream existence in favor of establishing a favorable future for her daughter. "A fine slice of life about romance, dreams, illusions, facing reality and finding reality as good as daydream." -A.P. "Gilstrap has written such likable people. . . that it's a pleasure to join them all in the final chorus of their triumphant song."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3053) STEAL AWAY. (Black Groups.) A Folktale. Ramona King. 6 f. Int. Set in Chicago during the Depression, this farce is the story of 5 upstanding church ladies who raise funds to send young Black women to college by holding bal<e sales and the like. Their latest beneficiary, Tracyada, has more am~itious ideas. She wants them all to rob a bank! Of course, the ladies are reluctant to do anything that drastic; but when they are turned down at the bank for a loan to send another young woman to college because the White bank manager doesn't think "colored girls" need an education, the ladies decide to join in Tracyada's scheme. Incredibly enough, they manage to pull off the robbery; and, they escape scot free as the news comes over the radio that the police suspect the Dillinger gang! "As warm and friendly as a church supper. . . . A comedy about camaraderie."-N.Y. Times. A success at New York's New Federal Theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NJ, NYC. & 75-mile radius. (#21332) THE FILM SOCIETY. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Jon Robin Baitz. 4 m., 2 f. Var. ints. or unit set. New York critics lavished praise upon this play and called Baitz a major new voice in theatre. "Using the school as a microcosm for South Africa, Baitz explores the psychological workings of repression in a society that has to kill its conscience in order to persist in a course of action it knows enough to abhor but cannot afford to relinquish."-New Yorker. "What distinguishes Mr. Baitz' writing, aside from its manifest literacy, is its ability to embrace the ambiguities of political and moral dilemmas that might easily be reduced to blacks and whites."-N.Y. Times. "A beautiful, accomplished play."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8123) DARKSIDE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Ken Jones. 3 m., 2 f., plus one m. or f. Unit set. Two American astronauts are stranded in a lunar landing module on the dark side of the moon while a third orbits in the command module. As they work with ground control toward rescue, flashbacks reveal their stories. "Spellbinding . . . .The play has it all-soul, suspense, symbolism and surprises. Add to that medley a dash of humor and a speck of irony."-Denver Register. "The moon is more than a place for the misbegotten. It's a godless wilderness where hopes, dreams, fears and frustrations are easily cauterized; where love and death co-exist in zero gravity. Yet it is also a perfect allegorical backdrop for human frailties, especially the loneliness of the long-distance heroes."-Rocky Mountain News. "Stars twinkle all around and the big blue marble of earth eerily arises in this haunting new play."-Time Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5953)

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SITUATION COMEDY. (Little Theatre). Comedy. Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. This live sit-com is about two writers of sit-corns who are stuck for a new idea. Each man is getting drunk with the wrong wife and the results are disastrous. Eventually. work forces them to reconcile and they decide to create a new show based on the recent upheavals in their private lives. "You can tell the comedy's going down well when the actors themselves are laughing at it-and as a result the audience is laughing even more."-Spalding Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $50--$40.) (#21200) MIXED FEELINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Donald Churchill. 4 m., 2 f. Int. This is a riotous comedy about divorce. Arthur and Norma, ex-spouses, live in separate apartments in the same building. Norma has second thoughts about her ongoing affair with Arthur's best-friend, while Arthur isn't so sure he wants to continue his dalliance with Sonia. Dennis, Sonia's husband, doesn't mind his wife having an affair as long as she provides him with titillating accounts of it while he is dressed as a lady traffic cop. She greatly embellishes the tales to mal<e him happy. Comic sparks are ignited into farcical flames when Dennis arrives at Arthur's flat for lessons in love-making! "Riotous! A domestic laughter romp! A super play. You'Ulaugh all the way home, I promise you."-Eastbourne News. "Very funny. .. A Churchill comedy that most people will thoroughly enjoy."-The Stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC. (#15215) THE PREMATURE CORPSE. (All Groups.) Crime Thriller. Mike Johnson. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This masterfully-plotted show by the author of The Perfect Murder offers a deceptively simple scenario: A witness under government protection after testifying against tht! mob is a murder target. His wife and her lover, a lawyer, are confident their crime will be blamed on the mob. Twists and turns later, the audience is dazzled with shocks and surprises that erupt with electrifying swiftness. $6.50. (#18679) (Royalty, $50-$40.) WOMAN FROM THE TOWN. (Black Groups.) Drama. Samm-Art Williams. 1 m., 5 f. Ext. Lila Wilson has returned to her roots, to the North Carolina farm where she was raised, which she left 27 years ago under a dark cloud of moral indignation. Pregnant out of wedlock, she was run out of town on a rail. She has become a very wealthy, successful real estate developer in New York City since that dark day, and now she has returned-for revenge against the people who treated her so unkindly. It seems economic times are dire now down home, and Lila starts buying up homes and farms under default on their mortgages, to turn their inhabitants out. Almost too late, she realizes that those who deserve pay-back are long in their graves, and that those who remain are innocent bystanders. "The play provides a compelling area for conflict with its interesting combination of rural and urban development. The obligations to the land and the lure of the city are central to the play's tension, and in an age of increasing family loyalty, it is refreshing to see a story so deeply committed to the soil of our beginnings."-L.A. Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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THE MARCH ON RUSSIA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Storey. 3 m., 3 f. Int. It is the 60th wedding anniversary of Tommy Pasmore and his wife. Their three children-.colin, the friendless academic who has bought the house in which his parents now live, childless Wendy, forsaking marriage for politics. and pragmatic Eileen-have returned home to celebrate, if that is the right expression. The senior Pas mores live together despite each other and as the layers of formal affection and bickering banter are peeled back we discover deep wells of disappointmen~ and despair, not only for themselves but also for a society that appears to have exchanged one kind of poverty for another. But only by incanting memories can the elderly couple come to terms with their barren present and terrifying future. Seen in the Lyttelton auditorium at the National Theatre in 1989 this play is a worthy successor to the author's earlier In Celebration. "Deeply moving . . . . A play of delicate half-tones and pastel shades . . . impressive."-Guardian. "Lyrical and lovely."--International Herald Tribune. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC. (#15220)

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A MURDER OF CROWS. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. Ed Graczyk. 3 m., 3 f. Ext. Harley and Jennie Woodson are a quirky elderly couple who live above their combination general store/post office in Wallace, Ohio. Business is not too good; they are just about the last folks left in Wallace. There has been a dreadful toxic waste accident, along the lines of Love Canal, and the dirt around them is deadly. Jennie wants to pack up and move out like everyone else, but Harley won't leave even though he is dying of cancer. To him living on a toxic waste site is preferable to moving to Erie, Pennsylvania, to live with his son. Jennie realizes that it is no use and she stays in Wallace to die with her beloved husband. "An evening of lovable crotchety Americana." -N. Y. Post. "A compassionately old-fashioned play about life and death in Middle America." -Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty,

EMERALD CITY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Williamson. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. How does the noble ambition for fame deteriorate into lust for money and power? A critically-praised but commercially under-successful screenwriter moves into the major leagues when he joins forces with an aggressive deal-maker and becomes a global tycoon. For his next project, he plans to develop a serious aboriginal novel by transplanting the story to Tennessee with Eddie Murphy starring. This graceful and grimly funny play is by the screenwriter of The Year of Living Dangerously and Gallipoli. "Hype and Hypocrisy amusingly help to speed the plow on the road to Emerald City."-N.Y. Times. "Funny and engaging. . . . His characters must be as much fun to playas they are to listen to."-N.Y. Post. "Portrays human rivalry with maximum comic and dramatic effect because it is as humorous as it is witty." -N. Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC & LA. (#7078) CANTORIAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ira Levin. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A Yuppie couple hears eerie, hauntingly beautiful Hebrew singing when they move into a new condominium. The building was formerly a synagogue and it has a ghost-a cantor who has been dead for years. Warren becomes obsessed by the singing, which he believes is a sign that he is Jewish (maybe the woman he thought was his mother wasn't) and that he must restore the synagogue. Lesley, who is Jewish, finds this overwhelming and walks out. When a change of heart brings her back she finds a beautiful synagogue. "May be the most melodic non-musical in town. Levin has a talent for tickling the imagination and making the unbelievable seem almost inevitable. Canto rial is an easy, intriguing and diverting theatrical page-turner." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC, LA & Boston; Slightly Restrict(#5239) ed elsewhere. SPLIT SECOND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dennis McIntyre. 5 m., 1 f. Unit set. This forceful drama begins with a gripping scene in which a Black cop nabs a White car thief. The thief taunts the Black cop with vile racial epithets and the cop loses his cool. He kills the thief and then makes it look like self-defense. It is then that his conscience starts to work, and the rest of the play concerns the cop's moral agonizing over whether he should admit that the killing was not self-defense. "A taut, intelligently-conceived police story that raises genuine BlackiWhite questions."N.Y. Post. "An explosive new play dealing with primal dramatic issues, using-and lifting-the familiar police genre to tell a story about an individual facing a crisis of conscience. Despite that opening gunshot, the play never descends into melodrama, as it accelerates to its conclusion with a Woyzeck-like inevitability. One of the evening's major surprises is how a work of such excellence managed to elude all our major institutional theatres."-N.Y. Times. Split Second was originally produced Off Off Broadway. From there it went on to a lengthy Off-Broadway run. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21757) SPOILS OF WAR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Weller. 3 m., 3 f. Var. ints. The author of Loose Ends and Moonchildren dramatizes the desperate attempts of a sixteen year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents, a somber chronicle about disillusionment and about people whose hopes and dreams never quite live up to reality. The fuzzy decade of the fifties is explored through the eyes of Martin's parents, ex-thirties radicals who have chosen very different ways to cope with the changed and changing times. The mother is still a bohemian, a rebel without a cause who wants to live for something more than the rent and the price of hamburger. The father has dropped back into the system and accepted life as it is. Martin is caught between these irreconcilable outlooks, unable to bring his parents back together and wondering what path his life will take. "Mr. Weller finds in one family's disintegration a paradigm of the postwar collapse of liberal idealism. This is without question Mr. Weller's most intelligent play."-N.Y. Times. "Emotionally charged . . . touching, lovely work."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-50.) (#21294) FIGHTING LIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Greg Zittle. 4 m., 2 f. lInt., 1 Ext. It's 1930. Lovely, level-headed Molley Farrell lives with her alcoholic father in Verona, New Jersey, and dreams of a better life. Molley's best friend dates a bootlegger who arranges a date for Molly with a thug named AI. Romance blooms between the brutish Al and the delicate Molley-until Molley learns what Al does for a living. Al must t'lecide if he can abandon his gangster life for Molly. "One hell of a play in a straight-line cinematic style that's quite in keeping with the time and place of the story. My heart was in my mouth from first to last, both because of the thundercloud violence and the against-the-odds romance forcing itself through the violence like a flower through grimy concrete."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-

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THE SLOTH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Cy Young and Jane Manning. 3 m., 3 f. (to play var. roles). Ext. Nadine Schitzle of Tarzana, California, has a problem: there's a sloth in the eucalyptus tree in her back yard and she's convinced it's Herman, her husband. Eye Witness News, animal shelter representatives, and a psychiatrist from social services who questions her competency are soon on the scene. $6.50. (Royal(#21209) ty, $60-$40.) WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Based on a very popular British sit-com, this riotously-funny play is classic British sex-farce. When Mildred and Ethel go off on a trip to Paris, the "mice will play". Egged on by Ethel's philandering husband Humphrey Pomfrey, George agrees to invite two charming little sex-kittens over. Well, you know already what happens, don't you (the wives come home prematurely). "The audience screamed with laughter as the farcical comedy events unfolded. The plot is simple and slight risque with machine gun quick repartee. Unbridled laughter, by the theatre-Ioad."-Brisbane Telegraph. "An amusing evening."-Middlesex Chronicle. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted NYC. (#25103) 100 LUNCHES- A Gourmet Comedy. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A playwright has had his plays lauded by all but one critic. When she has the unmitigated gall to ask his expert help in writing a play of her own, he fiendishly insists that their teacher/pupil sessions be held over lunches (her treats) at the most expensive restaurants in New York City. Lunatic waiters provide unique hilarity to these meetings while love blossoms. Non-stop fun, romance, and explosive hilarity make this an ideal show for the entire family. "Will be a favorite across the country."-The Arizona Republic. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-

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LOVE'S TANGLED WEB. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Ludlam. 3 m., 3 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14181) INTERPRETERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Ronald Harwood. 4 m., 2 f. Var. sets or unit set. Maggie Smith and Edward Fox triumphed in London' s West End in this play about the eternal confrontation between East and West. Nadia is an oldmaidish Russian translator in the Foreign Office. She is therefore intimately involved in negotiations over the forthcoming visit of the Soviet President. The English translator for the Russians, Viktor, visits her flat to pick up a copy of a play to see if it is suitable fare for his leader; and we learn to our surprise that the two are ex-lovers who once had a torrid affair in New York. Viktor claims he wants to defect and live with Nadia; and she must decide whether he is a devious manipulator trying to use their friendship to further his own political ends or whether he actually does love her. "Ingenious, ironical."-London Guardian. "Wholly original, witty and literate." -Listener. "Evokes ripple upon ripple of laughter from its audience."-London Sunday Telegraph. "The most touching and sensitive love story of the season."-London Daily Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

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ALMOST PERFECT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Mayer. 3 m., 3 f. Var. ints. (simply suggested). This delightful new comedy is about marriage, adultery, career choices, opposing a domineering father and fmding one's own identity. Buddy Apple, an aspiring writer, ventures off into an adulterous affair because of frustrations with his lack of career success and his unhappiness with his wife. Eventually, he learns that the perfect life he has been seeking is right there at home. "Mayer's dialogue is a delight. His characters are three-dimensional and irresistible; his situations are entirely credible and his depiction of warm, lively Jewish family life richly spiced and blessed with non-stop humor and underlying goodwilL" -Drama-Logue. "Mayer's funny writing is full of pungent epigrams."-Hollywood Reporter. "An absolutely perfect comedy."-B'nai B'rith Messenger. "Mayer's comedy of Buddy's redemption unspools with charm and wit. The gags are fresh."-L.A . . "Winged one-liners and sitcom-styled 'takes'."-L.A. Times. "Shrieking with laughter at Buddy's clumsy peccadillos. . . the predominantly middle-aged audience knew exactly what Mayer was talking about."-The Outlook. $6.50. (Royalty,

THE SNEEZE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Frayn. Adapted from plays and stories by Anton Chekhov. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. The acclaimed author of Noises Off and Copenhagen and translator of numerous Ibsen full-length plays has turned his skills to the best of Chekhov's short stories and short plays. The collection provides a wonderful evening of theatre. "How refreshing to encounter the great Chekhov with a spring in his heel rather than winter in his heart." -London Sunday Express. "Brilliant. . . . A joyful night."-Jewish Chronicle. "Dry, buoyant, funny and sharp."-London Observer. "An excellent evening's entertainment."-London Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 when performed as a full-length play under the title The Sneeze.) (Royalty, $25-$20 per part when performed as one-acts; see title listing below.) Please specify translator when ordering. Restricted metropolitan NY and LA. The Sneeze (collected work) (#21259)

Drama (#6723) The Alien Corn (#3688) The Sneeze (#21724)

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BROADWAY BOUND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 4 m., 2 f. Comb. int. Picking up where Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues ended, part three of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing while coping with the breakup of their family. Their efforts to come up with an idea for a comedy sketch sparkle with hilarity. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, [he family is upset to hear a comedy rendition of their trials and tribulations. Eugene wraps up the play by explaining that his parents finally divorced and he and Stan were launched on writing careers. "Contains some of the author's most accomplished writing."-N.Y. Times. "A lovely play; warm, perceptive and gently humorous.'' -Newsday. "Expectedly funny and unexpectedly moving." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Also available: Radio Tape (cassette or reelto-reel), $10 rental fee per performance plus $35.00 deposit and $7.50 royalty per performance. Write for details on permission to perform the song "It Had to Be You." Posters (#242) ROUGH CROSSING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard, from an original play by Ferenc Molnar. 5 m., I f. 2 sets. The authors, the composer and most of the cast of a comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner. Tom Stoppard's hilarious play has been freely adapted from Ferenc Molnar's classic farce Jatek a Kastelyban. "Stoppard weaves an increasingly amazing pattern of verbal misunderstandings, eccentric character development, showbiz spectacle, and seagoing hazards."-London Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) A copy of the Piano Music for the songs and entr'acte is available for purchase by amateur productions for $25.00. No rental or additional royalty fee for the use of the music is required. Restricted metropolit,m New York City and Chicago. (#20102) LOOK NO HANS! (Little Theatre.) Farce. John Chapman and Michael Pertwee. 2 m., 4 f. plus I optional m. I set. This fun-filled farce by two masters of the genre enjoyed a successful run in London. Peter is the Berlin manager of a British car company, where selling British cars is like selling pork chops at a bar mitzvah! He is also an undercover agent for British Security-a role for which he is singularly illequipped. With his wife due to fly back to England for a visit, he plans to spend his birthday quietly. Her plane is delayed and she returns home, followed in rapid succession by Peter's mistress, a voluptuous singing telegram girl, a security agent who is awaiting the arrival of a top industrial spy, and a representative of Midland Motors. Amid a great many comings and goings and considerable confusion, the elusive spy does make a brief, if unusual, appearance, dangling from a helicopter! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14178) FOXFIRE. (All Groups.) Play with songs. Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. Music by Jonathan Holtzman. Lyrics by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. 4 m., 2 f., 2 musicians. Ext. Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband Hector. A brash real-estate developer wants to tum her land into a vacation resort and her son Dillard, a country singer, has come home with his children because his wife has run away. Annie's battle to decide her future takes her through some funny, touching and magical flashbacks to her life with Hector. Played on Broadway by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, this couple offers a staunchly affirmative tribute to country folk. "Quivers with laughter and stabs the heart."-Time. "Foxfire glows on Broadway."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Vocal Score, $10. (Music Royalty, $5.00 each performance.) (#8097) ABSENT FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Play. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband is perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them-and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#3003) WHAT THE BUTLER SAW. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Joe Orton. 4 m., 2 f. Int. The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who is seduced by a bellhop in a hotel, or maybe it's vice versa. Anyway, Mrs. Prentice brings home her reluctant bellhop, just as the state inspector decides to pay a visit to the hospital. What ensues is a wild melee of disappearances, disguises and discoveries as husband and wife try to hide their prizes from one another and from the state inspector. Even a wound-up policeman gets giddy from the goings-on. And the ending is one of those delights that Oscar Wilde might have dreamed up in a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest. "Hilarious, outrageous. . . It dazzles!. .. Wonderfully verbal, toying with words as if they were firecrackers."-N.Y. Times. "Brilliant, witty, the funniest show so far this season."-NBC-TV. "Madly antic humor."-AP. "Hilarious . . . . Joe Orton's best comedy."-CBS. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#121) A THOUSAND CLOWNS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Herb Gardner. 4 m., I f., boy 12 years old. 2 ints. Recently revived starring Tom Selleck in the role previously played by Judd Hirsch and by Jason Robards, this benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: a bachelor uncle who is endeavor-

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS ing to rear his precocious nephew. He has tired of writing cheap comedy for children's television and finds himself unemployed with free time to saunter through New York. When social services comes to insure that the nephew is receiving a proper upbringing, he must go back to work or lose his nephew, or he might marry the social worker. In any case, he remains one of the funniest non-conformist of the stage. "Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired daffiness." -N. Y. Daily News. "Merely the best comedy of the season." -N. Y. Journal-American. "An extraordinarily funny play with some brilliantly offbeat lines."-N.Y. Post. "One of the quintessential New York comedies."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassettes or Tape, $32.50. Posters (#114) BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 4 m., 2 f. Int. After a six-day honeymoon, a lawyer who has just won his first case and his addled young bride move into the apartment that she has chosen for them. Unfortunately, one has to climb six wheezing flights, the apartment is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job came out all wrong, the skylight leaks snow, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses their window ledge to access his padlocked premises. The breaking point comes when the young husband flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot walk through the snow in the park. She kicks him out, but he storms back insisting that she should be the one to go. "A bubbling, ribtickIing comedy."-N.Y. Times. "Critic weeps joyfully . . . . I don't think anybody stopped laughing while the curtain was up last evening."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#2) TRAPS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Caryl Churchill. 4 m. 2 f. Int. Six people are in a room. Is Albert being followed by the police or is he paranoid? Did Jack bring his sister Christie to visit by willing her to come? Is Syl married with a baby or is she on her own? Does Del want to take Jack away? Does Albert kill himself? And how can smooth but violent Reg, Christie's husband, fit in with the others? Each relationship is real while it happens, but is there any way out of their conflicts? "A vivid portrait of the nuclear family in extremis . . . . Absolutely engrossing . . . [and] devastating in its emotional power."-Chicago Tribune. "Fascinating. . . . Offers plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapositions and Churchill's most confident and creative deployment of stagecraft."-Plays and Players. In Churchill Plays: One, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC & LA. (#22191) A MONTH OF SUNDAYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bob Larbey. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Jason Robards, Jr. starred in this Broadway comedy about the difficulties inherent in growing old. He played a crotchety old coot named Cooper who has gone into a nursing home rather than become a burden on his family, there to flirt valiantly with the female staff, banter with the other old folks and keep a close check on his "record of physical deteriorations." On Golden Pond meets The Gin Game meets The Sunshine Boys meets Horowitz and Mrs. Washington meets I'm Not Rappaport. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#15204) MURDER BY APPOINTMENT. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Frank Williams. 4 m., 2 f. I set. By manipulating current psychological concepts of behavior, heredity and sexual tendencies, this intriguing mystery not only conceals the murderer's identity right to the end but also lures the audience into condemning the wrong man not once but twice. Each character is a definable type-solid father, protective mother, public schoolboy brother, quiet older son, upper-class girl friend and wily Detective Sergeant. But are they all what they seem in this exciting and devious thriller? "Skillful . A true thriller." -Barnet and District Times. mixture of tragedy and comedy. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15205) SOCIAL SECURITY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Andrew Bergman. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This is a real, honest-to-goodness hit Broadway comedy, as in the Good Old Days. Written by one of Hollywood's top comedy screenwriters and directed by the great Mike Nichols, this hilarious comedy starred Marlo Thomas and Ron Silver as a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and.her Archetypal Jewish Mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealer's best client! "Just when you were beginning to think you were never going to laugh again on Broadway, along comes Social Security and you realize that it is once more safe to giggle in the streets. Indeed, you can laugh out loud, joyfully, with, as it were, social security, for the play is a hoot, and better yet, a sophisticated, even civilized hoot."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#21255) DOUBLES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Wiltse. 5 m., I f, plus I m., I f extras. Int. This genially sentimental yet hilarious sitcom delighted Broadway with Ron Leibman, Austin Pendelton, John Cullum and Tony Roberts starring as four "muppies" (middle-aged urban professionals) who meet once a week for camaraderie, wisecracks and tennis. Set in the locker room of their tennis club, this is a delightful look at male menopause in all its whimsical glory. "Rowdy, appealing and captivating comedy . . . . Wiltse is a nifty writer, dizzy with words and situations . . . . We're whole-heartedly with this entertaining bunch from start to finish."-N.Y. Post. "Serves up volleys of laughs."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6142) SO LONG ON LONELY STREET. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. Sandra Deer. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Audiences and critics cheered this play by a talented new American playwright in Atlanta and New York. Set in a rundown old southern house on 25

CHARACTERS acres of valuable land, the play is about the gathering of the Vaughnum family for the reading of crotchety old Aunt Pearl's will. The secrets of three generations are revealed slowly as the potential heirs try to decide who is the rightful owner of the property. "A richly-textured work about a disputed inheritance, miscegenation, unrequited incestuous love and greed masquerading as Christian righteousness. . . . It's a funny and poignant human comedy."-Variety. "This play would tear the house down anywhere. It's just plain wonderfuL" -Atlanta Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21254)

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entertainment I have seen on any stage since 'The Rocky Horror Show'."-London Daily Mail. "Bold and brash, brimming with energy . . . . It's so much fun and you still get the message loud and clear."-London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#22919) IN MY MIND'S EYE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Doug Haverty. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. Patty, a student of 13, and Trish, a teacher of 26, are legally blind but refuse to be handicapped. Each girl's story is told in separate scenes that eventually blend with a realization that Patty and Trish are one person. We meet the men in her/their lives and explore Patricia's relationship with her mother. Occasionally, the actresses playing Patty and Trish switch places and we see glimpses of a maturing Patty or a seemingly childish Trish. This is a story of self-acceptance, courage and, (#11634) above all, a story of love. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) RAINDANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. M.Z. Ribalow, 5 m., I f. Int. In a metaphysical wild west saloon are gathered a Black man named Jim Crow, gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, Sitting Bull, arch-capitalist J.P. Standard and wicked Falina, the Mexican saloon girl. There has been no rain for who knows how long. Nothing will induce young George, who sometimes has seizures and dances about causing rain, into a fit. Finally, George spontaneously begins to dance. At the start of the second act, it has been raining for who knows how long. Every effort to force George into a reverse rain-dance fails. The play ends with the waters rising and no Ark in sight. "Sharp satire and wicked parody . . . . Delightful."-Chicago Tribune. "An eyebrow-raising, thought-provoking story . . . of destruction and doom, with a strange comic twist." -WBEZ. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20010) WHY ME? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Stanley Price. 3 m., 3 f. Int. "Stanley Price may have invented a new theatrical mode for the late twentieth century-recession comedy."-Time Out. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#25685) ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS, (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bruce Bonafede. Full Length version. 5 m., I f., Int. This is an expanded version of the acclaimed one-act play. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify full-length version when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#3673) A LITTLE QUICKIE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 3 m., 3 f. Int. The comedy team of Steve and Allen is on the brink of success when Steve's neglected wife and Allen have an unexpected fling. Hilarious complications ensue. Bits of Steve and Allen's routine provide outrageous running commentary on the action. "Hilarious . . . . The authors have updated the genre of the bedroom farce by creating contemporary situations and spicy dialogue."-Asbury Park Press. "A hilarious sex farce-comedy."-Show Business. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14161) LOVER'S LEAP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Daily. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. This madcap farce is set in a Chicago hotel. George is about to embark on his first extra-marital affair when he sees a man on the window ledge getting ready to jump. George persuades him to go back to his room and turns his attention back to Amy when a woman comes crawling along the ledge escaping from someone who has fetishes involving ropes, camera equipment and whipped cream. George regains the romantic mood just as his wife and Amy's husband arrive. "The perfect dinner theatre adult comedy."-Florida Times Union. "Such a complete dinner theatre play, it's almost a parody of itself."-Dallas Morning News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14175) MY FRIEND MISS FLINT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Donald Churchill and Peter Yeldham. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This comedy was a hit at the Theatre Royal. When Tom Lambert, botanist and TV gardening personality, receives a call from Inland Revenue enquiring about his public relations consultant Joanna Aint, he can honestly say he has never heard of her. By lunchtime, he knows all about Miss Aint: his accountant and ex-wife confesses that she invented Miss Aint as a tax dodge. This tricky situation sets the stage for sparkling comedy. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15924) WEATHERMAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Polner. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Mitzi is the secretary to the director of the National Weather Service. Her job is threatened when a Aorida gangster sends his favorite gun moll to seduce her boss and take over the bureau. The plan is to make it snow in the Everglades so the gangster's ski lodge can finally break even. An obnoxious employee also wants to seize control of the agency for his own villainous ends. Since no one else is willing, Mitzi has to save the National Weather Service herself. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25065) GENIUSES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jonathan Reynolds. 5 m., I f. Int. In a jungle shack north of Manila maniacs who call themselves film makers are trying to shoot a war epic. "A savage comedy about movie making."-N.Y. Daily News. "Geniuses skewers deal-makers, agents and all satraps who overdose on self-importance."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted (#9048) MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. (All Groups.) Mystery. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 4 f. Int. A psychological thriller. In this wealthy, sophisticated family, no one has been murdered and no detective has been invited to solve any crime. But a cruel crime has indeed been committed. Someone in this unusual family has been deeply wounded. Someone is the pathetic victim of an unmentionable crime. Who? Is the mother a new Medea? Repeated discoveries and reversals make for continued excitement, and the ending as in virtually all Fratti dramas is startling. "Engrossing, literate and

ROSE COTTAGES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Bozzone. 4 m., 2 f. Comb. Int./Ext. Rose, an old Black man who is as dilapidated as his tourist-trap Aorida cottages, is facing closure for health and safety violations when a punk kid skateboards in and a woman is dumped off by her son at the insistence of his floozy bride. The kid has no place to go and becomes a surrogate son who helps Rose fix up the place. The old lady has amnesia and thinks Rose is her husband and the kid is their son. "Very funny . . . . Mr. Bozzone. . . has an ability to spin cockamamie jokes (almost nonstop in Act I) and to create arresting characters."-N.Y. Times. "A beguiling fairy tale for adults. Bozzone writes with breezy wit and imagination."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20099) FATAL ATTRACTION. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Bernard Slade. 3 m., 3 f. Int. That stellar practitioner of Broadway comedy at its best has here turned his hand, quite successfully we believe, to another genre-the mystery-thriller. This gripping play takes place in the beach house of Blair Griffen, movie star. Blair is getting divorced, and her husband Morgan is coming to pick up his painting. Then a papparazzo named Tony Lombardi, who is obsessed 'with Blair, kills Morgan; only to be murdered, in tum, by Blair. Turns out, it is all a plot on the part of Blair and her lesbian lover to generate a resurgence of interest in Blair's career via all the publicity surrounding the murders. The plotters have not counted, though, on dealing with Lieutenant Gus Braden. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8113) DEAD MAN'S HAND. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Seymour Matthews. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. This captivating thriller employs a play within a play theme in a singularly exciting manner. At first, it seems to be the usual "Agatha Christie" type play-two couples lured to a remote Italian villa to be murdered one by one. It is only when this play is well advanced that we learn we are watching actors rehearsing their own murder mystery. It is shortly after this, when two of these actors have been murdered in the same manner as the characters in their own play, that the twists and turns begin to tease the audience. Who is the murderer and what do those about to be murdered have in common? Yet even this ploy is not what it at first seems! An intriguing final twist unravels the real reason for the whole charade. All in all, an enticingly clever piece of work! ". . . a teasing, very theatrical play which dares to laugh at itself and its genre until the Dead Man shows his hand."-East Essex Gazette. $8.95. (Royal(#6146) ty, $50-$35.) ALONE TOGETHER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Roman. 4 m., 2 f. lnt. Remember those wonderful Broadway comedies of the fifties and sixties? This play by the author of Under the Yum Yum Tree is firmly in that tradition. Alone Together delighted audiences on Broadway with Janis Paige and Kevin McCarthy playing a middle-aged couple whose children have finally left the nest. They are alone together-but not for long. All three sons come charging back home after experiencing some hard knocks in the real world-and Mom and Dad have quite a time pushing them out again. "An amiable comedy. . . . The audience roared with recognition, pleasure and amusement."-Gannett Westchester Newsp. "Delightfully wise and witty."-Hollywood Reporter. "One of the funniest shows we've seen in ages."-Herald-News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#238) THE PREGNANT PAUSE or Love's Labor Lost. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., 4 f. lnt. Hector Ennepeque, first-time father-to-be, is in extended labor and protracted comic convulsions over his wife Leonie's imminent delivery. Before the baby's arrival, this hilarious farce gives birth to multiple comic harangues aimed at the helpless husband. When Hector tries to rebound from the recriminations of his aristocratic in-laws, he is swatted aside by an Amazon midwife who takes charge. Here is a brilliant tableau of conjugal chaos by the master of the genre. $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18161) LEGENDS! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Kirkwood. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Eager-beaver producer Martin Klemmer, a wheeler-dealer if ever there was one, has uncovered a terrific commercial script-Star Wars: The Play. Since he has produced only one Off-Broadway project, something called Craps!, Martin's calls are not being returned by the powerful Broadway magnates capable of getting this play to the Great White Way. Martin needs names-names like film legends Sylvia Glenn and Leatrice Monsee-for the leads. If Martin can sign them he can get the money. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Will Martin be able to resolve this titanic dilemma? Will Star Wars: The Play hit the big time? And, if Sylvia and Leatrice do agree to appear together, will Paul Newman sign on, too? This hilarious comedy by the author of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, UT.B.U and A Chorus Line starred Carol Channing and Mary Martin in a national tour. "As touching as it is hilarious"-KNBC. "Deliciously entertaining vaudeville." -KTTV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#13994) TRAFFORD TANZI. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Book and Lyrics by Claire Luckman. Music by Chris Monks. 3 m., 3 f. Environmental setting. This actionpacked play tells the Trafford Tanzi story using wrestling bouts as metaphors for the battle between the sexes. "The most splendid dynamic piece of raucous musical

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sophisticated. I recommend Fratti's play for those with a penchant for murder mysteries mixed with social significance." -Alice Barnet. Stage. In Three Plays by Fratti, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15716) THREE BEDS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mario Fratti. 4 m. 2 f. Int. "Fratti's plays begin with a bizarre situation. This he develops and exploits in innumerable ways. . . to lead us from distortion of reality to a fuller understanding of it."-Modern Drama. In Three Plays by Fratti, $6.75. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22675) THE YOUNG WIFE. (All Groups.) Mystery. Mario Fratti. 3 or 4 m., 3 f. Int. "Fratti has secured. . . a place of importance among the dramatists of the world. . . . All his plays are informed by the same unfailing intelligence, unerring dramatic sense, and unswerving humanism."-Jane F. Bonin in Mario Fratti-His Plays. In Three Plays by Fratti, $6.75. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#27041) SNAP! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Laurence. 2 m., 4 f., 3 extras. Sev. simp. ints. Ben Hudson, who has been unfaithful to his wife Connie, finds that he has contracted 'the disease of Venus'. Connie discovers she also is infected, as are their friends Mike and Pansy. Ben and Mike work out a plan to enable the former to put the blame elsewhere-a plan which involves Mike playing a deceptive trick on Connie. The plan is thwarted by Maude Foal, an elderly lesbian, and also by Ben's own decision not to go through with it. After a general showdown, it appears that the responsibility for the whole situation is to be laid at the feet of the milkman. $8.95. (#21719) (Royalty, $50-$35.) BREAKFAST WITH LES AND BESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lee Kalcheim. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Les and Bess are a married couple who co-host a radio talk show in New York City before the turmoil of the sixties stirred the country out of its complacency. Les and Bess are about to have their talk-show canceled because of lack of interest. Since their marriage is based on their show, they may have to cancel their marriage as well. Les wants to go to Houston to be a sports announcer-his dream. Bess wants to stay in New York. Will Les and Bess stay together? Will their budding radical of a son straighten up? Will their daughter actually marry the sailor she has just met? Will their long-distance phone call from Princess Grace of Monaco ever come through? Stay tuned . . . "A delightful throwback to the romantic Broadway comedies of yore."-N.Y. Times. "Let me heartily commend a sweetly, oldfashioned, wise-cracking, almost screwball comedy."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, (#4117) $60-$40.) HA VING A WONDERFUL TIME, WISH YOU WERE HER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double-standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Couples spending the weekend with Bill and Mary become involved in convoluted amorous activities. "Harold Pinter's Betrayal the way Neil Simon would write it." --Newark Star Ledger. "Punch line follows punch line and just when you think a gag has peaked, Van Zandt and Milmore come up with a topper."-Asbul}' Park Press. "If you hate to laugh, stay away . . . . There's just no stopping the chuckles and guffaws."-N.l. Daily Register. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10042) THE SOUL OF THE WHITE ANT. (Advanced Groups.) Surreal comedy. Snoo Wilson. 3 m., 3 f. Comb. int. Bizarre, surreal and comic, this play is about a racial murder in South Africa and its subsequent cover-up by the press and the police. Mabel's husband is away so she takes and then shoots a Black lover. Repercussions include pregnancy for two local girls because of the hilarious police attempts to dispose of the body. A dead scientist who claims to have been an ant organizes a miraculous cure for the unwanted pregnancies. "A diabolical comedy about the evils of apartheid."-N.Y. Times. "Mad, macabre, and murderously funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21271) BENEFIT OF A DOUBT (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Edward Clinton. 2 m., 4 f. Int. This thought-provoking play raises questions about the ills of modem society, ranging from the breakdown of the family unit to the treatment of retarded children and our sometimes harsh attitudes, as a society, towards the older members of our own families. Mr. Clinton cleverly uses comedy to demonstrate how easily we are led to dream, even when that dream is out of our reach. The play quietly shows how easily we might trade in our own values for a franchised set of values. It is a contemporary tragedy, bending with twists of comedy arising out of natural situations. Mr. Clinton has drawn his characters with care, etching their personalities with compassion, insight, and most importantly, a sharp but gentle sense of humor. "Powerful" -Northern Hills Press. "Sensitive and compelling." -Cincinnati Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4615) THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAR. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Richard Gordon. 3 m., 2 f., I f. child. Compo unit set. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival award, this unique play is about two old codgers-one black and one whitewho are thrown together by social services. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4155) FOOTLIGHT FRENZY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman and Bud Slocumb. Based on 'Fleeting Moment' by House, White, Shearman, Mark Blankenfield, Brandie Kemp and Mitchell Kreindel. 4 m., 2 f. Var. simple sets. In a desperate attempt to save their bankrupt "School for Unusual Children", an inexperienced PTA group valiantly mounts an ambitious benefit play, written by a has-been Broadway director. His near-hysterical direction and the

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS group's questionable talent tum the production into a shambles. The scenes shift back and forth from the real tribulations of the performers to the play they are "performing", and it is hard to tell which is sillier. This is fast and furious theatrical fun of the first order, with us watching the fun from the "back" of the stage! This fast-moving slapstick farce is from the creators of Bul/shot Crummond and El Grande de Coca Cola! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8093) THE DANCE OF DEATH. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. August Strindberg. Translated by Harry G. Carlson. Part I: 3 m., 3 f.; Part II: 4 m., 2 f. Ints. One of Lawrence Olivier's major triumphs in London, this unusual Strindberg play involves a visit to a couple celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary. "Carlson's translations are the best available choices for a contemporary American director." - Theatre Journal. In Strindberg: Five Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35 per part.) Part I (#6903) Part II (#6904) THE UNDERPANTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Carl Sternheim. Translated by Eric Bentley. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A civil servant, whose job depends on sobriety and right conduct is embarrassed one day when his wife's underpants fall by accident to the sidewalk. Soon they have two new boarders; a barber and another man, who happened to witness the embarrassing moment. Both subsequently make love to the wife, and, overwhelmed, she assents. But another lady in the house and various others keep interrupting her trysts, and none ~f them ever amounts to anything. The author points the satire at both the husband and the church-going wife in a final scene of subtle comedy. In manuscript, $25.00. Royalty, $35-$25.) Not available in Canada. Please specify author when ordering. (#23018) MIDDLEAGE SPREAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Roger Hall. 3 m., 3 f. 3 simple ints. Three middle-aged couples are trapped in the suburban way of life-bored with themselves, their spouses and their daily routine of job or family or household chores. They are six very ordinary people, but they are portrayed with sensitivity and sympathy. There's excitement and revelations, yet in the end they must return to their routine. What the author has achieved is a wry comment on present-day society and presents his audiences with a mirror of themselves to delight and entertain. Six marvelous parts for actors. Middle Age Spread was done in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40) (#15661) AMERICAN DAYS. (Advanced Groups.) Tragicomedy. Stephen Poliakoff. 4 m., 2 f. 2 ints. In Plays One: Poliakoff, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3054) YOUR FLAKE OR MINE? (All Groups.) Farce. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Tony Dawson, a greeting-card writer, has lost his wife Margo because he talks in couplets. She plans to marry her boss, a breakfast food tycoon. Tony, in a last-ditch attempt to win her back, offers to throw a no-hard-feelings engagement party. His plans are complicated by the arrival of a friend who is a perpetual student, the nightclub singer for whom he is writing special material, and his editor who stops by just before the party to collect his monthly greeting-card output. lrv is wearing a towel on his way to the shower, Coral gets her dress ripped off, and the editor in the go-go outfit is stashed in the closet which Tony pretends is a darkroom. Add to this a nightclub full of midget waiters, a ghastly television show on which Tony accidentally pans Saga-more's breakfast cereal, and all manner of people being shoved behind screens, out into halls, into closets and shower stalls-and you have one of the wackiest farces ever seen on a stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#27038) ROMANTIC COMEDY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade, 2 m., 4 f. Int. Arrogant, self-centered and sharp-tongued Jason Carmichael, successful co-author of Broadway romantic comedies, is facing two momentous events: he is about to marry a society belle and his collaborator is retiring. Enter Phoebe Craddock, mousy Vermont schoolteacher and budding playwright. Presto! Jason acquires a talented and adoring collaborator. Fame and success are theirs for ten years and then Jason's world falls apart. His wife divorces him to go into politics-and Phoebe, her love for Jason unrequited, marries a breezy journalist and moves to Paris. Jason goes into professional, financial and physical decline. Reenter a now chic and successful-inher-own-right Phoebe-and guess the ending! Meaty roles for the supporting cast. Starred Tony Perkins and Mia Farrow on Broadway. "A darling of a play . . . zesty entertainment of cool wit and warm sentiment." -N. Y. Post. "An utterly disarming, lighthearted confection about love, friendship and theatrical trauma."-WWD. "It's brilliant comedy. It's also a hit. Funniest comedy on Broadway in years."-WABCTV7. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#933) MORE FROM STORY THEATRE. (All Groups.) Fables. Paul Sills. 4 m., 2 f. Bare stage with projections. Here are more theatrical fables from the author of the everpopular Story Theatre. Audiences are delighted by these easy-to-stage tales from such classics as The Dream of Good Fortune from The Arabian Nights, Old Hildebrand, The Clever Elsie and The Tailor in Heaven from the Grimm Brothers and other great tales from Celtic and Old English folklore. This fun show requires an inventive director and talented actors with expressive bodies. Although this is a great family show which the kids will enjoy, it is also top-drawer adult theatre. (#731) $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) HOROWITZ AND MRS. WASHINGTON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Henry Denker. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Sam Horowitz, a rich, retired Jewish widower, has been mugged, slashed with a knife, and had a stroke. Home from the hospital and in a wheelchair, he's cheerful about nothing and very anti-Black (the color of his attackers). He is less than enchanted by the black therapist hired to nurse him, but Mrs.

CHARACTERS Washington is a determined tyrant. A stonny but fond relationship develops. When Sam's daughter tries to move him to a nursing home, he and Mrs. Washington prevail. "The laughter on opening night roared through Broadway. . at hurricane force."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10133)

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whose banker-type father Sal detests. World War II arrives-Paolo's drafted and secretly marries Dorothy. It so happens Sal and Carmine are rich-through judicious investments-and even own Dorothy's father's bank building. Dorothy-now pregnant-moves in with Sal who now defends her against all comers. There are problems-there's tears and there's laughter-and then there's Carmine's illness. And then there's Lucia, Sal's wife-dead for seven years who comes to him in times of stress. She's a far-from-angelic angel who's knitting wings for Sal's arrival upstairs'. And with Carmine being ill, she's knitting another pair. "It's a winner all the way."-Columbus Dispatch. "Funniest new play to hit Chicago in a long time."-The Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#780) WHISPERINGS IN THE GRASS. (All Groups.) Drama. Suzanne Granfield. 5 m., 1 f., m singer/guitarist Bare stage, platfonn. "Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free. This is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen, I must walk toward Oregon", (Thoreau) Whisperings in the Grass is about the longing that made simple inexperienced people embark on a hazardous journey from the secure east to the unknown west in the 1800's over the Oregon Trail-the longing to be free and unbounded. "to follow paths only wild things know." Tony Award winning director Joseph Hardy said of Whisperings in the Grass, "I found it beautiful, strong and certainly daring." The style of the play is similar to Spoon River Anthology. Published with A Tide of Voices, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25091) CHEATERS. New Revised Edition. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Jacobs. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Allen and Michelle have been living together for eighteen months. It is the first real relationship for both of them. Michelle thinks they should marry; Allen isn't sure. His hesitancy drives her home to her parents for advice. Michelle's Father isn't aware that it is Allen's mother he has been seeing for the last six months and would now like to get rid of, nor does Michelle's mother know that it is Allen's father she has just spent the night with and would like to see more of. The pieces fall uproariously into place when the parents decide to meet the young lovers over dinner to lend their maturity and experience for the benefit of their children's relationship. It's suddenly everyone for himself in this wild, rollicking look at love and romance. "Downright hilarious!"-N.Y. Post. "Welcome heights of hilarity!"-New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#45) ANGEL CITY. (All Groups.) Satiric comedy. Sam Shepard. 5 m., 1 f. Int. Once again, Shepard deals with the landscape of American mythology-this time with the greatest American myth of all: Hollywood. A young stuntman is hired by a movie producer to save his $8 million dollar picture from disaster by turning it into a disaster movie. The stuntman tries to maintain his own integrity, but comes to realize that he is more a part of the Great American Dream' Machine than he had ever known. "An evening of surrealist high-jinks with serious perceptions underneath . . . . It is his most playful work, and one of his most accessible." Village (#3071) Voice. In Foolfor Love & Other Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) LOVE ON THE CUSP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Roger Karshner. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Jerry comes unglued when his wife, Eleanor, an astrology nut, infonns him they can't have sex for thirty days because her planet is in retrograde. Jerry and his sports-loving buddy, Marvin, conspire against Eleanor's rip-off advisor, Rhoda. 'But when Rhoda arrives on the scene, Marvin does a complete flip-flop and falls for her instantly. Rhoda advises Eleanor that she's about to be visited by "an overpowering electric influence"-which manifests itself in the person of Joe, handsome TV repairman. Eleanor falls for Joe who Jerry rightly spots as phony who's trying to get my wife's money on horizontal hold. Joe wins the moment and Jerry is forced out of the house into a crummy apartment. But Jerry-the super salesman and manipulator--deftly maneuvers the situation, rekindles Eleanor's love, awakens Marvin and exposes Rhoda and Joe. "Light and breezy."-Chicago Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#663) THE GOODBYE PEOPLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Herb Gardner. 5 m., 1 f. Ext. The Goodbye People is a serious comedy about old age and death and about the woes of youthful misfits and their loves. It is Coney Island in February and Old Max Silvennan, recovering from a coronary, is planning to reopen his long-closed beach bar-with the entrapped assistance of his daughter, Nancy, who has changed her name and her nose, deserted her husband and is searching for an identity. Into their dreams and lives wanders Arthur Konnan, a youngish, amiable sunrise-watcher who hates his job, but never seems able to make a decision to quit. The three of them together activate their dreams-Arthur quits his job, Nancy decides to divorce her husband and Max will reopen his stand. But in the end, death takes Max, but only after his dream is fulfilled. "Milton Berle straight and touching in endearing play."-N.Y. Daily News. "His best play."-Jules Feiffer. "Herb Gardner is one of the truly original comic minds in the world. He is also a poet. And The Goodbye People is one of the most truly comic stage poems you will ever see."-Paddy Chayevsky. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9078) TIGHT SPOT. (All Groups.) An Improper Comedy. Ted Tiller. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Anyone nutty enough to buy an old lighthouse for a summer home is looking for trouble. It comes on the double to a novelist, her estranged TV -film star husband and the latest gleam in his roving eye when this unsociable triangle, along with the novelist's globetrotting journalist mother, a baffled editor and a grocery boy find themselves trapped on the top floor during the off season. Suspense spirals and comedy crackles during three days of confinement. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

RETURN OF THE MANIAC. (All Groups.) Thriller. Mike Johnson. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Audiences scream their way to the harrowing climax of this bloody mystery set in modem London. When Emma Lorrison is called away from her rooming house by a fake telegram, her daughter Ann is left to rent the garret where a horrible murder took place three years before. Despite the housekeeper's fears, Ann rents it to a young artist Peter Blake, who refuses to believe there's anything fearful about the room. When another roomer becomes romantically interested in Peter, Ann realizes she too is in love with him-but suspects he's concealing something. Terror and suspense grow as an incomplete painting hidden in the garret quite possibly holds the identity of the mad killer-a killer who may be still in the house! Ann realizes she was the intended earlier victim and is still being stalked! $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#20028) SAVE GRAND CENTRAL. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. William Hamilton. 3 m., 3 f. Various sets simply suggested. Here's a sprightly comedy by the famed New Yorker cartoonist. The well-drawn characters include a young architect who owns a failing gounnet restaurant, his bored-but-sultry European wife, a lawyer who owns the building which the restaurant is in and who wants to evict the gourmets and open up a Burger King, his joiner-of-causes wife, a Puerto Rican maid and her boyfriend (A Filipino who poses as a Puerto Rican to get ahead in New York, he believes strongly in "the work ethnic"). "As light and refreshing as sparkling water."-Cue. "A wonderful play. . . which goes right to the heart of our modem (#21036) urban ~ensibility." -Gannett Newsp. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE TROUBLE WITH EUROPE. (Advanced Groups). Comedy. Paul D' Andrea. 5 m., I f. Var. ints.lexts. Europe is winding down, physically and spiritually. The French and American Presidents separately send their best men to find out what is wrong with the 20th century and set it straight, in six days. Th~ handsome, arrogant, secretly vulnerable Inspector Jogot and the visionary cowboy Wilbur Tibury meet by accident, and start a crazy journey together. The trip becomes a journey into their own minds. After fantastic adventures, they confront the trouble with Europe and battle the ills of the 20th century, saving mankind, in twelve hours. Having become friends, the two men climb out of the human subconscious toward the light and the future. "A hilarious allegory ... with clever lines and crazy twists of plot. . . . Intriguing." -L.A. Times. "D'Andrea may be one of the most original American theatrical voices since Sam Shepard."-Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#22218) $35.) FLING! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This romantic comedy by the author of Same Time, Next Year takes a light-hearted lqok at sex, love and marriage. A novelist and his wife seem to have a marriage embodying devotion and fidelity, but while staying in New York with friends an old infidelity comes to light that tests their faith in each other and their views of marriage. $6.50. Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8053) TAXI TALES. (Advanced Groups.) Leonard Melfi. Five one-act plays: Taffy's Taxi, Tripper's Taxi, Toddy's Taxi, Treaser's Taxi, and Mr. Tucker's Taxi. In Later Encounters, $7.50. See Index for individual descriptions. LIVIN' FAT. (Black Theatre Groups.) Comedy. Judi Ann Mason. 3 m., 3 f. Here is a comedy for and about Blacks written by a talented Black writer. The Cooper family is poor but happy. Father Calvin supports them by holding down two jobs. Mama, a revivalist lady, also works as a cleaning woman. There's also Big Mama (the grandmother), a teenage daughter and son David Lee, a recent college graduate who's had to take a job as bank janitor. While he's working, the bank's robbed by two white men in Batman masks. In their haste they drop a bundle, David picks it up-it's $50,000! So he buys presents for the family-and uses some of it to give himself a new start and to get married. When the family finds out where the money came from, their scruples are tested-but they finally agree that the Lord works in mysterious ways and this time he's working for them. "Witty, incisive and downright hilarious." -Sho~ Business. "This light-hearted farce had the audience stamping its collective feet in high glee." -Cleveland Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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MOLLY. (All Groups.) Drama. Simon Gray. 4 m., 2 f. Int. This celebrated English drama by the author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged is based on a famous murder case involving a lonely divorced woman who has married a man thirty years her senior. However, his age and increasing deafness make her lonelier than before, and in desperation she takes up with a young man who has been hired as a gardner. She is basically using him as an outlet for her desperate sexual and emotional longing. He, however, falls for her and, in a moment of passion, kills her husband with a pair of garden shears. Molly tries to take the blame, but the court finds her out and, in the end, she is once again alone. A success in London's West End, Molly was produced to great acclaim by New York's Hudson Guild Theatre. "An extremely interesting study of character."-N.Y. Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15119) NEVER GET SMART WITH AN ANGEL. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Tibbles. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Salvatore lives over his shoe-repair shop with his Son, Paolo, who's going to he a doctor. Sal's best friend is Carmine-and they also hate one another. Into this Italian ethnic world Paolo brings Dorothy, of "WASP" descent,

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THE MATURING OF JONATHAN PRUNEBERG. (All Groups.) Comedy. Delray Dvora(:ek. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. A guardian from the other world discovers that Jonathan is a failure because the pages in his ledger are stuck together, and he comically urges him down a path toward success-and a blind date. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS New York duplex and add dialogue crackling with wit and laughs and you have the basic elements for an evening of pure, sophisticated entertainment. Angela, the wife and Ted, the agent, are lovers and plan to murder Palmer, the actor, during a contrived robbery on New Year's Eve: But actor and agent are also lovers and have an identical plan to do in the wife. A murder occurs, but not one of the planned ones. "Clever, amusing, and very surprising."-N.Y. Times. "A slick, sophisticated show (#709) that is modem and very funny."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PLAY -BY -PLA Y. (A Spectacle of Ourselves) (Little Theatre.) Verse Farce. Robert Patrick. 3 m., 3 f. Six players in an unidentified Sha}(espearean play decide to see who can steal the show. The Leading Lady and Leading Man start out trying to outsparkle one another. But jealousy runs rampant and each enlists the aid of bit players. There are two Clowns whose egos outrun their abilities, a Character Man who is supposed to have one scene, but decides that by being a Villain he can become the star. The play is full of outrageous monologues and soliloquies, dynarrtic confrontations, and a finale that touches the heart and the funnybone at once. "Brilliant. Ornate richness of language. A beautiful, astonishingly well-developed plot."-L.A. Times. $6.50.(Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18011) THE NORMAN CONQUESTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn, Living Together, Round and Round the Garden and Table Manners ma}(e up this trilogy of plays. All occur during a single weekend in different parts of the same house and concern a group of related people. Each is complete in itself and can be played alone, or as a group they can be performed in any order. However, each benefits when produced with the others. A common factor is Norman's inadequate attempts to involve himself in turn with his sister-in-law, his brother-in-Iaw's wife and his own wife. See individual play descriptions below. "To write one brilliant comedy is a feat. To write three in a row is a tour de force so exceptional I can only throw my hat in the air and rejoice."-London Daily Telegraph. Available in one volume, (#16034) $13.50, or individually, $6.50 each. (Royalty, $50-$40 for each play.) TABLE MANNERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. lInt. Table Manners is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy (see above). In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never ta}(es place either. "Superb comic trilogy. Mr. Ayckbourn is the most remarkable British dramatist to have emerged since Harold Pinter."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#1060) LIVING TOGETHER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn, 3 m., 3 f. lnt. Living Together is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy (see above). Annie, the Cinderella of the farrtily, lives in the shabby Victorian vicarage-type house where the family was brought up. Reg, her brother, and his wife Sarah come to stay for a week-end so that she may go away for a "rest". The general idea is that Annie ought to pair off with Tom. But for this week-end it is Norman, the raffish assistant librarian husband of Annie's sister Ruth, with whom she planned to go. They were to meet secretly but Norman turns up early. When Annie calls the whole thing off Norman decides to stay on at the house and gets roaring drunk. "Superb comic trilogy. Mr. Ayckbourn is the most remarkable British dramatist to have emerged since Harold Pinter."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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THE INDOOR SPORT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jack Perry. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This ideal comedy for summer stock originally toured with Darren McGavin as the often absent soldier-of-fortune cargo pilot who desperately attempts to stop his wife's divorce plans-and intentions to marry another man. Sheila gave up her tennis career for marriage and is fed up with living alone. Unaware of her plans, Gary returns for their anniversary with lavish gifts and romantic thoughts, accompanied by an ultra-cynical foreign correspondent who's soured on marriage. Sheila's intended is a handsome, ex-pro football star from her home town. In high school, he was Sheila's older sister's steady. Sister is now an ad agency account executive. As the evening develops into a night of veiled hostility, tactical maneuvering and oneupmanship. An incorrigible, nosy cleaning woman rounds out the cast. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11052) THE MURDER ROOM. (All Groups.) Mystery-Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., ~ f. Int. When this zany spoof of British mysteries opened in Sydney, Australia, reviewers spouted phrases like "a great vehicle for three ladies," "a plethora of hilarious situations:' and "this is a romp!" "Really a minor gem . . . witty and sophisticated."-Newcastle Morning Herald. "Murder has never been this funny. A spoof of all crime thrillers . . . it is good clean mirth all the way. The quick, smart, extremely well-timed dialogue of Jack Sharkey comes through loud and clear [with] never a dull moment."-Times. "There are secret chambers, secret panels and trap lids galore. They're all operated by the most ridiculous contrivances and gloriously mucked up . . . . A high, mad melodrama."-Frank Harris. "Delightful . . . constant humor. . . . A good mixture of Agatha Christie, Monty Python, and Abbot (#717) and Costello! "-Canon, Memphis. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) NOT WITH MY DAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jay Christopher, 3 m., 3 f. Int. Will Gray suddenly has a problem when his 18-year-old daughter appears at his swinging singles apartment door. Will and his neighbor, a velvet-voiced radio DJ named Rip have a penchant for juggling girls like antacid tablets. Poor Will has a go-go girl in the living room with her motor running and a devoted young lady in the bed-room. Rip has a girl in his apartment already when Will calls on him to entertain the go-go girl. Then Will's daughter appears to complicate matters further-not only are explanations in order-but daughter has problems of her own. How it all is resolved will leave the audience limp with laughter. An adult play with not one leering joke. It's all in fun. "Fast-paced farce with as many laughs as you can handle in one sitting."-Lexington, Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#775) IMPOLITE COMEDY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joseph Hayes. 3 m., 3 f. Int. At a fashionable country home a dinner party comically goes to pieces. A publisher and his wife have invited a young novelist. The publisher's purpose is to get the novelist's new book-as his firm badly needs a best seller. But everything goes wrong. The publisher's mother, an amusing but difficult woman, has arrived unexpectedly. Enter, also uninvited, a sophisticated mystery writer who may have had an affair with the publisher's wife. The novelist proves more difficult than reputed and has in tow the girl he's currently living with and with whom he's been fighting all day. No food and much booze ma}(es for a hilarious brew-and an evening turned to shambles with cross-currents of revelations and accusations. "It's a honey. . a polite (#11024) comedy gone mad."-Washington Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) TAKE A NUMBER, DARLING. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. Since concert pianist Duncan Latimer and wife, Ellen, famous soap-opera star, lead impeccable lives their P.R. lady has no qualms over having a reporter from a scandal magazine interview them. But just before he arrives, so does Duncan's old Navy buddy (and Ellen's former lover from her literally messy past)-and so does an extra \'life Duncan forgot to tell anyone about. It's crazy and comical confusion all the way. "A work of imagination, enthusiasm and happiness [that . . . continues Sharkey'S tradition of clean, funny plays." -Lerner- Voice Newspapers. "The maximum of laughs and chaos. . . tears of joy and laughter. . . . Heartily and wholeheartedly recommended."-The News. "An evening of zany fun . . . brings down the house."-Orange County News-Post. "Fun and laughter . . . frenetic, highenergy comedy . . . sometimes subtle, sometimes shocking . . . slapstick, slip-ofthe-lip and close calls. . non-stop humor."-Saddleback Valley News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1061) LAST OF THE CLASS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 2 f. Int. The summer theatre premiere of this comedy had audiences roaring with laughter as they watched old enemies reunite after forty years to settle an estate. Two elderly gentlemen have been summoned to New York to dispose of articles left by a deceased classmate, a pornographer. They get a new lease on life after becoming implicated in a porno racket, befriending two damsels in distress and thwarting a gangster. A running commentary of "Fun City" is provided by off-stage voices of a lady of the evening and one of her clients as well as radio broadcasts. "Audience laughed all the way through."-Manchester, Journal, Vt. "Bright and sometimes bawdy but always entertaining." -Salem Press, N. Y. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#643) MURDER AMONG FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-thriller. (New Revised Version). Bob Barry. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Ta}(e an aging, exceedingly vain actor; his very rich wife; a double-dealing, double-loving agent-plunk them down in an elegant

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ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m. 3 f. Ext. Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy (see above). In this play Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized weekcend culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster. Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow-thinking Tom mistiling Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have together. Eventually the horrific weekend draws to a close. The four visitors depart, but even at the last moment Norman manages-deliberately or not-to wreck all plans by driving his car into Reg's. Back they all troop, now facing having to stay. Norman finds himself spurned by all three women and is left protesting with injured innocence that he only meant to ma}(e everyone happy. "Superb comic trilogy. Mr. Ayckbourn is the most remarkable British dramatist to have emerged since Harold Pinter." -London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#928) TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK. (All Groups.) Biography. Lorraine Hansberry, based on her life and in her own words, adapted by Robert Nemiroff. Interracial cast of 2 m., 4 f. up to 15-20 m. & f. Platform set. Longest running OffBroadway play, 1968-69. A fast-paced, powerful, touching and hilarious kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes, mood and images recreating the world of a great American woman and artist. Uniquely and boldly, the play dramatically weaves through her life experiences and the times that shaped her. The actors slip ingeniously into and out of a variety of challenging roles spanning her life and experiences to the ultimate confrontation when cancer strikes her. Includes brilliantly high-lighted scenes from her plays as well as letters, diaries, poems and personal reminiscences. A major statement of the American Black experience. "An extraordinary achievement! . . . A whirl of probing, celebrating, hoping, laughing, despairing and moving on . . . so brilliantly and tenderly alive."-N.Y. Times. "A milestone."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$35.) Write for information about music. Negative of Lorraine Hansberry available, $15.00. Slightly Restricted. (#22125)

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during a brief romantic interlude. Only after the wedding does the young man discover it is the letter-writer he loves. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6021) THREE MONTHS GONE. (Little Theatre.) Donald Howarth. 4 m., 2 f. Compo set. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22082) SIGNS OF THE TIMES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jeremy Kingston. 3 m., 3 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21166) THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) David Turner. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A lapsed Anglican seeking punishment for having an abortion is hired as a housekeeper for three Roman Catholic priests. "Amusing and absorbing. . A richly (#18124) enjoyable play."-Washington Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) FOUR ON A GARDEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Abe Burrows. Adapted from the French original by Gredy and Barillet. Premiered on Broadway with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. House of Dunkelmayer (3 m., 3 f.): Mrs. Dunkelmayer is the rich widow of a delicatessen owner and Max is a former employee. He is back from Alaska, where he fled after the pair conspired to murder her husband, a crime of which he was acquitted. Metty (2 m., 2 f.): Bob is about to rent the apartment for his fiancee when her mother shows up and it turns out that not only is the daughter illegitimate but may be the product of a Fire Island fling. Toreador (2 m., 1 f.): A painter preparing the apartment for a new tenant, a spoiled young paramour, winds up in the bedroom with the lady. *It The Swingers' (1 m., 1 f.): An elderly couple unable to summon the strength for an affair content themselves by discussing their ailments. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8072) DUTCH UNCLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Simon Gray. 4 m., 2 f. Int. The newlyacquired wardrobe of the Godboys' decaying house in Shepherd's Bush really does seem unnecessarily large for most purposes. Eric and Doris upstairs could manage without one, surely. Whatever scheme Mr. Godboy has in mind, however, he does seem to be going about it the hard way; and it certainly sorts oddly with his apparent worship of the police force and all it stands for. It' s not entirely clear why he married May Godboy; there's little satisfaction for her in the relationship. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) , (#6128) HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. Int. There are three couples in this play, the men all working for the same firm. One of the younger men is having an affair with the wife of the oldest, and when each returns home suspiciously late one night-{)r early one morning-they invent a story about having to spend some time smoothing domestic matters in the home of the third couple. Both living rooms are shown in the single set, and both share a common dining room-which takes on a character of its own as it serves two dinners simultaneously on two different nights. Of course, the third couple have to show up to put the fat in the fire, but that complication only adds to the fun of this famous farce. "A theatrical adroitness as clever as tennis at its best." -N. Y. Times. "You can go into the Royale Theatre stone-cold sober and come out a couple of hours later drunk-from laughter." -UP/. "A comedy of ingenuity and verve. . . . A farce of remarkable originality."-Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#72) MILK AND HONEY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Philip King. 3 m., 3 f. Int. When unexpected guests are inflicted on Barbara, she receives milk, comfort and more (#15101) from the milkman. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE GINGERBREAD LADY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Neil Simon. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Maureen Stapleton played the Broadway part of a popular singer who has gone to pot with booze and sex. We meet her at the end of a ten-week drying out period at a sanitarium when her friend, her daughter, and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety. But all three have the opposite effect on her. The friend is so constantly vain that she loses her husband; the actor, a homosexual, is also doomed, and indeed loses his part three days before an opening; and the daughter needs more affection than she can spare her mother. Enter also a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The birthday party washes out, the gingerbread lady falls off the wagon and careens onward to her own tragic end. "He has combined an amusing comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching."-N.Y. Post. Mr. Simon's play is as funny as ever-the customary avalanche of hilarity, and landslide of pure unbuttoned joy." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#478) SUBJECT TO CHANGE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jules E. Tasca. 2 m., 4 f. Int. First produced in Chicago with Phyllis Diller, the play introduces two sisters. Gertrude is prudish, capable and hardworking while Madeline is sloppy, cunning, and completely dependent. When Gertrude decides to marry, Madeline employs some outrageous strategies to end the romance. "Screamingly funny."-Chicago Tribune. "Audiences complain happily about sore stomachs, all from laughing." -Daily Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1008) THE PRISONER OF SECOND A VENUE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Mel.is a well-paid executive in a company which has suddenly hit the skids. When he gets the ax, his wife takes a job to tide them over. Then she too is sacked. As if this weren't enough, Mel is fighting a losing battle with the very environs of life. Polluted air is killing everything that grows on his terrace; the walls of the high-rise apartment are paper-thin so the private lives of a pair of German

KNUCKLE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-Drama. David Hare. 4 m., 2 f. Area staging. Opens in a bar where Curley Delafield has come looking for his sister, Sarah. Has she been murdered, did she kill herself, or has she simply disappeared? Curley is an aggressive, badgering young man, determined to get to the heart of the matter. He questions Jenny, the hard, bright barmaid and friend of his sister. The scene shifts to Curley's father's house. Father Patrick seems more interested in amorous playing about with his housekeeper than helping his son find Sarah. Curley then questions, Max, Sarah's fiance. But this only results in Max pulling a knife on Jenny, the barmaid. Curley is left with his search unsuccessful and his questions unanswered. A good showcase for actors. "A play of mystery and message."-N.Y Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13032) KENNEDY'S CHILDREN. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Robert Patrick. 3 m. (l nonspeaking), 3 f. Int. Five people in a New York bar on Valentine's Day, 1974, explore their activities in the 1960s which brought them to their present point of paralysis, stagnation and for one, death. Wanda, a secretary-turned-schoolteacher, has tried to follow John Kennedy's Eternal Flame of idealism despite current attempts to smear his name. Sparger, a flamboyant, dazzling actor, has grown cold and cynical watching New York's underground theatre movement go crazy and commercial. Rona, an activist in the youth-political movements of that decade, sees the movement collapsing and fears she has wasted her husband's life. Mark, a veteran of Viet Nam, has become a psychotic drug addict trying to understand the rights and wrongs of that war. Carla, a beautiful young aspiring actress who wanted to be the next Marilyn Monroe, traces with wit and courage the process by which she became, instead, a sexual toy for producers and agents. Unable any longer to relate to other human beings, these characters trace in alternating monologues their rich, heroic and courageous lives. Named "Best Play of the Year" by numerous English critics. A hit on six continents. "A blockbuster."-N.Y. Times. "One of the year's ten best."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#620) MONKEY'S UNCLE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Roger Karshner 4 m. 2 f. Int. Ernie loves apes and Fred collects leaves. And the two of them get together every Saturday to play Chinese checkers. During one of the games, Fred fakes dying of a heart attack. Ernie and his wife, Dottie, put Fred in their son's room and leave to get Harold, Fred's daffy nephew. During their absence their son, Clyde, returns home from college unexpectedly with hi~ girlfriend, Sybil. When Sybil suggests they make love Clyde goes to his room and finds a "stiff' Fred in his bed. He panics, causing Sybil to run out into the night scantily clad thinking she doesn't turn Clyde on anymore .. Now Clyde, assuming his dad has knocked off Fred, decides to get rid of the body by exchanging it with a stuffed ape. From this point on it's a whirlwind of apes, leaves, worms, ant farms, blackmail, misunderstandings and madness. But-it all comes out in.the wash. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15120) HEY, NAKED LADY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael, 3 m., 3 f. Int. The post-hippie culture is alive and well and living uproariously. Four people sharing a Greenwich Village apartment wrestle with the same problems even though three are under thirty and one is much older. "Take the kids to Hey, Naked Lady. She never appears." -Journal, Vt. "A humane, comic vision of life complete with its freakish realities." -Bennington Banner. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#535) SPINOFF. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A bank official unwittingly comes home with the loot from a robbery masterminded by his superior at the bank. Before the dust settles, everybody is in an ungodly mess, the police may close in any minute, all concerned are fearfully mistaken about everyone else's motives and loyalties, and prison is staring them all in the face. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#992) ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 3 f. 3 Ints. Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower-class" but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget-filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor. Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat. Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly modernized, old-Victorian style kitchen. Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence-and the decline of the others. In the final stages the little man is well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, dancing to his tune. "Best comedy Britain has sent us in years."-N.Y. Times. "Walks a zigzag line between comedy and farce and often manages to be staggeringly funny. "-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#31) MY DAUGHTER'S RATED "X" (Little Theatre.) Farce. Robert Fisher and Arthur Marx. 4 m., 2 f. Ralph's job is to assign film ratings to all movies that are submitted to the MPAA. Being very old-fashioned in his mores, he is the perfect man for the job. And he angers not a few of the new libertarian breed of producers. However, when his daughter leaves her baseball-playing husband in Florida and decides to move back in with her baby, Ralph's puritan ethic cracks. Not so much because she is getting a divorce, but rather because her marriage was only common law, from which no divorce is possible. We meet the ballplayer husband, finally, and also his farm-belt father-a gem of a character part. The repartee is first class, and the fun unending. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#718) THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR. (Little Theatre.) Play. Frank HarVey. 2 m., 4 f. 1 Int. A servant girl persuades her mistress to write to a man who made her pregnant

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stewardesses next door are open books to him; the apartment is burgled, and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left: he has a nervous breakdown, but he is admirably resilient and has the grit to survive. "Creates ,ill everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor from the city's manholes."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $75(#100) $75.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. Posters THE REST ORA TION OF ARNOLD MIDDLETON. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Storey. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Arnold hides from himself in a sick parody of living until one night he takes unforgivable advantage of his mother-in-law's drunkenness and must tum to his wife for help. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#918) THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Harold Pinter. 4 m., 2 f. Int. In a small house at a coastal resort live a man, his mentally wayward wife and their boarder who has been with them for a year. He is a strange chap, unkempt and in flight from we know not what. Enter an even stranger sleek Jewish man and his muscle-bound Irish henchman. The mentally immature wife accommodates them with a room and then decides that it is time for the boarder to have a birthday. At the party she arranges, the new guests play cruel games with the boarder-break his glasses, make a buffoon of him, and push him over the psychotic precipice. The next morning he is reduced to a gibbering idiot and meekly leaves with them. "Fascinating capacity to be menacing, ominous and evocative of some dark and threatening doom."-N.Y. Post. "The most interesting play to be seen on Broadway."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#272) THE ANNIVERSARY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill MacIlwraith. 3 m., 3 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3090) A DELICATE BALANCE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Edward Albee. 2 m .. 4 f. Int. This Pulitzer Prize winner enjoyed a stunning Broadway revival in 1996 with George Gizzard and Rosemary Harris. The story is simple: one night a man and woman whose marriage has drifted loose and who harbor the wife's alcoholic sister from the shocks of a bitter world receive visits from both their daughter, who is home after the wreck of her fourth marriage, and their best friends, a couple who have just had the shock of their life. The friends move in and lock the door. Before they finally leave, everyone faces the same terror: to recognize how they have frittered away love until they are at that delicate balance between sanity and madness. The depths of their lives to the reaches of despair are plumbed, showing the disintegration of love by default, its perversion to self-love and indulgence, and the terror that comes at the recognition of one's own depravity from which there is no surcease for the sane. Winner of the 1996 Drama Desk Award, Best Revival. "Powerful . . . [with] the stature and eloquence of a classic."-N.Y. Daily News. "A brilliant play."-N.Y. Post. "An evening oftheatrical fireworks."-N. Y. Times. "A beautiful play . . . filled with humor and compassion and touched with poetry."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#358) EXIT THE KING. (All Groups.) Drama. Eugene lonesco. Translated by Donald Watson. 3 m., 3 f. Int. The world is in a terrible conflagration, and the prognosis is that the king will not live out the day. A great fault has riven the earth; the sun has diminished, and snow has fallen on its northern pole. The king does not want to die, fights desperately against the inevitable truth. He who once had control of life and nature, who ordered men beheaded and ordered thunderbolts from on high, who had, in short, operated outside the law, now finds himself within the inevitable truths of that law. He recognizes himself as "a honeycomb of cavities." rotting to death. His death is that of civilizations: "Thousands and millions: I am the dying agony of all. Many worlds will flicker out in me." He is relieved of his impediments and weapons, and sits waiting at the end for either obliteration or a Platonic return to his source. "The imagination itself is original, bizarre, powerful."-N.Y. Times. "The most moving of all lonesco's plays and, if only from the width of its sympathies. It is incomparably his greatest work."-N.Y. Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted metropolitan N.Y.C. (#405) JOE EGG. (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.) (Little Theatre.) Peter Nichols. 2 m., 3 f., I c. Int. A schoolteacher and his wife have a lO-year-old spastic child named Josephine, who is completely helpless and dependent on them for everything. She is the cipher of the title. The wife believes that because of certain pre-marital indiscretions the child is punishment to them; but the husband looks on the matter drolly, as a black comedy joke. They are visited one night by another couple who have their patented solutions. The woman cannot stand lameness in people, and while she knows gas chambers are all wrong, still the state should do something in these cases. The man on the other hand is determined to give them advice, even against their will. The husband gets back at the fates with a little black comedy of his own, pretending with games of murder. But his sense of humor wasn't built to withstand this, and in the end he finds he can neither laugh off the affliction nor live with it, and runs away. "An immensely moving, even profound play about love and marriage . . . . Very worthwhile."-N.Y. Times. "Both moving and funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#605) THE HOMECOMING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Harold Pinter. 5 m., I f. Int. In a cavernous London home live four men: a widower, his two grown sons and his brother. Back into their lives comes the third son, a professor of philosophy, who six years earlier married a woman of whom he was ashamed and who went to America to teach. She returns to England with him on his visit, now the mother of three sons and quite changed. It's a bizarre household and she seems to fit in quite cannily. The widower is a pensioned butcher, the uncle is a private chauffeur, and one son is a

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS boxer while the other is a pimp. They need someone like her, and as her husband is exiting for home, she decides to accept the proposition matter-of-factly presented to her; she will serve the men as cook, mistress, and whatever, and will pay for her keep by becoming a part-time prostitute elsewhere. Winner of the Critics' Award for Best Play of the Year, "Bizarre, ominous and taunting . . . . A steadily absorbing, tantalizing and disturbing theatrical adventure. Enthralling." -N. Y. Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#539) GENERATION. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Goodhart. 5 m., I f. Int. Father smuggles a chum who's an obstetrician in to attend the natural childbirth of his grandchild. "A refreshing, honest and forgiving look at people who take themselves seriously and can still perceive the humor in their situations."-N.Y. World-Telegram and Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#476) MY SWEET CHARLIE. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. David Westheimer. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. The scene is a summer colony in the south, and the two people we meet here out-of-season are fugitives from the world, searching for a haven. He is an educated Negro youth on the lam, caught in a circle of hostile whites who could, in a moment, spot him as a northern agitator. She is a simple, unschooled white girl of the area who has gotten herself in trouble and, despised at home, has run away to have her baby. They stumble upon one another, hiding out in the same cottage, trespassers; and the hostility between them is immediate and inbred. The miracle of the play is that each of them comes to realize that he needs the other; that black-andwhite hostility is artificial; and that affection and friendship is the natural way through the throes of life. Each sacrifices something for the ,other, and in the climactic scene comes both birth and death, and the dirty fist of a mindless society. "Because it treats its subject with modesty, taste and quiet dignity, it is deeply and honestly touching. . remarkably poignant."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#721) BOEING-BOEING. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Marc Camoletti. Adapted by Beverley Cross. 2 m., 4 f. lnt. Parisian Lothario has a French, a German and an American fiancee, each a beautiful airline hostess with a two-day layover in Paris. He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" and has the seventh day to rest until schedule changes bring all three to Paris-and their intended's apartment-at the same time. The play ran five years in Paris and three in London. "A broad and frantic farce. "-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#279) IN WHITE AMERICA. (All Groups.) History. Martin B. Duberman. 4 m., 2 f. Platform W. musical interludes. Drawn from historical records by a professor at Princeton, this absorbing story of blacks in America won the Off-Broadway Drama Desk Award. From a letter revealing the heart and soul. of a runaway slave and a moving speech by a southern senator in justification of lynching to portraits of Booker T. Washington and Father Divine, each scene has enduring emotional power. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music available; please write for details. (#573) THE GIRL IN THE FREUDIAN SLIP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William F. Brown. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A staid New York psychiatrist has a fashion artist for a wife, a perceptive seventeen-year-old for a daughter, a social lion bachelor author for a friend, a wildly hung-up young man as his principle patient, and a former patient for his Achilles heel. A sexually emancipated young lady, she wrestled with nymphomania on the doctor's couch for three years and in his subconscious for a tormenting period of time. He controls his secret yearnings until unforseen circumstances throw him into a cozy confrontation with this young lady. If anyone can lead the doctor astray, this lady can. And without the couch and the structured analytic situation to hide behind, he finds himself face to face with some very tempting moments. "The funniest show of the season. . . . You'll laugh out loud and often. "-Ft. Lauder(#481) dale News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE FATAL WEAKNESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Kelly. 2 m., 4 f. Int. "So fresh in its observations, three-dimensional in its characters and human in its humor that it emerges as the first important comedy of the season." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8018) THE INNOCENTS. (All Groups.) Melodrama. William Archibald, adapted from Henry James' The Turn o/the Screw. 1m., 3 f. 1 boy and 1 girl aged ten to thirteen. A story of unspeakable horror, it begins when a young governess arrives at an English estate to oversee two precocious, orphaned youngsters. There's also a motherly cook. But these four aren't alone-they're haunted by fears and phantoms and by ghastly shadows. The governess and cook are terrified, but the children are possessed by the spirits and welcome their visitations. The governess learns the spirits are those of the former caretaker and maid, both perverse, who corrupted the souls of the innocents. In a final scene, full of fear and terror, she learns that the two are now inseparable-the evil and the innocents. "In a lifetime of play going, I do not recall a single play which held me as spellbound." -N. Y. Journal American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, Record or Tape, $32.50. (#577) LOOT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joe Orton. 5 m., I f. lnt. Loot is a scathing attack on money, the police, the Catholic Church and several other sacred institutions, constructed a Wildean drawing-room comedy of the blackest hue. The corpse in the coffin in the front parlor, the mother of a young bank robber, is dumped upside down into a closet so that the thief and his accomplice, an undertaker's assistant, can use the coffin as a hiding place for their stolen money. The wild adventures that occur among the thieves, a nurse who was with the dead woman at her death, the

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U.S.A. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Dos Passos and Paul Shyre, based on the novel by John Dos Passos. 3 m., 3 f Cyc-and-platform. Shyre and Dos Passos have transformed the latter's classic novel about the first third of this century to the stage, retaining all the color, sentiment, and reality of the era. Here is the story of J. Ward Morehouse, born on the Fourth of July in 1901, who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl and works his way to the top of the heap. Interwoven are the headlines and the celebrities of the times: Ford, Rudolph Valentino, Eugene Debs, the Wright Brothers, Isadora Duncan, the Suffragettes, and all the rest. A striking panorama of an era that is simple in its conception and staging. Individual scenes of the cavalcade offer excellent material for both auditions and competitions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#1140) SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Robert Anderson. 2 m., 3 f I c. Int. A man and woman meet at a New England inn on Christmas eve in this bittersweet comedy that starred Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes on Broadway. She is fretting about an unfaithful husband and picking up her son from a nearby school infirmary. His wife is in an asylum, insane since her despair over his affair enabled their little girl to wandered off and drown. This night they need love. In the morning, she flies off to her contrite husband with her boy and he finds his wife in a rare period of lucidity: It is Christmas. "Beautifully and tenderly written."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#979) THE SILVER CORD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sydney Howard. 2 m., 4 f 2 int. The Widow Phelps devilishly schemes to keep her two sons at her side. David marries while abroad and returns to find that mother has other plans for him. Robert is courting a delightful girl until Mrs. Phelps poisons his mind and persuades him tp break the engagement. David is forced to choose between wife and mother and it seems that Mrs. Phelps will indeed keep her boys when both girls leave alone. In a flash David sees the truth and mother is left with only her weakling younger son for consolation. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#981) BLUE DENIM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. James Leo Herlihy and William Noble. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This moving and compassionate play concerning the problem of communications between the younger and older generations was saluted by the critics as a work of stature and uncommon insight. The juveniles are not delinquent and the parents are not heartless or uncaring; the trouble stems from the fact that they simply do not speak each other's language. A retired army officer living in Detroit has a 15-year-old son who finds that he is about to become a father. The youngster feels helpless; he has never been close enough to his parents to go to them for help. When he does, at a friend's urging, he cannot make himself understood. This simple yet universal situation encompasses the terrible insecurity of youth, and the equally terrible failure of parents who realize too late that they don't know their own children. "Blue Denim is original; in the last act it is overwhelmingly dramatic."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#277) WUTHERING HEIGHTS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Randolph Carter. Based on Part 1 of the novel by Emily Bronte. Produced in New York. 3 m., 3 f 2 ints. Catherine Ernshaw has inherited Wuthering Heights, together with its occupants, a couple of servants and a wild gypsy boy with whom she has grown up, Heathcliff Catherine has a violent quarrel with Heathcliff one night, and he disappears into the storm. Shortly thereafter Catherine marries a neighbor named Edgar, and moves away. Heathcliffreturns to live in Wuthering Heights, and marries Edgar's sister for spite. He leads her an unhappy life, and infuriates Catherine. One day Catherine falls ill, and in this state goes to visit Wuthering Heights. Edgar follows, and a violent scene ensues, at the height of which Catherine dies. The tempestuous love affair is ended. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25205) OH, DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELING SO SAD. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Arthur Kopit. 4 m., 2 f, extras. 2 int. A widow and her young son arrive at a hotel with piles of luggage, including priceless plants, a coffin, and a fish bowl with a live piranha. The bellboys are tipped with rare coins worth thousands, even though the widow has decided that she will restaff the entire hotel. An attractive babysitter sits for the children of a man and woman who never come home. ("Have just had another child," they wire her. "Sending it express collect.") A yachtsman with a mile-long yacht throws himself at the widow's feet. She says she'll accept the money, but doesn't want him. Affairs continue in this fashion until poor, dear, dad falls out of the closet. "Funny, weird, and nonsensical."-N.Y. Mirror. Winner of the Vernon Rice Award for Off-Broadway theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#802) I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. J.B. Priestly. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A success in London and New York, this .play is proposes that we repeat our lives constantly in a sort of spiral, but are able to change if we understanding of the forces that govern us. A British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an Inn in Yorkshire. His probing questions reveal that they are unhappy and confused. They have played out their scene many times, always ending in suicide and poverty. The professor warns them that they must now break the pattern. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11003) ALL FOR MARY. Harold Brooks and Kay Bannerman. 3 m., 4 f. 2 int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3037)

widowed husband, and a corrupt and brutal police inspector make for a vitriolic, deadly serious black comedy that makes most other drama in this genre seem genteel. "Seethes with black, baleful mirth. Cudgels traditional morality. "-AP. $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#656) THE ASPERN PAPERS. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Michael Redgrave, from the story by Henry James. 2 m., 4 f. Int. In a once-grand Venetian palazzo an old woman and her niece live in seclusion. An American publisher asks to leases some rooms, his purpose to unearth the mystery of a brilliant author who once loved the aunt. The old woman curtly rejects all inquiries. When she finds him going through the some papers he's discovered, she has a stroke and dies. The lonely niece pathetically proposes to him, but he rejects her when she says she's burned the papers. She locks herself up in the palazzo and then destroys the papers. "Bewitching, tantalizing, exciting. . . . A work of uncommon suspense and exceptional literary merit."-N.Y. Daily News. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#233) THE TUNNEL OF LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries, adapted from the novel by Mr. de Vries. 2 m., 4 f Int. Tom Ewell played the Broadway part of a suburban husband in a 5-year childless marriage. He and his wife decide to adopt a baby, but a loud-mouth neighbor upsets the apple cart when the adoption investigator comes to call. However, not to be outdone, Ewell finds himself in the clutches of the investigator, who has suddenly turned color. Later she announces that she is pregnant and is going off to have the baby. She will see that the man and his wife receive the child in due time through the agency. Shortly after the baby arrives, however, the wife learns of the matter and starts packing to go home to Mother. But it turns out that the adopted baby was not fathered by the husband, and also that the wife is now herself pregnant; and matters are mended. "It offers laugh after laugh." -N. Y. World Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1093) PAPA IS ALL. (All Groups.) Comedy. Patterson Greene. 3 m., 3 f Int. A cheerful comedy about the Pennsylvania Dutch. Papa's an ugly-tempered tyrant with religious scruples against conveniences and pleasures of all kinds. Emma, the daughter, is in love with a surveyor who wants to marry her. Son Jake wants to simplify farm life by the installation of machinery. Mama, though resigned to accepting Papa's word, is wistful for the friendly association with neighbors that's part of even the most orthodox Mennonite life. The offspring suspect Papa's scruples are merely a way of keeping them as the farm's forced slave labor. Emma-with Mama's connivance-steals off to a movie with her surveyor, but Papa finds out and in a rage goes off to shoot the surveyor. The family realizes something must be done about Papaand then the car Papa's in enroute to his shooting is wrecked-and Papa happily disappears. How Papa is finally done in unfolds at the end. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (18020) FALLEN ANGELS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Coward at his inimitable best, gay, debonair, infinitely sophisticated-in the style that won him his reputation as the most successful purveyor of high comedy in the theatre. The story is a frothy nothing, but treated as only Coward can, it provides a continuously amusing two hours, highlighted by recurring moments of insane hilarity. The plot centers on Julia and Jane, best friends and both happily married these five years. But before their marriages, both had brief affairs with Maurice, French and a great charmer. Now Maurice is visiting London and has asked to see them both. Happily, the husbands are gone for a day of golf, and Julia and Jane nervously await Maurice's call. How they quarrel, make up, get high on champagne and quarrel again, what happens when Maurice finally arrives, very late, and the husbands return unexpectedly-these are some of the threads of the action. Another is provided by Saunders, Julia's new maid who has been absolutely everywhere and done absolutely everything. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted. (#431) PICTURES IN THE HALLWAY. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic reading. Sean O'Casey, dramatized by Paul Shyre, 4 m., 2 f. No scenery. A section of O'Casey's early autobiography, dramatized for Broadway by Mr. Shyre, and presented with Staats Cotsworth and Aline MacMahon, among others, in a reading on a bare stage. We meet O'Casey in his first skirmish with women; in the episodes and torn allegiances of the Irish rebellion; in his first job, in a bookstore, which ended disastrously; in his first acquaintance with death, close within his own family. Finally he makes his decision; to stand no longer looking at the pictures in the hallway, but to move out into the mainstream of life, and carve his own history. Admirably dramatic, though it is a reading on a bare stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#18068) THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF. (All Groups.) Mystery-comedy. George Batson. From a TV play by George Batson and Donn Harmon. 2 m., 4 f Int. The House on the Cliff is rumored to be the last stop of the Civil War Underground Railroad and overlooks one of the Great Lakes. Years ago, an excursion boat sank in a storm and it's said the lake is haunted. The house's occupants include a young, lovely heiress, Ellen Clayton, currently confined to a wheelchair; her coolly beautiful stepmother; and an austere housekeeper. Then Nurse Pepper arrives, a cheerful, curious person desirous of putting things in order. And there's the substitute doctor, Corey Phillips who believes Ellen can walk again-and soon. It all begins with a sudden, violent murder and ends with a chilling, surprising climax. Excellent parts for the entire (#10151) cast. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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Scene AFFAIRS OF STATE. Louis Vemeuil (#206) ........................................................................... lnt. ALL ABOUT LOVE. Miriam Ryan (#3036) ............................................................................. Int. ANGELA. Sumner Arthur Logg (#3085) ................................................................................. lnt. ANY EVE FOR ADAM. Harry Cauley (#3093) .......................................................................... Int. THE BABY SITTER. W. Randolph Galvin (#4012) ..................................................................... Int. BABY WANT A KISS. James Costigan (#4002) ......................................................................... Int. BELINDA. A.A. Milne (#4032) .......................................................................................... lnt. BEST FRIEND. Michael Sawyer (#4036) ................................................................................ lnt. BLOOD MOON. Nicholas Kazan (#4650) ............................................................................ 2 ints. THE BUTTON. Ben Starr (#4154) ....................................................................................... Int. THE CANTILEVERED TERRACE. William Archibald (#5013) ....................................................... Ext. CAPTAIN JACK'S REVENGE. Michael Smith (#5016) ................................................................. lnt. CAUDAULES, COMMISSIONER. Dan Gerould (#5011) ........................................................... lnt.lext. COCK AND BULL STORY. Richard Crowe & Richard Zajdlic (#346) .................................................. int. DANCING IN THE END ZONE. Bill C. Davis. (#6136) .......................................................... Unit set. THE DAYS BETWEEN. Robert Anderson (#6023) ...................................................................... Int. DEAD PIGEON. 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AS THE BEAST SLEEPS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Mitchell. 6 m., 1 f. Unit set. Ulster Defence Association members Kyle and Freddie help the cause by robbing cigarette warehouses and distributing the fags to selected clubs. With the UDA's push toward political acceptance under way, this sort of scam is now taboo. Freddie goes his own way and launches a masked raid on their local club. Kyle is recruited to carry out a punishment beating of his former friend. $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3728) BARKING SHARKS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Israel Horovitz. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. A solid hit with diverse audiences in Gloucester, New York City and Fairbanks, this startling town-and-country drama is built around the son of a Gloucester fisherman who finds himself, at age forty, living in New York City where he runs a hip ad agency in Tribeca. He dreams of his roots: of being a fisherman in the waters off Massachusetts. When he does follow his dream back to Gloucester, he brings havoc into the lives offriends and family. "Harrowing. . . . A sweeping epic."-Boston Herald. "Brilliant! A great, swashbuckling story!" -Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Amateurs may apply for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. (#4279) BEATA: THE POPE'S DAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 5 m., 2 f. set Int. Based on a real episode in Vatican City, this play features unforgettable characters. An exciting young woman who is convinced she is the daughter of Pope John Paul II endeavors to prove it. When she is kidnaped by a political group seeking to blackmail the Holy Father, she recants her claim to protect the Pope-and pays a heavy price for her courage. "Fascinating. . . . It is the most polemic and daring theatrical play since The Deupty."-Theatre News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#3988) BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dennis Potter. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children (played by adults) on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a woods, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasize and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Easy-going Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fair-minded Paul. Plain Audrey is overshadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her anger on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified "Donald Duck" who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays a dangerous game of pyromania with tragic results. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4319) THE BRIDEGROOM OF BLOWING ROCK. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Catherine Trieschmann. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. Set at the end of the Civil War in a town with split loyalties, this play weaves humor and mythology into a story about women who must find ways to keep hearth and home together in the absence of "fUll-bodied" men. Focus is on the fracture that occurs in one family when a blind daughter is seduced by a Union raider with extraordinary storytelling abilities, much to the dismay of her staunchly Confederate mother. Winner of the L. Arnold Weiss(#4747) berger Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) CAUGHT IN THE NET. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. The sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children, a girl from one family and a boy from the other, have met on the Internet and are anxious to meet in person since they have so much in common-name, surname and taxi-driving dad! Keeping them apart plunges John into a hell-hole of his own making. His lodger Stanley could be a savior, but he is about to go on holiday with his decrepit old father (who turns up thinking he is already at the guest house). The situation spirals out of control as John juggles outrageously with the truth. "A master class in the art of farce . . . . The perfectly potty plot is a precession-built laughter machine."-What's On. "Brilliant. . . . The funniest play of the year."-Daily Mail. "Utterly magical . . . firework-display of knockabout comedy. "-Spectator. "A sheer joy from beginning to end."-Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#5865) THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. Set in the early 1940's, this funny play tells the eerie story of frustrating, neurotic and irresponsible but resilient and strangely appealing Becky Armitage. This young lady leaves a trail of chaos but always manages to land on her feet. Because her mother died when she was born, she was raised by aunts who do not know what to do with her. Nobody will tell her who her father is. When the DeFlores carnival comes to town, she is seduced in the hall of mirrors by Romeo DeFiores. He skips town leaving her pregnant. She marries the town librarian and he is a good father to her child, but when the carnival returns she conceives another child in the labyrinth of mirrors and her gentle husband begins to lose his mind. An addition to the author's Pendragon plays, this moving play features characters that (#6553) also appear in Chronicles and November. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

THE CURSE OF RA VENSDURN. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Nick Hall. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Six short plays by the author of Around the Clock and other popular plays tell the history of the most hideous, hilarious stately home in England. Ghosts, secret passages, romance, fortune hunters, big game hunters, stolen jewels, a heathen idol, a missing heir, faithful butlers, unfaithful butlers, murder, betrayal, Americans and thunder and lightning-lots of thunder and lightening-.-enliven these affectionate but macabre tales of one hysterically cursed family. "Both funny and witty."-Variety. "The wackiness is infectious."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 when performed together.) The Curse of Ravensdum (collection) (#5322) Night Caps (#16906) Padparadsha (#17801) The Curse of Ravensdum (#5323) The Claimant (#5844) Ravensdum Remains (#11942) Caveat Emptor (#5843) DEFYING GRAVITY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Anderson. 3 m., 4 f. Ext. w. set pieces and projections. This free-structured look at the 1986 Challenger disaster places the teacher who died with six others as they hurtled into space at the center of an exploration of our need to reach beyond ourselves and dare the universe. Defying Gravity artfully interweaves the past with the present and the lives of participants and bystanders, drawing parallels among Claude Monet's artistic quest, the zest of the first civilian astronaut, the perspectives of her grieving daughter, the aspirations of elderly tourists who dream of hotels in space, the guilt felt by a NASA mechanic and his girlfriend's fear of heights. "Flies high . . . . You will certainly not be bored."-N.Y. Post. "Clever and uplifting [with] ear-catching musings about art, religion and the outer limits of human possibility." -N. Y. Times. "Lovely. . . . It floats gracefully in the big blue yonder of the imagination . . . letting Anderson's delicate, tender and human attitude toward her characters come through." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6210) THE DOG PROBLEM. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. David Rabe. 6 m., 1 f., 1 dog. Unit set. Trouble starts when Teresa tells her brother that a guy did something to her with his dog in bed. It's the wrong thing said to the wrong person. From then on a chain reaction of misplaced passions and galloping sentences leads to deadly conclusions in a darkly funny play about men, women, ghosts, sex, betrayal, psychic power and the realization that when you destroy the natural world in Act One, you better look out in Act Two. "It's hysterical. It's crazy. It's great."-Republican American. "Imagine Samuel Becket and the comedy team of Bob and Ray signing on to write The Sopranos."-N.Y. Times. "Resonates with a kind of loopy truth."-Hartford Courant. "Hilarious, with laughter coming at every possible angle."-Fairfield Citizen-News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#6226) DYING FOR LAUGHS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jerry Sroka and John Fleming. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Marty and his writing partner Robb have not had a hit since their television series, McCormick and Schwartz, of seven years ago. Marty's girlfriend Lee is determined to get all of them jobs writing for dipsomaniac comedienne Stephanie Smart, who wants to bring her fame to film and television. But Smart is too drunk to deliver and supposedly jumps off the 59th Street Bridge. Sudden plot twists involve a rhyming mobster named Vincent the Horse (who comes to collect and falls for Lee), Stephanie's manager and his so-called wife, the 65-year old son of the owner of the Concord Hotel (where Smart broke her engagement) and Smart's lying bother. "A solid, urbane and very funny domestic comedy in the Neil Simon mode . . . . A beautifully timed, spring-heeled. . comedy."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6753) FOOD AND SHELTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Anderson. 4 m., 2 f., I f. child. Reduced to living in his car, an unemployed factory worker wins a small lottery prize and treats his family to a day at Disneyland. They hide in the park to spend a night in the Swiss family Robinson tree house. In the morning, frustration turns to violence when Earl cannot even afford an ice cream for his little girl. Though charges are dropped, Earl can no longer cope and he leaves his family. Mother and child struggle to survive. When Earl eventually returns having found a job, his desperate wife has lost the ability to trust and to hope. "Heart-wrenching. . . . Jane Anderson relentlessly presses her point that nothing like the events on stage should be happening in such a wealthy country."-Variety. "Powerful."-S.F. Examiner-Chronicle. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#8933) THE FORCE OF CHANGE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Mitchell. 6 m., 1 f. Comb. int. Caroline is a detective sargeant in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. She is accustomed to battling the ingrained sexism of her male colleagues, but now she suspects something far worse - that they are collaborating with the terrorists they are supposed to defend against. "Hooks you with stealth and cunning and then holds you in a delayed suspense as it rushes towards its denouement." -London Evening Standard. "Has the blazing conviction of lived experience combined with an unfashionable relish for strong plot."-London Daily Telegraph. "Crisp, vibrant playwriting sure to resonate well away from those war-torn Ulster streets. "-Variety. $16.95. (Royalty, 60-$40.) (#8684)

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THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marivaux. Translated by Stephen Wadsworth. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Silvia, well-born and high-spirited, is concerned about an arranged marriage so she spends the day of her finaceO's first visitdisguised as her maid Lisette while Lisette she pretends to be Silvia. The intended husband, Dorante, takes the same precaution, arriving in the guise of his servant. And his servant, who duly comes dressed as Dorante, is the irrepressible and outrageous Harlequin, which means pandemonium ensues. The "servants"are drawn to each other but must overcome the pride and prejudice of their social class while Lisette and Harlequin savor a delicious taste of freedom and respectability. All are deeply perplexed as Marivaux uncompromisingly turns the screw. Silvia's father and brother, who know all but say nothing, preside over the sentimental education of these comedic desperadoes. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8996) GETTING AND SPENDING. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Michael Chepiga. 4 m., 3 f. A brilliant and beautiful investment banker makes illegal profits of eighteen million dollars from ins41er trading and uses it to build housing for the homeless. Shortly before her trial, she ferrets out the foremost criminal attorney of the era to persuade him to abandon his retirement in a Kentucky monastery to defend her. This play is about them: their struggles with themselves, with each other, with the law and with her unusual defense. "Stirs the conscience while entertaining the spirit."-L.A. Times. "A wonderfully entertaining play! Smart, funny and always compelling."-WCBS TV. "An off-beat. audacious comedy, well worth seeing."-WNBC TV. "Caustic, bitingly funny . . . [with] fascinating, complex characters."-Orange County Register. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9600) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. David Mamet. 7 m. 2 ints. This scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize. The hit Broadway revival starred Alan Aida. AldaNever has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Roma is in the lead for the monthly sales award (a new Cadillac) while former top salesman Shelly Levene is riding a streak of bad luck. They are dependent Williamson to give them hot leads, and Williamson ruthlessly pits them against each other. In the first act, the salesmen vie for position as they gulp their cocktails in the local Chinese restaurant. The second act shifts to the office, where the promising Glengarry Glen Ross leads have been filched. Eventually, Williamson screws Roma out of his car and nabs the bag man .. , 'The best political play of the year . . . never mentions any form of politics.. . To hear the first three minutes of spattered dialogue rising from the stage is to know you're in a magic world of verbal artistry, and it only gets better."-Village Voice. "Crackling tension . . . ferocious comedy and drama."-NY. Times. "Wonderfully funny . . . . A play to see, remember and cherish."-NY. Post. Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival. $6.50. (Royal(#9058) ty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. HAUPTMANN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Logan. 5 m., 2 f. Various sets. This compelling drama by the author of Never the Sinner begins just moments before the 1936 execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German immigrant who was convicted of murdering the Lindbergh's baby. With prison guards doubling as other characters in flashback, Hauptmann tells his gripping story. "It is one of rising antiGerman sentiment in America, of rich versus poor, of the state versus the individual."-Hollywood Reporter. "A spellbinding and surprisingly fresh . . . engrossing drama, intelligently told."-Variety. "In telling one man's story, it succeeds in encompassing everything that is essential about America today."-Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#10574) IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gardner McKay. 5 m., 2 f. (to play 9 characters). Int. Tom Vickery has a secret. Or he did. Twenty-five years ago he wrote a play that his agent, Morris Bonecream, told him was too personally embarrassing to produce. Tom set fire to him. Bonecream sued Tom for arson. Tom faked his suicide and disappeared. He is presumed dead, but in reality is living in the Maine woods bottling cranberry brandy and married to Gemma Jones, a woman who knows nothing of his past. Suddenly, Bonecream appears; Tom's play is a huge hit in London under an Englishman's name. Bonecream needs Tom's script as e,idence to get his commission from the plagiarist. Gemma reads the play and leaves Tom. A character from the play, Shelley Vickery, turns up. She straightens Tom out. The hired man falls in love with her. Gemma comes back to Tom. Bonecrearn finds God, or someone like him. This play is the long awaited sequel to (#11111) the author', Me. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE INCOMPARABLE LOULOU. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron Clark. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The title character is a singer about to try for a comeback in a nightclub on Staten Island. Meanwhile, her sister is pushing her to publish her memoirs. The first performanc:e is a bomb, but some of the sting is alleviated by the surprise appearance of LouLou's ex-husband, now an up-and-coming congressman. Unfortunately, his amorous attentions are only an attempt to stop her from publishing certain incriminating photographs in her memoirs. "Irresistible."-Miami News. "A Valentine's Day fable . . . about perseverance, friendship, loyalty, love and money."-Palm Beach Daily News. "A mine field of jokes and gags . . . . LouLou is pretty and delightful. vulnerable yet strong and beautiful in the way of a woman born with a natural sensuality."-The Miami Herald. $6.50: (Royalty, $60-$40.) Lead sheets for the songs "Hello. We Meet Again," "If I Love," "I'd Love to Fall Asleep" and "La Vie Est Belle," $5.00. (Music Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Re(#10979) stricted.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS THE INSANITY OF MARY GIRARD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Lanie Robertson. 3 m., 4 f. Bare stage. In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she is insane. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11659) THE JEWELER'S SHOP. (All Groups.) Drama with songs. Pope John Paul II, translated by Boleslaw Taborski. Original songs by Paul Cassanova. 4 m., 3 f., plus lon-stage guitarist. No set. The most widely produced of the plays by Pope John Paul II, The Jeweler's Shop made its Off Broadway debut in 1994. Ideal for church chancel as well as stage productions, this poetic drama explores the aspects of human existence expressed through love and marriage. Songs use one acoustic guitar as accompaniment. "A marvelous play with dramatic power that moves the (#12904) audience to tears." -Catholic Advocate. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) THE JUDAS KISS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 6 m., 1 f. Ints. Liam Neeson starred on Broadway in this compelling depiction of Oscar Wilde just before and after his imprisonment. Act One captures him in 1895 on the eve of his arrest. He still has a chance to flee to the continent but chooses to let the train leave without him. In the second act, Wilde is in Naples more than two years later, after his release from Reading Gaol. In exile, he is drawn to a reunion with his unworthy lover and a final betrayal. "Intriguing. . . .Oscar Wilde seems to be literature's. . neverending source of wonder and speCUlation. . . . What Hare has done here is not to write a narrative but to offer a portrait of Oscar at the end of his once-glittering tether. . . . What Hare has achieved masterfully are two companion vignettes pinpointing and highlighting the fall of Wilde. The dialogue is urbane. stylish and frequently imbued with Oscar-like flashes of humor and purplish poetic resonance. But the main thrust is for character and situation: a mood portrait of a fall from grace."-NY. Post. "A moving evocation of the human spirit."-NY. Daily News. "Shifts the heroic focus, emphasizing Wilde less as a martyr of sexual persuasion than as a martyr of love. . . . That the object of Wilde's love . . . is so clearly unworthy of it only makes the sacrifice more noble."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#12645) LAFFERTY'S WAKE. (Little Theatre.) Audience participation comedy with music. Susan Turlish. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Our darlin' wild rover Charlie Lafferty is being waked in grand style in his home away from home, the local pub. The audience joins Charlie's widow, his sweet daughter and bumbling son-in-law, the parish priest and the savvy innkeeper as they celebrate the life and times of ramblin', gamblin' Lafferty. Two hours of sheer fun replete with jokes, jigs, stories and songs (including such old favorites as "Molly Malone," "Whiskey in the Jar" and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") guarantee a festive, audience-pleasing frolic. "A real charmer! It'll steal your heart away."-Courier Post. "Full of Irish flavor."-Philadelphia Inquirer. "You don't have to be Irish to love it."-Northeast Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13826) LOST IN YONKERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Neil Simon. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A Pulitzer-Prize winner by America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Eddie deposits his two young sons on his mother's doorstep so he can go on an extended sales trip. The boys must contend with Grandma, a stem old lady; with her daughter who is retarded and having a secret romance, and a son who may have mob connections. Gradually, the mood deepens as the boys endure life with a family of emotionally crippled people. While the children are only temporarily exiled in Yonkers, the rest of their sad, funny family is truly lost. "The best play Simon ever wrote."-NY. Post. "Impressive and fun."-NY. Daily News. "Laughter and tears have come together in a new emotional truth. There are moments in this play when you experience a new kind of laughter that implodes straight into your heart." -Newsweek. Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (Music Royalty, $25 per week or $5.00 per performance, whichever is less.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#15) ME. (All Groups.) Tragi-comedy. Gardner McKay. 4 m., 3 f. or 5 m., 2 f. Int. Winner of a NEA grant when presented at Actors Studio and produced on PBS Television Theatre with Richard Dreyfuss and Geraldine Fitzgerald, this is an unusual family story. For six years Tomby has pretended to be retarded while his twin brother has tried to kill him, his sister is in love with him and her finance wants him dead. Father is brain-damaged from a Navy wound and it is up to hard-working Mom to hold the family together. She knows everyone's secrets but keeps them to herself so the family boat won't rock. The play opens on the eve of the twins' birthday. "Murderously funny, moving play . . . . It focuses on the various natures of true love."-L.A. Times. "Off-center comedy-drama of the Jerome family coming of age, in spite of bizarre behavior-madness, duplicity and even a touch of incest. . . . [It] has truly touching moments . . . . Mr. McKay's writing is at top form, powerfully funny and wise."-Variety. "Hilarious, stirring and deep."-Heraid Examiner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15188) MR. BUNDY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Martin. 3 m., 3 f., I f. child. Unit set. This powerful drama examines the fears of parents driven to do "the right thing" when the safety of their daughter is in d6ubt. A mother and father who learn that the next door neighbor is a convicted child molester consider both vigilance and vigilantism before being forced into action by a pair of child advocacy crusaders. The shocking climax hits a raw nerve, leaving the audience to consider where the line between right and wrong lies. Mr. Bundy was a hit at the 1998 Humana Festival at

CHARACTERS Actors Theatre of Louisville. "Jane Martin has written her strongest play yet. "-TheatreScope. "As she has previously with plays about abortion rights [Keely and Du] and contemporary relationships [Jack and Jill] the pseudonymous Martin again fleshes out thorny issues with a vivid human dimension. involving an audience and preventing us from accepting easy conclusions." -Palm Beach Pos'. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15295)

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play you will remember and forever cherish."-N.Y. Post. "Infused with Ms. Howe's lyrical sense of mortality . . . , The dramatist's ear for the music in everyday conversation is obvious."-N.Y. Times. "A lovely achievement. "-Variety. Named Best American Play by the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle. $6.50. (Royalty, $75$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#18230) PUBLIC AFFAIRS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. A. R. Gurney. 4 m.j 3 f. (doubling possible). 2 ints. This full-length entertainment from one of America's foremost playwrights is comprised of revised versions of two one-act plays: The Open Meeting and The Love Course. See Index for individUal descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $35-$25 per one-act when presented separately.) Please specify Public Affairs when ordering. (#18206) THE REAL THING. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 4 m., 3 f. Ints. A two-time Tony Award winner, this intellectually and emotionally engaging comedy portrays an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright whose second wife is trying to merge worthy causes with her art as an actress. She has net a "political prisoner" named Brodie who has been jailed for radical thuggery, and who has written an inept play about how property is theft and the state stifles the rights of the individual. Henry's wife wants him to make the play work theatrically. Eventually, he is able to convince his wife that Brodie is emphatically not a victim of political repression; he is, in fact, a thug. And while this hilariously transpires, Henry's concepts of love, marriage and fidelity are tested as surely as his writing skills. Jeremy Irons triumphed in the original Broadway production. "Stoppard's most moving play and the most bracing play anyone has written about love and marriage in years."-N.Y. Times. "Shimmering, dazzling theatre. "-WCBS-TV. Winner of the 1984 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#941) THE REUNION. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Billy St. John. 3 m., 4 f. Int. When the committee of former student body officers and the valedictorian announce a ten-year high school reunion, one classmate is particularly anxious to return to town for the event. Wilton Hackett, the class weirdo, has spent the years since graduation developing skills as a hacker-of computers and people. A serial killer, he works days as a morgue attendant and spends nights seeking new victims to slash. He sees the reunion as the chance of a lifetime to settle old scores with the popular kids who ridiculed him in high school. The reunion with Hack is an unforgettable experience. (Note: This play contains explicit language and graphic violence.) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19952) SEVEN GUITARS. (Black Groups.) Tragi-comedy. August Wilson. 4 m., 3 f. Ext. The sixth in the author's decade-by-decade exploration of the black experience in America (see page 74), two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes, Seven Guitars is part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy and part mystery. In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, friends gather to mourn for a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback to the busy week leading up to Floyd's sudden and unnatural death. "Displays a narrative sweep and almost biblical richness of language and character. . . . Mr. Wilson writes so vividly that the play seems to have the narrative scope and depth of a novel."-N.Y. Times. "Impressive ... with wild, untamed elements of symbolic fantasy, and the language ... is used with the specific rifflike fluency and emotional impact of jazz."-N.Y. Post. Winner of the N.Y. Drama Critics Award for Best Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21530) SHADY BUSINESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Robin Hawdon. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis. Will possessive club owner Big Mack fmd out about Mandy's affair with Gerry and set his sidekicks on them? Will he discover that he is owed money that was borrowed from the club's till, gambled and lost on the club's roulette table and then stolen from the day's take? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will Terry be caught delivering dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone figure out what is going on, and will they all survive until the curtain comes down? The action doesn't slow down from beginning to end in this madcap comedy by the author of Don't Dress for Dinner and Perfect Wedding. "Packed with high energy and mad comedy that rarely takes a breath until its side-splitting conclusion."-Door County Advocate. "Produces big surprises that delight and astonish. . . . It is Sopranos with laughing gas."-Green Bay Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21508) SLICE OF THE BLARNEY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kitty Burns. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This rollicking farce by the author of Psycho Night at the Paradise Lounge and other plays assembles a dying multimillionaire and assorted quirky relatives and culminates in an authentic Irish wake. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21444) STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Craig Warner. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder-he could kill Guy's unfaithful wife while Guy could eliminate his hated father. Guy does not take him seriously, but Bruno is deadly serious. "Skillfully adapted . . . . A gripping play." -Daily Telegraph. $8.95., (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21497)

MURDER IN BAKER STREET. (All Groups.) Mystery. Judd Woldin. 6 m., 1 f. (with doubling.) Ints. A quiet evening at 221B is disrupted by Cecil Forrester, a harried industrialist seeking protection from assailants. Sherlock Holmes is not interested in such mundane matters, until he recognizes the method of attack: an 'Oriental Death Touch.' He shelters his new client in a locked and bolted room and explores the roof with Dr. Watson, where they are suddenly attacked by a ninja. In the morning Forrester is discovered murdered. An aggressive prosecutor uncovers a connection between the victim and Dr. Watson, and he hypothesizes a method by which Watson could have committed the crime within the locked room. Watson is convicted and condemned. To save his friend, Holmes confesses and, from a cell in Pentonville Prison, the legendary detective solves the baffling murder. $6.50. (Roy(#15737) alty, $60-$60.) NOIR SUSPICIONS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. David' Landau. Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern. 4 m., 3 f. In this hard-boiled comic mystery sequel to the ever-popUlar Murder at Cafe Noir ex-private eye Nick Archer is now the confused manager of Cafe Noir on the island of Mustique. He is confronted with a corpse on the dock, a mysterious femme fatale, a French blackmailer and a businessman who wants both the cafe and the woman. Rick is arrested after the blackmailer is murdered in his club. It is up to the audience to convince the magistrate that he is innocence. A tribute to Casablanca with many references to the classic movie, Noir Suspicions is guaranteed to delight audiences whether or not they are familiar with Murder at Cafe Noir. "Embroiling."-N.Y Times. "Blockbuster evening [of] great theater."-Parsippany News. "Good fun, good taste."-Forbes Newspapers. "Exceptional."-WOR Radio. $6.50. Write for information about tape and lead sheets. (#16918) (Royalty, $60-$60.) OLD MONEY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Wendy Wasserstein. 3 m., 4 f. (with doubling). Int. A drawing-room comedy that spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Old Money introduces the exotic creatures that have inhabited an old Manhattan mansion-most recently during rich banker Jeffrey Bernsetin's posh party. A wealthy robber baron and his family, their descendants and assorted characters in their midst (an Irish maid, a Hollywood producer, a social-climbing decorator, confused teenagers and eccentric artists) mingle in a contrast of old money and new. "The Tony Award-winning playwright has channeled her flair for witty social commentary into a portrait of two very wealthy families who live a century apart. . . . A sharply written . . . rumination on how the other half lives, and a reminder that some of the best things in life truly are free even in Manhattan."-USA Today. "Wasserstein believes in the power of laughter [and]. '.' she has a good eye for the foolish ways ofthe moneyed people then and, especially, now."-N.Y. Post. "Brilliantly nostalgic and infinitely charming. . . . Rich, evocative, moody, elegant."-The Spectator. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#17709) A PIECE OF MY HEART. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Shirley Lauro. 1 m., 6 f. Unit set. This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Viet Nam-five nurses and a country-western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, during, and after her tour in the war-torn jungle and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington. "There have been a number of plays dealing with Viet Nam, but none with the direct, emotional impact of Ms. Lauro's work."-N.Y. Times. "Brought [the audience] to tears ... and a standing ovation."-Variety. "A riveting, rending dramatic experience."-Louisville Courier-Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#17971) PORTRAITS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jonathan Bell. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Six vibrant characters come to life in an artist's studio in lower Manhattan, each a witness to the events of September 11, 2001. The artist, who also narrates, finds his dreams are haunted by imaginary survivors and he is inspired by Picasso's masterpiece Guernica to weave these images into a commemorative portrait. Four monologues and one dualogue reveal the moving stories underlying each figure. "[This] highly charged theatrical experience ... [is] about community and recovery."-N.Y. Magazine. "A powerful reminder of why theatre matters." -New Yorker. "The character studies ... have remarkable lifelike quality. "-Variety. "Enormously important . because of its essential humanity." -nytheatre.com. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#18697) PRIDE'S CROSSING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tina Howe. 4 m., 3 f. to play var. parts. Ext. w. set pieces. At ninety, Mabel Tidings Bigelow insists on celebrating her daughter and granddaughter's annual visit with an archaic croquet party. As it unfolds, she relives vignettes from the last eighty years that subtly interleave past and present to reveal the precise moment of opportunity lost and love rejected that define her life. A vibrant portrait of Mabel takes shape: her flashes of wit and humor, resilience, disappointments, youthful spunk and geriatric willfulness. Her Boston blue-blood family expected daughters to applaud from the sidelines, but Mabel had one shining moment of achievement: she was the first woman to swim the English channel. Her willfulness did not extend to rejecting a socially ideal fiancee for love. Pride's Crossing is a rewarding challenge for a talented cast; one actress plays Mabel from 10 to 90 and others portray two or more characters. "A

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SUNSHINE BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Jack Klugman lmd Tony Randall starred in a 1998 Broadway revival of this timeless show biz comedy. Al Lewis and Willie Clark played vaudeville as a team for fortythree years, but mutual dislike has keep them far apart for the last eleven years. Now CBS wants them to appear in History of Comedy and their reunion sparks delirious comedy. "It's ham-on-wry . . . . Simon's sure-footed craftsmanship and his oneliners are as exquisitely apt as ever." -N. Y. Post. "Delicious and oddly affecting."-N.Y. Times. "Another hit for Simon in a shrewdly balanced, splendid and rather touching slice of the show-biz life." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75$75.) "Lipton Tea Commercial" tape available on receipt of a $10 rental fee plus a $10 refundable deposit. (#1000) TABLE SETTINGS. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. James Lapine. 3 m., 3 f., one voice-over.. Unit set. This easy-to-produce, wildly funny comedy is about three generations of a Jewish family. All the fast-paced action takes place around an allpurpose dining table, sometimes a restaurant table and other times the dining table of a Jewish mother to end all Jewish mothers. Other characters include an exceedingly irreverent younger son, his martini-swilling older brother who is married to a shiksa, and the older brother's two kids. Table Settings, a highly-acclaimed and long-running Off-Broadway success is an hysterical look at an American family. "Thoroughly engaging."-Time. "If you have ever brought up a family . . . or even if you have ever tried to bring up a family . . . I implore you to see Table Settings."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1103) THEOPHILUS NORTH. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Matthew Burnett. Based on the Thornton Wilder novel. 4 m., 3 f. (to play over 20 characters). Simple sets. It is the spring of 1926. Thirty-year-old Theophilus North quits his teaching post in New Jersey and embarks on a quest for fun, adventure and his place in the world. His used car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island, and he is stranded in this city of renowned wealth. Theophilus becomes involved in the lives and troubles of NeWpOJ1's residents and is changed by the lessons he learns through them. Effective with minimal sets, properties and costumes, this touching, funny and insightful charmer is exceptionally easy to produce. "An adventure to behold . . . that works beautifully." -Democrat and Chronicle. "Channel[ s1 Wilder's distinctive voice. "-Washington Post. "A primer on all things Wilder. .. Quintessential."-Houston Press. Helen Hayes Award nominee, Outstanding New Play, 2003. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22592) THERE'S A BURGLAR IN MY BED. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Parker. 3 m., 4 f. Various sets. William Worthington III and his wife are both going to be away for the weekend from their two-hundred-acre Massachusetts estate with its twenty-six bedroom mansion-he to Delaware to shoot ducks with the Duponts and she to her mother's in Boston. Both have, in fact, arranged trysts with their respective lovers in the estate's beach cottage. Inevitably their paths cross and divorce is in the air. Ntither is willing to give up the world-famous Worthington necklace, so each devises a plan to steal it. True to the laws of farce, both simulated burglaries are scheduled for same night. Fun-filled chaos ensues: mistaken identities, unlikely romantic liaisons, a bumbling private detective, a fake necklace, one very determined nymphomaniac and two scantily clad pseudo nuns sharing a single skirtwhere did they come from? Confusion is piled on confusion until the mystery of who has the real necklace and who has the fake is revealed in a surprise ending. "The laughs come thick and furious."-Boynton Times. "A hilarious lampoon."-Naples Daily News. "Parker's best."-Palm Beach Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22292) TRUST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Mitchell. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Geordie, a high-up member of an underground organization in Ireland, is the guardian of his community. People come to him for help and guidance. While he strives to protect those who have put their trust in him, his eyes are closed to things going terribly wrong in his own family. As this emotionally engaging and intelligent drama draws to a shattering climax, Geordie's business and family life intertwine with near fatal results and he is in danger of losing his wife and child. $14.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly restricted. (#22923) TWO TRAINS RUNNING. (Black Groups.) Drama. August Wilson. 6 m., I f. Int. This is the 1960s chapter of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's decade-bydecade saga of ordinary Black Americans in this turbulent century (see page 74). It takes pi act in Memphis Lee's coffee shop in a Pittsburgh neighborhood that is on the brink of economic development. Focus is on the characters who hang out there: a local sage, an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322 yearold-sage, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a laconic waitress who slashed her legs to keep men away, and a retarded man who was once cheated out of a ham. With Chekhovian obliqueness, the author reveals simple truths, hopes and dreams. creating a microcosm of an era and a community on the brink of change. "Wilson has written roles for actors to love, complete with riffs and full-blown emotional arias."-N.Y. Newsday. "The most comic of the Wilson cycle so far."-Christian Science Monitor. "Wilson's most delicate and mature work."-Time. "Wilson's most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate heart of history." -N. Y. Times. $9.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#22800) THE UNDERPANTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Carl Sternheim. Adapted by Steve Martin. 5 m., 2 f. Int. The renowned comic actor and author of Picasso at the Lapin Agile provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Markes, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise's bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS incident will cost him his job as a government clerk. Louise's momentary display does not result in the feared scandal but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Markes' home. Oblivious of their amorous objectives, Theo splits the room between them, happy to collect rent from both the foppish poet and the whiny hypochondriac. "This is funny stuff . . . a fine play . . . with funny characters and lightning flashes of wit."-TheaterMania.com. "The show zings."-citysearch.com. $10.95. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Please state author when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#23042) UNEXPECTED TENDERNESS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Israel Horovitz. 4 m., 3 f. Comb. int w. insert. This poignant drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family in Massachusetts is structured as a memory play. Roddy Stem recalls what it was like growing up in a family dominated by his paranoid and pathologically jealous father, a truck driver who lurked outside his house instead of working to catch his wife with other men. A long-suffering and abused saint, Roddy's mother raised two children in this difficult environment. Roddy's complex father is portrayed as a loving man with a demon inside that he fights but cannot exorcize. He eventually loses all control and drives away the family he loves. "A play of real power and dimension ... It stays with the mind and heart." -N. Y. Post. "One of the most horrific but complex stage fathers in recent dramatic history."-Chelsea Clinton News. "Characters spring to immediate life and built-in humor helps propel both the characterizations and the plot."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#23007) VIEW OF THE DOME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 5 m., 2 f. This humor-filled tale of political corruption, ingratitude and revenge concerns an idealistic young Washington attorney who persuades her former law professor, a man of lofty rhetoric, to run for Congress. Ideals shrivel in the Washington air as the professor is swept into an insider's circle that includes a leering, power-drunk senator and a slinky Southern power broker. When the heroine is snubbed by the politically powerful at a fancy restaurant, her hurt feelings precipitate an ail-out war. She promotes a sex scandal that unexpectedly makes her the darling of the religious right. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24049) WHO'S UNDER WHERE? (Little Theatre.) Farce. Marcia Kash and Doug Hughes. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Jane and Sybil are on the verge of the deal of their lives. They have rented a hotel suite for a very private showing of their "Passion Fashion Wear" lingerie. Only famous Italian designer Bruno Fruferelli is to attend. The models are booked, the champagne is on ice and the sexy samples are on display. They have anticipated every contingency-expect the arrival of their jealous husbands who have jumped to the wrong conclusions. Combine suspicious spouses, stolen underwear and mistaken identities with five million dollars, a scantily-clad model and a lecherous security guard and you have the recipe for this giddy farce in the classic tradition. "Audience members were actually left hiccuping, gasping for breath and wiping their eyes by the antics on stage."-Muskoka Advance. "Side-splitting comedy."-Muskokan. "Hilarious."-Packet and Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#25680) A YEAR IN THE DEATH OF EDDIE .JESTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. T. Gregory Argall. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. Stand-up comic Eddie Jester has been mugged and is comatose. His disembodied spirit offers up jokes and commentary on the events transpiring in his hospital room, including the simultaneous visit to his bedside of his wife and his girlfriend and some nonmedical doctor/nurse activities. Eddie's semi-posthumous examination of life, love and human relationships provides funny and poignant insights while the duplicity of his agent, revelations about his father and the births of two children demonstrate to Eddie that sometimes even your own life carries on without you. Winner of the 2002 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#27009) ABDUCTING DIANA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Dario Fo. Adapted by Stephen Stenning from a translation by Rupert Lowe. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. Millionaire media boss Diana Forbes-McKaye is kidnapped, but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abductors in this delight by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright. Are things what they seem? Who is in charge? Who masterminded the abduction? Who has the television rights to this premiere media event? Into this cocktail of chaos and double-dealing, Fo adds a gun-toting priest, a deranged altar boy, a kidnapper hiding in the fridge, pyromania and an explosive climax. $10.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#2989) THE ABDUCTION. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Billy St. John. 5 m., 2 f. Int. What begins as a pleasant anniversary dinner for novelist Allen Grant, his wife Sheila and her daughter Cindy ends in terror when Cindy is forced off the road and abducted while driving back to college during a thunderstorm. Cindy and the icily determined kidnapper both speak with Allen and Sheila during the abduction via cell phones, the horrifying voice of the abductor coming through their speaker phone eerily distorted by a synthesizer. Tension mounts as Allen tries to raise the demanded ransom by the kidnapper's deadline. Cindy's boyfriend searches for clues to her whereabouts and Shelia, who never fully recovered from the tragic accident that killed her first husband, Cindy's father, totters on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Unrelenting phone calls and a horrifying "souvenir" from the abductor push this thriller to a shattering climax. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3571) BORN GUILTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ari Roth, based on the book by Peter Sichrovsky. 4 m., 3 f. (to play various roles). Unit set. In 1988 Peter Sichrovsky's book electrified readers with harrowing testimonies culled from interviews with children of Nazi and SS officials. This dramatic adaptation up-dates that inquiry and

CHARACTERS focuses on the Austrian Jewish journalist's journey through Germany to ascertain what those he interviewed knew of their parent's war-time deeds. The play charts the impact of these interviews on Peter Sichrovsky's personal and professional life. "Riveting. Gripping. Searing. A wonderful play."-N.Y. Times. "Provocative . . . . Dazzling."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (4721)

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to terms with his homosexuality while his family to varying degrees refuses to do so. "Full of moments that tear at the heart." -Variety. "Bitter and angry and full of the biting humor that comes not from a joy of life but from trying to make the best of it." -Wall Street Journal. "May be the most comprehending, and certainly the most comprehensive, AIDS play so far."-N.Y. Magazine. "This play will stand as a memorial to the personal force of a single man and to a fearful trauma in American life."-Newsweek. $9.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#6587) DIVERTING DEVOTION. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mike O'Malley. 3 m., 4 f. 2 int., ext. New love and an old secret emerge in this richly drawn sentimental comedy by the author Three Years from "Thirty." Three men approaching age thirty gather to attend a friend's wedding. One still adores an old love who is due to attend the wedding. His best friend arrives with his intended, both of them showing the stress of planning their own wedding. While the third member of the group finds a new romance, revelations about a one-night stand involving the fiancee cast shadows (#6592) over a friendship and an engagement. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) DOG OPERA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Constance Congdon. 5 m., 2 f. Simple set. Peter and Madeline have been friends since they were teenagers in Queens. They have Manhattan apartments and separate unsatisfactory sex lives. Though more loving than most couples and searching for partners, they are incompatible: he is gay. Maddi is overweight and drawn to men who treat her badly. He hides behind snappy retorts and skepticism. Maddie's alcoholic mother, Peter's father, lovers, pickups and friends with AIDS move through their lives. A homeless teenager, a thief and a poet who would rather be called a whore than a hustler because he doesn't try that hard address the audience to throw everyone's problems into perspective. Dog Opera was first produced Off Broadway at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre. "Insinuates itself into the consciousness like a conversation in the next booth at a diner. . . . Everything slowly comes to together to form a coherent, sometimes funny and finally moving contemporary comedy. . . . It's a singular work created by an imagination of redeeming freedom and eccentricity." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6202) DOIN' TIME AT THE ALAMO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mary Hanes. 2 m., 5 f. Int., ext. It's a hot July weekend at The Alamo, a woebegone motel that is directly across the street from a federal penitentiary in Texas. In this warm comedy, seven lonely, wise-cracking characters "do time" between visits with loved ones in prison. They play cards, argue, order out for moo shu shrimp, plan a wedding and dream of love. At The Alamo, these prisoners of love take a final stand against loneliness and ultimately find freedom. Characters include the motel owner who has been unable to escape from The Alamo since his father died in prison, a tough-talking New Yorker engaged to a two-timing mobster, her reluctant bodyguard, the dental hygienist who loves the bodyguard, her mother (a devotee of the card game rummy), a seventy-year-old woman who believes in numerology and the letters of the twentyyear-old prisoner she plans to marry this July 4th weekend, and a wife whose yuppie husband has lied to the Feds and to her. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6933) ELECTRA. (Advanced Groups.) Verse drama. Sophocles. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 4 m., 3 f., extras. Int. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in translations by Frank McGuinnes (see index under Electra) and by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming (see index under Elektra). Please state translator when ordering.

CABIN FEVER: A Texas Tragicomedy. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Mark Dunn. 5 f., 2 m. Int. Action whirls around one disastrous Memorial Day week-end at the Beckle cabin in the Texas hill country. Aubry, his four daughters and Great Aunt Tammy gather there for the first time since Mrs. Beckle's death. Nothing goes right. Aunt Tammy is trapped in the bathroom. Daughter Cesca arrives bearing scars from a round with her abusive husband. Her sister Pidge, on sudden leave from the group home for the emotionally disturbed where she lives, shows up in Cesca's car with Cesca's chloroformed husband locked in the trunk. The Beckles must pull together or the family will self-destruct. Their strongest ally is their most alienated member. "Successfully juxtaposes the comical with the tragic. "-Atlanticville. "Witty and wise. Dunn showed promise with Belles; he makes his mark and fulfills the promise with [Cabin Fever]."-Two River Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#5860) CHAIM'S LOVE SONG. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Marvin Chernoff. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. Chaim Shotsky, a retired mailman in Brooklyn, is an American Tevye who tells his life story to Kelly Burke from Iowa. His exotic tale is rich with vitality. His friends include a philosophical baker, a Holocaust survivor with many secrets, his son and daughter, a matchmaker to end all matchmakers, movie star pigeons and a host of Israelis. Chaim's story, a love song for life, is one of innocence, tragedy, struggle, humor, humanity and ultimately triumph. "Rich and affecting. . . . A funny, philosophical, lovely evening."-N.Y. Times. "A lilting family drama." Entertainment Weekly. "A work brimming with rich ethnic humor."-Suburban Town News. "Genuinely touching . . . . Sold out for weeks to come."-L.A. Times. "Will touch everyone's heart."-Long Beach Press Telegram. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4964) CHANGES OF HEART. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marivaux. Translated by Stephen Wadsworth. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Marivaux's fabulous Harlequin pursues his country love Silvia to the palace, where the lovelorn Prince holds her against her will. Aaminia, an intriguer at court, attempts to reroute the affections of both Silvia and Harlequin, whose take-no-prisoners belligerence is softened and transformed. None expect such huge and costly changes of heart and, at the end of a hilarious day full of wonderment, they and others at court are wounded and ennobled by love. "A blazing emotional rainbow. . . . The best classical theater I've seen all year."-USA Today. "Gorgeous . . . . Dazzling. . . . Mr. Wadsworth appears to be in communion with the playwright."-N.Y. Times. "An overwhelming .Theatre of Emotions. . . . The irresistible momentum of the plot rips the play wide open into a huge experience." -Village Voice. "No one in the world . . . has understood Marivaux better than Stephen Wadsworth."-Lionel Grossman, Princeton Universi(#4965) ty. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state translator when ordering. CHEATIN'. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Del Shores. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Before Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) there was this award-winning comedy set in the west Texas watering hole of Lowake. Gossip, the town's major pastime, ignites a blaze of infidelity that engulfs three couples with the zany precision of a Feydeau farce. The clan includes Bo Bob, the dimwitted mailman, and Clarence, local stud and mechanic who's been messin' with Ovella since high school. His faithful girl is Sara Lee Turnover, the beautician. Teddy Joe, Ovella's wronged husband who is more brawn than brain, Maybelline, the overweight waitress who wants to be in love, and a narratorlstory-tellerlsinger who doubles as a psychic and believes in happy endings complete the cast. The comedy is fast-paced and touching with a sense of authentic Texas humor. "First rate." -Hollywood Reporter. "Hilarious." -L.A. Daily News. "A sodbuster."-L.A. Times. "A hotcake of a Texas comedy."-Drama-Logue. "An entertaining, truly hilarious eruption of bucolic wit."-Kansas City Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5587) THE COVER OF LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. R. T. Robinson. 1 m., 6 f. Unit set. Tood, Weetsie and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set-back, she accepts because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women and her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face to face with her own powerlessness in a man's world. Filled with charm and fun, The Cover of Life is a deeply affecting story about the struggle for self-worth. "The kind of roles actresses dream of. Robinson's writing has a warm, rural flavor and [the] conflicts are laced with a poignant urgency."-Variety. "Vivid."-Newark Star-Ledger. "Stirring and funny." -Teaneck Daily Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5899) THE DESTINY OF ME. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Larry Kramer. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. Gay activist Larry Kramer scored a triumph in New York with this absorbing sequel to The Normal Heart. Ned Weeks, having lost his lover to AIDS, has tested HIV -positive and has checked into a hospital to begin treatment. He battles with the medical establishment even as he battles with shades of his past in this memory play written in the tradition of The Glass Menagerie. Skipping back and forth in time, the play introduces the young Alexander who grows up to be Ned and traces his coming

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THE FAMILY OF MANN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 4 m., 3 f. Ints. simply suggested or unit set. A young writer learns that comedy can be a grim business when she gets a job working on a television sitcom. Her colleagues insist that the show is both decent and real while their world descends into a ferocious madness. The Family of Mann hilariously questions who and what are invited into homes when the television is turned on. "Taking a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a TV sitcom, playwright Theresa Rebeck doesn't adopt the Neil Simon approach. Attila the Hun is more like it. When she's funny, she's savagely funny. When she's serious, she draws blood."-N.Y. Newsday. "Everything rings fiercely, funnily, savagely true."-N.Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8168) FAMILY PLANNING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frank Vickery. 3 m., 4 f. Ints. When young Tracy discovers she is pregnant, she doesn't know how to break the news to her solid, dependable mother, to her hypochondriac father or to her boyfriend. Gran, who is permanently ensconced in bed (on stage), knows all, sees all and attempts to pave the way for Tracy's announcement. Unfortunately, father overhears something he shouldn't have and jumps to the conclusion that he has but a short time to live. The next door neighbor butts in and, after liberal measures of gin all around, her romantic aspirations begin to surface. Misunderstandings and mishaps abound en route to a riotous conclusion. First performed in the author's native Wales, this is a delightful show by the author of Trival Pursuits and other popular plays. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7992) HENCEFORWARD. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 4 f. Int. England's comic master is in a black-comic mode in this West-End hit about our fascination with technology. It is sometime quite soon in a steel-shuttered, slovenly flat in a no-go area of North London where punks rule deserted streets. Here, a lonely composer sits surrounded by high-tech equipment. His only company is a robot nanny-and she's on the blink. He desperately wants to reclaim his teenage daughter and enlists an out-of-work actress to implement a cunning plan he's evolved to impress his estranged wife and a wired-for-sound child welfare officer. When things don't work out, Jerome has to improvise. . . . It's amazing

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what can be done with new micro chips and a screwdriver! "This brilliant play offers an ultimately bleak vision of men, machines and society. But the exhilarating Ayckbournian paradox is that the darker it gets the funnier it becomes."-The Guardian. "A superbly-constructed comedy."-Daily Telegraph. "Nobody can be as funny as Alan Ayckbourn, or as frightening."-Financial Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10109) THE HOLY TERROR. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Simon Gray. 4 m., 3 f. (to play 10 roles). Unit set. This work by a pre-eminent dramatist begins as a lecture being delivered by Mark Melon to an English women's club wherein he recounts how he took over a respected but financially shaky publishing house and ruthlessly streamlined by firing everyone in sight. The events described then come to life. Melon, who appears at first to be just another ruthless businessman, is actually insane. He has a breakdown and is committed to an institution where he undergoes shock and other therapies. He loses his stature in publishing and his wife and family, but he may have found some shred of his soul. "A humorous and harrowing depiction of an emotional breakdown." -Arizona Daily Star. "Filled with such wit, irony and wonderful lines that, although the play is a frightening tale of sexual obsession and madness, the audience will find itself laughing its way through hell."-Arizona Republic. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#10927) HURLYBURLY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Revised Version. David Rabe. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This riveting drama took New York by storm in a premiere production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose deep in the decadent culture of Hollywood pursue sex-crazed, dope-ridden visions of the American Dream. "Offers some of Mr. Rabe's most inventive and disturbing writing. Mr. Rabe makes grim, ribald and surprisingly compassionate comedy out of the lies and rationalizations that allow his' alienated men to keep functioning (if not feeling) in the fogs of lotusland."-N.Y. Times. "An important work, masterfully accomplished."-Time. "A powerful permanent contribution to American drama. . . . Riveting, disturbing, fearsomely funny . . . . Has a savage sincerity and a crackling theatrical vitality. This deeply felt play deserves as wide an audience as possible." -Newsweek. "The current Hurlyburly uncovers fresh wellsprings of power.. . The pharmaceutically fried denizens of the squalid Hollywood Hills house ... have been brought vibrantly and unforgivingly to life in [a] smashing revival."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10163) KING OF THE KOSHER GROCERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joe Minjares. 6 m., 1 f. This warm-hearted comedy about three men-a Jew, a Chicano and an African American-shows hope for the races and generations. Jamar goes to college and works for Itzy Silvers' market, formerly a kosher deli now selling collard greens and tortillas. After 50 years, city inspectors are threatening to close Silvers' Market, but Jamar, his hip-hop sidekick Billy and the elder Chavez scheme to defy the bureaucrats and bring the store to profitability. Nostalgic humor and the unrelenting sarcasm of familiar friends highlight this one-set, two-act, two-hour comedy about a time when human values supersede monetary concerns. "Minjares has built a microcosm of hope, racial harmony, and respect."-Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Minjares excels in creating. well-defined, likeable characters."-City Pages. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13616) A KISS ON THE BOTTOM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frank Vickery. 7 f. Int. Three women in the hospital for cancer treatments must cope with the uncertainties of their health and with the inevitable secrets and half-truths from relatives and the nursing staff. Marlene, the strongest and most outspoken of them, keeps the atmosphere in the ward cheery. Her activities add considerable interest to their hospital stays. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13049) THE LONE STAR LOVE POTION. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Parker. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The wealthy owner of a 200,000 acre Texas ranch has died. His butler Jarvis, an alluring maid, the rancher's niece (his only living relative) and her husband are gathered for the reading of the will. Oddly, Miss Tammy-Jo Harper, a neighbor, has also been invited. As expected, the niece inherits everything. Jarvis then produces from the safe a reputed love potion. Does it work? Before long, everyone is sipping the sample with hilarious results. As the audience vacillates between thinking the potion is potent and believing it's a ruse, they are drawn into the mystery and hilarity. The flow of characters in, out and from under the beds reaches a frenetic pace before the startling truth is revealed. "Another hit for Parker."-Palm Beach Post. "Spellbinding as well as fun."-Delray Times. "Gales of laughter approached hurricane force. This play's a hoot."-Boca Raton News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14209) LOOSE KNIT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 2 m., 5 f. Comb. int. Once a wf:ek in the heart of New York City five women gather to knit. As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart. Liz is having an affair with her sister's husband, Gina's lost her job, Paula is having an identity crisis, and Margie just wants a date. Into their lives steps Miles, a cool businessman who made his first million before he was thirty and is now looking for a wife. On a series of hilarious blind dates in a sushi restaurant, Miles and the women go head io head in an attempt to define what it is men and women want these days. As in her previous comedy, Spike Heels, the author outlines the battle between the sexes with wit, ferocity and insight in a contemporary comedy of manners. "A heady blend of Noel Coward and Wendy Wasserstein. . . . Loose Knit has enough crackle to qualify as one of the smarter comedies of manners to be seen in New York recently. The triumph of

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Miles is that he is as charming as he is monstrous."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14191) MAIDS OF HONOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joan Casademont. 3 m., 4 f. Comb. int./ext. Monica Bowlin, a local TV talk-show host, is getting married. Her sisters, Isabelle and Annie, are intent on talking her out of it. The groom-to-be has neglected to tell his intended that he is about to be indicted for insider trading. Monica has a secret too-she's pregnant, possibly not by her groom-to-be! All is uncovered by kookie Isabelle, who aspires to be an investigative reporter, and she ties to convince Monica that ex-boyfriend Roger Dowling is a better matrimonial choice. Meanwhile, Annie should be marrying the caterer for the wedding--old flame Harry Hobson-but she can't relax enough to see how perfect he is for her. The Bowlin women's difficulties with men, which result from a childhood with an alcoholic father and an abused mother, unfold amid laughter in this delightful, wise and warmhearted play. Note: Many excellent monologues are included here. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14961) THE MARRIAGE COUNSELOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joey Ouellette. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A traveling vacuum salesman wanders into a marriage counselor's office. Susan and Tiger burst in, arguing so fiercely that the salesman can't get a word in edge-wise. They mistake him for the counselor and he never gets a chance to enlighten them. Next to arrive are Susan's sister (who is having a affair with Tiger) and Rudolpho, a UPS man making a delivery who coincidently is Susan's lover. Things get even crazier when another UPS driver arrives; she happens to be Tiger's first wife who was presumed dead. Finally, a man with a gun and a grudge storms in, determined to kill the marriage counselor and everyone else if need be. Things get sorted out and three new couples happily exit. The salesman, never having said a word, abandons his wares with a shrug and exits as the lights fade. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15541) MINUS SOME BUTTONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mark Dunn. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. This totally delightful comedy by the author of Belles is about what happens at Graceland Elementary School when a new teacher is hired. Penny-who, shall we say, is minus some buttons-is a con-artist. The victim of an autocratic school environment as a child, Penny appears to have dedicated her life to breathing some fresh air into the schoolroom, much to the consternation of principal Clarence Olander who looks out his office window one morning to see Penny's pupils throwing their desks out the window! Is Penny a complete lunatic or is she the only one at Graceland Elementary School with any sense whatsoever. Audiences of all ages are sure to delight in the antic comedy in this wonderful play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#14967) THE MASTER BUILDER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 5 m., 2 f., extras. Int. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde; see Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays. Please state (#15571) translator when ordering. MIDDLEAGED WHITE GUYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. 4 m., 3 f. Ext. A laugh-riot at Actors Theatre of Louisville, this wild comedy is set at a toxic waste dump in the Midwest. Three brothers are there to toast the memory of R. Y., wife to one and lover to the others, who committed suicide. Roy, the honorary mayor, is worried because the newspaper has revealed that the barrels he imports aren't "food additives" and because his wife now knows about his girlfriend. Brother Moon, a soldier of fortune who has been killing third-world people, talks Roy's wife out of shooting him. R.Y. appears and says the men must march 600 miles to Washington naked with a sign that reads "We're Sorry." When their deceased mother also appears to chastise them for their sins, the men know what they must do. "Using hilarious one-liners like fast balls, the script throws one strike after another. Often you've barely had time to recover from one hearty laugh when, Wham!, you're cracking up again."-Lexington Herald-Leader. $6.50. (Royalty, (#15266) $60-$40.) MURDER AT CAFE NOIR. (Dinner Theatre.) Mystery. David Landau. Music and lyrics by Nikki Stem. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The most popular mystery dinner show in the country, Murder at Cafe Noir has enjoyed productions coast to coast since its premiere in 1989. This forties detective story come to life features Rick Archer, P.I., out to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten island of Mustique. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed ashore and Rick's quarry was the last person seen with him. He employs his hard-boiled talents to find the killer. Was it the French madame and club manager, the voodoo priestess, the shyster British attorney, the black marketeer or the femme fatale? Audiences vote twice on what they want Rick to do next and these decisions change the flow of this comic tribute to the Bogart era. Also see Noir Suspicions. "Mystery theatre at its finest."-Sun Times, Portland. "Aptly tongue-in-check [with] clever punch lines and occasional song interludes."-Washington Times. "Fast and funny."-L.A. Times. "Lingers on you mind, like a dame's perfume." -Maryland Journal. "A feast for connoisseurs of mystery." -Orange County Daily Pilot. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Production packet with material for use by the producing group and sheet music for the songs in the show, $10.00. Tape containing the three original songs in the play also available on rental: $10.00 rental fee plus $25.00 refundable deposit. (#15298) NEVER THE SINNER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Logan. 7 m. Ints. Chicago, May 21, 1924. Nathan Leopold Jr., age 18, and Robert Loeb, age 19, killed 14-yearold Bobby Franks and were quickly apprehended. Clarence Darrow defended them, pleading eloquently against capital punishment. Why would wealthy young men

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murder an innocent boy? What demons lurked behind Leob's flashing good looks? Behind Leopold's saturnine intellect? This exquisite Off Broadway hit explores the complex relationship between these two who longed to create a private world of fevered intellect and romantic passion. "Remarkable."-N. Y. Times. "An excellent and compelling play!"-N.Y. Post. "Riveting."-N.Y. Daily News. "Brilliant, powerful and cinematic!"-AP. "Sweeps the audience into the boys' friendship without losing sight of the brutal murder. Lays out the furor and the legal maneuvering surrounding this 'Trial of the Century' particularly well, suggesting that nothing much has changed."-New Yorker. "A taut, compelling psycho-sexual waltz."-Newhouse Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

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ROBBERS. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Lyle Kessler. 5 m., 2 f Ints., exts. (simply suggested.) An intriguing work by the author of Orphans, Robbers is an allegorical comedy-drama of becoming where the territory of self is staked out. A repressed young man who lives in Flatbush with his domineering father is recruited by a mysterious detective to infiltrate a canning factory where workers are stealing merchandise. He goes undercover and begins to form genuine friendships with the men in the factory and falls in love with the women. In the guise of his new identity he discovers his authentic self, but soon must choose between his lucrative role as an informer and his loyalty to his new friends. The self is not a permanent entity in Robbers; characters don and shed selves as quickly and easily as coveralls. As in fairy tales, a brutal and myopic older generation of ogres stalks the landscape. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20125) A ROSE OF SHARON. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 5 m., 2 f 2 ints. A religious Jewish mother is upset when her daughter announces plans to marry a Protestant. Traumatized by anti-semitic encounters in Poland, the mother fights to save her daughter from what she perceives to be a terrible fate while the young girl struggles to follow her own dream. In My Family, The Jewish Immigrants, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20086) THE SCANDALOUS ADVENTURES OF SIR TOBY TROLLOPE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ron House and Alan Shearman. 5 m., 2 f, to play 25 roles (may be done with as many as 25 actors). Unit set. It's Tom Jones meets Monty Python in this rollicking comedy from the authors of Bullshot Crummond and El Grande de Coca-Cola. In 1784 Sir Toby Trollope is to be hanged by King George III for tax evasion. Toby conspires to save his neck by marrying his imbecilic son Bartholomew to a rich young woman so he can live off her father's wealth. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty! Events escalate to Lexington Green, where the Trollopes accidently spark off the American Revolution. "Hilarious. "-Variety. "A wacky, hysterical (rather than historical) farce from those manufacturers of mayhem. "-L.A. Theatre & Entertainment Review. "A must-see laugh riot."-Albany Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20979) THE SCARLET LETTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Phyllis Nagy, adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. This brilliant, unusual adaptation of the classic novel has a decidedly contemporary slant. Although set in Puritan times, it deals with issues which make it almost a feminist deconstruction of the novel even as it preserves the familiar story of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. The play was originally presented Off Broadway by Classic Stage Company. "Exhilarating and daringly original."-N.Y. Low Journal. "Splendid."-Town and Village. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20976) SIGNOR NICODEMO. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 5 m., 2 f. An eccentric Italian indulges his compulsion to aid ladies in distress by helping a lovesick young girl and curing the financial ills of her dashing beau, much to the chagrin of the latter's more mature inamorata. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage (#21442) French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THREE YEARS FROM "TIDRTY". (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Mike O'Malley. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. This funny, poignant story of a group of 27-year-olds who have known each other since college sold out during its limited run at New York City's Sanford Meisner Theater. Jessica Titus, a frustrated actress living in Boston, has become distraught over local job opportunities and she is feeling trapped in her long-standing relationship with her boyfriend Tom. She suddenly decides to pursue her dreams in New York City. Unbeknownst to her, Tom plans to propose on the evening she has chosen to leave him. The ensuing conflict ripples through their lives and the lives of their roommates and friends, leaving all of them to reconsider their careers, the paths of their souls and the questions, demands and definition of commitment. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22704) TIME OF MY LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckboum. 5 m., 2 f (1 m. plays 5 roles). Int. Gerry Stratton has organized a family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favorite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura's 54th birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife Stephanie; their marriage looks to be on firmer ground that it once was. Adam has brought along his new girlfriend, an outrageous hairdresser, and they are both eager to impress. Gradually, family skeletons intrude on the happy domestic scene: G1yn's unfaithfulness knows no bounds, the family transport business has been hit by the recession, and Laura has been unfaithful. Glyn's story is set more recently and Adam's further back in time, while at the center Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love. "A play by an inspired master craftsman and cunning psychologist working at full stretch: harsh and funny, simple and cunning, generous but unforgiving." -London Sunday Times. "Funny, very funny, and not at all funny; quintessentially Ayckboum." -London Times. "Immensely subtle, ingenious." -Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21997) TOP GIRLS. (Little Theatre.) Serious comedy. Caryl Churchill. 7 f. (with doubling). Ints. Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co-workers, clients and relatives. Marlene, like her famous

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NEW YORK STORIES: Five Plays About Life in New York. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama. Jason Milligan. 4 m., 3 f See individual titles for descriptions: Best Warm Beer in Brooklyn, John's Ring, Next Tuesday, Nights in Hohokus and Shoes. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 when all five plays are performed together or $25-$20 per (#15983) play.) OH, THE INNOCENTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ari Roth. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. Betsy sings, Jeremy plays, and Josh watches in this play about love, lies and piano teaching. Jeremy, a young musician who tutors spoiled, rich kids to make ends meet, tells his friend Josh that a student's mother-a third-rate junior miss Ann Bancroft straight out of The Graduate-is being suggestive. Josh is a former musician who has become a sedentary voyeur with a torch of his own. Envious of Jeremy's domestic bliss with Betsy, he urges Jeremy to go forward with the encounter. Betsy, a proof-reader by day and a jazz singer by night, is waking up to her husband's and her own restiveness when a smooth record producer offers her a ticket to hear Koko Taylor at the Blue Note while offering Jeremy a trip to the west coast for soundtrack auditions. Josh, left to protect Betsy against Zev the wolf, suffers a conflict-ofpassion of his own. "A story of young people striving to acquire knowledge of life while remaining true to their values. . . . It is not unfair to see it as a coupling of Barefoot in the Park with Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes' novel about the selling-out of the rock 'n roll generation ..... [Roth's] eloquent ingenuousness [is] clearly attuned to his generation's drumbeat."-Times-Union, Rochester. Winner of (#17684) the 1990 Davie Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) A PLAY ON LETTERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hank Stohl. 5 m., 2 f. Simple set. Seven characters correspond with each other in clear, concise letters that would seem to leave no chance for misinterpretations or misunderstandings. But somehow, black becomes white, no becomes yes and positively becomes maybe as Harry Sellers tries his hardest to obtain a divorce. He writes to his attorney, who can't get anything right, to his best friend and, in desperation, to his estranged wife. The pal and his soon-to-be ex-wife also exchange letters and plans while the in-laws interject less-than-helpful missives before the matter is concluded on a happy note. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18693) mE RING SISTERS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Charles Laurence. 4 m., 3 f Int. Silva Ring is a world-famous singer with a severe hang-up about her age. When a Swedish interviewer produces her true birth certificate, she resorts to increasingly desperate measures to prove him wrong. With help from her long-term housekeeper Dolores, Silva pretends to be her own sister Iris, a tough lady who can make tough decisions. Silva's lover, a footballer, her agent and Dolores all suffer from the iron rule of Iris. Lola Wales, an old singer, is brought in to be an aunt and a petty forger is persuaded to attempt to destroy Silva's files at the Family Record Center. After a wild climax during which Silva scores a goal at Wembley Stadium, she can no longer juggle all her lies and subterfuges and escapes by having a bogus nervous breakdown. A victim of fame and wealth, she wins in the end and emerges stronger than ever. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20931) THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Jim Cartwright. 3 or 4 m., 3 f Comb int./ext. w. apron. Blown fuses, real and metaphorical, punctuate the action with flashes of pent-up energy in this acclaimed play. The diminutive heroine frequently plunges the dilapidated house she shares with her alcoholic mother into darkness by playing her dead father's records at a volume matched only by the soulful power of her vocal impressions. Little Voice has a hidden talent: she can emulate every chanteuse from Judy Garland to Edith Piaf. She hides in her room, crooning and dreaming of love, while her disheveled mother mistakes a seedy agent's interest as affection rather than enthusiasm for the gold mine buried in her daughter's throat. This is an engaging fairy tale of despair, love and finally hope as LV finds a voice of her own. "Entertainment at its best. . . . Original, hilarious and hauntingly sad." -London Daily Telegraph. "Utterly beguiling."-London Daily Mail. "We leave singing, our happiness fired by a glowing mixture of grit and innocence, magic, irony and truth."-What's On. "Extraordinary."-London Daily Express. Winner of the Evening Standard and Olivier awards for Best Comedy and adapted into an award-winning film with Michael Caine. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#19972) A RISE IN THE MARKET. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Edward Taylor. 5 m., 2 f Int. A Rise in the Market mixes broad comedy with sharp satire as it pokes fun at the fat cats of the European Community the Common Market. Sir Clive Partridge hopes to be the new president, but he needs the support of puritanical elder statesman Jacque Berri. It's bad news for Partridge when Berri calls on a day that he is trapped in a luxurious Paris flat where he is beset by glamorous young women he can't account for, plus an angry wife and an exploding boiler. What's in the big, brownpaper parcel? And why do Partridge's clothes keep disappearing? Wild mishaps and

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guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull-witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth's. "A blistering yet sympathetic look at women who achieve success by adopting the worse traits of self-made men . . . . Truly original."-N.Y. Times. "Very funny and provocative. . A mind-lifting experience."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) (#22170) THE TRANSYLVANIAN CLOCKWORKS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Don Nigro. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. The author of Ravenscroft investigates the Dracula myth in a powerful, complex, darkly funny and utterly terrifying vampire play unlike any you have ever experienced. Set in London and Transylvania in 1888 (the year of Jack the Ripper), it captures the erotic power and poetry of Stoker's novel while looking more deeply into the characters' souls to examine the sensual and frightening undercurrents of this captivating Victorian tale. Jonathan Harker has returned from Transylvania so profoundly disturbed that he is confined to Dr. Seward's mental hospital and Van Helsing has been called in to help unravel the mystery of Jonathan's dementia. Jonathan's version of events at Castle Dracula leads them into a horrifying nightmare involving the mysterious foreign gentleman who seems to be seducing the women in Jonathan's life. A complex labyrinth of fear, desire, violence and lurking evil spirals into a horrific and surprising conclusion. The Transylvania Clockworks is an elegant, original, subtle, poetic and exhilarating piece of Gothic theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22200) THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marivaux, adapted by Stephen Wadsworth. 4 m., 3 f. Int. or ext. Here is a splendid translation of a classic Marivaux comedy about love. Written in 1732, it follows a princess as she adopts the dress and prerogatives of a man, invades the retreat of a rationalist philosopher who hates love, and wins the prince she of her dreams. Gender confusion is pivotal in the hilarious situations that ensue as the emotional stakes rise. The language is magnificent and the characters fascinating (including Marivaux's adaptation of the witty idiot Harlequin). "A literary and theatrical revelation. . . . This is the greatest play that Shakespeare and Mol~re never wrote."-American Theatre. "The translation seems altogether right. . . . It captures the universal humanity of Marivaux's characters with such exactitude, in fact, that you may occasionally need to remind yourself that you're watching a period piece."-Philadelphia Inquirer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22929) A WALK AMONG THE FLOWERS. (All Groups.) Comic drama. Norman Beim. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. A writer visits his Jewish immigrant family in Newark in the thirties. The conflicts, passions, frustrations, hopes and dreams of the parents, aunts and uncles, each a unique and memorable character, are both amusing and touching. (#24982) In My Family, The Jewish Immigrants, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) WHEN WE DEAD A WAKEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. Adapted by Robert Bmstein. 4 m., 3 f., extras. Int. Paper, $7.95. Cloth, $15.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde; see Ibsen: The Major Prose Plays. Please state translator when ordering. (#25250) WHERE THE TRUTH LIES. (All Groups.) Drama. Catherine Butterfield. 2 m., 5 f. Unit set. Elaine Flanagan enjoys a seemingly perfect existence in Vermont with her two daughters and husband Dan, a respected writer. Enter sister Leslie, the highliving beauty from Los Angeles who is married to the Vic Camden, star of the television series The Huntsman. Leslie and her daughter Cinda arrive almost unannounced, full of turbulence and dark secrets. Elaine's organized existence is thrown into turmoil. The subsequent arrival of Vic drives Elaine and Dan to take a hard look at their marriage and then hide from the truths they discover, illuminating what glues a family or marriage together and what makes it all fall apart. "What is the playwright's equivalent of the novelist's 'unputdownable' - 'ungetupable' perhaps? Butterfield. . . deserves some such accolade." -N. Y. Post. "A thoughtful, balanced, cleanly stmctured work."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25706) WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME IN THE MORNING? (Little Theatre.) Farce. Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner. 4 m., 3 f. or 3 m., 4 f. Int. Jeremy and Celia return a week early from their unsuccessful honeymoon to find that both Jeremy's partners have accepted his offer to stay in his house while he is away. The problem is that they have each brought the other's wife with them. Jeremy discovers one illicit couple, Celia the other. Both issue invitations for dinner. Complications pile up thick and fast as, realizing their dilemma and desperate to make a good impression on Jeremy's colleagues, the couple stages two dinner parties simultaneously, one on the patio and one in the dining room. As if there aren't problems enough, Sid the plumber, up to his eyeballs in water in the cellar, has to call in the Water Board Emergency Service just when all seems resolved and Jeremy and Celia are attempting to salvage their lost honeymoon. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25694) THE BLACK PRINCE. (Little Theatre.) Cerebral farce. Iris Murdoch. 4 m., 3 f., 3 extras. 2 illtS. Former tax inspector Bradley Pearson is an unpublished writer. His precept is perfection; his maxim is wait-unlike his best friend Arnold Baffin who is a prolific, highly-successful writer of second-rate novels. Bradley is retiring to his seaside cottage to write his masterpiece. In a series of smartly comic scenes, his departure is thwarted by a succession of unwelcome visitors and crises: a wheedling ex-brother-in-Iaw, a detested ex-wife, a suicidal sister, and a distraught phone call from Arthur who has battered his wife. When the Baffin's teenage daughter asks Bradley to give her a tutorial on Hamlet, "the god of love and art, the Black Eros,

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the Black Prince" is unleashed with dire and terrifying results. "A tragical farce . . . and a deliciously cerebral one."-London Financial Times. "An absorbing evening. . . . Chillingly funny."-London Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4718) BULLPEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Steve Kluger. 7 m. 1 set. Five relief pitchers and a third-string catcher sweat out an afternoon in the Boston Red Sox bullpen, shaky in the knowledge that one of them is about to be replaced by a hot-shot rookie. A fast-talking rock and roller, a slow-thinker whose knowledge of baseball is encyclopedic, a Cy Young award-winning southpaw, a possibly alcoholic Harvard grad, a black hipster who never changes his shirt, an irascible old knuckle-bailer close to retirement, and a catcher whose wife left him in the third inning provide a rollicking look at sports' relationships. Bullpen has played to laughing and cheering audiences across the country in productions tailored to the hometown team. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4706) CUBA AND HIS TEDDY BEAR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Reinaldo Povod. 6 m., 1 f. Int. Robert De Niro, Ralph Macchio and Burt Young starred in this harrowing yet often hilarious first play by a young Hispanic playwright in a sold-out, limited engagement on Broadway. Cuba is a small-time cocaine and marijuana dealer whose pride and joy is his 16-year-old son Teddy. Cuba has great hopes for his son; what he doesn't know is that the boy has already succumbed to the lure of the streets and is fast becoming a heroin junkie. "Vibrates and tingles with an authority that goes beyond the cleverly applied local color of mere verismo atmosphere into truth."-N.Y. Post. "A play about drug people that has an almost startling warmth, friendliness and humanity. Povod is a writer of real promise. "-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5195) DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? (Little Theatre.) Drama. Megan Terry. 7 f. Unit set. This multi-cultural, expanded version of Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills is set in Chicago in 1991. Based on personal interviews with homeless women, the play ran for three months in the Chameleon Theatre. "A heartbreaking lyric poem. . . but the playwright also recognizes the humor in the human situation and highlights the nobility that can survive all kinds of blows to the human spirit. The action transpires over the coutse of one early morning as we meet: The Copper Queen (a down-on-her-Iuck prostitute), B.A. and Crissie (two enterprising prospectors/garbage pickers), Mychelle and Himilc6 (one drug addict who wants to get clean and one who doesn't), Valrave (a super intense, burned-out sex kitten) and Sunny (a pregnant woman who shouts out sermons which shame and threatens the existing order of power-the culprit who undermines the human spirit)." -Chicago Magazine and Arts Weekly. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6748) EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR AND GRILLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bmce Graham. 5 m., 2 f. 1 set. Produced originally at the Philadelphia Festival for New Plays, this is a wonderful, off-beat variation on the saloon situation comedy. Nuclear bombs have destroyed much of the U.S. and various denizens of this working class bar are trying to decide what to do. Enter a travellint salesman who turns out to be is God, come to offer the bartender immortality if he will write a new Bible and get it right this time. "A wonderfully ghoulish fantasy in which people are released from their inhibitions and elect to spend their last few hours fulfilling themselves . . . . Written with a zest for laughter and comic wit . . . [it] should have a healthy career here and in New York and any place else where people go to the theatre for a laugh." -Philadelphia Inquirer. "The preposterous, but often affecting and almost always hilarious proceedings are peppered by visual shtick and one-liners." -Variety. "An engaging, entertaining evening of theatre."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6981) FENCES. (Black Groups.) Drama. August Wilson. 5 m., 2 f. 1 set. Winner of every major award, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics, Tony and Pulitzer Prizes, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who is wor~ng as a garbage man in 1957. Maxson sees the world as composed mostly of fences which enclose him. He is very bitter that he was excluded from major league baseball during his prime and was too old to play when the sport finally was integrated. Maxson's son wants a chance at professional sports, but Maxson refuses to let him try his luck. Troy Maxson does not see that not all the fences in his life are societal and that he is fencing in his family. "One of the great characters in American drama." -N. Y. Post. "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed."-N.Y. Post. "A blockbuster and a major American play."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#8118) STRAIGHT AND NARROW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jimmie Chinn. 4 m., 3 f. Int. In this West End hit sex-comedy the central couple is Bob and Jeff. Jeff is considering leaving Bob and for a woman so he can become a father. Meanwhile Bob contends with a meddling family that is ignorant of his living situation. His mother, a domineering comic creation, complicates matters by pressing Bob to get married. She refuses to recognize that there is anything about her son which might upset her convention~l sensibilities. The happy ending finds Bob and Jeff together and mother having come to terms with the truth. "Funny and touching."-Mail on Sunday. "Entertaining and cunningly observed."-Sunday Express. "Manages to hit the funny bone without straining desperately for effect. . . . mixing a lot of good jokes with a warm and sympathetic humanity."-Daily Telegraph. "Shot through with the most bounteous comic invention and with moments so intensely moving they should make grown men cry. Not in many an evening have I laughed

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men, they capture inner feelings that infuse a unique universality. Though their performances are mainly solo, the girls are united in sorrow, spirit, pride and soul. Sometimes they sing together and dance together. "A triumphant event. . . filled with humor. . . . Pure theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "A poignant, gripping, angry and beautiful work."-Time. $9.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Sheet Music for "I Found God in Myself," $2.00. (Music Royalty, $5 per performance.) Posters (#451) MONKEY MONKEY BOTTLE OF BEER, HOW MANY MONKEYS HAVE WE HERE? (Little Theatre.) Drama. Marsha Sheiness. 6 f., 1 child. Int. This psychological mystery is set in the waiting room of a clinic where five mothers await word on the futures of their retarded children. They have been given the opportunity to change their children into geniuses, and the play explores the hopes, fears and guilt of each woman. As the drama moves forward, the very nature of parent-child love is examined. "A gallery of characters interestingly and richly observed."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15685) ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., I f. Var. sets (may be simply suggested). In 1972 an elderly avantgarde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of the three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she tragically went blind she fell in love with one of them after viewing his picture in a gallery. Which artist Sophie loved has been a bone of contention all their lives. This full-length play in one act was a radio play before it was staged to acclaim in London. "Artfulness, artistry and art history are elegantly brought together. . . . On one level a simple whodunit, the work is also a clever exercise in altering alignments, which makes you aware of how you have failed to see what was staring you in the face."-The Independent. "Intricate and intriguing." -Daily Mail. "Witty." -Arts Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state stage version when ordering. (#3136) A STAR AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOLE IN HEAVEN. (Black Groups.) Drama. Judi Ann Mason. 3 m., 4 f. Ext. This exquisite drama by the award-winning author of Livin' Fat focuses on a girl's coming of age in rural Louisiana. Pokie, who has been raised by her aunt and uncle, has a scholarship to an Ohio college. If she accepts it her fragile uncle and dying aunt will be left alone on the farm. "Miss Mason fills her play with laughter, but her exploration of loss and gain is serious."-N.Y. Times. "Powerful."-Black American. "There is a message for audiences of all ages in this important play masterfully written." -N. Y. Amsterdam News. "Miss Mason has created captivating characters and given them wonderful lines .... Aunt Mamie's confused, often hilarious monologues throughout the play conceal a deep wisdom. . . as the old woman reveals how bright is the hope that has survived the long, narrow and barren experience of her life. You leave the theatre lighted up by it, as if by the glow of the great distant star she tells Pokie to (#21033) reach for."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) ALLOCATING ANNIE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Rick Abbot. 3 m., 4 f. Int. When Cliff Tucker inherits an orphan on the eve of his wedding to wealthy Bobbi Ralston, he figures he can handle matters-until the foundling turns out to be full-grown and gorgeous with an infant in her arms. While Cliff is fielding this disaster, his lawyer, who is in love with Bobbi, plots to scuttle the wedding. Plans backfire and lunacy multiplies when a struggling actor arrives and Cliffs housekeeper/sister lets him move into the apartment Cliff is vacating. Three convoluted romances culminate in a climactic engagement party in the final act that ieaves audiences roaring with laugher. The deranged events involve a dress that looks like a Christmas tree, a stuffed monkey subbing for the baby, a telltale birthmark, and a startling dinner entree called "Penguin Wellington." This farce quickly accelerates from amusing to hilarious and is a fine frolic for the entire family to enjoy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

A TALENT FOR MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The legendary Claudette Colbert starred on Broadway in this suspense drama about an internationally successful mystery novelist whose relatives wouldn't mind killing her to get their hands on her art collection. Other characters include a live-in doctor who was once the novelist's lover and a savvy Indian butler who uses words like "chutzpa." The badinage between the novelist and the butler and between the novelist and the doctor provides comic delight and relie( from the mayhem being plotted. This exciting comic thriller was produced on BBC-TV starring Angela Lansbury and Sir Lawrence Olivier. Fans of Murder, She Wrote will enjoy A Talent for Murder, a merry murder mystery that is perfect for summer stock, dinner theatres and community theatres. "One of the most delightful Broadway entries ever. . . . Winner of an Edgar Award [and] . . . good theater [with] ... lively repartee. "-Multi-Channel. "Stylish entertaining fun."-People Weekly. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22020) NIGHTMARE. (Little Theatre Thriller.) Norman Robbins. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Marion Bishop, an elderly writer of romantic novels, is dying. Katherine Willis, a kind soul from the nearby village, looks after her in a most caring way, while coping with her mentally retarded brother of twenty. When Katherine takes leave to attend her cousin's wedding in Scotland, Laura, an experienced nurse from London, comes to take care of the bedridden writer on the recommendation of the local doctor. A series of mysterious phone calls 'and the appearance of Raymond, Marion's rapacious nephew, set off a nightmare situation which becomes increasingly complicated when Katherine's brother is found murdered in a ditch. Deceit, suspicion, blackmail and incriminations are subtly woven into a web of crime which is completed by a dramatic confrontation scene just before an ingenious twist brings a surprising close. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16081) SORRY! WRONG CHIMNEY! (All Groups.) Farce. Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears. 4 m., 3 f. Int. David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department-store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa-burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun-toting fiancee, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas or anytime entertainment. "A lighthearted Christmas tale full of mistaken identities and zany foulups, with a smattering of slapstick. . . What you see is what you get: A couple of hours of uncomplicated laughter and fun."-Phoenix Gazette. "Hilarious."-Glendale Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21275) HOME FREE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 f. 3 m. Int. Sally is mistress to two men: her Florida beach front home is available to Roger of New York City the first half of the month and to Bertram of Oklahoma City the second half, with each paying the full rent. Disaster and humor strike when both men appear on the same night and, unexpectedly, become friends. Then their wives, Sally's prospective fiance, and her long-time friend show up also arrive. The husbands share a marvelous scene where they thank each other fqr the gifts one has given and the other enjoyed (jacuzzi, VCR, etc.) and the wives embark on a spending spree with their husband's charge cards. In the dawn's early light an unexpected, sophisticated and thoroughly hilarious denouement is worked out: the wives take over their husbands' split-months. All the characters are good, solid acting roles with comic depth. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10172) THE SWAN SONG. A Study in Terror. (All Groups.) Thriller. Mike Johnson. 3 m., 4 f. Int. A depraved tale of mystery, murder, magic, madness, and hideous revenge, The Swan Song details the events of a single day from early afternoon to midnight. Olivia returns with her fiance to the creepy family manor after the funeral of her murdered parents. Miles desperately tries to get her away from the house and the eerie influences of her secretary, her ever-tipsy aunt, a hidebound lawyer, a genuinely scary swami, and a kindly old housekeeper whose nervousness is contagious. Olivia won't leave until she contacts the spirit of her mother at midnight to learn who committed the ghastly murders. This shocker is crammed with harrowing suspense and the conclusion is guaranteed to scare the daylights out of your audi(#21407) ence. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PAGE THREE MURDER. (All Groups.) Comedy thriller. Larry Belghel. 5 m., 2 f. lint. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18182) HILLBILLY WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama with music. Elizabeth Stearns. Based on the book by Kathy Kahn. Music by Clint Ballard et al. 7 f' Bare stage. Based on interviews in Appalachia, this docu-drama features seven women who reveal in song and narrative their personal stories of survival against incredible odds. "Not only a powerful play but a work of art which is entitled to stand. . . as a classic and artistic documentation of the generations and the grossness of life in Appalachia."-Meriden Morning Record and Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music rental, $10 per production plus $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty quoted on application.) (10097) FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDEIWHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF. (Black Groups.) Play. Ntozake Shange. 7 f. Bare stage. This passionately feminist spellbinder is a fluid collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives performed by young Black women. Almost exclusively concerned, with the cavalier and sometimes brutal treatment accorded Black women by their

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THE PERFECT MURDER. (All Groups.) Thriller. Mike Johnson. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Attorney Nicodemus Braddock is engaged to marry the niece of a prominent criminal courts judge. He discovers that the judge has unearthed evidence about the way he conducts his career that will certainly get him disbarred. With his butler, a former felon, Nicko contrives to steal the evidence and murder the judge. The author of the stunning thrillers The Clone People and Return of the Maniac is in top form here and delivers some devastating surprises. "This really has that wonderful twist you expect only with Christie."-John Chaffin, Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre, Nashville, Tenn. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17989) OH, FUDGE! (All Groups.) Comedy. Monk Ferris. 3 m., 4 f. Int. While taping a commercial in the Amazon jungle for a sneaker-manufacturer, Danni Dawn is enveloped in a swarm of strange insects and finds she must eat chocolate fudge to stay alive and to keep her weight down! Sent to The Fairfax Clinic for Digestive Psychoses by her adoring physician, Danni meets a fudge-adoring actress there to shed pounds for an upcoming movie. This star does everything in her power to catch Danni's neat-o disease. Unsuspected side-effects soon affect everybody on the premises: autocratic Augusta Fairfax, a hapless nurse, the gargantuan clinic attendant, and the movie star's eager-beaver manager. In this rollicking farce for the entire family, the plot is deranged, the dialogue insane, and the pace breath-taking. (#16989) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) ALONE AT THE BEACH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Dresser. 4 m., 3 f. Comb. int./ext. George, a mild-mannered man in his mid-30's, inherits a beach house in the Hamptons and rents out rooms to Manhattanites. George has not actually met any of these yuppies from the urban jungle and they turn out to be a

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motley crew of neurotics who drive him crazy from the moment they arrive. Everyone hilariously survives the experience and some unlikely romances develop before Labor Day and the final trek back to New York City-until next summer? "So you thought the kind of comedy that sends audiences home happy had disappeared from the American theatre scene? Wrong!"-Louisville Courier-Journal. "A riotously funny sex farce."-Detroit News. "A charming romp that should tum up in regional and community theatres allover the place."-Houston Post. "Has the pacing of a Neil Simon script but with some of the dry. more cerebral wit of Jules Feiffer."-Evansville Courier. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC and Chicago. (#3118) DEAD RINGER. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Charles Ross. 5 m., 2 f. Int. When the Prime Minister drops dead from an apparent heart attack on the eve of a general election, two cabinet members who fear they need his charisma to get reelected hire an out-of-work actor to replace the deceased. This dead ringer is suppose to fill-in until after the election is won, but he grows to like the role until he discovers that the real PM was poisoned. This thriller plunges from early amusing fantasy into murder and dark plots. Its run at the Duke of York's Theatre was very successful. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#6915) STOPPING THE DESERT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Glen Merzer. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. This fine play chronicles a decade by focusing on one individual. In the age of Nixon, Rick marries and starts an organic vegetable business. By the inauguration of Ford, Rick's business is a success; the Carter era sees his marriage failing. Sick of vegetables and suffering from malaise, Rick divorces and starts a mail-order furniture company. By the age of Reagan Rick is so successful that he is offered a job as heir-apparent of a conglomerate that manufactures inorganic pesticides-a dilemma for Rick. "Merzer has a quick wit."-N.Y. Post. "Raises important questions, humorously captures the social mores of changing political times and the painful introspection of personal growth."-N.Y. Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS idealist, in the house, somebody shot him."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6165) WIDOW'S WEEDS or For Years I Couldn't Wear My Black. (Little Theatre.) Comic thriller. Anthony Shaffer. 4 m., 3 f. When nice Mrs. Collier and her two horrendous children are chosen to star in a shampoo commercial, it's not just the dandruff that has to go! "Polished, fast-moving and thoroughly entertaining." -Plymouth Evening Herald . A positive mine field of surprises." -Croydon Advertiser. "A must for theatre fans."-Derbyshire Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#25132) $40.) THE LUCKY O'LEARYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Brochu. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This delightful new comedy by the author of Cooking with Gus we know will appeal to a broad spectrum of audiences. A woman needs some ready cash right away because her apartment is about to be condo-ed (the hot new verb of the 80's). As she believes she is going to win the big lottery, she withdraws her life savings to buy tickets. Meanwhile her husband, who left her three years before, arrives back home on her birthday, the day of the lottery drawing. The woman's sister has also bought a lot of tickets. The husband has bought one for her and one for him. The women think the husband has won with his tickets; but, it turns out, the reason he is flush is that he is now financially successful. Actually, one of the women just may actually have the winning ticket! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted metropolitan NYC. (#13998) HOUSE ARREST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bill Bozzone. 4 m., 3 f. I set. When 24year-old Lonnie Yolango is brought home "in shackles," he's unable to believe what he finds. In just two years his mother has turned his retired father into a television vegetable. Lonnie, who is confined to the house for sixty days for driving a rental car through a Catholic church, is determined to help his father regain control. Obstacles include his domineering mother, the police officer who is alert for house arrest violations, and the neighbor and her daughter who wants either a husband or a show business career. And there's father himself who would rather watch "Love Connection" then go on a job interview. Lonnie resorts to digging a tunnel through the basement so he and his father can escape to Mexico. Mother is not easily fooled and she thwarts this plan and arranges for Lonnie to marry the neighbor's daughter. Now Lonnie sees his possible future-mirrored by his parents (#10105) present lives-and finally escapes. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) A NIGHT ON THE TILES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frank Vickery. 4 m., 3 f. Ext. This perceptive and comical play from the author of One O'Clock from the House involves a wedding that does not get off to an auspicious start and goes from bad to worse. It won the British Theatre Association Amateur Theatre Award and was presented at the Duke of York's Theatre. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16071) RED IN THE MORNING. (Advanced Groups.) Thriller. Glyn Jones. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A truly Grand Guignol play, with rapacious servants, venomous Dobermans, meat hooks and mutilations. In a gothic mansion in England lives a grand dame with three servants and, on this occasion, a small grandson whose parents are traveling abroad. Two men masquerading as telephone repairmen abduct the grandson for ransom, and the grandmother, in order to keep hidden certain family skeletons, readily pays. But then the bloody machinations begin, and before the grisly ending there are multiple disclosures, including the discovery of a Nazi death camp commandant. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20095) STAGE BLOOD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy, Charles Ludlam. 5 m., 2 f. Var. sets. A family acting company continuously tours Hamlet in the U.S. Carleton Stone, Sr., once a great Hamlet, is now dissolute and playing the ghost. He tries to make his reluctant son the Hamlet he once was. Here is a Hamlet within a Hamlet within a Hamlet and a murder mystery for people with stage blood in their veins. "Hamlet with a happy ending [in] . . . . A crisply wrapped comic package."-N.Y. Times. "Tight, consistent, madcap literary and terribly funny, . . . the very essence of clownmanship." -N. Y. Post. "Abounds with clever twists of plot. . . . It's a play within a play that mixes theatrical perform,mce with life."-Village Voice. "Hamlet and Freud on wry."-WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21321) OWNERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Caryl Churchill. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This, the first stage play by the author of Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Fen, Traps and Vinegar Tom, was widely praised as signaling the arrival in the theatre of an exciting and promising talent. Set in an up-and-coming area of London, Owners is about a successful property developer who pursues the man she wants almost as passionately as she buys up old houses and drives out the tenants. "[Churchill is] one of the best playwrights now active in this country . . . What is remarkable is that this play which has such deep undertones is on the surface a highly amusing folk-comedy, full of brilliant observation, witty lines, a truly Dickensian zest in creating richly eccentric characters and a wealth of telling theatrical images." -Plays and Players. In Churchill Plays: One, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17065) END OF THE WORLD WITH SYMPOSIUM TO FOLLOW. Revised Version of END OF THE WORLD. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Arthur Kopit. 4 m., 2 f., I m. child, extras. Var. sets. A few years ago Arthur Kopit was commissioned by a wealthy industrialist to write a play about the nuclear peril. This funny play is the result. It is about a playwright who sees himself as a Sam Spade-like detective who is commissioned by a mysterious billionaire to write a play about the Impending Doom. The writer has two mysteries to solve: the truth behind the nuclear arms

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EL SALVADOR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Rafael Lima. 6 m., I f. Int. This brilliant drama takes place in a hotel in E1 Salvador that is home base for a disillusioned gaggle of journalists. "Tensely fascinating."-N.Y. Post. "A powerful, gripping drama . . . that is as vivid as reality. You are absolutely there. "-UPl. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#7024) LA PUTA VIDA (THIS BITCH OF A LIFE). (Advanced Groups.) Dramatic trilogy. Reinaldo Povod. 6 m., I f. 3 ints. This extraordinary trilogy of one-acts includes South of Tomorrow, Nijinsky Choked His Chicken and Poppa Dio!. "Vivid. Povod's talent glistens."-N.Y. Post. "Marvelous. Povod is an artist. In the lowest misery, he sees hope and human possibility everywhere."-Village Voice. "A raw-edged knockout."-UPI. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $25-$20 per play). (#14673) ROAD. (Advanced Groups.) Dramatic comedy. Jim Cartwright. 8 m., 6 f. or 4 m., 3 f. Var. simple ints'!l ext. or unit set. During one wild night, a drunken guide conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street, where sharp and comic scenes jostle viciously to expose a population driven mad by despair. "Uncomfortable and magical . . . funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze." London Sunday Times. "The climax comes when two flash lads have picked up two girls. . . . This sequence is simply one of the most unlikely, audacious and, in the event, riveting scenes to be found currently in the theatre."-London Financial Times. "Beneath the gags, the playwright's rumbling sense of lost dignity resulting from unemployment, chauvinism or from simply getting paralytically pissed, give this stunning debut a perceptive and frightening reality."-City Limits. "Mr. Cartwright is asking the right question and he has something to say. The question is, why is the world so hard?"-London Observer. "The debut of a writer of outstanding talent."-London Sunday Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#20096) AN ACT OF THE IMAGINATION. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Bernard Slade. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This masterful suspense tale by the author of Same Time, Next Year; Same Time, Another Year; Romantic Comedy and Tributeinvolves a successful mystery writer whose latest work has strangely turned into a romance-a vivid and adulterous romance. His son, his second wife and his editor marvel at the truthfulness of the work, remarkable since it is inconceivable that he could ever have had, such an affair. Enter a woman, who is intent on blackmail and whose story is foolproof and airtight: it appears that Arthur has been trysting away from home. Death stalks: the other woman disappears and evidence incriminates Arthur in her murder. There is a conspiracy to do Arthur in, a conspiracy that entails cunning, deceit and ingenious plotting. "Highly entertaining."-The Herald. "A sophisticated whodunit which manages to keep the audience on tender-hooks until the end."-The Adveniser. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3933) DOMINO. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Robert Litz. 6 m., I f. (to play var. roles). Unit set. Short, hilarious scenes reveal what is really going on between Contras, Sandinistas and Noriegas. "Excruciatingly funny political comedy . . . . Hostages are taken; prisoners are tortured; ransoms are paid; weapons are hijacked; drugs are traded; political deals are struck-and press conferences are held to celebrate the whole sordid mess. Then, when the c.1.A. discovers a more expedient way to sell off the country to capitalist interests, everybody betrays everybody else, and the whole cycle is played allover again. . . . If there was a hero, or an honest

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BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS. (All Groups.) ComedylDrama. Neil Simon. 3 m., 4 f. Comb. IntslExt. Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. The play captures a few days in the life of a struggling Jewish household. Family miseries are used to raise such enduring issues as sibling resentments, guilt-ridden parent-child relationships and the hunger for dignity in a poverty-stricken world. It is a deeply appealing play that deftly mixes drama with comedy. "Brings a fresh glow to Broadway . . . . In many respects his funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays." -N. Y. Daily News. "Simultaneously poignant and funny. The characters are fully dimensional, believable. . . . An outstanding show. "-Variety. "Hilarious comedy. . . . A delightful and enriching experience. "-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#298) SQUABBLES (alk/a Your House or Mine). (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marshall Karp. 4 m., 3 f. or 3 m., 3 f. lnt. Perfect for summer or dinner theatres, this hilarious play pits a father-in-law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles. Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not-so-happy Abe Dreyfus, Jerry's curmUdgeon of a father-in-law. Abe is a funny guy-to the audience, not to Jerry. The situation is exacerbated when Jerry's mother Mildred looses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. Abe and Mildred can't stand each other. This play is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heart-warming finale in which the oldsters discover that, really, each is not so bad. Audiences loved Squabbles at Tiffany's Attic Dinner Theatre in Kansas City, the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire and many other laugh-filled theatres. "A surefire, fun-filled hit. "-WEEI Radio, Boston. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Tape of jingle music available; write for particulars. (#21768) SCENES AND REVELATIONS. (All Groups.) Drama. Elan Garonzik. 3 m., 4 f. Platform set. Set in 1894 at the height of America's westward movement, the play portrays four Pennsylvania sisters who decide to move in the opposite direction. As the play opens they are prepared to leave their farm and birthplace to move to England. Lyrical flashbacks dramatize their tender and frustrating romances. "Glimmers with revelation."-Chicago Sun-Times. "A beauty."-WWD. "A deep understanding of women and their relationships with men." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21640) SPLIT. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Michael Weller. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. This bittersweet comedy about contemporary relationships consists of two one-acts. At Home finds a perfect couple squabbling as they prepare dinner for themselves and another couple who are on their way over. It is unclear whether their marriage is in trouble or their squabbling is just normal banter. Abroad portrays the after-effects of the happy couple's decision to split up. In a series of vignettes, they are seen separately dealing with their friends' awkward attempts to understand the why and wherefore as they try to help them over the shock of being on their own. At Home and Abroad can be presented in either order. "A La Ronde for today, a flourishing harvest of insights about the quest for continuity in relationships." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $25-$20 per act.) (#21290) CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, based on the play by Robert Thomas. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Overflowing with mirth, this Broadway whodunit is exciting from beginning to end. An advertising man who has brought his bride to the boss' mountain lodge for a honeymoon calls in the local police to investigate her sudden disappearance. Enter a pretty young girl insists over his protests that she is the missing wife. A priest backsup her story. A funny little man who owns a delicatessen enters and before you know it there are two murders at the isolated lodge. "The final 15 minutes will reward you as a murder mystery should."-N.Y. Times. "As a cheerful game of homicide and red herrings I thought it was fun . . . A resourceful and amusing mystery comedy."-N.Y. Post. "lngenious."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.)
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build-up and the reason the eccentric croesus Philip Stone believes he is the man to write about it. There are loads of laughs along the way to the shocking conclusion. "There is a quizzical Shavian perversity to this play that gives it its peculiar flavor. . . End of the World is a black comedy, perhaps more comic than black, but ominously real."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

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I'M NOT RAPPAPORT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Herb Gardner. 5 m., 2 f. Ext. Just when we thought there would never be another joyous, laugh-filled evening on Broadway, along came this delightful play to restore our faith in. the Great White Way. If you thought A Thousand Clowns was wonderful, wait until you take a look at I'm Not Rappaport! Set in a secluded spot in New York's Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat is a lifelong radical determined to fight injustice (real or imagined) who is also something of a spinner of fantasies. He has a delightful repertoire of eccentric personas, which makes the role an actor's dream. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge, a Black apartment super who spends his days in the park hiqing out from tenants, who want him to retire. "Rambunctiously funny."-N.Y. Post. "A warm and entertaining evening."-W. W. Daily. Tony Award Winner, Best Play 1986. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters

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TOWN FULL OF HEROES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Nichols and Don Ponturo. 5 m., 2 f. Int. The Pembertons have rented their Los Angeles home to an Olympics visitor and plan to travel life but things get complicated. Doug's friend, a para-therapist who treats manic-depressives with a bullhorn, wants to park the van he lives in at their house. Doug's boss refuses to let him leave until her TV special plays "like a message from God." Jenny befriends a defector moments before the State Department warns her that their renter may be a murderous spy! Jenny is tied to the sofa, Doug fights a duel in his bathrobe, and everybody finds out why some Sinatra albums are classified "Top Secret". "Very funny."-Venturan News-West. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22181) THE CURATE SHAKESPEARE AS YOU LIKE IT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Don Nigro. 4 m., 3 f. Bare stage. This unusual piece is subtitled "The record of one company's attempt to perform the play by William Shakespeare". When the prolific Mr. Nigro was asked by a professional theatre company to adapt As You Like It so that it could be performed by a company of seven, he devised a completely original play about a rag-tag group of players led by a dotty old curate who must present Shakespeare's play. The dramatic interest and the comedy derive from their hilarious attempts to impersonate all of Shakespeare's characters. The play has had numerous productions nationwide and has become an underground comic classic. (#5742) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) DANCERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Grady. 3 m., 4 f. Compo int. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival and justifiably, for it ranks with Gin Game, Painting Churches and On Golden Pond in gentleness and fondness for its characters-not that they're all likeable but even those that aren't are certainly fascinating. The scene is an old folks' home, where a man who recently lost his mother guiltily "adopts" a looney old lady. But it's by no means freewheeling, for her roommate is a crotchety old coot who has something bad to say to everybody. But at one of several peaks of climax we see beneath the curmudgeon and understand why he is so rude to the guilty man: because he has seen such people come here before, ingratiate themselves, and then suddenly come no more, leaving the old folks more destitute than before. He wants to protect the looney old lady from such destitution. Happily for all, the guilty young'man is a match for him. $6.50. (Royal(#6147) ty, $50-$35.) BREAKING THE SILENCE. (All Groups.) Drama. Stephen Poliakoff. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Set in Russia shortly after the Revolution, Stephen Poliakoffs intriguing and moving play has an autobiographical background in that it is inspired by what happened to his own family in Russia. Produced first by the RSC at the Pit and later transferring to the Mermaid the play follows the material and spiritual adjustments the upper middle-class Pesiakoff family has to make to their life when they are forced to live in a railway carriage for many years. Although ostensibly employed as Telephone Examiner, father spends his time (and government money) on trying to record sound on to film. With the death of Lenin, however, the research must be abandoned and the family is forced to flee. "Romantic in mood, richly theatrical, cleverly plotted and vividly characterised." -London Sunday Express. "One of the most thrillingly individual works of the last decade or two." -London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4692) DING DONG DEAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy of suspense. Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert. Adapted from Double leu by Robert Thomas. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Monique is married to a gambling wastrel. When she refuses to pay his debts, he leaves for France to raise money from an estate. Meanwhile, his brother is released from prison and turns up to see his fiancee, Monique's maid. They scheme to have brother impersonate wastrel so that Monique can get a divorce, but the wastrel returns at the very hour the lawyer is due. Monique tries to drug her husband but imbibes the potion herself. Fighting for a gun, the wastrel is killed. When Monique comes to and the police appear, they think she is loco: there is no body, the maid is now a nurse, and the lawyer a psychiatrist. Is Monique insane and will they do her in to get her money? No, Monique is really a secret agent sent to trap the wastrel in his fifth widowhood. This time the law catches wastrel, lawyer and maid combined. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#6140)

THE RAINMAKER. (All Groups.) Comedy. N. Richard Nash. 6 m., 1 f. Composite Int. At the time of a paralyzing drought in the West we discover a girl whose father and two brothers are worried as much about her becoming an old maid as they are about their dying cattle. For the truth is, she is indeed a plain girl. The brothers try every possible scheme to marry her off, but without success. Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat. When suddenly from out of nowhere appears a picaresque character with a mellifluous tongue and the most grandiose notions a man could imagine. He claims to be a rainmaker. And he promises to bring rain, for $100. It's a silly idea, but the rainmaker is so refreshing and ingratiating that the family finally consent. Forthwith they begin banging on big brass drums to rattle the sky; while the rainmaker turns his magic on the girl, and persuades her that she has a very real beauty of her own. And she believes it, just as her father believes the fellow can actually bring rain. And rain does come, and so does love. An excellent play for all groups. "Admirable skill. .. [and] insight into the human heart . . . . The touch of a poet. . . . A hit you must see."-N.Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. Restricted Metropolitan New York City and New Jersey. Posters (#104) BLITHE SPIRIT. (All Groups.) Farce. Noel Coward. 2 m., 5 f. Int. The comedy hit of London and Broadway, this ingenious play tells how novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid country home an eccentric medium in order to learn the language of the occult. The seance staged by the medium summons Charles' first

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wife and this mischievous lady from beyond stays to tonnent Charles by reminding him of their days and nights together. The first wife has a ghostly plan: if she can get Charles into an automobile accident and make a ghost of him, life in the spirit world will have more appeal for her. Mistakes occur and it is Chalres' second wife who takes the fatal automobile ride-only to return with the first wife to plague the utterly bewildered astral bigamist! Charles manages to extricate himself from these very blithe spirits in a hilarious conclusion to this unusual farce. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50 or CD $60.00. Slightly Restricted. Publicity Kit and Posters (#3) KAFKA'S DICK, (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Alan Bennett. 5 m., 2 f. I set. This hilarious and unusual play satirizes the ridiculous propensity we often have to show less interest in an artist's work than in meaningless details of his private life, such as his sex life. It begins with Kafka near the end of his life making his famous request to his friend Max Brod that his works be burned at his death. We then flash forward to the present, where Kafka fanatic Sydney, an insurance salesman, is laboring away at an article on Kafka for Small Print-The Journal of Insurance Studies. Who should miraculously appear but Kafka himself, followed closely by Brod and finally by Kafka's father, who wants to vindicate himself to posterity. The penultimate scene takes place in Heaven, where Kafka observes: ''I'll tell you something. Heaven is going to be hell." "A witty, elegant theatrical phantasmagoria." -London Guardian. S6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13034) BALMORAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Frayn. 5 m., 2 f., Int. Balmoral Castle, once the Scottish retreat of Queen Victoria, is by 1937 only a decrepit writers' colony-and the setting for a madcap farce by the author of Noises Off and Donkey's Years. $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3971) TAKE A WA Y THE LADY. (All Groups.) Mystery/Suspense. Jimmie Chinn. 3 m., 4 f. I set. Intriguing glimpses into a cupboard full of family skeletons, together with some serious, and not so serious, detective work, combine in this unusual suspense play. to keep everyone guessing until the very last page! Returning home from prison, after serving fifteen years for allegedly murdering his mother. Matthew finds his three sisters, his wife and his father waiting for him. Still protesting his innocence, Matthew's arrival prompts the question of who did kill Mother-scornful Celia, dotty Emma, cold Lavinia, flighty Gilda or even gentle Father? Accusations and hypotheses abound, but it takes an apparent suicide, and a good deal of amateur sleuthing, before the truth is revealed and the lady can be taken away. A success in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22027) THE SON OF ARLECCHINO. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Adapted by Leon Katz. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Arlecchino and his band of madcaps leap out of centuries of retirement and are on the loose with lethal comic devices dangerous to anyone with a sense of humor. No theatre or classroom is safe. "Hilarious fast-moving farce! Leon Katz brings commedia dell'arte to life."-Robert Brustein. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21272) ONE TOE IN THE GRAVE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion-dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending corporate functions. A cure is accidently discovered in one of the company's patent medicines and Jason's ecstatic boss is arriving any minute with the company doctor to administer the cure and then bask in the publicity. Jason, however, doesn't really have a wife so he cons his fiancee Nicki into pretending to be the invalid. Other impostors appear: friend Poopsie Magruder who initially refused shows up anyhow and Vonga the Jungle Girl was pressed into service by the helpful housekeeper. The cure involves a two-inch needle in the armpit and it develops that the disease is contagious, which only complicates the hilarity. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17946) BLUE WINDOW. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Craig Lucas. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. This inventive play had a long run Off Broadway and won the prestigious George and Elisabeth Marton Award for Playwriting. The play consists of three scenes which show the before, during and after of a Manhattan dinner party. The guests include a narcissistic actor, a parachuting instructor, an aspiring songwriter, a secretary and a lesbian couple. "The function of the piece isn't to narrate the events of this typical New York gathering, it's to angle their disparate fragments into a picture of our life today, of its disconnections and the way in which they mysteriously connect us."-Village Voice. "An affecting, funny account of a night in some lonely Man.hattan lives."-WQXR. "What Blue Window suggests with the evasiveness of its party chatter and the chill of its most searing monologue is that people are unknowable and life is made up of random pieces of a puzzle that don't fit together the way we think they should. "-Newsday. $6.50. Sheet music to Bill Bolcom composition, $5.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4094) MURDER O:S THE RERUN. (All Groups.) Comedy-mystery. Fred Carmichael. 2 m. 5 f., Int. A ghost tries to find out who murdered her in a witty, sophisticated, yet suspenseful look at the upper crust of Hollywood. The curtain rises to find an Oscarwinning screen writer dead at the bottom of the stairs in a Vennont ski lodge. Her four friends and husband are saying she fell. "I was pushed!" she says as her ghost. The five suspects join together to keep the possible murder quiet for reasons of their own but their relationship busts apart with their mutual distrust. Woven through the suspense in humorous, acidic, and revealing comedy is an extraordinary whodunit with a surprise denouement when the murderer is revealed. All the roles are lengthy with well-defined characters. For the unusual and audience-pleasing combination of

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS comedy, intrigue, and suspense, this is a must! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15923) THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Christopher Humble. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This engrossing drama is perhaps the definitive troubles-in-NorthernIreland play. Winner of two American playwriting competitions, it tells the story of an Irish family torn by the political violence. Michael and Ian Earl, I.R.A. terrorists, are planning a bombing. Brigitte, Michael's wife has been giving her husband money which she thinks is for his brother Keith, whom she thinks is imprisoned. Brigitte hopes that she and Michael will be able to emigrate to America and leave the violence behind. What she doesn't know is that her husband has been using her money to finance his terrorism. When she finally does realize this she stands up to her husband. A terrible argument ensues--and in the fight over a gun Brigitte is killed by her husband. The chickens come home to roost at last for the violent Earl family. "Convincing realism . . . chilling."-N.Y. Daily News. "Well crafted . . . . A most absorbing evening."-Gannett Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#8103) $40.) FEN. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Caryl Churchill. 1m., 6 f. (with doubling.) I set. This remarkable playwright shows still another aspect of her talent in Fen, which takes place in England's fen country and focuses on a gang of women landworkers. The play looks at their work situation and their private lives and dreams. In particular, we follow the story of Val, who leaves her husband and children to live with a farm worker, Frank. Other characters include Angela, the outsider who tonnents her stepdaughter Becky; Alice, who has turned to religion; Nell, who tries to assert her rights against the farmer; Shirley, who prides herself on keeping going. A community with strong links with the past but living in a present where the land is owned by multinationals. "Ms. Churchill has put together-with grace and anger and a generous humor-an evening almost entirely composed of wants." -Sunday N. Y. Times. "A wonderful and strange play; passionate, tense, and eloquent."-Vi/lage Voice. "Ms. Churchill . . . possesses one of the boldest theatrical imaginations to emerge in this decade (who is) amazingly enough plowing new ground in the theater with every new play."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8908) WA Y UPSTREAM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 3 m., 4 f. Ext. What could be more pleasant than cruising through the picturesque English countryside. This voyage combines the comedy touches that make Ayckbourn one of the world's best-loved playwrights with a darker thread of menace. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.). (#25042) LET'S MURDER MARSHA. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Monk Ferris. 3 m., 4 f., Int. A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next door neighbor she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid's date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha think he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha's intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers. This is a terrific show for family audiences who iike their comedy broad and fast and nonstop. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#14665) MURDER IN MIND. (All Groups.) Mystery. Terence Feely. 5 m., 2 f., I m. extra. Int. When Mary, an international art-dealer, arrives home after the unpleasant experience of an aeroplane-on which she hoped to fly to America-catching fire, she has the further shock of finding her house occupied by three "strangers" claiming to be her husband, cousin and sister. Even more mysterious is the fact that they seem aware of details of her family life which could only have been known to her most intimate circle. In fact, they even-apparently-convince a highly suspicious Detective Sergeant. The nightmare situation becomes more and more complicated, including the sudden appearance of a murdered man, until, with the arrival of Chief Inspector Gale, a series of ingenious twists brings an eventful evening, for all concerned, to a surprising close. A success in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, (#15913) $50-$40.). QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Simon Gray. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Never has the celebrated author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged been more amusing and more touching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable English schoolteacher named St. John Quartennaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridge which teaches English to foreigners. "A play that is at once full of doom and gloom and bristling with wry, even uproarious comedy. The mixture is so artfully balanced that we really don't know where the laughter ends and the tears begin: the playwright is in full possession of that Checkhovian territory where the tragedies and absurdities become one and the same. . . . The brave little lives that Mr. Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small." -N. Y. Times. "A lovely play has brushed with the unexpected laughter and autumnal sorrow of life. "-Newsday. "Compassionate and funny. "-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19006) KEY FOR TWO. (Little Theatre.) Farce. John Chapman and Dave Freeman. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The author of A Bedfull of Foreigners has teamed with the author of Move Over, Mrs. Markham to create a delightful farce about a kept woman who is canny

CHARACTERS enough to be kept by two men. "Explodes into the happiest of frolics."-London (#13010) Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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she still lacks grace. "Nice. . . . One hopes to hear more from this writer."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $35-$25 per act.) (#9089) COMING ATTRACTIONS. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy with music. Ted Tally. Music by Jack Feldman. Lyrics by Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. Lonnie is vicious but lacks the vision to be a sensation. A talent agent devises a criminal persona for' him: dressed as a skeleton he goes door-to-door murdering people. When captured, he is an instant TV celebrity. Wanning fame motivates him to crash the Miss America Pageant disguised as Miss Wyoming to kill Miss America on camera. Falling in love with her leads to his downfall: being fried in the electric chair during a jazzy prime-time production number. "Fizzles with pixilated laughter."-Time. "I don't often burst into gales of laughter in the theatre; here, I found myself rocking with guffaws."-NY. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano Conductor's Score available on rental, $10 plus $25 refundable deposit. (Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) (#5149) CLOUD 9. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Caryl Churchill. 4 m., 3 f. (with doubling). 2 exts. Cloud 9 is a spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes-especially towards sex. In 1880 in British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and novels a clandestine and nonstop round-robin of sexual liaisons occurs while restless natives hover in the background. The second act shifts to London in 1980 where all those repressed sexual longings have evaporated along with the Empire. "Intelligent, inventive and funny."-N.Y. Times. "I really don't know when I've had more fun. . . . It blends farce, pathos into a work of total theatre." -N Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Tape rental fee, $4.00 plus $25 refundable deposit. (Music Royalty, $15-$10.) (#5109) THE DREAM CRUST. (Little Theatre.) Drama.Roger Karshner. 3 m., 3 f., 1 10year-old boy. Int. Frank Haynes, an earth-loving farmer, has given up his hounddogging and high times under the pressure of the family's admonition that "A man has got to get ahead." Haynes would be happy to do nothing but tend his farm and reap whatever profit it might generate. But he realizes that there are five mouths depending on him and the lure of big money available to him in a nearby big-city factory too great to ignore. Set against a backdrop of the land-locked Midwest, the play dramatizes a man's persistent, agonizing search for personal freedom and the sense of loss between father and son. "The play's spirit, its underlying warmth, particularly in the unspoken father-son relationship, creates a world that's identifiable and that breathes."-L.A. Herald-Examiner. $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) Music, $3.00. (Music Royalty, $5 each performance.) (#6132) IT HAPPENED IN HARRODS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Chapman. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Helen (Lady de Langley) is at her wits end. She has given her husband only daughters and he wants a son to carry on the family name. She decides to try and seduce an old beau who has since had eight sons into making love to her hoping she will have a male offspring. However, she gets so drunk during the seduction scene that she passes out. The old beau, ever the gentleman, leads her to believe that he has made love to her. So, when her husband Sir Hesketh de Langley comes home, she must get him to make love to her, even though he is intending to file for divorce the next day so he can remarry and have his son. She does soften Hesketh's heart, and he .takes her into the bedroom. Act II begins with Helen learning that the ruse has worked-she is pregnant! When Hesketh finds out, he decides that he has been a nasty male chauvinist and vows to be a good husband as the curtain falls. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11073) WELCOME HOME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marty Davis, 4 m., 3 f. Int. Daniel Frame returns home after eleven months in a veterans hospital. His nervous breakdown was brought on by guilt: he thinks he wrecked his daughter's marriage. Daniel joins family friend John Barnett and Willie Perkins, also released from the hospital that day, in a drunken reunion that is followed by family confrontations that give way to reconciliation. Reviewers said "never a dull moment," "clever dialogue, heartwarming scenes," and "light and lively with many laughs." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1208) SEXTET: SIX OF ONE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Pertwee. 4 m., 3 f. Compo int. may be simply suggested. Roger has invited his old friend Philip and his wife for a cruise on his luxury yacht-together with Denys and his wife Valerie in order to see whether Denys, his employee, proves suitable for an important job abroad. All seems set for a restful holiday. Complications start with the very first arrival, Roger's estranged wife Lisa. Then the philandering Philip turns up with super-sexy Mercy instead of his wife. Soon every conceivable permutation and combination of twice three has been achieved, with the clumsy Denys losing his contact lenses and stumbling around doing damage everywhere. Even Roger's unseen secretary Betty Samuelson is drawn into the plot before the final hilarious and unexpected climax. Presented successfully in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21666) KNOCKOUT. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Louis La Russo II. 5 m., 2 f. Int. This literally sock-it-to-you drama is by the author of the Broadway success Lamppost Reunion. This time, Mr. La Russo takes us into the world of small-time boxing. The story revolves around an aging, but kindly, former champion named Damie Ruffino and a sadistic young champion, Klonski-and the woman they fight over. The climax of this down-to-earth drama is an honest-to-goodness boxing match between Damie and the upstart young champ. "The fight, with great thwacks and roundhouses and stage blood, undeniably perks things up."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13030)

NURSE JANE GOES TO HAWAII. (Little Theatre.) Farce-Comedy. Allan Stratton. 3 m., 4 f. 1 set. When Vivien Bliss, writer of Harlequin Romance novels, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic elements of farceconfused identities, disguise, long-lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivien gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor in panty hose, an orphan with a cake and Helga the evil Russian physicist, is the story of this hilarious play. "Howlingly funny . .. sophisticated comedy and farce." -Newsday. "Coincidence piles on coincidence with characters whirling in and out of enough doors to make Feydeau dizzy . . . . Excellent"-Backstage. "Hilarious." -N Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35; in Canada, 10% of gross box office receipts.) (#16660) PASTORALE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Deborah Eisenberg. 3 m., 4 f., optional extras. Int. Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve. They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering through a mental landscape of phobias, friendships, work, sex, slovenliness and epistemology. Other people happen by: Steve's girlfriend, a virtuous and annoying man Melanie picked up in a bar, and a couple who appear during an intense conversation and observe the sofa is on fire. Inevitably the three friends depart, better prepared by their months on the sofa to go in separate directions. "Deborah Eisenberg is one of the freshest and funniest voices in some seasons. "-Newsweek. "A very funny, stylish comedy."-New Yorker. "Wacky charm and wayward wit."-NY. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18016) THE HOUSE OF RAMON IGLESIA. (Hispanic groups.) Drama. Jose Rivera. 5 m., 2 f. Int. with ext. insert. This probing drama by a very talented new Hispanic playwright was a co-winner of a very prestigious national playwrighting contest sponsored by CBS, and was produced successfully in NYC by the excellent Ensemble Studio Theatre. "It's a play about a bright, Americanized son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents-a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress. The play's vigor derives from the firm delineation of the daily life of the Iglesias, who live in a dilapidated house bereft of a phone, water and a working furnace. In the hands of a less-assured writer these squabbles could easily look like ridiculous Latin caricature. Here they become entirely credible articulations of the conflicts within a family that no longer shares a common tongue." -N Y. Times. "A fine. . sensitively written ethnic drama."-Other Stages. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#10144) KEEP YOUR SPIRITS UP. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Francis Swann. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The "Spirits" are the deceased wives of Broadway producer Steven Roland, a fum believer in the occult who employs a live-in medium, a sardonic man-Friday and a secretary who has been in love with him through two marriages and twelve productions. When it is suggested that Pam pretend to be the spirits, she is shocked. Does she or doesn't she? This play has been successful in a number of community theaters in northern California. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#13008) THE SECOND LADY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Thanks to an idiotic childhood promise, Presidential candidate Andrew Wright is engaged to Bertha Desiree Sprock-a lady as lovely as her name. His unscrupulous campaign manager convinces Bertha she is the target of assassins and he cajoles Veronica Parkhurst, an absolute doll, to stand in for Bertha at the convention. Veronica so captivates the delegates that they want her as Andrew's running mate-and Andrew and Veronica fall in love. Will Bertha spill the beans and destroy Andrew's career if he doesn't marry her? What is the codeword that causes the Secret Service to blast anyone who leaves the hotel suite? Why would the Queen of England audition for the Dallas cheerleaders? Where do you find a hotel chef who can provide hemlock? This is one of the most hyperactive political satires ever to romp across a stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21056) SHOCK! (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Brian Clemens. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Air hostess Maggie, who lives in a converted windmill, has invited Ann and Terry, her latest pilot, to celebrate her birthday. Maggie has some peculiar tastes, including taping the most private intimacies between herself and her lovers. This indulgence causes consternation among the visitors, which include her neighbor Jenny and Jenny's husband, and culminates in the death of Ann's fiance. A second horrific climax reveals that Maggie has been murdered. Ann, who was very much affected by a recent accident, is distraught when apparently threatened by Jenny. In the last moments following Jenny's disappearance a final twist proves the relevance of the play's title. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21045) CHILDREN'S DAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. 3 m., 4 f. Int. It is Adam's fifth birthday and a boisterous children's party provides the heard but unseen backdrop for a hectic series of hilarious domestic crises. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5653) GRACE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jane Stanton Hitchcock. 3 m., 4 f. Int./ext. In act one Grace harasses the simple patrons of her Oklahoma laundromat about their faith. In act two she finds financial security as a paid companion to a wealthy invalid but

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JUSTICE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-drama. Terry Curtis Fox. 5 m., 2 f., 1 f. voice. Int. In a Chicago law firm, two attorneys play games with their clients' lives and with each other. The first act follows their day-through phone conversations, visits by clients and many behind-the-scenes stories-until one of them is faced with a challenge in a climax out of the best in American farce. The second act concentrates on Roger Ackerman's attempts to come to terms with his girlfriend whose decision to break up their relationship is directly linked to her decision to becoming a lawyer herself. Through this discussion-attitudes towards the law, lawyers, and the illusory concept of the title are made clear. "an oddly cheerful, even rousing show."-Village Voice. "Crunchy dialogue . . . a tasty slice of life."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state author when ordering. (#12042) TEIBELE AND HER DEMON. (Advanced Groups.) A fable. Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eve Friedman. 6 m., I f. Composite set. In a Polish-Jewish village about a hundred years ago lives Teibele, a young attractive woman whose husband has deserted her and apparently disappeared. So-Teibele can't remarry until he's legally declared dead. Enter the "demon" who's actually AIchonon, a woe-begone, unemployed scholar despised by Teibele. But he knows of her fascination for biblical demons and their powers-and devises an audacious plan to woo and win her in the dark. Thus he seduces the passionate Teibele and comes to adore her. But AIchonon wants to marry her and a domesticated demon would be too much for even guileless Teibele to accept. So Alchonon devises another scheme to make this come about-but it wouldn't be fair to tell you the outcome. "Rare theatrical magic . . . moving and full of wonder"-N.Y. Daily News. "Fabulous, erotic, funny, delightful, different and touching."-N.Y. Post. "Wonderful, exceptional. delightfully imaginative, charming. "-WCBS-TV2. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22032) MODIGLIANI. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Dennis McIntyre. 6 m., 1 f. Simple ints.lexts. In 1916, unable to sell his paintings and unable to work, Modigliani decides to leave Paris. A robbery attempt, aided by his painter/friends Turillo and Soutine fails and he seeks money from Zbo, his agent, who informs him he's about to meet Cheron, an influential art dealer. Modigliani's poet/mistress, Beatrice Hastings, tries to convince him to meet Cheron himself. Frightened of failure, he finally agrees only to discover Zbo has given away his best painting. His meeting with Cheron is a disaster and, in a rage, he slashes his paintings and attempts to destroy all the work in his studio. Beatrice prevents this-and forces him to realize the paintings are his life. Left alone with no possibilities for success, Modigliani begins work again on a self-portrait. "A wild, funny and moodily provocative play ... raffish and richly atmospheric."-N.Y. Daily News. "One of the most enthralling dramas in years. . . wonderfully exciting in the varied richness of its texture.-N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15122) THE CIRCLE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. W. Somerset Maugham. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Rich in humor. wit, conflict and depth, The Circle is a lasting contribution to the theatre by an important twentieth-century writer. Lady Kitty, who had given up a stuffy life with her titled husband to run away with a young adventurer, watches Elizabeth tangle herself in the same situation Lady Kitty had encountered thirty years before. For all her experience, Lady Kitty is unable to convey to Elizabeth all the sorrow; pain, and heartaches she has suffered. "An unabashedly old-fashioned evening of charm and elegance [that] sends theatre goers out into the night in good cheer." -N. Y. Daily News. "A lovely evening of theatre, redolent of special social charms. It is not a play of our times. And many will say 'Thank God!' to that."-N.Y. Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#334) CATCHPENNY TWIST. (Advanced Groups.) Play with Music. Stewart Parker, music by Shaun Davey, 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. Here is another wry comedy from the author of Spoke song about two Northern Irish songwriters who pursue the long road to big-time pop while being dogged by the metaphysical shadows of the Irish Troubles--not to mention by some real bullets. Fleeing Belfast, where they have been writing songs and gags for both the IRA and the loyalists, they team up with their old schoolteacher chum, the witty and doomed Monagh, and set off for English record companies, Eurovision and eclipse. "Combines the rich, mordant wit of the Irish with absurdist farce . . . a rare pleasure."-Time Out. "Blends lunatic humor with a gritty sense of reality."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. Music and lyrics in manuscript. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5041) IN ONE BED. . . AND OUT THE OTHER. (Little Theatre.) Farce-comedy. Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert from the french hit, "Une Nuit Chez Vous .. Madame!" by Jean de Letraz. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This is more bedlam from the authors of Pajama Tops. Gaston Dubois and his beautiful wife Huguette are bored with the monotony of married bliss. Fidelity is strained when the quietude of their Paris apartment becomes the playground for would-be and ex-lovers. The mad capers reach an amazing peak of hilarity in when everyone lands in bed with the wrong person or persons, including an uptight maiden aunt. . 'Can only be given a blanket recommendation as one of the most boisterous, roisterous and side-splitting comedies that has ever graced any stage."-Cape Cod Standard-Times. "One of the funniest plays ever to come to the theatre." -Citizen Patriot, Jackson, Mich. "Leaves audiences virtually limp from laughter. "-Variety. "A gale of non-stop laughs. "-Middlesex Chronicle, England. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#588) THE LATEST MRS. ADAMS. (All Groups.) Comedy-Mystery. George Tibbles, 4 m.,3 f. 1 set. Lily Adams, a sophisticated, lovely dress designer from New York, is brought to her new husband's Connecticut farmhouse to live. She and Sam Adams arrive at flight, during a storm. She loves the place-until a head rolls down the

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS stairs. The head proves to be merely a bowling ball; it seems they are not alone. Sam's uncle and his ex-mother-in-law are still in residence. A little weird. Lily puts up with bowling balls, wraiths dancing through the room and strange opinions. Ethan Allen, a man who lives under a bridge, stays the night. He is murdered. The village constable conducts a farcical investigation. Ethan Allen returns, not dead at all, but suffering from a disease that all but eliminates his pulse. And Lily begins life (#14044) again with the Adams family. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) SHRUNKEN HEADS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Meir Z. Ribalow. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Dr. Bob Hyde, a successful psychiatrist, just wants to have a quiet, peaceful weekend at his country estate, where he can commune with nature and relax in his Jacuzzi, far away from his patients. No such luck. In burst an assortment of crazed or just plain eccentric characters, from his neurotic-to-end-all-neurotics patient Dorothy Putney, to his daughter Caroline who is dropping out of her seventh college to go and live in a tent in Colorado and who has stopped by for moral support and money, to Caroline's mother (and Hyde's ex-wife) Jennifer, a master of facetious wise-cracks and particularly adept at draining Dr. Bob of alimony money. When Dorothy's husband Norman, who thinks his wife is having an affair with Hyde, shows up with a gun, this wildly-paced farce really hits its stride, and things build and build to an hilari(#21154) ous climax. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) SOMETHING FOR CHARLIE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neville J. Bryant. 4 m . 3 f. Int. A young, engaged, conservative teacher's life is changed forever when he comes home one night and finds a magnificent blond stranger naked on his bed . (#21265) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) PASSING GAME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Steve Tesich. 4 m. (3 white, I black). 3 f. (2 white, I black). Camp. int/ext. Passing Game is an exploration of guilt, retribution and disillusionment. Two once-promising actors, one white and one black, have descended to doing commercials and voice overs. At a seedy, deserted resort, the two engage in increasingly violent basketball games while they plot to do away with their wives-reminders of their failure. Unexplained killings have already occurred in the area and the two men hope the murderer will oblige by making their wives his next rifle fodder. Barring that, they make a pact to dispose of each other's wife. Others inhabiting this sinister locale are a creepy, gun-toting caretaker, his nasty nephew and the nephew's former girl friend-a natural prey for these two predatory men. Murder does take place, but not the one they've planned. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18001) A BEDFULL OF FOREIGNERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dave Freeman. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Stanley and Brenda Parker are driving about France on their vacation. When they find themselves in a village near the German border on the eve of a local festival, they consider themselves lucky on finding a hotel room. But this kind of luck, no one would want to endure for long. In less than an hour-with Brenda absent-Stanley finds himself lowering an attractive, stark naked girl from his room's window. Confusion turns to chaos with the arrival of Claude Philby, the girl's husband followed by the arrival of Claude's girl friend, Simone. By the second hour, almost everybody is in the wrong bed. Figures dressed 'as nuns and monks rush in and out. Seductions and confrontations run rampant. When the dust settles, a weary and dazed Stanley wishes they had spent their vacation at a nice, quiet English seaside resort. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#289) THE THIRD DAUGHTER. (All Groups.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 3 m., 4 f. Int. A wealthy Italian has three daughters. He's very strict with the first two. Mysteriously, he allows his third daughter many freedoms-he even lets her meet a young man in his apartment while he hides behind a curtain. Why? His third daughter is the offspring of his wife's infidelity and he has conceived a Machiavellian plot to destroy the two women. "Exciting and theatrical."-First Stage. "Powerful and thought-provoking." -American News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22667) DON'T STEP ON MY FOOTPRINT. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Twins and identity switches are at the heart of this hilarious, satiric view of television soap operas. Scott Pilbeam writes the award-winning "Footsteps to Happiness," using his family's and friends' private lives to spice the plot. Suddenly his own life spins out of control and he is living on the edge of disaster like one of his own characters. Throughout, the audience (but not the cast) knows which twin is on stage. The dual role affords an excellent opportunity for an actor, but all the roles offer a chance for good performances with an underlying depth of character. $6.50. (#377) (Royalty, $50-$35.) ALPHABETICAL ORDER. (Little Theatre.) Play. Michael Frayn. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Alphabetical Order takes place in the library office of a provincial newspaper-a scene of permanent and utter confusion. The cluttered chaos of the room is matched by the life of its manager Lucy and her associates. It is a scene of warmth and easy if somewhat juvenile and irresponsible light-heartedness until Leslie, a new young assistant with a passion for organization, enters. In a short time, she has transformed both the lives of its inhabitants and visitors into something orderly, neat, arid and colorless. An announcement that the paper is to close leads (in Leslie's absence) to a revitalizing and glorious orgy of destruction and return to chaos. But Leslie can coolly cope with even this crisis and Lucy is left smiling wryly at the second, and final, end of the play. $8.95. (Royalty $50-$35.) (#3047) THE FARM. (Little Theatre.) Play. David Storey. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Hard-drinking, hardworking farmer Slattery rules his roost: three daughters and his easy-going wife. His only son, an aimless poet, returns home determined to marry an older divorced

CHARACTERS actress and the family reaction is considerable. "Richly textured and resonant with life. . . . Storey is one of our finest playwrights."-N.Y. Times. "Beautifully controlled mounting of tension . . . . Marvelously written. . Unforgettable." -N. Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) . (#8019)

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reconciled. And it is Jud who gets Scottie to agree to be rehospitalized for treatment and then organizes a giant.tribute to his father in a theatre. "Very funny, and at the same time a touching work. "-WABC-TV. "Slade can blend comedy and pathos skillfully. . . . He can also slice cleanly into truth."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1115) FISHING. (Little Theatre.) Drama-Comedy. Michael Weller. 5 m., 2 f. Int. & Ext. Bill and Shelley, youngish married couple, are living in a Pacific Northwest log cabin. They've already failed at farming-so now, they're trying deep-sea fishing along with a friend, Robbie. They don't have the money, but they're negotiating with Reilly, a dying fisherman, about buying his boat. The threesome are joined by another couple, Mary Ellen and Dane. Events, comic, poignant and futile take place. Robbie produces money for the boat and then attempts suicide. Then Reilly is killed in an auto accident and the boat deal is also dead. In the climax, Robbie breaks down-admitting to living off his rich father-and off his friends' dreams. Full of surprises, gripping moments and with highly articulate characters. The play portrays the "Moonchildren"-nearing thirty-and their tentative attempts to come to terms . I enjoyed it."-N.Y. Times. . with life and reality. "A very revealing play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8046) DIVORCE ME, DARLING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alex Gottlieb. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The story of Amelia Conway, a highly successful divorce attorney in San Francisco who has insisted on using her maiden name while married for 15 years to a highly successful construction engineer. He never forgets anniversaries, birthdays and holidays, but his roving work and roving eye keep his side of their double bed more unoccupied than occupied. Amelia has never dreamed her marriage might become endangered, although she's been aware of her husband's casual affairs, until his new over-sexed blonde secretary asks her to arrange an annulment so she can marry a married man. He is, of course, the motel-happy engineer. Shall she give up the man she loves and simultaneously clip him of their community property as punishment for his philandering, or should she try to save the marriage by turning to a psychiatrist with a nervous tic and a yen for the blonde who turns men on faster than she can type? Amelia finds the answer two hours and two hundred laughs later with the aid of a tape recorder and her young Machiavellian associate who is short in height but (#6067) long in ideas. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) DON'T CALL BACK. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Russell O'Neil. 5 m., 2 f. Int. This thriller contains all the necessary ingredients of tension and intrigue. The story begins with the return home of a famous actress and TV personality Miriam Croydon who discovers her pampered son is harboring three new ghetto friends wanted for murder. The trio-a black, a Puerto Rican, and an emotionally retarded whiteplan hiding out until they're forgotten. Meantime, holding Miriam and her secretary, hostage, they search in vain for stories in the newspapers and on television. The discovery of money and a gun in the apartment adds a new and uglier dimension involving kidnapping, ransom, and hijacking-and a chance for the gang to make it big. "I had, before the middle of act one, worked myself into a nice little state of bone-chilling nervousness." -WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6094) THE MIND WITH THE DIRTY MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jules Tasca, 3 m., 4 f. Int. Small town leader Wayne Stone is the head of the local film review board. He and his prudish colleagues strive to keep smutty movies out of their small community. Hilarity ensues when Stone's underground film making son returns to take over the local movie house to exhibit his x-rated movies, his latest-The Shoe Fetish. This only starts the comedy-Wayne and his wife, Alma, next find out that only son, Clayton, plans to marry the porno queen star of the film right there in town in front of the movie house on opening night under the search lights. These and other events are jocularly resolved in an outrageous turnabout laugh-packed ending that makes its point about the hypocrisy of conventional American mores. In Hollywood it broke Mark Taper Forum's box office record. "One of the most outrageously funny comedies of the past several years. . . . Hilarious satire on the hypocrisy of middle class America." -Hollywood Reporter. "Dozens of frightfully funny lines. . . . It's a winner. "-Chicago Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#696) LEA VING HOME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David French. 4 m., 3 f. Int. An exceptional drama by an award-winning Canadian playwright. The Mercer family's cohesiveness is being tom asunder. The subtle threads of mutual understanding, confidence and trust have come unraveled. The key character is the patriarchal father, Jacob, a man obsessed with making his two sons good reflections of himself. A complex man, sometimes compassionate and often contradictory. He inspires rebellion in sons. Billy and Ben. Wife Mary remains loyal to her husband but wants her sons to be free to go their own way. The crisis takes place when Billy, the younger son, is about to be married to Kathy, pregnant and of another religion. But a greater shock is in store for Jacob-son Ben tells him he is leaving home and going to rent a room at the young newlywed's place. Oedipal conflicts explode that marriage eve and the family is never the same again. "The lacerating quality of inter-family warfare carries both superb comedy and powerful emotional force. . . an overwhelming dramatic experience."-Toronto Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Not available in Canada. (#14050) WHO NEEDS A WALTZ. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Ex-spies return from retirement to catch an international art thief and perhaps to rekindle a romance. The culprit is among the two girls posing as the spy's only daughter, the boy-friend of one of them, the overly romantic maid, and the Head of the Department who is drugged and standing in a closet. "Still as dependably funny as always . . . . A good deal happens but, contrary to expectations, not the expect-

GLASSTOWN. (All Groups.) Drama. Noel Robinson. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This drama about the Bronte family focuses on weak and neurotic Branwell and his infatuation with a married woman who he has convinced himself returns his love. The intricate and tormented relationships of the family are revealed as Charlotte tries to make Branwell face reality. When Charlotte leaves him on a mission not unconnected with what has passed between them, he seeks comfort in the stronger arms of his sister, whether she is willing or not. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9055) THE REFRIGERATORS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-Comedy. Mario Fratti. 4 m., 3 f. Penny, charming heiress to a huge fortune, lives in a bizarre house surrounded by mysterious, untouchable refrigerators-allegedly family heirlooms but actually refrigerated coffins. Penny tries convincing her servant Nicola, an amorous Italian, that her sister Inez is an identical twin. Nicola, suspicious and frightened, discovers that Inez is actually a male scientist and Penny's lover. In the night he experiments with half-thawed beauties in the refrigerators. Nicola calls in a short-sighted police inspector and there's a fast, funny, unpredictable ending in the hilarious farce tradition. "Highly original!"-Saturday Review. "Perverse gem. . of ghoulish comic brew."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20003) STAND BY YOUR BEDS, BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Farce. John Allison and Ray Scantlin. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A funny comedy including absurd mistaken identities and zany door ballets. The lovers are both males: a professional football player and a British schoolmaster. Their attempts to keep their secret are only part of the crazy-quilt plot. Enter Alice on the lam from the welfare office. She and her young son elect to hide out in our lovers' apartment. Added complications: the schoolmaster's about to be deported from the U.S.A. and the football player gets a surprise visit from his wacky mother. Escalates from quiet insanity to hysterical confusion when everybody arrives at the apartment at once. "Extremely funny. . . combines Neil Simon one-liners with situation comedy and farce."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty,

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OTHERWISE ENGAGED. (Little Theatre.) Play. Simon Gray. 5 m., 2 f. 1 int. Simon Hench lives surrounded by the comforts, amidst which he strives to keep himself completely and selfishly otherwise engaged from the demands of his friends, relatives and associates. The world keeps breaking in, however and his attempts to play his new "Parsifal" recording are continually thwarted. His answer phone recounts the tragic result of a casual and thoughtless sexual encounter with a young girl and, in the end, there is a further shock from his wife. Drama Critics Award, Best Play of '76-77 Season. "Wickedly intelligent humor. . . . A wise an4 funny play."-N.Y. Times. "Deeply knowing about sex and society, and thoroughly bitchy, witty and bitter. A brilliant comedy that is painfully funny. "-NBC-TV. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#810) WHO SAYS MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Suspense. Philip King and John Boland. 4 m., 3 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25004) BUT SHE WON'T LIE DOWN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Thriller. Peter Yeldham. 5 m., 2 f. Ext. On the Costa del Sol, a dentist and his wife have a row. He leaves-and returns to find her dead. When her look-alike sister shows up, she and the husband decide she should impersonate the wife. Each thinks the other has committed the murder .and they are trying to protect each other. The husband finally realizes the wife died of allergic reactions to medicines administered by her lover/doctor. He leaves with the sister and the doctor runs upstairs to the (unknown to him) corpse. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4151) CITY SUGAR. (Little Theatre.) Play. Stephen Poliakoff. 4 m., 3 f. 1 compo set. "A scathingly brilliant play. . . . A world of technological nightmare."-London Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5658) HOW CAN YOU TELL THE GOOD GUYS FROM THE BAD GUYS! (All Groups.) Warren Kliewer. 6 m., 1 f. with doubling. Open stage with movable props. The biblical story of Joseph is retold in the style of a modem, fast-action revue. Joseph is not a lofty hero but an all-too-human businessman whose schemes fail. . . who is no better than the rest of us, and like the rest of us, neither a good guy nor a bad guy. A virtuoso piece for energetic actors. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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CHEZ NOUS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Nichols. 4 m., 3 f. Int. "Richly funny dialogue. . . . The agony is intertwined with scathingly funny social observation."-London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5085) TRIBUTE. (Little Theatre.) Play. Bernard Slade, 3 m., 4 f. 1 int. and a stage. Scottie Templeton's a charming, irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter, he's everyone's friend, nobody's hero and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty years without taking anything seriously including love, marriage and fatherhood. Life's been one continuous gag. But at fifty-one, he finds the script's been rewritten as a tragedy: he is fatally ill. His son Jud, alienated by years of neglect, comes to visit. Scottie's one concern is to make friends with his son-for everyone else adores Scottie including his ex-wife, his friend and boss, and his doctor-and after a bitter, revealing confrontation, father and son are

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THREE GOATS AND A BLANKET. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Woody Kling and Robert J. Hilliard. 5 m., 2 f., extras. Int. This is a modem account of marriage, divorce, alimony, cohabitation and remarriage entwined in comedy. A television game-show producer is forced to bunk with his dotty ex-wife, a hypochondriac, when his show is canceled. This queers his present romance, but on New Year's Eve he sells a new show and wins back his fiancee--only to realize she too may be financial trouble if this marriage falls flat. Assisting in the proceedings is Howard's roue friend, a wealthy lawyer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22080) GETTING TO KNOW THE NATIVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Daniel Frank Turner. 5 m.. 2 f. Int. The story of Jarlath Breen, an ex-Olympic swimmer, who spends his days in a bathtub and his nights on a water bed, and Carita, his wife, who sells herself as real estate. Their attempt at suicide is interrupted by Clement Rose, an anthropologist, and his wife, Misty, a social worker. Misty attempts to save Jarlath from suicide through baptism and sex, but ends by drowning him in the bathtub before eventually marrying him in the coffin. The funeral guest arrives and reveals that he has had an affair with both Carita and Jarlath. Everyone ends up in the bathtub in this happy commingling of the festive and macabre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9027) PERFECT PITCH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Samuel Taylor. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The author has.rewritten "Beekman Place," and makes it even more delightful than the original. It was presented with great success at The Kennedy Center. The story is of a famous violin virtuoso who is determined to retire, but is frustrated in his intentions by his cook, his wife, his fiery Russian manager, and an old flame who suddenly appears with a radical daughter in tow, and a famous rock singer in hot pursuit. "Nostalgia for the simple drawing room comedy is featured in Taylor's delightfully funny updating of his' 'Beekman Place." -Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4024) LIFE IS A DREAM. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Calderon de la Barca. 2 versions: translated by Roy Campbell; edited by Eric Bentley and by Edwin Honig. 5 m., 2 f., extras. Int.lExt. Campbell version in Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Honig version in Calderon de la Barca: 6 Plays, $30.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. Campbell translation (#14082) Honig translation (#14079) TANGO. (Little Theatre. Drama. Slawomir Mrozek. Translated by Ralph Manheim and Teresa Dzieduscycka. 4 m., 3 f. Int. (Royalty, $50-$40.) In Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre, $21.00. Not available in Canada. (#1063) BUTLEY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Simon Gray, 4 m., 3 f. Int. First staged at the Criterion Theatre in London and directed by Harold Pinter, Butley is about a university lecturer who shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. Butley faces both the breakdown of his marriage and of his "intense friendship with Joey. Butley's painful discoveries are made against a back-ground of petty university politics and unease about student dissent. He greets them with a blistering torrent of repartee and rhetoric. "Could well join that distinguished gallery of human debris represented by Willie Loman, Jimmy Porter and Bill Maitland in post-war drama."-Evening Standard. "Offers a rare, intelligent, diabolical evening of comedy."-Newhouse Newspapers. "Snaps and crackles with devastating wit and revealing insight. It is an evening of superb theatre, flawlessly represented."-WNEW Radio. "A marvelous comedy."-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#287) ROCK A BYE DADDY. (All Groups.) Comedy. John P. O'Donnell. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The Considine home appears to be calm, American and middle class, until Mrs. Considine takes off on a national campaign for Women's Lib, daughter Peggy decides to get her own apartment for reasons only known, son Louie gets picked up by the police, and romance blooms at unsuspected levels. Trying to keep the roof on his house, his family intact, and himself composed amidst the insanity that afflicts his world, Joe Considine romps through a frantic race until he finds out that only laughter will save the day. "Opened in the Drury Lane Theatre and pleased the large audience. .. Geared for hilarity. . .. A light laugh at the generation gap."-Chicago Today. "Takes an indulgent look, that is both amused and amusing, at the youth and women's liberation movements . . . . Instant sympathy and identification."-Chicago's New World. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20053) THE WITNESSES. (All Groups.) Drama. Tadeusz Rozewicz. Translated by Adam Czerniawski. 5 m., 2 f., or 4 m., 3 f. Int. A series of confrontations between different characters and the problems of indifference to suffering and lack of moral commitment that arise become this Polish avant-garde playwright's ground for attack. An experimenter who is even dissatisfied with the theater's avant-garde forms, his plays are distinguished by a farcical and surrealistic style bordering on the zany and bizarre that communicate their disturbing content in a witty and pointed way. In The Witnesses and Other Plays, $12.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25164) LA TURISTA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sam Shepard. 6 m., I f. Int. A man finds that neither a sinister witch doctor nor a rhetoric-ladened American doctor can cure his mysterious illness. In Sam Shepard, Seven Plays, $7.95. Also in Four Two-Act Plays by Sam Shepard, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14014)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS THE PATRICK PEARSE MOTEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Leonard. 4 m., 3 f. Var. simp. ints. When her husband Derrnond plans to be away in Cork with his partner Fintan, Grainne decided to seize the opportunity of spending the night with an ex-flame, now a TV personality. She also involves the partner's wife, Niamh, in the plot. Things begin to go wrong when Niamh's furiously-jealous husband returns unexpectedly and finds her performing what seems to him to be an exceedingly compromising task. Matters are further complicated by the new manageress of the new motel turning out to be the spumed love of the TV personality. All parties concerned end up in the as yet unopened motel (guarded by a somewhat senile night watchman) where events move (or race) along in the best traditions of French farce. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18036) STICKS AND BONES. (Little Theatre.) Morality. New Revised Edition. David Rabe. 5 m., 2 f. Int. A devastating portrait of a foolish, intolerant middle-class American family. When the oldest son returns from Vietnam blinded-the mother, a religious hypocrite and racial bigot invades his privacy and is too self-centered to be concerned with his plight. The father is a hypocrite and a failure. He has a double standard as to relations with women. The younger son is not only stupid, but a sexist pig as well. Then there's a sadistic, garrulous American Catholic priest who's programmed by textbooks. The family conspire to help the blind son to commit suicide. It's to be done in a very tidy, decent way. And in the finale, there's a searing, surrealistic scene in which bodies of the war's victims are seen. Special Award of the New York Critics' Circle. "Strikingly original anti-war play . . . powerful."-NY. Daily News. "A funny, cruel, mordant, unsparing attack on American society."-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#999) RIGHT BED, WRONG HUSBAND. (All Groups.) Farce. Neil and Caroline Schaffner. 4 m., 3 f. Int. In order to have his allowance increased, young bachelor Ted has written his pinchpenny uncle that he is married, though in fact he is only engaged. Suddenly one day uncle drops in unexpectedly, and very much against his will Ted is drawn into the vortex of an intrigue initiated entirely by the uncle when he mistakes a pretty girl, married to Ted's best friend, as Ted's wife. Ted is basically honest and does not want to deceive his uncle, but every time uncle kisses the "wife" he ups the ante-to say nothing of kindling the ire of Ted's friend; and Ted is not sap enough to tum that down. Complications come tumbling after when the maid calls and is mistaken for something else; when the real fiancee returns and is caught kissing Ted; but especially at night then the time comes to retire. Add the neighborhood drunk who habitually sacks in with Ted when he's locked out of his own house, and you have a climax of enormous merriment. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#921) KISS OR MAKE UP. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Architect Morgiana Kendrick has found true love at last in the person of Hanley Swope, a city planner for whom she has designed the zoo's new crocodile house. The problem is that, to forestall incessant queries as to why she's not married, she has over the years created an imaginary husband and daughter. Now the Treasury Department, in the person of neophyte agent Barney Benson, is investigating why her husband has not paid taxes. Morgy cons a Casey, a neighbor, into posing as her daughter for Hanely's visit, but Casey's fiance shows up to announce their engagement and she tries to palm off Barney as her visiting brother. A policeman arrives to investigate a peeping tom report (thanks to Barney's inept surveillance) as all are attacked by parasitic crocodile crabs just when the fiance's Bostonian mother shows up to meet her son's intended. This comedy of mistaken identities, federal foolishness, and desperate romance is one that will have audiences howling. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#624) THE PHILANTHROPIST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Christopher Hampton. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A singular play that begins with a resounding shock in the parlor of a professor of philology where two men are watching are listening to a dramatic reading of a third man's play. One is kind in his remarks: the other, however, asserts that he found the play incredible, especially at the point where the man commits suicide. Arguing for credibility, the playwright reenacts the scene again, this time with a live gun, and accidentally blows his brains out. This sets the scene for the party which follows with the philologist's fiancee, a trollop who lives nearby and a vulgar, supercilious novelist who is contemptuous of everything but his own work. The party ends with the novelist captivating the fiancee, and the philologist and even the philanthropist obliging the trollop by going to bed with her. The dawn brings an end to the engagement. "A very witty comedy. A good evening of high-class theatrical high-jinks."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#844) THE TRICYCLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Fernando Arrabal. Translated by Barbara Wright. 6 m., I f. Ext. Four outcasts alternately quarrel and declare their love for each other until two are arrested for a murder. In Guernica and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22211) MY DAUGHTER, YOUR SON. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron. 4 m., 3 f. Int. w. insets. A young boy and girl, having lived successfully together in New York, decide to get married in order to save on rent. She is a bit more willing than he, since she has begun thinking in family terms. Now their parents put their two cents in and all but wreck the proceedings. One set of parents is sophisticated-TV writer and actress-while the other is grassroots. Thank goodness for the hardiness of love, which eventually conquers all. "[Gave] a good deal of amusement to the audience." -N Y. Times. "Playgoers are likely to collapse with laughter."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50,$35.) (#719)

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takes leads to further frustration. "Appropriate and pleasantly lunatic." -N Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5089) THE LION IN WINTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Goldman. 5 m., 2 f. Cyc, arches, wagons. King Henry II of England has three sons by Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Geoffrey and John. He wants the kingdom to stay united after his death, but all three sons want to rule and it is likely to be tom apart by revolution. Uneasy is the head on which the crown lies, and uneasy the truce between a matchless king and queen. This history is glorified in language that is brilliant in its ability to characterize, its rhetorical impact, its actability, and its generative power. Few since Shakespeare have had such a marvelous gift for truly comic repartee. "A work of intelligence, astringent wit, and much theatrical skill."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#68) ANIMAL FARM. (All Groups.) Reading. George Orwell's biting satire, adapted by Nelson Bond. 5 m., 2 f. Bare Stage. Animal Farm is a fable with sting. In this staged dramatic-reading of the timely allegory by the author of 1984 beasts whose prototypes have dominated news headlines for years reveal their true nature. Animals who have emancipated themselves from the cruel mastery of a human owner succumb to even more ruthless autocrats: the greedy, cunning pigs. Intermingling humor and drama, Animal Farm startles audiences with a tale of a tragedy in a mythical barnyard that could happen in our own back yard. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#222) COME LIVE WITH ME. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Lee Minoff and Stanley Price. 3 m., 4 f. Int. An American screenwriter, played on Broadway by Soupy Sales, takes a flat in London to complete a screenplay about Hannibal and his 600 elephants, but he is constantly thwarted. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5126) COLUMBO. (Prescription Murder.) (Little Theatre.) Drama. William Link and Richard Levinson. 4 m., 3 f. 3 int. The TV series was based on this play. A brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress hatch a plot to murder his neurotic, possessive wife that depends on a bizarre impersonation to create a perfect alibi. Lt. Columbo and the doctor engage in a cat-and-mouse duel of wits until the doctor succeeds in having Columbo removed from the case. But the mistress is the weak link that leads to a trap and a surprising climax. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5124) TOMBOY WONDER. (All Groups.) Comedy. William Walden. 3 m. 4 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22143) COME BLOW YOUR HORN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This fresh and delightful comedy was the surprise hit of the New York season. Harry Baker, owner of the largest artificial fruit business in the east, is the father of two sons. One is a 33-year old playboy; the other a different, 21-year-old with an urge to assert himself. These two are continually trying their father's easily abused patience. Alan works only two days a week and goes on skiing or golfing jaunts with attractive female companions the other five. Buddy, hitherto an obedient son who even kissed Aunt Gussie through her veil at Dad's request, has moved into Alan's bachelor apartment, leaving a rebellious letter by way of explanation. The richly comic complications that ensue are unfailingly inventive and arise out of character, are never mere gags. "A slick, lively, funny comedy."-N.Y. Times. "It's completely nuts and banging with laughs."-NY. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#46) ROYAL GAMBIT. (Little Theatre.) History. Hermann Gressieker. Translated and adapted by George White. 1 m., 6 f. Platform set. This metaphysical portrait of Henry VIII and the six women in his life contrasts this king, the epitome of Renaissance man, with modem liberal thought and concludes that humanism is dead in the twentieth century. Henry remains the same throughout but the women progress in their dress to modem times, showing their knowledge of the lasting effects of Henry's thoughts. "Original, stimulating and mature. . . . A compact, well written play that asks some cogent questions and provides disturbing answers." -N Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#929) REQUIEM FOR A NUN. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. William Faulkner. Adapted for the stage by Ruth Ford. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. Temple Drake emerges from a sanctuary into a new world of terrible retribution in this powerful tale of desire and faith. $11.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20023) GOODBYE CHARLIE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. George Axelrod. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Charlie was a demon lover, a connoisseur of wines and the possessor of a fine backhand. He met his end trying to escape through a porthole on a cuckold's yacht. Now Charlie has returned as a woman, played by Lauren Bacall, and his big problem is changing his personality from male to female. The transformation of attitudes, gestures and expressions is hilarious. Posing as Charlie's wife, his female reincarnation meets several of his mistresses and begins a collection for a memorial to Charlie-at $5000 apiece. Meanwhile Charlie's friend, played by Sidney Chaplin, has begun to feel a different kind of affection for the new Charlie. "Axelrod's premise is a very funny one."-NY. Daily News. "[Axelrod] is still profligate with gags and his imagination is weirdly wonderful."-NY. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#490) GIG I. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Anita Loos, adapted from the novel by Colette. 2 m., 5 f. 2 Ints. Gigi is a young French girl brought up by her mother, grandmother, and aunt to be a stylish coquette. The man they have picked for her is a roue who

ALL THE BETTER TO KILL YOU WITH. (AU Groups.) Mystery. Fred Carmichael. 5 m., 2 f. Int. "Gripping entertainment. .. plays a number of interesting variations on the theme." Rutland, Vt. Herald. 'The secret of Carmichael's playwriting lies not so much in who done it but will they be caught. This dexterous interweaving of truth and falsehood produces a tapestry of tension. The carefully planned deception almost works until truth rears its head and a brilliant structure of cunning topples. This is the fascinating planning, execution, and final failure of a murder plot played openly and fully for the audience from beginning to end. The result is high tension and good dramatic excitement. The play has two streams running simultaneously-the highly emotional probing about a disintegrating marriage and the highly intellectual game of following concealment and discoveries of premeditated murder." -Bennington Banner. "Meticulous blending of mystery and humor."-Manchesterlournal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3043) PAJAMA TOPS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert, from the French hit, "Magma," by Jean de Letraz. 4 m., 3 f. Int. "An utterly mad spoof of the French bedroom farce" (N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun). It played 3 years in Paris and 5 in Hollywood before coming to New York, followed by 10 years coastto-coast and 6 in London, making it one of the longest runs on record. The plot is all fun. The husband is planning a business trip for philandering purposes; his wife secretly invites this same voluptuous girl to spend the weekend. The husband is trapped. Out of the blue an old friend appears, with hands aflutter, followed by a gendarme who delights in cherchez-Ies-femmes. There is also a devilish-looking butler, a maid practising to be a cocotte, and some wildly artful dodging, all calculated to keep the audience laughing. "Prolonged laughter."-NY. Times. "The best entertainment in London."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#837) THE LOVE OF DON PERLIMPLIN AND BELISA IN THE GARDEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by Richard O'Connell and James Graham Lujan. 1m., 3 f. 2 sprites (m. or f.) 3 ints.!ext. The story of Don Perlimplin's love for Belisa is ironic and beautiful-witty and romantic satire. In Five Plays-Lorca, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14129) THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Terence Frisby. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Gig Young starred on Broadway as a food-and-wine connoisseur who dabbles in female delectations. He is picked up at a party by a younger woman who is a match for any roue. The new romance bubbles along smoothly considering the contrast between sophisticated gourmet and the modish girl. He finds himself in love permanently but is rebuffed when a young musician! linoleum layer reclaims her heart. "A cheerful comedy."-NY. Daily News. "Entertaining."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1070) THE NINETY-DAY MISTRESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. 1.1. Coyle. 4 m., 3 f. Int. An emancipated young lady who has been brought up by her mother to look askance on all men~specially since her father had deserted the family before she was born-has very well solved the problem of living with and without them by embracing all rather than one. First she seduces her man, then invites him to share a love with her for 90 days. After that, he must move on to other fields and she will do the same. But this kind of happy arrangement is rather hard to come by for most guys, and so she has the added problem of getting them to quit when their time is up. One such lover, however, turns out to be a detective sent by her father to see how she is doing while mama is touring the country and lecturing on birth control. Something else goes wrong too: the girl falls in love with the detective, who has quite flipped for her. A new feeling for Dad replaced the old, and a new respect for love. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#764) ACCIDENTAL ANGEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ronald Alexander. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A young professor's been engaged a long time and one reason the marriage hasn't taken place is his literally explosive experiments. The latest has matehalized a hep, modem angel who says his experiments aren't true science. They plan to find a cure for the common cold-and instead alchemize gold. The engagement is on the rocks and in one final experiment he blows himself up and is united for eternity with his angel. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3004) NATALIE NEEDS A NIGHTIE. (All Groups.) Farce. Neil and Caroline Shaffner. 4 m., 3 f. Int. A guaranteed laugh riot! In an apartment house Tommy Briggs has his mail, calls, and visitors frequently misdirected to a girl's apartment whose pen name is also Tommy Briggs. Tommy's boss expects his young executives to be married so he tries to have someone pose as his wife. The trouble is he ends up with too many "wives." Then as he got a big bonus on the strength of a flew "baby" -he has to produce one for the boss. Again, there's too many, including one not of his race. Adding to this confusion is a compulsive chambermaid who snitches drinks and takes all clothing found on a particular chair to the cleaners-including many vital articles such as the boss's garments placed there while he is in the shower. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#760) CHILDREN FROM THEIR GAMES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Irwin Shaw. 5 m., 2 f. Int. A modem misanthrope has countless grievances against the world. With malicious delight he plays the many noisy city sounds back on his recorder. He wants to end it all-but for religious reasons suicide is out. So he settles on getting a friend to do the job. But said friend has married into millions and not eager to throw it all away for friendship. And then there's people who keep getting in the way including a quack doctor and a man-eating daughter-in-law. And so every step he

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frequently visits Gigi's home as a friend; When he comes, he brings her candy and lets her cheat him at cards. He is captivated by her boyish enthusiasm. But Gigi is now 16 and the time is ripe for her to put away the things of a child and to think of becoming the roue's mistress. However, Gigi has not been brought up right; she doesn't think she would like such an arrangement. So in her own way, and to the surprise of everyone, she maneuvers the roue into a proposition of marriage. This is treachery to the ladies, but Gigi thinks it is swell. "It brightens a playgoer's season considerably."-Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#479) WHO'LL SAVE THE PLOWBOY? (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 4 m., 2 f., I c. Int. Unanimous critical approval greeted this play about a middle-aged failure. He was going to be a farmer, so his wartime buddies called him Plowboy. The one that saved his life is about to die and he comes to visit the Plowboy for some final affirmation-to content himself that he did one good, lasting thing in his life. He finds a man who has failed at farming and everything else, including marriage. He had a child and named him after the visitor, but he was a mongoloid. He tries, but Plowboy is not able to deceive his friend. Indeed, it is the Plowboy who is deceived throughout life-by his wife with the bachelor upstairs; by his belief in his own abilities and by every one at every tum. When the visitor sees the truth and leaves, Plowboy is even deceived in thinking that he has happily deceived him. "A starkly taut, clear-cut drama painful in its insights, poignant in its subtleties." -N. Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC area. (#1196) YOU TOUCHED ME! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tennessee Williams and Donald Windham. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This comedy is about the triumph of an old sea captain over a sadistic spinster sister. Although the home in which she lived and ruled and the income on which she thrived in piety and pretension were her brother's, she had got him under her thumb after he had gone on a binge in the Caribbean, foundered his ship, and suffered the dishonor of losing his skipper's certificate. The return of the waif the skipper had brought up, revives his will to fight. His chance comes when he senses that a deep love has sprung up between his foster-son and his daughter-a love thwarted by the girl's spinster aunt. The skipper's greatest difficulty lies in overcoming the fears and reticence that have been instilled in the boy and the girl. "A play which I can recommend wholeheartedly as a work of art, edification and entertainment."-N.Y. World-Telegram. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty $50-$35.) (#27046) POOLS PARADISE. (All Groups.) Farce. Philip King. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Zany, madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop's vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel's wife, Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida's suitor, the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins--or when they think they have won-more than 20,000 pounds. Lending richly comic hands arc the oldmaid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope's out-of-this-world uncle, The Bishop of Lax. What happens when these assorted characters all get together on one stage has to be seen to be believed. "Uproarious in the best tradition of farce." -Western Daily Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18094) SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ray Lawler. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor. integrity, and faithful portrayal of an unfamiliar scene. It tells of two itinerant cane-cutters: Barney, a swaggering little gamecock, and Roo, a big man who is a born leader. They have spent their past sixteen summer lay-offs with two barmaids in a southern city. Every summer Roo has brought a tinseled doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their unusual but tender relationship, but this summer is one of change and climax. Old familiar patterns must be broken, new ways found, and the characters must face certain unpleasant truths about themselves. "Always gives the impression of having been written out of the author's heart and soul and because he had something that he passionately wanted to say."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1011) THE CURTAIN RISES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Benjamin Kaye. 4 m., 3 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#5202) BRECHT ON BRECHT. (Little Theatre.) Revue. Bertolt Brecht. Arranged and translated by George Tabori et al. 4 m., 3 f. or 2 to 8 m. and f. Bare stage. Readings and enactments from the works of Brecht provide an unusual revue that earned critical acclaim Off Broadway. The first half showcases Brecht's philosophical musings on such matters as book-burning, ideology, advice to actors, and critics. The second half includes excerpts from The Good Woman of Setzuan, loan of the Stockyards, and Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#282) NO TIME FOR COMEDY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. S.N. Behrman. 4 m., 3 f. 2 ints. A success in New York where it opened with Katherine Cornell and Laurence Olivier and on tour, No Time for Comedy delights audiences and critics. Gaylord Easterbrook is a clever young playwright whose comedies are highly successful. He is married to Linda. a brilliant actress who stars in all his plays. But Gay is discontented and restless, and he feels that this is no time for comedy. He feels rather that the modem tempo and constant change demand reality and a serious approach. He is encouraged in this opinion by Amanda Smith, a restless dabbler and society woman who is married to a dull businessman. With her as an inspiration Gay manages to write a sel10us play about death and the Spanish Loyalists. Through all this apparent affair Linda carefully walks, and of course, comes out the undisputed winner when it is obvious that Gay is not going to elope with Amanda, who wants to run away.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS "Another 'must' on the play-going curriculum." -N. Y. loumal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#16031) CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN. (Black Groups.) Drama. Lonne Elder III. 5 m., 2 f. Int. Compared to "Raisin in the Sun" by many critics, this portrait of ghetto life shows us a family who aspire to better things but who go about in it in the wrong and tragic way. The father has a barbershop but no customers, and two sons and daughter. The sons are shiftless, and try to make a fast buck with home brew. It is the daughter who works and supports them all. There are also a crony, a girl who has been around, and the prime minister of the Harlem Decolonization Association whose chief ambition is to drive all the whites out of the ghetto stores. "A drama of power and importance. The best play of the season."-N.Y. Post. "Reminded me irresistibly of O'Casey. Its mood, poised between comedy and tragedy, is identical, intensity of feeling and love of language arc similar, and there is a common cause in its undercurrents of rebellion. A remarkable play."-N.Y. Times. "Exciting drama, filled with meaningful insight and original comedy. "-NBC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) (#307) HEDDA GABLER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. 2 versions: translated by Christopher Hampton and by Nicholas Rudall. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The classic story of a woman who retained her maiden name while married to a boring pedant and who took perverse delight in subjugating that sex which took her sex for granted. She plays her husband for a fool, and she systematically destroys first the manuscript and then the life of the male friend who idolizes her, before she exercises her own right to coup de grace. Hampton translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Rudall translation, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde; sec Ibsen: The Major Prose Plays. Please specify translator when ordering. Hampton translation (#532) Rudall translation (#10591) CLASS ENEMY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Nigel Williams. 7 m. (6 teens.) Int. "A scathing study of one of the dark comers of our social system by a playwright of blazing promise." -Guardian, London. "Frightening, frequently funny and compassionate."-Times, London. $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Not available in Canada. (#5119)

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*ARRANGEMENTS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Ken Weitzman. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Donna is nearly at the end of her rope, and her only option is to return to the less than welcoming embrace of her younger sister, Ros. In this bitingly funny and provocative tale of obsession and consumption, the author unfurls a story that asks whether it is ever really possible to save another person from herself. "A fantastic production packed with a beautiful 'arrangement' of hilariously inventive comedy and well developed, touching drama." -San Diego Playbill. Winner of the 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3163) *FLAGS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Jane Martin. 6 m., 2 f. plus extras. Unit set. This fierce drama by the author of Talking With . .. , Anton in Show Business and Keely and Du redefines patriotism as it brings tragic fallout from the war in Iraq to America's heartland. When a grieving father inverts our nation's most revered symbol, his family is swept into the vortex of a chaotic war machine. Portrayed in the press as both "heroes with a cause" and "enemies of the state," they become embroiled in a bitter struggle for their very survival. Jane Martin gives voice to the white-hot rage and sorrow of our time, delivering a shock-and-awe display of theatrical force. "A powerful gut-punch of a play [that is) blisteringly contemporary." -Minneapolis Pioneer Press. "Powerfully mines heartbreak, loss, and disillusion to universalize the Iraq war. . . . Brave, deeply compassionate, and, most importantly, very good drama."-Minneapolis City Pages. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8591) *MONKEY SOUP. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Don Nigro. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. Set on the stage of a New York theatre in the 1930s, this madcap farce sparkles with rapidfire dialogue and maniacal physical comedy. Lillian Quackenfurter has written the worst play in the history of the theatre, Lady Furtwinger's Lover. She hopes to star in it and revive her acting career after a forty-year hiatus. She has hired a rude, fasttalking director who constantly insults her and makes a hash of her play. Not the renowned director she thinks he is, this con artist is actually a dentist who accidentally killed the famous Fartwhistle with laughing gas. The stage manager and his girl-chasing, mute assistant have worked with the real Fartwhistle (and slept with his wife), and they blackmail the imposter into letting them appear in the play. They plan to disable the other actors with bad fish and vodka. The maid is determined to get through her exposition, despite the fact that she has to talk into a goose instead of a telephone and is constantly bombarded by bird carcasses. More lunacy ensues as the insanely jealous Edgar obsesses over his blond bombshell wife (who is unconscious for much of the second act) while Dick, the tennis-playing leading man, announces that he has three balls. And who put tranquilizer darts in the prop gun? $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14845) *THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED. (All Groups.) Comedy. Stephen Fife. 4 m., 4 f. roles for 4-16 actors. Unit set. Did you ever walk into a restaurant and see an attractive couple talking excitedly, their hands gesturing wildly, their expressions changing swiftly? Did you wonder what was going on? If you want a funny and

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hotel doctor knows and can't convince anyone else. This screwball comedy in the tradition of the Marx Brothers is a scream. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5797) FAMILY CIRCLES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Looking at Edward Gray's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is . difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person. It is also impossible not to laugh at the results hilariously portrayed in this early play by the master of English comedy that is being published for the first time. Indeed, even Edward's marriage to mousy Emma isn't all clear sailing-{)r why would the daughters who are visiting for their parents' wedding anniversary suspect that they are trying to kill each other! Just as that plot thickens, the younger couples change partners-and keep changing until each possible combination proves more outrageous than the last. As funny and theatrically daring as any of the author's better known works, Family Circles is as much fun to stage as it is to watch. $8.95. (#7972) (Royalty, $60-$40.) FLAMING IDIOTS. (All Groups.) Farce. Tom Rooney. 6 m., 2 f. Int. Carl and Phil decide that the ladder to success at the post office is missing a few rungs. They know that big money is waiting for people with entrepreneurial spirit and sound business judgement. They have lots of the spirit but little of the judgement and their new gourmet health food restaurant flounders. Zippy's, a popular cross-town spot, has been crowded ever since Cy Manamalancia, a notorious mobster, was shot there-and that was over twenty years ago. What if someone could get murdered in their restaurant? Flaming Idiots is a contemporary farce which takes place entirely in the restaurant kitchen and requires five doors for slamming. It won the New Ameri(#8182) can Comedy Festival Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE FINE ART OF FINESSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marivuax. Translated by Alex Szogyi. 4 m., 4 f. Int. In this appealing translation of L'Heureux Strategem love triumphs once again. Dorante has been jilted by the Countess who is now infatuated with the Chevalier. He, in tum, has broken off with the Marquise. Dorante and the Marquise hatch a plan: they spread the rumor that they are betrothed to each other. This provokes the Chevalier, to the consternation of the Countess. At the "wedding" the Countess is so upset that she faints. She revives to learn of the plot and thank her true love Dorante for helping her come to her senses. "Elegant. ... Szogyi's translation is frothy and filled with commedia dell'arte touches."-NY. Times. "A pearl." -N Y. Post. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8177) GOD'S HEART. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Craig Lucas. 3 m., 5 f. (with doubling.) Various sets. Reaching into the darkness of American life at its extremes-from the lives of the wealthy and fortunate to the struggles of the invisible and neglectedthis play follows three protagonists who share a dream. An African-American teenager fights to overcome his family's cycle of despair and drug dependency, a thirtyfive year-old white advertising executive with a new baby suffers from a deep sense of her own spiritual worthlessness, and a forty-five year-old documentary film-maker, also white, is losing her African-American lover to breast cancer. Using newspaper headlines, cyber chat rooms, online data bases and a dream-like array of startling, sometimes beautiful-{)ften terrible-images carved from the nightmares of these disparate souls, God's Heart seeks compassion for those who cry out for connection, peace and kindness in the face of the unspeakable cruelty and exploitation that erode the heart of American culture. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#9933) THE GUT GIRLS. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Sarah Daniels. 2 m., 6 f. (with doubling) or 6 m., 11 f. Unit set. Set in the gutting sheds at the Cattle Market in late Victorian Deptford, England, this incisive drama shows working women at the bottom of the heap. When do-gooders make their work illegal, the gut girls find new options for living. "Humane and hugely funny."-Financial Times. "Regarded as little better than whores by their contemporaries, the 'gut girls' are portrayed . .. in this vigorous and intelligent new playas a boisterous, beer-swilling, strongminded bunch, handy with a knife both in the gutting shed and outside it, defiantly independent in attitude and scornful of the illusion of male supremacy." -Time Out. "A moving and vigorous celebration of women's fighting spirit. "-Independent. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9179) THE HEART OF ART. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Weller. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. This comedy by the author of Moonchildren and Loose Ends is a hilarious satire of megalomania in the New York theatre. A struggling playwright is estatic when his play is chosen to be produced at the People's Playhouse, a major Off-Broadway theatre run by egomaniacal Arthur Dick. Dick's resident playwright has exited with his newest play and a replacement is needed-fast. The movie star cast in the starring role is too old and comes with the requisite girlfriend who is long on looks and short on acting ability. Rehearsals are chaos and the playwright walks out; the work no longer resembles what he wrote. The show is a hit; predictably the critics praise the star but damn the playwright who, nonetheless, finds himself trapped in Dick's web and slated to write his next project: a new musical for a famous rock (#10570) star. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) HORRID MASSACRE IN BOSTON. (Little Theatre.) Dark comic drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Jane Lamb, an orphan, finds a home at Mrs. Turley's Bunch of Grapes Inn in Boston during the Revolution. The colorf~l, eccentric and dangerous regulars she encounters there include a demonic roustabout who is a patriot, a traitor or a bit of both; Ophelia, a mad girl who talks to mice, and the Oyster Man, a street vendor obsessed with the Boston Massacre where he received a wound that has

touching play about men and women in restaurants and bars looking for love and finding more than they bargained for, try This Is Not What I Ordered. "Mines the bottomless pit of male-female partnering."-L.A. Weekly. "A startled deer in an SUV's headlights has nothing on these love-phobic characters. In the sure hands of a relationship-savvy playwright, an evening of charm and humor is bound to follow."-Backstage West. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22587) AN' PUSH DA WIND DOWN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Lisa Harper. 3 m., 5 f. 1 set. Set in rural Georgia from 1828 to 1838, An' Push da Wind Down follows a runaway slave as she heads north in search of freedom. Nellie, who cannot read, carries one thing: a roll of cloth napkins with letters written on them by her dead mother. On her way, she befriends Cherokee children and finds friendship, family, education and freedom in their village. Nellie and the Cherokees find strength in each other as the government threatens the Indians' liberty. The key to their freedom is ultimately found in the writing on the napkins. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18972) BLUE. (Black Groups.) Comedy with music. Charles Randolph-Wright. 4 m., 4 f. Ints. Using music as an integral part of the storytelling, Blue spans nearly twenty years in the life of the affluent African-American Clark family in rural South Carolina. Events are seen through the eyes of the eldest son Reuben, who evolves from a preteen trumpet player into an adult artist. His mother, a relentlessly chic matriarch with dark secrets who is out of place in the her provincial surroundings, holds court at family gatherings. She lays out grandiose plans for her two sons while the mesmerizing music of sexy jazz singer Blue Williams adds a unique dimension. Meanwhile, her husband runs a profitable funeral home, grandmother offers unsolicited advice and Ruben's brother runs with the girls. This humorous family portrait abounds with tenderness, acceptance and the search for unconditional love while introducing audiences to an African-American family the likes of which is seldom portrayed on stage or screen. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) A rehearsal PianoNocal Score and a CD (stock groups only) of instrumental backing tracks is available on receipt of a $25.00 refundable deposit. Music Royalty, $10.00 per performance. Demo CD available to stock groups; please inquire. (#4934) BOOTH. (Little 1'heatre.) Drama. Austin Pendleton. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. This is the story of the turbulent, humorous and heart-breaking relationship between Junius Brutus Booth-the brilliant, half-mad, alcoholic 19th-century tragedian-and his son Edwin, who became a great tragic actor in his own right. Junius, needing a companion to keep him company and to keep him sober (or try to) takes the shy, inarticulate young Edwin on the road with him. As they travel across America, a complicated relationship develops between the violent but loving father and his adoring but ambitious son which results in Edwin taking his first steps as an artist and a man, in the near destruction of the family, and finally, in the death of Junius. "A fascinating play . . . . Pendleton has approached a delicate task with that care and intuitive skill which often marks the actor-playwright."-NY. Post. "A darkedged, often witty celebration of the thespian's disjointed world."-NY. Times. "The most intriguing monster to hit the Rialto since Tony Kushner's Roy Cohn. . . . Rivetting as it details the shifting tides of admiration and contempt between Junius and Edwin."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4212) BROKEN EGGS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eduardo Machado. 5 m., 3 f. Int. It's 1979 and Lizette Marquez is about to marry a nice Jewish boy in a ceremony at Woodland Hills Country Club that is costing thousands of dollars. While she and her extended three-generational family enjoy the fruits of material success in their adopted country, they remain haunted by memories of Cuba. They experience the cultural divide faced by Cuban Americans who feel they are 3000 miles from their real lives. In their idle fantasies, Cuba might still be reclaimed, so they cling to memories of a society displaced by the revolution. "A rich play with an undertow of sorrow and rushes of anger and humor. . . . Its young author has a strong comic voice and a passion to examine the meaning of people history." -N Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4723) CONDITIONS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. William 1. Hackenbrook. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Charlie and his grandmotper's assistant, Kristine, stand to inherit ten million dollars. The rub is that the old lady stipulated a condition in the will-they must marry and remain faithful to each other for one year. Havoc arises when Kris's boyfriend, a man with more muscle than brain, blunders in and Charlie ends up impersonating an Italian-speaking gardener instead of a groom. While the battle-axe maid and Charlie's greedy sister plot revenge for being cut out of the will, Charlie's lover arrives in a panic and demands to know why Charlie stood him up. Confusion, misinterpretations, hilarious antics and false identities abound, all under the watchful eye of a strict lawyer and his accident-prone nephew. Slapstick comedy at its best, this brilliant entanglement of love, greed and lust will make you laugh till you cry. (#5822) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) CONFESSIONS OF A DIRTY BLONDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 6 m., 2 f. plusl lion. Int. Get the boxer shorts, wigs and size ten pumps! The masters of modem farce are back with an outrageously zany comedy. The year is 1962. Living legend Lillian Lamour, a Mae West-like sex siren, comes out of seclusion for a one-night tribute at Carnegie Hall. While recreating her famous 1933 Time Magazine cover, a lion bites her world-famous derriere exposing, among other things, that she is a he. Now Hollywood's best-kep~ secret will be revealed unless Lillian's press agent can put a lid on things. Neither the gangstercrooner ex-boyfriend nor Lillian's wallflower daughter is aware of the truth, but the

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scrambled his brains to an alarming degree. Jane learns a vivid lesson about the dark underside of patriotic mythology in this nightmarish world of murder, secrets, betrayal and lunacy. This savagely funny, robust and haunting play is part of the (#10945) author's Pendragon series. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) JACKIE: AN AMERICAN LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Gip Hoppe. 8 m. & f. to play multiple roles, optional puppets. Simple sets. Here is a hilarious theatrical cartoon about Jackie Kennedy from which only its heroine emerges unscathed. Her life is presented as a fractured fairy tale of deliriously affectionate satire. "One of the most irreverent shows to come to Broadway in quite a while . . . . Jackie is satire with respect! "-WNBC-TV. "Gip Hoppe has a real talent for comic lampoon."-N.Y. Times. "A complete delight . . . done with such heart and high comedy that you may not want to leave the theatre."-New Yorker. "Worthy of Monty Python."-NY. Post. "Wonderful and inventive."-Newsday. "Terrific fun !"-N. Y. Daily News. "A clever cartoon caper . . . [with] screwball staging and glib caricaturing."-Newark Star-Ledger. "It's nothing short of brilliant."-Boston (#12588) Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) JAKE'S WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 1m., 7 f. Comb. int., unit set. America's premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual women. Jake, played by Alan AIda on Broadway, and his women definitely deliver the funniest lines of the season. "Fantastically funny . . . . lake's Womell are a wonderful crowd."-N Y. Post. "One of Simon's best."-L.A. Times. "Spending time with Jake's Women is a wholly justifiable diversion-for the audience as well as the protagonist."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75$75.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#614) THE LEPERS OF BAILE BAISTE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronan Noone. 8 m. Baile Baiste is "come day, go day" until Daithi O'Neill returns and sends the quiet Irish town reeling under the weight of recrimination. As a decade or more of secret guilt and resentment ends, four young men must come to terms with the abuse in their past. Daithi's violent churchyard thievery puts the blame where Daithi says it should be: at the feet of Father Gannon and the absent but never forgotten Brother Angelus. When Father Gannon refuses to acknowledge the past, the church's secrets flood through the parish and rip apart the town, the bulwark of faith embodied by Sergeant Michael O'Brien and the town's sensitive, fragile clown. "Mr. Noonan's shrew drama. . . makes points skillfully, with a confident, judicious use of symbolism worthy of Tennessee Williams.' '-N.Y. Times. Winner of the American College (#13767) Theatre Fund's Student Playwriting Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) LOVE, SEX AND THE I.R.S. (Little Theatre.) Farce. BillyVan Zandt and Jane Milmore. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Here is a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out-ofwork musicians who room together in New York City, To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple" they're going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon's fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further-Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon's back, Jon's mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son's fiancee, and Leslie's exgirlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won't see her anymore. The premiere was at New Jersey's Dam Site Dinner-Theatre. "Enough comic lines to fill an encyclopedia of humor."-Red Bank Register. The Asbury Park Press warned the diner to eat carefully before curtain time or-"he might (#14123) laugh enough to choke if he does not." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) MOON OVER BUFFALO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ken Ludwig. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. An acting couple-not exactly the Lunts-{)n tour in Buffalo in 1953 perform Cyrano de Bergerac (one-nostril version) and Private Lives in repertory. This farce by the author of Lend Me a Tenor brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway and also starred Philip Bosco as her megalomanic husband and leading man. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at stardom; Frank Capra is en route to catch their matinee. Will Charlotte appear or run off with their agent? Will George be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano, Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the two? Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, all magnified by the deaf theatre manager. "Ludwig stuffs his play with comic invention, running gags ... and a neat sense of absurdity." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#17) MURDERGOROUND. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 5 f. Int. As soon as Pat Kirby arrives for safe keeping at an off-season summer cottage with Susan, her Witness Protection Program representative, the laughter and intrigue begin. Pat, the key witness in a murder trial, saw an executive shot for control of his overseas account. As he was wheeled into the operating room, she saw him transmit the numbers needed to access the off-shore account, but she can't figure how to find those numbers. Soon the place is swarming with government agents and cohorts of the hit man. Who can Pat trust? Is the resident shopkeeper a substitute? Why does the local interior decorator seem out of place? What about the man who claims to be her husband or the girl claiming to be her daughter? Her protector? The young fellow from which agency? And most of all, the head of the WPP who is experiencing temporary amnesia? Everyone wants the numbers in this hilarious comedy. (#15740) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS NIGHTHA WKS. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Lynn Rosen. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, including "Nighthawks," "Sunlight in a Cafeteria," "Conference at Night" and "Summertime," this funny, sober play captures a night in the lives of eight lonely city dwellers desperate to connect with another person. For weeks, Jo and Ned watched each other from their windows. When they finally meet, will expectations be met? Jim and Mitzi have a dramatic first encounter at a cafeteria, but are they who they say they are? Three disgruntled 'office workers plot a surprise for the boss, but the surprise may be on them. "Leaves one laughing with, not at, these attractive and sad loners. . . . A passionate dance that's a pleasure to watch."-N.Y. Times. "Brilliant and smashing success."-Chicago Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16102) NOW YOU KNOW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Frayn. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Personal and public duplicity are juxtaposed in this foray into the offices of Open, a pressure group dedicated to freedom of information and sleuthing out government malpractice. The group's driving force is preoccupied with the case of an Asian who attacked some skinheads, beat up a police posse and put himself to death in jail. A high flier in the Home Office gives him a confidential report confirming a cover-up. He is torn between exposing the police brutality and protecting his source. Meanwhile, there is discord in the mail room, subterfuge in the office, and a romantic cover-up to plot. "Lively writing [and) ... funniest when it involves the human workings of a crusading group where locked drawers and suppression of feeling are the norm." -London Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#16098) OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Frank McGuinnes. 8 m. Unit set. A riveting memory play by the author of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, this lyrical work follows a group of Irish Protestant volunteers from joining up until their slaughter on the fields of France during World War I. The play opens in 1969 with the only survivor addressing a soliloquy to his long-dead comrades. The action jumps back to 1915 and the young men are seen as they meet, bond and face their bloody fate. Winner of a number of best play prizes in England and Ireland and a sensation in New York, the play explores the horror of war and the mystifying rea~ons why these misguided souls choose to march off to almost certain death. "Depicts war so powerfully that audiences are seen leaving in almost complete silence. . . . No question about it, this is one of the most important events of the New York theatrical season. The audience feels like it knows these men like sons or brothers." -UPl. "Richly textured." -Village Voice. "Great theatre ... the kind that enlarges and uplifts and challenges."-nytheatre.com. "Tremendous . . . . McGuinness's writing has a poetic, dreamlike quality." -Guardian. "Sensitively portrays [the soldiers] both as individuals and representatives of a culture. . . . An exceptionally insightful play."-London Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#16950) THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION). (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Ungar and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms.Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuits. The Pigeon sisters have been replaced by the hilarious Constanzuela brothers. "Very funny indeed."-NY. Post. "Endearing."-USA Today. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Please state female version when ordering. Slightly Restricted. Posters (#12) OMNIUM GATHERUM. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros. 3 f., 5 rn. Int. Believing that lively, contentious debate is the heart and soul of a dinner party, a domestic artist and perfect hostess has invited an assortment of opinionated personalities to share a surreal meal. The guests at this exquisite feast of food and argument confront the global implications of September 11th and beyond in an urgent, impassioned and hilarious work that was applauded at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana' Festival and Off Broadway. "A feisty feast of wicked wit. . . . Piping hot satire that sings and stings."-N.Y. Times. "Theatrical fireworks."-New Yorker. "Spirited, amusing and smart, A play that wants us to think as much as we feel."-Newsday. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#17711) OSCAR AND FELIX. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 6 m., 2 f. Int. America's comic mastermind has updated his classic comedy The Odd Couple, setting the trials and tribulations of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison in the present day. Those who love the original version and new audiences will laugh until they cry at this modern-day comic tour-de-force. $6.50. (Royalty, $100-$100.) Slightly Restricted. (#822) THE PIANO LESSON. (Black Groups.) Drama. August Wilson. 5 m., 3 f. Comb. int. August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize for this haunting drama. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated in this addition to the cycle of plays about the Black experience in America (see page 74). "Like other Wilson plays, it seems to sing even when it is talking."-N.Y. Times. "A lovely tragi-comedy . . . . Haunting as well as haunt-

CHARACTERS ed." -N. Y. Newsday. "Wonderful.... A play of magnificent confrontations." -N. Y. Post. $11.00. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#18186)

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home for the first time in twenty years for his brother's wedding and sparks fly, especially when Bruce learns that his father is in contact with a man who is threatening to bomb a Planned Parenthood center and has not called the police. The arrival of Bruce's black girlfriend, an articulate young social worker who has had an abortion and passionately defends her decision, adds another explosive dimension to this exploration of what actions are justified in defense of your beliefs. "Mesmerizing [and]. . thought-provoking."-N.Y. Amsterdam News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#25266) WOMAN IN MIND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 5 m., 3 f. Ext. The comic poet of middle class life goes darker in this triumphant play about a boring cleric's wife. After getting knocked unconscious, she experiences hilarious hallucinations in which she lives a fantastical existence as an ideal wife and mother with a perfect family. While her real family treats her with condescension and apathy, her fantasy family dresses in lovely white, always drinks champagne, lives in a stately home and tells her that she is wonderful. When the fantasy becomes a nightmare, she realizes that she is going mad. "Creates a set of believable people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is at once painful and exhilarating."-Sunday Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25185) AMAZING GRACE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Cristofer. 3 m., 5 f. Simple set. Marsha Mason returned to the New York stage to play the lead in this story of one woman's journey to redemption by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shadow Box. Selma Goodall is a lonely, middle-aged woman trapped in a life that is suffocating her. She tries to escape through prescription drug abuse. Confused by her religious upbringing and haunted by the ghost of sexual abuse, she sinks into despair and finds herself on trial for a series of murders of which she has no recollection. Convicted and sentenced to death, Selma spends her last days in prison where, ironically, she comes finally to an understanding of life, love and herself. The long journal out of the darkness ends in the light. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music Royalty for use of the song "Please Help Me I'm Falling": $5.00 per performance or $25.00 per week. (#2993) THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Parker. 4 m., 4 f. Int. When Harry Douglas, the new American Ambassador to Great Britain, tells his family he is going to Scotland to play golf, his wife and daughter announce weekend plans of their own. Their newly hired butler, Perkins, watches stoically as each leaves and secretly returns for a romantic rendezvous in the empty house. Harry's secretary and Captain South of Marine Corps Embassy Security then arrive in the wake of a bomb threat and the embassy is sealed off, with hilarious results. Even the imperturbable Perkins is drawn into the shenanigans . "Hilarious. . . .Will keep you in constant laughter."-CO/pus Christi Caller-Times. "The funniest two hours of stage comedy in recent memory."-Midland Reporter-Telegram. "The energy builds. . and the audience is left roaring." -Delray Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3157) THE BACCHAE. (Advanced Groups.) Greek Drama. Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 7 m., I f. Unit set. One of Euripides' most poetically beautiful as well as thematically difficult plays is given a fresh translation that retains the lyrical grace of the work while making its classic argument for moderation over pure reason or pure sensuality accessible to modem audiences. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

ROUGH JUSTICE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Terence Frisby. 5 m., 3 f. Comb int. James Highwood, the host of a popular television program called British Justice, is on the stand at the Old Bailey, accused of murdering his severely handicapped child. He refuses his solicitor's plea to obtain legal representation and conducts his own defense, admitting responsibility but pleading manslaughter. His claim that the jury alone is responsible for the verdict brings him into conflict with the judge, while his battle to have his intentions understood brings him into conflict with the prosecutor, a well-known Catholic pro-lifer. There is also the question of whether Highwood actually killed his child after all. This adroitly written courtroom drama starred Diana Quick and Martin Shaw in London's West End. "Absorbing. . . . His writing is sharp, and the courtroom interchanges positively crackle." -Sunday Express. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20141) SORCERESS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 3 m., 5 f. Unit set. After the Civil War, John Pendragon returns to the family mansion in east Ohio and marries the camp follower who has spent the war with him. His new wife's happiness is threatened when Fay Robey and her daughter arrive to demand a share of the family's inheritance. Mother and daughter also endanger John's illegitimate son and his insane wife while James Lake lurks threateningly in the background and John's batty half-sister lashes out at all of them. Funny, moving and tragic, this Gothic drama about family skeletons and ancient sins is part of the author's Pendragon cycle of plays and involves characters from Armitage, Fisher King, Green Man, Deflores and Tristan. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21487) TAINTED JUSTICE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. Based on the book Tainted Justice 1914 by David Newton. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. Drawn from facts surrounding a real murder on Cape Breton Island, Tainted Justice is a compelling drama by the author of Ravenscroft. Pearl's father was killed one August evening in 1913. Her eccentric cousin defended the accused murderer, who was a friend of her uncle's. The suspect is a charming liar who insists that he nearly married Emily Bronte in Moose Jaw. Estranged from her enigmatic mother and haunted by the murder, Pearl is pulled into a dark labyrinth of desire, lies and betrayals. By turns funny and frightening, this intricately plotted investigation into what can truly be known about people and their motives weaves memory, testimony and twisted confrontations into a compelling tapestry of darkness and light. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21981) THINGS BEYOND OUR CONTROL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jesse Kellerman. 5 m.,3 f. Various sets. On a rainy Texas night, a cabbie commits hit-and run. Though they try to forget it happened, guilt draws the driver and his passenger together and seven lives change forever. The well-drawn characters include a lesbian airline employee, a doctor with the bedside manner of a mannequin, a waitress who always , carries a burn kit-just in case, a single father whose only happiness hovers near death, a high-strung businesswoman, an ex-con terrified of Texas justice and a street magician whose verbal contortions hide a thirty-year battle to rectify his past. This is a play about Dallas, love, fate, magic and peach pie. Winner of the Princess Grace Foundation Playwriting Award. $6.50.(Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22276) THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Herb Robins. Based on the book by B. Traven. 7 m., 1 f. Unit set. One of the most significant literary works of the 1920s and 30s and the basis for the 1948 Academy Award-winning movie directed by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston that ranks as one of the best films of all time, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes to the stage as a powerful folktale with metaphysical underpinnings. Three men, led by an old miner-philosopher, find gold in the mean and stormy terrain of the Sierra Madre mountains. Greed leads to gunplay and theft, the mine caves in and the gold is swept away by a windstorm. This version of the classic tale is sure to delight audiences with a swashbuckling tale that pits human nature against natural forces. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22947) THE TROJAN WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 3 m., 5 f., chorus. Various sets. A bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.)

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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Pierre de Beaumarchais. Translated and adapted by Bernard Sahlins. 7 m., I f. Int. This simple story born in Greek comedy acquired an unbridled sense of irony and an insolent boldness with the introduction of the character Figaro, the barber who lacked an inborn notion of status but possessed a keen knowledge of how to operate the levers of society. He shines with zest and love of life in this deft adaptation of a beautifully playable farce aimed at modem audiences.$7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in a translation by Albert Bermel; see Index. Please state translator when ordering.

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BLACK COMEDY. (All Groups.) Farce. Peter Shaffer. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Hilarity reigned in London where this masterpiece of farce was recently paired with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and at New York's Roundabout Theatre where a revised version of White Liars provided the curtain raiser. In this long oneact, action occuring in the dark is illuminated; when lights are suppose to be on, the stage is the dark. An unscrupulous sculptor has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique dealer next door. Brindsley hopes to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art buyer. The campy neighbor returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce. Seated guests, unexpected visitors, lurking phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored. "[One of] the funniest and most brilliant short plays in the language."-London Sunday Times. "A dazzling comic ballet."-N.Y. Daily News. "An orgy of blind slapstick brilliantly sustained."-Sunday Express. Published with White Liars, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 when produced alone or with White Liars.) (#41) BOUBOUROCHE, or She Dupes to Conquer. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Courteline. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 7 m., I f. Gullible to a fault, the rotund and happy-go-lucky hero of this Courteline classic refuses to believe his mistress is unfaithful. Even when he finds her handsome lover hiding in a cupboard,

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VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM. (Adventurous Groups.) Farci!. Charles Busch. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This truly bizarre entertainment of the Rocky Horror genre is about vamps, has nothing to do with lesbians and takes the audience from ancient Sodom to the Hollywood of the twenties and ends up in present day Las Vegas. "Costumes flashier than pinball machines, outrageous lines, awful puns, sinister innocence, harmless depravity-it's all here. One can imagine a cult forming."-N.Y. Times. "Bizarre and wonderful. . . . If you think Boy George is a gender-bender, well, like Jolson said, you ain't seen nothing yet! Forget your genders, come on, get happy. "-Broadway Magazine. Published with Sleeping Beauty or Coma, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24006) WHOSE FAMILY VALUES! (Little Theatre.) Drama. Richard Abrons. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Charles Boyd is a rabid anti-abortion activist with ingrained racist attitudes. His eldest son Bruce abhors these views. In fact, his first-hand experiences working with underprivileged young people have deepened his pro-choice stance. He returns

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he happily continues to fall prey to her wiles. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4218) Please state translator when ordering. DADDY'S DYIN'(WHO'S GOT THE WILL?). (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Del Shores. 3 m . 5 f. Int. "Set in a small Texas town in anytime, U.S.A., Dyin' concerns the reunion of a family gathered to await the imminent death of their patriarch, who has recently suffered -a physically as well as mentally disabling stroke. In essence, however, it is not the story of the impending demise of the father or of the drafting of his will, but of a rebirth of the spirit of the family unit. Without becoming ponderous, losing a sense of humor or pandering to timeworn cliches about Texans or Texas drawls, the story . . . shares many elements of a good summer novel: it's a fa~t, delicious, easy read with funny moments, tense moments, touching moments, and characters you care about."-Hollywood Reponer. "A masterful comedy."-Variety. "One funny play."-Tolucan Canyon Crier and Magnolian. "A well-written piece of mainstream theatre that's consistently funny and occasionally touching."-L.A. Times. "A knockout."-L.A. Weekly. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6164) THE DARK SONNETS OF THE LADY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. A finalist for the National Play Award, this stark and funny drama takes place in Vienna, 1900. A brilliant young girl visits Sigmund Freud to begin the most famous and controversial encounter in psychoanalysis. Freud becomes obsessed by Dora and he moves like a detective through the mystery of her mind, finding a lecherous father, an obsessed mother, an irritating brother, a sinister admirer with a seductive wife, and a lost governess. Nightmares, fantasies, hallucinations and memories materialize on stage in a kaleidoscopic tapestry as Freud moves closer and closer to the truth about Dora's murky past. This tragic love story is laced with haunting Strauss waltzes. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5952) DAVID'S MOTHER. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Bob Randall. '3 m., 5 f. Int. The award-winning author of 6 Rms Riv Vu, The Fan and Kate & Allie delves into the nature of laughter and pain in this, his most telling play. There is a once-in-alifetime bravura role in Sally, the mother of a mentally handicapped boy who uses her wickedly funny tongue to hold at bay a world that has the legal right-and intention-of taking him froPl her. The play moves gracefully from the present to the past and back again, from a crumbling marriage with her true love to a final chance at happiness with a doting suitor. This laugh-out-Ioud, cry-out-Ioud play is the basis for a CBS motion picture. "Tackles a difficult subject purely, honestly, with much humor and enough pain to bring much of the audience to tears."-Fariety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6579) DEATH IN ENGLAND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. 5 m., 3 f. 1 set. Death pays a call to an English household and discovers he's in the wrong place. After apologizing profusely to the near victim, he discovers to his horror that not only can everyone in that household see him but that someone other than he is now performing his task. In an attempt to get to the bottom of things, none other than one of Scotland Yard's finest, Inspector Edward Mirabelle, is brought in to confront the bizarre event, witness a few deaths and hopefully solve what the inspector now describes as his favorite case. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6917) DON'T MENTION MY NAME. (AU Groups.) ComedylMys~ery. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 5 f. Int. An award-winning playwright asks what you would do if you suffered temporary amnesia and stumbled into a bed-and-breakfast off-season only to find you were expected for the week-end. The plot becomes more and more hilarious until all questions are answered, including who the hero is and what the crime iswith a surprising twist ending. This combination of intriguing laughter, romance and mystery provides a delightful evening. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6183) DREAMS FROM A SUMMER HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Alan Ayckboum. Music by John Pattison. 5 m., 3 f. Ext. The reigning king of English comedy strikes off in a new direction with this gleeful fantasy. A couple is preparing for an al fresco party while their hapless ex-son-in-Iaw is holed up in their summer house, drinking off his divorce while he completes illustrations for a new edition of Beauty and the Beast. When he conjures Belle to life and she appears in the garden unable to understand English unless it is sung, her fantastical presence wreaks havoc with the all-too-reallives around her. The story develops into a cliffhanger when the Beast also appears and carries off the strident ex-wife. This outrageously comic battle of the sexes delightfully illustrates the disparity between romantic ideals and earthly reality, proving once again that true love is impossible but necessary. "It is almost impossible not to be seduced by this fanciful flight of the imagination."-Daily Telegraph. "A masterpiece in plot-design with some marvelous characters."-Stage & TV Today. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) PianoNocal Score: $35.00. (Music Royalty, $15 per performance.) (#6192) EAST TEXAS HOT LINKS. (Black Groups.) Comic drama. Eugene Lee. 7 m., 1 f. Int. It's summer, 1955, in the piney woods of East Texas where local men wander into Charlesetta's Top 0' the Hill Cafe almost every night for comfort, solace and companionship. Times are changing, the Klan is active and young black men have been disappearing or turning up dead. This night, Delmus wants to celebrate getting a new job but the other regulars are skeptical. They try to warn him as they joke, feed the jukebox and play cards until betrayal catches all of them and life at Top 0' the Hill is changed forever. "Detonates as neatly as a time bomb,"-N.Y. Post. "Demonstrates how cheering a play can be without necessarily being upbeat. . . . It has been written with a sense of life and with such craft . . . that you're likely to

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS walk out at the end feeling better for the sad events just witnessed." -N. Y. Times. "A sizzling drama."-WCXR Radio. "A kinetic, ruthless portrayal of self-interest (#6992) and betrayal. "-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) AN EVENING OF CULTURE: FAITH COUNTY II. (All Groups.) Comedy. Mark Landon Smith. 5 f., 3 m. Int. In this long-awaited sequel to Faith County, we return to Mineola County for the community theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet. All of the beloved group are cast in the debacle and, even though they don't know their lines, the set isn't finished and a dog keeps barking offstage, they're gonna give it a go! There's an awe-inspirin' performance by Mildred Carson (who doesn't look fifty) as Juliet. And there's great chemistry between her and Romeo Bubba Bedford from the 'Gas 'N Go. Wait 'til you hear the additional dialogue provided by Naomi Farkle Carson! We see their final rehearsal and the performance in all it's glory and abbreviated entirety. "Our audiences loved it! Shakespeare is probably rolling over in his grave!"-The Acting Company. "We didn't think it possible, but our audiences loved it more than Faith County I !" -The Drama Shop. $5.25. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7124) EXPLODING LOVE. (All Groups.) Romantic comedy. Joseph Coyne. 5 m., 3 f. Int. This uproarious tale of love, divorce and marriage illustrates that no matter how nuts you think you are, someone out there will love you. Skeeter still loves his ex-wife. When he hears she is about to remarry, he dons a belt of dynamite and barges into the judge's chambers to disrupt the ceremony. He is forced to retreat to the city hall men's room where the groom-to-be and Zeke, a charming eccentric who claims to be a dog angel, become his hostages. Comic twists and turns fill the rest room with seven people and lead to an outrageous triple wedding ceremony. A character in the audience plays a police hostage negotiator, creating the impression that the audience is witnessing an event rather than watching a show. Exploding Love premiered to rave reviews at the 1996 Key West Theatre Festival. "A laugh-out-loud commentary on love and marriage. The characters are zany and the plot is zanier. Audiences will love it!"-Key West Citizen. "Full of delightful surprises! Outrageous and (#7116) charming!" -Key West Newspaper. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) FLIP. (AU Groups.) ComedylDrama. Tom Rooney. 4 m., 4 f. Int. (unit set or in-theround). Hypocrisy among modem America professionals is examined with wit and irony. Dick is a prominent lawyer handling a high-profile child custody case. David is a notorious OB-GYN and Lisa is his rambunctious girlfriend who is ten years younger than everyone else. Judy is a burned-out party-girl willing to settle for dull but kind Arthur. They gather in the proper middle-class home of Jake and John for a fifth wedding anniversary celebration. \\>ben Jake turns up inexplicably pregnant, the party-goers must somehow reconcile things they have been saying with reality. Winner of the James D. Phelen Award for Literature awarded by the San Francisco Foundation: "Tom Rooney's play creates an ordinary meeting of people speaking an apparently ordinary language, but charged with Rooney's sense of humor, timing and an ever-changing focus." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8175) FUNNY MONEY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 6 m., 2 f. Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier. Henry A. Perkins, a mild-mannered C.P.A, accidently picks up the wrong briefcase--one full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book one-way fares to Barcelona. He tells his confused wife to leave everything behind; if she doesn't like Barcelona, they can go to Bali .. In fact, they can buy Bali! The doorbell rings as they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub (actually, he was sitting in the 100 counting the cash). The bell rings again. Another detective arrives thinking Henry is dead; a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase were found in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8202) IF MEMORY SERVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jonathan Tolins. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. During her classic television series, Diane Barrow was America's sweethearteverybody's favorite spunky mom. That was twenty years ago. Now her career is in a slump and her son suddenly remembers some nasty things from his childhood. Or does he? This is a surprising comedy about memory, mothers and our maddening culture of complaint by the author of The Twilight 0/ the Golds. "Delicious satire!"-Hollywood Reporter. "A funny, provocative comedy. Big laughs."-L.A. Times. "Delightful."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#10995) HALFWAY HOME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Diane Bank. 1m., 7 f. Int. w. insets. This comedy is guaranteed to tickle funny bones from the outset when a tour guide can't take it any more and has a breakdown while her bus is caught in New York City traffic with a load of non-English-speaking tourists from South Yemen. Susan runs from the bus, gun in hand, and hails a cab. Her family, who hasn't heard from her in ten years, receives a cryptic telegram: "Dire straights. Must lie low. Driving in on Saturday." Susan arrives with the cheerfully loony cab driver for a reunion with her mother, sisters, neighbors and childhood chums. Before long, she realizes that life in the city was sane compared to being among these characters. She escapes again, heading for California with the anything-goes cabby in a laughter-filled finale. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9992) HIDDEN LAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Simon Gray. 3 f., 5 m. Here is a hilarious look at the artistic pretensions of the young and the rich that charts a decade in the life of a London family transplanted to an idyllic country setting. A literary agent and his wife buy a Devon cottage where she can write,

CHARACTERS children will be happy, and they can relax. Into their world walks the local vicar-a classically comic character who tends their magnificent garden and their emotional if not spiritual needs as the outside world intrudes with failure and disillusionment. "Vibrant. . . . Full of quiet strengths and gentle virtues that can make it an absorbing and moving experience. . . . Wonderful comedy."--N.Y. Daily News. "This fascinating play-his best in years-contains moments of hilarious comedy and others of bleak domestic tragedy." -London Daily Telegraph. "A subtle and moving play."-London Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted.

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Just Say No is a hysterically funny satire that has a great deal to say about the state of our union. "Beneath the brittle, pun-filled dialogue, Kramer's rage against people in high places simmers. The dialogue is deliriously artificial and crackling." -N. Y. Times. "Just Say No risks everything by turning rage to farce-and back again. I'm ready to go anywhere Kramer wishes to take me."-Vil/age Voice. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted. (#12629)
KINDLY LEAVE THE STAGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Chapman. 3 m., 5 f. Int. On stage, Rupert and Sarah's marriage is on the rocks and friends, both of whom are lawyers, agree to handle the divorce. After the curtain has been up a few minutes, Rupert forgets his lines and then threatens to kill his lawyer in full view of the audience because he is having an affair with Rupert's real wife. The rest of the cast tries to ignore the incident and forge ahead with the play, but Rupert picks up a knife and his quarry is forced to take cover in an on stage cabin-trunk. A real-life marital comedy now evolves while stage cues emanate from a cabin-trunk while the show plays on. This light-hearted tilt glorifies the complete theatricality of stage folk. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13611) LIE, CHEAT, AND GENUFLECT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 4 m., 4 f. Int. The Buckle brothers, Billy and Tom, are in big trouble: Tom's infallible eye for slow horses has drained away all of Billy's savings and he has borrowed from loan shark Pizza Face Petrillo, who now wants his money back-or else! There's plenty of money in grandfather Buckle's will, but these two black sheep are pretty sure they'll never see any of that. What else to do but dress Billy up as a nun and have him pose as their cousin who is to inherit the entire fortune? Involve a stuffy young lawyer. a hard-drinking, man-hungry housekeeper and a trio of beautiful young women, and you have the recipe for a laugh-packed farce of twists, turns, puns and pratfalls as Tom strives mightily to compensate for Billy's "habitual" errors. "A bright play that should not be missed. "-Asbury Park Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14164) THE LITTLE THEATRE'S PRODUCTION OF 'HAMLET'. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jean Battlo. 2 m., 6 f. Int. A sophisticated New York di~ector reluctantly travels to West Virginia to direct Hamlet under a grant for "under-served regions." Only six people show up to audition: Mona (who has always dreamed of playing Ophelia). a truck driver whose single desire is Mona, two waitresses who have never been stage-struck, 74-year-old Hattie who wants to see Mona realize her dream, and the bank vice-president who has been ordered to appear. In Hattie's Restaurant, this group perpetrates the most harrowing production of Shakespeare ever mounted. Amazing costumes and merry mishaps ladle hilarity on top of sincere attempts to tailor Hamlet to this remarkable cast. The result, a fractured, quixotic play, provides a fine example of realizing the impossible dream. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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HOUSE OF WONDERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kate Aspengren. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Holly Edwards' teen novels are so popular that her publisher has commissioned her to write an adult book for the Famous Foremothers series. Holly tries to write about her great aunt who was a madam in Alaska but soon realizes that all she knows about Myrta Jane Wonders are some old family stories. She employs a Ouija board to summon the long-dead madam, who proceeds to set her niece straight about the afterlife before helping with the book. Myrta returns with her ex-husband, reputedly a gangster, and two women who allegedly worked at Myrta'S House of Wonders. Problems arise when these visitors do not conform to Holly's expectations. House of Wonders provides a hilarious look at the evolution of family stories and a unique, (#10701) uplifting view of the next life. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) I BET YOUR LIFE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Hilarious situations, clever dialogue, intriguing romance and surprise twists make this breezy comedy a delight. Soap opera author Matthew Stoddard has written a screenplay about a terminally ill man who hires a hitman to kill him and then finds out he was misdiagnosed. Matt's agent and best friend, Greg, thinks the plot is not feasible so Matt contacts a gangster and arranges for an incognito hitman to join them at a dinner party in the country to prove his point. Circumstances place a real hitman among the guests and the action accelerates as they try to find out who it is before the deadline. Stacy, secretary and love interest to both men, does her best to help them solve the identity question as surprise after surprise thwarts them. Is the whole scheme really a con game? And who cons the con man? And who is conning them all? Excellent parts make this play fun to produce and view. $6.50. (Royalty, $60M~ WW~

THE INCREASED DIFFICULTY OF CONCENTRATION. Drama. (Little Theatre.) Vaclav Havel. Translated by Vera Blackwell. 4 m., 4 f. Int. This classic farce done in thirty scenes with no chronological sequence concerns a doctor of philosophy who has a wife, a mistress and a secretary whose beautiful legs make it difficult for him to concentrate when she is taking dictation. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-MO.)

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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. (AU Groups.) Drama. Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 6 m., 2 f., extras. Unit. Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter to ensure good fortune in the Trojan War is a domestic tragedy with a heroic background. This translation retains Euripides' poetic beauty while fashioning a playable dialogue. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11924) JOYFUL NOISE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tim Slover. 5 m., 3 f. plus extras. Various sets, simply suggested. Handel is in trouble: his'last opera flopped, he is no longer in favor with the king and preachers are calling his work blasphemous. In this climate, he struggles to present his latest work. His controversial soloist, a devious bishop and his conniving librettist add to the conflict in this true story of the politics and passion that nearly prevented "The Messiah" from being performed. "A joyful play."-Theatre Reviews Limited. "Clever and funny."-Show Business. "Witty, . . . scathing, and inspiring."-TheatreMania. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music CD (accompanied by detailed sound plot) available on receipt of $25.00 refundable deposit and $10.00 rental fee. (Music Royalty for use of CD: $25-$20.) (#12911) JUMP THE TRAIN AT RIVERPOINT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. PJ. Barry. 4 m., 4 f. Ints'!exts. This addition to the author's Jericho, R.I. cycle of plays that also includes The Octette Bridge Club;'A Distancefrom Calcutta, . .. And Fat Freddy's Blues and Down by the Ocean is a bonanza of strong roles for young actors. Love, betrayal and vengeance invade a small town in 1911. Ann is jilted by ambitious Frank so he can marry fiery Carolyn. Carolyn's former fiancee Brian commits suicide on the day they wed. A year later, Frank is climbing the political ladder, his best friend John is courting Ann even though she still loves Frank, and Carolyn is deeply shaken by the sudden reappearance of a former lover-Brian's twin brother Jeffrey. To avenge his brother, Jeffrey torments Carolyn until a compromise frees them from the ghosts of the past. As 1913 approaches, Ann finds fulfillment as a teacher and reluctantly accepts John while a melancholy Carolyn bids farewell to Jeffrey as the train pulls out of Riverpoint. "Give the TV show Friends a little depth and set it back many decades and you've got Jump the Train."-Fort Worth Star Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12643) JUST SAY NO. (Little Theatre; Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Larry Kramer. 3 f., 5 m. Int. The scandals of the Reagan administration are dramatized in farcical style. The First Lady must locate, before it is too late. a home-made sex videotape on which she cavorts with the husband of her best friend, with his mistress who knows much too much, and with members of her husband's cabinet. In addition, her son decides to run away to become a ballet dancer and, along the way, falls in love with the ex-boyfriend in hiding of the angry mayor of the largest northeastern city. Everyone meets, or tries not to, in the Georgetown home of Foppy Schwartz, friend to the rich and powerful, where first ladies and mayors drop in and refuse to leave.

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LOT'S DAUGHTERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Rebecca Basham. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. This character-driven three-act drama explores Christian dogma and its historical repression of homosexuals. Using the Biblical story of Lot and his family who are forced to flee Sodom as a metaphor, the play is the story of two young women who fall in love with each other during the summer of 1944. Gertie and Susanna are left behind in eastern Kentucky when Gertie's brother, Susanna's new husband, leaves the mountains of Appalachia to serve his country. Set in a region where it is difficult to be gay/lesbian today and was almost impossible sixty years ago, Lot's Daughters dramatizes ideas of sexuality in a historical context. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13796) MlRANDOLINA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Carlo Goldoni. Translated by Adrian Mitchell. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. This adaptation of the classic Italian comedy is both fast moving and colorful, and it includes two female characters normally omitted. Mirandolina inherits her father's inn in Florence. Beautiful, flirtatious and fiercely independent, she is besieged by suitors that she winds around her little finger. She neglects a mean but noble Duke, a rich but common Count and her father's ex-valet to win the love of Major Ripafratta, a confirmed misogynist. She plans to break his heart and strike a blow for women. Add to this two actresses pretending to be aristocrats and the least of worries is a duel in the laundry. "Its sheer virtuosity leaves you reeling."-BBC TV. "Mitchell's language sparkles."-Plays and Players. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-MO.) Please state translator when ord(#15599) ering. THE MONTH BEFORE THE MOON (Little Theatre.) Drama. Lois Shapley Bassen. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Meeting at their twentieth-fifth Vassar reunion in 1994 are four women in their late forties: an African-American United States senator from Texas, a farmer from New Hampshire, an East Side New York wife and a successful songwriter, also from New York City. lwo of them are accompanied by their children, a son and daughter who plan to enter Vassar inthe fall and are along for the pre-frosh orientation. The other two characters are ghosts, one a former classmate and the other the farmer's father. Each of the women has a particular motive for attending this reunion, something each must complete. For one it is suicide, an act that interrupts the teenagers' love-making and staggers the rest into actions they would not have otherwise taken and revelations they would not have otherwise divulged. By the final curtain a great deal is revealed about the last quarter of this century and the women who graduated from Vassar in June of 1969, the month (#15568) before the first human walked on the moon. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) MURDER FOR RENT. (AU Groups.) Mystery/Comedy. Giovanna Robinson and Charles Knox Robinson. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Pretty United Nations interpreter Susannah

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Whittaker is thrilled to get the apartment of her dreams, but she quickly discovers that the amenities include terrifying break-ins, bizarre phone calls, .a bewildering romance . . . and homicide. Her sexy roommate Molly has her wildly egotistical boyfriend move in and an ever-appearing, zany neighbor conspires to forestall disaster. A tawdry stranger arrives, compounding the mystery. When an angry landlord threatens eviction, he is the first to be murdered. Susannah finds herself strongly attracted to an arcane visitor before the apartment's deadly secret and the murderer are finally revealed. "A highly successful who-dun-it, with lots of dead bodies and a charming romance."-Burbank Times. "A knockout success. I laughed myself silly. Funny, funny, funny!"-Santa Monica Outlook. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15261) MURDER IS A GAME. Comedy-Mystery. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Laughter, suspense, intriguing characters, sparkling dialogue, plot twists and irresistible mystery are all here. A successful, married mystery-writing team has dried up so their publisher gives them an anniversary present of a weekend in an old mansion built for a movie set and peoples it with hired characters unknown to each other to act out a murder plot. The couple, Sloan and Toby Bigelow, delight in the game and solve the fake murder but then there is a real murder and further hilarious plot twists. The actors all have delightful opportunities to act as imaginary people and then themselves during this sophisticated, laugh-filled mystery evening. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#15248) OVER THE CHECKERBOARD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Villagers in a picturesque Vermont town hope an unusual bequest will give them the financial means to fight off a developer who plans to build a shopping mall that will destroy the character of their town. A novelist who once lived there has died leaving the village an unpublished work entitled Over the Checkboard which promises to be his best novel since his only successful work won a Pulitzer thirty-five years ago. Controversy erupts when the book turns out to be a steamy look at a small town not unlike theirs with characters startlingly similar to their (#17690) neighbors, friends and selves. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) PIE SUPPER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 1m., 7 f. Ext. This is the first play in the author's The Missouri Trilogy which spans several months in a droughtstricken Ozarks community in the late 1950s. Women prepare a farewell supper for those forced by economic crisis to emigrate to California. Left behind are a highstrung girl who will stop at nothing to join the exodus and a lonely older woman who offers an unconventional friendship to a retarded man. Vivid characters and tart dialogue laced with gentle humor evoke a tender portrait of a bygone era while exploring themes of contemporary significance. Unsentimental presentation of ordinary characters facing life's trials."-Backstage. "Nuanced moments of honesty."-N.Y. Post. For other plays in The Missouri Trilogy, see One-Eyed Venus and the Brothers and Blackberry Frost. Please write for details to obtain a copy of the manuscript. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18681) RED SCARE ON SUNSET. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. This Off-Broadway hit is set in 1950's Hollywood during the blacklist days. This is a hilarious comedy that touches on serious subjects by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Mary Dale is a musical comedy star who discovers to her horror that her husband, her best friend, her director and houseboy are all mixed up in a communist plot to take over the movie industry. Among their goals is the dissolution of the star system! Mary's conversion from Rodeo Drive robot to McCarthy marauder who ultimately names names, including her husband's, makes for outrageous, thought-provoking comedy. The climax is a wild dream sequence where Mary imagines she's Lady Godiva, the role in the musical she's currently filming. Both right and left are skewered in this comic melodrama. "You have to champion the ingenuity of Busch's writing which twirls twist upon twist and spins into comedy heaven." -Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#19982) ROMANCE RANCH. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Jules Tasca. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Eight one-act plays set in the Romance Ranch Hotel in Los Angeles examine the idea of romance in the modem world. Included are The Fantasy Bond, Inflatable

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS sometimes hot-tempered mum. Hilarious scrapes erupt when Brenda's imagination and intelligence bump against the restrictions of Irish and English customs and society. The play is a captivating and not uncritical look at family life that features some wonderful roles. "It is funny, moving and seriously entertaining. . . . The audience loved it."-London Main of Sunday. "It has humour, feeling and a quiet confident power all its own."----,London Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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SHERLOCK'S SECRET LIFE. (All Groups.) Mystery with music. Ed. Lange. Music by Will Severin. 5 m., 3 f. This original play with musical underscoring about the world's most famous detective during his youthful years of collaboration with Dr. Watson is firmly grounded in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'S characters. It is a fascinating mystery, an enchanting romance and a wonderful comedy. Winner of the Audio Publishers Association's National Audie Award for its dramatic presentation as an audio book. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "A deftly composed, entertaining work of imagination, intellect and compassion."-Metroland. "A smashing good time."-Record. "A delightful, entertaining spectacle."-Newsday. "Thoroughly entertaining. "-Berkshire Eagle. "A winner on all fronts." -Times Union. "A crackling piece of theatre, totally absorbing."-Daily Gazette. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music underscoring (2 CDs) available on rental. Rental fee, $10 per performance plus a refundable $50 deposit. Audio Book (2 tapes), $16.95, available from NYSTI, 37 First St., Troy, NY 12180.

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SIX PASSIONATE WOMEN. (All Groups. ) Comedy. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 6 f. A film director is loved by six women. When they find out about each other and discover how he is using them, they plot revenge. Performed at Actor's Studio. "Provides a lens' insight of the miasma of angst which is generated by the infusion of power, sex and politics. Fellini, who often felt uncomfortable with his work in a society which has all those elements, rises like a ghost from this play."-Trud Daily, Bulgaria. "Certainly suggests that a fair amount of rapacity was common to both exploiter and exploited. . . . Here too, is another of Fratti's tum-about comic endings in which the trickster is tricked."-Follia, New York. "Fast-paced. . . Fratti displays his knowledge of man's psyche, explores the many facets of women . . . and displays his profound knowledge of the theatre." -/I Ponte, New York. (#21550) $4.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) STANTON'S GARAGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joan Ackermann. 4 m., 4 f. Comb. int., ext. This comedy by the author of Zara Spook and Other Lures had audiences screaming with laughter at Actors Theatre of Louisville. In a ramshackle garage miles from anywhere two cars, both of which were en route to a wedding, await repairs. One belongs to the ex-husband of the bride, a man who missed his divorce and doesn't want to miss this wedding. A bridesmaid who is engaged to the best man owns the other. She and her teenaged passenger miss the wedding because the mechanic has never seen a Volvo, much less worked on one. The ex-husband does get to the wedding, lugging a case of anti-freeze as a gift. He staggers back later to warn the Volvo driver that her husband-to-be is a world-class jerk. Meanwhile, the teenager falls in love with an amorous gofer. This wonderful play has excellent scene and monologue material. "Deftly written . . . [with] juicy roles. "-Variety. "A delightful contemporary comedy with fast-flying comic zingers."-:Denver Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21934) SUNRISE AT NOON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lucien Lambert. Based on Bonjour, Emile. American adaptation by Norman Stokle. 6 m., 2 f. 2 sets. This hilarious play concerns a New York architect's attempts to save his marriage. A simple, quiet man, Philip yearns for a peaceful existence while his wife Karen craves excitement. A friend suggests that Philip become a hero in the eyes of his wife by pretending to lead a mysterious double life. The scheme works perfectly until coincidence allows fiction to overtake reality and the couple is thrust into the seamy New York underworld. Karen is kidnapped and Philip, posing as a Mafia godfather to save her, unwittingly helps the police break up a major criminal network. The action moves with absurd logic from one cliff-hanging situation to another until all is resolved . . . except Karen's questions about what sort of man her husband really is. This clever and original play engages with its blend of quick-paced action, comical situations, high drama, endearing characters and witty dialogue. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21946) THE SUTHERLAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles Smith. 6 m. (with doubling), 2 f. Int. A promising young musician, Eugene Taylor, comes of age in the midst of Chicago'S south side jazz scene in the 1950s with musical royalty Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane as his role models. Having embarked on a six-month European tour at the age of 18 and been seduced by the European's appreciation of jazz and the love of a Viennese woman, he returns 15 years later. While abroad he heard about the race riots of the sixties and now he witnesses the devastation they caused, the black flight to the suburbs and the decline of the inner city neighborhood which was his home. He ponders his absence during those turbulent times as well as his current existence while sitting amongst the ghosts of the Sutherland Show Lounge, once a Mecca of jazz. Originally produced by Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, The Sutherland won the 1997 lllinois Arts Council Governors' Award for Playwriting. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) #(21438) THE TROUBLE WITH TRENT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Sparkling dialogue, fascinating characters, satirical insights and laughs galore abound in this tale of mistaken identities that begins with three mystery buffs E-mailed chapters to each other and met for two weeks to polish off their first book.

You, Finding the Love of Your Life, The Man in Blue, Penance, The Dark, Data Entry and Snocky. See Index for descriptions of individual titles. $6.50. (Royalty, (#20929) $75-$60 or $25-$20 per play when performed separately.)
RUN FOR YOUR WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 6 m., 2 f. Comb. int. This superb example of the British farce had them rolling in the aisles in London and New York. A taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular working schedule. Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double life from exploding. For a sidesplitting sequel, see Caught inthe Net. "Run for Your Wife should run for life."-Sunday Express. "A frolic? It is . . . a triumph."-Daily Telegraph. "Virtually continuous laughter."-N.Y. Post. "Audiences will enjoy the show tremendously."-N.Y. Daily News. "A laugh a minute!."-WABC Radio. "I was exhausted from laughing so hard."-WMCA-Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Cassette of the orchestral version of the song "Love and Marriage," $22.50. (Tape royalty, $10 (#20642) per performance.) Posters SAME OLD MOON. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Geraldine Aron. 3 m., 5 f. (to play 10 m., II f.) Unit set. This charming autobiographical play from London's West End creates scenes from the life of aspiring writer Brenda Barnes. From age nine into her forties, she is seen through the eyes of her eccentric and sometimes fiery family, particularly her willfully self-descriptive father and her put-upon and

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The publication enjoys mild success until their literary agent hints that Sarah Trent, the pen name they adopted, is a real person. Book sales soar. Meanwhile a Washington socialite being blackmailed over a possibly illicit weekend intends to send Sarah a story she has written about herself. She mistakenly sends the manuscript to the blackmailer and the money to the beach cottage where the three ladies behind the name Trent are gathered to complete another book. Nailing the blackmailer and keeping Sarah's identity a secret during the resulting confusion is first-rate comedy (#22744) by a popular author of the genre. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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and able to help those who come to the bar asking for Seamus. "Such vitality, such enthusiasm, such intelIigence . . . . A lovely, rewarding evening."-N.Y. Post. "Gently comic but hard-headed in its assessment of how hard it is to survive New York."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Not available in NYC. (#3143.) THE BLACK DUCK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Svanoe. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Can a soap-opera star whose character has been written out of the show find happiness as the proprietor of a greasy-spoon in Woods Hole? Hal brother Andy, an investment counselor, thinks not. But Hal perseveres, even when he learns that he needs new wiring and plumbing to bring the place up to code. Hal hires Mike Sweeny, a contractor whose specialty is bilking city-slickers. With the help of a young woman named Penny (one of his biggest fans) and Andy (who fancies Penny enough to cast aside his misgivings), Hal finishes The Black Duck. Audiences die laughing at this (#4717) wonderfully off-beat comedy. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$40.) BEYOND A JOKE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Derek Benfield. 4 m., 4 f. Comb int./ext. Jane and Andrew's pleasant country house is accident-prone. Six people have already died there in unfortunate and embarra~sing accidents. When daughter Sally's young man Geoff arrives for the weekend unaware of the house's reputation, he mistakenly deduces from conversational confusion that the deaths were due to sinister circumstances. A body is discovered in the cupboard and a visiting vicar passes peacefully away in the garden just as Geoffs parents call unexpectedly. Jane and her sister-in-law persuade Andrew to keep up appearances by hiding evidence, which involves trundling around with bodies in wheelbarrows. Geoff is nearly convinced that he is mistaken, unaware that one of the bodies has been mistakenly stowed in the trunk of his parents' car. $8.95. (Royalty, $~0-$40.) (#4198) BOVVER BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. WiIIy Holzman. 6 m. 2 f. Ext. The Suedes are a gang of skin-head toughs in a grimy Scottish industrial town. They live. for "the bovver" -vicious fighting with other skin-heads. An American conscientious objector to the Vietnam War is assigned to serve at their community center hang-out. This indomitable idealist reaches out to the gang, but only seems to cause more violence. "Well-wrought and intelligent. . . . The story is threatening when it wants to be, genuinely funny and touching when that's intended."-N.Y. Newsday. "Gripping."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. "A compelling . . . taut drama ... with a fresh, ironic twist."-Back Stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available: Acting (#4199) with a Scottish Dialect Cassette Tape, $16.95. THE CHARLATAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. WiIIiam Norfolk. 3 m., 5 f. Comb. int. w. apron. In Vienna of 1777 a gifted young pianist is sent to Doctor Mesmer in the hope that his unorthodox methods will cure her blindness. Mesmer's treatment is based on transferring a spiritual fluid that restores physical and mental harmony. To the disquiet of her parents, he insists that Maria stay in his house during treatment. Maria's sight is restored, but gossips read more into the relationship than that of doctor and patient. The treatment ends in scandal with most of Vienna convinced that Mesmer is a charlatan. Unable to see once again, Maria returns to her parents and resumes her career as the blind pianist. Mesmer leaves for Paris, still deeply committed to the his miraculous healing powers. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$25.)

VILNA'S GOT A GOLEM. (Little Theatre.) Play w. music. Ernest Joselovitz. Original music by Jeff Warschauer. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. A traveling Jewish theatrical troup encounters a government emissary when they perform their original play based on the classic story of the golem in a small town in Czarist Russian. Is the play subversive? It's performed in Yiddish (though the audience hears English), so the Russian official must rely on an actor to translated for him. He is fed a humorously softened version of the witty allegory about government interference with the arts. Eventually dissension breaks out between those actors who want to give the defiant playas it is written and those who want to do an inoffensive comedy. "A confident, carefully thought-out work [that] translates Brechtian distancing techniques into a deceptively chipper American style."-N.Y. Times. "Fiercely topical, hugely theatrical and unnervingly funny."-Variety. Winner of Philadelphia's Barrymore Award for Best New Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24621) VITAL SIGNS. (Little Theatre). Monologues. Jane Martin. 2 m.(optional), 6 f. Bare stage. The author of Talking With and other hits has never been funnier or more compelling than in this suite of theatrical miniatures-over thirty two-minute monologues. The two men in the cast are optional foils for the six compelling women who perform a collage about contemporary woman in all her warmth and majesty, her fear and frustration, her joy and sadness. Vital Signs wowed audiences at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where it was directed of Jon Jory whose notes are published with the play. "Vital and original."-N.Y. Times. "Offers wonderful opportunities for actresses to show off their versatility." -Washing ton Times. "Martin's eye and ear for the texture of everyday life in this culture is as playfully accurate as Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's. She's a fine quipster; but she manages, too, to open little windows of sadness into women's souls."-Detroit News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $20-$20 per monologue when performed separately.) (#24019) WHAT IF .. ? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 4 f. Int. It is an actors' field day when Rachel Hammond returns to her small New England town and discovers for years the Town Council has been receiving large anonymous gifts for village improvements and has kept tIlls a secret because one of them seems to be involved in missing diamonds from an old robbery-the source of the gifts. Rachel meets a former boyfriend who has returned from the Peace Corps in Africa and they set about to solve the mystery. They see how each council member lives lp1d then we see what if each was the felon in an overdone and comic fashion that gives the actors two sides of themselves to display. The mystery is solved in a hilarious climax. Some of the characters from the author's popular Exit the Body reappear to add to (#25237) the merriment. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) WHOSE WIVES ARE THEY ANYWAY? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Parker. 3 m., 5 f. Int. The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Company has been sold and two of its vice presidents are enjoying a weekend of golf at their favorite resort before facing the new boss on Monday. They unexpectedly encounter their new boss and she insists on meeting the wives, commenting blithely "no one who went golfing for a weekend without his wife would ever work for me." So the men have to produce wives-and hilarity is unleashed. "Another Michael Parker farce is all audiences need to know to start buying tickets."-Palm Beach Post. "An entertaining evening of deftly executed comedy."-Delray Times. "A veritable laugh riot."-Boca Raton News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25232) WILDEST DREAMS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 4 m., 4 f. Comb. int. Four misfits are playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game in a suburban living room: a repressed woman, her meek husband, an emotionally-retarded computer freak and a taciturn lesbian. The game is more than a game. It is a chance for them to be beautiful, wise and heroic. A woman fleeing from her violent husband blows the foursome apart and confusion ensues, secrets spill and the characters transform irrevocably. Wildest Dreams marked Alan Ayckbourn's Royal Shakespeare Company debut at the Barbican Theatre. "Impressive [and] full of inventiveness."-Sunday Telegraph. "A tour de force of comic organization."Observer. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24993) THE WOMEN OF THETA KAPPA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Hallman. 8 f. Int. The immediate problem is to trounce the women of a rival sorority at football and get permanent possession of the Honey Bowl, but quarterback Andrea Campbell first needs to get the team's attention. It's the University of Texas in the 1950s, an age of innocence that is not so innocent. This ensemble piece challenges designers to imaginatively devise wardrobes for sleep, athletics, classes and fraternity theme parties. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25726) AWAY ALONE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Janet Noble. 5 m., 3 f. 2 ints. This comedy had a lengthy run Off Broadway. Liam has just arrived in America and is at the Bronx bar where Seamus dispenses aid to newcomers, but Seamus had to split to avoid immigration agents. A beguiling group of other young immigrants are willing to show Liam the way and, as the play closes, he is an assimilated American willing

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a warm feeling for a time when life in America seemed more manageable."-Women's Wear Daily. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22725) WHEN SHE DANCED. (Little Theatre). Drama. Martin Sherman. 3 m., 5 f. Int. New York's Playwrights Horizons had a success with this drama about the legendary Isadora Duncan by the acclaimed author of Bent. Set in 1923 in Paris, the play focuses on Duncan's desperate attempts to keep herself financially afloat so that she can realize the dream of her retirement years: to open a school in Italy where she can teach young dancers her art. She must deal with her mercurial Russian poet husband (he only speaks Russian, of which she has not a word) and various acolytes, who take turns during scene breaks describing what it was like when she danced. All the roles are very challenging; but none more so than the central role of Isadora Duncan, played in New York by Elizabeth Ashley. "A fascinating play. . . . A comic portrait of a Bohemian salon in both joy and extremis, as the calling of high art meets the low farce of insistent creditors, ludicrous lovers and unexpected guests. The very inexplicability of Isadora's art becomes . . . a stirring emblem of its mysterious power to endure.' ,-N. Y. Times. "The mixture of flamboyant fun with a dead-serious view of art's place in our grudging and somber century, skillfully brought off, makes When She Danced Sherman's best play to date."-7 Days. "A remarkable play."-New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#25030.) HOLIDA Y SNAP. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Pertwee and John Chapman. 4 m., 4 f. Int. This comic tale of mistaken identity unfolds with real wit and style. A Portuguese time-share villa has been double-booked without the company representative, myopic tippler C\,mmander "Chitto" Chittenden knowing. When Mary and Henry arrive shortly after Eve and Leslie, Chitto manages to remain unaware that there is more than one couple on the scene. The confusion is compounded when each couple mistakes the other for the servants. Henry seems to have the upper hand when he discovers that Eve is married, but not to Leslie, when his mother-in-law arrives and he has to bride the other couple to impersonate his alibi, Sir Piers and Lady Marchbanks. Girlfriend Mary has to play the servant, much to her annoyance, but it looks as though things might work out until the real Sir Piers arrives followed by Henry's wife. Hilarious disguises donned by Mary, Perky, Eve and Leslie might just save the day! $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10177) THE SLEEPER MURDERS. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Don Woods. 4 m., 4 f. (some doubling possible.) 1 int. When ex-con Myra Owen is unexpectedly summoned to her twin sister's posh estate, a twisted tale of macabre murders is set in motion that intrigues Inspector Campion. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21278) LOVE OF A PIG. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Leslie Caveny. 4 m., 4 f. (to play 33 characters). Unit set. Jenny is a young violinist pleased with her life except for when it comes to men. Having spent 3,345 nights alone (of a possible 3,356) since puberty, she approaches scientifically the question "Why not me?" The play chronicles her pursuit of a brooding bass player she mistakenly assumes is Mr. Right. 'What a wonderful show . . . . A tour de force. The laughs are frequent and big."-Hollywood Gazette. "Caveny traverses the rocky wasteland of one-sided love in a way that is at once comical, sad, terrifying, mortifying and exhilarating."-L.A. Times. "A paean to dateless women everywhere."-Burbank Times. "Caustic ,md irreverent. . . . An hilarious send-up of dating, courting and kvetching."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#14185) LEND ME A TENOR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ken Ludwig. 4 m., 4 f. Comb. int. This night in 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company-world-famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala seasonopener. Morelli sweeps in too late to rehearse with the company and, through a hilarious series of mishaps, he gets a double dose of tranquilizers. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Saunders persuades Max to get into Morelli's costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's II Stupendo. Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with II Stupendo! A sensation in New York and London, Lend Me a Tenor is guaranteed to leave your audiences teary-eyed with laughter. "A jolly play."-N.Y. Times. "Uproarious! Hysterical!"-USA Today. "Rib-ticklmg."-N.Y. Post. "Screamingly funny!"-CBS Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Music cassette (as orchestrated for the Broadway production),. $22.50. (#667) (Music Royalty, $7.50-$5.00.) Posters RETURN ENGAGEMENTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bernard Slade. 4 m., 4 f. (may be played by 2 m., 2 f.) Unit set. This ingenious comedy is by the author of Same Time, Next Year, Tribute, Romantic Comedy and Same Time. Another Year. The first act is comprised of three vignettes showing separate couples: a tipsy actress and the bellboy who has bedded her the night before, a gutsy Polish woman who has survived World War II and a carpenter whom she chooses to father her baby, and an acid-tongued columnist and his cool psychotherapist wife who are about to split up. In Act II, we meet the couples 20, 25 and 30 years later, as we learn much to our merriment how they ended up. And, we learn how, ultimately, their stories are all linked together. "A packed house roared with laughter . . . the play is laced with great one-liners and farcical situations . . . a ton of laughs." -Door County Advocate. "Amusing and witty."-Cape Cod Times. "This play is funny and entertaining. The audience barely recovers from the titters when guffaws break out.'-Cape Codder. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20120)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS POSTMORTEM. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Ken Ludwig. 4 m., 4 f. Int. This clever thriller by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Sullivan & Gilbert has delighted audiences nationwide. Actor-manager and playwright William Gillette, best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in his hugely-successful adaptation of Conan Doyle (a popular play available from Samuel French), has invited his sister and the . cast of his latest revival of the play for a weekend at his magnificent pseudo-medieval castle on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River. For entertainment Gillette has arranged a seance. Now the scene is set for his greatest role. Someone is trying to murder William Gillette and he suspects it is one of his guests. Intrepid, eccentric Gillette plans to solve the case himself a la Sherlock Holmes. "Zestfully trots out all the classic murder mystery devices: shots in the dark and darkly held secrets, deathbed letters, guns and knives and bottles bashed over the head, ghosts and hiders behind curtains and misbegotten suspicions. There are moments when you'll jump. Guaranteed."-The Telegraph. "A Sherlock Holmes who-dane-it kind of mystery packed with suspects and tinged with suspense and laughter."-London Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18677) STARTING MONDAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anne Commire. 2 m., 6 f. (to play various mles). Various sets simply suggested. The hit of the 1989 Yale Repertory Winterfest, this deeply moving drama about friendship and dying was produced Off Broadway at the WPA Theatre. A film-maker whose career is beginning to take off learns she has terminal cancer. Her best friend puts her own life and career on hold to care for her as she struggles valiantly to die with dignity. "Worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Marsha Norman's Night Mother and Edward Albee's All Over. There's a staunch bravery about the play that is exhilarating."-Variety. "Forceful [with a] sense of documentary fidelity [that] captures the roller-coaster ups and downs of fighting the disease."-N.Y. Times. "Laced with humor. . . . Well-structured [with] compelling dialogue and situations that ring absolutely true."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#21335) THIS ONE THING I DO. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Claire Braz-Valentine. Created in collaboration with Michael Griggs. 4 m., 4 f., to play var. roles. Unit set. This play about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the suffrage movement in the United States is a moving portrayal of struggles, successes and failures. Thoroughly researched, the play takes these women from the pages of history and makes them living crusaders for women's issues. From their decision to be the first women in bloomers to their invasion of male bastions to cast illegal ballots, as they are shot at and driven from cities, audiences hear their message to all women throughout the ages: "Failure is impossible." "A glittering piece of artistry . . . . A unique contribution to theatre. . . . Clear and exciting characters. . . remain consistent and grow in depth over the period of the drama. Add to this a delightful and occasionally gutsy sense of humor, and the end result is a theatrical tour de force." -Green Sheet. "A joyous portrait of two true children of the 19th century, who believed in the perfectibility of the species and then set out to perfect it. .. Quickpaced and warm."-The Oregonian. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22120) VIVA! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Andy de la Tour. 7 m., I f. Int. In the delightfully tacky Hotel Intercontinental in the fictional banana republic of Puerto de Oro, a CIA-backed dictatorship is under siege by guerillas who are within five miles of the capital. Hiding out inside the hotel are an assortment of oddballs and weirdos: a Nazi war criminal posing as an archbishop; a crazed general stuck upstairs with Miss July who is left over from a recent Playboy shoot; a schizoid hotel manager; the obligatory CIA man conniving to keep the revolutionary wolves at bay while desperately trying to get El Presidente to leave the country, with or without the coffin of his late beloved papa-Which might actually contain the country's treasury! Combine Feydeau with today's headlines and you will get the right idea. "Has all the slapstick humour of a good farce and yet never loses contact with reality."-London Standard. "Cutting and hilarious."-City Limits. "A very funny, politically correct social satire."-San Francisco Examiner. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) Restricted NYC. (#24021) THE DOWNSIDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Dresser. 6 m., 2 f. Comb. int. American business is the target of this hilarious and cutting satire originally produced at Long Wharf Theatre. A pharmaceutical firm has acquired rights to market a European anti-stress drug and marketing has got to come up with a snazzy ad campaign. Nowhere is this drug more needed than right here at Mark & Maxwell to counter corporate ineptitude. The strategy meetings get more pointless and frenetic as the deadline approaches. These meetings are chaired by Dave who is never actually there; he is a voice directing the campaign from his mobile phone while jetting between meetings, unstoppable even when his plane is hijacked. "Funny and ruthlessly cynical."-Philadelphia Inquirer. "Sheer delight."-Westport News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC & Chicago. (#6718) LONG TIME SINCE YESTERDAY. (Black Groups.) Drama. PJ. Gibson. 8 f. 2 ints. or unit set. Set in suburban New Jersey in the early 1980's, this potent drama is about a reunion of former college classmates, now in their thirties, at the funeral of a friend who killed herself. These women are prosperous, professional Black women who have gone through the sixties and come out on top of the eighties. At the wake, they confront the truth about their own lives and about the suicide which has again brought them together. A literate, humorous, sensitive look at the lives of contemporary Black women, this play features wonderful roles for actresses. It was a SRO success at New York City's New Federal Theatre. 1985 winner, AudeIco Award for Best Drama. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14646)

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atre."-Entertainment Magazine. "The writing is delightful. .. a cross between high-brow romantic comedy and French farce. "-Drama-Logue. $6.50. (Royalty, (#18176) $50-$40.)
ST. HUGO OF CENTRAL PARK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Jeffrey Kindley. Music by Randy Courts. 5 m., 3 f. (to play var. roles). Unit set. Hugo DePew is a young man with an unusual ambition: he wants to be a saint. Hearing the voice of God, Hugo goes to live in Central Park to tend the pigeons. A miracle occurs: a blind man is cured and Hugo is on his way to sainthood, but there is a horrifying catch to his God-given power in this whimsical fable for all audiences. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PianoNocal Score, $50 refundable deposit plus $25 rental fee per production; please advise us of number and dates of performances.

THE FATHER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Strindberg. 2 versions: translated by John Osborne and by Harry G. Carlson. 5 m., 3 f. Int. One of the few modem masterpieces that comes close to recapturing the stark grandeur of Greek tragedy. The central character is an army captain locked in a deadly struggle with his wife over their daughter's future. The Osborne translation was recently produced in London. "Brilliant."-Sunday Express. "Powerful. "-Observer. Carlson's translation was commissioned by New York's Circle in the Square Theatre ;md has been widely praised. The Osborne translation is published with Hedda Gabler, $12.00. Restricted in NYC. (Royalty, $60-$40.) The Carlson translation is in Strindberg: Five Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also available in an adaptation by Robert Brustein; see Index. Please specify translator when ordering. Osborne translation (#8676) Carlson translation (#8903) PRICE OF FAME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Grodin. 6 m., 2 f. Comb. int. This comedy takes place in the dressing trailer of an actor on his way down (in his last movie the horse got more publicity than he did). His current role is in a creaturefrom-outer-space sci-fi film. A young journalist from Vanity Fair arrives to interview him and it soon becomes apparent that she has been instructed to do a hatchet job. The editor, her boyfriend, has an old score to settle with Roger. Our star also must deal with a dizzy leading lady, his disgruntled son, an eccentric make-up man, and the actor doing the creature's voice who feels unappreciated. In the midst of this hilarity, Roger learns the price of over-committing to work at the expense of one's personal life. "A lonely-at-the-top comedy as only someone at or near the top could write." -N. Y. Times. "Waves of laughter swept over the audience." -Hearst News Sen'ice. "Very funny and brilliantly satirical."-WNCN. $6.50. (Royalty. $75-$50.)

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A MOST SECRET WAR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kevin Patterson. 17 m., 3 f. (may be played by 6 m., 2 f.) Unit set. A Most Secret War is the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician whose pioneering work in computer science led to the cracking of the German Enigma code during Worli War II. Turing's saved thousands of lives and helped to win the war, but his contribution is top secret under the British Official Secrets Act of 1901. The play explores an even greater secret of Turing's life: his homosexuality. At a time in England when it was a criminal offense, Turing waged a private battle between his intellectual and emotional needs. When his secret was revealed, he was arrested and forced to undergo a humiliating trial. Rather than go to prison and risk sacrificing his research, he choose to undergo painful chemical therapy which left him a destroyed man. Shortly afterwards, he mayor may not have committed suicide . . . the last secret in a life haunted by many. The play features a tour de force role for an actor. Presented Off Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theater. "A moving drama."-U.P.I. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#15207) $40.) LAKEBOAT. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. David Mamet. 8 m. Unit set. This fascinating series of vignettes, staged to acclaim by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, is set aboard a Great Lakes steamer. It focuses in on the crew, the hardhats of the steel waterways, all but one of whom are "lifers." The other character is a young college man who has been hired to replace the night cook. He is the closest thing to the central figure. "The show has much of Mamet's poetry of the inarticulate, the ritual, tribal double-talk that makes sense underneath the ludicrous patters of our lives."-Chicago Tribune. "A banquet of meaty acting parts."-Milwaukee Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NYC, LA and Chicago. (#14017) GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sam Shepard. 8 m. 2 int. The play follows the fate of Cody, who has the unique ability to foretell the outcome of horse races. Held captive by gangsters who use Cody's powers to their advantage-Cody's fate is symbolic of the visionary artist held captive by society. In Fool for Love and Other Plays, $15.00. Also in Four Two-Act Plays by Sam Shepard, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9020) ELIZABETH: ALMOST BY CHANCE A WOMAN. (Advanced Groups.) Farce. Dario Fo. Translated by Ron Jenkins with assistance from Arturo Curso. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This hilarious farce focuses on Elizabeth I of England. It's a devastating satire on politics in the Age of Reagan. Elizabeth is this aging, forgetful monarch, see, who is obsessed with appearances. She is also suspicious of artists such as Shakespeare, who has written a play about some Danish prince which Elizabeth is convinced is really about her. The play is performed for her in a hilarious parody of Hamlet, strained through the garbled pidgin-English of Mama Zaza, a drag queen who has earlier told us that the play we are about to see has absolutely nothing to do with Reagan. "Fo nails pretension and political chicanery with ridicule, laughter, sarcasm, irony and the grotesque. . . . This being Fo, the play is rich with raunch and scatology-may offend the unwary. But for Fo converts, it's a must, just as it's an ideal introduction to one of the world's funniest theatre satirists. "-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6984) PERFECT TIMING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Kristi Kane, 4 m., 4 f. Int. "Effervescent" would be the best adjective to describe this contemporary British drawingroom comedy, written by a contemporary non-British author. Set in the mad-cap household of glamorous and neurotic art critic Cornelia Thorndike, her German maid and her splendidly-sane secretary, the comedy bubbles along with a delicious assortment of intruders, passers-by, droppers-in and long and short-term lovers-all of whom invariably bump into each other in the wrong place at the wrong time. "A laugh-filled riot, bubbling with witty repartee, confused identities and sexual gameplaying. . . . One of the most delightful evenings you can spend in a the-

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THIS SAVAGE PARADE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anthony Shaffer. 7 m., 1 f. Int. The year is 1962. We are in a wine cellar in Tel Aviv, shortly after the Eichmann trial, where a kangaroo court is trying another ex-nazi suspected of similar crimes. Did Herr Bauer commit the crimes of which he is accused; and, if he did, do his accusers have the right to try him? "There are several coups de theatre of a brilliance expected from the author of Sleuth."-Time Out. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted NY State. (#22105) TURNABOUT. (Little Theatre.) Comedyffhriller. Alain Reynaud-Fourton. Translated by Derek Prouse and Frank Hauser. 6 m., 2 f. Int. A long-run sensation in Paris, with enough loop-the-Ioops to stymie the most fervent crime buffs, Paul and his partner have just eliminated a third partner, with a new radar device as the stakes. But the partner is discovered playing footsie with Paul's wife, so Paul eliminates the partner as well. He then stages a burglary, eliminates the wife, and turns out to have an intimate relationship with the maid. We then learn that he is selling the radar device to the Russians, one of whom happens to be the maidseductress. In the end, the fraudulent Paul turns the tables on everybody, and walks off with all the money. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#22232) SERIOUS MONEY. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Caryl Churchill. Song lyrics by Ian Dury. Music by Micky Gallagher and Chaz Jankel. 5 m., 3 f. (to play 20 roles). Var. sets. Serious Money is a Jonsonian satire about rampant capitalism. All money corrupts and serious money corrupts absolutely in the play's world of shady financial deals, insider trading and get-rich-quick Wheeler-dealers. The play captures nearly every aspect of dirty-dealing and money-grubbing from Wall Street to London in ingenious rhymed couplets. "A dazzler."-London Sunday Express. "Pure genius."-London Daily Telegraph. "A tendentious, up-to-the-minute satire."-London Spectator. "A riotous black comedy."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royalty, (#21076) $60-$40.) (Music royalty, $10-$7.) BATHROOM HUMOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Van Zandt &. Jane Milmore,5 m., 3 f. Int. Van Zandt and Milmore have done it again! This hilarious new farce from the authors of Lol'e, Sex and the I.R.S. , Suitehearts and Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her (among other plays) have certainly come up with a novel setting: the play takes place in the bathroom in a home during a party, a handy place for gossip and hanky-panky, where we learn of the wild and crazy things going on at the party. The authors have ingeniously contrived this play so that we feel that, if we had gone to this party we, too, might have spent most of our time hiding out in the bathroom! Definitely recommended for dinner theatre, community theatre and summer stock audiences. Reviewers said: "slick, sophisticated and thoroughly funny . . . throws jokes at the audience one after another. .. zany, (#3977) action-packed fun . . . wild and outrageous." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE GOD'S HONEST, AN EVENING OF LIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedies and Dramas. Jules Tasca. 5 m., 3 f. Simple set. Direct from Manhattan's Playhouse 51, this is an evening of eight one-act plays tied together with the theme of lying. As one character says, "Lying tells us more about the truth than the truth ever does." Perfect for dinner theaters. The New Hope (Pa.) Gazette said: "An evening of hilarious comedy . . . Goes beneath the ordinary to uncover real human complexities ... Side splitting humor." See Angel on the Train, Between the Lines, Brothers (Tasca), HardstuJf, Opening Act, The Rape of Emma Bunche, Second Vows and The Twin Mendaccios for descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, all eight plays done together, $60-$40.) (#9689)

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BILOXI BLUES. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Neil Simon. 6 m., 2 f. Various sets. "Best Play," 1985 Tony Award. This is Chapter Two in the continuing saga of Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon. When we last met Eugene. he was coping with adolescence in the 1930's in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Here, he is young army recruit during the Second World War, going through his basic training, learning more about Life, and generally developing his Writer's Sensibility at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943. Still jotting down his memoirs. Eugene and five other assorted enlisted men suffer under a hard-nosed D.I., confront the daily "mess" served up in the mess hall, join together in a visit to a local prostitute and, generally, Become Adults. For the first time, Eugene confronts the degradation of anti-Semitism; and, for the first time, he falls in love. Then, his training over, it's goodbye Biloxi. "A fine comedy, and another step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so simplistic."-NY. Post. "Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding."-N.Y. Times. "A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweetertruth."-NY. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters (#247) THE ELEPHANT MAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bernard Pomerance. 6 m., 2 f. (with doubling). Unit set. This is the true story of a man whose body is hideously deformed, but within is a remarkably sensitive and intelligent being. Merrick is exploited by Victorian philanthropists and even those who love him can't help him as he becomes dependent on his deformity for his success. Winner of numerous Tony Awards including Best Play, The Elephant Man was revived on Broadway for the 2002 season. "Utterly fascinating.. . A distinguished piece of work." -N Y. Daily News. "Thoughtful, moving and worthwhile." -N Y. Times. "It addresses the simple issue of what it means to be human."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music available on receipt of a $10 rental fee plus a $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) For information on slides, contact Sunshine Scenic Studios, 1370 4th St., Sarasota, Fla. 33577. Posters (#406) GOD'S FAVORITE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 5 m., 3 f. 2 ints. Neil Simon's actually made a funny play from the Book of Job-transferring the scene to a Long Island mansion where resides a tycoon, his wife, a prodigal son, and a pair of kookie twins. Then one night a messenger from God enters-with a big G on his sweatshirt. Our modem Job won't renounce God, so a fire is sent to wipe him outfactory and home. Everything becomes a test of his faith, including his family. He tries listing his prodigal son's qualities and can't think of any. His wife asks him how he can love a God who makes him suffer and he says his prodigal son makes him suffer and he loves him. He believes he's been chosen to show how much a man can love God. He gets an itch, then, neuralgia, tennis elbow and hemorrhoids. Having lost everything, God in the form of the messenger answers him. The messenger admits losing and asks for a letter of recommendation. "Awesomely funny . . . . The work of a man of vision. It'll make you laugh out loud."-NY. Daily News. "His jokes have a kind of hilarious deadpan ecstasy and, even better, are (#60) taken from life."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Posters THE ODD COUPLE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 6 m., 2 f. lnt. This renown comedy begins with' a group of the boys assembled for cards in the apartment of a divorced fellow, and if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is another fellow who, they learn, has just been separated from his wife. Since he is very meticulous and tense, they fear he might commit suicide, and so go about locking all the windows. When he arrives, he is scarcely allowed to go to the bathroom alone. As life would have it, the slob bachelor and the meticulous fellow decide to bunk together-with hilarious results. The patterns of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear in this arrangement; and so this too must end. "His skill is not only great but constantly growing . . . . There is scarcely a moment that is not hilarious."-NY. Times. "A socko comedy success."-NY. Journal-American. "Fresh, richly hilarious and remarkably original. Wildly, irresistibly, incredibly and continuously funny."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $75$75.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#11) THE MOUSETRAP. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Agatha Christie. 5 m., 3 f. Int. The author comes forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly-married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time. $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50 or CD, $60.00. Publicity Kits and Posters (#10) DRACULA. (All Groups.) Drama. Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel. 6 m., 2 f. 3 int. An enormously successful revival of this classi.c opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. The play is intended for all who love thrills in the theater. "Pure escape and great

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fun."-NY. Post. "An evening of high-class fun. "-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50 or CD, $60.00. Posters (#56)
STORY THEATRE. (All Groups.) Fables. Paul Sills. 5 m., 3 f. Stage, projections. Mr. Sills started in New Haven, journeyed to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and wound up on Broadway with this group of famous fables from the Grimm Brothers and Aesop. Here you will meet again Henny Penny, the Golden Goose, Venus and the Cat, the Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Baron, the Bremen Towson Musicians, and other favorites. The fables require talented actors with expressive bodies. And make no mistakes about the quality: this is top-drawer adult theatre. "An evening of imaginative and unpretentious delight. .. Fun is predominant." -N Y. Post. "Let me beat no longer about the bush. I had a great evening last night at 'Story Theatre.' I adored the show, which brings back magic and innocence to Broadway, raises charades to the strange eminence of an art form. . . Great; unequivocally great."-NY. Times. "If you are an adult, bring a child. It is an enchanting evening for the entire family."-Hollywood Reponer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Posters (#112) COMMUNICATION CORD. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Brian Friel, 4 m., 4 f. Int. The setting of the first farce by the author of the celebrated Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Translations is a remote Donegal peasant cottage which has been converted into a weekend retreat for members of the urban elite. The traditional elements of the genre combine with a satiric vision to produce a result which is at once hilarious and biting. "A sense of place is one of the great gifts Brian Friel brings to playwrighting. . . In The Communication Cord he marries that gift to his own sense of the absurd." London Times. "The moving sentiment of Translations is here exploded ... as a symptom of the tourist-in-his-own-Iandscape mentality."-London Financial Times. $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metro N.Y.C. (#5073) MAN ENOUGH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Patty Gideon Sloan, 5 m., 3 f., Int. As Jack and Josie Delaney prepare to send their mentally-retarded 18-year-old Joey to a state school, their older son comes home to challenge their decision. Joey, with his quiet courage, teaches his bright and charming but irresponsible older brother Donal how to be man enough to face the consequences of life. "A fine feeling for the strands of guilt and love that constantly tear families apart and keep them together at the same time. . . . These are real people, not saints or devils. If, by the time the play ends, on an upbeat note, you sense some moisture about the eyes . . . it is because you have just been visiting with neighbors, perhaps, or friends and seen the terrible bind life has put them in."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14988) MY GIDDY AUNT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy thriller. Ray Cooney and John Chapman. 5 m., 3 f. I set. Set in Lady Eppingham's house in India, this play is superb comedy with a good measure of thrills. The eccentric but aristocratic Lady Eppingham lives in a world of fantasy and past glory of the Empire, whilst the running of her tea estate is left in the hands of her unscrupulous nephews. But when Beatrice Horrocks, Lady Eppingham's half sister (and illegitimate daughter of her father, Lord Rothbury, and of decidedly lowly birth) arrives to claim her right to manage the estate, the situation changes and in a series of hilarious scenes, she slowly but surely sorts everything out and unmasks the schemes of her nephews. $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15190) HELLO MY NAME IS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher. 4 m., 4 f. Int. While attending a convention in New York, a longtime loyal employee of a firm that sells saunas, hot tubs and musical toilets overhears his boss say that he will not be promoted to the Vice-Presidency in charge of western sales because he doesn't have the guts to be a top salesman . The boss bases his theory on the fact that Walter is faithful to his wife, even when he's out of town and any man who doesn't have the guts to cheat on his wife isn't gutsy enough to be a topflight salesman. Walter drinks away his disappointment and inadvertently winds up in bed with an attractive woman who turns out to be the boss's wife. His complaint to her about having to work for a man who'd rather promote a philanderer than a man with moral integrity leads her to help him win his promotion-but not before the boss discovers them in bed. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10071) PACK OF LIES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Hugh Whitemore, 3 m., 5 f. Comb. Int. The Jackson are a nice middle-aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadian neighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area. The Jacksons become more and more put out as Scotland Yard's demands on them increase. They are really put to the test when the detective reveals that the spies are the Krogers and he asks them to help set a trap. Should they betray their friends? "This is a play about the morality of lying, not the theatrics of espionage, and, in Mr. Whitemore's view, lying is a virulent disease that saps patriots and traitors alike of their humanity." -NY. Times. "Absolutely engrossing. . evening of dynamic theatre." -N Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18154) . AND THEN I WROTE.. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey and Mel Buttorff. 4 m., 4 f. Int. In this riotous showbiz comedy a producer, his secretary and associates try to re-write an epic drama by a neophyte playwright into a broad farce. A vicious gossip columnist tries to blackmail the producer into marriage while a scatterbrained old character actor erroneously creates the impression that the leading lady has died. The author, also an apprentice mortician, is appalled by the histrionics that accompany the opening of a Broadway show. As the columnist draws mistaken

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courage, the humor and the dignity to rise above the grimmer facts of their existence. "As beguiling as it is original."-Baltimore Sun. "The characters emerge slowly and thrillingly,like a rubbing under a charcoal pencil."-N.Y. Magazine. "Williams. . . draws a remarkably accurate canvas. . . . The colloquial dialogue is pungent and often funny."-Washington Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4632) THE ZOMBIE. (All Groups.) Thriller. Tim Kelly. 4 m., 4 f. plus 2 optional walkons. Int. This comedy-thriller is set in a decaying mansion in the Okefenokee Swamp where voodoo is practiced. A former carnival hypnotist calling himself Baron Samedi and a crooked sheriff tum illegal immigrants, petty criminals and intruders into zombies and lease them out as farm laborers. Profits and success aren't enough; the hypnotist wants revenge against those who have wronged him. For the television producer and his girl friends who encounter "The Walking Dead" it is a night to remember. This chiller is loaded with goose bumps and genuine comedy. The roles are fun and production needs are simple. "A spirited chiller. . . . Compares most directly to that cult favorite The Rocky Horror Show (but without the freaky flamboyance)."-Daily Citizen, Tucson. $6.50. (Royalty, $35(#28010) $25.) GEORGE DANDIN. (All Groups.) Farcical drama. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 5 m., 3 f. "Bermel has rendered Moliere into an English that is speakable, playable, lively, witty and natural."-Lionel Abel. In The Actor's Moliere, Vol. 1, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9619) A PARTY FOR LOVERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Kevin O'Morrison. 4 m.,4 f. Int. "Vito's Place" has been a fixture of New York nightlife since speakeasy days. Now, in the summer of 1973, this landmark-and its zesty, 83-year-old proprietor, Vito Vitale-is threatened with extinction by real estate "developers". Into this place of uncertainty comes Jennie-Vito's daughter by his third wife-to ask his blessing of her impending marriage to the man she has been living with for two years. It is not only Vito's blessing Jennie wants, however: this is the house she grew up in, and it is her wish to be married in it before it is tom down. But athwart her wish lies her father's Cardinal Rule; a rule which was the main reason Jennie left home, a rule which Vito applies with glee-and no exceptions: "Who Takes From My Hand, Does As I Say." How Jennie wrests from Vito his permission to have her wedding in his house-no strings attached-and the way that this simple wish embroils everyone of the four couples celebrating her betrothal, is the essence of the play's comedy. 1981 winner of the National Repertory Theater Award. $6.50. (Roy(#18026) alty, $50-$40.) BADGERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Donald Wollner. 6 m., 2 f. Int. w/insert. It's 1967 during the DowChemical fracas at the University of Wisconsin and the focus on this play is the effect of events on the participants. "Adds up to a sort of campus roll-call-here are radicalized kids from Eastern high schools, 'WASP' accountancy majors who didn't make Harvard or Penn. Most significant is the playwright's contention that none were touched lightly by those times. . . . He has a strong sense of the canvas he's drawing on."-Soho Weekly News. You're certain to love this "wry and gentle look at a troubled time."-Bergen Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3998) EXIT WHO? (All Groups.) Mystery-Farce. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 5 f. In this zany sequel to Exit the Body a mystery writer and her country-hating secretary rent the house in Vermont, only to find it is the where a microdot containing plans of military installations is to be picked up by a spy at midnight. An agent arrives but he suffers amnesia and it is left to our heroines to catch the spy and recover the microdot. A two-way closet allows entrances, exits and surprises that take farce to a new height. The two female leads are supported by a cast of characters guaranteed to make this a sure-fire evening of hilarity. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7659) AMIDST THE GLADIOLAS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Vito A. Gentile, Jr. 2 m., 6 f. Int. The funeral of a cop is about to begin in a Brooklyn. The deceased was killed in the line of duty during an assassination attempt on the Pope. Among the mourners is his pregnant mistress who may not be permitted to stay. Was the deceased a hero or just a poor slob in the wrong place at the wrong time? "The characters. . . are Brooklyn Italians. . . . Their ethnicity runs a distant second to their universality; their appeal is their humanity. Sometimes, they are very funny, too."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3073) HEIR TODAY-GONE TOMORROW. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Chris Petz. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Billy has hazy memories of the wild party celebrating the approach of his twenty-first birthday, and he is very surprised to find a pretty girl clad only in her underwear under the blankets on his sofa. He is also upset because he has been willed a small fortune by an aunt, provided he remains "pure" until this birthday. Complications build hectically involving, among others, a telegram boy who ends up dressed as a girl, Billy's formidable mother, a suspicious policeman, and a solicitor who has fathered half the cast. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10062) MAGIC TIME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Sherman. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Off-Broadway audiences and critics enjoyed this engaging backstage comedy about a troupe of actors preparing to give their last summer performance of Hamlet. Cleverly the backstage relationships mirror the onstage ones. Larry (Laertes) resents David (Hamlet) since he feels he should have that role. Also, he is secretly in love with Laurie (Ophelia), who is living with David and trying to get him to be honest with her about his feelings. There's a Horatio who has a career in TV commercials, a

BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. (Black Groups.) Drama. Leslie Lee. 6 m., 2 f. Comb. int. This drama is about the Tates, a middle-class Black family living in the suburbs. Denny owns his own construction business. He has definite ideas about how his children should conduct their lives-particularly, his sons. Much of this is a reaction against his own upbringing, as his father was not around very much. We learn about Denny's relationship with his father in a series of scenes between the two men which occur in Denny's mind, since his father is deceased. Eventually, Denny realizes that he must find a happy medium, neither laissez-faire nor authoritarian, which will allow his children to go their own ways in life. Between Now and Then was a hit with audiences at Brooklyn's Billie Holiday Theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4066) DON'T TELL MOTHER. (AU Groups.) Farce. 3 m., 5 f. Monk Ferris. On the evening that timid librarian Cinnamon Schmidt and her mother are to entertain her fiance Hobart and his mother at serene family dinner, Cinnamon comes home in shock because she has witnessed a bank robbery and is the only one who can identify the crook. She confides her terror to chum Deedee Malone, not daring to tell her mother-and then federal agent Joe Shimko arrives having gotten a tip that the robber, Orville Maddox, is en route to bump off the witness. Joe thinks Deedee is Cinnamon and vice-versa, Orville is mistaken for the caterer and for Hobart, mother is confused with the cleaning lady, and poor Cinnamon is thought to be her own mother. Hobart arrives, posies in hand, just in time to be arrested! The real star is a monster vacuum-cleaner that attacks anyone within range. The final moments, with all the good guys trussed up and strung together while the lights go out and the vacuum-cleaner goes on, are among the funniest ever on a stage. The pace is rapidfire, the dialogue hilarious, and the laughter non-stop. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6667) A FINE MONSTER YOU ARE! (AU Groups.) A Creepy-Crawly Comedy. Monk Ferris. 2 m., 5 f., 1 alt. Int. Another wild and hilarious Monk Ferris play! Sweet old Emily Holbrook is interviewing sweet young Suzette Larson for a job as secretarycompanion. She quietly explains that her ancient family mansion has only one window-and that window is barred-; that there is to be a seance that night; and that in back of the parlor drapes is a century-old stone wall with a heavy oaken door littered with every known kind of lock plus a massive wooden crossbar-all because there might be a misshapen creature of elemental horror sealed behind it! What happens to Suzette, to her semi-stalwart boyfriend, her former college roommate, the old housekeeper, the creepy doctor, and the utterly incredible medium who likes to work fast but likes overtime even better is beyond description. The lunacy extends to a mind-boggling climax that delights audiences of all ages. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#8664) PLAYING DOCTOR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. William Van Zandt, and Jane Milmore. 5 m., 3 f., Int. Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as hat pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! The authors have written some zany farces but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see. "Wonderful. .. wacky comedy . . . will undoubtedly become standard dinner-theatre fare across the country. . . contains more wit than is usual in sex (#18922) farce." -Asbury Park Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE FREAK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Granville Wyche Burgess. 7 m., 1 f. Int., w/inserts. World-renowned psychic Edgar Cayce is the subject of this immensely moving drama from New York City's WPA Theatre. The dramatic question here explored is not whether Cayce's abilities to foretell the future and cure the sick were real-these are not disputed. Instead, Burgess focusses on Cayce's fight within himself against accepting the fact that he is an incredibly gifted freak of nature; or perhaps of super-nature. A deeply religious man, Cavce worries that perhaps, his gift is not from God. He also does not want to be different from his fellow man. Eventually, though, he realizes that he must use his abilities for the betterment of mankind-at whatever cost to himself. The role of Edgar Cayce is one of the finest to come along in quite some time. Other excellent roles include Cayce's wife, his father, and a homeopathic doctor who eventually becomes a believer. "An engrossing new play."-N.Y. Times. "An interesting stimulating evening in the theatre." -Other Stages. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#470) BETWEEN DAYLIGHT AND BOONVILLE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Matt Williams. 1 m., 4 f., 3 c. (2 m., 1 f.) Ext. The play is set in the coal mining country of southern Indiana. Carla, a twenty-six year old high school dropout, wife and mother, dreams of packing up and moving to escape her dreary existence. She is teased, threatened and cajoled by her friends as they settle into an ordinary day of trading gossip, reading magazines and prattling about sex while the children dart in and out. An ordinary day becomes extraordinary when the local mine resounds with an explosion. The play is a touching and humorous study of women who posses the

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Polonius who gave up acting to have a family and teach but has second thoughts, and a Gertrude and Claudius who are married. "There is an artful innocence. . . . It is also delightful."-NY. Times. "Captivating. . It is entirely winning."-NY. Daily Nt'ws. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15028) THE OTHER FELLOW'S OATS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Pattinson and (#17042) Peter Clapham. 4 m., 4 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) TOP GEAR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. John Dole. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Bill and Anne don't know it but their cozy new married life is headed for hilarious turbulence. Madame Madelaine is due from a top Paris salon to discuss Anne's fashion designs so it's a bad time for Aunt Helen to turn up with a beautiful, bosomy, Swedish double-bass player. It's not at all the moment for Dan to be around with his distressing way of confusing cheese sauce with wallpaper glue. . . . And what's Anne's old boyfriend doing sniffing around the precious designs? And why is the lovely nitwit landlady clasping Roger fiercely in her arms? When Madame Madelaine arrives she gets a stunning reception but not the sort Bill and Anne had planned. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS "Santa Barbara", one of the last little jewels of the British Empire, where you are trying to build up your business with no help from the folks at home, who seem to have forgotten all about Santa Barbara when it comes time to dole out foreign aid. Well, how do the other little jewels get their money? They undergo revolutions, of course-which necessitate either buying off the revolutionaries or sending in reparations. Not only does Mordecai come up with an ingenious scheme to make the visiting Chancellor of the Exchequer believe Santa Barbara is in danger of imminent revolutionary takeover-he ends up with his American business partner in charge of the administration of the British government's largesse, and is assured by the Chancellor that he will get his coveted K.B.E. for his part in quelling the revolution! This (#15067) show is jolly good fun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE SLAB BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Byrne. 6 m., 2 f. Int. The slab boys are teen-age factory workers entrapped by Scotland's rigid social and economic structure. Their narrow dream is to graduate to a desk job or, in rare cases, to break away into the world of art and design. Using humor as his primary instrument, the author skillfully conveys the frustrations of disengaged young people in this comic work that was a success at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and in New York at the Hudson Guild Theatre and on Broadway. "We laugh at the banter and we care about the burdens of the characters--about young hope at an early standstill."-N.Y. Times. "The play is human and funny . . . . Characters bristle with comic animosities or falter in bittersweet absurdities." -N Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21713) CUSTER. (Advanced Groups) Drama. Robert Ingham. 3 m., I f., plus chorus of 4. Bare stage. This oral history of Custer's last stand is a memory play that takes place in limbo after all the historical principals are dead. It relates their version of the events on that fateful day. "A glowing dramatic occasion . . . [that] possesses a Tolstoyan complexity."-NY. Times. "An excursion into thoughtful history, taut drama and bright theatricality."-Milwaukee Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Songs available, $5.00. (#5199) PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anne Commire, 2 m., 5 f. I male c. Int. with inserts. Maggie Lowery is married to a young Navy officer and has a young son who is hyperkinetic. Maggie is told that the boy's psychological problems are her fault. She tries desperately to cope, but it is no use. In one last frantic attempt to save her marriage she plans a romantic evening alone with her husband, after first finding the one babysitter in town who has not heard about David. While she is fixing dinner, David returns to nearly demolish the house, the dinner, and Maggie's hopes. The play builds with a horrifying intensity and Maggie finally fights back. "Unforgettable. Theatre of high order." -N Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18138) MELANCHOLY BABY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Sheila K. Adams. 4 m., 3 f. I f. child. Int. Kate Gaitman, a soap opera villainess, comes home from yet another morning of mass murder at the studio to find her husband has lost the latest in a long line of jobs. She kicks him out of the apartment just as nervous cousin Stephen is entering for a reading of her long-Iost-father's will. And what did daddy leave Katie and her two irresponsible sisters? Jane: a twelve-year-old with a mind of her own who wants to be a night club singer just like Sinatra. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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ROSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Andrew Davies. 3 m., 5 f. Various Ints. simply suggested on a bare stage. Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson starred in this perceptive comedy both in London and on Broadway, where she captivated audiences and critics alike. Rose is an English elementary school teacher who is dissatisfied with her life, both at home and at work. At the school she must contend with silly narrowmindedness-and at home she must contend with a husband who appears bored both with marriage and with her. Eventually Rose has a fling with a free-spirited fellow teacher, and decides to divorce her husband. In a highly-charged scene of great emotional depth, he forces her to confront the consequences of her ennui; and to wonder if, just maybe, some of her disenchantment with life is her own fault. "That rare thing, a play about a modem woman which is not patronising, preaching and predatory. . . a play of universal appeal, wit and observation."-London Daily (#936) Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. SUMMER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Leonard. 4 m., 4 f. Ext. The author of Da, A Life and The Au Pair Man has given us another warm-hearted wistful play which enchanted critics and audiences during its Off-Broadway run at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Leonard has brought together three friendly middle-aged couples along with the teenaged son of one and the young daughter of another for a quiet picnic lunch out in the country on a balmy midsummer afternoon in 1968 and then, in the second act, in 1974. Hence, we are shown the subtle, delicate yet strangely monumental changes time, and the times, make on this richly-conceived group of friends. And, in so doing, Leonard makes us even more aware of the never-ending need in all of us for friends, and for friendship. " . . . the evening slowly but surely enchants us and fills us with a rush of goodwill . . . always with a laugh at hand."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) State Author When Ordering. (#21803) DIVISION STREET. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Steve Tesich. Composite set (2 Ints., I Ext.). 6 m., 2 f. Chris, a burnt-out sixties radical, has settled in Chicago seeking obscurity as an insurance underwriter. He wants to forget his activist past, but he is besieged by old cronies and unwanted new acquaintances, including a former Black militant who has been surgically reborn as a female cop, a former wife who speaks in sixties rock lyrics, a bomb-throwing Serbian restauranteur, Chris' former partner in radicalism who now despises the women's movement, a prostitute who believes in the moral virtues of promiscuity, and Chris' Black Polish landlady. Mix these volatile ingredients and you have a wild and funny farce. "Steve Tesich has not only found a great subject, but he has also found the courage to tackle it in a daring, mischievous way." -N. Y. Times. "Outrageously funny. . . . An updated, satirical Feydeau farce, with all-American politics substituted for all-French sex."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Obligatory Music Royalty, $5.00 each performance. (#390) THE CHEKHOV SKETCHBOOK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Three stories by Anton Chekhov adapted for the stage by Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison Buloff. 7 m., I f. or 5 m., I f. 2 ints., ext. Dramatic versions of The Vagabond, The Witch and In a Music Shop offer shrewd observations of the pettiness of provincial life. "An actor's romp." -N Y. Times. "Pleasant evening of story-telling" -N Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 when performed together or $25-$20.) The Chekhov Sketchbook (#5103) The Vagabond (#24607) The Witch (#25162) In a Music Shop (#11636) A LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Leonard. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set with comb. int. Those who loved Da will remember Mr. Drumm, young Charlie's employer. In A Life this intriguing character is trying to set his emotional accounts in order. The play proceeds on levels forty years apart; two casts represent the young and the old Desmond Drumm, his simple and loving wife, and his real love who rejected him for a lovable ne'er-do-well. Drumm is isolated from the world by his high principles and he realizes he has never given life a chance-and now he is dying. "Eloquent, literate, witty and touching."-Christian Science Monitor. "A marvelous, remarkable play." -WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14078) THE MASTERMINDS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Terence Kelly. 5 m., 3 f. Ext. What would you do if you were Joseph Mordecai? You live on the tiny island of

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THE LIGHTS ARE WARM AND COLOURED. (All Groups.) Drama. William Norfolk. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Several years after her acquittal, Lizzie Borden is living with her sister and invites players from a touring company to reenact the circumstances of the crime. This imaginative play in style and construction enjoyed an extended (#14084) professional run in Britain. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) SIGNS OF LIFE. Black Comedy-Drama. (Advanced Groups.) Joan Schenkar. 3 m., 5 f. Extras as needed (doubling possible). Unit set. A bizarre and witty comedy presenting eminent Victorians-actual and fictitious-as they perform their livesnd experiment on their loved ones. The novelist Henry James rifles the imagination of his powerful sister Alice who stages public fits, keeps a private journal and has a female lover who prefers Henry dead; the drunken impresario P.T. Barnum exhibits his miraculous "Elephant Woman" Jane Merrit who is too like Alice James for anyone's comfort; and the suave and sinister Dr. Sloper is far too interested in the scientific possibilities of the bodies of both ladies. And at the center of the play is a mad tea party at which Dr. Sloper and Henry James continually toast the health of "the ladies"-who meet only in the men's stories of them.This is one of the most widely produced experimental comedies of its kind. "An original drama on a provocative theme, advanced in an elegant and literate voice . . . . What more can anybody ask from a new play?"-NY. Post. "A true gem . . . full of surgical imagery and brilliant giggly horridness."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-

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NIGHT AND DAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 6 m. (4 white, 2 black), I f., I boy. Var. ints./exts. (may be simply suggested). The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper-rich African nation. Dick Wagner of The Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner. Soon they are competing for the use of their host's telex, the attentions of his wife and a possible interview with the missing president of Kambawe. "An unabashed paean to the fourth estate . . . and those knights-errant who rode out on crusades to far-flung lands in search of a scoop, a snapshot, booze, a fair maiden and a working telex, not always in that order. . . All of this provides a

CHARACTERS springboard for Mr. Stoppard's wit" NY. Times. "Stoppard is at his dazzlingly playful verbal best. . . . It's fun. . . bringing rare style to Broadway." -N. Y. Daily News. "Dazzling . ... It throbs with life and is a pleasure."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Rqyalty. $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#781)

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plants. He abandons his family and business responsibilities and secludes himself in an untidy Manhattan apartment. In short order he acquires a number of companions including a talking dog, a talking tree and a very articulate baby, child of a waif-like girl who also lives with Andrew. But his blissful and bizarre world is not to last. In the end, he returns to his family and reassumes his responsibilities. A delightful, (#21002) whimsical play produced on Broadway. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) SHAY. (All Groups.) Comic drama. Anne Comrnire. 4 m., 4 f. Composite int. Shay is a compulsive, self-wounding clown.forced and unwilling to act the role of adult and mother. A high school dropout and pregnant at 15, she's spent the subsequent years strapped to her family-and as the play develops she is sinking. Her family considers her merely an eccentric-refusing to go out of the house and craving isolation. Her husband spends his time ear-phoned to TV football, her daughter is in orbit on diet pills and her son, a misfit G-man, promises to follow his parents into disenchanted retreat from an uncongenial world. The play climaxes into a doubleedged comic horror when Shay's daughter surprises her by bringing home her prospective in-laws. Shay panics; then, forced into hospitality, she springs on her guests sprinkling them with wisecracks. "Miss Commire. . . has a gift for imagining theatrical characters and for crafting sharp comic dialogue." -N Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21001) THE LATE MRS. EARLY. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Norman Robbins. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Terry Early's announcement that he and Susan Rickworth plan to marry rouses the fury of the formidable Alice, Terry's mother. Alice's reaction is due to her previous relationship with Reuben Rickworth, Susan's father. Sam Early is caught in the middle of it all. And his peace of mind-as that of his old pal Joe-is shattered. Alice's sudden demise-following her handling of a faulty electric kettle lent her by Mabel, the inquisitive neighbor, promises a peaceful solution. But Alice becomes a vengeful ghost and is even more formidable than as a live wife and mother. Much drama results in which both families-and Mabel-are involved, before Alice's ashes can be persuaded to lie quiet in her urn. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14001) HOT SHOT. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-comedy. Don Appell. 5 m., 3 f. Int. TV talk show host Ray Whitehall loves Honeybelle Starr. To further her modeling career, he arranges a meeting with a cosmetic tycoon who turns out to be a comedic, masochistic lecher. Giving her a gun for self-protection, he lunges at her. Two shots ring out and he falls dead. Dropping the gun, Honeybelle runs out of the room. A woman enters and replaces the dropped weapon with her own smoking gun. Ray finds the body. Honeybelle swears she didn't do it. Ray believes her only chance is to admit killing the lecher to protect herself. When Honeybelle is tried and acquitted, she becomes America's heroine. The real murderess appears threatening to expose Honeybelle as a fraud unless she receives half of her celebrity earnings. A hilarious plot twist resolves the dilemma. "Entertaining and funny."-Charlotte Observer. "A snappy script. . Hilarious!"-lacksonville Times Union. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10137) MARK'S PLACE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joan Vatsek. 3 m., 5 f. Int. This gentle spoof about the humorous difficulties of living together introduces Mark Ferguson, an assistant professor who becomes involved with a succession of girls with various convictions and attitudes and with a married couple caught up in a religious movement. The husband, an ex-rock musician, to his wife's dismay has sworn along with his marriage vow to be celibate. "Fresh, brightly written story of young people amusingly confused by love and marriage. . . . Colorful and likable characters involved in quite realistic and always comic situations."-Glen Falls NY. PostStar. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#723) BEDROOM FARCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. A wickedly funny play about the blithe inconsideration of the suffering. Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the rocks-and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms. Trevor and Susannah implicate the others in their public angstand in the course of one long Saturday night ruffle beds, tempers, marriages and domestic order. "As funny as anything he has written."-London Times. "An enormously funny evening."-London Observer. "Hilarious . . . . The stuff of gleeful recognition." -London Evening Standard. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#125) CHECKING OUT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Allen Swift. 7 m., I f. Int. "Why is it that a man can live a happy life and ruin it all by dying?" So says Morris Applebaum who wants to get it over with-fast, not slowly. He's a vigorous octogenarian, former star of the Yiddish stage and a devil with the ladies. Summoning his three middle-aged children to his New York apartment, he's planning a real going away party. His distraught and confused children include an unstrung West Coast psychiatrist, a blubbery accountant and a three-time divorce ready for a fourth go-round. Add a hippie shrink, a fey black male nurse who would like to be Jewish and an enfeebled old pal to Morris' decision and you have the participants at this unique 'party.' Jokes and gags abound on subjects often hard to make funny. "Rich characters and comic sallies. " .. An absorbing . . . evening."-WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5099) THE SECOND TIME AROUND. (Little Theatre;) Comedy. Henry Denker, 4 m., 4 f., Int. 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THE MUMBERLEY INHERITANCE. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Warren Graves. 5 m.,3 f. Int. The traditional melodrama themes are re-worked in a fast-paced entertainment romp through the trials and tribulations of Mumberley Manor, England in 1900. Brother Jack is in Canada trying to find the secret of the Mumberley fortunefather's gambling debts are in the hands of villainous Marmaduke Mayhem-so what can poor daughter Daphne do but marry Mayhem, leaving Rodney Stoutheart and his stiff upper lip at the vestry door? Rodney disguises himself as Jack-returned from Canada-at the same moment as Jack actually returns. Thus the villain's attempts to dispose of Jack invariably lead to unfortunate experiences for Rodney. All ends well once the black villain has played his death scene (with encores). Winner of the Samuel French Challenge Award for "Best Canadian Production" and a proven cro,wd-pleaser. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$25.) (#15162) BLACK DEEDS IN WHITEHORSE: or Trapped in the Yukon. (AU Groups.) Old-fashioned Melodrama. Alice McDonald. 4 m., 4 f. Int.lext. Nan O'Brien goes to the Yukon to find her long-lost father, a quest that results in her being rescued by Sgt. Montie-several times. Murky, the notorious fur smuggler, plans to eliminate everyone but accidentally eliminates himself, and Nan is reunited with her fatherwho is not the man we think he is. Scene change music, scored for piano, is included. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#4073) JEKYLL AND HYDE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Leonard H. Caddy. 4 m., 4 f., 1 child extra. Compo int. In this retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story, Dr. Jekyll is introduced just as he is on the brink of discovering the key to man's inner reality. One evening he experiments on himself and finds that his formula works. Unfortunately, his "real" self turns out to be the monster Edward Hyde. Jekyll continues his researches, spending more and more time as Hyde until this horrifying character takes over. Jekyll's fiancee and friends slowly become aware of the changes in him but are powerless to help. Jekyll himself finds it more and more difficult to keep Hyde at bay, and his initial delight soon turns to despair. When Hyde brutally murders one of the young maids, he realizes his experiment has gone too far, and he takes the only possible course of action left to him. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12016) THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Royce Ryton. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Tom and Annabel are a reasonably happy married couple. One evening they have an argument as to who loves the other most. A rough-and-tumble ensues, and Tom discovers to his horror that Annabel is dead. So starts a hectic evening of black farce which also involves Tom's policeman and his literary agent. It seems no woman can enter the house without rapidly becoming deceased. Annabel's mother and Tom's appalling landlady follow-and disposal of bodies becomes an acute problem. The arrival of a grim police inspector complicates matters-until a further corpse involves him too. The hysterical ending finds the stage littered with female corpses, frantic males-and a potential fifth victim banging on the door. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#23024) DA. (All Groups.) Comedy. Hugh Leonard. 5 m., 3 f. Int.lext. W. platforms. Honored with numerous awards, this thoroughly beguiling play is about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself, paternity, adolescence, the varieties of love and the distortions of memory. Charlie returns to Dublin for his father's funeral. He is confronted by Da's ghost as the play moves from past to present, from reality to reminiscence to imagined conversations encompassing traumatic moments and the illusions collected to survive. Tony Award, Best Play of 1978. N.Y. Drama Critic's Circle Award. Drama Desk Award. Outer Critic's Award. "A classic surrounded with magic."- NY. Post. "Nearly twenty years after sweeping Broadway's major awards, Da should have resonance for a new audience. . . . It will make you laugh and should make you cry."-NY. Times. "A lovely play."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#350) THE WATER ENGINE. (All Groups.) An American Fable. David Mamet. 5 m., 2 f., I boy. Int. Mamet's brilliant play works on several levels. The audience is watching the actors, announcer and sound effects man present a radio play in the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The play itself is about a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled water. At first he's ridiculed, then crooked lawyers attempt to buy'the invention from him on behalf of certain business interests. He refuses and is threatened. He attempts to tell his story to a newspaper reporter but is waylaid and murdered along with his sister. The engine is destroyed, but the inventor has mailed the blueprint to the young scientific-minded son of a candy store proprietor. This simple melodrama is a symbolic portrayal of human innocence defeated by a corrupt and violent society dominated by big business; or is it simply paranoid fantasy? "Extraordinary . . . verbal brilliance."-NY. Times. "A vivid theatrical experience."-NY. Daily News. Published with Mr. Happiness, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 for both plays.) The Water Engine (#1205) Mr. Happiness (#725) SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Stanley Hart. 6 m., 2 f. Int. In this allegory about happiness, freedom and responsibility, an autocratic tycoon has a mental breakdown, is whisked off to a sanatorium, undergoes shock treatment that results in his being able to understand the language of animals and

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so they can keep social security benefits they'd otherwise lose, their children hit the ceiling even though they were never close to their deceased parent and their own marriages leave a lot to be desired. Sam's daughter is married to her ex-analyst, a stuffy neurotic, and Laura's son has a wife who is paranoid about food additives and their sexual performance. All ends well for the elderly twosome, but not before the entire second generation is in nervous fits. "A winner . . . with lots of topical, pertinent cracks." -Atlanta Constitution. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1014) A MATTER OF GRAVITY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Enid Bagnold. 4 m., 4 f. Katharine Hepburn returned triumphantly to Broadway as Mrs. Basil, a rich old lady living in a decaying English country house. She has a lesbian, alcoholic cook who levitates and a grandson who is down from Oxford with a group that includes a leftwing lesbian and her mulatto girl friend. The grandson proposes to the girl friend and she accepts because she covets the estate. Years later, they return and Mrs. Basil gives them her house and joins the cook in a nearby asylum. "Bagnold writes with such wit. .. She makes wisdom and civility seem like long lost treasures." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#688) THE REHEARSAL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Pamela H. Johnson and Kitty Black. 5 m., 3 f. Int. w. inset. The characters in this'haunting play begin little by little to slip from the mid-twentieth century into the past. The count has decided to present a performance of Marivaux's Double Inconstancy and has cast himself, his wife, his mistress and his wife's lover in the principal parts. As they wait for their rehearsal cues, the players drift imperceptibly into the cynicism of Marivaux's period. A pretty young girl who supervises twelve little orphans is the fatal lure to men. The count falls in love with her in a gesture of abandonment to his lost youth, whereupon the countess induces a family friend and roue to seduce the girl and destroy the count's dream of 10ve..The roue is aroused to memories of his first and only true love-and in despair he invites a duel and certain death. And the rehearsal goes on. "Anouilh has created one of his 'pieces brillantes' in which he nimbly whips up serious themes into the lightest, most delectable of theatrical souftles."-London Daily Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted.

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THE SPELLING BEE. (Little Theatre.) Black Comedy. Marsha Sheiness. 4 m., 4 f. 1 int. A taut, suspenseful comedy that builds to a shocking climax as four children (written to be played by adults) compete in the televised National Championship runoffs for the best speller in the country. Each mother is determined that her child will win, while the Quizzer intends the show to be a springboard into the "big time." "A pleasure. . . . Discipline, tightly written . . . . Scores those who will use any means to achieve a success ofthe moment."-N.Y. Daily News. "Fresh and eminently playable. . funny in a grotesque vein."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21011) TRAVESTIES. (Little Theatre.) Fantasy. Tom Stoppard. 5 m., 3 f. 2 ints. An amusing, witty, yet profoundly intellectual exercise and fantasy woven around two little-known facts. First-that James Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara, the Dadaist artist, all lived in Zurich during World War I. Second-the referral in an obscure footnote to "Ulysses" of Joyce's production of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Zurich and his choosing a British consular official, Henry Carr, to play Algernon. Carr and Joyce had a falling out over money. But that is not the point of the play. Carr becomes the protagonist-hero and around him swirl these three revolutionary figureheads. And around these three and Carr dance Gwendolyn and CeciIy from "The Importance of Being Earnest." "Stoppard has spun out a fantastically elaborate web to snare his three giants in the same play. . . . One of the great pleasures of the evening is Stoppard's skill in moving in and out of Wilde's dialogue and rewriting it for his own purposes."-London Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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HOTHOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mt~gan Terry. 4 m., 4 f. Int. & Ext. Set in and around a dilapidated house outside Seattle in the 1950's, Hothouse is about heartlands America and three lusty women; grandmother, mother and daughter whose love of life, liquor and men is limitless. In contrast to the strong, vital women are their weak, disappointing men. The men are in reality the casualties of the wars they fought in rather than the survivors. The real survivors are the women they have left at home. A beautifully written play and at the same time full of rich, earthy American humor. "Reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence. . . . There aren't many with Terry's amazing combination of technique, poetry, intelligence, stage sense and most of all soul."-New York Post. "A hint of O'Neill, laced with O'Casey's gift of mixing comedy and tragedy in a heady blend."-Bergen Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#10139) AN ESKIMO NAMED JOE SIEGELMAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Abe Einhorn. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Joe's decided to become an eskim~hoping his perfect wife will realize the spice is missing in their marriage. Other woes are his mother-in-law, his daughter who's got a young psychiatrist to straighten Joe out, and the hooker engaged to straighten him out sexually. This fails-as do other experiments. Finally, Joe's wife is given a truth drug and reveals she's not so prudish after all and the daughter gets the psychiatrist to propose. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7055) HARDESTY PARK. (AU Groups.) Comedy. William McCleery. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Hardesty has built a utopian community around his company's headquarters and chosen Patricia Clark to succeed him. But she recommends Roger Morris instead, hoping they will marry and run the company together. Unaware of all this, Roger is hired and they do marry-but Hardesty won't retire. Confrontations and in-fighting follow and Roger learns the truth. He's stunned and she decides she must leave him, but Roger proves his strength. He takes over the company and saves his marriage. "Literate, witty."-Harvard Crimson. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10028) MURDER IN COMPANY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Philip King, and John Boland. 4 m., 4 f. Bare stage. A dramatic society is assembling on the stage of a church hall to rehearse a mystery-thriller under its somewhat dictatorial director Philip Stephens. Events and strains within the company more than equal those in the play. Philip's wife is too friendly with a young man of the company, a prowler is in the neighborhood and attacks one of the girls, an unpleasant caretaker tries a little blackmail and one of the women seems to know him from the past. The rehearsal proceeds under difficulties until the mysterious death of the caretaker brings the situation of the whodunit even more closely into real life. It transpires that almost everyone might, and could, have murdered the dead man. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MRS. KONG? (Little Theatre.) Absurd comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 4 f. Int. "Kong keeps them laughing" and "Carmichael scores again" were newspaper headlines following the summer theatre opening. Adam and his mute servant, Felix, are on a decaying movie set on a tropical island following an accident that gave Adam two things: amnesia and a suitcase full of money. Three women arrive pretending they know him, one as grandfather, one as husband, and a sexy Russian defector says he is father to her love-child. When the U. S. President arrives, it is clear they are all after a nuclear device being exploded the next day. The bomb is parachuted down and hangs over their heads, having gotten caught in a hole in the ceiling. The unexpected denouement caps an evening where we take a comic look at ourselves as we wait for the ultimate explosion. "Full of surprises, humor, deft remarks about politics, follies, and morals." -Manchester Journal, Vt. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25006) A GHOST ON TIPTOE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Robert Morley and Rosemary Anne Sisson. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Cuthbert Barnstable, an establishment type, learns he has only 18 months to live. At first he only tells his friend, Harry. But he's constantly tempted to divulge his secret-and always disappointed by the reaction of his loved ones. Then he discovers what life's all about-and his family learns to live with an amateur bull fighter/nascent painter/master cook. He becomes a combination free spirit and hippie-to the chagrin of his son and daughter-in-law who's been the resident free spirits. Cuthbert, wishing his son would take over the business, had talked them into becoming more "establishment." Cuthbert even has an extramarital affair. But he's pulled up short when he learns he's perfectly healthy. Starred Robert Morley in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9029) THE CAGE. (AU Groups.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Cristiano is an intelligent young devotee of Chekhov, but he has misunderstood Chekhov' s philosophy. He refuses all outside contacts and lives in a cage. His realistic family-:-all with a healthy sense of humor-try convincing him life's worth living but only Chiara, his voluptuous sister-in-law, reaches him. He.falls in love with her and in a dramatic confrontation he kills his brother. Thinking he has won the right to love, he asks Chiara to open the cage, but she merely thanks him for releasing her from an unhappy marriage and goes on to another lover. Cristiano is condemned to live in his cage forever. A prize-winning play acclaimed by critics in Argentina, Japan, (#5003) New Zealand and America. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE GENTLE HOOK. (All Groups.) Mystery. Francis Durbridge. 6 m., 2 f. Int. Stacey Harrison is a charming, intelligent, successful career woman who unfortunately gets involved in divorce, but several murders as well. $8.95. (Royalty, $50~ ~m THERE GOES THE BRIDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ray Cooney, and John Chapman. 4 m., 4 f. Int. An extremely funny play about a young girl's forthcoming marriage and attitudes about premarital sex. Excerpts from the London reviews and the critics reaction can best describe this farce. "Had the audience gurgling with delight." -London Sunday Times. "I found myself surrendering to the ceaseless bombardment of familiar nonsense-laughing outright." -London Daily Mail . A fiendishly clever farce that gets madder and funnier as it goes along. . . . Has pace, precision and wit." -London Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22006)

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MEANWHILE BACK ON THE COUCH. (A Crack At The Top.) (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Psychiatrist Victor Karleen is financially pressed between the rental of his posh office-apartment and his fiancee's expensive tastes. A colleague has written a best-selling case history book and is now rolling in royalties. Good friend Parker Donnelly has rejected Victor's similar work because the public is tired of such things and prefers torrid fiction. Needing cash, Victor reluctantly takes on a new patient who, due to love frustration, is grinding out a riproaring sex novel. By mistake, his nurse gives the patient's manuscript to Donnelly believing it to be Victor's work. Suddenly Victor has an enormous advance royalty check, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection-and a potential Pulitzer prize. When he discovers that it is his patient's inviolate confidences and not his clinical casebook that has saved the day, Victor determines to keep his patient crazy until he dreams up the final chapter. It's fast-paced, hilruious and zany. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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BUSYBODY. (All Groups.) Mystery. Jack Popplewell. 4 m., 4 f. Int. This hilarious play centers on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. She

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are shut in. Since they are attra,ctive young people, they find each other interesting and the fact that both are happily married adds to their delight of mutual, yet obviously separate interests. "A Broadway comedy of fun and class, as cheerful as a rising souffle. A sprightly, happy comedy of charm and humor. Two people playing out a very vital game of love, an attractive fantasy with a precious tincture of truth to it."-N.Y. Times. "Charming, sexy, romantic and funny."-Women's Wear Daily. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#110) TWIGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Furth. I to 7 m., I f. Sets: 4 kitchens. Four very snugly-connected vignettes featuring a woman confronting various issues, playing off one or two men. In the first vignette we meet Emily, a widow moving into a new apartment, who in turn has a nice thing going when she meets the owner of the moving van company. Next comes Celia, wife of a bigoted ex-Army Sergeant who has invited an old chum for a visit. They rehash old times and sports events, leaving her out in the cold. Dorothy and her husband, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, try as adroitly as possible to learn if the other has been faithful through the years. And then comes Ma, who turns out to be the mother of the three women we have met previously. She is a stubborn Irish woman who gets out of a deathbed in order to have the priest sanctify her common-law marriage to a Dutchman. "An affectionate celebration of a handful of very ordinary people who have managed to survive . . . . Appealing as well as funny."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Song "Hollywood and Vine," $3.00 per copy. (#1096) CHILDREN! CHILDREN! (All Groups.) Suspense Play. Jack Horrigan. 4 m., 4 f. Int. On New Year's Eve a fashionable couple depart for a party with a doctor and his wife, leaving their precocious children-3 pre-teen boys and a girl-in the care of a new baby-sitter whose conscience requires her to announce that she recently recovered from a nervous breakdown. The children proceed to torture the baby-sitter, beginning with a story of how a previous baby-sitter dropped dead right before their eyes of a heart attack, proceeding through sadistic turns, including a pitch at lovemaking by first the boy and then the girl, and ending with a tumble down the stairs. On returning home, the sitter is not able to convince the parents that it all happened; they merely think her still mentally unstable. Then we in turn see in the viciousness of the parents the source of the children's diabolism. "The tension is continuous."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5088) AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Fernando Arrabal. Translated by Charles Marowitz. 4 m., 4 f. Platform stage. Arrabal writes from deep conviction and his experience as a political prisoner in a Spanish jail. A handful of men in a cell reenact their suppressions, their dreams, their desires for love and freedom; all of which climax when the wife of one of them loses her pleas to the justices and he is subjected to an ugly death for acts of social justice committed many years earlier. "A strange and most physically powerful play."-N.Y. Times. In Guemica and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3082) SUGGS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Wiltse. 4 m., 4 f. Int. George Suggs, an enthusiastic young man, comes to the city to work as a sportscaster. He is fascinated by the hustle and bustle, but then ugly reality makes him cynical and embittered. His career suffers, the wife he should never have married leaves and he loses a mediocre job. Seedy and paranoid, he makes one last attempt to communicate with a hardened prostitute. Finally he becomes another of the city's human flotsam. "Wry, funnysad, sharply observed, perceptive."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21386) LITTLE MURDERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jules Feiffer. 6 m., 2 f. Int. The play is a collection of set pieces showing a modern metropolitan family with a matriarchal mother, milquetoast father, normal cuddly sister, and brother who is trying to adapt himself to homosexuality. Sister's fiance is a fellow who knows how to roll with the punches; he figures that if you daydream while being mugged, it won't hurt so much. They have a hard time finding a preacher who will marry them without pronouncing the name of God. They succeed, but immediately afterward sister is killed by a sniper's bullet. A detective who has a stack of unsolved crimes suspects that there is a subtle pattern forming here. "Jules Feiffer, a satirical sharpshooter with a deadly aim, stares balefully at the meaningless violence in American life, and opens fire on it in Little Murders . ... Devastatingly lethal in some of its coldly savage comic assaults."-N.Y. Post. "Fantastically funny."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#652) WHAT DID WE DO WRONG? (All Groups.) Comedy. Henry Denker. 5 m., 3 f. Int. The title is the question father asks himself when he learns his son has handcuffed himself to the dean to protest censorship, and as a consequence been expelled. And when the son appears with a scroungy group of mods, beards and a girl from out of nowhere, the impact to a parent can be overwhelming. Father reasons that if you can't beat them, join them; and accordingly gets his own beads, guitar and such, and goes the kids one better. He burns his checkbook in front of the bank, and threatens to ignite himself on the steps of Lincoln Center. It's enough to make even the younger generation realize a thing or two. "A highly amusing comedy ... consistently funny . . . . The author is carefully fair to the opposition-they put up arguments that have a great deal of good intelligent sense in them." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1186) PARIS IS OUT! (All Groups.) Comedy. Richard Seff. 3 m., 5 f. 2 int. "The audience gave every evidence of loving it."-N.Y. Times. "The audience around me was laughing hysterically." -ABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18023)

lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body. By the time the police arrive, there is no body and no evidence. The wrong alarms are sent out, murdered men turn up alive, and the whole thing is chalked up to the cleaning woman's imagination until an unidentified body is discovered on a distant hill and the cleaning woman uncovers more evidence in the course of her duties. Is the company owner staging his own murder? Or did he kill his wife's lover? Is the lover a firm employee or someone else? Where do the two female assistants fit in? What is the wife withholding? A thousand laughs and tingles delighted London . audiences. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#286) FRANKENSTEIN. (All Groups.) Drama. Tim Kelly. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, returns to his Swiss chateau to escape a terrible pursuer. No one can shake free the dark secret that terrifies him: not his mother, nor his fiancee, nor his best friend. Even the pleading of a gypsy girl accused of murdering Victor's younger brother falls on deaf ears, for Victor has brought into being a creature made from pieces of the dead. The creature tracks Victor to his sanctuary to demand a bride to share its loneliness. Against his better judgement, Victor agrees and soon the household is invaded by murder, despair and terror! "Thrills... laughs ... true suspense."-Arizona Republic. "In Tim Kelly's thoughtful version of the classic tale, the results are surprisingly thought-provoking and highly entertaining."-Palos Verdes News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#447) UNDER PAPA'S PICTURE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Tibbles and Joe Connelly. Int. 4 m., 3 f., 1 c. A stuffy and bigoted young businessman, married with one child, is on the verge of solid success with his company when he discovers his widowed mother is pregnant. In his concern for his image, he attempts to get the baby-to-be's father, an Italian painter, to marry his mother, but in the meantime, something goes wrong at the office and he messes up an important assignment. An upper middle income Southern California suburban Jiving room is the setting, and it blends in well with the degrees of risqueness and is genuinely funny. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1143) LLOYD GEORGE KNEW MY FATHER. (All Groups.) Comedy. William Douglas Home. 5 m., 3 f. lnt. When Lady Boothroyd hears that the authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds she announces her intention to kill herself the moment the bulldozers start on their shameful work. At first disbelieving, the family at length realizes to their horror that this is no joke. All means of persuasion fail. As the hour strikes and the bulldozers' roar is heard the old General enters in regimental regalia, while his old ex-army servant sounds the "Last Post." . $8.95. (Royalty, Then, as the whole family stands stricken, the door opens. $50-$40.) (#14109) IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. New Revised Version. David Rabe. 5 m., 3 f. Ext. platform stage. The author of Sticks and Bones turns his attention to diabolism in tracking a go-go dancer in a boom-boom room. Had her mother been as successful in inducing her third abortion as she was in the first two, the go-go girl would never have been born. Her father is a slob who hates Black~, is constantly in and out of prison for theft, and who used to enter his daughter in drinking contests with other depraved children. The art of cussing and her grossest habits she learned from her father, and she digs astrology. We meet her co-workers. in the boom-boom room, whose love lives are bizarre. She has one date with a creep, but then hooks on to two weirdos. One she lives with, and the other tries to get her to drink his blood so that he can communicate with her telepathically. And finally, she is approached by a lesbian who extols her own kind of sex play. "Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the surreal nature of modern life."-Newsweek. "A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece."-WINS. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11037) THE SOFT TOUCH. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Neil Cuthbert. 6 m., 2 f. Int. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival. The scene is the boarding house room of a boy who wants to get away from Mom. But nobody leaves him alone, including Mom. A vagrant wanders in and charges 25 cents to leave. And he keeps coming back. Calling the police does no good; they want this vagrant even less than he does. There is a maniac for a superintendent, and a boarder who is in and out of everybody's room all night trying to catch up with his nymphomaniac wife. A homosexual bandit picks the wrong day, and ends up cornered by the nymphomaniac. But the real test is the nut from the loony bin who is a complete schizoid. In one person he plays the parts of two brothers, and has conversations with himself. The characterizations are comically etched and the action is a succession of surprises and misadventures. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21248) THE TOOTH OF CRIME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sam Shepard. 7 m., I f., 3 extras. Hoss-a rock star-battles to protect his territory and the established values of his rock kingdom against the young gypsy marauder, Crow. The play combines elements of myth, Greek tragedy, Westerns, modern rock and roll and futuristic fantasy in a provocative and engrossing pastiche culminating in a sensational verbal duel to the death. "A young American playwright of pure brilliance and imaginative fantasy."-N.Y. Times. In Sam Shepard, 7 Plays, $15.95. Also in Four Two-Act Plays by Sam Shepard, $14.95. (Royalty; $50-$40.) Music, $6.50. (#22168) 6 RMS RIV VU. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bob Randall. 4 m., 4 f. lnt. A vacant apartment with a river view is open for inspection by prospective tenants, and among them are a man and a woman who have never met before. They are the last to leave and, when they get ready to depart, they find that the door is locked and they

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ENTER A FREE MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 5 m., 3 f. Compo int. Riley's a dreamer with all sorts of off-beat inventions and his latest one is a double-gummed envelope that can be used twice used: once for sending and then turned inside-out for replying. At home Riley is not well liked. His daughter is going to run away and marry a motorcyclist (who turns out to be already married), and she can no longer support her dad in his unemployed habits. But this matters little to Riley, for he has this envelope deal, and also an indoor-watering device for flowers. Trouble is, his devices fall through-including the indoor water when it is discovered you can't turn it off. And his dreams continue to burst in his face. "A splendid full-fledged comic creation."-London Observer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#7047) $35.)

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undergraduate, a perfectly harmless mIll named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's fathf:r, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally they break down under the strain and confess their guilt. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20065) WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (Little Theatre.) Farce. George Axelrod. 6 m., 2 f. 2 int. A mild young reporter comes to interview the current motion picture goddess as she lounges for a massage. He encounters a high-powered agent who, for successive 10 percents of his soul, arranges for the goddess to fall madly in love with him, and even wins an Oscar for him. But in the third act, with little percent of his soul left, the writer manages to wrench free from both "Hollywood and the goddess. Orson Bean played the original Broadway role as the ineffectual reporter, and garnered many laughs as he dodged the actress's husky boy friend and tumbled upstairs from one success to another. "A funny writer who has another good central idea and a knack for writing hilarious dialogue."-NY. Times. "The laughs were frequent and full-throated."-NY. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1199) DAISY MAYME. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Kelly. 3 m., 5 f. Int. A delightful character comedy. A spinster of forty comes into the home of a man about her own age, teaches him how to handle his self-seeking relatives, proves to him that there is a lot of fun to be got out of life, and then marries him. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6004) THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES. (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere, adapted by Miles Malleson. 6 m., 2 f. Int.lext. Arnolphe is a rich man of 50 years who has delayed taking a wife for fear of being cuckolded, but now plans to wed the ward he has educated in convents and kept innocent of the ways of the world. But Agnes' innocence is his undoing. When a young man tips his hat to her on the street, she curtsies. One can meet a lot of swains that way. At length she and Horace fall in love, and Horace confides in Arnolphe how he is pulling the wool over the eyes of Agnes' guardian not knowing that Arnolphe is that man. With this information, Arnolphe should have been able to nip the romance in the bud, but Agnes' innocence and naivete always confound him. At length, Her father, thought dead, returns and announces his intention to wed her to the son of a friend-and this happens to be Horace. Arnolphe is congratulated in the end for his pains in raising Agnes so well, and for his success in again avoiding matrimony. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21043) SCENES FROM AMERICAN LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Revue. A.R. Gurney. 4 m., 4 f. Platform stage. In this youthful look at the hypocrisy of adult life, an Irish nurse is not permitted to have men visitors: but her mistress is entitled to her own sexual sidelines. The preacher interprets the Bible in a way that the rich are not scandalized or demoralized but actually pacified. A club member blackballs his best friend, a Jew, because he wants to save him from being hurt. Mature people are winos, ticketfixers with the police, order troops to fire into crowds, and are two-faced: one mother calls her son at college to find out where he keeps his marijuana, and another asks her daughter at her coming-out party if she has her diaphragm. Not all of youth is so innocent. There are the school chums who pray to God with thoughts of malice and concupiscence. Scenes, then, from American life. Produced to critical acclaim at the Forum Theater in Lincoln Center. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#964) WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS? (All Groups.) Thriller. Terence Feely. 6 m., 2 f. Int. "A thriller with heaps of suspense, surprises, and nattily clever turns and twists . . . . Dialogue is brilliantly effective." -London Stage. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1193) THE ELDER STATESMAN. (Little Theatre.) Morality. T.S. Eliot. 5 m., 3 f. Int.lext. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7015) BILLY LIAR. (All Groups.) Comedy. Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. 3 m., 5 f. Int. A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled. His family is unable to understand or control him, though they realize that he is a good-for-nothing. The cast is completed by the three girls to whom he is simultaneously engaged. When he is given the chance to start a new life, he turns it down, preferring his dreams to reality. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4056) LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. (Little Theatre.) Mellerdraymer. Brian J. Burton. 4 m., 4 f. 3 int.lext. This Victorian melodrama is adapted from Mary Braddon's novel. Lady Audley has recently married a titled, rich old man and is secure in wealth at last. The old gent's nephew and a chap who is distraught to have found that his wife died during his absence in Australia visit. But lo! She lives! Lady Audley is the wife reported dead. Fearing her ex-husband will upset the apple cart, she cracks him on the head and drops his body in the well. Thus begins a cascade of cover-up crimes that continues until the nephew brings justice and rights matters to the edification of the commonweal and the satisfaction of the three estates of the realm. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Piano score available on rental, $10 deposit required. (Music Royalty,

FOOL'S PARADISE. (All Groups.) Farce. Peter Coke. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Jane and Catherine have an antique-cluttered house, unpaid bills, and a memory of marriage to the same man, now deceased. His will states they can live in the house if they don't sell its contents. They discover some jewels and a wily antique dealer gets them to accept a down-payment-and from then on everything they do to rectify matters gets them in deeper. The dealer's check is sent to one of their many creditors-The Revenue Service-and they accept money from a lady to pay back the dealer. When the dealer returns he tricks them again with another check as a "deposit" on the furniture. Then another woman claims the jewels. With mounting illegalities, Jane impersonates a third wife of the deceased. The dealer is about to call the police when the other two women reenter, bidding so furiously for the jewels that the price they fetch gets Jane and Catherine well out of debt. "Aboundingly funny."-LondOlI Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state author when ordering. (#443) A SHOT IN THE DARK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marcel Achard, adapted by Harry Kurnitz. 5 m., 3 f. Int. On Broadway, Julie Harris played the good-hearted and guileless child of nature who is hauled before the magistrate on a charge of murder, having been found unconscious, nude, and clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her. What is most shocking to the magistrate is the complete frankness with which she describes her life as a parlor maid and her affairs with both the dead chauffeur and her aristocratic employer. She is so ingenious that the magistrate, at the risk of his juridical neck, decides that she could not have committed the murder. The investigation expands to include both the aristocratic employer, who cannot answer yes or no in less than a paragraph and whose own polysyllables make him yawn, and his wife who descended in direct line from Attilla the Hun-and looks it. She has been having an affair with her husband's best friend. The magistrate finds the right culprit and the open-hearted little parlor maid offers herself to him as a present. "A bubbling, saucy comedy. . . A light, tasty souffle."-NY. Times. "Naughtiness has rarely been so belligerently honest."-NY. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#978) SUSAN SLEPT HERE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Steve Fisher and Alex Gottlieb. 4 m., 4 f. Int. A Hollywood writer in need of some research material finds Susan, a 17year old delinquent, on his doorstep on a rainy Christmas Eve. He learns her life, decides he won't let her be sent to the prison farm, and therefore contrives to have her marry him in Las Vegas. Before she awakens after their all night ride back, Joe leaves for his mountain cabin to write a play about Susan. In his absence, Joe's old Navy pal talks Susan into studying acting. Finally Joe's play opens with Susan in the cast, and she immediately becomes the talk of Broadway. However, she walks out on the play to go back to Joe, who has since realized how much he really loved her. She has little trouble convincing him that age differences mean nothing when two people love each other. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21396) BIOGRAPHY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. S. N. Behrman. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Marion Froude leaves her village for New York and becomes a popular portrait painter. Into her life comes Dickie Kurt, the ardent editor of a magazine hungry to publish her autobiography. The prospect dismays her former lover, stiff and cautious Bunny Nolan, for he wants to be a United States Senator. He and his prospective father-inlaw exercise their influence to kill the story, and eventually Marion burns it in the stove of her studio. Dickie is a vindictive editor, chiefly because his father, a striking coal miner, was killed as he stood innocently with his little son on the outskirts of a riot. He raves and rants in the best manner of the comfortable radicals, and despite Marion's cool counsel and warm embraces he goes away, leaving her to pursue her casual, contented and optimistic career. "A brilliant play. It is firm and sinewy, intelligent and sincere."-The Nation. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4057) THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE. (All Groups.) Comedy. William Douglas Home. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Some witty repartee and some spirited characters won the Broadway critics to this English comedy, following its London run. Mother is doing a bit of matchmaking for her daughter before her debut. Father wishes they'd both forget the whole thing and save him the thousands of pounds. But Mother is onetracked on the point; and besides, she has to do a better job of matchmaking for her daughter than her friend does for hers. A knock-kneed aristocrat flops all over himself proposing to the girl, but she has her heart set on a dashing man-about -town; so much so that even Father gets worried. But things turn out nicely when the dashing one comes into his own titled inheritance. "Refreshingly . . . . droll [and] thoroughly delightful."-NY. Times. "Charming, enjoyable, and really quite funny."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) (#915) ROPE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Patrick Hamilton. 6 m., 2 f. Int. For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo. to assist him in the murder of a fellow

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winning fame and fortune. Her beloved father is an immigrant with broken dreams and lost ambitions. Her rich relatives are judgmental. The engaging story sweeps through a year in this American Jewish family's life, a year during which Bevvie Sue struggles to disentangle herself from her powerful family and emerge as an independent young woman who is eager for life and on her way to finding her own place in the sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5324) *SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Del Shores. 7 m., 2 f. Unit set. Religion clashes with sexuality in this comedy about four gay Baptists in Texas. ~toryteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to foster love and acceptance in the church and in the clubs of Dallas while he desperately seeks an outlet for his pain and rage. Mark's world includes two old barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter moves from hysterically funny to tearfully tragic. This comedy by the author of Daddy's Dying (Who's Got the Will?) and other popular plays opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles and became the most award-winning play of 2000, garnering the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production and multiple LA Weekly Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, Ovation Awards, Backstage West Garland Awards and Robby Awards. "Daring. Heroic. No-holds-barred hilarious."-L.A. Times. "Cathartic, comedic, awe-inspiring."-Variety. "Brash, sensitive and compelling . . . . Engrossing and, at times, hilarious theatre." -Hollywood Reporter. "Distinctive and arresting. A funny and yet strangely moving treatment of goodhearted, wacky Texans suffering.~'-Chicago Tribune. "Wrenching as it is hilarious."-Dallas Morning News. "Delectable . . . . The best work of Shores' career."-Ft. Worth Star Telegram. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20896) *STAR QUALITY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. Adapted by Christopher Luscombe. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. In his wickedly funny final play, Noel Coward takes us behind the scenes of a new West End production. Conjuring up an authentic backstage world of talent and treachery, he creates a gallery of unforgettable characters: a temperamental leading lady, a ruthless director, jaded old troupers and, caught somewhere among them all, an innocent young playwright. The clash of egos becomes increasingly and hilariously bloody as the action proceeds from the tentative first rehearsal to a triumphant opening night. What emerges from the mayhem is a startling evocation of that most elusive gift of all-star quality. $14.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21496) AGAMEMNON. (Advanced Groups.) Tragedy. Steven Berkoff. 5 m., 4 f. (with doubling). Simple set. Adapted from Aeschylus' great tragedy, this play is about heat and battle, fatigue, the marathon and the obscenity of modem and future wars. In Agamemnon/Ihe Fall of the House of Usher, $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3838) ALL THE TRICKS BUT ONE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Gilles Segal. Translated by Sara O'Connor. 6 m., 2 f., 1 m. child. Ext. The end of World War II is approaching and everyone in France is nervous: Germans, collaborators, and, above all, a vaudeville comic whose silent routines have masked his Jewish accent. Now he must play the most desperate comedy of all to save his life as he becomes a pawn in a dark farce. Lighting up this world is a growing affection between the performer and the lonely young grandson of the theater director. It is love for the boy which finally drives Little Slam to speak. Often wildly humorous, this is a farce of life and death. The final moment is shattering in its theatricality. "A powerful drama and a great piece of theater." -Milwaukee Sentinel. "Intriguing and entertaining." -Milwaukee Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3586) THE ANASTASIA TRIALS IN THE COURT OF WOMEN. (Little Theatre.) Interactive drama. Carolyn Gage. 9 f. Simple set. Audience participation in this courtroom drama creates a profou!1dly engaging excursion into a world of women who are survivors and abusers. Actually a farcical play-within-a-play, the drama opens as members of a radical feminist theatre group, the Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade, are about to implement their innovative lottery system aimed at insuring equal opportunity for all. They each draw the role they will play on this evening from a hat, putting sisterhood to an iron test. The performance that follows is the conspiracy trial of five women who are accused of denying the defendant-Anastasia Romanov- her identity. Audience members decide throughout to overrule or sustain the attorneys' motions, creating a different play at every performance. "Elegantly conceived. . . . A feminist Noises Off." -Washington City Press. "Powerful."-San Diego Lesbian Press. "Farce, social history, debate play, agitprop, audience-participation melodrama, satire [that] makes the head reel!"-San Diego Union-Tribune. "Wild. . . . It's lively and moves quickly. . Very funny yet poignant. "-Washington Blade. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3742) ANY GIVEN DAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 6 m., 3 f. Int. This engrossing drama by the author of The Subject Was Roses covers eighteen months in the life of the Benti family during 1942 and 1943. The household is ruled by Mrs. Benti, a prescient and iron-willed widow, and includes her three adult children: Carmen, Nettie (whose husband and son are the main characters in The Subject Was Roses), and Eddie as well as Carmen's illegitimate son Willis whom the others orbit like the sun. Eighteen-year-old Willis is mentally impaired and in a wheelchair. He appears both younger and older as he presides in often startling and humorous ways over the conflicting dreams, desires and passions that ebb and flow about him. The family appears to be making noble sacrifices in Willis' behalf, but each is actually using him for selfish ends. "A drama of soaring beauty and power . . . sprinkled with comedy."-Reuters. "A hauntingly chilling portrait. . . . Gilroy knows how to write for actors."-N.Y. Post. "First class."-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-

THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Enid Bagnold. 5 m., 3 f. Int. "Shimmers on the stage."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "A lovely play . . . . A comedy that is adult, spirited, tender and humorously wise."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5092) LO AND BEHOLD! (All Groups.) Comedy. John Patrick. 5 m., 3 f. Int. A Nobel Prize winner has lived for years on a meager, unpalatable diet, to favor an ailing heart. This lack of much heart has made the philosophy of his books coldly cynical. After signing a will that leaves a third of his estate to his young doctor, a third to perpetuate his house as a sanctuary for his spirit and the final third to the Harvard Law School to insure that the terms of his odd testament will be carried out, he eats a sumptuous meal and dies happily. Instead of the solitude he expected, he is beset by the spirits of an Indian girl pushed off a cliff by her lover, a Southern belle with a disturbing drawl and a phony liberal attitude, and a frustrated composer. Then the pretty cook (a former model) who prepared the fatal dishes returns to the house and is mistaken for his illegitimate daughter. He eventually finds peace by furthering a romance between the doctor and the young girl. "Patrick has learned the trick of inserting a big solid laugh line at the right moment."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#653) SPEAKING OF MURDER. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Audrey Roos and William Roos. 3 m., 5 f. Int. When Charles Ashton brings home his second wife, he fails to notice the hate and jealousy in his secretary's eyes. He is unaware of the dangers that threaten his wife as his secretary turns the full force of her malice upon her. The shocking truth is that she killed the first wife and intends to lock the new wife in a library vault where she will suffocate within two hours. A delightful old biddy who holds the solution in her hand and who might save the wife does not, unhappily, remain alive either. The key is lent to the young stepson. Will the vault be opened in time? "Delightfully sinister."-N.Y. Journal-American. "Splendid fun."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21280) BREATH OF SPRING. (All Groups.) Comedy. Peter Coke. 3 m., 5 f. Int. When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the maid's shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers endeavor to return the stole. The plan is devised with care and all of them take such delight in the secretive scheme that they wonder why they don't do this more often. They form a syndicate for stealing and returning furs. Everything goes well until a loss is reported and the police come charging in. The maid is horrified to discover what has been going on behind her back, but agrees to employ her talents to bail the amateurs out of trouble if they agree to never touch another fur. She succeeds, the police leave, and life returns to its humdrum ways until someone remembers that it was only furs they had promised not to touch! "Two hours of . . . moments when I was helpless with laughter." -London Daily Mirror. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#281) OH, MEN! OH, WOMEN! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Edward Chodorov. 5 m., 3 f. int. A psychoanalyst is ready to marry a nice, simple girl on the morrow and is hearing his last clients today: a man who confesses to an old affair with the doctor's fiancee, a wife who had a big fight with her husband, and the husband who is also an old flame in the life of the doctor's fiancee. The doctor loses his scientific calm but manages to gain a professional moral as he embarks on a honeymoon abroad. "Witty, intelligent, satirical and just plain downright funny. Chodorov says that psychoanalysis is merely an attempt to give proper direction to people's sex urges. He says, further, that men and women will never, but never, get along together, because they want different things. Men want women and women want (#17013) men. "-Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE MADMAN AND THE NUN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Translated by Daniel C. Gerould and C. S. Durer. 6 m., 2 f. Int. The corpse of a murdered psychiatrist returns to the hospital with the murderer who hanged himself in the previous scene. "Ferocious and zany . . . not only funny but also often alarming."-N.Y. Times. $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15025)

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*ANATOMY OF GRAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jim Leonard, Jr. 4 m., 5 f. Simple set. The award-winning author of The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson and Crow and Weasel describes this playas a children's story for adults. When June's father dies, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray so that no one will ever suffer again. The next thing she knows, a tornado blows a man riding in a balloon to the town. He claims he is a doctor and, at first, he cures anything and everything. Then the preacher becomes ill with a mysterious plague and it spreads. Set in Indiana during the late 1800's, Anatomy of Gray offers an insightful look at death, loss, love and healing in a unique coming of age story. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3746) *THE CONTEST. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Shirley Lauro. 3 m., 6 f. Int. Bevvie Sue, a shy young adolescent, is at the center of this naturalistic family comedy/drama set in a small Midwestern city during World War II. Her hilarious, domineering mother is compulsive about entering contests, driven by fantasies of

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$50.) Music is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended to enhance productions. Music cassette, $18.00. (Music royalty, $15 per performance.) (#193) APPROACHING ZANZIBAR. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Tina Howe. 2 m., 4 f, 2 m. child., 1 f. child (to play var. roles). Ints., exts. (simply suggested), modular or unit set. This play by the author of Pride's Crossing, among others, follows the Blossom family as they travel cross-country to see Aunt Olivia, who has cancer. She is a renowned environmental artist who creates enormous sculptures out of kites. The family camps along the way, having various adventures and meeting relatives and strangers. When they arrive in Taos, New Mexico, Olivia is fading in and out of reality~r is she? "A comedy with serious undertones . . . that takes the audience by surprise time after time . . . . What pervades the show is Miss Howe's originality and purity of dramatic imagination."-New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3140) THE BEARD OF AVON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Amy Freed. 7 m., 2 f. Various sets. A bumpkin known as "Will Shakspere" who longs to be an artist flees from his filthy bam, his homebound wife and her incessant chores. In Elizabethan London, did this stagestruck dreamer become a front man for Sir Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford and even Queen Elizabeth, authors too proud to admit they scribbled plays for the unwashed masses? This delicious and witty farce fashions the longstanding debate over who really penned the Bard's cannon into a merry look at the mortality of artists and the immortality of their legacy. With a gleeful wink at intervening centuries, the author portrays Will's comic struggles to become an artist in his own right while she reflects on artistic inspiration, the struggle to become an artistic master and the very meaning of creativity. "[A] sparkling academic comedy . . . . Highbrow art served up as lowdown fun."-Variety. "You don't have to be a Shakespeare aficionado to appreciate [this] satisfying . . . shrewd and ambitious [play] . . . . Big ideas . . . are delivered with a genuine awe and delight at the genius in [Shakespeare's] 37 plays, whoever is responsible."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#4882) THE BLACK MONK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rabe. Based on a story by Anton Chekhov. 6 m., 3 f. plus extras. Unit set. Kovrin arrives at Pesotsky's estate, where he spent his childhood, to find the orchard filled with smoke and threatened by frost. When dawn arrives, the orchard is saved and, in the following weeks, Kovrin finds joy away from the demands of city and university life, begins to see Pesotsky's daughter Tanya in a new light, and becomes aware that Pesotsky is . troubled about the survival of his magnificent gardens. He remains tormented by a SUbtle, original idea. An emissary from the unknown, the legendary Black Monk, appears to Kovrin, bringing opportunities and risks from invisible realms into the concrete world. While love makes certain claims in uncertain ways, Kovrin, Pesotsky and Tanya face choices that have consequences beyond the desired and foreseen. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#4725) BLUE HEART. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Caryl Churchill. 2 m., 7 f Consists of Hean's Desire and Blue Kettle, related short plays that are teasingly entertaining and brilliantly executed. Not what they seem, the plays possess catastrophic cores that disrupt and destroy. "Welcome to the world of Caryl Churchill, a playwright who has long experimented with theatrical forms, and who may have reached a new height with . . . Blue Hean." -N Y. Daily News . .. Anyone watching the short, selfsabotaging plays ... is likely to feel a steady, rushing exhilaration. Ms. Churchill is the possessor of one of the sharpest and most restless theatrical imaginations in the world . . . . A doggedly reassertive life force is evident in Blue Heart, giving it an almost giddy vitality. . . with residual emotional depth that keeps you thinking. . . Blue Hean plants seeds that keep germinating in your mind long after the plays are over."-NY. Times. For individual descriptions, see Index under Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle. $10.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4288) THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 5 m., 4 f. Int. On Christmas Eve, Julia Dowling has an unexpected visitor who intends to escort her off to the afterlife. Infusing comedy into the classic Death Takes a Holiday, The Christmas Spirit is set in <;ontemporary Long Island. Julia persuades Death to give her one more day to enjoy Christmas and invites him to be her guest at a festive party. The next day the house fills with bickering relatives, friends, the local priest-and Death, masquerading as a human, singing carols and drinking egg nog. Moments of high farce, drama and even romance arise as bright holiday fantasies collide with a not-so-merry reality. Winner of the 2002 Florida Repertory Theatre Congress of Jewelers Play Series. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5851) COASTAL DISTURBANCES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tina Howe. 3 m., 4 f., 2 c. (1 m., I f.) Ext. This Broadway hit, an ensemble play about four generations of vacationers on a Massachusetts beach, focuses on a romance between a lifeguard and a kooky young photographer. Vignettes taking place over the course of the summer examine love from all sides. "Generously illuminates the intimate landscape between men and women."-NY. Times. "Enchanting: '-New Yorker. "Endearing."-NBC-TV. "Will appeal only to play-goers who like charming and sympathetic characters, tender romance, laughs and rueful wisdom about the pitfalls of love."-Variety. "Whosoever's heart this play does not break, whosoever's soul it does not enthrall, may just lack those organs."-N.Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#5755) CHRONICLES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. In 1920 the Pendragons gather for the first time in years at the crumbling family mansion in Ohio where Matt Armitage lies dying. As his daughter Dorothy, who can

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS neither hear nor speak, provides a running commentary which is heard only by the audience, her wild sister Jessie chases their half-brother John Rose from room to room and tries to fathom what betrayal is behind her father's refusal to speak to her mother. Uncle David, an eccentric poet, is back from scouring Europe for a lost girl. John Rhys Pendragon, the journalist, broods over his wife's death and the loss of his beloved daughter. Sister Lizzy bustles around trying to feed everybody while enduring her own grief as Sarah, the housekeeper, is being driven mad by the confusion. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly {:ruel history, these people nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh. Richly textured and intricately woven through time and space, this funny and moving addition to the author's Pendragon series features characters familiar to fans of Tristan, Pendragon, Anima Mundi, Laestrygonians, The Circus Animals' Desenion, Dramatis Personae and November. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5858) FLYER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Kate Aspengren. 4 m., 5 f (to play 21 roles). Unit set. While the Project Mercury astronauts carried America's hopes and dreams into space, NASA was busy training another elite corps of pilots, some with more flight experience than John Glenn and company. None of this group soared into space; they were women and here is their story. Flyer focuses on the hopes and dreams of one young pilot in particular. Fran Douglas rises above family scorn and her fiancee's condescension to join the women's corps. Action scenes involving NASA, Congress and Fran's family are intertwined with dream sequences about an intrepid black barnstormer, Bessie Coleman, who died in the 1920s performing an aerial feat. Bessie warns Fran about the many obstacles she will have to overcome to achieve her dream-a dream left unfulfilled when NASA pulled the plug on training women for space flight. "This story needed to be told and Ms. Aspengren tells it brilliantly."-The Westsider. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8949) FORTUNE'S FOOL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ivan Turgenev. Adapted by Mike Poulton. 7 m., 2 f plus extras. Int. Alan Bates and Frank Langella won Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for their Broadway performances in this acclaimed adaptation of Turgenev's classic exploration of the delicious paradox of humor and despair found in casually intlicting cruelty. The return of Olga Petrovna and her husband to her deceased parents' country manor should be a happy event for Kuzovkin, the house's resident penniless gentleman, but his friend Ivanov fears it will be disastrous for his comrade. All is going well when a neighbor arrives, a rich man whose favorite pastime is humiliating those he considers to be his inferiors. In no time, the "gentlemen" are plying Kuzovkin with drink and exposing his pathetic history layer by layer. Finally, in a drunken rage, he reveals a family secret that challenges their very identity, winning back what has been his all along but unable to reclaim his honor. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#8960) A GOOD MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 5 m., 4 f Int. It's a hot July day at the Good Shepherd Funeral Parlor and Martin Lamb, the mortician, is presiding over the wake of the late Walter Porteus. His dream of a perfect wake is undermined by his son Jimmy, whose interests are more amatory than funereal, and by the conniving, contentious Porteus family members, who are already clashing over the will. To further inflame matters, the air-conditioning breaks down and the wrong body turns up in the casket. Then a mysterious mourner appears and a valuable piece of jewelry disappears. When the air-conditioning repairman pulls a gun and decides to hold them all hostage, things really start to get interesting in this hilarious black comedy. $6.50. (Royalty., $60-$40.) (#9939) HAPGOOD. (Advanced Groups.) Thriller. Tom Stoppard. 8 m., I f Ints., exts. Does light come in waves or particles? Experiment will show either: the experimenter can choose. "A double agent is like a trick of the light," Kerner the physicist tells Blair the spy catcher. "You get what you interrogate for." Dual natures, of light and of people, are the theme of Tom Stoppard's espionage thriller. Kerner's secret research is being leaked to Moscow. Is Ridley the double? Or is Kerner a triple? Hapgood is the person to find out, and maybe it will need two of her. '"Intriguing and thoroughly absorbing."-London Broadcasting. "Vastly entertaining."-Jewish Chronicle. "Stoppard's most cunning play yet. "-Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10098) HOTBED HOTEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Parker. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. Terri and Brian Cody are trying to sell 1heir one-star (and often one guest) hotel in the Florida Keys. A prospective buyer is about to arrive from New York. They decide to have the staff masquerade as paying guests to convince the him that the establishment is busy and prosperous. Unfortunately, the staff consists of a bibulous maintenance man and a curvaceous but somewhat vacant young maid. Add the eccentric retired British Army Major who resides at the hotel, a wealthy Arab Sheik (who looks suspiciously like the Major), a nymphomaniac dubbed The Barracuda during her annual stays, the prospective buyer's girlfriend and, unexpectantly, his wife, and you have a laugh-a-minute merry-go-round that leaves audiences screaming with delight. "Michael Parker has succeeded again. Hilarious bedlam."-Boca Raton News. "Sophisticated fun:'-Deerjield Beach Observer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9981) INFRARED. (Advanced Groups.) Puppet Play. Mac Wellman. 9 characters plus chorus and extras. Various sets. This puppet play follows the journey of a character referred to as Our Narrator, an ungainly self in search of itself He loses his shadow and must travel to the mirror-world of Infrared to retrieve it. There, he meets Cathy X and her shadow, which he suspects might be his own. With Cathy's help, Our Narrator finds enlightenment and returns to his own world, a sadder and wiser

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THE MAYOR'S LIMO. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mark Nassar. 7 m., 2 f. Int. A major bust is called off for political reasons, leaving three veteran detectives stewing in the squad room of New York's seedy 9th Precinct. A loud-mouthed hooker who tempts and taunts has been cuffed to a chair when a whacked-out man is hauled in for relieving himself on the Mayor's limousine during a demonstration orchestrated by advocates for the homeless. The politically motivated Captain orders an investigation, hoping to uncover past crimes to offset the Mayor's embarrassment. Disgusted by the assignment and by the culprit's filth but intrigued by his quick-witted barbs, the detectives learn that "Banzai" was a high school football star who lost his entire family in a fire. Before he disappeared, he apparently assaulted the acquitted arsonists with a baseball bat. While they weigh their sympathies and personal values against their obligations as police officers, a reporter for the Village Voice and a spokesman for the homeless ignite events that unleash Banzai's lurking demons. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#14813) THE MEN FROM THE BOYS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mart Crowley. 9 m. Int. Thirty years after the characters in The Boys in the Band gathered in Michael's Manhattan duplex to celebrate Harold's birthday, six of the survivors are assembled again in the same apartment for another occasion: a "Celebration of Life" for one of the original "boys" who has died. This funny, acerbic and tender sequel does not toe any politically correct line. Rather, it is full of debates about and criticisms of the post-liberation world, allowing these men to realize how much they have changed and how much further they have to go. "Crowley once again raise[s] his iconoclastic, querulous voice in a complex, tangled story."-Bay Area Reponer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14816) MINA TONIGHT! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. H. W. Robertson, Jr. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Mina Tonight! is a raucous comedy that takes place on the set of a cable access talk show in South Carolina. Show host Mina Dean Beasely is a sarcastic firebrand whose guests personify supermarket tabloid headlines. A hairdresser who reveals she is carrying an alien love child, a country music performer whose near-death electrocution left her with psychic powers, and a janitor who may be a supposedly dead celebrity are just some of the folks Mina serves up to her audience. However, Mina has a problem believing the fantastic tales she hears and it is only when the janitor reveals his true identity that she realizes "you can have the eyes of a hawk and still be blind as a bat." Set against a background of aluminum condominiums (trailers) and those who live in them, Mina Tonight! is a campy look at extraordinary events happening to incredibly ordinary people. It features wonderful roles for women ages 20-50 and is filled with ideal monologues for character and scene work. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15567) MURDER ON RESERVE. (AU Groups.) Mystery. Thomas Hischak. 4 m., 5 f., I extra. Int. In the small midwestern town of Sanford, the impossible has happened: someone has strangled crotchety old Faulkner Seaton in the reference section of the local library while the dusty old landmark was open. Most puzzling of all is the fact that nobody in the place saw or heard a thing. Inspector Trigg and his assistant, Lt. Elizabeth Roberts, are brought in from St. Louis to solve the mystery, only to discover the most unlikely collection of suspects: a meticulous librarian, his repressed assistant, a talkative small-time speculator, a sweet high school girl, an elderly hypochondriac, a cynical library worker and a colorful drifter. It develops that old Seaton had stumbled into something important in the reference section and a missing book becomes the only clue. Trigg and Roberts set a trap to catch the murderer that results in a thrilling and revealing conclusion. Vivid characters and a plot that keeps the audience guessing make this whodunit an enjoyable romp for any theatre group. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15264) NOISES OFF. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Frayn. 5 m., 4 f. 2 ints. Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Offreturned to Broadway with a cast that included Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher for the 2002 season and sent reviewers searching for new accolades to the hilarious. "The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy . . . . A spectacularly funny . . . peerless backstage farce . . . . [This] dizzy, well-known romp . . . [is a] festival of delirium."-N.Y. Times. "Bumper car brilliance. . . . If laughter is indeed the best medicine, Noises is worth its weight in Cipro."-N.Y. Daily News. "The funniest farce ever written. . . . Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical."-N.Y. Post. "As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever."-N.Y. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#16052)

JITNEY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Wilson. 8 m., 1 f. Int. Set in 1970 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author's decade-by-decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century (see page 74). "Explosive. . . Crackles with theatrical energy."-N.Y. Daily News. "Could be described as just a lot of men sitting around talking. But the talk has such varied range and musicality, and it is rendered with such stylish detail, that a complete urban symphony emerges. . . . Drivers return from jobs with stories that summon an entire ethos. . .. Throughly engrossing, Jitney holds us in charmed captivity."-N.Y. Times. "Comic, soulful and immensely moving."-Time Out. "A transport of delight! So vividly written . . . it keeps you steadily amused, concerned and moved."-N.Y. Magazine. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best New Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#12599) JUDAH'S DAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Jules Tasca. 5 m., 4 f. I set. Here is a new theatrical form the author calls an eurytbmy. It is a system of movements to words with the actors wearing full-face masks. The piece may also be done as a conventional play without masks. The story of Judah and his daughters, one legitimate and raised as an orthodox Jew and the other illegitimate and raised as a Roman Catholic, is a family tragedy. Both girls fall in love with the same man, a gentile. The tug of war that ensues destroys Judah and his daughter. The heart-felt conclusion brings tears to the eyes of all who see this sensitive work. Winner of the 1998 Dorothy Silver International Playwrighting Contest. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12652) JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Abby Mann. 15 m., 4 f. I set (other locations simply suggested); optional projections and slides. Maximilian Schell and George Grizzard starred on Broadway in this powerful stage version of the Academy Award-winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre-war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post-war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the forefront of this trial reverberate through history and challenge humanity to this day. "A powerful work of art."-AP. "Gives oratory the muscle, sweat and high stakes of a last man standing prize fight."-N.Y. Times. "A magnificent re-enactment of the seminal trials of the modem era."-Newsweek. "Retains its power to move and provoke us. "-Time. "A PQwerhouse."-Newsday. "Amazing. For once you won't feel dramatically undernourished. "-Joumal News. "A marvelous courtroom drama. "-WOR. "Powerful, potent, grippingedge-of-the-seat drama."-Walter Cronkite. "Incisive, blistering, thought-provoking . . . . Cries out powerfully to our own time in countless ways."-Chicago Sun-Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#12919) LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 7 m.,2 f. Int. This Broadway hit is a homage to the author's early days in show biz when he worked as a junior jokesmith for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. He was stuck in a room with a bunch of the looniest comedy writers ever, who grew up to be the likes of Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart and others. The play is a memoir told by Neil Simon's alter ego, Lucas. As the writers try to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of head madman Max Prince (the Sid Caesar character), Max contends with the NBC brass who fear his humor is too sophisticated for middle America. "Old-style comedy: fast and furious."-Wall Street Journal. "One of [Simon's] funniest. . . . Comedy, comedy all the way. "-Newsweek. "Enough laughs per minute to assure [it] a long run and many happy audiences."-USA Today. "The funniest comedy on Broadway in years and likely to remain the funniest comedy on Broadway for years."-Variety . .$6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Mandatory music royalty, $6 per perlormance or $25 per week. Slightly Restricted. Posters (#634) LIFE IN REFUSAL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ari Roth. 6 m., 3 f. Various sets. When Alison, an adventurous young political scientist, travels to Russia to document the dawning of glasnost and perestroika, she meets Benjamin Charney, a rocket scientist whose applications to emigrate have been denied repeatedly by Soviet authorities. He is an elegant, humble and wise cancer-stricken member of the Jewish "refusnick" community whose illness is complicated by an acute heart condition. Soviet doctors refuse to operate on him. Alison, a Jew in denial of her own identity, is reluctantly drawn into Ben's world and eventually becomes a forceful advocate for him. She meets him again ten years later, following the fall of the Soviet empire, in the United States and again, poignantly, from beyond the grave. "Strongly written . . . .' It's very, very witty . . . . The cleverness in phrasing makes material sort of jump out at you. . . in such a striking and theatrical way that you leave feeling like you've been enriched."-Washington City Paper and NPR. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13784) LOVING DANIEL BOONE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marsha Norman. 7 m., 2 f. Unit set. Originally produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, this innovative play by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize blends events in a modem day museum with action on the Kentucky frontier of 1778. Flo, the museum's cleaning woman, embarks on a journey filled with heros, history and, ultimately, love. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13799)

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physics and the celebrated painter set the art world afire. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Picasso' agent and his date, the bartender and his mistress, an elderly philosopher and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark-haired singer time-warped in from a later era. "Very funny . . . . The final, exquisitely selected visitor from the future is a master stroke."-N.Y. Post. "Martin mixes the sublime with the ridiculous [so] that they can't be easily disentangled. . . . Very good fun."-N.Y. Times. "A major treat."-Newsday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off Broadway (#18962) Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. POPCORN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy thriller. Ben Elton. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar-winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce's passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels, a nude model and actress, they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends to use Bruce's "art" as justification for murder. Events are disrupted by the arrival of Bruce's soon-to-be ex-wife and spoiled teenage daughter and his producer. However, Wayne means to succeed whatever the cost. "Bloodcurdling comedy."-London Sunday Times. "First-rate entertainment, funny, gripping and genuinely thought-provoking."-Daily Telegraph. "This is Ben Elton at his gruesome, satirical best." -Daily Mail. Winner of the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and the Barclays Theatre Award for Best New Play. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#18231) PROPOSALS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 5 m., 4 f Ext. This memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. That summer in 1953 was one of animated romantic entanglements that overlap on one idyllic afternoon.' 'New directions from the dazzlingly successful playwright who changed the very face of comedy on Broadway."-N. Y. Times. "As long as Neil Simon keeps turning out his glossy fantasies, loosely woven from mildly autobiographical inventions, such sadly endangered species as the Broadway comedy and the well-made play will never give up the ghost. ... Extremely entertaining. . . . A play of great warmth and charm. Simon plays his characters as if he were playing poker and winning and we sit back and enjoy."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#166) A ROARING TRAGEDY. (Little Theatre.) Tragic farce. Dusan Kovacevic. Translated by Dr. Vladislava Felbabov. 6 m. (1 teenage), 3 f Int. This fast-paced family farce takes place in the home of Ruza and Milan and their son Neven, a teenager obsessed with Elvis Presley. The entire family is due for a celebration when the oven catches fire, dinner is ruined and Aunt Julka and Uncle Kosta's car crashes through the front gates. Kosta is drunk, as usual. Everyone yells while Neven blasts Elvis on his walkman to drown out the voices. In the midst of this chaos, Grandpa Vasilje saunters in with his new bride and their best man, a doctor from the sanitorium. Grandpa announces that he has just married Rajna, but no immediate family members were invited. Guns go off! This hilariously outrageous comedy about conflicts between generations and tragic family misunderstandings is an masterful combination of tragedy and comedy by the author of The Professional. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20668) SACRILEGE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Diane Shaffer. 6 m., 3 f. lnts., exts., simply suggested. Ellen Burstyn starred on Broadway in this riveting drama about a devout nun who fights the Vatican to allow women in the priesthood. Sister Grace befriends a homeless hustler and restores his faith. He becomes a priest while she gains national notoriety challenging church doctrine. To silence her, the Vatican holds a hearing based on trumped-up charges and Father Ramon must testify against her. Grace is found guilty and expelled from her order as the others are forced to reexamine the meaning of faith, spiritual violence and the redeeming grace of God. "Bracing and provocative!. .. It's happily startling to hear a play charged with genuine ideas and great good will bouncing off the walls of a Broadway theatre."-WCBS TV. "Compelling. Sacrilege moved me to tears."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#20977) SENIOR FOLLIES. (Senior Groups.) Comedy. Billy SI. John. 3 m., 5 f, 1 m. or f. Unit set. The rocking is not done in chairs at the Pleasant Valley Retirement Home, especially since Howard discovered Viagra! The feisty divorcee and lovely widow who are constantly scurrying out of his reach and refuse to play strip poker or skinny dip in the hot tub breathe a sigh of relief when a new resident actually seems to enjoy Howard's advances. She turns out to be a con artist intent on fleecing Howard and, with the help of her brother, a shy spinster. Other roles for senior actors include a less than energetic wife and her husband, a gardening fanatic. Don't miss the hilarity in this wonderful comedy for a mature cast by the author of The Abduction, The Reunion and other plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21517) THE SENSUOUS SENATOR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Parker. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Senator Douglas is running for President on a "morality" platform, but when his wife Lois leaves to attend a conference in Chicago he does not hesitate to invite Veronica, his secretary and lover, over. Finding her unavailable, he has an escort agency send voluptuous Fiona. All seems well until his elderly Congressional colleague and neighbor locks himself out and asks to spend the night. Then Congressman Jack Maguire drops in unexpectedly and Fiona, unsure who her client is, zeros in on him. Meanwhile, Veronica changes her plans and appears on the scene. Before

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Lois reaches the airport, her fashionable Washington townhouse is swarming with libidinous politicians, scantily dressed women, security police and a muckraking reporter from The National Intruder! When snow closes the airport and she returns home, the bedlam crescendos to a surprise ending in this outrageous farce by the author of The Amorous Ambassador. "A madcap. . . hilarious and timely American farce. . . . The sold-out audience barely had time to catch a breath between laughs." -Observer. "Succeeds [with] all the classical farce elements." -Delray Times. "Sensational."-Naples Daily News. "A rollicking bedroom farce."-Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20952) SERVICE. (Little Theatre.) One-act plays. Karen Manno. 9 f Ints. Includes The Spiritual Pursuit of Cosmetic Surgery: Domestic Bliss; Overeating, and the Disappearing Nanny Syndrome and With a Side of Sabotage. See individual titles for (#20949) descriptions and royalties. $6.50. SHANGHAI MOON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy spoof. Charles Busch. 9 m. & f Inl. A spoof of 1930' s oriental movie melodramas, this wild concoction by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife recounts the outrageous story of a notorious young beauty who visits Shanghai in 1931 with her elderly husband, a British diplomat. Soon Lady Sylvia (who can be played by a woman or a man as in the New York production) is involved in a steamy affair with a mysterious warlord. She incurs the wrath of his jealous mistress and his most trusted advisor while becoming ensnared in an exotic world of opium addiction, drug smuggling and white slavery where even branding her derriere with a red hot poker is not forbidden. "Happy, cockeyed new melodrama . . . [that] distills the essence of every bono fide broad who roamed the silver screen. . . . Evokes the racy, gritty sensibility of Hollywood movies . . . before censorship clamped down on the studios. . Packs more twists in ninety minutes than a year's worth of "All My Children."-N.Y. Times. "An engaging, often hilarious spoof. .. Highly entertaining." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21423) SINK THE BELGRANO! (Advanced Groups.) Verse drama. Steven Berkoff. 8 m., 1 f Simple set. Written after the Falklands War, this play about the sabotaging of the Belgrano, an incident that led to severe attacks on the British Fleet and great loss of (#21484) life, is written in verse. In Steven Berkoff.- Plays I, $24.95. TAKE HER, SHE'S YOURS! or Till Divorce Do Us Part. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 6 m., 3 f. This new version of the long-lost three-act comedy A qui mafemme?, one of Feydeau's earliest works, is a slice of marital life served up wit.h the delicious incongruities and linguistic verve that characterize his later work. It portrays the attempts of a disillusioned, philandering husband, abetted by assorted zanies, to extricate himself from a marriage of inconvenience, and his wife's fitting revenge at the expense of her twit of a would-be lover. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22593) THREE PRAYERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Greg Zittel. 7 m., 2 f 2 ints. Interrelated one-act plays portray a young woman entering womanhood in rural New Jersey during the early 1930's. In Valley of Tears, Molly Farrell finds that her father is missing and her mother is drunk. When young Bill Dunphy drops by, sparks of love ignite between these two teenagers. In Glory Be, Bill Jr. is seen in the masculine atmosphere of his father's saloon, where he handles the patrons and settles an employee proble,m with his fists. The evening concludes with Joyous Strain, in which Molly takes charge of her life, buries her father, cares for her younger brother and becomes an adult in her struggling mother's eyes. Molly's dramatic journey ends optimistically with the promise of a job at the phone company. $6.50. (Royalty, (#22286) $60-$60.) THREE SISTERS TWO. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Reza de Wet. 3 m., 6 f. A response to Chekhov's Three Sisters that emulates his style, form and content, this piece places the characters in in the 1920s. It expands themes from the original play to offer a poignant vision of dispossession at the heart of the human condition. Originally written in Afrikaans and translated into English by the author, it was honored as the Best Production of the Year at the 1999 South African Theatre Awards. Published with Yelena and On the Lake in Russian Trilogy, $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#15346) TOM, DICK AND HARRY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ray Cooney and Michael Cooney. 6 m., 3 f. Int. In this hilarious story of three brothers, Tom and his wife are about to adopt a baby. His brothers are anxious to help make a good impression on the woman from the agency who has arrived to check on the home and lifestyle of the prospective parents. Unfortunately Dick, who has stashed boxes of smuggled brandy and cigarettes in the house, and Harry, who is in possession of a cadaver he is planning to sell illegally to a medical school, fail miserably. The adoption agency representative is aghast-and the illegal Croatian aliens who do not speak English are no help at all! "No wonder Cooney's farces attract packed audiences. Lovers of old fashioned farce know they are going to have a good time. Tom, Dick and Harry, written by Cooney Senior and his son Michael shows that . . . the veteran funster's ingenuity for creating chaos and carnage is nowhere near drying up."-Windsor Express. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted. (#22944) WEST. (Advanced Groups.) Allegory. Steven Berkoff. 7 m., 2 f. simple set. This allegory about the demons we must defeat is set in Stamford Hill, London. A man named Mike finds the courage to live according to his own spirit and not by other (#24972) people's rules. In Steven Berkoff: Plays I, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Pierre de Beaumarchais. Revised translation by Albert Bermel. 8 m., 1 t., extras. Int., ext. This play about the servant with the superior brain that was adapted by Rossini and inspired one of the most popular operas of all time. American productions of this translation have won several regional drama awards. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50$35.) Also available in a translation by Bernard Sahlins; see Index. Please state translator when ordering. (#4017) THE BATTLE OF SHALLOWFORD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ed Simpson. 8 m., 1 f. Int. On a quiet Sunday night in October of 1938 the regulars are gathered at Burton Mock's general store in Shallowford, NC. The rest of the world is on the brink of war, but these folks are only interested in local gossip until they turn on the radio and learn that the Martians have invaded! They fall hook, line and sinker for the Orson Welles broadcast and run out to do battle. "A theatrical gem." -Ashville Citizen-Times. "Tickle their funny bones, warm their hearts, don't insult their intelligence. . . . The Battle of Shallowford hits that magic trio." -Knoxville NewsSentinel. "Hilariously on target. . . . A community theatre staple."-Knoxville Journal. $6.50. Cassette of excerpts from the Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, $10.00. (R?yalty, $50-$35.) (#4315) THE BEACH. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anthony Giardina. 3 m., 3 f., 2 c. Ext. Three couples in their thirties have for years shared beach houses and summer vacations along the New England coast. This year, Ben's wife has left him and the vacationing group is joined by Sara's widowed sister Elaine. The specter of divorce causes each remaining couple to examine their marriage. Sara chooses this moment to ask Tom to father the second child she has long wanted. Tom is troubled by Elaine's vitality and sexuality; she represents all he might gain if he left marriage and fatherhood behind. He does make a bold but finally unsatisfactory break from the group. Harry and Julia, whose embrace of ordinary life allows them to accept the loss of passion in their marriage, and Ben ultimately demonstrate the real potential for growth and renewal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4182) BEETHOVEN'S TENTH. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Ustinov. 6 m., 3 f. Int. wlinsert. The author starred in London and New York in this comedy about an acidic music critic who is writing a book about what Beethoven's tenth symphony might have been like. Ludvig himself appears and wanders around the living room muttering in German until the critic gets a hearing aid. Luckily, Beethoven has learned English in Heaven, so he can engage in witty banter with the critic. Also on hand are the critic's son, an aspiring composer whose work his father detests (as does Beethoven after perusing his scores), and the critic's wife, formerly an opera singer who desperately wants to sing a lieder-accompanied by the composer! Before Beethoven returns to the Great Beyond he reveals who the mysterious great love of his life was. "Perhaps his best play ever . . . [with] dialogue that hangs in the air like iridescent soap bubbles."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4079) BLACKBERRY FROST. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. Le Wilhelm. 4 m., 5 f. The town's most controversial citizen dies, an untimely and mysterious death in the final installment of the author's The Missouri Trilogy which spans several months in a drought-stricken Ozarks community in the late 1950s. The death sets the stage for the airing of old grievances, the uncovering of long-held prejudices, the mourning for lost loves and ultimately the offering of new hope. This powerful play features vivid characters and tart dialogue laced with gentle humor, providing a tender portrait of a bygone era while exploring themes of contemporary significance. "Well-written, intense, moving. We find in this author moments of pure poetry."Mario Fratti in American OGGI. For other titles in The Missouri Trilogy, see Pie Supper and One-Eyed Venus and the Brothers. Please write for details to obtain a copy of the manuscript. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4307) BLACKOUT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gary Lennon. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Blackout takes place on Christmas Eve at an Alcoholics' Anonymous meeting. A diverse group has gathered to share their stories of hope and madness. They crave strength, integrity and friendship as they struggle to make sense of their lives after years of drinking, drugging and excess. A unique sense of family, love and home prevails. Richard Lewis, Dianne Wiest, Faye Dunaway, Spalding Gray and Howard Rollins, Jr. star in the movie version which is titled Drunks. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4923) BLEACHER BUMS. A Nine-Inning Comedy. Revised Edition. (All Groups.) Comedy. Conceived by Joe Mantegna and written by The Organic Theatre Company. 7 m., 2 f. Ext. In the bleachers at Chicago's Wrigley Field, die-hard Cub fans root for their team. The group includes a rabid cheerleader, a blind man who follows the game by transistor radio and does his own play-by-play, a bathing beauty, a nerd and various other bleacher denizens. As the game proceeds, they bet among themselves on every conceivable event, go out for frosty malts or beers, try to pick up the bathing beauty and, occasionally, watch the game. The Cubs inevitably blow it in the ninth and the villainous Marvin, who always bets against the Cubs figuring he can't lose, cleans up. The bleacher bums remain undaunted-they will be back tomorrow to root for the home team. "Peppered with laughs."-N.Y. Times. "Cheerful, boisterous and fun. "-Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC and Chicago area. (#4087)

WHO'S IN BED WITH THE BUTLER. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Parker. 3 m., 6 f. Int. A California billionaire has bequeathed all of his assets to his only daughter Constance-except the 22-million-dollar yacht he wanted Josephine to have, a 25-million-dollar art collection left to Renee and some priceless antique automobiles willed to Marjorie. Constance arrives at her father's mansion with her lawyer, determined to find out who these women are and to buy them off or contest the will. The butler seems to hold the key and she learns from him that the three sultry ladies were her father's lovers. She also discovers that the yacht, the art and the cars have vanished, all having been sold to The Bimbo Corporation. Could the butler be behind these shenanigans-and is he carrying on with all of the ladies in question? Does the elderly, deaf housekeeper really have a pet rat? Can the bumbling detective hired by Constance really be so inept, linguistically as well as professionally? And why has the butler hired an actress to play his wife? Hilarity erupts long before the audience realizes that the temptresses are all being played by the same actress! This is a madcap addition to the author's string of inventive American farces. "Excellent physical comedy. Truly remarkable characters."-Woodland Daily Democrat. "For Parker, farce is serious business. You (#25265) must see this romp."-Sacramento Bee. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TOLD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anne ThompsonScretching. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Standing-room-only audiences cheered at the curtain call on West 54th Street in New York for this emotionally charged drama about a middle-class black family coping with a shameful tragedy. It is the story of a decent mother who refuses to believe her three daughters when they tell her that her boyfriend is sexually molesting them until the youngest dies from a botched abortion touches a nerve that crosses class and cultural experiences. "Cyclonic action-from angry, tearful parental outbursts to almost knock-about farce-a sometimes hilarious, often searing panorama of black urban America in the 1990s. . . . Everybody identifies with the characters."-N.Y. Post. Winner of the 1997 Jean Dalrymple Award for Best New Playwright. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#27610) . AND THE RAIN CAME TO MAYFIELD. (All Groups.) Drama. Jason Milligan. 6 m., 3 f. lnt. A poetic family drama, this play takes place in a small gas stationlluncheonette on a Mississippi highway in 1962. The owner's son Carl dreams of going to college but his alcoholic father does not support these aspirations and his mother referees a desperate tug-of-war between the them. One afternoon, a young black man appears in the doorway seeking shelter while he waits for the bus to Jackson. On this Mississippi day, the two young men discover that they share a need to establish their independence and follow thier dreams. Carl's father reacts violently when he finds the black man in his establishment, but Carl stands up to his father for the first time in his life. "Promises to challenge your ideas about family, the South, civil rights, and growing up." -Birmingham News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#3156) ANOTHER TIME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Harwood. 6 m., 3 f. 2 ints. Albert Finney starred in London and Chicago in this play by the author of The Dresser and Interpreters. He played two roles: the adult Leonard Lands, a South African pianist, and Ike, Leonard's father. In Act I, Leonard's mother is finally able to send him overseas for a proper musical education after Ike dies. Act II takes place thirty-five years later. Leonard is in a London recording studio with hisalienated teenaged son (played by the actor who was Leonard in Act I). The son wants to return to South Africa, a place Leonard will not go because of the political situation. For Leonard there is no meaning outside of his music; for his son there is no life in England and he, like his father, must follow his own destiny. "Solid, intelligent, ingeniously-constructed. . . . Has a sure sense of both the comedy and the pathos." -Sund(l)' Telegraph. "Gives us something so subtle- in its celebration of the human spirit's mysterious capacity to triumph . . . that we leave the theatre moved as much to euphoria as to tears."-Daily Mail. "Marvelous."-Chicago SunTimes. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#3148) ARISTOCRATS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 6 m., 3 f. Comb. int.lext. The O'Donnell family, once the aristocracy of their Irish village, are in reduced circumstances. They have gathered at the crumbling family manse for a wedding. As the patriarch lies dying in his upstairs bedroom and addled old Uncle George wanders in and out, the grown-up children sort out the truth about the family's past, present and future. They must face the fact that the Squires O'Donnell of Ballybeg are about to be no more. "A lovely play, funny and harrowing."-N.Y. Times. "Poignant, moving."-N.Y. Daily News. "Gently provocative and vastly entertaining."-N.Y. Post. "Mr. Friel makes the Irish condition synonymous with the human one."-N.Y. Times. "Somber and elegiac but shrewd; touchingly funny and full of a brooding but hard-edged melancholy."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$40.) (#3139) THE AWARD AND OTHER PLAYS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Warren Manzi. 6 m., 3 f. Int. When these one-acts were produced Off Broadway in New York, they were hailed as plays that bend your perceptions of theatre. In One for the Money a man walks in asking the audience for donations. What does he really want? Moroccan Travel Guide is a visceral show-and-tell journey that begins in a boat in a dark cave. In The Queen of the Parting Shot a woman desperately searches for an old memory. A runner-up contestant in The Audiition is asked to give his second-prize performance. In the last selection, a soap opera star turned stage actor is alone in his apartment lamenting losing The Award on the night of the ceremony. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 for two or more plays or $20-$15 per play.) The Award and Other Plays (#3722) One for the Money (#17715)

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BOTTOMS UP! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Gregg Kreutz. 6 m., 3 f. Comb. int. "Suitcase, suitcase, who's got the suitcase?" is the urgent question in this hilarious farce set in a Caribbean hotel. One composite set represents the hotel's lobby, elevator, and second floor. The comedy charts the confusion that occurs when June, an earnest aerobics instructor, unknowingly acquires the cash-filled suitcase of two money launderers from Cleveland. Their attempts to retrieve it cause a soft-core movie director to mistake June for the next star of his basement-budget production Tan All Over. Then he discovers the money and joins the convoluted efforts to get the suitcase. Interference is provided by his former star who is now an outraged moralist, a nervous chemistry instructor visiting the island under duress, the hotel owner and her sticky-fingered nephew. Wild chases, bizarre disguises, and the silliest looking aerobics dance ever make this a truly riotous farce. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (4195) BROTHER TRUCKERS. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy/Melodrama. Georg Osterman. 5 m., 4 f. Comb. int. Brooklyn born Lech Fabrinski intends to succeed in the garbage business he owns with his brother and marry Billie, but a Park Avenue heiress wants Lech for herself---even if she has to kill to get him. Though set in contemporary New York City, the dialogue parodies 1940's film noir with humor that rests on classic set-ups with knock-down punches, some groaners and plenty of modern side-splitters. The situations are a ridiculous mirror image of life in the fast and slow lanes. "The best of everything that earns The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. its name comes together in ... this double-barreled blast of talent."-Variety. "A stiletto-sharp parody."-Back Stage. "Its sizzling put-downs ricochet around the silver stage with a serpent-tongued bitchiness that would make Dorothy Parker seem as mild-mannered as Whistler's Mom."-N.Y. Post. "Hilarious camp."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40). (#4734) COUNTRY CLUB. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. W. Randolph Galvin. 5 m., 4 f. 1 set. Interweaving characters with old elegance with new money, this is a classic story of double dealing, loyalty, love and hatred. Personalities' reveal themselves as the characters intermingle at play and sport until everything is exposed. Country Club is an actor's dream and an audience's delight. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5791) DARLING MR. LONDON. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Anthony Marriott and Bob Grant. 3 m., 6 f. Int. Despite his hobby of fighting battles with toy soldiers, Edward is a mild person and he is about to experience an evening he will never forget. He works at the Continental Telephone Exchange where his pompous brother-in-law is his supervisor. Edward often "chats up" women operators in various exchanges. These affairs by proxy suddenly explode in his face when four glamorous females travel to London to compete in the Miss Europhone Contest and arrive at this home anxious to meet the flirtatious Mr. London in the flesh. Hilarious complications ensue as Edward strives to conceal his telephonic peccadilloes from his wife, his appalling mother-in-law and his lodger, an ardent curate. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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ELEKTRA. (Advanced Groups.) Verse Drama. Sophocles. Translated and adapted by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming. 4 m., 5 f. Ext. This muscular version of the great Greek revenge drama is extremely playable for modern audiences. "It is extremely actable."-N.Y. Times. $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in translations by Frank McGuinness and by Nicholas Rudall, see index under Electra. (#7083) FAITH COUNTY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Mark Landon Smith. 3 m., 6 f. Int. A colorful set of good 01' folk gather for the county fair, and there's stiff competition in the arts and crafts category. There's an inspirin' poetry readin' by Faye McFaye, Mildred's ceramic depiction of The Last Supper, Ruthann's divinity (and rum) cake, Naomi's chic hair stylin' and Violet's appliqued toilet seat covers! And bein' spring, luuuuuv is in the air! Originally produced for radio, Faith County enjoyed a thirtyfive-week run on WLYK and national notoriety before being adapted for the stage. "Hilarious." -Studio Theatre. "We received standing ovations!" -Bowbells Community Theatre. "Hilarious-prepare yourself for non-stop laughter!" -Foundation of Arts. $5.25. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Tape with original music and the "Faith County (#7986) Theme Song," $9.95. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gip Hoppe. Music by Jay Hagenbuckle. 6 m., 3 f. Int. A comfortable, suburban family man receives a desperate call from a forgotten childhood acquaintance. Thus starts a journey into madness that takes Ed Allen to the House of Usher and its terrible secrets and temptations. This modern adaptation of the classic short story by Edgar Allen Poe transports Gothic horror into the 90s, questioning the definition of sanity in the same way Poe did. This is an exhilarating theatrical adventure with an apocalyptic ending. Actors and designers will be challenged in new ways in this unpredictable and wildly entertaining play. $6.50. Cassette with cue sheet, $32.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Use ofthe music is not mandatory but will enhance productions. (#7991) (Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) FAMILY VALUES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jason Milligan. 6 m., 3 f. Simply suggested sets. Meet Vinnie and Anne-Marie, an all-American, upwardly mobile Mafia couple who have it all: a beautiful home, plenty of money and successVinnie is about to become a made man. On the eve of his official induction into the crime family, his world crashes down in a chaotic series of darkly comic events. He commits the worst transgression imaginable when he accidently runs over the Boss's six-year-old heir. The boy is barely injured but Vinnie is in deep trouble. His fanatic efforts to remedy his blunder reveal the high price of being part of the "Family." Published with Men in Suits and Any Friend of Percy D'Angelino Is a Friend of Mine in Men in Suits: Three Plays About the Mafia, $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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DA YS WITHOUT END. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 5 m., 4 f. Var. ints. John Loving is engaged in a life-and-death conflict with the sneering, cynical element of his psyche which has poisoned his past life, made him prey to false gods, and now seeks to destroy him through suicide. He seeks absolution and his tormentor perishes at the foot of the Cross. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. 3, $40.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6166) DEATH OF A DON. (All Groups.) Comedy/Mystery. Ronald Myroup. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Godfather Don Giovanni clings to the traditions of a bygone era. He is at a Louis XIV desk in a room filled with bean bag chairs. The tired crime lord must battle a pudgy daughter who wants to be a rock star, a son who writes bad poetry, an older daughter for whom he is arranging a marriage and his eldest son who thinks they should invest in a 976 franchise. Even his wife is tired of black dresses, no vacations and blood-splattered laundry. It's King Lear meets The Godfather. When the don is murdered during his daughter's wedding, everyone is under suspicion. Add a reluctant groom, an angry mistress, a missing will and a secret passageway and you have a one-set, two-act shotgun wedding Italian style! $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) THE FATHER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Strindberg. Adapted by Robert Brustein. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Paper, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in translations by John Osborne and by Harry G. Carlson, see Index. Please state translator when ordering. (#8943) FIGHTING CHANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. N.J. Crisp, 5 m., 4 f. Var. simple ints. Based on the author's experiences, Fighting Chance is set in a rehabilitation center for neurological patients. It charts the progress of five patients over eight weeks. These five demonstrate humor, frustration, anger and pity and they help each other throughout this funny, touching and ultimately optimistic play. "A smashing hit."-Waterbury Republican/American. "The play is painstaking in its detail. . . . It documents the medical process with humanity and humor." -N. Y. Times. "Both amusing and moving.... A courageous, compassionate play."-London Standard. "A most remarkable play ... spiced with bravado humor and black comedy." -London Stage. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8675) FLYING FEATHERS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Derek Benfield. 3 m., 6 f. Int. When Chief Constable Henry Potterton and his sister arrive at the peaceful country house of their late, lamented brother Bernard, they are astonished to find several scantilyclad ladies wandering about. During Bernard's visit to a religious comrnune~ his housekeeper turned the place into a "house of sin" and now she hastily tries to hide the truth. This leads to hilarious comings and goings, and when Bernard turns up alive, the household is thrown into further chaos. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy thriller. Georg Osterman. 3 m., 5 f., I m. or f. to playa monkey. 2 sets. "Secret Psycho Seized" reads the headline of the Coxsackie Tattler. A mild-mannered librarian has brutally butchered sixteen and one-half people. The distinguished pneuro-physicist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes this is a case of a rare theoretical disease called quantum synaptic dualism. He ingests a special concoction that changes the good doctor into a loathsome stand-up comedian whose act trades on violence, misogyny, homophobia and ethnic slurs. Reset in Coxsackie, U.S.A, this is not the story that Robert Louis Steverisonwrote. Even the moral of the tale is altered when Jekyll's noble selfsacrifice is vanquished by Hyde's towering corruption. $6.50: (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please specify author when ordering. (#6725) DOWNWINDER DANCE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Gary Stewart. 7 m., 2 f. Unit set. Here is a wondrous comic tale of two peculiar people who find romance in a mysterious old bam near a nuclear test site. Downwinder Dance is a beautifully constructed and fast paced play about nurturing the flame of hope and life in the face of nightmarish government deceit and destruction. "Downwinder Dance comes across as a delightful ballet, twirling and twisting its way from the stage and into the heart of its audience."-Terre Haute Tribune Star. "Opens a window onto a com-

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FOUR OUR FATHERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Jon Klein. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. Christopher Steiner is taking a sabbatical from teaching to sing his songs in a local restaurant. Guitar in hand, he freezes and his mind drifts to his Catholic childhood in Kentucky. Flash-backs portray Christopher growing up and trying to answer the big questions. "Klein is a skillful writer; his language has a style and tone ... and comic perspective."-Seattle Times. "Very funny."-Twin Cities Reader. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8680) THE GARDEN PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Satire. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Vera Blackwell. 6 m., 3 f. Int. Officials of the Offices for Opening are at war with those from the Offices for Closing. Hugo Pludek, caught in the middle of their power struggle, is entrusted with a special task: to build a new office for The Central Commission for Opening and Closing. In The Garden Party and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty $60-$40.) (#8993)

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Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain, here is a light-hearted yet probing look at the chasm between the sexes and the bridges built to overcome it. Audiences love to take sides and, just like the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, they will find ample common ground. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#12642)
THE LADY IN QUESTION. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 5 m., 4 f. Int., ext. w. insert. This hilarious spoof of trashy damsel-in-distress-vs.-Nazis movies packed them in Off Broadway, where the irrepressible author starred as Gertrude Garnet, renowned pianist and world-class hedonist. On tour in Bavaria, Gertrude finds her Nazi hosts charming until she joins Professor Maxwell in plotting to free his mother from the Fuhrer's minions. They fall in love and, of course, there is a desperate dash on skis to the Swiss border. This send-up is so witty and wellconstructed that it is equally entertaining when Gertrude is played by a woman. "Bewitchingly entertaining. I couldn't have had a better time."-N.Y. Post. "Hilarious."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Roya1ty, $75-$50.) (#14182) THE LAST TEN MILES OF A VERY J. COPING. (All Groups.) Comic drama. Doug Delaney. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. After a lifetime of globetrotting, an aging invalid finds himself in a tiny Kansas town under the care of his domineering sister. This rewarding play has delighted audiences from coast to coast. "Award-winning playwright Doug Delaney turns the brackish water of human tragedy into the sparkling wine of high comedy. . . . Avery J. Coping explores the dark side of a fatal illness, illuminating it with wit, wisdom and lyric cadence."-Ponte Vedra Recorder. "Drives a comedic stake through the ugly black heart of small town Americana, with its backwater mores, archaic ideals and neurotic characters. It is a thoughtprovoking play that is also very funny and endearing. Delancy has injected guffaw producing humor into a serious play with such finesse, he effectively drives home his premise without pretension."-First Coast Entertainer. $6.50. ($60-$40.)

THE GIFT OF THE GORGON. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Peter Shaffer. 4 m., 5 f., plus other small roles. Comb. int., ext or unit set. The death of a playwright occasions a visit to his widow by an American academic, the playwright's unacknowledged son, who wishes to write a biography. The widow will agree only if he agrees to tell the whole story: a drama of passionate love, achievement, and estrangement and retribution. At question is a modern dilemma: how can contemporary society exact retribution from the perpetrators of appalling violence? "The best thing Shaffer has done since Amadeus." --Guardian. "Shaffer is one of those writers who can really hit you in the gut while simultaneously finding a dramatic structure to contain and propel his anger."-Time Out. "A brilliant play."-London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Restricted. (#9175) HOME IS WHERE YOUR CLOTHES ARE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Anthony Marriott and Bob Grant. 5 m., 4 f. Int. When the Major's wife Elizabeth runs off with Ronald, he decides to solve his financial problems by renting the basement flat in her house to different tenants simultaneously. Jill works in Brussels and uses the London flat on weekends while Philip, a lawyer, only stays there during the week. The Major simply swaps belongings at the beginning and end of each week. Everything runs smoothly until Jill is unexpectedly given a vacation and is still at the apartment when Philip arrives. Further complications arise when Elizabeth and Ronald return. The Major's resourcefulness is stretched to the breaking point when Elizabeth rents the flat to yet another person. After a hilarious round of mistaken identities, awkward confrontations and hectic misunderstandings, all ends happily for the Major and the assorted tenants. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10698) HUNTING COCKROACHES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka. 7 m., 2 f. (doubling possible). Int. The Manhattan Theatre Club had a hit with this off-beat comedy about a contemporary immigrant couple from Poland who are having a hard time in their strange new country. Anka, a wellknown actress in Warsaw, can't get work because of her accent; Jan, a writer, is struggling with writer's block. As they try to get some sleep, flash-backs bring characters from their past crawling from beneath the bed. "Extremely funny and exhilarating."-Newhouse Newspapers. "Mordantly funny."-Newsday. "A quintessentially brash, delightful play."-N.Y. Times. "One of the funniest comedies I have seen in years."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available: Acting with a Polish Accent Dialect (CD and Manual), $21.95. (#10166) I SHOT MY RICH AUNT. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Mark Chandler. 4 m., 5 f. This rollicking romp is a melange of off-the-wall farce and near-murder mystery. Every role is a gem. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine-who said the place was on fire? Endless belly-laughs precede the utterly insane finale. $6.50. (Royalty, (#11103) $50-$40.) IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gardner McKay. 7 m., 2 f. or 5 m., 2 f. Int. Tom Vickery has a secret. Or did. Twenty years ago he wrote a play that his agent, Morris Bonecream, told him was too personally embarrassing to produce. Tom set fire to him. Bonecream sued Tom for arson. Tom disappeared. He is presumed dead, but in reality is living in the Maine woods bottling cranberry brandy and married to Gemma Jones, a woman who knows nothing of his past. Suddenly, Bonecream appears; Tom's play is a huge hit in London under an Englishman's name, Dunlop Sablehand. Bonecream needs Tom's script as evidence to get his commission from the plagiarist. Ge.mma reads the play and leaves Tom. A character from the play, Shelley Vickery, turns up. She straightens Tom out. The hired man falls in love with her. Gemma comes back to Tom. Bonecream finds God, or someone like him. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#11111) INFIDELITIES! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Revised and Updated. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milrnore. 5 m.,4 f. Unit set. "Everything we do in life is based on getting laid!" That's the opening line and the undoing of the lead character in this hilarious romantic comedy by the authors of Drop Dead and Love, Sex and the I.R.S. Harold Stang, a playwright obsessed with sex, Charlie Chaplin and pastrami sandwiches meets Kelly Carroll, an aspiring actress obsessed with him. Their love story is told via flashbacks, fantasy scenes and monologues in which five actors play 36 roles. The work is a wonderful showcase for the actor who stars as Harold, whose life is one long bedroom farce .. "Blends one-liners worthy of Neil Simon, a bittersweet Woody Allenesque undertone, and an observational stand-up style it la Jerry Seinfeld. A rich and rewarding harmony! A comedy that sings to you long after its last laugh fades !"-Asbury Park Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11049) JUDGE AND JURY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mark Dunn. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Love and war rage in a Texas small claims court. As love blooms between Judge Harriet Kerr and Constable Jay Weiss behind closed chamber doors, war erupts i'n the jury room as six jurors square off over a case involving former lovers with heavy grudges. The result is a spirited, riotous debate on man's inhumanity to woman and vice-versa-a veritable battle of the sexes with a Texas twang. Written by the author of Belles and

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LOVE BY THE NUMBERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic romance. Ernest Joselovitz with Harry Michael Bagdasian. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Todd Dobson, computer honcho from New York City, is in the small town of Willowdale to install a computer system in Hiram Paige's library. He falls head-over-heels in love with the library assistant. Todd proposes right then and there and, to her own surprise, Harriet invites him home to face her family. Confronted with Harriet's almost-engaged-to boyfriend Mitch, sister Judith Ann's casseroles, grandmother Hortense who has her eye on Hiram, and a mother who never smiles, Todd realizes this isn't going to be easy. This lighthearted comedy about love in the computer age reminds us that laughter makes love sweet, that there are still large pleasure in small-town life, and that a loving family can still make the most important word in the world "home." $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14202) THE MANDRAKE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Machiavelli. Adapted by Eric Bentley and Frederick May. Various sets. 5 m., 4 f. The only authentic stage version of this ribald comedy-Machiavelli's only play-follows the antics of an aging man who tries to cure his wife of sterility and is cuckolded by the fake doctor. In The Servant of Two Masters and Other Italian Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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MEET MY HUSBANDS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 5 f. Int. This comic look at advertising and the media finds Elaine Scott, an advertising executive whose position is in jeopardy, in Florida to meet the Mulgrews, European clients she must sell on adopting her agency's campaign for their Swiss Mountain Sausages. Mulgrew insists that the campaign and all those connected with it must reflect wholesome family values. After Elaine hires a beach bum, Tim Billings, to pose as her spouse, her new husband arrives at the hotel. The balcony between suites becomes a comic causeway with the sausage campaign handing in the balance. Who IS Tim Billings? Why is that newspaper woman prying about? Why has Elaine's opportunistic former husband appeared on the scene? And will the sales pitch succeed? A multiple surprise ending caps this hilarious foray into the world of advertising. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15552) LES MISERABLES. See Victor Hugo's Les Miserables PHAEDRA. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Jean Racine. Translated by Robert Lowell. 3 m., 5 f., extras. In The Misanthrope and Other French Classics, $10.95. (Royalty, $50(#18066) $35.) PHEDRE. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Jean Racine. Translated in rhymed alexandrine couplets by William Packard. 3 m., 5 f., extras. "Fidelity to the original in clarity, choice of words, and verse structure. . . . Strong passions and dignity through catastrophe."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. "Perhaps the most civilized great tragedy ever written."-Eric Bentley. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#841) PHAEDRA BRITANNICA. (Advanced Groups.) Verse drama. Tony Harrison. 5 m., 4 f., plus extras. I set. Originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain starring Diana Rigg, this ingenious transposition of Racine's Phaedra to 19th century Raj India was equally acclaimed in New York City at CSC Repertory. "Aabsolutelyenthralling. . . . The old Greek tragedy of Phaedra . . . works extraordinarily well in the steamy landscape of an India seen through the narrow eyeslits of Victorian society. The story seen through this arresting perspective-with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over from the Greek furies-takes on a special vibrancy. Do not miss this eroticism Anglo-Indian style."-N.Y. Post. In

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FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS TALK RADIO. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Eric Bogosian. Based on an original idea by Tad Savinar. 7 m., 2 f., plus offstage voices. Int. Barry Champlain, Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow, the show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid something will offend the sponsors. This makes Barry even more outrageous. Off-beat and funny, Talk Radio had a long run at New York's Public Theatre starring the author. "A compelling work that. . makes the call-in show a metaphor for America's lost souls."-N.Y. Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Over 200 optional slides available on loan upon receipt of a $100 refundable deposit. (Cost of making slides for production must be paid by producing group.) Slightly Restricted. (#22619) TOUR DI EUROPA (All Groups.) Drama-Comedy. Jules Tasca. 5 m., 4 f. (doubling possible). Int. A full evening of related vignettes that follow a bus load of colorful Americans through Europe. "Charming . . . entertainment!"-Ashland Daily Tidings. See Index under A Day in the Night of Rose Arden, Passion Comedy, Swiss Miss, The Best Souveniers, Going to the Catacombs, The Stop at the Palace and Escape fur descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$60.) (#22180) V AND V ONLY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jim Leonard, Jr. 7 m., 2 f. Int. The "V and V Coffee Shop" in New York's Little Italy is more than a place to grab a quick cup of espresso; it's a place to pass the time with the proprietor, who is lonely since his wife left. In addition, he is facing heart surgery and his building is being sold so he is about to lose his lease. "Thoroughly polished and eminently satisfying. . . . An even better play than Leonard's The Diviners."-Daily Pilot. "We read newspaper stories all the time about the economy shifting, the underclass growing and the gap between the haves and the have-nots increasing. Here is a carefully observed, sensitive but unsentimental play that movingly dramatizes that situation." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24010) VICTOR HUGO'S LES MISERABLES. (All Groups.) Drama. Adapted for the stage by Jonathan Holloway. 6 m., 3 f. (with doubling.) Various sets. Victor Hugo's passionate and epic tale of social injustice, class conflict, love and revolt in nineteenth-century France is brought to life an this intense adaptation. Using a small cast, simple and flexible settings, and clear, uncluttered storytelling with a strong political sensibility, the play follows its many vividly-drawn characters through a story spanning several years with pace and economy. "[AJ triumph of imagination." Evening Standard. $8.95..(Royalty, $75-$50.) (#7311) WILD DUST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Flip Kobler. I m .. 8 f., plus I m. extra. Int. Remember when the west was wild, the women were soft and the men were brave? Well, think again 'cause the worst dust storm of the 1800s is about to hit town and the men have all skedaddled! They're driving their precious cattle to safe shelter, leaving the women to fend for themselves. Tensions nare and sparks ny when society ladies are forced to take refuge with fallen women in the only safe building in town, the brothel. Now a lone cowboy stumbles in-a mysterious stranger who mayor may not be a U.S. Marshal. That's just terrific since the women are trying to dispose of a body before anyone discovers the murder! As the storm kicks into high gear, it pales to the tempest brewing inside. For three days the ladies and the drifter are forced to face each other and their own inner ghosts. Feminism meets machismo and both are stripped bare as everyone fights the roles in which society has them pegged. Love, self-esteem and a healthy dose of laughter are the results. Yee-haw! This is a rip-roarin' good time: a western for the '90s. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25696) ZOYA'S APARTMENT. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Mikhail Bulgakov. Translated by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dwyer. 6 m., 3 f.. plus extras. I set. This famous play by the noted Russian playwright was given its New York premiere at Circle-in-the-Square. The apartment is a brothel in Moscow and Zoya is the brassy madam, indefatigable in her desire to leave Soviet society behind and emigrate to Paris. The brothel's front is that of a dressmaking shop-and her girls are "models." Mayhem ensues when the police raid one of Zoya's "fashion shows," trashing the apartment. Now, she really must leave. "A satire about survival in the Soviet bureaucratic Eden. Now that Eden is breaking into a million pieces, the play again has a certain relevance." -N. Y. Post. "An astute observation of human ingenuity in conflict with clumsily determined bureaucracy, Zoya's Apartment runs a course from broad farce to lethal melodrama. "--Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty,60-$40.) . (#28909) LADIES FIRST. (All Groups.) Comedy. Robert Gerlach and James McDonald. 9 f., Int. In this comedy by the authors of Something's Afoot, Jackie Kennedy is very nervous on an afternoon in January, 1962. She has completed the restoration of the White House and has invited Eleanor, Bess, Mamie, Pat and Lady Bird to give their opinions. And do they ever! They criticize the way she runs the White House and take her to task for being uninvolved politically. When Mrs. Roosevelt commands her to head the crusade for women's rights, a hilarious political hurricane ensues. Each discovers something about herself, her relationship with her husband, and how touching and funny it can be to hold the highest non-paying job in the U.S.A. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14912) BREAKING THE CODE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Hugh Whitemore. 7 m., 2 f. Unit set. Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German

PILOTS OF THE PURPLE TWILIGHT. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Steve Kluger. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Here is a comedy of manners set in the first-class smoking lounge of the Titanic on the night she took fifteen hundred people into the depths. It highlights the nobility of those who chose, for varying reasons, to remain on board. Ida Straus could not let her beloved husband of thirty-nine years die alone. To John Jacob Astor, the richest man in the world, the self-sacrifice was a matter of etiquette. Discrimination played a part for those like Thomas Kilgannon, an agricultural laborer from County Galway who was locked below in steerage with other immigrants until all of the lifeboats were full of first and second class passengers. Though some liberties are taken in bringing nine diverse personalities together on the night that most of them would perish, their individual stories are accurate and have long since become legends, if only to their own families. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18692) THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND. (All Groups.) Farce. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., 3 f. Int. Rave reviews greeted this long one-act masterpiece of farce when it was recently revived in London with Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second-stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first-string critic. As mists rise about Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. "[One of] the funniest and most brilliant short plays in the language."-Lolldon Sunday Times. "Pure hilarity.. . Some of Stoppard's best writing." -International Herald Tribune. "What absurd fun." -Evening Standard. "A tour de force of theatrical metaphysics."-Daily Mail. "A masterpiece. . . . Stoppard mines murder mystery conventions and strikes gold." -Independent 011 Sunday. "Zanily, crazily funny."-N.Y. Times. "Comedy satire of delightful quality."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#117) SHADOWLANDS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. William Nicholson. 6 m., 2 f., I m. child. Ints., exts. (simply suggested) or unit set. This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis, Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, and American poet Joy Davidman. Jack Lewis is smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence. "Engrossing, entertaining . . . literate, well-crafted and discreetly brilliant."-N.Y. Post. "1 loved it. "-WNBC-TV. "Poignant, powerful, intelligent theatre, witty and extraordinarily written."-WABC-TV. Winner, 1990 London Evening Standard Award, Best New Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#21105) THE SISTERHOOD. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Moliere. Translated by Ranjit Bolt. 6 m.,3 f. Int. This audacious adaptation of Les Femmes Savantes, Moliere's mischievous farce inditing intellectual ladies of the salons, is liberally peppered with contemporary allusions which put it firmly in the present. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21167) SPIRIT OF HISPANIA. (All Groups.) Drama-Comedy. Jules Tasca, adapted from Hispanic tales. This collection includes five short plays that explore Latin-American mythology for all ages and cultures. *Maria: 4 m., 2 f. or 1m., 1 f. An old man falls in love with a young girl and they ask a witch to close the age gap. The Baker's Neighbor: 4 m., 4 f. A greedy baker takes his neighbor's nostrils for filling up on the smells of his cakes and breads. La Liorona: 5 m., 3 f. This ghost story tells of a Spanish nobleman who has many children by a foreigner and cannot marry her. Repaying Good with Evil: 6 m., 6 f. A conniving alligator convinces a ranchero to help him out of a dry river bed and then repays him by promising to eat him. The Rabbit Who Wanted to Be a Man: 9 m. or 9 f. (doubling possible). All Sr. Conejo wanted was to be a farmer. He certainly did not expect so much trouble. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $20-$20 per play.) Spirit of Hispania (#21933) Maria (#14939) The Baker's Neighbor (#3947) La Liorolla (#14597) Repaying Good with Evil (#20926) The Rabbit Who Wanted to Be a Mall (#19973) STAND-UP TRAGEDY . (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bill Cain. Original music by Craig Sibley. 9 m. Unit set. Tom Griffin teaches Hispanic boys at a Catholic school on New York's lower east side. He tries to rescue one student: Lee Cortez, a talented artist trapped in a violent environment. Lee's home life is startlingly presented as the actor playing him also portrays his slatternly mother and his violent brother. Lee is murdered by his brother, a jealous maniac who can't stand to see him transcend the forces dragging him down. Territic rap numbers are interspersed with the collagelike scenes, providing a students'-eye-view of the world. "A stunner."-N.Y. Post. "Wonderful dialogue." -N. Y. Daily News. "A timely combination of style and substance. . . . A gritty verismo entertainment about battered ideals."-N.Y. Newsday. "The material in the play is not new, but Mr. Cain presents it with uncommon honesty and ample humor."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music Tape also available; please write for information. (#21932) THE TAKING OF MISS JANIE. (Black Groups.) Drama. Ed Bullins. 5 m., 4 f. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22016)

CHARACTERS maneuvers. Since his work was classified top-secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code-the taboo against homosexuality. Turing, who was also the first to conceive of computers, was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and sentenced to undergo hormone treatments which left him physically and mentally debilitated. He died a suicide, forgotten and alone. This play is about who he was, what happened to him and why. "Powerful, rivetting drama."-N.Y. Daily News. "Elegant and poignant."-Time Magazine. "The most important serious play of the season."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4168)

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the building AIDS plague. "Even more than the original production, this one illuminates a poignant, quieter patter of longing to connect in a world that keeps building new walls among people. . . . It has the fraught urgency of a dispatch from a war zone, given extra sharpness by reminding you that this same war is still being fought." N.Y Times. "An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "Like the best social playwrights, Kramer produces a cross-fire of life and death energies that illuminate the many issues and create a fierce and moving human drama. "-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty $60-$40.) (#788) COME BACK TO THE 5 AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Ed Graczyk. 1 m., 8 f. Int. In a small-town dime store in West Texas, the Disciples of James Dean gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived by Dean on the set; the child is the Jimmy Dean of the title. The ladies' reminiscences mingle with flash-backs to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning and momentarily unrecognized woman sets off a series of confrontations that upset their self-deceptions and expose their well-hidden disappointments. "Full of homespun humor [and] ... surefire comic gems."-N.Y. Post. "Captures convincingly the atmosphere of the 1950s."-WW.D. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#5147) THE SHADOW BOX. (All Groups.) Drama. Michael Cristofer. 5 m., 4 f. Int. In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The play dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality of their condition-a preordained future whose only imponderable is its exact length. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends. "An important, touching and courageous play. . . . Triumphantly turns up. . . . Cristofer writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good Broadway play with meaty roles for actors."-N.Y. Times. "Thunders with life. "-ABC-TV. "By far the finest play of the New York season, beautifully realized drama of sensitive perceptions often as funny as it is moving."-Washington Post. "Extraordinary. An overwhelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny."-Boston Globe. Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.). Posters (#130) MORNING'S AT SEVEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Paul Osborn. 4 m., 5 f. Ext. Two of the Gibb sisters have lived next to one another most of their lives-and each of the four sisters know intimately the lives of the others. To Ida's house comes Myrtle, a spinster friend who's been about to marry Ida's son Homer for many years. But Homer can't break away from home long enough to pop the question. Myrtle, now at an age where she feels she'll have to take things into her own hands, finally makes him propose by telling him a secret. This charming portrait of smalltown America fifty-plus years ago was revived on Broadway in 1980 and in 2002 to critical acclaim. "It came back in total triumph. . . . Absolutely entrancing. . . . See this lovely play."-N.Y. Post. "An absolute charmer. . . . Four sisters, Chekhov would have smiled. So will you, and laugh out loud at times too."-N.Y. Daily News. "Wonderful. . Still has charm to burn.'-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15130) EQUUS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Peter Shaffer. 5 m., 4 f., 6 actors to play horses. 1 set. A psychiatrist is confronted with a boy who has blinded six horses. To the horse's owner the horror is simple: he was unlucky enough to employ a 'loony.' To the boy's parents it is a hideous mystery. To the doctor it should be a psychological puzzle to be untangled to alleviate pain, but it grows into a complex and disturbing confrontation that exposes man's need to worship and the distortions forced on that need by society. "Makes the stage a place of breathless discovery."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Three music tapes available upon receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $25 per production.) Posters (#57) MOVE OVER, MRS. MARKHAM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ray Cooney and John Chapman. 4 m., 5 f. Compo set. To Sylvie it's the "goose" that she learned from Alistair, but to Philip, Joanna Markham's husband, it's "a variety of geese," and fifteen years of marriage is just about undone along with everything else in this wild zany free-for-all. Everything from Philip's business deals with Bow-Wow Books and Alistair's near escape from Joanna's chiding seduction to the naked G.P.O. girl and the specter of scandal is hilarious. A lot of bedhopping occurs as Sylvie winds up taking Alistair on "walkies" and the amazing Mrs. Markham gets her man-her husband! It all takes place in an elegant top-floor London flat in London. "A riot. The laughter hit of the year. . . . I never stopped laughing."-The People. "The dialogue is risque and amusing . . . . Splendid."-London Sunday Express. "You're a riot Mrs. M. . . . A slick, frantic riot of an evening." -Daily Sketch. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#707) A THURBER CARNIVAL. (Little Theatre.) Revue. James Thurber. 5 m., 4 f. (more if desired). Winner of a special Tony Award, this is a revue for those with no musical talent created by America's beloved humorist and first performed in New York by Tom Ewell, Peggy Cass, Paul Ford and Alice Ghostley. These sketches of tumbling American life include The Night the Bed Fell, Gentlemen Shoppers. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the unforgettable File and Forget in which Thurber recounts his famous correspondence with various publishers who ship him books which he never ordered. The Don Elliott Quartet played some of their modem compositions between scenes. "Of belly laughs there is abundance. . . . Small,

ABOUT FACE. (Little Theatre.) Political farce. Dario Fo. Translated by Ron Jenkins. 7 m., 2 f. (to play var. roles). Var. sets or unit set. Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, plans to replace 25,000 workers with robots when he has an automobile accident and is rescued by Antonio Berardi, a communist and one of the workers he has just sacked. A case of mistaken identity ensues as the mangled Agnelli is reconstructed by plastic surgeons into a dead-wringer for Antonio! Hilarity piles upon hilarity as government agents, terrorists and wives try to figure out who is who. "Fo's comic instinct and showmanship never let the message spoil a good show. . . . Lively slapstick fun. "-Variety. "Happily combines the Marxism of both Harpo and Karl. "-London Observer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3129) THE GENIUS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Howard Brenton. 5 m., 4 f. Var. sets. Leo Lerner is an American mathematician who has discovered an equation which, if followed to its logical conclusion, would enable anyone to build a weapon which could annihilate mankind. He is hiding out from the Pentagon in the math department of an English university when he learns that a first-year student has also come up with the equation! "Rich in pertinent argument, dense with beautifully hard and mobile characterization, teeming with memorable stage pictures and bristling with Brenton's very best writing; flinty, passionate and explosive."-London Financial Times. "Spiked with humor, power and pathos-a rich and enjoyable mixture."-London Broadcasting. "No one could accuse Howard Brenton of ducking the big issues."-London Guardian. In Benton Plays. Two, $12.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#9149) GOOSE AND TOMTOM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rabe. 7 m., 2 f. Int. The author of Hurlyburly again explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves united in a strangely unsettling friendship and the constant fight to prove to themselves and others how tough they are. But when their frantic scheming suddenly begins to betray them in mysterious ways, they find themselves trapped into a kidnapping and a murder over which they seem to have no control. Or do they? The language creates and re-creates reality in constantly surprising ways. magically dramatizing the danger of the power of illusions-and the illusion of power-with force and insight. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Restricted major cities & 75-mile radius of NYC. (#9144) BREEZEBLOCK PARK. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Willy Russell. 5 m., 4 f. 2 split-level sets. "Superior" council-house dwellers Betty, Reeny, Vera and their men regard themselves as a close-knit family team despite their concealed jealousies and occasional recriminations. When Betty's daughter Sandra announces she is pregnant and intends to live unmarried with her student lover, the news explodes like an atom bomb. This play is by the author of Educating Rita. "Consistently funny . . . . Should have no trouble attracting a large audience." -Variety. "Entertaining. . Authentic characters."-London Sunday Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#4169) SAID THE SPIDER TO THE SPY. (AU Groups.) Farce. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 5 f. Augusta Waycross borrows the identity and the Florida beach home of her friend, a best-selling romance author, touching off one of the funniest mistaken identities comedies ever written. A cache of Colombian heroin is left in the house by missing guest, attracting various characters to the location. A detective passes out after mistakenly overdosing on sleeping pills and drowsily awakes thinking he's Adele's husband, but so does a mysterious young man who keeps calling the Missing Persons Bureau to find out who he is. Augusta and a friend try to catch the drug king-pin, but the real Adele arrives and finds herself surrounded by men claiming to be her husband. Then, her husband shows up with and an odd couple from the women's club. Scene after hilarious scene culminate in revelations: who are these people and why are they pretending to be someone else. The characters ages can be varied to suit any audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21016) CINDERELLA WALTZ. (All Groups.) Comedy. Don Nigro, 4 m., 5 f. 1 set. Rosey Snow is trapped in a fairy tale world that is by turns funny and a little frightening, with her stepsisters Goneril and Regan, her demented stepmother, her lecherous father, a bewildered Prince, a fairy godmother who sings salty old sailor songs, a troll and a possibly homicidal village idiot. This play investigates the archetypal origins of the world's most popular fairy tale, contrasting the familiar and charming Perrault version with the darker, more ancient and disturbing tale recorded by the brothers Grimm. Grotesque farce and romantic fantasy blend in a fairy tale for adults. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5208) THE NORMAL HEART. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Larry Kramer. 8 m., I f. Unit set. This irresistibly passionate and defiant work become the renowned Public Theatre's longest running play in the 1980s. The much applauded revival 19 years later cements the searing drama's place as a benchmark in American theater. 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cozy, and completely captivating revue-a sheer delight."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "A joyous, magnificently lunatic festival" -N. Y. News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Note: Only material authorized for the production of this play may be used. Write for infonnation about music. Slides, $60.00. Posters (#115) SEE HOW THEY RUN. (All Groups.) Farce. Philip King. 6 m., 3 f. Int. So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the air force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who' 'touches alcohol for the first time in her life," four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, for disguised as one is an escaped prisoner, and a sedate Bishop agha~t at all these goings on and the trumped-up stories they tell him. "Breathless show, fast tempo, plenty of laughs."-Variety. "A positive riot, in all my fifty years in the theatre I've never heard such laughter."-Bernard W. Suss, Elitch Gardens, Denver. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#14) MIXED DOUBLES. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 4 f. and 5 m., 4 f.lnt. Two interwoven one-acts, Love Means Never Having to Say You're Forty and Leonard. these plays feature flexible casting since three characters appear in' both plays. In the first, a separated middle-aged couple are in the connecting suites of a Mexican motelto have a fling. Their accidental confrontation makes them realize the importance of their years together. In the farcical second act, a golden age couple, unmarried because of tax benefits, is in one suite and a group of inept heroin smugglers is in the other. "Perhaps the funniest of his plays." -Village Voice. "Mr. Carmichael has written double dialogue taking place in two rooms that is variously simultaneous, counterpoint, or identical in ways that are clever indeed. . . A playful view of the ageless problem of love . . . [with] clever dialogue."-Williamstown Mass. News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state author when ordering.
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FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS the only child of a fonner business associate of a rich mill owner in order to receive 10,000 pounds. Unfortunately, his efforts are thwarted and complicated by the arrival of the other claimants, creating some first cla~s and uproariously funny situations. "The public will love it and rightly so."-London Times. $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#17908) THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB. (Little Theatre.) Comic Drama. PJ. Barry. I m., 8 f. lnt. There are eight wonderful roles for women in this sentimental comedy about American life in a bygone era. On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second ten years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering' family and strike out on her own. Produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays and in New York, this is a charming play fm community theaters with actresses clamoring for good roles. "One of the most charming plays to come to the stage this season. . . . A delightful, funny, moving glimpse of the sort of lives we are all familiar with-our own."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#17056) EPISODE 26. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Howard Korder. 7 m., 2 f. (to play 21 roles). Unit set. Remember those glorious days of Saturday morning sci-fi serials at the local bijou: Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Here is an affectionate and extremely ingenious send-up of the genre. Our hero is Buzz Gatecrasher and he finds himself on the Planet Darvon with our sweetheart and his, Hillen Dale, and with Dr. Art Deco, the obligatory dotty scientist. Darvon is ruled by Vaknor, a cross between Darth Vader, Ming the Merciless and Dracula, who fancies himself Emperor of the Universe. With the help of Amo, the winged King of the Hawk People, Buzz vanquishes Vaknor and saves the universe-only to be reminded by the announcer that we all have to tune in next week for Episode 27! "90 Minutes of Fun."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan Chicago. (#7067) DONKEYS' YEARS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Frayn. 8 m., I f. 3 simple sets. This zany, hilarious farce was a London hit and won the West End Theatre Best Comedy Award of the year. At a reunion dinner at a "lesser college" of an "older university" are a number of graduates now in their early forties and mostly in responsible, influential positions. All starts smoothly with conventional greetings and old-boy reminiscences. A slightly discordant note is struck by Snell, a man of such insignificance that everyone has forgotten him, and continues to forget him from one moment to the next. As the night goes on, the college port causes behavior surprising in those in positions of political, academic or spiritual authority. Into the resulting bear-garden stumbles Lady Driver, the Master's wife who is short-sightedIy searching for the lost love of her youth. The insignificant Snell sees in her the chance to make up for all the opportunities of undergraduate life he missed before. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6106) VINEGAR TOM. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Caryl Churchill. Music by Helen Glavin. 2 m., 7 f. Unit set. This exciting early play by an acclaimed Obie Awardwinning author was created in association with a British feminist theatre who requested a play about witches. Although Vinegar Tom is set in the 16th or 17th century in rural England, it has a contemporary feel and may be staged very simply. It tells the story of two farm women who are named as witches by a man whom they have spumed sexually. The connection between fear of female sexuality and witchhysteria is shown to be at the root of many of society's problems. The music is published in the script. "Provocative theatre as well as a conscience-baring document."-N.Y. Times. "A fascinating piece, full of life."-N.Y. Post. "Powerful."-London Daily Mail. "Beautiful play."-LondoTl Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music Royalty, $10.00 per perfonnance. (#24038) KEEPING DOWN WITH THE JONESES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Chapman and Jeremy Lloyd. 5 m., 4 f., lnt. Geoffrey Jones, M.P. and sometime architect, is convinced that the Russians are about to launch a nuclear strike against England. He builds a bomb shelter equipped with everything he, his wife, and his wife's old mother will need to last out such a strike. They plan to try the thing out for a three week experimeHt when, inadvertently, they are trapped inside with the mother, the telephone installer and an Indian milkman. They try to make the best of the situation when who should enter through a side hatch but their next door neighbors who, ever striving to keep up with the Joneses, have now kept down with them by building their own abutting shelter. By a strange set of circumstances the neighbors are also trapped and neither neighbor wants to admit this to the other. Hilarious complications ensue until everyone gets out. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#13021) RUNNING RIOT. (All Groups.) Farce. Derek Benfield. 5 m., 4 f. lnt. A pathetic Yorkshire greengrocer flees to Europe in defiance of his domineering wife and is both mistaken for an Olympic athlete from whom big things are expected in the 5,000 meters and entangled in espionage. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20644) THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. (All Groups.) Farce. Monk Ferris. 4 m., 5 f. lnt. When world-famous portrait artist Bob Zachary plans a romantic evening to propose to April March, he doesn't figure on his plumber-chum posing as him to lure a Las Vegas chorine to the house for a tryst, fashion designer Pomona Beaumont showing up seeking her niece-debutante who is a client of Bob's, the niece ecstatically thinking that Bob is going to propose to her, a monstrous rejected suitor of April's showing up to wreak vengeance, Gloria's mother arriving to look for the missing

NEVER TOO LATE. (All Groups.) Farce. Sumner Arthur Long. 6 m., 3 f. Int. This Broadway hit is about a married man in his fifties who suddenly learns he's becoming a father again. His last child, a girl, was born 24 years ago and, considering the boob she married, he finds the prospect of another unthinkable. His daughter and son-in-law live with him; she gets up for breakfast at lunchtime and he is curiously addicted to solitaire. It's not only the impending birth that startles him; his previously meek little wife begins to lay down the law. There's to be a nursery, a new bath, and she's to have her own checking account. Such dour capitulation you'll never see again. "Good old-fashioned domestic farce . . . . plain and simple laughter." -N. Y. Daily News. "It fractured the first-nighters . . . They'll love it in community playhouses, college productions and high school senior plays."-N.Y. World-Telegram and Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#80) NIGHT MUST FALL. (All Groups.) Melodrama. New Revised Version. Emlyn Williams. 4 m., 5 f. Int. It is no secret that Danny, a bell hop who arrives at the Bramson bungalow, has already murdered one woman and there is little doubt that he will soon murder another-the aged owner of the house. He skillfully insinuates himself into her affections while preventing her niece-who has guessed his previous connections with murder-from giving him away. Dan is a dashing young assassin whom the niece finnly believes she hates, but as a matter of fact she is fascinated by him beyond measure. Dan is a selfish, self-centered psychopath with no feelings and a vast imagination. He is perpetually acting for his own edification the part of a murderer and is only unhappy because he cannot share his secret with the world. This play was produced in London and New York with Emlyn Williams and offers excellent opportunities for fme acting. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#763) AFTER CRYSTAL NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Hennan Shaner. 7 m. (1 teen), 2 f. Int. Seymour Goldstein's Beverly Hills household is in for an emotionpacked weekend. He has attended a meeting to determine whether Jewish militants should be allowed to speak to his B'nai B'rith lodge. The ramifications of this meeting cause everyone in the family and those close to it to confront their roots and question their lives. What could be the unraveling of an American Jewish family turns out to be its salvation. "Serious stuff, to be sure. Yet the great strength of After Crystal Night is its sustained comic tone."-L.A. Times. "Stunning. . A powerful drama."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3029) DENNIS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. James Ryan. 7 m., 2 f., Unit set. This rivetting factual drama about the relationship between two socially-committed political activists in the sixties culminates in the assassination of one by the other. Allard Lowenstein was a professor at Stanford who organized students to join a voter registration drive in the deep south. A student, Dennis Sweeney, joins the crusade and there his political consciollsness is fonned. Lowenstein eventually joined the political mainstream but Sweeney remained an outsider who drifted further and further into paranoia. Sweeney became convinced that Lowenstein was a ClAlFBI/Whatever agent and killed him. "Mr. Ryan retains an admirable sense of humor. . . . Some crackling scenes . . . open up some genuine issues."-N.Y. Times. "A gripping look at politics, power and murder. . . . Engrossing theatre."-Bergen Record. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6698) ONE FOR THE POT. (Little Theatre.)'Farce. Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton. 6 m., 3 f. I set. A highly successful farce which provides a hilarious evening's entertainment. this play revolves around a young man, Hickory Wood, who has to prove he is

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ously funny."-Greenwich Press-Post. "Full of laughs, absorbing and entertaining."-Times Argus, Montpelier. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#17054) SPELL #7. (Black Theatre Groups.) Choreopoem. Ntozake Shange. 4 m., 5 f,Int. This striking choreopoem by the author of For Colored Girls . .. is set in St. Louis in a bar frequented by Black artists and musicians. It is another meditation on the irony of being Black in a white world. The artists bare their souls in soliloquies, many of them illustrated by in-the-mood dances. "Spell #7 is humanely upbeat. In the end, [it] proclaims inner self-respect as the essential quality of Black pride and Black identity." -Christian Science Monitor. "Lovely and powerful." -N. Y. , Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21750) THE PREVALENCE OF MRS. SEAL. (All Groups.) Comedy. Otis Bigelow, 6 m., 3 f. Int. This marvelous send-up of grade-B horror flicks finds Mrs. Seal, an ancient and wealthy recluse, creepily ensconced in Seal Castle. She has invited three guests who claim to be able to provide her with immortality to compete for a prize of one billion dollars. The vampire and the evangelist are rejected in favor of the mad scientist to end all mad scientists, Dr. Porteous. He has developed a brain-switching technique and Mrs. Seal wants the body of her beautiful young ward to house her brain. The switch is made-and the fun begins because once Dr. Porteous gets started, it's hard to tum him off. Everyone's brain ends up in someone else's bodywhich makes this bizarre and delightful comedy a challenge for actors. "As quaint and crack-brained a creature feature as one might encounter in a year of Saturday movie matinees."-N.Y. Times. "A witty and well-crafted horror spoof . . . perfect summer stock fare."-N.Y. Post. "Off-beat and very funny."-Other Stages. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. (#18129) ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN. (Black Groups.) Drama. Charles Fuller. 6 m., 3 f. Compo int/ext. Zooman is scary. He is a Black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorizes blacks and whites. His most recent crime is the killing of a twelve-yearold black girl on a street filled with people-all of who are afraid to identify him. The girl's father puts up a sign accusing the community of cowardice, but his friends still won't step forward. Instead, they accuse Zooman of giving the Black community a bad name and threaten him with violence of their own. There is a showdownand then another sign pointing out the futility of all the preceding violence. Produced in New York to acclaim by the Negro Ensemble Co. "As shocking. . . as today's and tomorrow's murder headlines . . . . An arresting and compassionate piece."-N.Y. Daily News. "Absorbing and more satisfying than most of the other serious work I've attended this year."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#28011) BOUBOUROCHE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Courteline. Translated by Albert Bermel. 8 m., 1 f.; 7 m, 2 f; 0 r 6 m, 3 f. 2 int. A good-natured man has been renting an apartment for his mistress for eight years. She, meanwhile, is keeping another man in the closet. "Should be a welcome find for amateur companies." Punch. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4106) SORROWS OF STEPHEN. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Peter Parnell. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. Stephen is a headstrong, impetuous, irrepressible romantic unable not to be in love. One of his models is Goethe's tragic hero Werther, but as a young, contemporary New Yorker he's adaptable. He believes there is a literary precedent for all romantic possibilities that justifies his choices. With enthusiasm bordering on fickleness, he turns from Tolstoy, to Stendhal or Balzac. And Stephen's never discouraged-he can withstand rivers of rejection. His affairs-real and tentative-begin when his girl friend leaves him. He makes a romantic stab at a female cab driver, passes an assignation note to an unknown lady at the opera, flirts with an accessible waitress-'-and then has a tragic-with-comic-overtones affair with his best friend's fiancee. "Breezy and buoyant. A real romantic comedy . . . . Sophisticated and sentimental, with an ageless attitude toward the power of positive love." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1027) THE ART OF DINING. (All Groups.) Comedy. New Revised Edition. Tina Howe. 3 m., 6 f. Compo Int. Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cal's main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up-and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the food's quality-and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner. and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. There's a sensual middle-aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then there's three crass-chic young career women. Finally, there's Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer who's dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining. "A spicy compote of social satire, slapstick zaniness, sight gags and the funniest play I've seen in a long time."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3112) NUTS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tom Topor. 6 m., 3 f. Int. A Broadway hit, Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story concerns an incarcerated woman's valiant attempt to fight those who want to have her committed as mentally incompetent to stand trial on a manslaughtc;r charge. The State, represented by a court-appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is nuts. In the course of this arresting yet at times very funny drama, she demonstrates to the judge that she isn't crazy-and goes off in the end to stand trial on the manslaughter charge. "[Has] the

Desmond diamonds (which vanished while in the custody of Pomona's long-missing daughter Clorinda) or the arrival of the weirdest private detective ever to stride onto a stage with drawn gun and an erroneous notion of who's who and what's what. This show is three acts of nonstop hilarity, a chaotic riot that barely gives audiences time (#22070) to breathe between guffaws. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) MOOSE MURDERS. (Little Theatre.) Mystery/Farce. Arthur Bicknell. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. The wealthy heirs of a wealthy-but ailing-old man named Sidney Holloway have purchased the Wild Moose Lodge in the Adirondacks as a place for daddy to live out his last days. During an innocuous game of "murder" suggested by one of the clan, mousey young Lorraine Holloway is murdered-for real. Who done it? Could it have been the legendary "Butcher Moose" which haunts the mountains? Or, is it a member (or members) of the eccentric Holloway family itself? Before dawn breaks, there are a series of disclosures which lead to the murder of more than one of the cast of loonies as well as to the awful truth behind the "Moose" murders. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15697) 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Adapted by James RooseEvans from the book by Helene Hanff. 4 m., 5 f. Comb. int. This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has shown her gratitude through the years by sending' 'care packages" to the staff of Marks & Co. "Charming, charming, charming. . . . A gently touching hands-across-the-sea chronicle, sentimental in the best sense of the word."-N.Y. Daily News. "Warm, moving, civilized. A wonderful evening on Broadway. "-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#410) COLORED PEOPLE'S TIME. (Black Groups.) History play. Leslie Lee. 6 m., 3 f. Simple or unit set. "Nothing less than a history of Black America from the eve of the Civil War to the Montgomery bus boycott a century later. Given the subject, one might expect a work roughly as long as Roots II, but Mr. Lee has found a more economical, not to mention easier, way out. The play consists of 13 tiny vignettes, each with different fictional characters, each set at a moment when momentous social change is in the wind. The hero is not a character but the Black spirit for survival-its guts, humor and tenaciousness." -N. Y. Post. "A vivid composite picture of Negro life here over an important century. Mr. Lee is a fine writer."-New Yorker. "Leslie Lee means to educate and entertain. . . . His message is: History doesn't exist for those who don't take time out to study and listen to its (#5688) steady ticks." -N. Y. Amsterdam News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) LIVING QUARTERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 5 m., 4 f. Int. This drama employs an unusual structure: a narrator named Sir instructs the characters on how to reconvene and reconstruct a day several years previous. Eventually the characters plead with Sir to alter the point of no return which changed all their lives. The story which the characters act out concerns their father, an ordinary army officer who has suddenly become a hero in late middle age as a result of his brave leadership of a U.N. peacekeeping force. When he returns .to his hometown in Ireland, he discovers that his young second wife has had an affair with a dissolute son from his first marriage. "Friel is extremely agile at theatrical legerdemain. His speculations on what, if anything, people can do to reorder their way of living are not only apt but witty. He also creates people who are palpably human and recognizable."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#14641) SEASON'S GREETINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 5 m., 4 f. Comb. Int. Half a dozen friends and relatives are celebrating Christmas with Neville and Belinda. Various children are also there and, though unseen, their presence is always felt. Petty squabbles break out-and some not so petty. The arrival of Clive, a young writer, leads to what momentarily appears to be a tragedy: Clive is shot by trigger-happy Harvey who thinks he is a burglar. Hilarious highlights include a chaotically incompetent puppet show and a midnight love scene that sets off a fearful din among mechanical Christmas toys. "Brilliantly combines cynicism and humor."-Sunday Express. "Superbly crafted."-Sunday Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21054) JUST FOR TONIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Harold J. Kennedy. 4 m., 5 f. 1 set. A fading film star returns to her home town to find roots but uproots everyone she loves: her granddaughter who is engaged to a Jewish Zen Buddhist gets an urge to go to Hollywood, her son-in-law is almost driven from the house by a fadist diet she imposes and an old flame sees his marriage on the brink. She learns a lesson from Zen and invents a fabulous offer that takes her back to Hollywood and generates respect and love between mother and daughter. "A jolly affair. Bright and impertinent dialogue." -L.A. Herald-Examiner. "Gay, nostalgic, satisfying." -Miami Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12624) OUT OF SIGHT.. OUT OF MURDER. (All Groups.) Mystery-Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Peter Knight is grinding out a murder story in an old mansion where another author was murdered years before. A weird electrical storm effects a cosmic snafu and his characters come to life. They are quickly out of control and the bodies pile up. Can Peter find the killer before the killer gets his author? Is romance with the ingenue leading anywhere? Where is the fortune mentioned in the will? "Refreshing, witty parody." -Sharon Patroit Leader. "Uproari-

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audience rooting for the good guys and hating the bad guys, as if the whole event was the most beautifully professional wrestling match you have ever seen. Nuts is a play that moves you . . . you are in court watching a woman fight for what she believes is her total future." -N Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#154) THE PENULTIMATE PROBLEM OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Little Theatre.) Mystery Drama. John Nassivera, 6 m., 3 f. Int. This play about the famous detective has Holmes venturing into the occult where, during a seance, he is warned that he is about to meet his maker. The play has Holmes, Waston and Prof. Moriarty meet their maker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wishes to end their existence literally with the final stroke of his pen. Holmes cannot accept the fact that he is the product of another's imagination, a mere pawn of another man's genius. Who is the creator and who the pawn becomes the central question as Holmes and the others threaten their creator with the death to which he has sentenced them. "A must for all the fans of Sherlock Holmes stories, the play contains startling twists and turns that keep the audience on the edge of their seats."-The Resorter. "Crisply written, it tells a mystifying story all in good. old-fashioned fun." -Post-Star. $6.50. (Royalty, (#18052) $50-$40.) JUNE GROOM. (All Groups.) Comedy. Rick Abbot. 3 m., 6 f. Int. On the eve of Jordan's 30th birthday on July I, three days after his marriage to Dinah, he tells his friend Marty he's sworn to Uncle Harvey to remain celibate until this birthday to receive a fortune. Jordan is trying to keep his vow even though Dinah wanted to be a June bride. In a few hours he'll turn 30, Harvey's check will arrive and everything will be fine. Well-not quite, because Harvey arrives to deliver the check in person, along with Aunt Bella. A frantic Jordan passes his bewildered bride off as Marty's wife. Dinah's Aunt Iris, a nun, arrives with a wedding gift and thinks Dinah is living with two men. Then Marty's wife shows up. Harvey tinds a wedding announcement Jordan has updated to July I and thinks Jordan is marrying Ginger on his birthday. Dinah's mother shows up for a housewarming turned into an engagement party for her son-in-law and his best friend's wife! It's a side-splitting, hilarious romp. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#12034) STELLA. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated and edited by Johanna Setzer. 4 m., 5 f., extras. Several ints. Cecilia and her daughter Lucy go to the estate of Countess Stella where Lucy is to be Stella's companion. Stella and Cecilia realize that they have both been abandoned by the same man, Fernando. Fernando returns and decides he must return to Cecilia and Lucy; Stella takes poison and Fernando, despairing, shoots himself. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) . (#21330) WINGS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Arthur Kopit. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. This remarkable play confirms the terror and hope in the human drama. Emily Stilson, a former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke in her seventies and is plunged into a disoriented world. Her mind has short-circuited her contact with the outside world. The doctors seem to be speaking gibberish and they can't seem to understand her. Memories flood in between painful bouts to relearn aided by a dedicated therapist and others. More than a play about a stroke and the battle to recover, Wings is about a woman hauntingly suspended between life and death. "The most distinguished work of this season." -N Y. Times. "A compassionate and moving study in courage . . . destined to be one of the unforgettable memories of many a season, a play to be experienced and understood."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) 2 tapes avail(#25150) able on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music Royalty, $15-$10.) CATSPLAY. (All Groups.) Tragi-comedy. Istvan Orkeny. Translated by Clara Gyorgyey. An eccentric widow still young in heart dwells in, indeed overflows, her untidy Budapest apartment. Ersi's chaotic life is portrayed in episodes with the people close to her: an egocentric opera singer, her crippled sister who lives in Germany, a chic and crafty friend who successfully hides her age, her timid and loyal neighbor,the singer's formidable mother, and Ersi's daughter and son-in-law. Much of the play revolves around phone conversations with and letters to and from her sister, who is as calm as Ersi is nervous. When the friend steals the singer away, Ersi serenely commits suicide-or does she? "The American theatre has been enriched by a comedy that gets its laughter and tears out of plausible, universal traits of character."-N.Y. Times. "Original, hilarious and deeply touching."-Washington Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5040) SHUT YOUR EYES AND THINK OF ENGLAND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Chapman and Anthony Marriott. 6 m., 3 f. Int. When Mr. Pullen comes to the office on a Saturday to finish the books for audit, he's astonished to find his employer, Sir Justin Holbrook, in the penthouse flat with a call-girl. Unexpectedly, Lady Holbrook arrives and Holbrook passes the girl off as the second Mrs. Pullen. A rich Arab sheik is expected and England's entire fate depends on Holbrook signing an agreement with him, but Holbrook suddenly collapses and Pullen has to impersonate him. The arrival of the real Mrs. Pullen and others leads to an impenetrable maze of confused identities-eventually resulting in Mrs. Pullen going off with the sheik-and Pullen installed, presumably permanently, as Sir Justin-with all that (#1025) entails, including his highly attractive Lady. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) DRIVEN TO MURDER. (All Groups.) Mystery. Olive Chase and Stanley Clayton. 4 m., 5-6 f. 2 ints. Helen has happily remarried, her first husband being reported dead by the French police. Her daughter, Susan, distrusts her stepfather and thinks he only married Helen for her money. Michael, Susan's boyfriend, receives a blackmailing phone call which is followed up by tWI} anonymous letters. After the mysterious Mr. Watson has received several visitors, it appears that certain people know

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS more about the affair than they're prepared to talk about. Drugs and murder combine with blackmail to make this a suspense-filled play. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6124) THE FOLKS NEXT DOOR. (All Groups.) Comedy. John R. Carroll. 6 m., 3 f., extras. Int. Chet Roberts has had it. He's tired of dirty air, crime in the streets and pollution under his nose-in short, everyday living in the city. He moves his family to a deserted California beach city to start a new life as a writer. Imagine his alarm when he learns the only house in the area has been bought by the President as a summer White House. There goes Chefs peace, quiet-and yes, the neighborhood. Chet battles with the Secret Service, nosy tourists and his family-and a certain dictator from "over there." Incidents pitting the common man against red tape are hilarious. When the summer ends and the President and his entourage leave, Chet realizes the experience will make a great novel. This is an ideal play for summer (#8058) stock, dinner and community theaters. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE PASSION OF DRACULA. (All Groups.) Thriller. Bob Hall and David Richmond. 7 m., 2 f. Int. This version of the Dracula legend based on the 1897 Bram Stoker novel is set in the English countryside in 1911 where several village girls have died under mysterious circumstances. Dr. Seward presides over a nearby mental hospital and the locality has acquired a new resident~ount Dracula! A trio of doctors. a young reporter and a stouthearted English lord battle the Count for possession of the lovely heroine. With a dash of Holmesi.m sleuthing in this Baskerville-hound country setting, our heroes save the heroine and dispatch the Count in the traditional manner. "A genuine old-fashioned horror-thriller."-NY. Daily News. "Funny, serious, scary, hilarious [and] . bloody enjoyable, cross 'my heart."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#866) COPS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Terry Curtis Fox. 8 m., If. Int. This gritty, realistic comedy/drama is set in a Chicago diner where three policemen play cruel practical jokes on the few late-night customers and tell stories about themselves, fellow officers and the dull routine of killing time in a thankless job. A man enters, misunderstands a conversation and suddenly the play shifts into a hostage drama with unexpected carnage and suspense. With startlingly objectivity, both the killer's and the policemen's sides are shown as more police and TV cameras line-up outside. Issues related to the earlier stories and jokes become tinged with menace as the policemen, who have never before been in a shoot-out, must suddenly apply their bravado to a highly volatile situation. "Dexterously carved slice of life ... [with] hard-edged realism ... and comic tension [that] shifts creditably into fearful tension."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#331) THE CLONE PEOPLE: Hollywood Finish. (All Groups.) Thriller. Mike Johnson. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Jay Westcott and Nessa Paxton are two of Hollywood's most successful stars-and a happily married couple. While filming on location, Nessa sustains an accidental blow on the head and flees to her home in Beverly Hills before anxious studio staff members can stop her. She bursts in on Jay and, nearly incoherent with hysteria, insists she is really Polly Ackerman, a girl who vanished just before their marriage. Jay fears for her sanity and, over her protests, he allows the studio to find her and provide medical help. Several strange events make him suspect she might be telling the truth and that something incredibly evil is going on at the studio where he inay_ be the next victim. For an evening of plausible nightmare, suspense and breathtaking terror--with a shocking surprise ending-this show (#5118) can't be excelled. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) FANSHEN. (All Groups.) Play. David H.rre. Based on the book by William Hinton. 7 m., 2 f. (with doubling.) Raised platform and props. In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in which a very important word is "fanshen" which literally means "to tum the body" or "to turn over." To hundreds of millions of landless and poor peasants it means to stand up, throw off the landlords' yoke, and gain land, stock, and houses. Moreover it means to enter a new world and this play is the story of how the peasants of Long Bow build a new world. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8011) THE BED BEFORE YESTERDAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Travers. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Alma is very rich and very lonely. One encounter awakens an insatiable sexual appetite that leads her away from a marriage of convenience and compels her to escape to the continent where she becomes a sadder but wiser woman. "The best thing to happen in the West End for a long time."--London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#288) COUNT DRACULA. (All Groups.) Mystery-Comedy. Ted Tiller, based on Bram Stoker's novel. 7 m., 2 f. Int. w. inset. This is a witty version of the story of a suave vampire whose passion is sinking teeth into the throats of young women. There are many surprising but uncomplicated stage effects including mysterious disappearances, secret panels, howling wolves and bats that fly over the audience. Magically, Dracula vanishes in full view of the spectators. "Abounds with funny lines. There is nothing in it but entertainment."-Springfield News, Mass. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Music tape available on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) (#47) ROMAN CONQUEST. (All Groups.) Comedy. John Patrick. I set. 6 m., 3 f. This is the love story of two American girls living in the romantic city of Rome in a garret at the foot of the Spanish steps. One of the world's richest young women takes her less fortunate friend to Italy to escape notoriety while she attempts to discover if she

CHARACTERS has any talent as an artist without her position and prestige. Their misadventures with language and people supply a delightful evening of pure entertainment written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Three Coins in the Fountain. $6.50. (Royal(#925) ty, $50-$40.) production.

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THE COMPANY OF WAYWARD SAINTS. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Herman. 6 m., 3 f. Platform stage. The company is a commedia dell' arte group who wander by mistake into the eye of an allegory. They are humanity, wayward saints all, who are far from home and without means. A nobleman may be their salvation if they can put on a good show for him. Surprisingly, the Company chooses to present the history of man, from the Garden of Eden through Everyman in birth, adolescence, marriage and death. Along the way they enact other wayward adventures such as the assassination of Julius Caesar and the homecoming of Odysseus. It is a fine mosaic of life redeemed by humor and human understanding. "Has something to say [and] says it extremely well. It is darned good theatre."-Arthur Ballet, U. of Minnesota. "The first part is amusing slapstick entertainment. . . . [The second makes] a point about how pride and arrogance destroy collective efforts."-Hollywood Reporter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#320) VICTORIA'S HOUSE. (All Groups.) Mystery. Fred Carmichael. 4 m., 5 f. Int. At the turn of the century, Neil Bannister kills his devoted wife and thinks he's committed the perfect crime-but forces are working against him. Whether it is the law or supernatural phenomena beyond his understanding is the question which is not resolved until the erie plot twists bring down the final curtain. "The play is intricately woven and features some fine moments of theatrical surprise, both real and unreal."-Bennington Banner. "A series of cleverly contrived, over-lapping red herrings which are familiar but lead one in totally unfamiliar directions . . . . Interestingly enough Mr. Carmichael is really asking: can a house filled with human contacts and association respond when threatened by evil?"-Williamstown News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1162) HALFWAY UP THE TREE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Ustinov. 5 m., 4 f. lilt. This timely satire on the everlasting generation gap is not content to dally with the problem, but boldly thrusts on by having the older generation beat the younger at its own game. It begins with the return from middle-east duty of a general who finds he hardly recognizes his children. His son has embraced the new cult of the moment and his daughter is enceinte by persons unknown. Rather than rant and rave, the general looks into the matter. And, by george, he even adapts to it. The children protest that he is aping them and trying to shame them into going back into society; but no, he is in earnest as he climbs a tree and elevates the cult to new realms. Soon, everybody wants a tree to climb into. "Intelligent, polished comedy.. . A brilliant trip to hippieland.' ,-N Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35).) (#522) THE BOYS IN THE BAND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Mart Crowley. 9 m. Compo int. This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humor and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals. When it was recently revived at New York's WPA Theatre, critics reaffirmed its status ~ a powerful and superbly entertaining play. "Witty, bitchy, revelatory and dazzlingly entertaining . . . .The excoriating wit is still there."-NY. Post. "Humor is still on key in this poignant [and] sparkling revival of a landmark play. . . . that is solidly built, still moving and enormously entertaining."- NY. Daily News. "The power of the play is the way in which it remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#40) BEAR WITNESS. (All Groups.) Suspense drama. James Reach. 5 m., 4 f. Int W. simple inset. This play of electrifying suspense explores one of the dilemmas of modem urban living: should a law-abiding citizen cooperate with the police when he sees a crime committed in which he is not personally involved-is it his duty to bear witness? In a middle-class neighborhood of a large city lives widowed Rose Grayson, her son Don, her daughter-in-law Sally, her infant grandson Garry, and her teenaged daughter Elaine. Rose's husband was a police captain who died a hero's death fighting crime and she is embittered against the society that permitted that to happen. When Sally witnesses a brutal gangland murder, Rose strongly urges her to keep silent and not meddle in matters that don't concern her. But Sally can identify the killer as Elaine's current boyfriend and Don urges her to do so. The decision Sally makes results in a harrowing ordeal for the Graysons, culminating in a climax of almost unbearable excitement. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#257) LITTLE BOXES. (All Groups.) Two plays. John Bowen. Int. The Coffee Lace: 4 m., 5 f. Trevor: 4 m., 4 f. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $35-$25 per play when produced separately.) Little Boxes (#14092) The Coffee Lace (#5676) Trevor (#22756) I'LL GET MY MAN. (All Groups.) Farce. Philip King. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Peter Graham, T.V. series hero, seeks refuge at the country rectory with his mild clerical Uncle Humphrey from all the females who continually chase after him, and in particular from Pixie Potter. Humphrey, horrified by the threatened loss of his housekeeper who has been dismissed by his formidable sister, advertises for a wife but absentmindedly omits the important word' 'marriage." These two occurrences resoundingly shatter the peace of the village. Answers to the ad pour in. The arrival of the dignified Bishop of Lax adds to the confusion. Peter finds the vicarage no refuge

THE CARPENTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles E. McIntosh. 5 m., 4 f. Extras. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5023) NOURISH THE BEAST. (All Groups.) Comedy. Steve Tesich. 7 m., 2 f. Int. Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan who happens to be a cop, an elderly gentleman who explodes every time somebody calls him grandpa, a dying husband and an errant daughter who cries all night. The husband, Baba's fifth, is already submitting an ad for her sixth. The cop catches a Japanese stealing cameras and chains him to a radiator, the daughter guiltily confesses she voted for Nixon and runs off, and the husband-who may not die after all-insists they must wait out Watergate for a Democratic. "Irresistible irrationality."-Long Island Press. "You've got to grin."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Re(#16044) stricted. DON'T JUST LIE THERE, SAY SOMETHING! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Pertwee. 5 m., 4 f. Int. w. inset. Sir William Mainwaring-Brown is leading a campaign against permissiveness. To counter this, a group of hippies abduct Barry Ovis, a young parliamentarian who is about to marry his political agent, and take him, drugged, to a wild party. He escapes after clouting two policemen during a raid and takes refuge in Sir William's flat. He finds the great man is far from unpermissive himself. The pleasant evening of dalliance Sir William has arranged is upset by complications caused mainly by a police inspector and a member of the Opposition. The frenzy culminates in a whirlwind of panic-stricken plans and counter plans as all concerned attempt to ward off discovery. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6101) THE KILLDEER. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Jay Broad. 7 m., 2 f. Int. A day in the life of Ted and Sparky Snyder dramatizes what happens to an American couple that strives for the good life but finds only failure amid the rat race. Ted comes home after making the biggest sale of his life to find his children screaming obscenities and his wife contemplating suicide. "Not since Death of a Salesman has the despair of middle age been dramatized with such absorbing intensity. Through two acts of searing exposure, with lots of little jokes along the way to ease the bitterness, Jay Broad works for an archetypical history of the canker that may curdle (#13011) any family's American Dream. "-AP. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) MISALLIANCE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 3 f. Int. In a middle-class country estate in England a successful merchant lives with his dotty wife, daughter and son. The daughter's fiance is visiting them when the fiance's father, an aristocrat, arrives. The girl is obviously fickle and foolish and the boy, though intelligent, is a raw coward. Into their midst comes a sputtering airplane with a pilot who turns out to be an old school chum of the finance's and a Polish woman acrobat. All of the males make up to her in succession. Then along comes a youth with a gun to kill the merchant father. The hub of the action is this: the girl falls in love with the pilot while the fiance is so awed by the Polish acrobat that he willingly flies off with her, even though he is scared to death. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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from Pixie Potter and even more hectic than the outside world. $8.95. (Royalty, $50(#11020) $35.) BIG BAD MOlJSE. (All Groups.) Farce. Philip King and Falkland Cary, from an idea by Ivan Butler. 3 m., 6 f. Int. In the Orders Office of Chunkbix Ltd., it is decidedly Mr. Price-Hargraves who gives the orders and little Mr. Bloome who obeys them-until Mr. Bloome is astonishingly accused of chasing a young female across the Common. To his and Mr. Price-Hargraves' amazement this reprehensible conduct makes him the hero of every woman and girl in the office, even PriceHargraves' hitherto devoted secretary and the formidable chairman, Lady Chesapeake. So glorious is Bloome's transformation that when the young person in question discovers she has made a mistake in her identification, Bloome is the reverse of pleased and determines to keep her quiet. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#269) THE CONSTANT WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. W. Somerset Maugham. 4 m., 5 f. Int. This brilliant comedy of modem English life has been produced in New York and on the road. It is a sophisticated play based on the idea that so long as a wife is supported by her husband it is up to her to be faithful to him, but if the husband is not faithful to her and if she supports herself she is entitled to lead her own life in her own way. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5139) THE IRREGULAR VERB TO LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Hugh Williams and Margaret Williams. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Hedda Rankin, wife of a zoo official, returns home from a spell in prison to find her husband has not been faithful, her daughter will not marry the man she loves and her son, Andrew, has just returned from the continent with a Greek girl who cannot speak English. Hedda sets out to bring her household to its senses, but it is her husband who eventually puts things right while she takes the credit for it. Cyril Richard and Claudette Colbert starred on Broadway. "Slick fiction with a seasoning of laughter . . . . The style moves from casual smartness to outright farce."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11064) THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama. New Revised Version. Lorraine Hansberry. I or 2 black m., 5 or 4 white m., 3 white f. This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife (an aspiring actress) and their colorful circle of friends and relations. Set against the shenanigans of a stormy political campaign, the play follows its characters in their unorthodox quests for meaningful lives in an age of corruption, alienation and cynicism. With compassion, fire, humor and poignancy, the author examines questions concerning the fragility of love, morality and ethics, interracial relationships, drugs, rebellion, conformity and especially withdrawal from or commitment to the world. "Rich, warm, funny, vital and varied. Beautifully written."-L.A. Times. "Shines with humor, trembles with feeling and summons up a vision of wisdom and integrity"-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$35.) (#977) SAILOR BEWARE! (AU Groups.) Comedy. Philip King and Falkland Cary. 4 m., 5 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21015) LUXURY CRUISE. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 3 m .. 6 f. Int. Each of the three acts tells the story of a different couple on a world cruise: two antiquated ladies on their first trip, a married couple who know the husband is about to die, and a flashy bride who won the trip and is determined to bring culture to her husband (who is only interested in testing his poker ability with his fellow passengers). One is comedy, one more serious and the third farce. Episodes are interwoven throughout. "Clear characterizations, crisp lines, a lot of fun." -Manchester Journal. "Ideal for community theatre."-Rutland Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#660) THE WARM PENINSULA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy.loe Masteroff. 5 m., 4 f. Int. w. inserts. A plain girl from Minnesota meets a friend in Miami who offers to share her hotel room. The friend is a dazzling girl who leads a glamorous life, but who at the moment is unhappily and crazily in love with a garage man. He has a handsome young friend who accompanies wealthy women to yachting parties. The visitor falls hopelessly in love with him and he callously strings her along. The torments of her love end with plaintive sadness when she realizes he is only a gigolo. She rejects him as well as the paunchy man from her home town and she meets and marries a nice plain guy, very much like herself. lulie Harris and lune Havoc starred on Broadway. "A winner. . . [with) considerable warmth . . . [and) amusing and touching dialogue." -N. Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25025) EAST LYNNE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Brian 1. Burton, based on the novel by Mrs. Henry Wood, 4 m., 5 f. Int. This classic is revitalized in a crackling version that is tailored for the modem stage and yet retains all the flavor, style and gusto of those old versions that caused our great-grandparents to shed copious tears over its purgative moral. It is the tale of Lady Isabel who is cunningly seduced by the villain into believing that the clandestine meetings of her husband and another woman are for romance rather than business. In despair, she abandons home and children, only to come back in later years disguised as a governess to her own children and to die in her husband's arms in heartbroken penitence and forgiveness. $8.95. (Royalty, $35$25.) Please state author when ordering. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#392) THE SHOW-OFF. (AU Groups.) Comedy. George Kelly. 6 m., 3 f. Int. The ShowOff was greeted as the most brilliant comedy of character that any American drama-

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tist had produced. The play has been acted from coast to coast with enormous success. This tremendously human and appealing comedy is a rare combination of character, humor and human nature. The struggles of Aubrey Piper to satisfy his enormous egotism and at the same time preserve his self-respect in the presence of discouraging obstacles constitute .one of the most interesting plays of our time. Besides the character of Aubrey, the play includes a number of masterly etchings in the characters of his family. Contains practically all the elements that make for success in the theater. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#980) THE BRAGGART SOLDIER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Plautus. Translated by Erich Segal. 6 m., 3 f. Int. The braggart soldier kidnaps a beautiful girl and eventually is punished in a manner befitting the vanest lecher of all time. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#280) HOTEL UNIVERSE. (Little Theatre.) Morality. Philip Barry. 5 m., 4 f. Ext. About the baffling problems every adult human is at some time forced to face. The characters seem hardly to exist at all in relation to other people, which is surely the reason why Mr. Barry discovered that to invent a plot for them would be to deprive them of the kind of reality he was after. These people are essentially introspective, literally self-seeking. And what are they after? Just an answer to the question every thinking human must ask himself-and vainly: Where are we going. and why? What is the meaning of past. present and future? $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10138) HAY FEVER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 4 m., 5 f. Int. The Bliss family is ultra-Bohemian. Mother is a retired actress who makes a crisis out of every scene ,md father is a novelist. The daughter and son are handsome and ill-mannered. One weekend all announce they are expecting a guest: mother has invited an athletic youth who is in love with her, Sorel a diplomat, Simon an intense young woman and David a flapper (a type he is studying for a novel). The guests receive an unusual and rude reception. Soon mother is paired off with the diplomat, Sorel with the athlete, Simon with the flapper, and father with his son's young woman. Dramatizing for all it is worth, ludith first fears she must tell her husband about her romance, then realizes her daughter is younger and more attractive to young men so she enacts a scene of noble sacrifice, and, noticing her husband's flirtation, she follows with a poor unhappy wife scene. The family is used to such displays, but the guests are bewildered. "An evening of intoxicating escape."-N.Y. Times. "Light, luminous, and charming. . . and hilariously funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#530) THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Gene Feist. Optional music and lyrics by Gordon Heath. 5 m., 4 f., extras. Unit set. A normally sober doctor awakens to find that he brought two things home from Maxim's last night: a hangover and a lady of the evening. His wife is diverted from discovering the tart by one of her famous visitations from a popular saint. The doctor's uncle returns after a long army tour in Africa and promptly mistakes the lady from Maxim's for his nephew's wife. Uncle's immediate business is marrying off a niece to a young soldier-who twns out to be the true lover of the lady from Maxim's. Everybody is invited to the ceremony at the uncle's chateau where all courses collide. The master of bedroom farce unravels the confusion happily and innocently. The New York production featured witty original songs scored for piano which may be used at the producer's discretion. "A well-made funny bedroom farce."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sheet Music, $6.50. (Music Royalty, $10 per perfonnance.) (#14027) NOAH. (All Groups.) Fantasy. Andre Obey. Adapted from the French by Arthur Wilmurt. 5 m., 4 f., extras. 3 exts. The voyage begins auspiciously enough with Noah. his wife, his three sons and three of the neighbors' girls embarking with the animals on God's ark. When the rain ends, the grand beauty of the great waters fills them with rejoicing and they dance around the deck in the dawn of a golden age. But Ham, the canker of the old world, has crept on board. He doubts. He taunts his shipmates with old misgivings and Noah becomes the story of a kindly old man who grows lonely in his faith, who pilots his craft safely to shore in the midst of doubts. and who is rudely deserted by the young folks the moment they touch foot to land. Noah shouts at the heavens "Are you satisfied?" The answer is a rainbow in the sky. Produced on Broadway, this is an ideal play for colleges. universities and little theaters. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music, $1.50. (#773) THE CHALK GARDEN. (All Groups.) Drama. Enid Bagnold. 2 m., 7 f. Int. An English gentlewoman lives with her granddaughter and devotes her life to simple if eccentric pursuits. Her chief concern is her garden and her chief diversion is advertising for a companion to her granddaughter. She interviews the applicants knowing that she has no intention of hiring them. One candidate is not so easily disposed of. She is an expert gardener and such an excellent manager that the butler, who has always ruled the domicile, dies in a fit of exasperation. There is something strange about the woman though, something in her past that must be discovered when a famous jurist comes to dinner. "A tantalizing, fascinating and stimulating piece of theatre."-N.Y. Daily News. "A very fresh and personal kind of play with wit. literacy, and an almost unearthly integlity .. " -N. Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#309) A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED. (All Groups.) Melodrama. 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daughter of a Scotland Yard inspector, is a first-class safe-breaker. The white sheep is happy to reenter the fold and the family welcomes their talented new daughter-inlaw. Half the fun of the play is the way in which the family rationalize their trade on the basis of free-enterprise economics. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25101) THE LOUD RED PATRICK. (All Groups.) Comedy. John Boruff. Suggested by Ruth McKenney's novel. 4 m., 5 f. lnt. In 1912 Irish-American widower is faced with bringing up four daughters ages seven through seventeen. A believer in democracy and higher education, he runs his family on the parliamentary principle. A family council decides all issues. When Maggie wants to quit college to get married, he refuses permission so Maggie puts it before the family council where he loses. He repudiates the council and kicks Maggie's suitor out of the house. The four daughters declare war on father-who finally surrenders to the marriage. A parallel plot finds the widower's old friend Finnegan, a woman-hater who is fleeing alimony payments, sponging off the family. He complicates the situation in an already crowded household and adds a comic secondary love story when pursued by the housekeeper. "A human and hilarious. . comedy."-NY. Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#658) PURLIE VICTORIOUS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Ossie Davis. 6 m., 3 f. Compo ext. This classic comedy combines all of the cliches about the old south and the love between masters and slaves. Purlie Victorious has come back to his shabby cabin to reacquire the local church and ring the freedom bell. An inheritance due to a cousin would supply the needed cash, but unfortunately it is controlled by the plantation colonel. When Purlie sends an imposter to the colonel to claim the inheritance, is she unmasked and the colonel makes a pass at her. Eventually the church is recovered, services are again held and the freedom bell rings. Sparkling dialogue makes every event uproarious. "A bucketful of bristling laughs. Wild, outrageous fantasy . . . . A rich and rollicking irony. Unique in style, rich in its highly individual humor." -N Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#862) THE COCKTAIL PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. T. S. Eliot. 5 m:, 4 f. 2 ints. This picture of modem life in urbane circles searches the shadows of the soul that lie beneath the surface, bringing to each spectator different ideas and symbols drawn from individual qualities of heart and mind. A man is acting the uncomfortable host at a cocktail party arranged by his wife. The two are about to break up. Among the picturesque quests is a girl with whom the man has been having an affair. Most important of all is the mysterious man who knows so much about each of them that he can cure their anxieties by turning their minds upon themselves to search out the truth in a great morality play of our time. "An authentic modem masterpiece."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. (#5121) ALICE SIT-BY-THE-FIRE. (All Groups.) Comedy. J. M. Barrie. 3 m., 6 f. 2 ints. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3034) DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Gordon and Ted Willis. 5 m., 4 f. lnt. Adapted from the novel by Richard Gordon about the off-duty lives of a group of medical students, this play weaves their happy triumphs and brave failures, love affairs and parties into a many-colored pattern. Several individuals confined under the same roof employ a blithe exterior to hide their hopes and fears, ineffectually concealing an underlying earnestness of purpose. The play provides a good variety of character parts: young men, some playboys, some serious; the college porter and the eccentric professor; the dragon matron; nurses pretty and dull; and the landlady extraordinary. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6077) A HATFUL OF RAIN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael V. Gazzo. 7 m., 2 f. Int. In a New York tenement live a husband and wife and the husband's brother. The husband has not been the same since his prolonged stay in a hospital. He cannot hold a job and is frequently away overnight without explanation. His card-playing companions come to bother him and a stranger, more brutal crew was never encountered. The husband's brother has yearnings for the young wife. She pleads for her husband's love and confidence; his strange life has driven her to the edge of hysteria. The explanation lies in an addiction acquired in the hospital. "Horrifying and true. There is no resisting the pathos and terror of [the] most illuminating scenes."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#529) THE MARQUISE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 6 m., 3 f. Int. In Coward, Plays Two, $16.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#15065) THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. (All Groups.) Comedy. William Saroyan. 7 m., 2 f. Int. Characters include a boy of fifteen who writes novels consisting of one word, his sister who pretends to be taken in by the boy's pretense that the mice in the house spell out her name in flowers on her birthday, and the freelance philosopher of a father who lives by cashing in the pension checks of a complete stranger, dead for seven years. These charming, interesting characters represent Saroyan's belief that love is the only thing which matters in the world. Produced on Broadway. "It possesses a beguiling quality of sustained innocence and blessed derangement."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4020) OUTWARD BOUND. (All Groups.) Comedy-drama. Sutton Vane. 6 m., 3 f. Int. This classic tells a strange story. An odd assortment of characters are passengers on an ocean liner whose destination is unknown. Suddenly the bewildered travelers realize they are dead and headed for Judgment Day. 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mysterious deaths years ago. The merriment is interrupted by Maurice, the Sir Charles's hitherto missing nephew and the recipient of the legacy in the event of his death. Maurice, who claims to be a novelist, induces his uncle to write what he claims to be a chapter for his new book. It is too late when it dawns on Sir Charles that he is writing a suicide note for he has just drained a fatal drink concocted by the nephew. In the third act, the birthday guests employ subtle and ingenious tactics to force Maurice to confess. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#710) RASHOMON. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin. 6 m., 3 f. Ext. The famous stories of Akutagawa were adapted for Broadway for Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Akim Tamiroff and Oscar Homolka. The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory versions of what happened are reenacted at the trial by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband who speaks through a sorceress. Each version is true in its fashion. "Delicate and dynamic, sensitive and savage, packed with color, suspense and seamy wit. A triumph of stagecraft." -N. Y. Mirror. "Rashomon is pure art of the theatre. Out of a legend, it conjures a mood. No one need despair of a commercial theatre that can deal in elusive materials with so much delicacy, expertness and charm."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC and LA. (#909) UNCLE VANYA. (All Groups.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. 5 versions: translated by Curt Columbus, by Michael Frayn, by Mike Poulton, by Stark Young and adapted by David Mamet from a literal translation by Vlada Chernomirdik. 5 m., 4 f. 3 int/ext. This classic imparts an indelible picture of Chekhov's Russia and of his rich, bittersweet and deeply human characters. From reviews of the Mamet version: "Blessedly free both of Siavisms and of up-to-date colloquialisms."-NY. Times. "Simply wonderful."-Boston Globe. "Mamet's adaptation is true and faithful to the Russian master in both tone and content."-Cape Cod Times. From the reviews of the Poulton version: "A muscular translation ... with tangible sexual energy."-Daily Mail. "Superb ... crisp, witty and actable."-New Yorker. Frayn translation in Chekhov Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Columbus translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Poulton translation, $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Young translation, $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) Mamet version, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Please specify translator when ordering. Columbus translation (#22997) Frayn translation (#23022) Poulton translation (#72990) Young translation (#1141) Mamet adaptation (#23027) HAROLD. (All Groups.) Comedy. Herman Raucher. 7 m., 2 f. Int. Three Bronx buddies get together to "culture" Harold, kid brother of a late friend-and launch him into society downtown. The plan is designed so he can meet an heiress-with whom Harold had previously exchanged a fleeting smile-and fallen madly in love. But the buddies decide to have a trial run and Harold's introduced to Iris, a shy neighborhood girl who is enough to tum his head forever from heiresses. "This ought to be a natural for Samuel French customers." -N Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10031) DUMBBELL PEOPLE IN A BARBELL WORLD. (All Groups.) Comedy. Dan Blue. 3 m., 6 f. This tender, humorous portrait of the world's underdogs is presented in three interconnected one-acts: The Immovable Gordons, The Little Lady of Friday Night and The Man with the Tranquil Mind. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $20-$15 when performed separately.) (#371) THE ROPE DANCERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Morton Wishengrad. 5 m., 4 f. Int. In soaring, poetic language, this tells the story of an Irish-American couple at the tum of the century whose daughter has been born with six fingers on her left hand and who later becomes the victim of an ailment that appears to be St. Vitus' Dance. Because the husband was once an alcoholic roisterer, the mother is convinced that the child's plight is their punishment from God. Believing that the guilt is partially her own, she has become embittered, resentful and ingrown. Ultimately, this situation is resolved in tragedy, illustrating the torments, repressions and denials of human beings caught in a cosmic maelstrom they can neither understand nor resist. "All gold ... [that] makes the theatre a palace of truth again." -NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#927) THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Sidney Howard. 5 m., 4 f. Int. An outstanding success in New York and elsewhere, this play has to do with a family of New Englanders who have, years before, given refuge to a great artist. The play opens some years after Bean's death with an excited world in pursuit of his work and any details they can gather about his life and character. Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of his greatest paintings which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood and appreciated the artist-besides, she had been married to him! An ideal play for all groups. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14042) THE WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY. (All Groups.) Comedy. L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay. 5 m., 4 f. Int. This impious comedy is about a family of well-todo crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl. He takes a job in a bank (his forged references are excellent). The family makes every effort to get him back into his ancestral profession to no avail until it is discovered that his fiancee, the

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FROM THE ARCHIVES-79 CHARACTERS Reproduction copies of these plays which are out of print, in manuscript only or remaindered are available from Samuel French's Archives, $25.00 per copy. Royalties as listed are still applicable. Scene ABlE'S IRISH ROSE. Anne Nichols (#201) ............................................................................ Ints. ACCENT ON YOUTH. Samson Raphaelson (#3013) .................................................................... Int. ALL SUMMER LONG. Robert Anderson (#3041) .................................................................. Int.lExt. ANGELS IN LOVE. Hugh Mills (#3086) ................................................................................ Int. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Philip Barry (#3087) ..................................................................... 2 int. APPLESAUCE. Barry Connors (#3102) ................................................................................ 2 lnt. APRON STRINGS. Dorranze Davis (#3103) ............................................................................. Int. ART AND MRS. BOTTLE. Benn W. Levy (#3109) ..................................................................... lnt. ASTRAKHAN COAT. Pauline Macauley (#3125) ...................................................................... 4 Int. BIG TIME BUCK WHITE Joseph Dolan Tuotti (#4054) .............................................................. Stage BIRD IN HAND. John Drinkwater (#4059) ............................................................................ 2 Int. BLUE GHOST. Bernard McOwens & 1. P. Riewerts (#4085) ............................................................. lnt. BULLFIGHT. Leslie Stevens (#4141) .................................................................................. 3 lnt. BUNNY. Norman Krasna (#4142) ........................................................................................ lnt. BURNING GLASS. Charles Morgan (#4145) ............................................................................ lnt. THE BURNING MAN. Tim Kelly (#4146) .............................................................................. lnt. CANDLELIGHT. P.G. Wodehouse & Siegfried Geyer (#5012) ........................................................... lnt. CAP AND BELLS. Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Norman A. Bailey (Slightly Restricted) (5028) ............................ lnt. CAP AND BELLS. Luigi Pirandello, trans. by John L. Fields (Slightly Restricted) (#5029) ............................... lnt. CAPPY RICKS. Edward Rose (#5014) ............................................................................. Int.lExt. THE CAR CEMETERY. Fernando Arrabal, trans. by Barbara Wright (#5018) ........................................... Int. A CASE FOR MASON. William McCleery, based on mysteries by Erie Stanley Gardner (#5030) ........................ lut. CHILDREN OF THE MOON. Martin Flavin (#5091) ................................................................... lnt. CHURCH MOUSE. Ladislas Fodor (#5096) ........................................................................... 2 lnt. CLAUDIA. Rose Franken (#5113) ....................................................................................... lnt. CLEAN KILL. Michael Gilbert (#5114) ................................................................................. Int. THE COMPLAISANT LOVER. Graham Greene (#5132) ................................. : ........................... 2 int. A COMMUNITY OF TWO. Jerome Chodorov (#319) ................................................................... Int. THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. T. S. Eliot (#5135) .................................................................. 2 int. THE CONVERTIBLE GIRL. Daniel Simon (Slightly Restricted) (#5142) ............................................ .4 ints. CORKER'S END. 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E MC2. Hallie flanagan Davis, assisted by Sylvia Gassel & Day Tuttle (#7000) .................................... Simple EARLY DAYS. David Storey (#407) ................................................................................... Unit THE EARLY GIRL. Caroline Kava (#6980) ............................................................................. Int. THE F AMIL Y UPSTAIRS. Harry Delf (#8006) ......................................................................... Int. FANNY'S FIRST PLAY. George Bernard Shaw (#8007) ............................................................... 2 int. FARM OF THREE ECHOES. Noel Langley (#8016) ................................................................... Int. FIRST YEAR. Frank Craven (#8043) .................................................................................. 2 Int. FOOLISH NOTION. Philip Barry (#8063) ............................................................................... Int. FRESH FIELDS. Ivor Novello (#8078) .................................................................................. Int. THE FRIENDS. Arnold Wesker (Slightly Restricted) (#8079) .......................................................... 1 set GASOLINE GYPSIES. Charles Stewart (#9004) ........................................................................ Ext. GIRLS OF SUMMER. N. Richard Nash (#9045) ........................................................................ Int. GLAD TIDINGS. Edward Mabley (#9052) .............................................................................. Ext. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. William McCleery (#9073) .................................................................. Int. THE GREAT LOVER. Alexandre Dumas pere, trans. by Barnett Shaw (#9113) ........................................ 2 int. GREEN GODDESS. William Archer (#9117) ..................................................................... 2 Int.lExt. THE GUARDSMAN. Ferenc Molnar, trans. by Grace I. Colbron & Hans Bartsch (#9127) ................................ Int. THE GUEST COTTAGE. William McCleery (#9128) .................................................................... Int. THE HAPPIEST YEARS. Coley Roerick & William Roerick (#10013) .................................................. Int. THE HAPPY APPLE. Jack Pulman (#10016) ......................................................................... 2 ints. HARRY, NOON AND NIGHT. Ronald Ribman (#10035) ............................................................... Int. HEAT. William Hauptman (#10051) ................................................................................... Var. HELL BENT FOR HEAVEN. Hatcher Hughes (#10066) ................................................................ Int. HER MASTERS VOICE. Clare Kummer (#10078) ................................................................. Int.lExt. HERE TODAY. George Oppenheimer (#10080) ..................................................................... Int.lext. HERE WE COME GATHERING. Philip King & Anthony Armstrong (#10082) ......................................... Int. THE HOLLY AND THE IVY. Wynward Browne (Not available in Canada) (#10119) ................................... Int. HONESTLY, NOW! Jack Sharkey (310129) ............................................................................. Int. I LIKE IT HERE. A.B. Shiffrin (#11008) ............................................................................... Int. IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. Kathleen Collins (#11040) ................................................................ Int. INNOCENT ONE. James Reach (#11055) ............................................................................... Int. INSIDE LESTER. Fred Carmichael (#11508) ......................................................................... 2 ints. ISTANBUL. Rochelle Owens (#11070) ................................................................................... Int. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. Charles Ludlam (#12631) ............................................................ Var. JACKKNIFE. Rock Anthony (#12006) .................................................................................. Int. JANE. S. N. Behrman, based on a story by Somerset Maugham (#12010) ................................................. lnt. JITTA'S ATONEMENT. George Bernard Shaw (#12019) ............................................................. 3 int. KEMPY. J.C. & Eliot Nugent (#13009) .................................................................................. lnt. KISS MAMA. George Panetta (#13020) .................................................................................. lnt. LABURNUM GROVE. 1. B. Priestley (#14015) ......................................................................... Int. THE LAST LEAF. Ross Claiborn & Frances Banks (#14035) ............................................................ Int. LATE LOVE. Rosemary Casey (#14043) ................................................................................ Int. LAZARETTI, OR THE SABERTOOTHED TIGER. Fritz Hochwalder, trans. by James Schmitt (#13889) ............ 1 set LITTLE GIRL BLUE. Dorothy Heyward (#14093) .................................................................... 3 Int. THE LIVING ROOM. Graham Greene (#14106) ........................................................................ .Int LOVE FROM A STRANGER. Frank Vesper (#141128) ................................................................. Int. LOVE OUT OF TOWN. William McCleery (#14131) .................................................................... Int. MARRIAGE WHEEL. Joel Climenhaga (#15061) ....................................................................... Var MEET THE WIFE. Lynn Starling (#15078) ............................................................................. Int. METEOR. S.N. Behrman (#15093) .................................................................... '................ 2 Int. MILKY WAY. Lynn Root '& Harry Clork (#15102) ...................................................................... Int. MINOR MIRACLE. Al Morgan (#15108) ............................................................................... Int. MISS LETITIA. Constance Cox (#15099) ............................................................................... Int. MISS PELL IS MISSING. Leonard Gershe (#15115) .................................................................... Int. MR. PIM PASSES BY. AA Milne (#15143) ............................................................................ Int. MRS. MOONLIGHT. Benn W. Levy (#15147) .......................................................................... Int. MURDER ON ARRIVAL. George Batson (#15158) ..................................................................... Int. MURRAY HILL. Leslie Howard (#15146) ............................................................................... Int. THE NATURAL LOOK. Lee Thuna (#16011) ........................................................................ 2 ints. NO ROOM FOR LOVE. Anthony Marriott & Bob Grant (#16095) ...................................................... Int. NOT IN THE BOOK. Arthur Watkyn (#16040) ......................................................................... Int. o MISTRESS MINE. Terrence Rattigan (#17007) .................................................................... 2 ints. OLD ACQUAINTANCE. John Van Druten (#17016) .................................................................. 2 Int. ON STAGE. Benjamin Kaye (#17027) ................................................................................... Int. ONCE IN SEPTEMBER. Cecil G. Stephens (#17031) ................................................................... Int. PASSACAGLIA. James Paul Dey (#18028) .......................................................................... Int.lext THE PATSY. Barry Connors (#18037) ................................................................................... Int. PEG 0' MY HEART. 1. Hartley Manners (#839) ........................................................................ Int. PETEY'S CHOICE. Fred Carmichael (#18064) .......................................................................... Int. THE PHANTOM LADY. Calderon de la Barca, trans. by Edwin Honig (#18067) .................................. Int., Ext. PORTRAIT IN BLACK. Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts (#18102) ............................................................ Int. P.S., I LOVE YOU. Lawrence Roman (#18014) ................................................................. Compo int. THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. Fritz Hochwalder, trans. by Kitty Black (#18214) ..................................... 1 set THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT. Maurice Valency, adapted from a play by Eugene Scribe (#19002) ........................... Int. THE REAR COLUMN. Simon Gray (#20013) ........................................................................... Int. THE REHEARSAL. Jean Anouilh, trans. by Jeremy Sams (#19960) ..................................................... Int. RELUCTANT PEER. William Douglas-Home (#20020) ................................................................. Int. REMEMBRANCE. Derek Walcott (#18619) ................. '............................................................ Int. THE RICH FULL LIFE. Vina Delmar (#20030) ........................................................................ Int. THE RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE. Peter Handke, trans. by Michael Roloff (#20033) .......................... Int. ROMANTIC AGE. 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*THE DISPUTE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marivaux. Translated by Gideon Lester. 7 m., 3 f. plus extras. Who is more unfaithful in love, men or women? That is the crux of this lean story of love, desire, betrayal and passion, a cautionary tale about the dangers ,md intrigues of seduction. First performed by the American Repertory Theatre to critical acclaim, this unique translation is set on a contemporary battle(#6237) field of the sexes. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) *MEDEA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 5 m., 3 f., 2 c. Various sets. Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. This deft translation for contemporary audiences provides new insights into this classic story. "Accessible, but not prosaic, vivid but not overstated, poetic but not inflated. . . . An excellent job." -Chicago Tribune. "Features a sharp, vivid precision edge . . . . Immediate and accessible."-Chicago Sun-Times. "A spare, contemporary translation." -South Bend Tribune. "Admirably recasts Euripides' play in modem American English. . . . Rudall avoids all the annoying, dusty Victorianisms of 19th century translators."-Chicago Reader. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) See Index for other translations. Please specify translator when ordering. (#14800) BURNING DESIRES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Joan Schenkar. 10-15 m. and f. A fiercely comedic reinvention of the story of Joan of Arc, this rollicking and literate comedy for all ages transports the teenaged Joan to 1950' s Seattle where it is too wet to burn her. She drives a Triumph convertible, goes on the warpath with a fabulous Native American princess, and is advised by those mid-twentieth century icons Saint Marlene Dietrich, Saint Gertrude Stein, Saint Emily Bronte and Saint Emily Dickinson. Mad doctors, bad girl and boy scouts and a teenaged Gilles de Raix add to the hilarity. Published in Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4229) CASH ON DELIVERY! (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Cooney. 6 m., 4 f. Int. This fast-paced British farce concerns a con artist who has duped the welfare authorities for years by claiming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address. This scam nets him tens of thousands tax-free. Just when he decides to kill off many of the imaginary dole recipients because matters are getting a bit too risky, welfare investigators show up. Some make inquiries about what is going on while others offer additional benefits for which he has not yet applied. To outwit the investigators, the con artist enlists help from one of his real lodgers and from his Uncle George, who also volunteers to convince his nephew's wife that he is not a transvestite. Nabbed in the end, the cheat is offered a job in the agency's fraud investigation unit because he knows all of the tricks! $6.50. (Royalty, (#5874) $60-$40.)

COMIC POTENTIAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 5 m., 5 f. (to play various roles). 4 ints. A sensation in London and New York, this is one of the most inventive plays by Britain's grand master of comedy-a hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy. At a television studio where a soap opera is being taped, an actor lapses into gibberish; he is an "actoid" (a robot) with a programming glitch. Adam, the producer's nephew, an aspiring writer who worships the broken-down has-been director, is chatting with actoid JC333. To his surprise, he finds that she has a creative imagination (due to what she calls a fault in her programming). Adam dreams of building a television series around Jacie. He is also falling in love with the charming robot! Will Adam get a green light for his series? Will love prevail? Jacie is one of Ayckbourn"s greatest characters; her portrayer won all of London's major acting awards. "Comic Potential hurts you with the sheer exuberance of its laughter and liberates you with its seriousness."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (#5824) DEMOCRACY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Michael Frayn. 10 m. Unit set. West Germany, 1969. Willy Brandt begins his brief but remarkable career as Chancellor. Always present but rarely noticed is Gunter Guillaume, his devoted personal assistant-and a spy for the Stasi. "A brilliant play about !Just, friendship and identity."-Daily Mail. "As in Copenhagen, Frayn is dealing with recent European history, and the result is another fascinating play. I was gripped throughout." -London Times. "Elegant fiction based on documented fact. . . . What makes Frayn's play essential viewing is its Schiller-like grasp of practical politics." -Guardian. "Superbly intricate, suspenseful, suggestive and entertaining."-Financial Times. "Richly rewarding."-Independent. "Fascinating. . . . A brilliantly nonrealistic style permits the action to proceed in leaps and bounds."-Evening Standard. "Intelligent and gripping. . . . A fust-rate spy story,"-Daily Telegraph. "Hugely entertaining. Packed with verbal parrying and effortless wit. Democracy crackles with life."-London Sunday Times. "A dazzling extended metaphor rages around the play like a lion-amazing to watch and you never know where it will leap. Excellent."-Independent on Sunday. "An absorbing, penetrating drama about treachery and !Just, and the !Jue nature of politicians."-Mail on Sunday. "A riveting portrait of intrigue and betrayal."-Sunday Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#6550) Edith Wharton's THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. Adapted by Dawn Keeler. (Little Theatre.) Drama. 5 m., 5 f. Unit set. Based on the classic story that helped to establish Edith Wharton as the first great American woman novelist, this moving play vividly brings to the stage Lily Bart's flamboyant progress through the glorious whirl of New York's high society, circa 1905, and her tragic fall. The satirical love story is staged as a series of flashbacks over her coffin. Faithful to Edith Wharton's distinct style of dialogue, this dramatic version opened to acclaim in London. "Elegant .'. . series of precisely staged and evocative dramatic tableaux." -Guardian. "Deep, dark and powerful . . . [with] dramatic and tragic impact."-The News. "There's actually not much mirth in this haunting, powerful play-but there is

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Elliot translation (#15592) McLeish and Raphael translation (#14815) Jeffers adaptation (#78) OEDIPUS. (Advanced Groups.) Tragedy. Steven Berkoff. 9 m., 1 f. simple set. Here is a sharp and accessible adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 3, $23.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16951) OUT OF ORDER. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 6 m., 4 f. Int. When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two into One. "Gleefully funny. "-Guardian. "Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year."-Evening Standard. "A classic."-Today. "A triumph."-Financial Times. "Brilliant. "-Observer. "A textbook model of pyramiding lunacy."-Variety. "Wildly funny."-Telegraph. "An inspired machine designed to cater for one of civilized society's greatest joys, which is to see someone else in the soup."-London Sunday Times. 1991 Olivier Award-Winner, Best Comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

desire, greed and tragedy to match all the greatest love stories. ner."-Southern Daily Echo. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNWOMEN'S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY'S PRODUCTION OF MACBETH. (All Groups.) Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 3 m., 7 f. plus 3 voices. Simple sets. The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S. ladies mount yet another assault on the classics with a startlingly original production of Macbeth staged to get them to the Welwyn Garden City Finals. Under the carefully mascara'd eye of adjudicator George Peach, all events conspire hilariously against them. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8111) FOOLS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 7 m., 3 f. Int., ext. Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years and Leon's job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he becomes stupid too. Why doesn't Leon leave? He has fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down. Of course, Leon breaks the curse and gets the girl. "The brightest, freshest, funniest, wittiest, warmest and happiest to-do on Broadway in many a day."-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Music tape from the Broadway production, $10 rental fee plus a $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $10 (#473) per performance.) Posters GOOD MORNING MISS VICKERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Stephen Levi. 3 m., 7 f. or 6 m., 4 f. Unit set. Ghosts, mystery, time travel and the teacher from your worst nightmare plague five teenagers who get caught in a time bubble. Non-stop action erupts as the young people attempt to break the bubble to escape from a ghost school. "A winner. The plot is intriguing. . . . It crackles with hilarious lines . . . . Young people allover with country will want to get acquainted with the Miss Vickers gang."-George Lewis, NBC News Correspondent. "Our Town is a comparable vehicle. It's simplicity, timeless message, and uncomplicated setting lends itself to many productions. . . . This play could be performed repeatedly throughout the U.S. for many years." -Caroline Kuhn, President of the Board of Trustees, Berkeley Hall School. (Also see Hearts 'n Kisses 'n Miss Vickers and Merry Christ(#9706) mas Miss Vickers.) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. See Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. THE KUKKURRIK FABLES. (All Groups.) Comedy. Oscar Mandel. See Index for description. LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Broadway Version. Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos. 4 m., 6 f., extras. Unit set. A tale of seduction set in France arriong aristocrats before the revolution, this is a play for all times about sexual manners and. manipulation. The Royal Shakespeare Company's stunning production met with acclaim in Stratford, London and on Broadway. The film, Dangerous Liaisons, won an Oscar. "A compelling evening of malicious wit." -N. Y. Times. "An evening of high comedy, high drama and surprising passion."-N.Y. Post. "Perfect."-N.Y. Daily News. "Bristles with tart, funny and exquisitely molded lines. . . . Contemporary playwriting at its very best."-Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14157) MA RAINEY,'S BLACK BOTTOM. (Advanced Groups.) Play with music. August Wilson. 8 m. (5 black, 3 white) 2 black f. Unit set. It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self-hate and exploitation. See page 74 for other plays in the cycle about the Black experience in America. "Searing . . . funny, salty, carnal and lyrical. . . . Wilson has lighted a dramatic fuse that snakes and hisses through several anguished eras of American life. When the fuse reaches its explosive final destination, the audience is impaled by the impact."-N.Y. Times. "Brilliant . . . explosive! Dramatically riveting."-Newhouse Newspapers. Winner New York Drama Critics Circle Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Lead sheets of the music available for eight weeks only on receipt of prepaid music royalty of $50 per performance for the first three performances and $25 for each performance plus a $25 refundable deposit. Please advise of number of performances and exact dates. Slightly Restricted. (#15662) MEDEA. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Euripides. 3 versions: translated by Alistair Elliot, by Kenneth McLeish and Frederick Raphael and freely adapted by Robinson Jeffers. 5 m., 5 f. Ext. Diana Rigg starred in London and on Broadway in the Alistair Elliot translation. "Gripping Greek tragedy . . . in a juicy translation that's made for our modern age. . . . Medea is indeed a kind of thrill ride. . . from which we get fearful glimpses of the darkness of human nature. This production uses a muscular, invigorating translation by the British poet Alistair Elliot. It has a directness, a freshness that makes the play seem quite contemporary . . . . It has an elemental power."-N.Y. Daily News. "High-powered . . . classic theatre that should not be missed."-N.Y. Post. "A startling production of searing immediacy."-Newsweek. "We sit mesmerized ... as Euripides gives us a lesson in what theater is all about."-N.Y. Times. $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Broadway audiences thrilled to the provocative translation by Kenneth McLeish and Frederick Raphael with famed actress Fiona Shaw in the title role. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Judith Anderson was triumphant as Medea in New York and critics agreed that the adaptation of the by Robinson Jeffers reaffirms his preeminent place among modern poets. "Won cheers and thirteen curtain calls. "-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please

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RUMORS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Neil Simon. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Four couples are at a deputy New York City mayor's townhouse to celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. The cover-up grows progressively more difficult to sustain as more guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the situation gets more and more crazed. Rumors is among the most popular plays for high school production according to the International Thespian Society. "Neil Simon makes people laugh-a lot!"-USA Today. "Not only side-splitting, but front and back-splitting."-NBC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Use of the song "La Bamba" is mandatory. (Music royalty, $30.00 per week or $6.25 per performance, whichever is less. In Canada, write our Toronto office for quotation.) Posters (#943) SILENT LAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 8 m., 2 f. Various sets with projections. New York audiences went wild for this gag-filled, prat falling, water sloshing, bed crashing, pie throwing craziness. Performed in black and white with title cards projected over the actors' heads and a live theater organ accompanying every doubletake, this comic tour de force stars a dashing hero who overcomes jail, poverty, World War I and a dastardly villain, Lionel Drippinwiithit, to win the girl of his dreams. She is the heiress to the Thickwad Screw Factory, a firm that has been "Screwing the American Public since 186l." The biggest pie fight the theater world has ever seen caps the silent action. More than a tribute to the slapstick antics of Chaplin, Keaton and Arbuckle-this is a reverential recreation of a bygone era. "Hilarious! . . . Surprises abound in the inspired physical comedy."-Village Voice. "The best show running Off Broadway!.. If this isn't a smash hit, there's no theatre god!"-WOR Radio. "Delightful."-N.Y. Times. "An adoring salute to the golden age of film and an innovative twist on live theater!" -AP. $6.50. Projection images of title cards on CD, $12.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) . (#21509) SITTING PRETTY. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Amy Rosenthal. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Unmarried sisters in their fifties share a London flat. Nina is brisk, dynamic and gainfully employed. Nancy is plump, self-conscious and suddenly redundant. Urged to find a hobby, she unwittingly stumbles into a job modeling for eccentric drawing students and their philandering teacher. Initially horrified to discover that life models pose naked, Nancy is unexpectedly liberated by the experience. Though she keeps this activity a secret, her newfound confidence unsettles Nina. The sisters move toward an inevitable confrontation as Nina faces her unhappy past and Nancy glimpses a possible future. This bittersweet play unfolds with humorous twists and turns. "Assured . . . with a gentle blend of wit and the poignant. "-Independent. "Rosenthal writes like a female Alan Ayckbourn."-Guardian"Wonderful ... ensemble piece of immense acuity and pathos." -Time Out. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#2266) SWORD AGAINST THE SEA. (Little Theatre.) Poetic drama. An adaptation of William Butler Yeats' Cuchulain Plays by Arthur Feinsod. 5 m., 5 f. Various sets. Using Yeats' stirring "Rose" poems as transitions, Sword Against the Sea combines and streamlines his six one-act plays about the Irish mythological hero Cuchulain. The great hero's attempt as a young man to achieve eternal life at the Hawk's Well, his tragic slaying of his own son, the resulting despair that drove him to fight the sea with his sword, and his wife's sacrifice to save him are vividly retold. In old age he faces death heroically and achieves spiritual transcendence. Songs, incidental music, masks, photographs and dance can be incorporated to enrich this moving and transcendent evening of theatre. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Direct inquiries about music to Professor Gerald Moshell, Dept. of Music, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford CT 06106. For information about masks and photographs, contact David Watson, 240 Locust Street, Apt, 2R Springfield, MA 01108. (#21478) TALLER THAN A DWARF. (Little Theatre.) . Comedy. Elaine May. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Howard is just another urban, Jewish, almost generic white male from Queens, until the merry foibles of life - a leaky faucet, a dirty cop and a broken shower handle - overwhelm and he takes to bed. The neurotically hysterical characters that surround him revere his rebellion in the skewed comic version of an urban-angst world

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that veteran humorist Elaine May has created. "The discomforting sourpuss humor that Ms. May is known for."-N.Y. Times. "May [does] . . . what she does besttum contemporary neuroses into the stuff of high-pitched drawing-room, or in this (#22580) case bed-room, farce."-Boston Globe. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) TIPTOE THROUGH THE TOMBSTONES. (AU Groups.) Comedy thriller. Norman Robbins. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Months have passed since the ghastly events in Monument House occurred that are related in A Tomb with a View. Mortimer Crayle, the crusty lawyer, and his secretary have gathered the remaining members of the Tomb family at the house, ostensibly to inform this off-beat bunch about their inheritance. In reality, Crayle has designs on the estate that necessitate eliminating all Tombs. Fog descends on the gloomy mansion. In the cobwebby corridors things-and people-are seldom what they seem. Poison is in every decant~r and there are mysterious disappearances. Hosts and guests join the rising pile of bodies in the cellar. Previous acquaintance with the Tombs is not required to enjoy this glorious spoof. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21971) THE TRIAL. (Advanced Groups.) Dark comedy. Steven Berkoff. 8 m., 2 f. Simple set. Joseph K has been arrested and is awaiting trial, but he has no idea why. As he attempts to discover what is behind his situation, he sinks deeper and deeper, flailing as he tries to escape. This darkly metaphysical play employs humor and flair, mime and strong acting. In The Trial/Metamorphosis/In the Penal Colony: Three Adaptationsfrom Franz Kafka, $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22950). TRIVIAL PURSUITS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frank Vickery. 4 m., 6 f. Ext. A summer evening's barbecue is the setting for a meeting of the Trealaw and District Operatic Society. Next season's play is to be announced but Nick, the society's business manager, has promised a different show and the plum roles to four different people. As the evening progresses each character's foibles and talents are revealed: Joyce, once talented and well-meaning, is a lush; Teddy is alternately sweet and strident; Derek is pathetic but lovable. The complex relationships between players emerge as moments of pure slapstick and farce alternate with ones full of real drama and pathos. Not every hitch is resolved, but at the end of this exploration, by turns ironic and serious, of the joys and heartaches of amateur theatrics, the society is intact and its members ready for another season of testing the magic and artifice that is theatre. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22758) DROP DEAD! (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 7 m., 3 f. Int. A cast of has-been actors plan to revive their careers in Drop Dead!, a potboiler murder mystery directed by "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage" Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic eye-twitching megalomaniac). At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered. During the opening night performance, the murders continue. The remaining thespians must , save the show and their careers, solve the mystery and stay alive for curtain calls. "A nonstop physical comedy that turns the world of theater on its head!"-Variety. "The audience laughed at every thing! "-L.A. Times. "Pick of the Month"-L.A. Magazine. "Heartily entertaining!"-L.A. Reader. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)
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FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS THE LAST OF HITLER. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Joan Schenkar. 10-12 m. and f. In this timely comedy of menace, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a post-war Jewish retirement community in Florida. Staged as a dazzling 1940's radio broadcast with announcers, Rinso-Blue commercials and a "How to Cook a Kosher Chicken" show (in which more than the chicken is cooked), the comedy also features singing, dancing Russian ~urses, Edgar Bergen-Charlie MacCarthy routines with a talking skeleton, psychoanalysis by Dr. Wilhelm Reich and a radio appearance by the Dionne Quintuplets. Published in Signs of Lifl.': 6 Comedies of Menace, $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13845) LIFE IN THE TREES. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Catherine Butterfield. 5 m., 5 f. 3 ints. This collection features three awarding-winning one-act plays: No Problem, Chemistry, and The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs. (See Index for individual descriptions.) "An amusing exegesis of urban angst."-L.A. Times. "Scintillating dialogue . . . . An unusuaily bright evening of theatre." -L.A. Weekly. L.A. Drama Critics Circle Nomination for Best Writing; L.A. Weekly Award for Best One-Act Plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $25-$25 per play.) (#14704) MURDER AT MINSING MANOR: A NANCY BOYS MYSTERY. (Advanced Groups.) Mystery/Farce. Michael Simon and Richard Simon. 8 m., 2 f. (with doubling). I set. The first Ridiculous Theatrical Company production by outside playwrights brims with irreverent wit. Horror show host Marius Mintsingue is killed on the air, to the dismay of two aspiring detectives (pubescent boys played by women) who are his biggest fans. While the murderer stalks, Mintsingue's crossdressing, lover struggles to protect and support the household without implicating herself by collecting on the will or insurance. "Dizzy and very pleasurable." -N. Y. Times. "[An] antic romp."-New Yorker. "High-flying hilarity."-Manhattan Mirror. "Outrageously funny."-Greenwich Village Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $00$40.) (#15282) THE POPE AND THE WITCH. (Advanced Groups.) Farce. Dario Fo. Translated by Joan Holden. 10 actors to play 15 m., 5 f. 2 ints. The Pope explains it all in this wild send-up of Catholicism and politics by Italy's Nobel Prize-winning farceur. In the Piazza San Pietro thousands of hungry children, the fruits of the his birth control doctrine, are crying for food. Meanwhile he contends with assassination attempts (an exploding canary), mafiosi, drug dealers, sinister bankers, and inept cardinals. He ends up in the street with a laundry basket on his head and a packet of heroin in his pocket, giving away condoms. "Hugely enjoyable. . . . 1"0 is hitting at the Achilles heel of Vatican politics: its immense wealth. His point is that it is easy for a rich church to rage against abortion when millions are born into poverty, and become victims of the drug trade, from which people under the Vatican's protection can fill their pockets."-London Sunday Times. "Glorious political pantomime."-Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18220) THE POSSUM PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Benjie Aerenson. 7 m., 3 f. Simple sets. Sally can't endure suffering in the world and sets out on a desperate pilgrimage to make things better in the homes and back roads of suburban Miami. Her son Clark sabotages her at every tum, getting into fights, crashing cars and generally endeavoring to make everything worse. Sally senses that Clark is heading deeper and deeper into danger and her visions and actions become increasingly desperate. Convinced she is restoring Paradise to the back roads while, in reality, losing her mind, Sally drives the play toward a climax of cruelty and sacrifice. Winner of the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18695) BITTER FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Gordon Rayfield. 8 m., 2 f. Unit set. David Klein is on trial for treason. He gave top-secret information to the Israeli government on a missile defense system designed to counter Soviet-made missiles based in Libya and Syria. The U.S. government had promised to give Israel this technology but reneged. Israel recruited David to steal it, a task he sees as following in the heroic footsteps of his father who fought for Israel in the 1948 war of independence. Rabbi Arthur Schaeffer, long-time friend and comrade-in-arms of David's father, is politically well-connected with the U.S. and Israeli governments and tries desperately to resolve the unresolvable: Israel wilJ not acknowledge that it conspired to spy on the U.S. and David will not do anything damaging to Israeleven if it means spending the rest of his life in jail. "A play which seizes the political moment and engages it with thrashing intensity."-N.Y. Times. "Bitter Friends held me in its grip from frrst to last."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#4176) THE BOOGEYMAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Edward Clinton. 4 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). 3 ints.!1 ext. (may be simply suggested). Property and the American relationship to it is ruthlessly and hilariously examined in three related one-act plays that combine seamlessly to provide an evel1ing of uproarious entertainment. Originally commissioned by the Actors' Theatre of Louisville, The Bogeyman won first prize in the Hippodrome State Theatre's Florida Festival of New Plays. "Surrealistic, darkly comic."-Gainesville Herald. "Brilliant, hard hitting. Interesting individually and play well in conceI1.. "-Scene Magazine.(See Index under First of the Month, Small Claims and The Boogeyman for individual descriptions.) $6.50. (Royalty $60-$40 or $25-$20 per play.) (#4719) BUT WHY BUMP OFF BARNABY? (All Groups.) Mystery-Farce. Rick Abbot. 4 m., 6 f. Int. This lunatic show poses a fascinating mystery. When Barnaby FoJcey is murdered at a family gathering at Marlgate Manor, it transpires that he had a motive to murder everybody else-but no one had a reason to want him dead. While dying, he scrawled the letters b-a-r-which can implicate everyone. While the bizarre

ELECTRA. (Advanced Groups.) Tragedy. Sophocles. Adapted by Frank McGuinness. 4 m., 6 f. "Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway [with] soul-satisfying drama at its most passionately, intensely alive . . . . The astounding Zoe Wanamaker in the title role giv[es] the performance of her career. . . . The foul deeds of Electra may have been recorded millenniums ago, but in this masterly modem-dress version, they are as raw as the lead item off the police blotter. . . . It's a provocative evening that not only reacquaints you with the direct, unprocessed power of Greek drama but also provides a depth of pleasure you associate with great movies . . . thanks to a sleek and hypnotic text by Frank McGuinness." - N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Please state translator when ordering. (#7911) THE GYPSY WOMAN. (Little Theatre.) Commedia dell'arte farce. Don Nigro. 7 m., 3 f. Ext. Isabella and her servant Pedrolino return to Naples after ten years and decide to impersonate gypsies with bizarre results in this outrageous farce based on a scenario first performed by the Gelosi troupe four hundred years ago in Italy and France. Franceschina plucks her chicken and wails for her dead husband, Pedrolino reads her fortune by feeling the bumps on her body, someone has eaten Arlecchino's dog, Oratio is stark, raving mad and is pouring pastafazoola allover the cow, Captain Spavento longs to rub bath oil on the beauteous Flaminia, Flavio and Isabella exchange the most wretched Petrarchian sonnets in history, Gratiano believes the cow is in love with him, Pantalone is strongly advised not to relieve himself in the soup, and Arlecchino discovers the secret of life and a very unfortunate recipe for cookies. In The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9181) INTO THE FIRE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Deborah Baley Brevoort. 6 m., 4 f. Exts. An isolated Alaskan fishing village is tom apart by a morals controversy when the mayor's wife walks naked through town in a desperate attempt to get the attention of her philandering husband. At the height of the crisis a mysterious man is washed ashore, setting the community on fire in more than one way. This humorous and poetic drama explores awakening, rebirth and small-town life with magical realism given an Alaskan twist. Winner of the 1995 National Playwright's Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. $6.50. (Royalty,'$60-$40.) (#11134)

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles Vance, adapted from the novel by Emily Bronte. 6 m., 4 f. Unit set. A stunning version of the immortal love story set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, a landscape over which the wild and terrible figure of Heathcliff towers. The tale of his searing passion for the beautiful Catherine Earnshaw has the vividness of nightmare, the beauty and simplicity of an old ballad, and the depth and intensity of ancient tragedy. A spellbinding thriller is vividly brought to life in this theatre presentation. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify adaptor when ordering. (#25206) AUTUMN MANOEUVRES. (All Groups.) Comedy. Peter Coke. 2 m., 8 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3135) WINTER GLORY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Peter Coke. 3 m. (2 non-speaking) 7 f. Int. In Winter Glory, we meet once again the redoubtable quartet of Dame Beatrice and her lodgers-Nan, Hattie and the Brigadier-who featured in Peter Coke's earlier comedies Breath of Spring, Midsummer Mink and Autumn Manoeuvres. This, however, will be positively their last appearance, as due to an unfortunate slip-up in their schemes to put a pathetic pet out of its misery and to help an ageing actress fade away at a peak of happiness, they dispatch themselves heavenward as well! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25087) A TOUCH OF DANGER. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Francis Durbridge. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Max Telligan, a popular novelist, has returned to his London apartment from a business trip to Munich to find his evening newspaper containing a report of his violent death. He subsequently is greeted by a parade of mysterious visitors who seek a pocket-sized calculator, threaten him with a poison-tipped walking stick and display photographs of his wife in flagrante delicto. Max has, it seems, unwittingly become embroiled in the activities of an international terrorist group! "Mr. Durbridge is a master craftsman, with an unequalled record of keeping TV audiences poised on the edge of their seats." -London Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $60(#22174) $40.) THE INCREDmLY FAMOUS WILLY RIVERS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Stephen Metcalfe. 7 m., 3 f. (to play various roles). Unit set. This adventurous play by the author of Strange Snow thrilled audiences and critics Off Broadway and later at San Diego's Old Globe. Willy Rivers is a rock and roll star who is incredibly famous because he survived an assassination attempt during one of his concerts. His bush with death has made him question the meaning of it all, but he gets no help from the cynical and alienated characters in his life. This most unusual play is a tour-deforce for an actor. Willy Rivers performs several songs during the play (see the acting edition for details). "Pulsatingly alive . . . an indictment of a glitz-tranquilized culture that packages art, death and sex as equally meaningless commodities." N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Inquiries for the music written by Donald Markowitz and Denny McCormick should be addressed to Silfen & Glasser; 545 Fifth Avenue; New York, N.Y. 10017 (#11093) THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. John Olive. See Index for description. ARCHANGELS DON'T PLAY PINBALL. (Little Theatre.) Farce with music. Dario Fo. Translated by Ron Jenkins. 7 m., 3 f. (to play 39 roles). Ints., exts. First performed at the Bristol Old Vic, this fast-moving play is one of Fo's most accomplished farces and the first to combine political-satirical content in a Brechtian form that relies on paradoxical situations to make its point. Set in the industrial outskirts of Milan, it follows a group of louts and their butt, Lofty, a simple man caught in the maze of government bureaucracy who tries to extricate himself from the pranks and petty crimes. Dario Fo's song lyrics on page 7 of the play can be set to modern American rock, pop or rap music and those on page 29 to American rock or pop music. "Genial. . . . This is a very friendly Fo."-Guardian. "Exuberant in its good-natured teasing of bureaucracy and authority . . . . Zany energy."-Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Write for details about music. (#3116) WHODUNNIT. (All Groups.) Mystery/Comedy. Anthony Shaffer. 7 m., 3 f. Int. This Broadway success by the author of Sleuth takes audiences to Agatha Christie's England. Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black-tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and other Christie types. One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others (each in private) that he has the goods to blackmail them. He is ripe for murder-and so it happens. Whodunnit? "A torrent of merriment. . . heavy with excitement, crackles with repartee, rings the bell with epigrams, and detonates depth charges of laughter. . . . Converts the theatre into a discotheque of explosive delight . . . [with) enough riotous surprises to supply another mystery dramatist with a trunkful of plays." -New York Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25115) "THE BUTLER DID IT". (AU Groups.) Comedy. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 5 f Int. This spoof of English mysteries with a decidedly American flavor finds Miss Maple, a society dowager noted for her imaginative week-end parties, awaiting a group of detective writers invited to eerie Ravenswood Manor where they are to assume the personalities of their fictional characters. She's arranged all sorts of scary, amusing incidents. Then a real murder takes place and the guests realize they're all marked for death. When they're not busy tripping over the clues, the zany sleuths trip over one another. "A spiny mystery with a generous injection of wild humor." -Arizona Journal. "Successfully interweaves all the classic elements with an imaginative

group frantically tries to unmask the murderer, people vanish, poison is found in the sherry-and the police take forever to arrive. Meanwhile, there's a secret treasure to be found, a mystifying limerick to decode and all sorts of doom to be avoided before the killer is finally unmasked and destroyed using one of the funniest methods ever seen on a stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4157) FEMALE TRANSPORT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Steve Gooch. 4 m., 6 f. Int. This stark, hard-hitting drama is an account of the political education of six women convicted of petty crimes in 19th-century London and sentence to be transported to a life of hard labor in Britain's overseas penal colony (present-day Australia). During the 6-month voyage they are kept in a cramped cell below deck where they learn certain truths about society. Foremost among these is they have been condemned due to the bias of a male-dominated class system, represented in the play by the crew of the prison ship. Their consciousness-raising is powerfully and sympathetically portrayed; at the end of their journey they have grown into a unified bunch of hardened fighters. "Compelling."-London Financial Times. "A funny play, carried by racy vigor."-Evening Standard. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8151) THE HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. (AU Groups.) ComedylHorror. Martin Downing. 6 m., 4 f. I set. Produced in London in 1989. Baron Victor Von Frankenstein, bored with his attempts to give life to the lifeless, has turned his attention to curing the supposedly incurable! In a grim castle' in the Carpathian Mountains he and his long-suffering wife Elisabeth, the unsavory hunchback Ygor, the Valkyrian Frau Lurker and the Monster play host to various mysterious and menacing denizens of the night (invited or otherwise) who visit the Baron to beg him to rid them of their vices. But this challenge, although a welcome diversion for the headstrong young scientist, proves to be no picnic . . . more of a living nightmare! A highly entertain(#10167) ing wise-cracking comedy-horror! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PLA Y ON! (All Groups.) Comedy. Rick Abbot. 3 m., 7 f. Int. Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near-disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound-effects reap their share of laughter. (#18083) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) REMEMBER MY NAME. (All Groups.) Drama. Joanna Halpert Kraus. 5 m., 5 f. Area staging. This prize-winning drama tells of a young girl's survival in wartime France and the courage of the those who protect her from the Nazis. "Hits a bull's eye. . . . An artfully constructed play based on a true story of horror and heroism." -Jewish Community News. "What struck me most was the humanity of the characters. They were presented as real human beings in an inhuman situation."-New York Casting. "The story touched deep emotions."-Back Stage. "It is a riveting history lesson unfolded in an entertaining and well-informed manner." -Arts Indiana. $6.50. (Royalty $50-$40.) (#6169) THE SENATOR WORE PANTYHOSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milrnore, 7 m., 3 f. Int. Seething with political and religious scandals, this comedy revolves around the failing presidential campaign of "Honest" Gabby Sandalson, a regular guy whose integrity has all but crippled his bid for the White House. His sleazy campaign manager trumps up an implausible sex scandal to garner votes, a scheme that glorious.\.y backfires. "A guaranteed hit!" -Asbury Park Press. "The characters swap beds, identities and jabs in what may be a flawless sex farce." -Register. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21084) SLAUGHTERHOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Norman Robbins. 4 m., 6 f. Int. In Usher, his great country house, aging horror star Romney Marsh gathers a group to read a new play. When the last guest arrives, Romney unleashes the guard dogs and, with a moat full of piranha, he has his visitors trapped. Someone has been sending him newspaper clippings about the suicide thirty years ago of Mabel Monk, an actress and Romney's lover. He intends to find out who is responsible, but first one of his quests is found with her throat cut. Then Romney dies, poisoned by his own chocolates. Marooned in the house with thick fog swirling outside, the guests realize that the murderer must have some connection with Mabel. The finger of suspicion points at each of them until the truth is revealed with fatal consequences. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21721) TONS OF MONEY. (All Groups.) Farce. Will Evans and Valentine, revised by Alan Ayckbourn. 6 m., 4 f. Int./ext. Alan Ayckbourn's version of the first of the famous Aldwych farces was produced by the National Theatre. It is the story of an unsuccessful inventor who inherits the life interest in a fortune which is to revert on his death to his cousin George Maitland. As Cousin George is thought to have died abroad, the inventor has the brilliant idea of "dying" so that he can resurrect himself as his cousin and avoid paying his enormous debts. Complications arise in the form of George's wife, another Maitland imposter (the butler's brother) and finally the real George Maitland himself! "A spirited piece which captures the flavor of the period."-Sunday Today. Mr. Ayckbourn's treatment of this . . . crowd-pleaser is an unerring theatrical delight. "-Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#22159) THE VORTEX. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 7 m., 3 f. 2 int. In Coward (#24050) Plays: One, $24.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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approach. . . . Great fun and strictly for laughs."-Sun Valley Green Sheet. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#291) EXIT THE BODY. (AU Groups.) Farce. Fred Carmichael. 5 m., 5 f. Int. A mystery writer rents a New England house that is the rendezvous point for some jewel thieves. The focal point of the set is the closet which opens into a living room and a library. A body found in the closet promptly disappears only to be succeeded by another. The hunt for the jewels reaches a climax at two A.M. when four couples unknown to each other turn up to search. Not since the days of Mack Sennett has there been such an hilarious series of entrances and exits. "Hilarious, delicious, uproarious, hysterical. . . . [The] audience, howled, guffawed, and applauded."-Bennington Banner. "Never have tears of laughter flowed so freely."-Rutland Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#404) CHARLEY'S AUNT. (All Groups.) Farce. Brandon Thomas. 6 m., 4 f. Ext.l2 int. This world-famous farce has moved millions to tears of laughter. Jack Chesney loves Kitty Verdun and Charles loves Miss Speuigue. They invite the ladies to meet Charley's wealthy aunt from Brazil. But alas, the aunt sends word that she will have to defer her visit for a few days. What is to be done? The dear young things must not be compromised-but neither will the youths give up the opportunity of declaring their love. The problem is solved by forcing another Oxford undergraduate into a black satin skirt, a lace fichu, a pair of mitts, an old-fashioned cap and wig. As soon as this old frump is introduced to all as Charley'S Aunt, the real one shoes up. In the comic confusion which results, hearts are won and fortunes recovered. In its many stage and motion picture revivals, this play enjoys a wide and eager audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35; No Royalty in Canada.) Publicity Kit and Posters (#5) THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES. (Little Theatre.) Farce. John Guare. 4 m., 6 f. Int. A zoo attendant has lingering visions of being a songwriter. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to New York, his mistress talks him into calling an old school chum, now a Hollywood producer, for a movie music writing job. His son arrives AWOL from Fort Dix with a bomb he intends to use in Yankee Stadium to kill the Pope. The songwriter's cuckoo wife is carted away shortly before the producer arrives and three nuns drop in from the roof. The son's bomb goes off prematurely and the producer elopes to Australia with the songwriter's mistress. We are back at the beginning, with the frustrated songwriter and his nutty wife. Winner of the 1971 Critics Award and the Obie Award as Best American Play, House of Blue Leaves was recently revived on Broadway. "A brilliant play . . . . Wacky and sometimes sad [with] . . . combined hilarity, poignancy, outrageous stage aside and tragedy."-N.Y. Daily News. "Zany and original farce."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#71) BLUEBEARD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Ludlam. 8 m., 2 f. Simple sets. "A loving paean and a lunatic parody."-N.Y. Times. "A drawing room grotesque right out of Be!a Lugosi with Noel Coward thrown in for good measure."-Wall Street Journal. "Contemporary high comedy."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#3990) THE BEAMS ARE CREAKING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Douglas Anderson. 8 m., 2 f. (with doubling.) Unit set. This is the true story of a modern man for seasons: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian who defied the Nazis and ultimately led an assassination attempt against Hitler. The play captures his legend in rich theatrical terms without sacrificing the human story. Part political thriller, part historical play and part love story, it is leavened with humor and filled with a compassion that reaffirms one's faith in man. Winner of several awards, this inspiring play has been performed throughout the country. Notes on production, suggested music and a complete text of simultaneous radio commentaries are included in the acting edition. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4163) SCAPIN (The Scamps of Scapin) (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 7 m., 3 f. I set. In The Actor's Moliere, Volume 3, $6.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21027) DALLIANCE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Arthur Schnitzler. Adapted by Tom Stoppard from a literal translation by Anthony Vivis. 6 m., 4 f., plus extras and optional musicians. This version of Schnitzler's Lorelei, a play that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in 1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric. Dalliance is a bitter-sweet drama about a young working-class girl who falls in love with a military officer. She alone has not learned that love is temporal and trivial-a mere series of dalliances. "Tom Stoppard's nimble wit has sewn sequins on the already glittering fabric of the original."-London Sunday Telegraph. "A gripping critique of masculine loyalties."-The Listener. Published with Undiscovered Country, $19.00. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#6154) BECOMING MEMORIES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Arthur Giron. Music by Kim D. Sherman. 5 m., 5 f. (to play many roles). Unit set. This haunting, unusual play was created with members of the Illusion Theatre of Minneapolis, using their reallife stories and those of their families to create a richly-textured portrait of smalltown America from 1911 to the present. The play follows five families through three generations. "Extols the virtues of an America solidly rooted in mid-western values. . . . A comedy in the best sense, it celebrates the biological urge to survive despite adversity and affirms the triumph of love over fallibility." -Pittsburgh Press. "Superb theatre with the simplicity and power of Thornton Wilder."-San Diego Reader. 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ment in Theatre. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Optional incidental music by Kim Sherman is available on receipt of a $25.00 refundable deposit plus a $20.00 rental fee; please advise us of the number of performances. (Music royalty, $10-$5.) Use of the music enhances the production. (#3979) DEADLY NIGHTCAP; (All Groups.) Mystery thriller. Francis Durbridge. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Murder and mystery abound in this ingenious play with more than its fair share of blind alleys. A greedy husband plots to kill his wife and make it look like suicide. His plans are thwarted: he, not his wife, ends up dead. But how-and by whom? Even though the investigation led by Cliff Jordan concludes Jack was murdered by a prowler, there are so many possible suspects and motives that the truth is elusive. The London critics said "a night to remember for any fan of mystery, murder and edge-of-your-seat suspense" and "if you enjoy the very best of thrillers, see Deadly Nightcap-it's the best." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6153) TWO INTO ONE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 5 m., 5 f., plus extras. 3 ints. Mr. Cooney is truly the leading contemporary practitioner of a great theatrical tradition-the sex farce. Two Into One is about nothing more than the hilarious attempts of a Member of Parliament to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out of the way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed! "It is a long time since I heard a theatre laughing with such uninhibited delight. . . . One can only marvel at the surrealist idiocy."-Daily Telegraph. "Irrepressively inventive . . . hilarious."-Sunday Telegraph. "In the very mainstream of British farce, that giddy confection of mounting misunderstandings (sic) and naughty entanglements."--London Daily Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#22245) ANOTHER COUNTRY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Julian Mitchell. 10 m. Simple ints.!l ext. Another Country is set in an English public school in the early 1930's where future leaders are being prepared for their roles in the ruling class. Two of the central characters are outsiders: Guy Bennett is coming to terms with homosexuality and Tommy Judd is a committed Marxist. Judd wants to abolish the whole system of British life; Bennett wants a successful career within it. The school and the system have traditional ways of dealing with rebels. "Subtle [and] absorbing."-London Daily Mail. "A genuinely exciting political play. His acerbic wit finds a perfect match in the precocious self-importance of his subjects."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3094) FROM THE MEMOIRS OF PONTIUS PILATE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eric Bentley. 10 m. Unit set. In Rallying Cries, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8105) JOURNEY'S END. Drama. R.C. Sheriff. 10 m. Int. The greatest of all English war plays, Journey's End shows the effect of war on a group of young officers. The play is a tragic and moving piece for advanced casts. $8.95. Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12031) CAESAR AT THE RUBICON. History. Theodore H. White. 10 m., extras. I set. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, history took a dramatic and irreversible turn. Here is Caesar ready to return to Rome :md receive the honors of state. But there are jealousies in Rome, and enemies who persuade the Senate to be tough with Caesar, and to order him home without the pomp and power of his legions. Meanwhile his enemies rally their forces to gain an ascendancy in power over Caesar. But he has anticipated this: he is forced to assert himself by force and enters Rome in strength. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5002) EXCURSION FARE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dennis Smith. 8 m., 2 f. Int. Winner of the 17th annual American College Theatre Festival, this plays shows a way station of the dead enroute to eternity that houses people whose bodies have never been found. With Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater, Ambrose Bierce and Jimmy Hoffa are a young man whose car caromed down a mountain and a girl who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge. All have some hope for what is yet to come, even those who abandoned all hope entering here. There are games and contests, some comic, some deadly serious, including the last one which determines why they fear facing their destinies in eternity. Some do have the courage to make the leap onto the train, leaving behind a hard-core group who are forever afraid and secretly hope. "A brilliant and provocative play . . . compassionate wit, imagination and insight."-Christian Science Monitor. "Sparkles with intelligence and wit. . . . Intriguing."-Daily Emerald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7069) THE GYPSY'S REVENGE. (Little Theater.) Comedy/Melodrama. Michael Lambe. 3 m., 6 f., 1 child, I pianist. Simple sets. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9137) LUNCH GIRLS. (Advanced Groups.) Dramatic Comedy. Leigh Curran. 3 m., 7 f. 2 Ints. This engrossing play shows a slice of life seldom seen in the theatre. The lunch girls are waitresses in an all-male key club. Each is a fascinating individual who copes in her own way with the fundamental problem of being a male fantasy-figure. The first and third acts take place in their locker-room where they change their clothes and personalities. In the second act, the scene shifts to the kitchen. They frenetically whisk in and out, all the while interacting with the chef and his assistant. "Should not be missed."-Milford Citizen. 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wide-eyed blonde and assorted other zanies. An endearing glimpse of a giddy theatrical past."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25153) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CURIOUS ADVENTURE OF THE CLOCKWORK PRINCE. A Victorian romp with music. Cleve Haubold. Music by James Alfred Hitt. 6 m., 4 f. Int. This Sherlock Holmes adventure in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan brings the great detective and Dr. Watson up against the evil wiles of that master of disguise, Sir Sullivan Sinister. The world of New Year's Eve, 1899, in London is a sparkling background against which Holmes wrestles with the puzzle of the Clockwork Prince, a brass key held for ransom, a stolen formula and a curiously missing cook who is nowhere and everywhere at once. Holmes makes the most of his gifts of deduction and disguise in a riotous race against the stroke of midnightwith fatal results. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music, $11. (#21126) A TOMB WITH A VIEW. (All Groups.) Comedy-Thriller. Norman Robbins, 4 m., 6 f. Int. A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across-presided over by a portrait of a grim-faced, mad-eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family--one member of which has were-wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds. By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast-and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels-are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

tones of pathos . . . [and] an engrossing psychological study."-Branford Review. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14156) EDMOND. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. David Mamet. 20 m., 8 f. (to be played by 6 m., 4 f.) Ints./exts., simply suggested. This play has been described as a sort of reverse-image morality play; whereas Everyman went on a journey in search of his salvation, Mamet's everyman (the title character) here descends into the maelstrom of big-city degradation in search of sexual gratification. "Describes a world in which morality is tangential, in which there seems to be no moral feelings, only brutal, cruel ones, no concern for others, only selfishness and self-interest." -Women's Wear Daily. "A play that blisters, disquiets, shatters, hurts . . . . An example of masterly control over a dizzying experience and it will knock you for a loop."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7013) A LITTLE FAMILY BUSINESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from a play by Pierre Barille! and Jean-Pierre Gredy. 6 m., 4 f. Int. This sparkling comedy starred Angela Lansbury and John McMartin on Broadway. Ben is a conservative, bigoted chauvinist who runs an inherited Massachusetts carpet cleaning factory with a despotic hand. He has a heart attack and goes on a rehabilitating cruise, leaving his equally hard-nosed daughter Lillian in charge of the business. Previously more interested in Neiman-Marcus catalogues than cleaners, she averts a strike by improving working conditions, increases the profits and thinks of going into politics. Ben returns to find himself stripped of his power. Along the way, there's much comic confusion resulting from their extra-marital affairs. "A sparking example of Broadway light comedy. . . . A bright and breezy comic bonanza."-WCBS-TV. "A crisp, amusing comedy . . . [with] snappy, original Iines."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14637) THE DEATH OF A MINER. (AU Groups.) Drama. Paula Cizmar. 6 m., 4 f., Unit set. This engrossing, cinematically-structured drama is about a female coal miner who dies in a mining accident. The play explores the difficulty she encounters in trying to make a living in such a male-dominated profession, the difficulties her husband faces in having a wife with such an unusual job, and ultimately the reasons for her death. "A major drama. . . . Such is the richness of the script . . . that the experience was illuminating."-NY. Daily News. "Fascinating."-NY. Post. "Death of a Miner has a pertinency as a play treating significant feminist concerns, and the background is filled with evocative details."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, (#6044) $50-$35.) TRANSLATIONS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 7 m., 3 f. Int. This hauntingly lyrical play is about nothing less than language as the soul of a nation. Set in 1833 in Ireland, it tells of the British army's campaign to replace the native Gaelic with English. an attempt to end centuries of fighting by setting up a political union based on a common language. Against a beautiful backdrop, Lieutenant Yolland, a British soldier falls in love with Marie, a peasant girl, and with Ireland. They are truly a pair of star-crossed lovers: when he is murdered, she goes mad and the British soldiers pillage the countryside in revenge. "Gleams with that old bardic poetry."-NY. Post. "A funny and bitter portrait of Irish peasants caught in the midst of a quiet social upheaval."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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TEN TIMES TABLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 6 m., 4 f. Int. The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve". But there's a young left-wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views-the right-wing faction being led by the Chairman's conservative wife. The event turns into a violent confrontation between the two extremes-with cataclysmic results. Police intervention brings matters to a relatively quiet conclusion, but already another pageant-Romans versus Britons-seems an attractive (#22034) possibility. $8.95. (Royalty $50-$35.) THE SOAPY MURDER CASE. (AU Groups.) Farce. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Life in a soap opera meets life in a New York penthouse, resulting in a lampoon with wild madness. Crusty Horatio Tucker, sponsor of TV's most popular soap, receives a mysterious note saying the clue to his killer will be found in the next episode. He invites the cast to his place and forces them to act out the episode. Soon there's murder-and chaos. A nasty network executive is dead-and so is Dr. Rittenhouse. Then, Tucker is dispatched via chicken soup from the soap's saintly mother character. With characters slipping in and out of their roles-and plastic surgeons, welfare cheaters, theatrical hams and assorted zanies running loose-the action is alive with marvelous surprises, gags and delightful dialogue. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.)

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HAPPILY EVER ONCE UPON. Parody. Virginia Kidd. 5 m., 5 f., extras. Int. (may be suggested). After twenty years of marriage, Cinderella and Prince Charming have some problems: the Enchanted Kingdom teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Cinderella's fairy godmother is blackmailing her, the Prince's adviser has one arm and one swan's wing and an unfortunate habit of breaking everything he encounters, and Red Riding Hood has set her cap for the Prince. Though hoping Rumplestilskin can spin gold from straw, the Prince fears he may have to make the Enchanted Kingdom a tourist attraction. Cinderella resolves their difficulties by confronting her godmother and opening the Kingdom to writers who promise them royalties from their stories. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#526) MISSING LINK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 4 or 5 m., 6 f. Int. Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair-in fact she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands-and the arms--of orthopedist Simon Fletcher. They set a wedding date despite her parents misgivings and the fact that the best man and his sister, the maid of honor, are respectively in love with the bride and the groom. On the wedding's eve, Link shows up with an enormous diamond ring and a box of money as his gift for the bride who he thinks is marrying him. A reporter comes with a strange story about another vanished man and Link's mother arrives with a question about an identifying birthmark. Then a cross between an aborigine and a savage shows up--and he certainly resembles the missing Link (in more ways than one)! Who's who? What's what? Will have audiences rolling in the aisles. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#724) WEDDING OF THE YEAR. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Norman Robbins. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Alison Murchison is the last sort of a girl one would visualize as a heroineshe's fat, straight-haired and wears glasses. But her Uncle Frank decides to make her one by entering her as a prospective candidate for a "Wedding of the Year" competition. He selects a designer to create her wedding dress even before he has found her a suitable husband. As candidate for groom-to-be, Uncle Frank's eye falls on Walter Thornton's son, Melvyn-a frustrated inventor and an appallingly clumsy young man. However, the best-laid plans. . . . Alison ends up as a prospective bride, but not for Melvyn. Harry, the dress designer carries her off-and Walter Thornton carries off her mother. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25001)

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LORD ARTHUR SA VILE'S CRIME. (AU Groups.) Melodrama. Constance Cox. 5 m.,5 f. lnt. This play is based on an 1890's story by Oscar Wilde about Lord Arthur Savile's who is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur's palm and foretold he would commit a murder. Lord Arthur desires a blissful married life and therefore feels duty-bound to get the murder over with first. Despite help from his butler and the cheerful anarchist Winkelkopf, attempt after attempt fails. Then news comes that Podgers is a charlatan: Lord Arthur is free and the carriage awaits to take him to the wedding rehearsal. Alas, it contains Winkelkopfs newest bomb. Lord Arthur saves himself by tossing it into a horse-trough. As the dust settles, two policemen appear and march the unhappy young man away-and another postponement notice has to be sent to The Times. $8.95. (Royalty. $50-$40.) (#14119) THE SOFT SEPTEMBER AIR. (All Groups.) Comedy. Charlotte Hastings. 4 m., 6 f. (with doubling). Int. Lindsey, a successful novelist who is widowed and childless, allows herself to be persuaded into boarding students for the university. She is determined not to get involved in their problems, but she does. Solid, practical Chris gives her little trouble; febrile, father-hating, guitar-playing Dickon causes upheavals but wins her heart with his warmth and sympathy. The boorish 'Blitz' is another matter-and his appalling girlfriend who attempts to smash up the cottage brings matters to a head. When she is finally free from them all, another student appears and it looks as if she will be starting all over again. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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WIN WITH WHEELER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Lee Kalcheim. 7 m., 3 f., 2 offstage voices. Int. This satirical farce about campaign dirty tricks and numbskullduggery is set in the hotel-room headquarters of a candidate for the Senate. The plot revolves around the determined and frantic efforts of Sam Duffy, the campaign manager, to get his man elected. Sam's a smooth talker with expandable ethics. The whole affair hinges on the endorsement of an outrageously racist, right-wing, corrupt congressman. How he's wooed and outmaneuvered is the center of the plot. Adding to the chaos is the fact that the candidate's unhappy, tipsy wife wants him to lose and does everything to make it happen. "Here we are back in the 30s watching a breakneck George Abbott farce with its compulsive schemers, stuffed shirts, a

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DIRTY LINEN AND NEW-FOUND-LAND. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Tom Stoppard. 8 m.. 2 f. Int. Possibly only Tom Stoppard could poke fun at the English-their language, Parliament and sex scandals-and then throw in a hilarious travel poster monologue on America and make the whole thing come off. "Forget your troubles. Tom Stoppard's back with a sparkler. . . . It makes a lovely night."-N.Y. Daily News. "Probably the most killingly funny play he has written."-Time Magazine. "An elegant ballet for foot in mouth . . . . The kind of piercingly funny satire on public life that American writers don't seem to write . . . . He is the theatrical Hogarth of our time. "-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Note: The plays (#6068) must be performed together and are not available individually. THE BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD. (Little Theatre.) Readers Theatre. George Bernard Shaw. Arranged for a reading performance by Dan H. Laurence. 7 m., 3 f. (with doubling). This timely work stresses the independence of a woman seeking a deity who, by a misunderstanding of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, becomes female in her mind. Challenging science and static dogma, it concerns itself with the racial question. And it is quite hilarious throughout. First presented in New York, it became an instant success and has since been done by colleges and other groups. Can be performed under the most rudimentary conditions and should prove to be as popular in performance as Don Juan in Hell. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#4086) $35.) DESIGN FOR LIVING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 6 m., 4 f. 3 ints. One of the classics of modem theater, the play concerns a menage a trois. Gilda, living in Paris with Otto, a painter, is visited by Leo, Otto's old friend and a successful playwright. They have an affair and she goes off with him-and Otto goes off on a tramp steamer to forget. Then while living in London with Leo, Gilda is visited by Otto, now a successful painter, and he spends the night. Then feeling neither man really needs her, Gilda goes off with Ernest, a somewhat stuffy English art dealer. A year and 'half later, Gilda, now married to Ernest, has become a successful decorator in New York. Her well-ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of Otto and Leo, who have come to take her back with them. Bored with her conventional life, she willingly leaves with them. "Coward's cleverest play . . . . Coward's technique has never been more dizzy or more deft."-N.Y. Times. In Coward: Plays Three, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS is brought to justice in an audience-cheering, outrageous and spectacular finale. Designed for an easy rehearsal schedule and simple production, this delight is suitable for all groups looking for a play that's fun to perform. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#394) $35.) WHO GOES BARE? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Harris and Leslie Darbon. (#25110) 6 m., 4 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. George Bernard Shaw. 7 m., 3 f. Int.! 2 exts. One of Shaw's most unpredictable comedies begins in a sick room, with a monstrous microbe, a pale patient, an overbearing mother, and a peculiar nurse. Indeed, the nurse forthwith lets in her sweetie, a robber who is secretly ordained because his father is an atheist. Instead of just stealing the pearls, they decide to kidnap the patient and she gaily assents. In Act II the nurse masquerades as a countess and the rich patient as a backward island native. We meet aristocracy and plebe alike. And it is the plebeian army private who takes command when the group find themselves under attack and distress. In the third act the nurse makes up to the sergeant and it seems they will hit it off maritally. The robber has his say and his atheist father has to confess that determinism does not work, and he has lost his faith. The patient and her mother hang out their laundry, and Shaw punctures the aplomb of the British establishment. Published with the famous preface. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22726) SHARK. (Black Groups.) Drama. TJ. Camp III. 7 m., 1 f., 2 c. Ext. The setting is the seedy caddie yard of an exclusive country club. The caddies are all Black except one. The plot centers around each caddie's hopes of becoming the next caddie master. But unlike David Storey's rugby players in The Changing Room-they are not committed to their profession. It is merely a means to eke out a living. "A very rewarding evening of theater. . . . Mr. Camp is a keen observer of humanity."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21113) THE HAPPY HUNTER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Adaptation by Barnett Shaw. 7 m., 3 f., 2 int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10027)

13 RUE DE L' AMOUR. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Adapted by

Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert. 5 m., 3 f., 2 extras. 2 ints. Here is the hilarious frolic that launched Feydeau in Paris as the Neil Simon of his day. Take one philandering husband; add his virtuous wife set on revenge, and a doctor determined to be her instrument of revenge; mix well with the husband's friend who is eager to trap his spouse in flagrante delicto and a young nephew with a cocotte to round out his education; toss them together at 13 Rue de L'Amour where a love-starved German countess is the concierge; season with a befuddled police inspector and a perky French maid. "The best-laid plans for vice and sin go wildly and wonderfully astray."-Seattle Times. "Very stuff of comedy whirled around with happy dexterity."-N.Y. Post. "Classic farce . . . thoroughly worth seeing."-N.Y. Times. "Indecently funny."-Time. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#1072) THE BAT. (All Groups.) Mystery-Comedy. Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. 7 m., 3 f. 2 ints. In this popular American mystery play, incident is piled on incident with skill and plausibility, and it is impossible to know who the criminal is until the final curtain. A maiden lady of sixty rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to move. A large sum of money is missing from the dead man's bank and it is suspected that he stole and hid it in a secret chamber in his house and is waiting for a chance to sneak back to get it, assuming others don't find it first. This thriller is guaranteed to divert all audiences. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#255) THE RULES OF THE GAME. (All Groups.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Robert Rietty and Noel Cregeen. 8 m., 2 f., extras. Pirandello shows that by the mere act of living, the fact of existence, a man cannot help but affect the lives of others. In this play, it is Leone who wants to remain completely out of the action from the start, but it is as a direct result of his apartness that the crisis of the play occurs. In Pirandello: Three Plays, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#20113) SECRET VENGEANCE FOR SECRET INSULT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Calderon de la Barca. Translated by Edwin Honig. 8 m., 2 f., extras. Ext. Calderon shows the classical "honor" system as it occurs in its bart~st form. In Calderon de la Barca: 6 Plays, $30.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21058) CRYSTAL AND FOX. (All Groups.) Drama. Brian Friel. 8 m., 2 f. Int. This play is about Irish fit-up theaters offering shows from simple plays to performing dogs. Fox Melarkey is the proprietor and Crystal is his adored wife. At the height of success, Fox inexplicably began to drop the variety acts. The show is down to two: an Irishman (billed as Pedro once of the Moscow Circus) with a trained dog and EI Cid and Tanya, an acrobatic team. Fox insurt~s the latters' resignation by insulting them. Then their lost son returns whom Fox drove off years ago. Hei is now a drifter wanted by the English police. Fox does his best to kill all hopes for fame or success~ven poisoning Pedro's dog! A sensitive sometimes shocking study of decline by mandate or self-will? $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5185) NO SEX PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH. (All Groups.) Farce. Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. 7 m., 3 f. Int. A young bride who lives above a bank with her husband who is the assistant manager, innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware. What comes is Scandinavian pornography. The plot revolves around

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UNEXPECTED GUESTS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jordan Crittenden. 7 m., 3 f. Int. Harry Mullin comes home to find his wife has left with a door-to-door cello salesman. If he thinks he'll suffer his misery in solitude, he's very mistaken. Within minutes, he has many unexpected guests: a house breaking voyeur disguised as a policeman, hapless Harry's parents, his ex-scoutmaster, an excessively who is enamored of the departed Melissa, a cheerful neighbor, and finally his collegiate son's girl friend. When Melissa returns from her escapade because the salesman has decided he'd rather be a priest, reconciliation is not the result! Melissa and the voyeur fall in love Harry steals his son's girl friend. "Very funny . . . original humor in the tradition of Bruce Jay Friedman and Kurt Vonnegut. Crittenden is a playwright of immense comic talent!"-N.Y Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#23001) Please specify author when ordering. HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. (All Groups.) Mystery. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Holmes' most spine-chilling mystery is placed in a modem setting in this version with suspense, humor and terror. Sir Henry is heir to the vast Baskerville fortune, a legacy that comes with a family curse---death at the fangs of a horror that prowls the moor. Only Holmes can stop the beast. While mysterious lights signal Baskerville Hall and the hound terrifies the countryside, the sleuthing begins and suspicion falls on sinister servants, butterfly collectors, ladies in distress and escaped convicts. Who wrote the letter that summoned the hound? Is Sir Henry's romance with the lovely Kathy doomed? Is the supernatural at work? "Professional, witty, suspenseful. .. Conan Doyle would be pleased."-Holmes-ian Tattler. "Magnificent job of bringing the novel's characters to life. . Great family entertainment." -Desert Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#543) VERDICT. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Agatha Christie. 6 m., 4 f. Int. The Hendryks, refugees in England, have lost everything. Karl-with his talents, charm, and hard work-rebuilds their lives. But Anya, his wife, is fatally ill-and so her old friend, Lisa, who secretly loves karl, lives with them and runs the house. The three are very close. Their serenity is shattered when wealthy, brainless but headstrong Hellen Rolander bribes her way into taking private lessons from Karl. Her infatuation for him being unreturned-she doesn't stop at murder to clear the way. But after Anya's dead, Hellen-realizing her schemes were futile--commits suicide. So Anya's death is pinned on Lisa-backed by evidence from a scandal-mongering char lady. Lisa's found not guilty and after their mutual agony she and Karl build a new life from the (#24026) wreckage. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) EGAD, THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Sealed in a Madhouse.) (All Groups.) Melodrama. Tim Kelly. 4 m., 6 f., or 3 m., 7 f. Simple staging. This laugh-oriented, oldfashioned melodrama is based on Wilkie Collins' classic and it's wild, fast and funny. It features a disreputable (and hilarious) villain who dispatches his adversaries with nefarious ease and even seals his wife in a madhouse to steal her vast fortune! He battles a wicked countess in one of the most uproarious fight scenes ever staged! When all else fails, he engineers mock funerals. But he's scared of the mysterious "woman in white" who's escaped from the asylum to seek him out. Abandoned wives, insolent servants, lawyers, hypochondriacs and manly drawing masters parade across the stage in gales of comedy terminating only when the villain

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Bassinet, who has a photograph that seems to solve everything. This farce has outstanding roles and is successful played as a 1900's period piece or in a modem (#492) setting. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE WHITE HOUSE. (All Groups.) History. A. E. Hotchner. 7 m., 3 f. Platform stage. The White House is the backdrop as historical events, memories and personages are portrayed through letters and writings. A quaint maid serves as an interlocutor connecting scenes mostly of presidents and their wives. From Washington through Wilson-with many in between-the personal trials, tribulations and tragedies of America's first Families and the events of the times are seen in impressive vignettes. Starred Helen Hayes on Broadway. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25100) GOODNIGHT MRS. PUFFIN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Arthur Lovegrove. 5 m., 5 f. Int. The Fordyces are busily preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter Jacky to Victor, son of Stephen Parker, with whom Henry Fordyce is planning a business merger. Then in walks a total stranger-Mrs. Puffin-who announces she saw in a vision that Jacky would not marry Victor. She then establishes her vision's accuracy by correctly predicting various hilarious domestic accidents. She also predicts Jacky will marry the young business associate, Roger Vincent, who has accompanied the Parkers to the Fordyce home. She also foretells Victor will ask release from the engagement as he's in love with Jacky's younger sister. The oracle proves to be amazingly accurate-no wonder-she's been carefully primed for her role as suburban seeress. Wonderful play for little theatres. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9082) THE MARRIAGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Eric Bentley. 6 m., 4 f. 2 ints. In the days when marriages were arranged, a young lady had six suitors among the merchants, army, and civil servants. But one man decided that he was as good a matchmaker as any professional, and introduced his desperate friend to the contest. He drove away the other suitors only to see his own client flee in fear as marriage approached. In Inspector and Other Plays, $14.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15058) THERE'S ALWAYS A MURDER. (All Groups.) Mystery-comedy. Ken Parker. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Kim and Drucilla Taylor are plagued by mysterious phone calls. Katherine Horton tells them her partner, Lawrence Sheppard, has disappeared. Sheppard was the step-brother of the former tenant. Drucilla tries to convince Kim that a' murder has been committed and the body was chopped up in their bathtub! Kim just laughs but Drucilla continues to find clues. When the detectives arrive Drucilla realizes she is right and she panics. Kim, who has been rehearsing for an ice show, returns home on crutches. The supposed murderer returns. The detectives arrive just in time and Kim proves Haywood isn't the murderer-it seems he only cut up the body! $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22054) THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES. (All Groups.) Farce. Frederick Jackson. 7 m., 3 f. 2 ints. The Bishop, an elderly and saintly dignitary, stops by accident with his equally mild old sister in an ugly taproom just after there has been a hold-up. The Bishop has always had a secret love of the wickedness on display in detective stories, and here is his holiday. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4062) RELATIVE VALUES. (All Groups.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 5 m., 5 f. Int. A comedy of manners in which an American movie actress is preparing to wed a British earl. Smack in the middle of a sedate dinner in the English mansion comes Miranda's former flame and current Hollywood sensation, Don. Miranda is furious at the intrusion and would send Don packing except that the wary and wise Countess, knowing that the actress is no match for her son, blithely invites Don to stay for the evening. She privately tells Don not to give up, for she knows that the engagement will be shattered shortly. And it is, when the outraged maid can no longer stand Miranda's pretense and discloses that she is her sister. The ties that bind are royal blue. The British line remains intact as Miranda goes home with Don. $8.95. (Royalty,$50-$35.) (#20018) THE ROBIN HOOD CAPER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Carmichael has again proved himself an inventive and amusing playwright. He has taken an old plot-rob from the rich and give to the poor-but not even Robin Hood would recognize the hilarious modem slant given to it. Four old people meet to report on their good works in the "Charities Anonymous Club" at the home of Flora Langley's nephew, a small-town journalist in danger of losing his newspaper to the grafting Mayor. Flora and her three old friends are actually retired crooks who use their old modus operandi for charitable purposes. Through the plot there is woven an unusual love story, moments of satire, and show-stopping situations of hilarity. "The proof of a comedy is in the audience's laughter and this is packed with it." "Where other playwrights strike for the heart, Carmichael strikes the funny bone . . . . horseplay unlimited with generous helpings of satire." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#924) THE GIOCONDA SMILE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Aldous Huxley. 5 m., 5 f. 2 ints., I inset. There are three good friends: a devoted husband, a pathetically invalid wife, and a woman friend o(the family. Gradually we learn that there is a terrifying truth beneath the appearance of their friendship. It has an ending you have never seen before, and it will give you the shock of your life. "It builds to an exciting last act in which all three of the principal actors can cut loose." -N. Y. Daily News. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9037)

what is to be done with the veritable floods of pornography, photographs, books, films and eventually girls that threaten to engulf this happy couple. The matter is considerably complicated by the man's mother, his boss, a visiting bank inspector, a police superintendent and a muddled friend who does everything wrong in his reluctant efforts to set everything right, all of which works up to a hilarious ending of closed or slamming doors. This farce ran in London over eight years and also delighted Broadway audiences. "Titillating and topical."-NBC-TV. "A really funny Broadway show."-ABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#83) THE BEST LAID PLANS. (AU Groups.) Farce. Fred Carmichael. 6 m., 4 f. Int. This an unusual comedy about spies stars Ada Westbrook, an elderly Ian Fleming-type author, who is called upon to act as a liaison between our government and enemy powers. During her Caribbean vacation, a spy dies in Ada's house. He has on him secret plans every government is after-and since the plans are on the body----everyone tries to steal it. And it's moved allover the place until no one knows where it is. When the body's twin brother shows up-there's even more complications. Who's dead-who's alive? Who is the Mr. Big behind it all? Farce, comedy, satire and excellent acting opportunities make it highly recommended for all groups. "Packed with laughs, rapid-fire lines and a brilliance of farce and barbed wit." -Manchester Journal. "Let yourself go completely and laugh as much as you can (#264) stand." -Rutland Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) UTBU. (AU Groups.) Farce. James Kirkwood. 4 m., 6 f. Int. UTBU (Unhealthy To Be Unpleasant) is a wacky organization dedicated to righting the world's ills by exterminating nasty people. The blind leader is after an actor whose 94-year-old mother won't give him money to produce a play so he intends to hasten her demise with assorted Gothic tortures. "Zany . . . and manic."-N.Y. Herald-Tribune. "It has overtones of You Can't Take It With You compounded with the most flagrant insanity of Olsen and Johnson. . . . It is impossible not to bust out laughing."-N.Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1145) ARDELE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 4 m., 4 f., 2 c. Int. In Anouilh Five Plays. Vol. 2, $12.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted in NYC area. (#3106) .THE WHITE HOUSE MURDER CASE. (Little Theatre.) Dark comedy. Jules Feiffer. 9 m., 1 f., 2 ints. w. inset. Incisive satire is aimed at the war posture of the United States of the future. This year's war is in Brazil where an American poison gas attack backfires. On the eve of an election, the President is worried about how to explain the presence of the gas in the U.S. peace arsenal. While a staunch old general, blinded and crippled by war, demonstrates by his stoicism the idiocy of outmoded codes and the cabinet concocts a cock-and-bull story for the people, the President's wife is murdered. "Brilliant."-N.Y. Times. "Tremendously funny. A (#1191) witty, wonderful comedy."-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE RAPE OF THE BELT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Benn W. Levy. 3 m., 7 f. Ext. For his ninth labor, Heracles is required to wrest from the queen of the Amazons her belt. Zeus and Hera comment wittily on the events. "The characters are witty and ... the story is frothy and politely risque"-N.Y. Journal American. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20009) THE UNEXPECTED GUEST. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Agatha Christie, 7 m., 3 f. Int. A thriller as well as a puzzler set in a foggy estate in Wales, this mystery opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his wife standing over him with a gun. But the woman is dazed and her confession unconvincing. So the unexpected guest decides to help her and blame the murder on an intruder. Later, the police discover clues that point to a man who died two years previously and a pandora's box of loves and hates, suspicions and intrigues is opened to the night air. "The impact is tremendous. . . Just when the murder seems solved . . . Miss Christie pulls her almighty knock-out-punch. I admit her complete victory."-London Evening News. "Tantalizing ingenuity. "-Tatler. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#1144) Please state author when ordering. LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 5 m., 5 f. 4 ints. Critics had a hard time figuring out which of these four comedies about the superiority of women is funniest. The first introduces a young man who starts to seduce a lady, only to have the tables turned on him. The second involves a married couple who can't figure out whose tum it is to commence love making. The third opens in a girl's apartment at 4 A.M. when her fiance arrives to tell her he is a nervous wreck and can't go through with the wedding. She gently leads the way back to the wedding route. In the last, a couple who have fought for over thirty years try to save their son's marriage by confessing their own failings. "A lot of smiles as well as genuine belly laughs."-N.Y. Times. "Realistic and observant. . . . Sketch[es] a character with a few strokes."-N.Y. Post. "Very (#69) funny and engaging."-Wal/ Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) A GOWN FOR HIS MISTRESS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Barnett Shaw. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Dr. Moulineaux has been out all night in a futile attempt to meet his mistress Suzanne. He tells his wife he has been with Bassinet who is near death, but in walks Bassinet. He decides it is no longer wise to have Suzanne pretend to be a patient and rents an apartment that formerly belonged to a dressmaker. He and Suzanne are discovered in this hide-away by her husband, so the doctor poses as a dressmaker and is caught in a desperate entanglement when his wife, his mother-in-law, Bassinet and Bassinet's wife appear. Moulineaux's household is in an uproar but he manages to lie his way out of it all with the help of

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I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU. (All Groups.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Left a widow with five grown-up children, Mrs. Dermot turns to brother Dan for help. Uncle Dan arrives to find an idle family ready to live on his money. He announces that he is doomed to die in three years and that he will leave his money to the member of the family who has made good by then. Each sets to with such determination that Oliver becomes a successful inventor, Evangeline a novelist, Bobbie a composer and Sylvia a film star; even Joyce, finishing her school career, distinguishes herself. Now he tells the family his riches are a myth and his previous announcement was only a means to raise the family from lethargy. Sylvia alone sees Uncle Dan's wisdom and berates the others for their narrow-minded attitude. At heart, they are all genuinely attached to the wily uncle. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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HEARTBREAK HOUSE. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Captain Shotover, Ellie Dunn, Hesione Hushabye are among the memorable characters in one of Shaw's greatest plays, a parable of Europe cut adrift from the (#10049) past and tradition by The Great War. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) LA RONDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Arthur Schnitzler. Translated by Eric Bentley. 5 m., 5 f. Schnitzler's popular roundelay of love in old Vienna is told in ten interlocking scenes: two characters appear in each and one of these moves into the next to afford a link. The soldier of the first scene leaves his lady of the evening to appear in the next scene with a parlor maid. From this scene of love, the maid departs to be with her wealthy employer. He, in tum, bumps the maid in order to receive his mistress, a certain married lady. The next scene is between the married lady and her husband and then the husband meets a girl of the streets at a private cafe. This girl and her poet lover, the poet and the actress. the actress and the count, and finally the count and the lady of the evening spiral back to the beginning. This an amusing tour de force is popular throughout the world. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#14013) $35.) THE NIGHT IS MY ENEMY. (All Groups.) Mystery. Fred Carmichael. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Suspense and terror are interwoven with humor to provide a thrilling evening. Set in 1900, the play takes place in a large house on the British coast. The story revolves around Roane Shepperley, a blind girl, and her change from a girl into "a woman. An accidental death is proved to be murder and it becomes obvious that a maniac is intent upon getting rid of those who are imperfect, making Roane next. An attempt on her life reveals the murderer to the audience but not to Roane. Slowly but surely all those in the house are taken care of until Roane faces the murderer alone-a blind girl versus an unbalanced killer. "From the eerie opening to the final curtain, suspense was well-sustained, comedy relief unforced, and never irrelevant."-Rutland Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#762) THE BUTTERFLY'S EVIL SPELL. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell. 5 m., 5 f., extras. 2 exts. In Five Plays by Lorca, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4153) THE BROOM AND THE GROOM. (All Groups.) Comedy. Kurtz Gordon and Robert Emmett. 4 m., 6 f. Unit set. David is upset when his bride Alma professes to be a witch. He challenges her to prove it on Halloween Eve, but David's boss and his stuffy wife drop by and Alma's Aunt Rina arrives to perform a ritual for the bride-a tradition observed by generations of witches. She bears a witch cake and a family heirloom-the broom. Alma and her broom are detected by radar, the Air Force is alerted and there is dismay at the Pentagon. Desperately David calls on Aunt Rina for help as the entire neighborhood becomes involved. This uproariously funny play was originally produced on television. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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TIME OF THE CUCKOO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. New Revised Edition. Arthur Laurents. 5 m., 5 f. Ext. The main character in this gentle, perceptive comedy is a secretary who is quite a bit past her youth and still unmarried. She has earned a vacation in Europe and finds herself in a pleasant pension in Venice. She is a warm, natural, forthright American woman with no complexes and a normal desire for affection, which she receives from a gallant, middle-aged shopkeeper. Her sense of the way life should be conducted is jolted when she discovers that this man is contentedly married and has several children. Face to face with the difference between the American and the European view of morality, she seethes with conflict. She can have a short love affair if she chooses. Her effort to make the choice is the crux of the play. "A lovely play."-N.Y. Times. "An adult and incisive comedydrama."-N.Y. Journal American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cas(#22111) sette, $32.50. THE CAT AND THE CANARY. (All Groups.) Melodrama. John Willard. 6 m., 4 f. 2 ints. The family of Ambrose West go to his castle on the Hudson to attend a reading of his will at midnight, just 20 years after his death. His will designates that Annabelle West is his sole heir if there is no indication that she suffers from insanity. Should she be unsound of mind, a second will is to be opened naming a different heir. The family endeavors to unbalance Annabelle with tales of lunatics and murders and death strikes. Everyone among the possible heirs is suspected but not until the final fall of the curtain is the extraordinary mystery solved. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5035) SMILIN' THROUGH. (All Groups.) Drama. Allan Langdon Martin. 5 m., 4 f. 2 exts. Kathleen Dungannon loves Kenneth Wayne, but her stubborn uncle has vowed that no one of his line shall ever wed a Wayne. Pressed for an explanation, he tells a fifty-year-old story that comes alive in a flashback. Uncle John and one Jeremiah Wayne were in love with Moonyeen Clare. She chose John and Wayne became wildly jealous. Drunk, he forced his way into the house on their wedding night, attempted to shoot John and accidentally killed Moonyeen. He continues firm in his opposition to the modem romance until the spirits of Moonyeen Clare and Sarah Wayne, Kenneth's mother, get a message across that softens his heart. He dies and joins his spirit bride leaving the lovers are free to marry. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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IN 25 WORDS-OR DEATH. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Newt Mitzman and William Dalzell. 4 m., 6 f. Int. No trick of the mystery writer's art has been neglected in this play. There is the supposedly deserted inn, stormy weather, a Peter Lorre type, a Frankenstein, closets with built-in bodies, a love story, and an assortment of characters the likes of whom you've never seen. The assembled group are the winners of a contest' 'I Like Foam Because. .. In 25 Words Or Less . . The prize they all won is an old-fashioned Thanksgiving in New England. When the winners realize that the lodge is inhabited by a group whose interests are more sinister than enjoying a pleasant weekend, the prize turns into an hilarious nightmare. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#11044) $35.) THE FAR OFF HILLS. (All Groups.) Play. Lennox Robinson. 5 m., 5 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8014) HANGMAN'S NOOSE. (All Groups.) Mystery. George Batson. 4 m., 6 f. Int. The members of Caroline Keating's family gather in the house for the reading of her will. Gareth, her favorite nephew, disappeared a year ago, following a murder and a scandal. Terrifying events begin to take place culminating with the housekeeper's murder. The lawyer is the next victim. Polly discovers cousin Henry is the murderer. In a scene of mounting terror, Henry stalks Polly as his next victim. But Caroline suddenly appears with a gun. She is not dead but very much alive. Possessed with a fear of being buried alive, she had her tomb equipped with an automatic siren and release. Henry kills himself. Gareth, whom Caroline had protected, is reunited with Polly. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#10009) TIME AND THE CONWAYS. (All Groups.) Play. lB. Priestley. 4 m., 6 f. Int. The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty-first birthday. Kay hopes to

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that is unrelenting in its severity and terror. "Extremely absorbing . . . . Exciting, vigorous, and memorable."-Variety. In Three Tragedies of Lorca, $12.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#544) DADDY, DEAR DADDY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore. 6 m., 4 f. Int. The wife of a millionaire and the mother of two married daughters decides to launch into life on her own. Not only are the daughters shocked, but when daddy moves in with one of them he precipitates still another family crisis full of the complications of which good comedies are made. "A laugh fest, spoofing women's liberation, big business and young rebels . . . [with] brittle humor." -Plain Dealer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6001) ALL OVER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Edward Albee. 6 m., 4 f. Int. In an alcove of a town house a great man lies dying. Waiting in the anteroom are his wife, his mistress, his best friend, and his ineffectual son and adulterous daughter, both of whom his wife despises. A doctor-too old to quite practice-and a nurse delineate the family portrait, while newsmen enter for the latest news, and television crews wait just off-stage. They who stand the death-watch recollect, rekindle old occasions, and amplify their own characters as well as the past, as one and all await the word that it is "allover." "It is a lovely, poignant and deeply felt play. In no way at all is it an easy play-this formal minuet of death, this symphony ironically celebrating death's dominion . . . [is] a series of almost operatic arias . . . . A delicate and lovely play."-N.Y. Times. "Done with brilliance. . . . Fascinating, chilling, unsettling and oh so eloquent drama."-Long Island Press. $6.50. Slightly Restricted. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3040) THE FAMILY WAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Starr. 5 m., 3 f., 2 boys. Actress Julie clings to her late husband's memory while her young son Bobo desperately seeks a father. Bobo's buddy advises Bobo to give Julie's picture to men on the street who look sleepy because getting in the family way has something to do with going to bed and women in that condition always get married. When strange men start dropping by in searching for amour, Julie realizes she's got to find a father for Bobo and she sets her sights on her oversexed agent. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8008) FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS. Terence Rattigan. 7 m., 3 f. Int. $8.95. Royalty, $35-$25.) (#8076) RIGHTEOUS ARE BOLD. Frank Carney. 6 m., 4 f. 2 int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20034)

be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, anticipates a romantic marriage. Madge wants to reform the world and marry the dashing young family lawyer. Carol, the baby of the family, spreads good cheer while Robin, back from war, is certain to have a good career. Alan is content to be an armchair philosopher. The nitwit mother has high hopes for them all. At the party Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family twenty years in the future. They are petty, mean, and unfulfilled. Only Kay and her calm brother realize time is relative and there is something fine and worthwhile beyond. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22107) CAUGHT IN THE VILLAIN'S WEB or More Sinned Against Than Sinning. (AU Groups.) Melodrama. Herbert E. Swayne. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Felicity Fair, down-trodden heroine, is a nurse sent to the Larkfield mansion to attend a hard-hearted society matron who is pretending to be ill to force her son, Malvern, to marry the scheming Nella Hargrave. Malvern takes one look at Felicity and falls in love. When Malvern proposes he is unaware that villain Cyril Bothingwell is behind a screen listening. . Felicity sadly informs Malvern that she can never marry. Five years ago she was in a train wreck and cannot remember a thing that happened prior to the wreck. She doesn't even know her real name. Cyril tells Felicity that she is his wife but Cryil's nefarious schemes are thwarted to the delight of all. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': (#305) Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrarrw, $12.95. FAMILY. (All Groups.) Drama with music Book and Lyrics by Gifford Wingate. Music by Robert R. Smith, Jr. 10 f. The comic and tragic dimensions of five generations of women living in a cluttered old house are explored in this blend of music, poetry and drama. Helen and her retarded sister are reared by their preoccupied mother, emotionally crippled maiden aunt and senile grandmother. Helen marries and eventually her widowed daughter returns to the house because she cannot. raise her daughter alone. When this child dies, another continues the cycle. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Piano Score, $9.00. Music rental, $5 per performance. . (#8002) THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA. Tragedy. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard OTonnel1. 10 f., 10 to 20 extra f. 1 or 3 ints. The greatest of modem Spanish tragedies is realistic and lyrical. Bernarda is a stem matriarch obsessed with family honor. Just widowed, she announces to her five daughters that they will enter a traditional 8-year period of cloistered mourning. Each daughter desires love but with the doors clamped shut, they silently turn to other pursuits. All except one, who manages to have a secret tryst with a scurrilous suitor who is betrothed to the eldest daughter. Discovery results in a tragic climax

FROM THE ARCmVES-10 CHARACTERS Reproduction copies of these plays which are out of print, in manuscript only or remaindered are available from Samuel French's Archives, $25.00 per copy. Royalties as listed are still applicable. Scene ACROSS THE STREET. Richard A. Purdy (#3007) ................................................................... 3 Int. ANOTHER SPRINGTIME. Rodolfo Usigli & Wayne Wolfe (#3092) .................................................... Int. ASCENT OF MOUNT FUJI. Chingiz Aitmatov & Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, trans. by N. Bethell. (#3122) .............. Ext. BACK COUNTY CRIMES. Lanie Robertson & Mel Marvin (#4014) ................................................... Var. BIG LAKE. Lynn Riggs (#4053) .................................................................................... IntlExt. LE BOURGEOIS AVANT-GARDE. Charles Ludlam (#14186) .......................................................... Int. BROKEN DISHES. Martin Flavin (#4126) ............................................................................... Int. THE BROTHERS MENAECHMUS. Plautus, trans. by Erich Segal (#4133) ............................................ Ext. BUT FOR WHOM CHARLIE. S.N. Behrman (#4148) .......................................................... Compo int. BUT NOT GOODBYE. George Seaton (#4149) .......................................................................... Int. CAREFUL HARRY. William McCleery (#5022) ......................................................................... Int. CELIMARE. Eugene Labiche, trans. by Delacour (#5063) ................................................................ Int. CmCKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY. Arnold Wesker (#5097) ......................................................... 2 sets CHILDREN OF DARKNESS. Edwin Justus Mayer (#5090) ............................................................. Int. COME EASY. Henriette Metcalf (#5125) ................................................................................ Int. DANGEROUS CORNER. 1. B. Priestley (#6010) ...................................................................... Int. 3 DAY'S MISCHIEF. Leslie Storm (#6024) ............................................................................. 2 Int. THE DELUGE. Frank Allen (#6049) .................................................................................... Int. THE DISPUTE. Marivaux, trans. by Daniel Gerould (#6709) ........................................................... I set DOUBLE IN DIAMONDS. Fred Carmichael (#6110) .................................................................... Int. DRAGNET. James Reach (#6111) ..................................................................................... Unit. THE FAMILY MAN. William McCleery (#8003) ........................................................................ Int. FIELD GOD. Paul Green (#8024) ..................................................................... : ............ Int.lExt. A FITTING CONFUSION. Georges Feydeau, trans. by Norman Shapiro(#8134) ........................................ Ints. A GIFT OF TIME. Garson Kanin, based on the book by Lael T. Wertenbaker (#9036) ., ............................. .4 sets. JADE GOD. Philip Barry (#12007) ...................................................................................... Int. GO BACK FOR MURDER. Agatha Christie (#9063) .................................................................... Int. HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA. Federico Garcia Lorca, trans. by Dewell & Zapata (Slightly Restricted) (#10153) ...... Int. KILLINGS ON THE LAST LINE. Lavonne Mueller (#13014) .......................................................... Int. LAVENDER AND OLD LACE. Rose Warner (#14046) ................................................................. Int. LET 'EM EAT STEAK. Louise Conkling (#14061) ...................................................................... Int. THE LINDEN TREE. 1.B. Priestley (#14086) ........................................................................... Int. LOVE AND INTRIGUE. Friedrich von Schiller, trans. by Johanna Setzer. (#14140) ..................................... Var. LOVE'EM AND LEAVE'EM. George Abbott & John V.A. Weaver. (#14127) ......................................... 3 int. THE LOVES OF CASS McGUIRE. Brian Friel (#14144) .............................................................. Unit THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE. Anatole France, adapted from Rabelais (#15048) ........................ Int. THE MARRIAGE. Witold Gombrowicz (#15059) ....................................................................... Int. NED McCOB'S DAUGHTER. Sidney Howard (#16016) ............................................................... 2 Int. M F Royalty

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*HENRY IV. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Tom Stoppard. 9 m., 2 f. Unit set. An Italian nobleman falls from his horse during a pageant. When he comes round, he believes he is the medieval German Emperor King Henry IV. For twenty years he lives this illusion. Today a plot is being hatched to shock him out of this 'madness' and into the twenty-first century. This translation by the author of The Real Thing, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Gildenstem Are Dead and other extraordinary works of literature premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London. $16.95. (Royalty, $75-$75.) For other translations, see Index under Enrico IV, Emperor Henry IV and Henry IV. Please state translator when ordering. (#10561) *OEDIPUS THE KING. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Sophocles. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 8 moo 3 f. The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. This translation remains true to the original text while fashioning a language of grace and power for contemporary players and theatergoers. $7.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#16956) ANTIGONE. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Sophocles. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. Based on the original Greek tragedy, this translation is part of a series designed for contemporary production and study that is edited by Nicholas Rudall and Bernard Sahlins. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state translator when ordering. (#3844) ANTIGONE. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Jean Anouilh. 3 versions: translated by Barbara Bray, by Lewis Galantiere, and by Jeremy Sams. 8 m., 4 f. Int. Produced in modern dress in New York with Katherine Cornell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Galantiere version of the Greek legend comes from a Paris that suffered under the heel of tyranny. The play's parallels to modern times are exciting and provocative. "Its dimensions are noble, its intentions uncompromising."-Saturday Review of Literature. "It is a great college play."-Southwestern University, Texas. Bray translation published in Anouilh Plays One, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Galantiere translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters. Sams version, $6.50. (Royalty, $50$50.) Please state translator when ordering. Bray translation (#197) Galantiere translation (#35) Sams translation (#3842) THE CANTER VILLE GHOST. (All Groups.) Play with music. Adapted by John Vreeke from the novel by Oscar Wilde. Music and Lyrics by Will Severin and George Weiss. 5 m., 3 f., 3 c. Unit set. A free-spirited American family moves into a grand English manor house and is charmed to discover that it is haunted. The ghost determines to scare these intruders out of his house, but he is nearly undone himself. Musical underscoring enhances this delightful version of a stage classic. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "Wilde's soaring prose along with the unfolding story is a treat."-Daily Gazette. "There's a heartrending truth at the core of this piece that makes it as beautiful as it is funny." -Chronicle. $6.50.

(Royalty, $60-$40.) Musical underscoring and accompaniment (3 CDS) and sheet music forthe song "The Canterville Ghost" available on rental. Rental fee, $10 per performance plus a $50 refundable deposit. Music royalty for use of song, $10 per performance. Audio Book (2 tapes), $16.95, available from NYSTI, 37 First St., Troy, NY 12180. (#4947) DRAMA TIS PERSONAE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 4 m., 7 f. Unit set. In April of 1946 the elderly Alison Armitage is sitting by her window. She is certain the young man she sees leaning against his black Chevy at the end of the lane is Death and that he has come for her. What is left of the Pendragon family is waiting downstairs to see her, but she refuses to let them in. As they wait they are forced to speak to each other for the fust time in years, confronting some longstanding grudges and considering some looming dilemmas. Featuring characters from several other installments in the author's cycle of Pendragon plays, Dramatis Personae offers fascinating insights into this complex and compelling family. $6.50. (Royalty, (#6235) $60-$60.) THE GRADUATE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Adapted for the stage by Terry Johnson. Based on the novel by Charles Webb and the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. 6 m., 5 f. Unit set. A hit in the West End and a popular show on Broadway starring Kathleen Turner, The Graduate brings the quintessential movie hit of the sixties-one of the most popular films of all time-vividly to life on stage. A college student spends his first summer out of school in the arms of his father's best friend's wife. Meanwhile, he is falling in love with the man's daughter. "After a long and successful run in the West End, The Graduate is now on Broadway and IT'S A HIT!"-Variety. "This bittersweet comedy is rich, full and funny. Enjoy!-NY1. "Fun to watch . . . . Definitely gives off starlight."-N.Y. Times. "Good stuff. ... The audience goes wild."-FOX5-TV. "Delightful."-USA Today. "Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson!. .. Breaking all box office records!"-Newark Star-Ledger. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. (#9196) HAZING THE MONKEY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marcus Hennessy. 5 m., 6 f. 2 ints. Roger Youngblood has been working on the assembly line at a tractor factory. When he applies for the Junior Manager Training Program, the selection process turns out to be more than he bargained for. He is put through the ringer, put on trial, challenged to defend his faith, and forced to confront the truth about his wife and his life in a series of absurd interviews that leave him unable to discern role-playing from real events. Here is a fast-paced, wild and crazy romp through the world of the working man. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9972) IVANOV. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. Adapted by David Hare. 6 m., 5 f. Various sets. Kevin Kline starred at New York's Lincoln Center as the disillusioned Russian estate owner in this distinctive adaptation of Chekhov's fust full-length play. "Punchy text [with] ... many very funny moments and a few extraordinarily moving ones."-N.Y. Times. "Hare's adaptation is strong in the fresh fluency of the dialogue. It's good to have a real playwright at the helm of a translation, and one who pulls no punches in its delineation of Russian anti-Bemitism and in the characterizations."-N.Y. Post. $14.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Also available in an adaptation Yasen Peyankov and Peter Christenson; see Index. Please state adaptor when ordering. (#11700)

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the government. This climate affects the Reverend Lionel Espy and his team of clergymen as they struggle to make sense of their mission in South London. Winner of four awards for best play: the Olivier Award, the London Critics Circle Award, the Play & Players Critics Award, and the Time Out Award. "As rivetting as a boxing match."-N.Y. Magazine. "A crackling jolt of dramatic indignation and moral complexity from one of the most persuasive playwrights of cQ.Ilscience in the English-speaking world." -N. Y Newsday. "Provocative. You can sink your teeth into the ideas."-N.Y. Times. "Bracingly intelligent and highly entertaining."-Guardian. "Brilliant and funny."-Observer. "David Hare shows he can do more than write an intelligent and noble play; he can shake a soul."-Time (#19956) Magazine. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) A RAISIN IN THE SUN. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Revised Edition. Lorraine Hansberry. 7 m., 3 f., I c. Int. A stirring drama that has been produced throughout the world since its triumphant run on Broadway nearly fifty years ago, A Raisin in the Sun has again captivated New York audiences with Sean (P. Diddy) Combs in the role created by Sidney Poitier. Set in Chicago during the 1950s, the story unfolds as three generations of the Younger family envision divergent paths to a better life. "Here is an American document of time, place and relevance. . . . The story is told with a vibrancy of dialogue that often shivers with truth. . . . Raisin remains engrossing. . . . Perhaps its real tragedy is not how much the world has changed, but how much it has, for so many blacks, remained the same."-N.Y. Times. "Pivotal play in the history of the American theatre."-Newsweek. "A milestone in the American theatre."-Ebony. Best Play of the Year. N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$35.) Slightly Restricted. Posters
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JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE. (Black Groups.) Drama. August Wilson. 6 m., 5 f. Int. Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of this century (see page 74). Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old-country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife. "Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed."-N.Y. Times. "It is Wilson's epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift Joe Turner to strange and compelling heights."-N.Y. Daily News. "A lovely, moving play."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#12051) THE LAST OF JANE AUSTEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Shirl Hendryx. 6 m., 5 f. Int. Two elderly, usually quite proper sisters in a small Midwestern town inexplicably have developed a passion for watching boxing on television. When a shabby transient shows up at their door looking for odd jobs, they spot a photo of him in boxing trunks and excitedly invite him to stay for dinner. Throwing caution to the wind, the sisters decide to get him back into fighting trim. Their unorthodox version of training includes plenty of home cooking and custard pie. Is he who they think he is, or is he a glib opportunist reveling in the attentions of two old ladies? Will he demolish their dream or provide them with a satisfying adventure in their waning years? "Both marvelously touching and funny."-BBC Radio. "A must see. . . . The ultimate in feel good theatre."-Derry Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, .$60-$60.)

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LONELY PLACES. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 8 m., 3 f. Area set. Jim Jones's journey from high-minded preacher and founder of the People's Temple to power-drunk cult leader unfolds in a play that skillfully builds to its shattering climax. "Powerful, gripping, dramatically potent."-Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13812) MAD FOREST. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Caryl Churchill. 7 m., 4 f. (to play var. roles). Ints., exts. (simply suggested) or unit set. This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisit.te portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace. "Churchill's strengths are evident: her sharp, unpredictable eye, her inventiveness, her unsentimental sympathy."-London Times. "Bristles with the intelligence and insight of a major writer."-Financial Times. "Brilliantly . . . evoke[sl the mood of a country through snapshot images." -Guardian. "An act of moral commitment as well as theatrical virtuosity."-London Sunday Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14957) MAN OF THE MOMENT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 6 m., 5 f. Ext. Television producer Jill Rillington is taping a documentary which will reunite Vic Parks with Douglas Beechey. Seventeen years ago, Douglas inadvertently foiled Vic's last bank robbery, during which Vic shot a teller in the face. Vic, a callous boor, served his time and then exploited his celebrity status to become a wealthy television personality. Douglas married the maimed teller and hero and victim fell into shabby obscurity. Now, at Vic's luxurious Mediterranean villa, Jill's hopes for a fiery confrontation are fading because amiable Douglas shows no envy or bitterness and happy people make rotten telly material. Will Vic ever receive his just deserts? "A masterpiece [by] Ayckbourn at the peak of his powers using comedy to say harsh, true things about our society."-Guardian. "Marvelous, moving and memorable."-Time Out. "Ayckbourn is without doubt the living miracle of our modern theatre."-Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (15249) PENDRAGON. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 6 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Unit set. In this robust and compelling tale commissioned and produced by the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, John Rbys Pendragon is at Guernica during the Fascist bombing in 1937. His memories take him back to 1910 and conjure up Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, James 1. Jeffries and Ernest Hemingway as the play pieces together his remarkable life, recalls his three lost loves and vividly portrays colorful characters he has interviewed. This unique American love story is part of the author's cycle of Pendragon plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#17813) PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Busch. 5 m., 6 f. (2 f. roles may be played by m.) Drop and wing. Imagine Gidget crossed with The Three Faces of Eve and Mommie Dearest. Chicklet, a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1962, wants to leam to surf and join a group of beach bums led by the great Kanaka. Unfortunately, she suffers from a multiple personality disorder. Seeing red causes her to transform into various other selves, including a sinister vamp out to conquer the world. Complications arise when a movie starlet flees the set of her latest rotten movie to hide among the surfers. The climax is a wild luau scene where hypnosis reveals the shocking root of Chicklet's psychosis. "Hilarious."-Gannett Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Tape available, write for particulars. (#18168) RACING DEMON. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 8 m., 3 f. Unit set. This renowned playwright turns his attention to the Church of England in an awardwinning play which was first presented at the Royal National Theatre in London and at Lincoln Center in New York. In this drama, the Church is attracting unwanted publicity, racked by dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, and at odds with

THYESTES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Translated by Caryl Churchill. 11 m. Var. sets. 1n this poetic version of the influential Roman tragedy, the most appalling crime in Greek mythology unfolds with characters in modern dress and a one-man chorus manning a video camera. "In Caryl Churchill's spartan, poetic translation . . . this template' tragedy is awesome." -Observer. "Skillfully points up all the play's influence on Elizabethan drama, while investing it with some welcome modernity of utterance. . . . Has its rewards for the student of Seneca, of Churchill and of Eng. lit."-Financial Times. "Powerful."-What's On. "Eloquent."-London Sunday Times. "Prompts thoughts . . . of the ethics of revenge, of the latest reports from Rwanda, of what has happened in its time on all five continents. . . . The style conveys the sadism and anguish of the main characters all the more forcefully for being bare and direct."-Sunday Telegraph. $13.00. (Royalty, $60-$40) (#21977) TRUDY BLUE. (Little Theatre.) Tragi-comedy. Marsha Norman. 5 m., 6 f. Unit set. From a Pulitzer Prize winner, this engaging play stars a popular author who has grown disillusioned with her family life. She has retreated into conversations with her alter ego, Trudy Blue, who is the heroine of her novels. When a medical scare leads to a terminal diagnosis, her imaginary companion and her fear threaten her grip on reality. Originally produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Trudy Blue played in New York at the MCC Theatre. "An emotional maelstrom."-Washington Post. "Tells us the truth, whatever it may cost."-Georgetowner. $6.50. (Roy(22799) alty, 60-$60.) WRITER'S BLOCK. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Woody Allen. 6 m., 5 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity, one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Riverside Drive's Fred Savage is a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea-in fact, his life-to create a successful movie plot. In Old Saybrook, an orthodontist is hosting her sister and golf-mad brother-in-law, a plastic surgeon, at her grand suburban house. When a couple who once owned the building stops by, they spark an old-fashioned sex farce that is full of verve and cunning. "Non-stop one-liners."-curtainup.com. "Full of funny material."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$50 per play.) . Writer's Block (#25746) Riverside Drive (#19770) Old Saybrook (#16946) DAUGHTERS OF THE LONE STAR STATE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Del Shores. 11 f. Int. This is the third of the Lowake, Texas series from the author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) and Cheatin'. It's the day before Christmas Eve and The Daughters of the Lone Star State are having their annual meeting. The old group is dying out, literally, so this year's effort to attract members is all-out. When "white trash" and "coloreds" arrive, chaos erupts. This funny but biting play is a wonderful challenge for an all-female ensemble. Nine characters are over 50 years old. "Bright, fresh, funny, vividly executed. This is Grade A comedy with a punch." -L.A. Village View. "The dialogue snaps, crackles and bounces like popcorn poppin'." -Drama-Logue. "A hilarious gem of characterization and comedy."-Beverly Press. "Hilarious one-liners abound."-L.A. Reader. "Racism is an emotional subject and your ability to confront it at a humorous level proves your great talent."-Ann Richards, Governor of Texas. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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THE DIVINERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Revised Edition. James Leonard, Jr. 6 m., 5 f. Unit set w. platforms. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy

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was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. Whel}. the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns. "A splendid drama by a playwright . . . with poetic as well as human feeling."-Variety. "The Diviners, which would be meritorious from anyone, is astounding from so young a writer. . . . Renders the humor and horror of the hinterlands with staggering accuracy. . Compelling."-New York Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Posters (#6069) EDITH STEIN. (Little Theatre). Drama. Arthur Giron. 4 m., 7 f. Unit set. This haunting, passionate drama has played to standing-room-only audiences. Edith Stein was a Jewish intellectual who converted to Roman Catholicism, joined a Carmelite nunnery and was martyred at Auschwitz. She has been beatified by Pope John Paul II. Here is her story, told with a rich understanding of this remarkable woman who applied her formidable powers of faith, intellect and heart to stand against a great evil personified here by a fictional Nazi official. "As complex and compelling as the lady it portrays." -Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Intelligent, compassionate. . . . A drama that challenges the audience, as Edith did, to face the struggles of humanity."-Pittsburgh Catholic. "Inspiring."-Northern California Jewish Bulletin. "Absolutely stunning. . . . Magnificent theatre."-Valley News Dispatch. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#6983) AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. Translated by Christopher Hampton. 8 m., 2 f., I m. child. 2 ints. Here is Ibsen's stirring drama about one man's lonely struggle against official corruption in a brilliant version by one of the contemporary theatre's best-known authors and most highly regarded translators of classic works by Ibsen and others. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please (#7102) specify translator when ordering. THE ENGLISH ONLY RESTAURANT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Silvio Martinez Palau. Music and Lyrics by Sergio Garcia-Marruz and Saul Spangenburg. 8 m .. 3 f., plus 2 extras. Int. This wild farce mauls both the English and the Spanish languages as it lampoons the pretensions of upwardly-mobile Latinos, the snobberies of Gringos, high fashion, trendy restaurants and just about everything else. The perpetrators of the mayhem are gathered in a Queens restaurant just after Spanish has been outlawed, this to be enforced by language police. The proprietor and his patrons comply with the law by adopting English-sounding names and trying to speak in a style they associate with high society. "Good humor . . . makes the farce work."-NY. Times. "Wildly funny."-Newark Star-Ledger. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Use of the music is optional. PianoNocal Score available upon receipt of a $50 refundable deposit and a $25 rental fee. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) Slightly Restricted. (#6989) GETTING AWAY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Carlo Goldoni. English adaptation by Thomas Simpson. 7 m., 4 f. Int. In 18th-century Venice, Leonardo is spending his way to the top of the heap. He is determined to have the best parties and the most glamorous guests. Unfortunately, his credit has run out and his spoiled fiancee has fallen for the man his sister wants to catch. A Goldoni trilogy condensed into a single full-length comedy, Getting Away examines how chasing plea~ure can lead to misery-in historical Venice and in the credit-crazy consumer climate of our own times. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9913) GILLETTE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. William Hauptman. 7 m., 4 f. Ints./exts or unit set. The year is 1981 and Mickey Hollister and young Bobby Nobis have drifted into the oil boom town of Gillette, Wyoming, in search of freedom, love and big coin. They meet a spaced-out tool pusher, two travelling prostitutes and an adolescent girl on the run with her biker boyfriend. Mickey and Bobby achieve some of their dreams, but the conflict between friendship and self-interest turns friends to foes. "A true audience-pleaser . . . earthy, rousing, contemporary and tough-minded . . . . Very funny, well-written serious comedy . . . . Hauptman's long suit is dialogue and the creating of strong, highly individual, often eccentric characters."-Variety. "Its zinging, sharp humor, its capture of a time and place and its wholly American idealism equating greed and patriotism is surely out of today's headlines. It's real entertainment. "-WEEI, Boston. "A very funny, satisfying . . . first-rate American play."-Arts and Entertainment. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS HALLOWEEN SCREAMS. (Little Theatre.) Comic thriller. L. Don Swartz. 6 m., 5 f., extras. Int. Here is all the fun of a haunted house on Halloween night with tricks, treats and surprises enough to keep the audience guessing to the very end. When a theatre group in Chestnut Hollow agrees to transform the community center's basement into a Halloween spook house, little do they know that the basement is already haunted! Phantom laughter, flying skulls, ghostly photographs and otherworldly voices are just some of the clues that help the troupers unearth the grisly secret that has been buried in the basement for over 200 years. "Very witty . . . [with) well-written characters . . . [and) snappy dialogue . . . . A chiller!"-Niagara Gazette. "Great fun! Don't miss this show! A wonderfully charming production! All the elements.. make for a scary Halloween."-Tonawanda News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10583) I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED. (Little Theatre.) Monologues. Joyce Carol Oates. 11 f. (doubling possible). Bare stage. This extraordinary collection of dramatic monologues by one of America's foremost women of letters rivals Talking With in dramatic intensity, language and sheer weirdness. The evening begins and ends with the title poem, a haunting evocation of woman on the edge of madness and vulnerability. Also included are Little Blood Button; Wife of; Wealthy Lady; The Boy; The Orange; Good Morning, Good Afternoon; Darling, I'm Telling You (Angel Eyes); Nuclear Holocaust; Slow Motion and Pregnant. There is humor here, but mostly the monologues are gripping portraits of the pathetic, the strange, and the (#11681) horrifying. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $20-$15 per monologue.) JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLIN. (Little Theatre.) Biographical play with music. Gene Feist. Music and Lyrics by Phil Campanella. 8 m., 3 f. (to perform 32 roles). Unit set. This extraordinary portrait of Joyce reveals an Irish lad reared by a loving mother and a father proud of his status and middle class proprieties. He was educated at private schools until bad times forced the family to move often, leaving a trail of unpaid rents. At this time Joyce encountered his first sexual temptations and made his choice between chastity and concupiscence. Here are the characters he wrote about: the Dubliners and those who peopled his self-portrait of the artist as a young man. "Sensitive, satiric, warm, ironic study. . . . It captures Joyce with love and fidelity." -Record. "Goes straight to the heart of the early life of James Joyce."-NYC News. "If you are a true devotee of the theatre, this is a Ulay you cannot miss . . . . A charming, nostalgic, extraordinarily humorous play. Add to this several totally delightful Irish songs.. . Completely entertaining."-WHBI Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Write for details about music. (#12901) LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Victor Lucas. 6 m., 5 f., plus several non-speaking parts. 1 set. Strange, but very funny happenings, are occurring at the faded and eerie manor of Creeching Cheyney. An oddly assorted group of people are assembled on a snowy Christmas Eve to hear the reading of a will laying down certain stipulations before they can inherit their legacies. A creepy butler, who is not all he seems, skeletons, ghosts and rattling chains add to the excitement in the snowbound house and an uninvited guest, in the shape of a large Red Indian, (#14183) rampages through this seasonal romp! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE LEARNED LADIES. (Little Theatre.) Moliere. Translated and adapted by Freyda Thomas. 5 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Int. This rollicking version of Les Femmes Savantes delighted audiences Off Broadway in a production starring Jean Stapleton as Philamente. a most unliterary lady intent on having a high-toned literary salon. She has neither literary nor conunon sense, which makes her easy prey for sycophantic con artist Trissotin. He passes himself off as a famous poet and becomes a permanent house guest. Philamente hopes to marry her daughter to Trissotin, but the daughter wishes to marry the unsuitable Clitandre. This version strays from a strictly literal translation of Moliere's play, often employing anachronisms in the rhymed couplets that will appall purists and absolutely delight everyone else. If you want your audiences to roll with laughter as they watch a play by a "famous dead playwright," this version is for you. "Thomas' modernisms smartly put the satire's emphasis on the pomposity rather than the feminism of the Precieuse Movement."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14933) A NEW STYLE FOR MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Thomas Hischak. 2 m., 9 f. Int. Ladies gather at Cassie and Dee Nolan's beauty salon in Lilac Junction to hear the local gossip and. incidentally, get their hair done. Today they've really got something to get their tongues wagging--Hannah Carlson, the high school principal's wife, dies under the hair dryer-murdered! Who did it? And how was the dastardly deed accomplished? Lt. Elizabeth Roberts, assistant to Inspector Trigg from St. Louis, thinks she has a few clues. She does not want for suspects since nearly everyone in town detested the victim, including her husband. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15970) ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREATS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Grodin. 7 m., 4 f. (doubling possible). Int. Thunder Road is in trouble so the production team of this new Broadway show is meeting in a Chinese restaurant to discuss what steps to take. The laughs corne fast and furious as these delightful, hapless theatre folk delude themselves into thinking Thunder Road might be a hit after all. "An airy. light-fingered commentary on the vagaries of theatrical production." -N Y. Times. "Great fun."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17678) PRANK. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Richard Kalinoski. 6 m., 4 f., I f. child, plus 3 extras. Unit set. Originally published in Dramatics Magazine, this timely play created a sensation. Teenagers Chris Lincoln and Howie DiNardo are buddies who do everything together. Horsing around one night, they find a large cutout of Franken-

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Daily News. "One of the funniest shows in town."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#24014)
WARRIOR. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Shirley Gee. 8 m., 3 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. This powerful drama is based on the true story of Hannah Snell who in 1750, disguised as a boy, went to sea in search of her errant husband. For seven years she lived as a man boldly braving wounds, bloody battles and her own troubling visions. After returning home penniless, she was part of a successful stage act until visions of an apocalyptic future forced her to proclaim the horrors of war. Hannah was locked in Bedlam. Rescued, she sailed away to speak out for life and a continuing world. "The fine writing invisibly stitches the scenes together; it is bittersweet, perfectly modulated and lifts lightness out of despair." -Observer. "Gee [has a] gift for racy, pungent, vernacular dialogue. "-Independent. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25041) WHAT THE RABBI SAW. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 7 m., 4 f. Int. Adrienne Barbeau headed the cast of this crazy slapstick farce which takes pre-wedding jitters to nightmare proportions. In a posh New York hotel just before Walter and Wendy are scheduled to say "I do", Walter's zipper becomes attached to his bride's sister's dress during a last-minute act of infidelity. Meanwhile Wendy is having a fling with the best man. This finely tuned exercise in physical comedy zips from one hilarious situation as all try to hide their exploits and make it to the church on time. "Vintage Van Zandt & Milmore: full of silly, zany madcap antics at a rapid-fire pace. Endless pratfalls, door ballets and bits of physical comedy have actors diving under beds and into suitcases, getting hit with silver platters, hiding under wedding gowns, slipping on ice cubes, dodging bullets, falling off buildings, and jumping in and out of closet doors which seem to have minds of their own."-Asbury Park Press. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25236) ZYGIELBAUM'S JOURNEY. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 8 m., 3 f. (with doubling). Unit set. This is the true story of a Jewish labor leader during World War II who fled from Poland and tried to alert the world to what was happening to Jews in Europe. A harrowing, ironic drama about an unheralded man of compassion and integrity, the play recounts a life filled with suspense and heroic conflict. In My Family, The Jewish Immigrants, $18.95.(Royalty, $60-$40.) (#28024) ENRICO IV. (All Groups.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. 2 versions: translated by Robert Brustein and by Robert Cornthwaite. 9 m. 2 f. Unit set. For descriptions and other translations, see Index under Emperor Henry IV and Henry IV. "Cornthwaite's translation is felicitous."-N.Y. Times. Brustein translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) Cornthwiate translation in manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Please state translator when ordering. Brustein translation (#7104) Cornthwaite translation (#7023) IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Cooney. 7 m., 4 f. Int. Britain's master farceur (Two Into One, Run For Your Wife, et af. ) is at it again. Set in a hospital, It Runs in the Family contains the usual assortment of farcical nuts running in and out of doors mistaking everybody for someone else, as Dr. Mortimore tries to fend off a paternity suit, an ex-wife, a punkish daughter and various ot~er lunatics so that he may, at last, deliver the Ponsonby Lecture in an international conference. "My glasses steamed up with laughter. ... A must for the bruised in spirit and the young at heart." -Sunday Times, London. "Tickles the funny bones quite shamelessly." -Sunday Express, London. "As in every good farce from Ben Travers to Joe Orton, the location becomes a madhouse filled with an epidemic of unbridled lunacy."-London Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#11692) STAGS AND HENS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Willy Russell. 6 m. (one nonspeaking), 5 f. Int. This cynical play by the author of Educating Rita is a comedy of wedding-eve nerves set in the loos of a tacky Liverpool club where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, are having parties. "Lively, coarse, well-organized, truthful and very funny."-London Financial Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

stein and decide it would be a real gas to stand it up on the highway. A young mother loses control of her car after seeing the cutout and is killed, along with her young son. Her six-year-old daughter survives and identifies the two boys who are tried for manslaughter. Their friendship is tested as the families pressure each boy to finger the other as the culprit. One boy eventually does but later recants and admits mutual responsibility. The boys are sentenced to a reformatory where they begin the difficult task of rebuilding their lives and their friendship. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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SING ON! (All Groups.) Comedy with music. Rick Abbot. 4 m., 7 f. By popular demand, here is the sequel to Play On! Phyllis is joined by her song-writing nephew when dire circumstances-their theatre is in peril-force the intrepid thespians to produce another of her shows. They know disaster looms-it may be tough to act on a sinking ship, but can you sing as the waters rise? If you have never produced Play On!, fear not. Sing On! stands on its own as a side-splitting encounter with a harried community theatre group. The music does not require a cast that can sing well, and the melodies (but not the lyrics) are well-known tunes by Stephen Foster. Everyone involved will have the time of their lives doing this melodious and absolutely lunatic catastrophe! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music available on receipt of a $25 refund(#21163) able deposit plus a $25.00 rental fee. SINGLE SPIES. (Little Theatre). Comic drama. Alan Bennett. 9 m., 2 f. 2 ints. Two one-act plays focus on two of the most celebrated spies of modem times: Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. Winner of the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. See An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attributionfor descriptions of each play. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Production slides available on rental: $25.00 per performance; $75.00 deposit. Slightly Restricted. (#21164) TALKING WITH.. (Little Theatre.) Monologues. Jane Martin. 11 f. Bare Stage. These extraordinary monologues received a standing ovation at Louisville's Actors Theatre. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job. 1982 winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play. "A dramatist with an original voice . . . [and] gladsome humor."-N.Y. Times. "With Jane Martin, the monologue has taken on a new poetic form, intensive in its method and revelatory in its impact."-Philadelphia Inquirer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $20-$15 per monologue.) Posters (#22022) TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Translated and adapted by Freyda Thomas from the original by Moliere. 6 m., 5 f. lnt. This modem adaptation casts Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who rooks Orgon and his family of their money and property and nearly compromises Orgon's wife. The action takes place in a religious television studio in Baton,Rouge where the characters cavort to either prevent or aid Tartuffe in his machinations. Written in modem verse, Tartuffe: Born Again adheres closely to the structure and form of the original. Monre's legendary comedic characters are delightfully at home in this modem-day version that played at New York's Circle in the Square. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21991) AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. (All Groups.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 8 m., 3 f. Int. In this superlative mystery comedy (originally titled Ten Little Indians) statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten 'soldiers' met his death-until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead-poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up in this ideal play for schools, colleges and little theatres. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Sound Effects Cassette, Record, or Tape, $32.50. Posters

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TILL DEATH DO US PART. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 6 m., 5 f. 2 ints. This delightful look at modem marriage in all its marred majesty had them rolling in the aisles at its premier in New Jersey. Narrated by a jaded bachelor who knows the bloom inevitably leaves the rose, the play opens with a pristine view of marriage: a wedding album slide-show of the weddings of four happy couples. The images are quickly supplanted by the reality of the couples' eroding relationships. By the time all four couples repair to a Vermont country inn, their marriages are in an advanced state of disrepair. There doesn't seem to be a happy ending in sight, but the ending is full of surprises. The dialogue is sprinkled liberally with hilarious gags in this comedy about the dark side of marriage. $6.50. (#22156) (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE VENETIAN TWINS. (All Groups.) Farce. Carlo Goldoni. Translated by Michael Feingold. 8 m., 3 f. Int., ext. or unit set. Written in 1743 by the master of Italian comedy, this piece of slapstick foolery hasn't lost an ounce of freshness. Twins separated at birth (played by one actor) tum up in Verona, one for an arranged marriage and the other to meet a girl who has run away from her family for him. They are mistaken for each other and the resulting chaos includes duels, betrayals, spats, arrests, a casket of stolen jewels, and a death from poisoned wine: the show's comic high point! The Venetian Twins was the comic hit of the OffBroadway season. "Wonderfully fresh . . . slapstick sharpened by satire, intelligence and style."-N.Y. Times. "Effervescent."-N.Y. Newsday. "Vividly fun-' ny."-Variety. "14-caret Goldoni. The slapstick is nearly at circus level."-N.Y.

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WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR TROUSERS? (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ray Galton and John Antrobus, based on a story by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. 8 m., 3 f. (doubling possible). Int. This hilarious farce begins quietly enough with Howard and Penny asleep. A burglar climbs through the window and steals various items, induding Howard's suit. Awakening, Howard announces his intention to get back to the wife! But how can he in only vest and underpants? Before you can say "jockey shorts" he is being chased around the flat by his Danish au-pair, the Home Secretary and a randy constable who doubles as a flasher. Add to this a punk with rainbow colored hair, a gravelly-voice Captain and a singing telegram Gorilla and you have the ingredients for a night of outrageous fun! "A beautifully constructed comic mechanism which bursts into glorious life. . . a superbly ingenious chain of events."-London Daily News. "Full of belly laughs."-London Daily Express. "Brilliantly constructed farce. . achingly funny."-London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#25083) A CUP OF COFFEE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Preston Sturges. 10 m., 1 f. (doubling possible). Int. This forgotten play by the great Hollywood director and screenwriter became the basis for the film Christmas in July. It was first produced on stage by Soho Rep. Set in the lower Manhattan offices of Baxter & Sons, a coffee company, this hilarious comedy focuses op an energetic young salesman who feels

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stifled by Baxter & Sons' lack of creativity. Not till he wins a jingle contest do his bosses notice his talents and start listening to his ideas about how to improve their image. Has the eager-beaver salesman really won the contest? Will he stay at Baxter's or move on to bigger things? Can he win the affections of the perky secretary? Will old Ephram Baxter be put out to pasture by his sons, or will he stay awake long enough to embrace Jimmy's ideas about how to save the firm? The New York critics were unanimous in their praise of this comedy classic. "Clever plotting and snappy dialogue. . A delicious brew."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#5214) $40.) CHEKHOV IN YALTA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow. 7 m., 4 f. I Set. Confined in is villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of-persuading Chekhov to give them his latest play. Noteworthy characters include Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper who Chekhov, a confirmed bachelor, contemplates marrying even as he acknowledges his advancing consumption. The play is criss-crossed with amorous triangles, battles of ego, high spirits and melancholic languor reminiscent of Chekhov's work. Winner of several prestigious awards including a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwrighting and an American Theatre Critics Citation. "A truly Chekhovian comedy filled with wit, style, and passion."-L.A. Star News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#5594) $40.) OPEN ADMISSIONS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Shirley Lauro. 4 m., 7 f. Ints.lexts. This drama for a racially and ethnically mixed cast explores equal opportunity in college admissions. Calvin Jefferson, a sophomore at an urban college not unlike New York's City College, reads at the fifth grade level but always gets Bs. He is only dimly beginning to understand is that it will take more than a sheepskin to make him competitive in the real world. It will take basic skills he lacks. Calvin begs his speech teacher, an overburdened, underpaid and under appreciated victim of the system, for help. She does try but it is likely too little, too late. "It thrusts us into the front line of an agonizing social crisis."-N.Y. Times. "Powerful."-ABCTV. 'Thoughtful, sometimes comic, and ultimately moving." -Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please specify full-length version when ord(#17066) ering. PLA Y IT AGAIN SAM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Woody Allen. 3 m., 8 f. Int. Our homely hero has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart's technique! Homely heroes being in scarce supply, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties. His friends try to fix him up with beautiful dates, but he's so gauche that they always end abysmally--even though Bogart is there, urging him on. Fact is, he is more like a friendly dog than a hero, and this is what charms his best friend's wife-to the point that they spend a night together. Now our hero is in a real mess. But in the white light of day homeliness will not be hid, and he is let off the hook. It's a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people, when you yourself are homely, but it is grand fun to follow. "Hilarious. . . . A cheerful romp. Not only are Mr. Allen's jokes-with their follow-ups, asides and twists-audaciously brilliant. but he has a great sense of character." -N. Y. Times. "A funny, likeable comedy that has a surprising amount of wistful appeal." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$40.) Posters (#96) WOMEN IN WHITE. Mystery comedy. James Reach. II f. Int. Kate Fawcett, stem but fair Superintendent of Nurses, thinks of the girls in her charge almost as daughters. Hester is interested only in books, hard-boiled Gloria is waiting for her guy to return from Korea, sentimental Betsy wants a man, Ann has a past she tries desperately to keep hidden, and Elaine and Molly share a strange and incriminating secret. Laurie and Celia are new probationers; one is full of ideals and the other is just looking for a job. One of the girls is murdered and Julia Robertson, a policewoman working her first homicide, is called in. Julia is determined to solve the baffling mystery and does-but not before another girl's life has been jeopardized, and not before one of the most terrifying climaxes ever written. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#1204) DANGER-GIRLS WORKING! Mystery comedy. James Reach. 11 f. I set. At a New York girl's boarding house, there are a newspaper woman who wants .to write a novel, a wise-cracking shop girl, the serious music student. a faded actress. a girl looking for romance, the kid who wants to crash Broadway and other boarders. The landlady, is the proud custodian of the "McCarthy Collection," a group of perfect uncut diamonds. When it disappears from the safe, the newspaper woman is given two hours to solve the case before the police are called. Suspicion is cleverly shifted from one to the other of the girls and there's a very surprising solution. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6009) STREAMERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rabe. 11 m., Int. Streamers are hapless parachutists who streak to their death because of unopened parachutes. In a barracks are three young, different and individually-realized soldiers. One is a young intellectual, another a street-smart Black and the last, a homosexual. Friends at first, their lives are changed and in various ways destroyed by the arrival of Carlyle. He is a stupid, crude animal aware and obsessed with his victimization as an uneducated Black soldier who will be sent to Vietnam and probable death. Desperately, he wants friends and some recognition. It is his pain and his need for vengeance that drives him beyond control. His emotional and brutal explosion brings destruction to the barrack's community as our inner furies, if unleashed, would destroy the world. "Hard hitting and extremely funny . . . . A masterly drama ... with humor, power

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS and impressive depths of understanding .." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#1005) $40.) WHO WALKS IN THE DARK. (All Groups.) Thriller. Tim Kelly. Adapted from Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars. 5 m., 6 f., 1 optional m. or f. extra. Int. This thrilling jewel is based on Stoker's classic suspense novel written after Dracula. By breaking into the tomb of an evil sorceress, archaeologist Sir Abel Trelawny has upset The Nameless One's plans for a return to the living. She comes to London's Karnak house (in which the play is set) and creates murderous havoc for Sir Abel, his two daughters and his bewildered staff. Comic relief is supplied by a bumbling sergeant who admires Sherlock Holmes. The occult mystery builds to a rousing climax, complete with dramatic twists that hold the audiences spellbound. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25116) THE BRIDE OF BRACKENLOCH! A Ghastly Gothic Thriller? (All Groups.) Comedy-Thriller. Rick Abbot. 3 m., 8 f. Int. In this cheerily goofy spoof of all those gothic novels where the heroine is brought to the ancient manor by her handsome, brooding groom, new bride Daphne is brought to Brackenloch the day after her husband Jabez Thorngaillost his first bride to the family curse: any bride at Brackenloch Manor is doomed to die on her wedding day. At the bottom of the bracken-fringed Scottish loch which gives the manor its name lurks "Bracky" who is not a monster to take lightly. The murder of Jabez's father six years earlier remains unsolved and family disappearances create further mysteries. Also missing is the Strong Wong, a Hong Kong tong-gong thong which used to hang above the crossed claymores above the fireplace. Potential suspects include the housekeeper, the maid, the sister, the cook, the handyman, the aunt, the sexy female neighbor, the cast-off sweetheart of Jabez who thought she would be the new bride. Suspicion and danger are omnipresent and audiences love every minute of this thriller. $6.50. (#4694) (Royalty, $50-$40.) NANAWATAI. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. William Mastrosimone. 10 m., I f. plus f. chorus. Unit set. Nanawatai (the Afghan word for sanctuary) is based on an incident the author witnessed: the capture and execution of a Soviet tank crew in Afghanistan. A member of the tank crew and an Afghan rebel share their points of view as a chorus of village women impresses upon us the effect on the citizenry of all the bloodshed. "Hard hitting and ... alive with issues and conflicts of both a political and personal nature."-Hollywood Reporter. "Has the ritual power of Greek tragedy. "-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#15975) TIMES SQUARE ANGEL. (Adventurous Groups.) Farce. Charles Busch. 7 m., 4 f. Unit set. Irish O'Flanagan, hilariously played Off Broadway by the author, is quite a dame. A product of Depression-era Hell's kitchen, she has spunk, talent and fabulous clothes. She lifts herself out of the slums and into a career as a nightclub singer, finally becomiQg so decadent that only a guardian angel can save her from herself. "Has a heart bf gold."-NY Times. "If Hollywood in the 1940s had adapted Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to a Broadway setting, the result might have been something like Times Square Angel. Busch's Christmas opus offers the mix of fun camp, fast talk and top flight production values we've come to expect from him, with an overlay of Yuletide sentiment worthy of the best Hollywood dream machines. Funny and full of wisecracks."-Gannett-Westchester Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22711) A MAP OF THE WORLD. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. David Hare. 7 m., 4 f., plus extras. 2 Ints. This play by the author of Plenty . 'is an ambitious work which brings together in heated discussion a young left wing journalist and a right wing expatriate Indian novelist. The settings are a Bombay hotel where they are attending a world poverty conference and the British film studio where the Indian author's experiences are being turned into a film. Throughout the play, life and fiction overlap. One of the issues is the sexual jealousy that arises over the men's competition for the favors of a promiscuous American actress staying at the hotel. Also on the agenda: idealism vs. cynicism; the West's arrogance in its handling of Third World problems; the alleged evils of Zionism; and the journalist's fervent belief in the necessity for change."-London Sunday Express. "Provocative, humane and infinitely beautiful. .. arguably the best thing Hare has done."-N.Y. Post. "Extraordinarily clever, original and provocative,"-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#15620) ROOKERY NOOK. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travt:rs. 5 m., 6 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20918) THARK. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. 6 m., 5 f. 3 ints. $8.95. (Royalty, $50(#22045) $40.) HIA WATHA. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Adapted by Michael Bogdanov from "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Traditional American Indian songs collected and arranged by Jeff Teare. 8 m., 3 f. Unit set. $6.50. (#10087) (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Music Royalty, $3.00 per performance.) PLAY MEMORY. (Advanced Groups). Drama. Joanna M. Glass. 8 m., 3 f. Unit set. Harold Prince staged this drama on Broadway with Donald Moffat starring as a Canadian salesman and father determined to drink himself to death. Cam MacMillan he is full of pride for in his heritage as a descendant of the Scottish laird who originally settled the area and for his success as a salesman. His downfall begins during World War II when he gets involved in black marketing gas rationing cou-

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BENT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Martin Sherman. 11 m. Simple sets. In 1934 in Berlin Max and his lover Rudy are recovering from a drinking and sexual encounter with a homosexual SA trooper. Two storm troopers burst into the apartment and slit their guest's throat, beginning a nightmare odyssey through Nazi Germany which ranked homosexuals on a lower human scale than Jews. They flee to a straight cabaret singer who performs in drag. He scornfully gives them the money he got from the Nazis for revealing their address. On the run, Max meets his discreetly homosexual Uncle Freddie who suggests that Max get married and practice, as he does, homosexuality on the side. Max refuses to abandon Rudy. They're caught and enroute in a boxcar to Dachau. When Rudy is beaten to death, Horst, another homosexual prisoner, warns Max to deny knowing him. At Dachau, he and Horst plan to survive but it is not to be. "Powerful and provocative." -N. Y. Times. "Brilliant. . . . An explosive, overpowering experience."-WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music available, $2.25. (Music royalty, $3.00 each performance.) Slightly Restricted. (#249) LOOSE ENDS. (Advanced Groups.) Serious Comedy. Michael Weller. 7 m., 4 f. Var. simple sets. This is about the bittersweet I970s love affair of a couple who cannot live with each other or apart due to different outlooks and objectives. Paul is a Peace Corps dropout and Susan is bumming around the world when they meet on a Bali beach. Later, in Boston, they live together and then marry. Separating briefly, they end up together again in a New York penthouse. She has become a successful photographer and he a successful film editor. He wants children and she doesn't. On her thirty-third birthday, Paul bitterly denounces her for having, unknown to him, had an abortion six months earlier. One last, brief reunion is attempted-but it is too late. "Will undoubtedly play in resident theatres allover the country. Strongly written, sensitively felt, theatrically effective." -Newsweek. "Honest. . resonant and haunting,"-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#148) JOKING APART. (All Groups.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 5 m. 6 f. (1 f. may play 4 roles.) Ext. Another marvelous portrait of middle class, middle-aged life by this skillful portrayer of manners and morals. Charming, naturally successful in everything, Anthea and Richard almost unconsciously but ruthlessly dominate the lives of those with whom they are associated-in business or as neighbors. Over twelve years Sven, Richard's partner, is virtually nudged out of the firm-Brian tries, ineffectually, through a series of girl friends to replace his love, Anthea-Hugh, a local vicar, falls hopelessly for Anthea-Hugh's wife is driven to drugs by Anthea and Richard's kindness. The play ends with Anthea's daughter, Debbie, awaiting the guests for her eighteenth birthday party-with Brian making one last attempt for an Anthea-substitute. A critical success in London's West End. $8.95. (Royalty, $50(#608) $40.) FILUMENA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. Translated by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. 6 m., 5 f., 2 m. extras. Int. Filumena has lived with Domenico for twenty-five years, but is to be thrown over for a younger woman. So she pretends to be dying and inveigles him into a "deathbed marriage." When he proves the marriage to be null and void, she informs him she has three grown sons which she has supported by stealing from him-and that one of them is his (she won't say which). He tries vainly to discover his true son-but even. when he "remarries" Filumena, she keeps the secret-otherwise he would favor "the true son" over the other two. Eventually Domenico agrees with her and as the play ends they're fully reconciled, with every promise of happiness before them. "Warm, and always enjoyable."-Time. "Beautiful and heart-warmingly funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly restricted. (#8027) SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. C. G. Bond. 8 m., 3 f. Simple ints.lexts. In this version of the old melodrama, Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities: his wife was abducted and raped by the Judge and his daughter abandoned, while he himself was deported on a false charge. He returns to avenge his family, accompanied by a sea captain, Anthony, whose life he has saved. Anthony falls in love with a young girl, the Judge's ward, who turns out to be Todd's daughter. Todd, meanwhile, sets up with Mrs. Lovett, the pie maker, and provides her with fillings for her pies. He proceeds with his vengeful plans but the outcome is bitterly ironic. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state author when ordering. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#21399) ELEONORA DUSE. (All Groups.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 4-31 m., 7-31 f. Int. In Four by Fratti, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7020) HABEAS CORPUS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Alan Bennett. 6 m., 5 f. Int. A gorgeously vulgar farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body. In the home of Dr. Arthur Wicksteed wild and wicked things go on in a Feydeau-style fashion. Along with the lecherous doctor, the cast includes his mountainous wife, a celibate curate who is engaged to the doctor's flat-chested spinster sister, a cantilevered sexpot, an invertebrate hypochondriac and an arrogant colonialist. Identities are mistaken, wires crossed-and into this mad fun house comes a falsie-fitter summoned by the flat-chested spinster. Needless to say things get sorted out in the end, but not without a lot of hilarity along the way. "A parade of wit. " -N. Y. Times. "A marvelous freaky farce . . . rowdy and ribald."-NBC. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

pons. Although he does not go to jail, he loses his job-and spends the rest of his life waiting for the world to come to him .and apologize. "A drama of searing vitality and power." -N. Y. Post. "Utterly moving. The piece is almost a nightmare of serenity that is touched by poetry, illuminated by perception and cleansed by tears." -N. Y. Times. "One of the most touching . . . plays I can remember."-CBS-Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18147) BIG MAGGIE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John B. Keane. 5 m., 6 f. Ext./Int. One of the most popular plays by a beloved Irish playwright, Big Maggie revolves around the domineering mother of four grown children who are determined to go their own ways-and likely headed in the wrong directions. Maggie's bibulous, womanizing husband has died so she is now free to exercise some control over her life and her children, much to the consternation of the young people. Wonderful character parts abound in this tightly-constructed audience-pleaser. "The feminist awareness that infuses the play gives it an intriguing texture as we watch it unfold against a colorfully detailed background of contemporary rural Ireland. It is at times like hearing Ibsen with an Irish brogue."-WWD. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4637) PLAYS FOR ENGLAND. (Little Theatre.) Dramas. John Osborne. Two compelling plays are linked by the author's compassion for people. The Blood of the Bambergs (8 m., 3 f., extras) is set in a Ruritanian kingdom where a prince is killed on the eve of his marriage and an illegitimate half brother is used as a substitute. The bride, alive to her duty, accepts the situation with equanimity. The author concentrates on the deceit practiced to avert public disappointment and possible danger to the state. The net result is condemnation-not of monarchy itself, but of the forces of democracy which exploit the popular appeal of royalty. Under Plain Cover (6 m., 3 f., extras) is a comment on the prying of newspapers. Tim and Jenny are a happily married, aloof couple who know nothing of the world. A reporter discovers they are related and their happy world of innocence and hope crashes. They suffer a short separation before the play ends on a heart-rending plea for love, compassion and tolerance. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1809) THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. (AU Groups.) Farce. Carlo Goldoni. Translated and adapted by Tom Cone. 7 m., 4 f. Var. ints.lexts. (may be unit set). Truffaldino, Brighela, Pantalone-they are all here in a delightful version of this commedia dell'arte classic. "Cone-refurbishing, reshaping, interpreting, polishing-is faithful to the Goldoni spirit and what we suspect to be the Goldoni intention; but he adds, as well, a measure of his own expansive humor, shaped and fashioned to the taste of the modern audience. This is not simply an old play dusted off; it is a piece of theatrical history transformed and adapted for the contemporary stage; an old play re-created into something fresh, alive and new."-Vancouver Sun. "A delicious, zany delight." -London Free Press, Ontario. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Also available in a translation by Edward 1. Dent, see Index.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#21080) THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 7-8 m., 3-4 f. Sganarelle chops up wood for a living and beats up his wife for relaxation. To get revenge she spreads the word that he is secretly a brilliant doctor who won't reveal his skills unless he is unmercifully punished. Along come a couple of hefty messengers in search of a brilliant doctor, someone to cure a young woman's mysterious ailment. After a bruising treatment, Sganarelle is persuaded that he really is a doctor and proceeds to cure the young woman as he carries out Moliere's scalpel-sharp satire of the medical profession. "All of us must be grateful that a sympathetic and gifted translator, has turned his attention to Moliere." -Stanley Kauffmann. In The Actor's Moliere. Volume 2, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6098) DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 9 m., 2 f. 2 Ints. This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adults) speak in a mock language called "Dogg." This hilarious language babbles along until the schoolboys, who are studying Shakespeare's "foreign" language, present an incredibly funny I5-minute version of Hamlet and then encore with a two-minute version! The second play, dedicated to dissident Czech dramatist Pavel Kohout, is about a performance of Macbeth he and his friends once staged in a living room since the government banned public performances. The action shifts between the bare-stage and the police inquiry. The murder and intrigue of Shakespeare's play are juxtaposed with the Czech political harassment. "The language and the laughter are contagious . . . Lewis Carroll would have been at home."-N.Y. Times. "A blend of comic nonsense and astringent political satire."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) The two parts must be performed together and may not be done with any other play. (#6665) SHOCK TACTICS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. John Dole. 6 m., 5 f. Int. $8.95. (Royal(#21136) ty, $50-$35.) DEATH BY ARRANGEMENT. (All Groups.) Mystery. David Alberts. 7 m., 4 f. Int. Nothing is as it seems in this intriguing, amusing and deceptive murder mystery. Set in present-day London, the plot revolves around the death of Evan MacKenzie and a houseful of suspects. Everyone from his lovely widow to the kitchen maid had a motive and an opportunity. Pity the poor Detective Sergeant who must put together the illusive puzzle. He is misled and outwitted again and again. Only when he leads his prime suspect off to jail is the actual culprit revealed! Unexpected twists and turns keep audiences guessing right up to the final curtain of this subtle, humorous play in the classic tradition. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6045)

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middle of the First Century A.D. His name was Paul and he was a "Man for All Time." Provocateur incarnate, he overturns the established order of materialist Roman, cynical Greek and law-laden Jew. Paul preaches change and spiritual freedom under the new Christian Doctrine. Like Sir Tl}omas More he is a martyr-not for his deeds, but for his ideas. Paul is the rarest of men: the responsible revolutionary. While challenging the past, he respects what he seeks to change. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21010) THIEVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Herb Gardner. 8 m., 3 f. Int. Martin Cramer lives in an expensive high-rise on Manhattan's upper east side. He likes to play Debussy on his balcony at one a.m. Sally Cramer, played in New York by Marlo Thomas, is his wife of 12 years. They have no children, but have acquired loads valuable antiques. Their failing marriage is sliding into the quicksand of early middle-age; they are two schoolteachers lost in little New York while surrounded by colorful street people and stereotyped neighbors. Unable to consummate affairs with other people, the Cramer's eventually navigate various plot entanglements to return to each other. "Thieves says more about New York and its people than any play in years. I loved it!" -NBC. "Hilarious scenes, marvelous characters and touching (#22007) moments. "-WINS Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) WOMEN BEHIND BARS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Eyen. 10 f., 1 m. (to play several parts). Unit set. In this hilarious satire on B movies of the 1950's, MaryEleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention which is presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh. Poor Mary-Eleanor ends up hardened and cynical, but that's just the way it was in the movies. "Sex is rampant and comically cheerful!. .. A delirious evening of Grade-A tom-foolery!"-NY. Times. "Hysterically, paradoxically, fascinatingly, diabolically funny!"-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royal(#25176) ty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. THE MISANTHROPE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Moliere. Translated by Tony Harrison. 9 m., 2 f. Tony Harrison has set his version exactly three hundred years after the first performance of Le Misanthrope in 1666. This transposition to the "reign" of Charles de Gaulle helps to clarify the truly human dilemmas in the play so often obscured behind the frills and stiffness of traditional productions. In this version of Le Misanthrope he uses the same skills and energy in a way that at once reminds us of the original and allows us, perhaps for the first time in any version of the play, to grasp its essential theme. $26.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15111) SA VAGES. (Little Theatre.) Christopher Hampton. 10 m., I f., extras. Bare stage w. insets or composite set. An English diplomat is kidnapped by guerrillas and kept in a cell while his ransom is negotiated. The diplomat provides the backbone of a play which sets out to indict western man for his wholesale murder of a tribe few of us have ever heard of. But that, among others, is the playwright's. In a passionately angry, bitterly cynical play which veers from the soapbox to high comedy . . . before cross-cutting the publicity surrounding the murder of one diplomat with the anonymity surrounding the slaughter of a hundred Brazilian Indians, he has proved himself on one of the most complex and treacherous of all theatrical battlefields. (#21035) $6.50. (Royalty $50-$35.) THE KARL MARX PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Music by Galt MacDermot. Book and Lyrics by Rochelle Owens. 4 m., 7 f. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Write for information regarding music. (#13005) HOW GREEN WAS MY BROWNIE. (Support Your Local Elf.) (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey, 6 m., 5 f. Int. A bit of madness is loose in the Flinder house. Winifred Flinder, supposedly just out of the hospital, insists she was living it up in Paris. Her husband thinks she is planning to go into the convent, while their daughter Bonnie suspects both of her parents are nuts. The nurse thinks the neighboring piano teacher is a great pediatric surgeon and the gynecologist gratefully accepts payment for an operation he may not have performed. Add to this a general handyman who insists the brownies have it in for the Flinders, a housekeeper who expects to be murdered in her bed, a neighbor whose purse contains anything from crowbars to teddy bears and an unsolicited appearance by the Headless Horseman and you have this jolly jaunt through a superstition-ridden environs where anything can happen-and eventually does. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#545) ANNA K. (All Groups.) Drama. Eugenie Leontovich, based on Leo Tolstoy'S Anna Karenina. 6 m., 5 f. Extras. Bare stage. "A full dramatization of Tolstoy'S masterpiece--extraordinarily economic and therefore extraordinarily complete-within a Pirandellian outer framework of actors assembling, talking, interrupting their own roles . . . . trying work their way into and through the material."-NY. Post. "Genuine theatre that is moving and alive."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#3088) WEDDING BAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Alice Childress. 8 m., 3 f. Int. It is the summer of 1918, there is a war in Europe, and a war in South Carolina-a submerged war between the races. Julie is a seamstress and is Black and beautiful. Herman is a baker that has kept company with her for years, and is White. The important thing to remember is the date of 19/8. This play is a look at Black consciousness prior to any White literature's emancipation of the Black, and is handled skillfully by Ms. Childress, who raises the principles involved to art, and reduces substantially the hold of a reactionary or cutting liberal viewpoint. "A great deal of compassion. . . . Its strength lies in the poignancy of its star-crossed lovers."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25052)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS RING ROUND THE BATHTUB. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jane Trahey. 4 m., 7 f. Int. Back in the days of radio a woman married to a bullheaded Irishman thought she could stand up for women's political rights. She tries to buck the ward boss and he is unforgiving. Indeed, he has her husband laid off from his job in the Chicago fire department job in the midst of the depression in Chicago. The husband too is less than forgiving, for there will now be no money for food or fuel, and certainly none for Christmas. Other members of the family are an out-of-work movie organist, a grandmother and two daughters, one of whom is a hypochondriac. Christmas brings a snow storm, and a heartbreaking scene in which the father relents and buys a Christmas tree with his last cents. "A sentimental comedy in which pluck and humor triumph over adversity."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty; $50-$35.) (#20036) Sound effects cassette, $32.50. LES BLANCS. (THE WHITES). (Little Theatre.) Drama. Revised Version. Lorraine Hansberry. Adapted by Robert Nemiroff. 5 black m., 3 white m., 2 white f., 1 black f., 6 extras including 1 child. Unit set. Best American play of 1970, Les Blanes prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in that hour of reckoning when no one-the guilty nor the innocent-can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. The English-educated son of a chief has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near-alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people. Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, he is pursued by the powerful Spirit of Africa and drawn into the conflict. "Incredibly moving. . . towering, magnificent."-NY. Times. "Has the unrelenting power, breadth of vision and masterly technique that only a very few playwrights are capable of."-Detroit News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14059) THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE. (All Groups.) History. Daniel Berrigan. 9 m., 2 f. Int. A dramatic play is created from an edited transcript of the trial of the Rev. Philip and Daniel Berrigan and their seven confederates who in 1968 entered a Selective Service office, removed records and burned them in a parking lot to protest the war in Vietnam and the horrors of napalm bombings. "A positively riveting play, even though the verdict is a matter of history. The eloquence of the defendants, the cold duty of the prosecution, the dry, puzzled compassion of the far from unsympathetic jUdge, are woven by Father Berrigan into a theatro-pol\tical account of this political act. ... [that isl almost an instant replay of a politically theatrical gesture."-NY. Times. "Eloquent, powerful and moving. Artistic and jolting theatre."-CBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22203) MEGAN TERRY'S HOME: or FUTURE SOAP. Drama. Megan Terry. 6 m., 5 f. Int. Commissioned for television and revised for the stage, this play introduces us to the future of our race. Everyone lives in cubicles in complete regimentation. The day is broken up into eating (food pills), praying (a kind of pantheistic paean), showing appreciation to those who run the state, working, dreaming, and sleeping. One young couple finally get permission to marry, but are forbidden to have children until two members of their cubicle die. A man whom the system tried to be rid of appears in their death chute. He overloads their oxygen supply, and so he is killed. The wedding takes place, and by means of further pills the couple bed down and go off on a "trip," as do the guests. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15073) WILSON IN THE PROMISED LAND. (All Groups.) History. Ronald Van Zandt. 10 m., 1 f. Extras. Platform stage. A stinging indictment of politicians and selfrighteous men. The play focuses on Wilson, but portrays the capital under other presidents also. The conclusion is that those who seek ultimate power do so out of personal vanity, not altruism. "Fascinating theater. . [with] brilliant historical insight."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25148) FORTY CARATS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jay Allen, adapted from Pierre Barillet and Jean Pierre Gredy. 5 m., 6 f. 3 ints. Julie Harris starred in the Broadway production of this French comedy as a 40-year old divorcee whose car breaks down in Greece. She is then introduced to the true romance of the country by a winning youth of 22. Back in New York, where she runs a lucrative real estate business, the divorcee has problems with her mother, 17-year-old daughter and ex-husbands. She is also courted by a handsome client. Om: day something startling happens: a boy who comes to date her daughter turns out to be the youth from Greece. Not only is the attraction between them still irresistibly strong, but the 45-year-old client really loves the daughter. It's a jolly turnabout. "Great fun. A breezy, beguiling comedy."-NY. Times. "A comedy that makes one laugh all evening long."-New Yorker Magazine. "A fun night."-ABCTV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Posters (#63) THE GREAT WHITE HOPE. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Howard Sackler. 8 m., 3 f., principals. Winner of Pulitzer, Outer Critics and Tony awards. "A great part-a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson, as a symbol in part of Black aspiration. . . . Has an epic scope and range . . . . It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy Burns and takes it to Havana in 1915, when Jess Willard, the Great White Hope, won it back for the Whites-at least for a time." -N Y. Times. "A highly theatrical and hugely rewarding evening."-NY. Daily News. "Great theatre. Broadway at its very best."-A.P. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9112) THREE BAGS FULL. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Jerome Chodorov, based on the play by Claude Magnier. 6 m., 5 f. Int. A bright French farce about a greedy merchant

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comedy with an American Revolutionary background, it is a particularly intelligent commentary on American ideals and institutions, a fresh, vigorous and highly entertaining comedy of character. Preface on bundling. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18134) MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Paddy Chayefsky. 3 m., 8 f Int. Edward G. Robinson starred on Broadway as a garment manufacturer who is 53 years old, a widower and lonely. Into his life comes a beautiful girl nearly 30 years his junior who has had an unhappy marriage. They belong together, but does a man of his age have a right to a woman so young? Do sympathetic temperaments and minds have the strength to withstand the demands of marriage? Neither his nor the girl's family favors them. They must choose. "Arresting, brilliant, and often great."-N.Y. Journal-American. "A tender and touching play."-N.Y Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC & LA. (#695) THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dore Schary. A dramatization of the Novel by Morris L. West 9 m., 2 f. extras. 5 int. A dazzling, intellectual detection story about a dying priest who is sent, by his superiors, in the role of the devil's advocate to investigate and, if possible, discredit a dead man's claim to sanctity. The man was an Italian patriot who was beaten by the communists and finally killed by the Nazis. Miracles are attributed to him. Was he a holy man, or a sinner? He was, it turns out, a bit of both. "The wonderful things which can be found in the theatre, in rare and golden moments-spirit, beauty, intelligence, skill, and the effect of transporting a playgoer far away from himself--came together with the production of The Devil's Advocate . ... Superlative."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. "A powerful and absorbing drama."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#6056) A RAINY DAY IN NEWARK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Howard Teichmann. 9 m., 2 f Unit set. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20006) SIGHT UNSEEN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Rosemary Foster and Warner Law. 6 m., 5 f Int. An English manor house is the inheritance left to lovely young Lady Judith Elliot, along with three stubborn ghosts. A rich American lady not only doesn't object to the "psychic forces" but actually insists on buying the house to prove to the world that they do exist. The spirits refuse to put in appearances at the time of the seance. Lady Judith meanwhile falls in love with the American lady's nephew. A mere mortal who pretends to be a materialized spirit is exposed as a hoax by the angry ancestral spirits. The exposed mortal friend, however, begins exorcising the ghosts behind Judith's back, and the play turns into an ingenious and hilarious romp. (#21161) $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) CRAIG'S WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. George Kelly. 5 m., 6 f lnt. This play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. It is one of Mr. Kelly's admirable studies of contemporary character. Mrs. Craig is a woman of tremendous power who, through selfishness, succeeds in driving out of her home her husband, her husband's friends, and her relatives. A tense and biting satire on human nature. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#5172) $35.) AMEDEE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald Watson. 8 m., 3 f Int/ext. A fantastic account of a man and woman who live with a secret in the next room. Thirteen years ago the husband killed a man in a crime of passion and put him in the bedroom. The dead man has been growing ever since. Now the crisis is here. The man's beard is all over the floor, his arms are poking through windows, and his feet are coming through the door. Obviously the time has come to move him. There is one period in the operation during which the stage is all legs from left to right-truly a fantastic affair. In Three Plays by /onesco, $12.00. (#3064) (Royalty, $50-$35.) WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS. (All Groups.) Comedy. J. M. Barrie. 7 m., 4 f, extras. 4 ints. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25067) THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 4 m., 7 f Int. with scrim. The story is told on two levels: one comic and one bitter. The blustery sex farce concerns a general who fancies himself to be a toreador with the ladies, but he is disgusted with himself and the hollowness of his triumphs. Among the most actable scenes of the modern theatre are riotous comic cadenzas, positively amazing husband-and-wife tug-o'wars, and elusive moments of straightforward spiritual candor. New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the best play by a foreign author presented on Broadway. "Comic entertainment of striking excellence. . . . A stunning sardonic triumph." -N Y. Post. "Witty and sparkling. . " A hilarious comedy . . . hit."-NY. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1180) PRESENT LAUGHTER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 5 m., 6 f. Int. This audacious comedy was a success in New York and London. Garry Essendine, a popular and pampered actor, is busily making preparations for an extended tour. His apartment is invaded by Daphne, a beautiful but stage-struck youngster. When his wife, his partners and his numerous admirers arrive, Garry is hard pressed to escape an embarrassing and easily misinterpreted situation. With typical Coward repartee and dazzling wit, he sidesteps complications and mounting confusion. Having locked Daphne in a room, he flees his flat with his wife, with whom he has been reunited. "Sharp, withering and funny."-N.Y. Times. "It has its say with eloquence and brilliant theatrical effect."-N.Y. Herald-Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#852)

who finds himself snookered into being a matchmaker for two daughters, one the child of his wife and the other the maid's offspring. Rebellious young ladies, a comely new maid, pregnant ladies and mistaken identities lead to explosive hilarity. A larcenous employee who has embezzled half a million dollars even offers to return it for a managerial position and the daughter's hand. Half of the loot is in diamonds and half in cash the stashes in separate but identical bags. A third identical bag contains the maid's skivvies. "A mad narrative. . . . There is a lot of fun and so much pleasantly lunatic humor. ... Genuinely hilarious," N.Y. Post. $6.50. (#22076) (Royalty, 50-$35.) MIDSUMMER MINK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Peter Coke. 4 m., 7 f. Int. The amiable, aristocratic crooks of Breath of Spring are at it again. Brigadier Rayne deploys his charity campaigns with military expertise, but little monetary success until Nan is passed a mink coat by a crook on the run. This inspires Rayne and his cohorts to become modern Robin Hoods running a meticulously organized receiving system for stolen furs and giving their profits to charity. Gradually operations become more dangerous. Finally with the house full of furs and a police inspector making inquiries, they decide to retire-temporarily. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15097) CACTUS FLOWER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Abe Burrows, based on a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean Pierre Gredy. 7 m., 4 f. 4 sets. A dentist stays single by telling his many girl friends that he is married and has three children. This backfues when he falls in love and asks the lady to marry him. She demands to see his wife and the children whose home she has been wrecking. He has to produce a wife and then to assuage the girlfriend's conscience. He turns to his nurse for the first role and she blossoms like a cactus flower the moment she steps out of her starched uniform. "You will find the jokes fast and funny, the situation becoming funnier as the play (#42) skips along."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE PLAYROOM. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Mary Drayton. 7 m., 4 f. Compo int. In a hotel-apartment house leasing to the wealthy international set, teenager are rebellious, spoiled and bored with life on the highest material level. They search for bizarre adventure. They have a Gothic hideaway in a turret where they stick pins into the world's fetishes and do as they please. They're not patronized or caricatured but instead have a kind of cynical self-knowledge and jaunty impertinence. One girl, jealous of her father's new wife, conspires with the others to bug the apartment, kidnap the stepmother's daughter and, when realizing what they've done, to kill the girl. "A tingling, tantalizing bone-buckler. "-N. Y Journal-American. "Want a good scare? .. Gooseflesh entertainment with a novel and contemporary twist." -N. Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#851) SOMETHING DIFFERENT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Carl Reiner. 6 m., 5 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21264) ALL IN GOOD TIME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Bill Naughton. 7 m., 4 f. 3 int. 1 ext. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3038) POLLYANNA. (High School.) Comedy. Catherine Chisholm Cushing. Based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter. 5 m., 6 f. 2 ints. An orphan girl is thrust into the home of a maiden aunt and, in spite of the tribulations that beset her, she manages to find something to be glad about and to bring light into sunless lives. Pollyanna straightens out the love affairs of her elders and at last finds happiness for herself in the heart of Jimmy. "Pollyanna" is a glad play and one which is bound to give a better appreciation of people and the world. It reflects the humor, tenderness and humanity that give the story such popularity. Produced in New York and on tour. $6.50. (#18092) (Royalty, $50-$35.) ENTER LAUGHING. (All Groups.) Farce. New Revised Edition. Joseph Stein, adapted from Carl Reiner's novel. 7 m., 4 f A stage, wagons and insets. This unheralded play convulsed Broadway audiences. It is the riotous account of a stagestruck youth who works as a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. His parents want him to be a druggist, but as soon as he's saved enough money he enlists in a hanuny, semi-professional company that will put anybody in any play for the right amount of money. He is a dreadful actor and the scene of his first performance is hilarious. He proceeds to splash through romantic scenes with the manager's daughter, with another fellow's date and finally with the office girl who was meant for him all the time. "Joyously funny. It takes a good actor to act like bad actor."-N.Y. Daily News. "Marvelously funny . . . . Doesn't provide enough rest periods between side-splitting laughs."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#400) COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. William Inge. 8 m., 3 f. Int. A deep-seated marital frustration erupts in furious violence. Doc and Lola had an indiscreet affair and he was compelled to marry her, to give up his medical studies, to forfeit his hopes and to settle down to a dull life with a tedious and stupid wife. He became an alcoholic. When the play opens, he has been sober for a long time but his wife's inane rattling becomes more and more exasperating; an explosion is coming. In the role of Lola, Shirley Booth won a Tony as the best actress, the Barter Theatre Award and Variety's Best Actress poll of the N.Y. Drama Critics. "A rarely honest piece of theatre writing."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (#328) (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lawrence Langer and Armina Marshall Langner. 8 m., 3 f. Int. One of the hits of the Broadway season, this play centers round the quaint custom of bundling. Besides being a romantic

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FATHER'S BEEN TO MARS. (High SchooI.) Comedy. William Dalzell, and Newt Mitzman. 3 m., 8 f. Int. After years of blasting through outer space on his TV show, Larry Gibson finds it difficult to change each evening to husband and father. His habit of wearing his space outfit at home is a source of constant embarrassment to his daughter, Gloria. Even his wife, Mildred, finally rebels against this interplanetary world when he brings Countess Vilma, the villainess of his program, home just in time to "disintegrate" her sewing circle. Twelve-year-old Corky, a devout junior space scout, is the only one "in father's orbit." Mother and Gloria decide to give Larry a dose of his own medicine when one of his friends drop in. They don't know he is president of the network, who is considering Larry for an important executive position. The position is all but lost when they appear in ridiculous space costumes. Gloria's boyfriend brings about an unexpected and happy ending. $6.50. (Royalty, (#8020) $35-$25.) THE CURSE OF AN ACHING HEART or Trapped in the Spider's Web. (All Groups.) Farce. Herbert E. Swayne. 4 m., 7 f. Int. This modem treatment of an old melodrama inspires hissing, booing and applause. Melody Lane falls into the hands of Windermere Hightower. He expects her to participate in his criminal schemes but she. flees-a wife in name only. Months later at the None Such ranch she falls in love with stalwart Lucius Goodenough. Windermere appears at the ranch and tries to force his attentions on Melody, but Lucius knocks him down so Winderemere steals money and plants it on Lucius. His dirty work is discovered-but he gets away. He returns to the ranch disguised as a peddler and once again the virtuous orphan is rescued by-guess who? $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please state author when ordering. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit'; Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. Peggy and her fiance Phil. There is also gossip columnist who loves Peggy and who threatens to expose something in Phil's past life. At the crucial point in the "play" Phil is supposed to shoot Stella. The gun goes off-and the columnist is dead. It is surmised that the bullet was meant for Stella. The police inspector finally gets the maid to confess she knows the killer's identity and Phil is booked on suspicion of murder. With the others gone the murderer tries to get Peggy to take an overdose of pills, but she is saved. Her guardian is the murderer. He confesses, tries to escape (#20017) but is cornered and commits suicide. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) BLIND ALLEY. (All Groups.) Melodrama. James Warwick. 7 m., 4 f. Int. In this exciting drama, a psychology professor and his wife are in their campus home when a notorious killer enters: For a couple of days, he and his gang take the house over as a hideout. To prove he means business, the killer murders the professor's favorite pupil and later kills his moll. The professor's only weapon is his knowledge of psychology. Slowly, patiently, he eats away at the killer's mind until, his awful life reviewed and his mind psychologically stripped, he commits suicide. "Packs a wallop."-N.Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4080) THE GIRL ON THE VIA FLAMINIA. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Alfred Hayes, adapted from his best-seller. 7 m., 4 f. Compo int. Here is a merciless picture of hardened American conquerors abroad--and their impact on pitifully defenseless people. A young American soldier takes on a pretty, fearful Italian girl to while away the tedious occupation. She consents with deep bitterness and restraint; the only jobs and bread are in the American kitchens. The country's pride is fiercely moral and the girl is stigmatized by the local police and populace. This is her final, mortal shame and she runs off into the night. He follows her but is too late. In another times and place they might have truly loved one another. "Thoughtful, disarming. . full of humanity and variety."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#9039) MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 5 m., 6 f. Int. When produced in summer stock at Dorset, Vermont, this comedy broke all records. It concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty. He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographers. Afraid that exposure as a juvenile writer will jeopardize the chances of his serious new novel, Stanley has to produce a Grandma. After all else fails, he impersonates the lady. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. (All Groups.) Comedy. James Montgomery. 5 m., 6 f. 2 ints. Is it possible to tell the absolute truth--even for twenty-four hours? Bob Bennett, the hero of Nothing But the Truth accomplishes that feat to win a bet he made with his partners, his friends, and his fiancee. The scenes in which Bob is forced to answer embarrassing questions and tell the literal truth are hysterical. The situations increase in humor to the point where the audience can hardly resist joining the cast in this popular comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted.

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SEPARATE TABLES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Terence Rattigan. 3 m., 8 f. 2 sets. These two plays are set in a shabby-genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his exwife, a former model who provoked him to a violent act that sent him to prison and ruined him. Still loving each other, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene-and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who finds a way to repair their broken lives. In Table Number Seven, a bogus army officer without the background and education he claims and a neurotic girl with a ruthless domineering mother are attracted to each other. A sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, but when all seems lost Miss Cooper comes to the rescue. "A triumph."-N.Y. Post. "To his skill as a craftsman, Mr. Rattigan has added understanding and forgiveness. The finest thing he's written."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#969) MERTON OF THE MOVIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, dramatized from the novel by Harry Leon Wilson. 7 m., 4 f., extras. 5 sets (may be simple). One of the most popular modem American plays, this is a stirring story of American youth, an interesting commentary on motion pictures, and an intensely human study of character. Stage directions, diagrams and special directions for simplifying the settings are included. "The most amusing show of the season."--Heywood Brown. "A delight in every way."-N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#692) THE FAMILY REUNION. (Little Theatre.) Drama. T.S. Eliot. 7 m., 4 f. Int. The famed American-born English poet turns his attention to a contemporary English family-and especially to one son who is haunted by the impression that he killed his wife. "The finest verse play since the Elizabethans."-N.Y. Times. $10.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8004) TEA AND SYMPATHY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Robert Anderson. 9 m., 2 f. Compo int. This story of a forlorn boy at boarding school who is hazed by his classmates because he has played girls' parts in amateur theatricals and because he is very sensitive played on Broadway for two years. The kidding turns to rumor and finally to persecution. The master of the house joins the boys in their abuse, and even his father cannot understand him. Determined to prove his manliness, the youth goes out for a night on the town with the village strumpet. This is his downfall for he sickens at the sight of the strumpet and runs all the way home. Word gets around quickly. Now he is no longer ridiculed; he is completely shunned. The master's beautiful, kind and understanding wife offers the only sympathy in a delicate final scene. "Has audience appeal of high order."-N.Y. Post. "A triumph."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1065) REHEARSAL FOR DEATH. (AU Groups.) Melodrama. George Batson. 6 m., 5 f. Bare stage. There is to be a rehearsal of a play starring Stella, a has-been actress, and a letter threatens dire consequences if the play continues. Among the actors are

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THE GHOST TRAIN. (All Groups.) Mystery. Thriller. Arnold Ridley. 7 m., 4 f. Int. A long-running success in London and on Broadway-and packed with thrills, chills and laughter. In Maine near the Canadian border there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake. Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers' superstition to their advantage-but a not-as-incompetent-as-he-seems detective clears up the mystery of the specter and attendant deaths. His seemingly silly actions result in the apprehension of the evildoers and the little village and its station are finally at peace. For sheer, creeping mystery, it's a play without a peer. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. (#477) SPIDER'S WEB. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 8 m., 3 f. Int. Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham-Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young stepdaughter Pippa. Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage. Moreover Henry will be arriving shortly with a V.I.P. who might take a dim view of bodies in the drawing room. Clarissa's fast talking places her and Pippa in some hair-raising experiences. By the time Henry arrives, the murderer has been unmasked and all is normal-so normal that Henry is unable to believe Clarissa when she explains why there are no refreshments for their honored guest. "So closely woven with thrills and comedy that shocks and laughs (#991) are about fifty-fifty." -London Guardian. $8.95. (Royalt)', $60-$60.) M IS FOR THE MILLION. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 7 to 13 m., 4 to 5 f. Int. Lenore has been living high on the income from her daughter's million-dollar trust, but if Meg marries before her 25th birthday she gets the trust and Lenore will be penniless. The wedding is scheduled aboard a Mediterranean-bound steamship. Complications abound as Lenore tries to stall the marriage, Meg's secret identity and additional fiances surface, a commercial spy intrudes, and a love-mad Athenian is ready to marry mother or daughter. Love potions, a ship that can't decide where it's headed and other zany twists make this madhouse of activity great fun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15010) TOBACCO ROAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jack Kirkland. Adapted from the novel by Erskine Caldwell. 6 m., 5 f. Ext. This memorable play ran eight years on Broadway (3,182 performances) and it has been revived three time~. It is the story of the Lester's of Tobacco Road-of Jeeter who dreams of planting a garden beside his ramshackle poor-white home, the idiotic son who marries a ravenous evangelist so that he drives an automobile to destruction, a daughter with strong sexual inclinations, and another who is sold into maniage for $7 and who keeps running back home. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1081)

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FROM THE ARCHIVES-11 CHARACTERS Reproduction copies of these plays which are out of print, in manuscript only or remaindered from Samuel French's Archives, $25.00 per copy. Royalties as listed are still applicable.

Scene ANDORRA. Max Frisch, trans. by Michael Billock (Slightly Restricted) (#3083) .................................. Area stage ANOTHER LANGUAGE. Rose Franken (#3091) ...................................................................... 2 Int. BEES AND THE FLOWERS. Frederick Kohner & Albert Mannheimer (#4025) ......................................... Int. BELVEDERE. Gwen Davenport (#4033) ................................................................................. Int. BROTHER ORCHID. Leo Brady (#4129) ............................................................................. 3 Int. CAPRICE. Charles Ludlam (#4998) .................................................................................... Ints. CAPTAIN APPLEJACK. Walter Hackett (#5015) ..................................................................... 2 Int. CATCH AS CATCH CAN. Jean Anouilh, trans. by Lucienne Hill (#5037) .............................................. Var. CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Ugo Betti (#5153) ................................................... Int. THE CRETAN WOMAN. Robinson Jeffers (#5177) .................................................................. 2 Ext. CYPRIENNE (DIVORCONS). Margaret Mayou & Victorien Sardou (#5203) .......................................... 2 Int. DIVORCE QUESTION. William Anthony McGuire (#6070) ............................................................. Int. DON'T GO AWAY MAD. William Saroyan (Restricted NYC) (#6100) .................................................. Int. DULCY. George S. Kaufman & Marc Connelly (#6127) .......................................................... , ....... Int. ELIZABETH I . Paul Foster (#7019) ................................................................................... Var. END AS A MAN. Calder Willingham (#7043) ......................................................................... 2 Int. EVER SINCE EVE. Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements (#7060) ........................................................ Int. THE FIRST LEGION. Emmet Lavery (#8040) ....................................................................... 3 Ints. THE FULL TREATMENT. Michael Brett (#8087) ...................................................................... Int. FUN CITY. Lester Colodny, Joan Rivers & Edgar Rosenberg (#8088) .................................................... Int. GET AWAY OLD MAN. William Saroyan (#9025) ..................................................................... Int. THE GORILLA. Ralph Spence (#9085) ................................................................................. Int. THE HALLAMS '. Rose Franken (#10002) .............................................................................. Int. THE HAUNTED HOUSE. Owen Davis (#10040) ........................................................................ Int. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS. Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes (#10047) ................................................... Int. HIGH GROUND. Charlotte Hastings (#10089) ........................................................................... Int. A HOME FOR STRAY CATS. John Kirkpatrick (#10124) .............................................................. Int. HOME IS THE HUNTER. Helen MacInnes (Restricted NYC) (#10126) ............................................... 2 Int. HOMO. Rochelle Owens (#10128) ....................................................................................... Int. HOUSE AFIRE. Manw Page (#10141) ................................................................................ 2 Int. IN GOOD KING CHARLES GOLDEN DAYS. George Bernard Shaw (#11637) ...................................... 2 Int. INVITATION TO A MURDER. Rufus King (#11061) .................................................................. Int. THE LADY CHOOSES. William McCleery (#14026) .................................................................... Int. LILACS IN THE RAIN. Ruth Hale and Nathan Hale (#14085) .......................................................... Int. LORD PENGO. S. N. Behrman (#14120) ................................................................................ Int. LOVE COMES IN FULL ARRAY. Ruth Hale and Nathan Hale (#14126) ............................................... Int. MADAM TIC-TAC. Falkland L. Cary & Phillip Weathers (#15022) ...................................................... Int. MAGNIFICENT CUCKOLD. Fernand Crommelynck (#15034) .......................................................... Int. MERRY MADNESS. Sheridan Gibney (#15089) ........................................................................ Ints. MONIQUE. Dorothy Blankfort & Michael Blankfort (#7~1) .............................................................. .Int MOTHER'S MILLIONS. Howard McKent Barnes (#15135) ........................................................... 2 Int. MRS. GIBBON'S BOYS. Will Glickman & Joseph Stein (#15145) ....................................................... Int. MURDER OVER MIAMI. James Reach (#15156) .................................................................. Unit set ON THE MARRY-GO-WRONG. Georges Feydeau & Maurice Desvallesieres, trans. N.R. Shapiro (#17006) ........... 3 Int. OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. Rose Franken (#17057) .................................................................... Int. PAYMENT DEFERRED. Jeffrey Dell & C.S. Forester (#18040) ......................................................... Int. THE POTTING SHED. Graham Greene (#18109) ................................................................... .4 Ints. THE PROPHETS. Salwomir Mrozek, trans. by R. Manheim & T. Dziedusycka (#18130) ................................. Int. THE QUEEN AND THE REBELS. Ugo Betti, trans. by Henry Reed (#19003) .......................................... Int. ROAR LIKE A DOVE. Lesley Storm (#200050) ........................................................................ .Int RUSSET MANTLE. Lynn Riggs (#20080) .......................................................................... Int./Ext. SHAVINGS. Pauline Phelps & Marion Short (#21116) .............................................................. Int./Ext. SHE COULDN'T SAY NO. Benjamin M. Kaye (#21119) .............................................................. 3 Int. SKYROCKET. Mark Reed (#21202) ................................................................................... 2 Int. SLAVE OF TRUTH. Moliere, trans. by Miles Malleson (#21714) ........................................................ Int. SPOOKS. Robert 1. Sherman (#995) ..................................................................................... Int. TO HAVE THE HONOR. AA Milne (#22129) ......................................................................... Int. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW. Philip Barry (#22148) .............................................................. lnt. THE TRIAL OF A. LINCOLN. James Damico (#22761) ............................................................... Var. UNCERTAIN WINGS. Robert Hill & Floyd Crutchfield (#23006) ....................................................... Int. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER. Noel Langley (#25017) ...................................................... Int. WHY NOT JOIN THE GIRAFFES? James Reach (#25124) .......................................................... 1 set. WILD BIRDS. Dan Totheroh (#25135) .......................................................................... .4 Ext./Int. THE YOUNG AND THE BEAUTIFUL. Sally Benson, from stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (#27033) ............ , ........ Int.

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*THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Carlo Goldoni. Adapted by Dorothy Louise. 6 m., 6 f. Goldoni's crafty servant who turns somersaults to please both his masters and serve himself is one of the great classic commedia dell'arte plays of world drama. This adaptation captures the remarkable pace of the story in fresh dialogue that is attuned to contemporary American audiences. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in translations by Tom Cone and (#20888) Edward J. Dent; see Index. Please state translator when ordering. *SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ken Ludwig. 8 m., 4 f. Unit set. Lights, Camera, Shakespeare! It's 1934 and Shakespeare's famous fairies Oberon and Puck magically have materialized in Hollywood on the set of

Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Warner Bros. Studio. Instantly smitten by the glitz and glamour, they are ushered into the world of the silver screen to play (who else?) themselves. A feisty flower helps lure blonde bombshells, movie moguls and arrogant "asses" into loopy love triangles with raucous results. Mischievous magic sparkles in this hilarious movieland romp by the author of Broadway's Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo and Twentieth Century. "Will charm your socks off."-Wall St. Journal. "A fast, funny, entertaining night!"-NBC-4. "So deliciously inventive, you'd swear that Ludwig and the Bard were in cahoots."-Baltimore Sun. Winner of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20891) ARCADIA. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 8 m., 4 f. Unit set. This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned

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by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, thirteenyear-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present-day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits-the attraction Newton left out. "Pure entertainment for the heart, mind, soul. . . . It is a work shot through with fun, passion and, yes, genius." -N. Y. Post. "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date.. . The playwright is a daredevil pilot who's steady at the controls."-N.Y. Times. "A dazzling exposition of epigrammatic wit."-Daily Express. Winner of the 1995 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play and the 1994 Olivier Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#237) ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. 8 m., 4 f. (with doubling). Ints. To the delight of fans everywhere, this popular British television comedy is now a stage show that revels in nonstop double entendres. When the motley crew of the Grace Brothers department store prepare for a sale of German goods and then depart for a staff holiday in Spain, they survive their stay in the tropics at a one-star establishment and their encounters with everything from a Spanish crumpet to randy revolutionaries with everything intact but their modesty. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#1963) THE BUTLER DID IT, AGAIN! (All Groups.) Mystery spoof. Tim Kelly. 6 m., 6 f. Int. Written by the master of outrageous comedy, this sequel to The Butler Did It finds Miss Maple in a rented plantation house in the swamps of Louisiana. An indomitable publisher and socialite, she wants to introduce her latest literary discovery, Ruth Dice who is author of Conversation with a Ghoul, to her guests who are all classic detective types from Chandler Marlowe to Louie Fan. Ruth has nothing but contempt for these has-been hacks and is the perfect candidate for murder, but it is the bizarre owner of the house who is discovered with Jack the Ripper's scalpel in his back. The flakey detective writers unravel the crime to chills, thrills, alibis, clues, motives and dazzling plot twists. Nothing is what it seems in this spoof that is smoke and mirrors, fun and games from start to finish. ,. A crazy gumbo of off-thewall dialogue and nutbrain action. Very funny stuff."-Theatre Laurel Prompter. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#4750) FILUMENA FILUMENA.: Marriage Italian Style. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. 2 versions: translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker and by Maria Tucci. 5 f., 7 m. A fomer prostitute who has been living with a faithless lover for twenty years finally tricks him into marrying her on her deathbed. She has a miraculous recovery and a stormy comedy begins. Wertenbaker version: $9.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Tucci version in Eduardo de Filippo: Four Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $60$60.) Please state translator when ordering. Wertenbaker translation (#7973) Tucci translation (#7978) FISHER KING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Don Nigro. 8 m., 4 f. Unit set. Arthurian legends are reborn in the Civil War era in this addition to the author"s Pendragon cycle of plays. In the autumn of 1864, Major Pendragon and some of his men wander in a dark forest, unable to find their way back to the Union Army. They encounter a young man who wants to become a soldier, a tattered revival tent where a demented preacher speaks gibberish while his daughter operates a pump organ, and an old man fishing near a haunted mansion who leads them to the Holy Grail. This eerie play offers new insights into characters also seen in Armitage. Green Man and Sorceress. The author was awarded a Playwriting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Fisher King. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8599) 45 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 6 m., 6 f. Int. From America's master of contemporary Broadway comedy, here is another take on behind-the-scenes action in the entertainment world, this time near the heart of the theatre district. 45 Seconds from Broadway takes place in the legendary "Polish Tea Room" on New York's 47th Street. Here Broadway theatre personalities gather and schmooz. Veteran director Jerry Zaks directed this touching Valentine to New York on Broadway. Great acting roles flourish and home truths are at their best as Neil Simon continues to find humor in even the most painful moments of life. $6.50. (Royalty, $100-$100.) Slightly Restricted. (#24) GHOST ON FIRE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Michael Weller. 7 m., 4 or 5 f. Var. sets or unit set. After showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film-making. Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct. Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how turning his back on his talent started a chain reaction in every aspect of his life. Their effort to make a low-budget movie brings each to a moment of reckoning and reconciliation. "A poignant play suffused with humor. . . . A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life."-N.Y. Times. "We don't have a more fluent playwright than Michael Weller."-L.A. Times. "Weller manages to cry out from deep inside his generation's soul."-Chicago Tribune. "Exhilarating."-Chicago Daily Herald. "Weller's work, one suspects, will outlast most of his more voguish contemporaries."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9912)

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INSPECTING CAROL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Daniel Sullivan and The Seattle Repertory Theatre. 8 m., 4 f. Bare stage. A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle. A man who asks to audition at a small theatre is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor and he is given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol. Everything goes wrong and hilarity is piled upon hilarity. Perfect anytime, this delight is particularly appropriate at Christmas. "I laughed till I cried . . . . Sheer comic genius."-Journal American. "Hundreds of jokes . . . about . . . anything that strikes the author's sardonic fancy."-Seatlle Weekly. "A razzle-dazzle of funny characters and ingenious jokes."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "A Dickens of a giggle."-Seattle Times. "A rollicking farce."-Everett Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music Royalty, $5.00 per performance. Slightly Restricted. (#11116) ITALIAN FUNERALS AND OTHER FESTIVE OCCASIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. John Miranda. Developed by Scott Reiniger. 6 m., 6 f. Int. This comic drama broke all box office records for straight plays at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre. Faced with the impending loss of his mother to dementia and death, John clings to memories to postpone present decisions. He views his life in operatic proportions, feeling a kinship with Alfredo in La Traviata, with Rudolpho in La Boheme and with Tosca in Tosca because they too were unable to save the one they loved. The value of family unity and acceptance of death as an affirmation of life, twin themes in the play, emerge as John finds answers for the present in the past. 'Big, sprawling, and as warm-hearted and touching as a family reunion . . . . Comic moments bubble up like a scene from a sparkling Rossini comedy."-Courier Post. "Captivating."-News Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Operatic Music Tapes rental fee: $15 per performance plus refundable $75.00 deposit. (#11679) JANE EYRE. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Willis Hall. Based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte. 4 m., 8 f. lnts. To transpose the nineteenth-century world of Jane Eyre to the modern stage without losing the emotional force of the novel, the author employs short, simply staged scenes and bathes each intimate location a pool of candlelight framed by brooding shadows. To further heighten the dramatic impact of this classic tale, passages of direct narration are shared among the company. This is the most complete adaptation of the classic novel ever staged and it is warmly received by all audiences. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#12592) LARGO DESOLATO. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Vaclav Havel. English version by Tom Stoppard. 9 m., 3 f. Tnt. Professor Leopold Nettles is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph. Accused of disturbing the intellectual peace, he is pressed by the government to deny what he has written. Internal demons join the external ones torturing the professor. Czechoslovakia's foremost playwright, an artist at odds with his government whose works are banned in his own country, has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in a totalitarian state. "Stoppard's version emerges as a wonderfully comic and un self-pitying piece . . . . The brilliance extends beyond its own country to the civil rights public at large . . . . It takes a comic writer of genius to make something funny out of this." -Lpndon Times. $13.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13832) MASTERGATE. (Little Theatre.) Satire. Larry Gelbart. 10 m., 2 f. (to play var. roles), 3 extras. Int. Mastergate is the latest "gate" scandal. The author of M*A *S*H and Sly Fox has fshioned this satiric farce as a congressional hearing looking into shady doings between a film studio and the White House. The C.LA. has armed banana republic guerrillas with millions laundered though the budget of the forthcoming epic Tet: The Movie. Television reporter Merry Chase provides the play-by-play as witnesses squirm before dim-witted congressional interrogators who want to know what the President knew-and did he have any idea that he knew it. "A chilling specter of more clandestine plans being hatched by fanatical nobodies passing through the government on their way to either jailor higher office." -N. Y. Times. "Scathingly funny." -Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15213) PLAZA SUITE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Neil Simon. 7 m., 5 f. (performed on Broadway with 3 m., 2 f.) Int. Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. "Wonderfully funny.. . The blockbuster (3rd playlet) is the wildest and most uproarious farce I have seen on a stage." -N. Y. Daily News. "Set the town laughing."-N.Y. Times. "A wonderfully happy and gratifying evening of sheer entertainment. .. Richly funny."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#103) THE SEAGULL. (Litt1e Theatre.) Drama. Anton Chekhov. 2 versions: translated by Tom Stoppard and in an adaptation by Robert Brustein. 7 m., 5 f. Int. "Stoppard's recent translation of The Seagull has given us the achingly sad and inescapably tragic world that the great Russian playwright envisioned. The work overtakes us. . . . Emotions flow like tears." -N. Y. Daily News. Stoppard translation, $20.00. (Royalty $60-$40.) Restricted. Brustein adaptation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (Also see Index under The Sea Gull for other versions.) Please state translator when ordering. Brustein adaptation (#21353) Stoppard translation (#21531) SHADOW HOUR. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ralph Tropf. 4 m., 8 f. Unit set. A young woman has accused Senator Adam Martin of sexual assault. The jury finds itself sharply divided. 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John, a Gothic tale woven back and forth in time and space emerges. It is a tale of desperate love and suspicious deaths, of desire, murder, madness, grief and terror. Having the richness and beauty of a complex Gothic novel or a Jacobean nightmare, this remarkable saga of happenings in the Pendragon mansion builds to a stunning conclusion that is guaranteed to surprise. Perhaps the most haunting of the author's cycle of Pendragon plays, this mystery is both funny and grotesque, moving and (#3727) hypnotic. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE CROWN OF ABSALOM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Calderon de la Barca. Translated by Edwin Honig. 10 m., 2 f., extras. Unit set. This powerful play of rape, incest and fratricide derives from the biblical story of King David's eldest son's passion for his half-sister. Intertwined with the saga of family disintegration is a portrait of the aged king. His towering reputation as conqueror, lover and poetmusician can no longer sustain him and, like Lear, he must learn to be nobody and see his love and pride turn to ashes. In Calderon de la Barca: 6 Plays, $30.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#5815) DOCTOR DEATH. (All Groups.) Thriller-Farce. Mark Chandler. 3-5 m., 7-9 f. The author of I Shot My Rich Aunt sets this merry murder on a yacht in the French Riviera. The guests on board discover they are marked for a madman's murderous vengeance when Old Maid cards on which each is named and nastily described arrive. Can the malevolent mastermind be Linda Luscious, Victor Valor, bartender Margarita Martini, steward Queenie Quill, TV hostess Wendy Windy, shy secretary Portia Peck, sleazy Ritchy Raunchy, private-eye Harry Hulk, math-expert Sibyl Service, wrestler Minnie Mountain, actress Fanny Flop, or aerobics advocate Jillian Jogger? Time is short on the slowly sinking yacht. Can they unmask the fiend? Can they get off the doomed ship? Thrill follows chill in this madcap melodrama of (#6740) hideous revenge. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. (All Groups.) ComedySpoof. Tim Kelly. 6 f., 5 m. plus I m. or f. Int. Stand by for the wackiest inystery spoof in years! Weird playwright Sebastian Sly, author of such bombs as Dial M for Morose and Ten Little Ninjas, lives in a creepy mansion. His arch enemy, the clever but snide drama critic Sylvia Frye, hates thrillers and has forced his retirement. Sebastian invites her to his home where all manner of mystery play chills and thrills are trotted out to convince her she's wrong about his work. There's a twist ending that will have you gasping in surprise. Don't miss with this award-winning mystery by the author of The Butler Did It and Varney the Vampire. "A spoofy, spooky treat. ... The laughs just kept (#6742) coming. "-Gold Coast Reviewer. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE HOUSE OF DRACULA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Horror. Martin Downing. 7 m., 5 f., 1 m. extra (doubling possible). Int. This clever spin-off of The House of Frankenstein finds the Baron, Baroness and their repulsive retainers, Igor and Frau Lurker, going to stay at a macabre Transylvania fortress. Excitement turns to terror when they are greeted by more than a few of their mortal (and immortal) enemies. They are to take part in an unholy survival test involving ghouls, ghosts and the fiendish Dr. Jekyll. The Frankensteins flee from cellar to attic, desperate to escape a fate worse than death! "A Monster Hit."-Yorkshire Evening Post. $8.95. (Royalty, (#10179) $50-$40.) THE IMAGINARY INVALID. (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere. 3 versions: translated by Albert Bermel, by Miles Malleson and by Mildred Marmur. 8 m., 4 f. Int. The .famous hypochondriac in this classic farce not only complains of a million imaginary ills, but also of his astronomical medical bills. If he marries his daughter to a doctor, be reasons, he will have free medical care. He chooses a double-Latintalking numbskull without consulting the daughter who is already smitten by another. The inventive maid exposes the doctor and his father as charlatans and demonstrates to the master that his second wife loves his money, not him. Thus are truth and love triumphant and all troubles, real and imaginary, relieved by laughter. Bermel translation inA Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Malleson translation: $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Marmur translation: In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state translator when ordering. Bermel translation (#10988) Malleson translation (#73) Marmur translation (#11114) THE MUMMY'S CLAW! (All Groups.) Horror spoof. Mark Chandler. 3 m., 8 f., 1 m. or f. Join this dizzying gallop through Egyptian temples, fiendish curses, evil spells, ancient incantations, terrifying sorcery and hideous plots by the crazed author of I Shot My Rich Aunt and Doctor Death. In the Nile valley, circa 1903, a party at the home of archaeologist Sir Nevil Blore becomes a struggle for survival when the translation of some stone tablets conjures up an ancient evil. What was the sin of Khopsis, turned to stone and waiting to be reborn if the Blores' niece is sacrificed on his altar? And why doesn't he have a head? What can thwart the magical powers of the 2000-year-old high priest (or priestess, if you prefer)? How can Lucy's beloved save her? And why in the world does the mummy have a claw on its index finger? Can they locate the Pharaoh's jewels? And will they wish they hadn't? And what are zic-zag eggs? This evening of non-stop hilarity has so many surprises and twists you'll lose count. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15250) PAGANINI. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Don Nigro. 7 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Unit set. This wildly funny, demonic farce traces the bizarre career of virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini, a man so possessed during his performances that it was rumored he had sold his soul to the devil. This inventive play employs theatrical conventions to tell the surreal story of a dark and twisted journey while probing the consequences

cast member the opportunity to play two parts. Many roles are ideal for older actresses. "Provocative and suspenseful."-LA Weekly. "Crackling with genuine sexual energy."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21539) SHADOWBOXING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy sketches. The Shadowbox Cabaret Theatre. 6 m., 6 f. (flexible.) Simple sets. This is an evening of outrageous sketch comedy that ranges from social satire to televison spoofs to a family values parody. Taken together, the eclectic mix of comic gems, 22 in all, forms a celebration of life's absurdities. Shadowboxing dares to ask: Can Psycho Head in a Box really give my mother-in-law a heart attack? Is "poppy poop" a bad word? And are Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie more than just friends? Shadowbox Cabaret has been performing original sketch comedy in Columbus, Ohio since 1995, and this collection includes some of their most successful material. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.)

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SORDID LIVES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Del Shores. 6 m., 6 f. The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. "[This play by] the master of Texas comedy ... is maybe funnier than Daddy's Dyin'. His colorful eccentrics are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife's edge between the hilarious improbable and the achingly real."-L.A. Times. "Run, don't walk to Del Shores new play!"-DramaLogue. "Pick of the Week."-L.A. Weekly. Winner of 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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THE SURVIVOR. (Little Theatre/High School.) Drama. Susan Nanus. Based on the memoirs of Jack Eisner. 9 m., 3 f. (doubling possible.) Unit set. This gripping drama takes place in the Warsaw ghetto during World War n. A group of determined teenagers organize to resist the Nazis. They begin by smuggling food into the ghetto. Eventually they form the nucleus of the Warsaw uprising. These heroic young people make a pact: if anyone survives their dreadful ordeal, he or she will tell the story of what happened to them. There was only one survivor and this is the story he told. "Ranks with The Diary of Anne Frank as the most extraordinary and devastating Holocaust-themed play."-Tolucan. "There won't be a dry eye in the house."-Journal of Greater LA. "A riveting, inspiring tale."-Backstage. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21958) WOMEN ON FIRE. Irene O'Garden. See Index for description. WRONG MOUNTAIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Hirson. 7 m., 5 f. Various sets. To win a bet, a disdainful poet enters a play writing contest in this comic lampoon of the contemporary theatre. He discovers the disaster of success as he becomes everything he once condemned. "A doozy . . . [with] laugh-out loud moments . . . [and] outrageous comic elements."-N.Y. Times. "Glitters [as] . . . it raises fascinating questions about artistic intention and authenticity."-S.F. Chronicle. "A fresh, vibrant piece of theatre . . . as entertaining as it is thought-provoking."-Oakland Tribune. "Of the new Broadway plays, my money is on Wrong Mountain."-New Yorker. "Gutsy.... Shot full of high-voltage wordplay. "-Newsday. "Vivid, entertaining and genuinely funny."-N.Y, Daily News. "Grabs you and smacks you about in an invigorating way."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#25753) ARDY FAFIRSIN. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Don Nigro. 8 m., 4 f. Unit set. Based on lurid accounts of one of the most sensational murders in English history, this wild and dark mock-Elizabethan farce tells the twisted and strangely compelling story of Alice Ard. This young wife was repeatedly thwarted in her attempts to murder her devoted and unsuspecting older husband with the help of her reluctant lover, her bumbling servants, a lecherous grocer, and two gluttonous murderers-Black Will and Shakebag. These two find themselves lost in fog, locked out of gates, drenched by chamber pots and tormented by flatulent mice. The language is richly beautiful, complex and often wildly funny. There is an eccentric, melancholy poetry hidden in the play which captures the contradictory wonder of Elizabethan drama as if through a series of nightmarish fun-house mirrors. This play will make you laugh, will haunt you and make you swear off blue porridge forever. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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BUMS ON SEATS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Snelgrove. 5 m., 7 f.lnt. In a tatty provincial theatre, a new play called Fecund is being staged. This uproarious adult comedy introduces everyone involved in a series of hilarious scenes linked by a chorus of usherettes. The stage manager has a blinding hangover, the leading actors range from pretentious to bitter to plainly incompetent, the new marketing assistant used to work for British Rail, the author is lecherous and unscrupulous and the others are just as outrageous. The second act centers on the audience, an equally mixed and unharmonious group. Chaos erupts just as the theatre's major sponsor arrives. Funny, satirical and technically inventive, Bums on Seats is a treat for theatre fans from start to finish. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4937) ARMITAGE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Don Nigro. 6 m., 6 f. Unit set. Zachary Pendragon rages among the tombstones of the family burial plot. Filled with hatred and waiting for him to die, his stepdaughter Margaret watches from their Gothic mansion in the east Ohio woods. So begins the dark and labyrinthine tale of a family with a complex and terrible history. Through Margaret's journal, Zach's memories, the batty poetry of Margaret's mother, and the memories of Zach's tormented son

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of art ,md the nature of salvation for the artist. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18951) A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 7 m., 5 f. Ints. England's master of satire is in top form in this comic morality play which was triumphantly presented by the National Theatre of Great Britain. Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integrity. He quickly learns that everyone else involved in the enterprise has a vested interest in maintaining business as usual, rife with dishonesty and deceit. "One of Alan Ayckbourn's best."-N.Y. Times. "If you demand your fun fast and furious, this is your ticket:"-N.Y. Post. "You'll laugh 'till it hurts. Don't miss it!"-WNEW Radio. "The laughs never stop. Easily one of the best plays to arrive in this Broadway season."-USA Today. "Ayckbourn has never written more skillfully."-Evening Standard. "Brilliant."-Financial Times. "The laughs heap up, but by the evening's end our theatre's master craftsman and finest recorder of social nuance has delivered a disturbing morality play."-London Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#21220) SWEATSHOP. (Little Theatre.) ComedylDrama. Louis LaRusso II. 2 m., 10 f. Int. Women's ensemble theatre at its best, Sweatshop is the story of ten struggling women in a garment shop during a heat wave in the summer of 1958. While Josie is promoting a move to unionize, it is Mary, a woman who cannot stop loving her long estranged husband, who is at the forefront of the sentimental, often hilarious, drama. The emotional intensity heightens when this man's most recent mistress comes to work at the little shop. "Big, poetic and appealing . . . . LaRusso's skills arouse emotion throughout."-N.Y. Times. "Sweetly poetic, impressively realized and beautifully played."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21948) TEMPTATION. (Little Theatre.) Satire. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Marie Winn. 9 m., 3 f. Int. Dr. Faustka works in a secret government department that is dedicated to ridding the community of superstition and magic. Ironically described as an artificial combination of all well-known versions of Faust, the doctor is a bon viveur who is tired of life. He is seduced by his intellect into conjuring up the supernatural in this satirical warning against distorted political belief and the uncontrollable glorification of science and technology. $12.00. (Royalty, $60-$0.) (#22590) TEN NOVEMBER. Steven Dietz. See Index for description. A TOWN CALLED SHAME. (All Groups.) Comedy w. music. Garet Scott. Music by Clark Gesner. Lyrics by Garet Scott and Clark Gesner. 9 m., 2 f. (or more.) Unit set. This fast-paced Western parody enjoyed a sold-out run Off-Off Broadway. Rambles rides into town in time to help Widow Gruber save her farm from evil Judge McCoy. Then he is framed for murder and has to outride a posse led by a dangerous hired gun. Inspired by classic movie and television westerns, A Town Called Shame incorporates all the quintessential elements of the genre, but this fearsome posse is mounted on stick horses and the saloon singer looks suspiciously like a guy in a dress. Other twists include slow motion gun fights and a shoot-out at Shifting Rocks (with actors under drop cloths). This cult hit is a sure-fire crowd pleaser and almost as much fun to perform as it is to watch. "This' is Shane as adapted by Charles Busch. It is most amusing."-Chelsea Clinton News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music available on receipt of a $25.00 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) (#22736) TRICK OR TREAT. Comedy. (All Groups.) Tim Kelly. 4 or 5 m., 7 or 8 f. Int. Newlyweds purchase an old house in an odd Massachusetts community to open a bed and breakfast. They are now out of money-and that's the least of their worries! Hidden below is something from Puritan days: a menacing scarecrow man named Endecott. Over the years he has frighten away all comers but the Putnams refuse to budge. Halloween night is their open house and Endecott has set the deadline for their expUlsion at midnight! Neighbors and guests tum out to be a loony bunch and a dangerous killer escaped from the nearby correctional institution passes himself off as a "rent-a-guest." This tongue-in-cheek farce really takes off with mistaken identities, loopy dialogue, slamming doors, outrageous humor and madcap action. Does flesh or straw win the battle? This is a spoof for all seasons and a natural for Halloween. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#22731) VARNEY THE VAMPIRE or "The Feast of Blood."(AII Groups.) Melodrama/Spoof. Tim Kelly. 4 m., 8 f. Unit set. This wild and clever spoof is based on a melodramatic novel attributed to Thomas Prest, the creator of Sweeney Todd. In 1900 weary vampire Sir Francis Varney shows up at an inn in Italy. He plans to visit a haunted grotto and ask forgiveness from a lost love whose ghost is doomed to roam the landscape wearing a thin veil over her face. Varney forgets his mission and proceeds to snarl and snap at everyone in sight, especially an English damsel. Varney is shot, stabbed with a wooden stake and hanged. Still he survives! The action gets sillier and sillier (and funnier and funnier) as Inspector Balsadella seeks answers for the strange goings-on. The tongue-in-cheek style is a howl, and there are many optional, corny stage effects as well as a zany cast of characters. Ultimately Varney manages to destroy himself. "Kelly savors the conventions of pure entertainment. . . . [He is J among the most produced and crowd-pleasing playwrights across the country."-Pasadena Weekly. "Gripping vampire comedy.. . Chillingly delightful."-Bunbury Reporter, Australia. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24015)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS WHAT THE BELLHOP SAW. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 8 m., 4 f. Int. A nice fellow checks into an expensive suite in New York City's finest hotel, precipitating a fantastic nightmare involving a Salman Rushdietype author, an Iranian terrorist, a shrew-like woman, a conniving bellboy, an incompetent F.B.I. agent, a nubile celebrity-mad maid, a dimwitted secretary and a little pig-tailed girl. Gag lines are popping as events transpire at a whirlwind velocity. Topical humor blends with the traditional antics of farce: doors slamming, characters careening and confusion reigning supreme. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25062) MADE IN BANGKOK. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Anthony Minghella. 7 m., 5 f. Ints.lexts or unit set. This unusual play about exploitation of one culture by another focuses on five English tourists in Bangkok. "The best new English play since Benefactors. It asks all the right questions . . . . while managing also to be a bittersweet comedy about impossible sexual differences."-Punch. "Under a deceptively comic surface, Anthony Minghella's play offers a dark and troubled view of both Eastern and Western values."--London Guardian. "An extremely funny play but also a scathing indictment of our so-called civilized society."-Time Out. "Strong, brave, uncomfortable, provocative."-London City Limits. $6.50. (Royal(#14973) ty, $50-$40.) THE ENCHANTED PIG. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Charles Ludlam. 7 m., 5 f. Unit set. Combine elements of King Lear, The Frog Prince, Cinderella and The Three Sisters and you have this delirious merriment. "Clean and camp-free, it should appeal both to wide-eyed adults and sophisticated children."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50.$35.) (#7079) SULLIVAN & GILBERT. (Little Theatre.) Musical play. Kenneth Ludwig. Lyrics by William S. Gilbert. Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. See Index for description. STAINED GLASS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. William F. Buckley, Jr. 10 m., 2 f. Ints. or unit set. In this exciting spy thriller adapted from the best-selling novel, a viable candidate for the German presidency emerges after World War II who pledges to reunify of Germany. Count Axel Wintergrin, a hero who fought against the Nazis in the Norwegian underground, is moving up in the polls. The KGB and the CIA fear that Stalin will invade Germany if he is elected. CIA operative Blackford Oakes is assigned to keep an eye on the Wintergrin camp and when it becomes clear he will defeat Adenauer-and that he probably has three missing American atomic bombs-it is decided that he must be assassinated. Oakes, who is now a close personal friend, gets the assignment. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21333) THE FIRST MAN (The Oldest Man). (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 5 m.,7 f. 2 ints. In The Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 2, $40.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8121) EMILY. (Advanced Groups.) Serious comedy. Stephen Metcalfe. 8 m., 4 f. (to play var. roles.) Bare stage w/drops, wings, projections & wagons or unit set. This brilliant comedy by the author of Strange Snow, Vikings, Sorrows and Sons and The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers dares to take a politically incorrect stance about successful women. Emily is a stockbroker who mixes it up with the boys and always comes out on top. She is as cynical and ruthless as any man in her position until she meets a caring, sensitive actor who doesn't fall tor her manipulative ruses. This nice guy with no money sees the girl inside the ruthless yuppie-who mayor may not exist. "Glorious,. . . sparkling comedy with bite to it. The title character is a gold mine of a role for an actress."-San Diego Tribune. "A real winner. . . . A bravura balancing act right on the edge of sentimentality, finally and triumphantly crystalline in its emotional honesty. . A triumph."-San Diego Union. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7076) THE CREATURE CREEPS! (All Groups.) Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 4 m., 8 f. Int. This hilarious send-up of the horror-story genre has an ancient castle, creaking doors, a mad scientist. his misshapen assistant, a grim housekeeper, secret laboratory, shrieks from the depths of the cellar, disappearing villagers, an incredibly stalwart and 'stupid hero of sterling character, the scientist's absolutely dopey daughter, and so many laughs you'll lose count. The setting (designed for both proscenium and in-the-round performances) is the parlor of Castle Von Blitzen in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. Where is the Baron Von Blitzen's secret laboratory? That's what the terrified villagers would like to know-and when the scientist and his assistant convert the innocent parlor into a fiend's experimental station, the ingenuity of the set provokes both laughter and applause. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#327) THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Original Four-Act Version. (All Groups.) Comedy. Oscar Wilde. 8 m., 4 f. 2 ints.lext. Originally written in four acts, this stage classic was cut when first produced to provide time the obligatory curtain-raiser of that era. Acts II and III were condensed into one act and two characters were omitted from the last act. In 1903 a Leipzig publisher issued a German translation of the four-act play and from it the original English version, which was successfully produced at London's Old Vic, was reconstructed. "The fun in the scene Wilde deleted is better than any living playwright can do."-James Agate. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please specify four-act version when ordering. (#11030) LOST IN A MIRROR. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Lope de Vega. Translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. 7 m., 5 f. Unit. The married Duke of Ferrara is an

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Frederick Douglass on a platform that included women's suffrage, free love, abortion, birth control, spiritualism, and anarchy. Her affair with Henry Ward Beecher ruined both of their careers. A choral group introduces each scene with songs or hymns of the period. "An interesting play, heightened by poetically couched dia(#22075) logue and dramatic tension." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) MURDER IN THE MAGNOLIAS. (All Groups.) Spoof. Tim Kelly. 6 m., 6 f. Int. This is a parody of every southern play imaginable. Colonel Chicken wing has died leaving the secret of his buried treasure for his demented relatives to discover. There's Bubba who juggles bowling balls, Blanche Du Blank whose fiance drowned in the quarry, a flaky poet whose personality is so split he's fractured, a cartoonish Lawyer Possum whose only paying client is an alligator, a movie queen and princess who claims she's the colonel's wife, and finally Amanda Chickenwing. Soon there's another death and the mystery at Belle Acres must be solved. Toss in a prehistoric garden with murderous honeysuckle vines, yapping hounds, Voodoo, a hurricane, a suspicious state engineer and a some devastatingly hilarious monologues and you've got a madcap spoof. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#15163) THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD. (All Groups.) Mystery. Paul Giovanni. II m. (with doubling), I f. Several sets. The Crucifer of Blood is an ingenious pastiche of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, primarily The Sign of Four. Taking place in 1887, it deals with the Agra Treasure stolen 30 years before by two English officers who are finally overtaken by the curse that has bedeviled them with foul horrors. The action moves from India to Baker Street to spooky Pondicherry Lodge in Maidenhead to a Limehouse opium den to a boat chase on the Thames and finally back to Baker Street for a surprise denouement. "A bloody marvel! Bright, witty, urbane."-N.Y. Daily News. "One of the most delightful theatre experiences in years."-Chicago Tribune. "A jolly . . . evening of thrills, laughs and fun."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#337) BREAK A LEG. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ira Levin. 8 m., 4 f. Ints./ext. This play by the author of Deathtrap concerns the efforts of a theatrical producer to thwart a critic who has been particularly virulent in condemning his shows. The producer tries everything from commissioning a hack playwright to write a play which will drive the critic mad to hiring his leading lady to seduce the critic into a compromising position. Starred Jack Weston, Julie Harris and Rene Auberjonois on Broadway. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4119) APPROACHING SIMONE. (All Groups.) Drama. Megan Terry. 8 m., 4 f., plus extras and ensemble. Platforms and stairs. Simone Weil was a French Jewish girl whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self-imposed starvation. The play highlights the development and struggles of her mind and spirit from the age of five until her death at thirty-four. Winner of an Obie Award for the Best Play of 1969-70. "May very well stimulate renewed interest, especially among the young, in one of the most powerful minds and tormented spirits our age has produced." -Newsweek. "A superb theatrical coup. "-N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3100) A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. (All Groups.) Mystery. Leslie Darbon, adapted from Agatha Christie's novel. 5 m., 7 f. Int. The announcement in the local paper states time and place of a murder to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of several occupants, temporary and permanent, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, a determined Inspector grimly following the twists and turns, and Miss Marple on hand to provide the final solution-at some risk to herself-in a dramatic confrontation scene just before the final curtain. "Had the first night audience on the edge of their seats." -Evening Post. "Re-enter Agatha with another whodunit hit, another of her fiendishly ingenious murder mysteries." -London Evening News. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#92) MADNESS ON MADRONA DRIVE. (All Groups.) Farce. Louis Flynn. 7 m., 5 f. Int. Eccentric Louise McHugh is delighted to learn her new neighbor is a wellknown racketeer, Johnny Trovado. One day three people invade her home on one pretext or another: a telephone repair man, a high-fashion wedding consultant (her daughter is to be married shortly) and the father of the groom-a stranger. Louise gradually realizes their identities are false. The three villains state to an amazed yet pleased Louise they are holding her prisoner while they plant a bomb in the Trovado house. Louise, her maid and her brother, a priest, employ inept plans to thwart the villains with spectacularly ineffective results. Moments before the explosion a plan works-and Louise waits impatiently for the media cameras to arrive. "Hysterical, high style comedy." -Oakland Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15004) THE ARREST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 7 m., 5 f., extras. Compo int.lext. or unit set. In a seedy, decadent kind of Grand Hotel are gathered a number of has-beens. These include a man and a young man, a young married man and his wife, a band leader and the pianist he's sleeping with (when her son isn't spying on them), a policeman and others. Then Anouilh turns magician and starts turning time inside out. Suddenly, the young married woman becomes a grandmother-the devastating mistress of the prince with whom the young married man runs off turns out to be a stinking slattern with thirty-two cats and the time warp takes place with the other characters too. Revelations abound as a result. A play of splendid style and devastating aesthetic truth. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#3108) THE CONTRACTOR. (All Groups.) Drama. David Storey. 9 m., 3 f. Ext. In the first act men assemble on a lawn and put up a tent; in the second it is festooned; in

inveterate womanizer. While he is away at war, his bastard son has an affair with his wife. The Duke returns a changed man detel'I1lined to be faithful. When he discovers that his wife has besmirched his honor, he seeks revenge by deceiving his son and persuading him to kill his wife. He accepts blame for the crime in a futile attempt to regain his honor. Published with Fuente Ovejuna, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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BANANA RIDGE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. 8 m., 4 f. 3 sets. "One of the best farces in English."-London Sunday Times. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4076) ELEVEN-ZULU. (All Groups.) Mystery. Patrick Sean Clark. 6 m, 6 f. Ext. The men are members of an infantry squad in the high country of Viet Nam in 1971. The women are girlfriends, wives or mothers back home who appear in the men's thoughts or fantasies. The female roles blend into, and comment on, the action. The play opens on the scene of a sandbag bunker at the moment that two members of an infantry squad are found dead. One was the victim of an enemy booby trap. The other was killed by a member of the squad. The presence of the women from home punctuates the intensity of the plot. The men try to unmask the killer before more deaths or mutilations occur. Winner of the 16th American College Theatre Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7607) THE CURSE OF AN ACHING HEART. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy with musie. William Alfred. Music by Claibe Richardson. 9 m., 3 f. Unit set. Faye Dunaway returned to Broadway to play the heroine of this poignant play which takes place in an Irish Catholic lower middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood between 1923 and 1942. When orphaned Fran has to fend off a passionate overture from the uncle who is raising her, she moves out and goes to work. Light-hearted, nostalgic scenes of Brooklyn follow. Fran marries a handsome fellow and eventually finds herself supporting a son and a heavy-drinking, improvident husband. She returns to the old neighborhood and reconciles with her now widowed, destitute uncle who is confined to a wheelchair. "An extraordinarily sweet play . . . crammed with careful observation, . . . vignettes of reality, goblets of truth, . . . and the portrait of a lady as a survivor."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano Score rental fee, $10 per production plus a $25 refundable deposit. Please state author when ordering.

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THE WORKROOM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean-Claude Grumberg. Translated by Daniel A. Stein with Sara O'Connor. 6 m., 6 f. Int. This important drama was named best play of the 1979 Paris season and has subsequently moved audiences throughout the world witl;! its simple story about seamstresses struggling to recover from the aftermath of World War II. The central character struggles to keep herself and her two sons alive while she waits for word about her husband who was deported to a concentration camp. Her heroism and determination are especially poignant, for she is a portrait of the playwright's mother. There is an evocative balance of humor and pathos in this excellent play, as well as a number of fine monologues and six excellent female roles. "A subtly eventful study of ordinary people under stress . . . . A moving epilogue .to the Holocaust." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Music Royalty, $3.00 per performance.) (#25191) EVENING STAR. (Senior Citizen Groups.) Comedy. Howard Richardson and Frances Goforth. 5 m., 7 f. Unit set. Pathos and wry humor mark this play about a group of elderly actors and actresses living in retirement on a converted Mississippi River showboat. The characters are a cross-section of theatre people: an aging matinee idol who still tries to be Don Juan, a homely character actress, the second banana and a seductive lady who likes good times and longs for night clubs. Conflict arises with the arrival of an ex-husband and busy lover. "A geriatric Love Boat."-Washington Post. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7058) SISTERLY FEELINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 8 m., 4 f. Ext. This ingenious comedy is about two sisters and the choices they make (or have made for them) over a few months. There are four versions that can be done on different evenings, each stemming from one random and one deliberate choice. The story starts with a funeral at which Dorcas, Abigail and Simon solve a dilemma by tossing a coin: either Dorcas or Abigail wins the toss and goes with Simon. Later, at a picnic, Dorcas opts for either a camping adventure for Abigail or a day of sports for herself. The inevitable end of either choice is a wedding. "For more than a decade, Ayckbourn has been drawing up a great comic map of middle-class malevolence, dottiness and insecurity. Sisterly Feelings confidently extends the view."-Sunday London Times. "Family fun unpure and simple. . .. I laughed until I ached."-London Daily Mail. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40) (#21709) AREN'T WE ALL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Frederick Lonsdale. 8 m., 4 f. 2 ints. This delightful1920s drawing-room comedy was recently revived on Broadway and in London's West End with Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert. Jeremy Brett, Lynn Redgrave and George Rose also starred in the Broadway production. It is a brilliant and sophisticated play concerned with the sympathetic and natural foibles of a very human set of people. "Lonsdale's works . . . fall somewhere between Wilde and Coward . . . an expert craftsman as well as a witty writer. . . . Should prove not only instructive to theatre goers interested in this genre, but decidedly entertaining too."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3114) A THREAD OF SCARLET. (All Groups.) Play with music. Howard Richardson and Ella Gerber Kasakoff. 6 m. (I black), 6 f. plus choral group. Simple or elaborate set. Here is a flamboyant portrait of Victoria Woodhull who ran for office with

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the third. dismantled. Meanwhile a wedding takes place as a bizarre collection of misfits from the wedding party and the tent contracting outfit interact in a poetic parable. "As gripping as it is original, and as shapely as it is simple." -Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Supplementary notes and diagrams essential for (#5140) the production, $6.00. JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 10 m., 2 f Ints'!exts. The three main characters are a romantic English capitalist liberal, a cynical realistic Irishman who is his partner and an unfrocked priest who dreams of turning Ireland into a heaven on earth. Published with Arms and the Man, (#12024) $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) LIOLA. (All Groups.) Comedy. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Eric Bentley and Gerardo Guerrieri. 3 m., 9 f, 3 c., extras. Int.lExt. Pirandello's play is about the character that steadfastly refuses to do what other Pirandello characters inevitably do-let himself be exploited. In Naked Masks, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly (#14087) Restricted. THE OLD WOMAN BROODS. (All Groups.) Drama. Tadeusz Rozewicz. Translated by Adam Czerniawski. 8 m., 4 f, extras. Int. Set in alternately seedy and bizarre surroundings, it focuses on the main character's repulsive intent on having a child. Rozewicz, a leading Polish playwright and an avante-garde experimenter with form and expression, uses this arresting setting to voice concern with modem man's availability to terrifyingly destructive forces. With telling and imaginative symbolism, and through the characters, the author makes his point. In The Witnesses and (#17021) Other Plays, $12.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) 42 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Louis del Grande. 8 m., 3 f.. 1 c. 4 ints. A 20-year-old typist and an almost 18-year-old Western Union boy decide to take a small apartment in New York near Broadway. They are going to lash out-and make the big time. The boy grows up going from his home in Hoboken through his childhood friends and a mixed-up psychiatric group therapy session to a strange director of an acting school and then into the arms of the girl. "At times it's farce, but not forced. The play is set in 1957-the tone is happy, wacky, off-beat and filled with insights into the frustrations of young actors. The play is reminiscent of Grease, only it's more personal, goes deeper. and is funnier."-NBC. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Not available in Canada. (#8068) TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS. (Little Theatre.) Fable with music. Derek Walcott. 12 m. and f. Ext. The author retells the story of three brothers who are challenged by the devil who is striving to grow human so he can enjoy the evil he's wrought firsthand. Ti-Jean-the swift and elegant hero who is but a boy accepts the challenge. It is an Aeschylus-like adventure turned into a charming, poetic and romantic fable with a deep undertone. Ti-Jean, like all heroes, is a fool. He passes through the tangled opinions of life, loosening knowledge and bearing it on his shoulders-half Ulysses, half Pentheus-with a final judgement belonging to the frogs and fuet1ies. In Dream on Monkey Mountain, $17.00. Also Published in Totem Voices, $15.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music lead sheets, $3.50. (Music Royalty, $10 each performance.) (#22104) THE MOON DREAMERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Julie Bovasso. 7 m., 5 f (minimum). Bare stage w. props. This satire on the futility and regularity of war is structured with the cast acting out in various roles a loosely interrelated pattern. An elegant Black man strolls on stage offering a light to a soldier. Two Black stockbrokers appear and are joined by the Beggar Bride and Beggar Groom and an Indian Chief who's really a Zen Buddhist'priest. Finally Rene and Sandra appear as on their wedding day-contrasting Beggar Bride and Groom. They are followed by several soldiers and the Gold Star Mother. Ms. Bova~so captures a nightmare either ending or never ending. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15124) ALL THE GIRLS CAME OUT TO PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard T. Johnson and Daniel Hollywood. 7 m., 5 f 2 int./ext. Two young bachelors move into a community eighty-five miles from New York. Four couples who are their neighbors suspect them of homosexuality, particularly when they overhear one calling the other Angel. The husbands are incensed by their proximity since they suspect it will effect property values. They forbid their wives to have anything to do with them. When their backs are turned the wives revolt and the fun is on. Ronnie Ames, one of the bachelors, is a composer writing a Broadway musical for his producer Angel Rodriguez. The problem is Ronnie is a sexual athlete and it prevents him from working which is why Angel and he are here. He has been abysmally celibate for two months. The wives come over to welcome him and he seduces all but one of them. How he does it and the repercussions make this a hilarious play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3044) ANY NUMBER CAN DIE. (All Groups.) Comedy-Mystery. Fred Carmichael. 7 m., 5 f Int. An hilarious take-off on the mystery plays of the Twenties complete with sliding panels, robed figures, wills being read at midnight, etc. The idioms, costumes, hairdos, and make-up of the period add to the thrills and laughter. Four ingenious murders take place in an island mansion as a pair of elderly detectives set to work on their first case. The ever-popular storm, the unexpected guests, the cryptic poem, and the missing fortune all add to the intricate and inventive mystery (#229) off which the laughs bounce. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) DEAR ME, THE SKY IS FALLING. (All Groups.) Comedy. Leonard Spigelgass, based on a story by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe. 5 m., 7 f Int. w. inset. This

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS second triumph by Gertrude Berg portrays a matriarch who fearlessly takes on all the problems of the neighborhood, in addition to those of her husband and her last unmarried daughter. Now, after all these years, the husband and daughter stiffen their backs and decide to have things their own way for once. He wants to sell the house and retire to Florida and she decides that maybe she won't marry her prim fiance but an unemployed old love instead. After a dizzy scene with a psychiatrist, Miss Berg emerges with all the answers to the problems of the world and her home. "Dear me, the sky is brighter for Broadway, which now has an endearing new (#355) comedy to laugh at."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) SEND ME NO FLOWERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore. 9 m., 3 f Int. This Broadway comedy stars George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose hobby is hypochondria. When he overhears his doctor talking about another patient who is on his way out with heart trouble, he misunderstands and prepares to meet the end bravely. He puts his affairs in order' and writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read after his death. He arranges in advance for the soon-to-be widow to have another beau who will make a good second husband. He buys a cemetery plot big enough for three: himself, the widow and Hubby Two. Complications involve a wifely hunch that the lad is playing footsie, plans for Reno and a false confession. "Bouquet of laughs."-N.Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#108) $35.) A FAR COUNTRY. (All Groups.) Biography. Henry Denker. 6 m., 6 f. Int. The prologue and epilogue show Sigmund Freud on the day he left Nazi Germany. The play flashes back to his first critical case of psychoanalysis and to the difficulties his theories caused him with the medical academy. A crippled woman is brought to him who has no visible source of affliction. The scar is not on her body, he reasons, but on her mind and soul-the far country. Self-knowledge is her cure. "A tense drama about a big man, a valiant man. An inspiring and moving play."-N.Y. Mirror. (#8013) $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE WOMAN AT DEAD OAKS. (All Groups.) Mystery. John Kirkpatrick. 5 m., 7 f. Int. Who was the woman at Dead Oaks? Her name was Sylvia Merriott, she had red hair and she always wore gloves. But who was she really? The real estate people don't know and the taxi driver has seen her only once, but from the moment Fran and her friends arrive, warnings appear. Judy feels sure there is someone else in the house-Mrs. Merriott? Hal is slugged upstairs and when Rose tries to summon help the wires are cut. As the fog thickens outside, panic mounts inside. Irene's body is found stuffed in a cupboard and Lissie, who had looked through a window and saw something, is strangled. Ever-increasing terror stalks until the murderer is trapped and the identity of Mrs. Merriott revealed. Then there is one more surprise. $6.50. (Royalty. $50-$35.) (#25173) FANTASIO. (All Groups.) Comedy. Alfred de Musset. Translated by Jacques BarLun. 10 m., 2 f. 3 ints.!3 exts. In The Modem Theatre, Vol. II, $23.00. (Royalty, $20(#8012) $20.) THE HOLLOW. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 6 m., 6 f. Int. An unhappy game of romantic follow the leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow-home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is at the center of the trouble: Henrietta, his mistress; Veronica, his ex-mistress; and Gerda, his wife are all at The Hollow. Also visiting are Edward (who is in love with Henrietta) and Midge (who loves with E9ward). Veronica ardently desires to marry Cristow and succeeds in reopening their affair but is unable to get him to divorce his wife. Veronica unwisely states that if she cannot have him, no one shall. Within five minutes Cristow is dead. Nearly everyone has a motive and most had the opportunity. Enter Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny to solve the crime. "As good a stage whodunit as we have had for some time."-London Observer. $8.95. (Royal(#10116) ty, $60-$60.) LITTLE WOMEN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Marion De Forest. Dramatized from Louisa M. Alcott's novel. 5 m., 7 f. Int.lext. This play tells a sentiment-awakening tale in a simple and yet effective manner. It imparts entertainment without offending 0\11' sense of propriety and good taste, and gives us amusement of a beautiful kind, delivering its message of hope and cheer in a way that cannot but impart beneficial thoughts and send us from the theater with a higher opinion of humankind than we had when we entered. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state adaptor's name (#14099) when ordering. HOBSON'S CHOICE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Harold Brighouse. 7 m .. 5 f. 2 int. This delightful play is fust and foremost a comedy of character, though it drives home many a wholesome truth. Hobson's Choice is especially adapted to the requirements of high schools and colleges, and it can hardly fail to appeal to all sorts of audiences. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10110) THE KILLER. (All Groups.) Morality. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald Watson. 10 m., 2 f. Cyc., collage, and inset. In Exit the King, The Killer, and Macbett: Three Plays by lonesco, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#13012) TARTUFFE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Moliere. Adapted by Miles Malleson. 8 m., 4 f. Int. The prologue introduces Moliere's troupe and dramatizes the King's invitation to present the controversial play Tartuffe, considered by many to be Moliere's best work. A hypocrite to whom Orgon entmsts his soul, his house and fortune, and finally his daughter is in love with anotht~r. By the time Orgon sees the light, only the courts can insure justice. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) 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Pascal's 1938 motion picture and achieved further distinction in 1956 when it was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady. It is the story of a phonetics expert who wagers that he can transform a flower girl with a cockney accent into a lady of lovely voice and pass her off in high society. $8.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#101) DOUBLE DOOR. (All Groups.) Drama. Elizabeth McFadden. 7 m., 5 f. 1 set. An outstanding success on Broadway, Double Door recounts a battle for power in an old New York family that culminates on the verge of murder. "This one deserves especial thanks and hearty praises. It returns us to expertness and fascination and fine mood in the theater."-N.Y. American. "Sturdy theater, compelling. Once you are within the radius of Double Door you will remain transfixed until you know what's behind it."-Dai/y Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6109) EVERY FAMILY HAS ONE. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Batson. 5 m., 7 f. Int. The Reardons are a typical American family whose eccentricities, if hilarious, are only normal. Laura, the mother, is a social climber. The youngest, Penelope, is a demon with a slingshot and the piano. Harry, the son, is positive he is the coming Eugene O'Neill. Reginald, the father, would rather tinker with the automobile than ticker tape; and Nana, the wisecracking grandmother, is only concerned with Bing Crosby records. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#402) SQUARING THE CIRCLE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Valentine Kataev. Translated by Eugene Lyons and Charles Malamuth. 7 m., 5 f. Int. A hilarious comedy from Soviet Russia about two mismated couples who are obliged to live in a single room because of the acute housing shortage. Each of the girls turns her half of the room into a symbol of her own mind. On one side is the Spartan bareness of an earnest Communist; on the other, the comforts of the bourgeois. But the husbands do not feel at ease in their halves, each hankering for the woman and atmosphere on the other side. This basic story, with incidents that make it one continuous laugh, is not without its serious implications. The young people discuss and apply in action Soviet notions about relations between the sexes. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.)
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tion by Christopher Hampton; see Index. Please specify translator when ordering. (#1064) SURPRISE! (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 7 m., 5 f. Int. Ella Wimsley is an ancient, retired actress who never forgets her featured role in the silent version of The Red Bonnet. The play takes place on the opening day of a Vermont Inn which Ella owns. Complications arise when she is mistaken for a chiropractor's mistress, the chiropractor develops amnesia just as his wife arrives, Ella's granddaughter stops by on her way to spend a weekend with her hippie boy friend and a missing patient from a local rest home tries to discover who he is. Prominently featured is a large ottoman where Ella tries to keep the doctor until she can bring him to his senses, but this proves an impossibility in the busy inn. "A barrel of explosively funny gag lines and farcical situations."-Glen Falls Post Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify author when ordering. (#1013) AND NEVER BEEN KISSED. (High School.) Comedy. Aurand Harris. 5 m., 7 f. Int. Aory Patterson is almost sixteen and never been kissed-not for lack of trying as Aory devotes every moment to attracting the opposite sex in this teen-age comedy set in 1928. Involved in the proceedings are Aory's best friend, her understanding mother, her matter-of-fact little sister and the sister's equally matter-of-fact friend, and, of course, the boys: disdainful Charlie, unattainable Douglas, eager Gilmprel and finally the divine Philip. Its fast pace, clever dialogue and unusual situations are hilarious and students will love acting in it this true-to-life flapper comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3080) THE TORCH-BEARERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Kelly. 6 m., 6 f. 2 ints. This popular comedy is an extraordinarily clever satire on "Dramatics." The scene on the stage during a performance of a play by amateurs is one of the best things our theater has seen. It is hard to see how anyone who has ever been in an amateur production can fail to be infected with the fun of the comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#1090) HUUI HUm. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anne Burr. 7 m., 5 f. Compo int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10161) LITTLE SCANDAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Aorence Ryerson and Alice D.G. Miller. 6 m., 6 f. Int. Angela Pettigrew, a young secretary to a roving commission from the United Nations, returns to her small-town home with a baby and a not-tooconvincing story about the child. When two crooks from the black-market-for-babies come into the picture, the complications grow even worse-and more hilarious. "A funny, warm comedy." -L.A. News. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#14097) LEONCE AND LENA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. George Buchner. Translated by Eric Bentley. 9 m., 3 f., extras. 3 ints.!2 exts. One of the continent's best remembered playwrights here introduces us to a prince well-practiced in sloth and his busy tutor. One day the time comes for the prince to become king and to take a bride. But he is already in love in his fashion with a lovely lady, and runs away. He happens to run the wrong way, but it does not matter, for the lady is the princess intended for him. In Before Brecht: Four German Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#14057) THE GIRLS IN 509. (All Groups.) Comedy. Howard Teichmann. 9 m., 3 f. Int. Two ladies are discovered in the back suite of a once-fashionable hotel in New York that is being demolished. They have been there since 1932 when Hoover lost and they have vowed to remain secluded until a Republican is elected. The press and the National Chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties descend upon the ladies, members of one of the country's oldest and richest families. The ladies defy both politicians and face eviction and disgrace. They retain their independence when wealth pours down upon them and they move in triumph to the Waldorf-Astoria. "Uniformly bright."-N.Y. Times. "Funny and loony."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#483) MIDSUMMER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Vina Delmar. 5 m., 4 f., 3 C. Int. Val, an intelligent school teacher in the early 19th century, has given up teaching for vaudeville. His wife has visions of him teaching at a small school and his precocious daughter, who he tutors, shocks the minister. Visits by an old friend, now the mistress of a rich daddy, prove an additional shock. In the end, the selfless wife gives up her dreams and is content to tag along the circuit wherever her husband and daughter may lead. "It has tenderness and humor. It catches beautifully the mood of an era."-N.Y. Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15096) A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH: or Adrift on Life's Sea! (All Groups.) Melodrama. Dunstan Weed. 5 m., 7 f. Simple int. "Gadzooks! What a beautiful night for a murder!" hisses the villain. Yes, there's plenty of dirty work going on at the crossroads as that fiendish scoundrel, Cassius Carstairs, pursues the pure Carlotta Aower, the persecuted heroine who is more sinned against than sinning. This wildly funny melodrama gives the audience every chance to hiss the villain and applaud the hero and heroine, and to have the time of their lives. With tongue in cheek it incorporates all of the surefire situations used in the old-time melodramas and the result is a wonderfully happy piece of nonsense with laughs tumbling over each other in rapid succession. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Musicfor Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#435) PYGMALION. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 6 f. 3 ints.!2 exts. One of Shaw's finest plays, Pygmalion won the Academy Award in Gabriel

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Francis Swann. 7 m., 5 f. Int. Produced in New York City. Three young men and three young women share an apartment in all innocence; they are would-be stage folk and they are doing this for economic security. Their apartment is immediately above that of a Broadway producer who is about to cast a road company. They rehearse the play but how can they get him upstairs to see it? It happens that the producer is an amateur chef and, right in the middle of a culinary concoction, he runs out of flour. He comes upstairs to borrow a cup. At last the kids have him and they aren't going to let him go until he sees some evidence of their ability so they stage a murder. It is so realistic that police swarm into the scene with hilarious results. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#812) RING AROUND ELIZABETH. (All Groups.) Comedy. Chari Armstrong. 5 m., 7 f. Int. Elizabeth is the hard-taxed center of an irritating household which is panting after a legacy that she has received. Having reached the breaking point, Elizabeth contracts a nice case of amnesia. Twenty years are blotted out and she is a girl again, able to indulge in caprices and tell the members of the family what she thinks of them. "Brimming with energy and good spirits." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#20035) FOR HER C-HEILD'S SAKE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Paul Loomis. 5 m., 7 f., optional extras. Int. The pure but persecuted heroine, the rascally villain, the manly hero who arrives in the nick of time-they're all here. Hilary Paine decides to return home with his young, beautiful wife Pansy and their baby Heliotrope. When Hilary dies of a heart attack, Pansy is left to face the unwelcome attentions of scoundrel Gaylor Duckworth, the family lawyer, who wants the Paine fortune. Pansy spurns him and he frames her on a murder charge. In order to save her little daughter's fair name, Pansy makes the supreme sacrifice by leaving home. After a year of longing she returns, heavily veiled and determined to get a gl~mpse of her beloved babe. It is tough going, but the fair heroine triumphs and wins the love of noble Fairfax Kisslebergh wh6 earns an honest living punching holes in cheese at the factory! $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodra(#444) ma, $12.95. THE WILD AND WOOLLY WEST. (High School.) Farce. Paul Loomis. 5 m., 7 f., optional extras. Int. Our fair heroine, Rosemary Lane, teaches school in New England. She leaves for the west to marry Bruce Shale, a cowboy at the Bar None ranch. Before she reaches her destination bandits hold up her stagecoach. She is rescued from certain death by our hero, Gladwyn Throckmorton, foreman of the Bar None. Regaining consciousness, Rosemary is shocked to hear that Bruce Shale has quit his job and moved on to seek work elsewhere. She becomes friendly with the arch-fiend Effingham Leffingwell and is lulled into a false sense of security. It is Leffingwell who performs a series of fiendish activities until he is unmasked at the final curtain. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#25134) HOLIDAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Philip Barry. 7 m., 5 f. 2 int. One of the outstanding successes of the New York theatre. It is the story of a young man who is engaged to a girl of great wealth and social standing. But he refuses to "make good" with her father, preferring to enjoy life as a holiday and an independent venture to happiness. Because of this the two separate, but at the end the girl's sister, realizing that the young man is right and her family wrong, confesses that she is in

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love with him and agrees to go away and marry him. A delightful and brilliant comedy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#10115) THIS HAPPY BREED. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 6 m., 6 f. Int. This Happy Breed covers twenty years in the life of the Frank and Ethel Bibbons and their children, from the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II. On one level the story is the chronicle of a middle-class family. They haven't done well in the years between the wars, but in the face of another conflict, family unity spans

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS the chasm between the generations. At another level, this is the story of England, tom at times by the conflicts of its own progress, but quietly firm in its historical moments of crisis. "If proof were needed of Noel Coward's versatility, we have it now."-Theatre World. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10018)

DEAR CHARLES. Alan Melville. 6 m., 6 f. Int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#6037)

FROM THE ARCHIVES-12 CHARACTERS Reproduction copies of these plays which are out of print, in manuscript only or remaindered are available from Samuel French's Archives, $25.00 per copy. Royalties as listed are still applicable. Scene ABSALOl\f, Lionel Abel (#3002) ....................................................................................... Int. ALONG CAME RUTH. Holman Day (#3046) ......................................................................... 2 Int. AFTER THE RAIN. John Bowen (#209) ........................................................................ Drop/wing AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE. Barre Lyndon (#3063) ........................................................... 4 sets AS HUSBANDS GO. Rachel Crothers (#3120) ......................................................................... 3 lnt. BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM. George Kelly (#4030) ............................................................... 2 lnt. CAMILLE. Charles Ludlam (#5243) .................................................................................... Ints. THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS LOCKS. Murray Spitzer (#5032) ...................................................... Int. COURT IN THE ACT! M. Hennequin & P. Veber, trans. by R. Cogo-Fawcett & B. Murray (#5215) ................ .3 Ints. CREAKING CHAIR. Allene Tupper Wilkes & Rowland Pertwee (#5174) ................................................ lnt. DANGER FROM THE SKY. George Ressieb (#6008) ................................................................... Int. DIANA AND TUDA. Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Marta Abba (#6058) .................................................... Int. DINNER WITH THE FAMILY. Jean Anouilh, trans. by Edward Owen Marsh (Slightly Restricted) (#6061) ........... 2 Int. THE DOCTOR HAS A DAUGHTER. George Batson (#6076) .......................................................... Int. THE DOCTOR TAKES A LIFE. Frank Slaughter (#6079) .............................................................. Int. EIGHTEENTH SUMMER. Bernice Martin (#7014) .................................................................... Yar. FIREBANI>. Edwin Justin Mayer (#8031) ............................................................................. 3 sets FOREVER AFTER. Owen Davis (#8636) ............................................................................ 5 sets GLORIA AND ESPERANZA. Julie Bovasso (#9054) ................................................................... Plat. THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. Robert Patrick (#487) ........................................................................ Bare GOODBYE AGAIN. George Scott & George Haight (#9077) ............................................................ lnt. GREEN STOCKINGS. A.E.W. Mason (#9118) ........................................................................ 2 Int. GRUMPY. Horace Hodges (#9123) ...................................... : ............................................. 2 Int. GUILTY PARTY. George Ross & Campbell Singer (#1930) ............................................................. Int. GYPSY JIM. Oscar Hammerstein II & Milton Gropper (#9133) ........................................................ 2 Int. THE HAUNTED HOUSE. Plautus, trans. by Erich Segal (#10041) ...................................................... Ext. lHEIMSKRINGLA! Paul Foster (#10061) ............................................................................... Yar I'M TALKING ABOUT JERUSALEM. Arnold Wesker (#11023) ..................................................... 1 set IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. Paul Green (#11028) ..................................................................... 5 sets ISLE OF THE HERMAPHRODITES or THE MURDERED MINION. Charles Ludlam (#11673) ..................... Var. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Roy Cooper Mergrue & Walter Hackett (#11074) ......................................... 2 Int. LET US BE GAY. Rachel Crothers (#14065) .......................................................................... 2 Int. LET'S GET A DIVORCE. Victorien Sardou & Emile de Najac, trans. by A. & R. Goldsby (#14066) ................. 2 sets MADE IN HEAVEN. Hagar Wilde (#15026) .......................................................................... 4 Int. MA YBE TUESDAY. Mel Tolkin & Lucille KaJlen (#15069) ........................................................ Unit set MRS. PARTRIDGE PRESENTS. Mary Kennedy & Ruth Hawthorne (#15149) ........................................ 2 Int. MY FRIEND IRMA. James Reach (#15168) ............................................................................. Int. NOT FOR CHILDREN. Elmer Rice (#16038) .......................................................................... Bare NOT HERBERT. Howard Irving Young (#16039) ..................................................................... 3 Int. THE OBLONG CIRCLE. Harold P. Rednour (#17008) .................................................................. Int. THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK. Jerome K. Jerome (#18030) ......................................... lnt. PHILIP GOES FORTH. George Kelly (#18162) ......................................................................... Int. POLLY WITH A PAST. Guy Bolton (#18091) ........................................................................ 2 lnt. REFLECTED GLORY. George Kelly (#20016) ....................................................................... 3 lnt. THE RUNAWAY HEART. Ruth & Nathan Hale (#20077) .............................................................. lnt. SILVER QUEEN SALOON. Paul Foster (#21174) ..................................................................... I set SIXTEEN IN AUGUST. Dorothy Bennett & Link Hannah (#21192) ..................................................... lnt. SOLDIERS. Rolf Hochhuth, trans. by Robert David MacDonald (#21251) .............................................. Unit. SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER. Ernest Kinoy (#21263) .......................................................... Var. SPLENDOR AND DEATH OF JOAQUIN MURIETA. Pablo Neruda, trans. by Ben Belitt (#21289) ............... Int.lExt. SPOTTED DICK. Ben Travers (#21291) .............................................................................. 2 sets SPRING JOURNEY. Mona Graham & John Ware (#21300) ............................................................. Int. THE SQUALL. Jean Bart (#21312) ...................................................................................... Int. TONIGHT IN SAMARKAND. Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (#22153) ....................................... Yar. TOO MUCH FAMILY. 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*BOAR'S HEAD. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 8 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Unit set. This colorful, uproariously funny and ultimately moving play features Shakespearean characters who meet at the Boar's Head Tavern in East Cheap. Scenes Shakespeare teJIs us about but leaves out of Henry IV, Pans One and Two. Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor unfold. The story encompasses Doll

Tearsheet and her unrequited love for Ned Poins, Ned's sister Nell who is impregnated. by Prince Hal, and a girl who masquerades as a tavern boy and is also in love with Ned. Bardolph, Mistress Quickley, Justice Shallow, Pistol, Jane Nightwork and a host of other characters who live at the edge of Shakespeare move center in this play, along with Jack Falstaff and a dead Windmill Keeper who might be Shakespeare himself. The language is rich and the characterizations compelling. This powerful play continues the author's investigations of Shakespeare and his worlds.

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matic conflict, entertaining musical interludes, and a broad spectrum of narrative."-Variery. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3954) BLACK WIDOW. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Paul Thain. 7 m., 6 f. Bare stage. Lord Arlington is dead, poisoned by a corned beef sandwich. His daughter Emily, who is obsessed by Hamlet, becomes convinced that her mother and a family friend are responsible. She sets out to exact a terrible revenge. Madness, murder, passion, ghosts and retribution are all themes in this complex and compelling drama that is set in the Edwardian era but involves modem sensibilities. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#77122) BONE-CHILLER! (All Groups.) Comedy thriller. Monk Ferris. 5 m., 8 f., 4 m., 9 f. or 6 m., 7 f. Thirteen people gather on Friday the 13th at the Travers mansion in New York for the reading of Josiah's will which is a wall chart rendered in the form of a rebus (a part word, part drawing puzzle) that almost defies solution. Instead of designating an heir, it offers the estate to anyone who can solve the will! The lights keep going out and people keep getting murdered. The audience will have a ball trying to untangle the puzzle faster than the hapless characters. By the final act, revelations are exploding as surprise piles upon surprise and gasps alternate with howls oflaughter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4671) A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckboum. 7 m., 6 f., non-speaking extras. 1 set. A diffident widower attempts to escape loneliness by joining the local amateur light operatic society. By accident rather than by design.(in fact, by not saying "no" to anything-be it a request to obtain confidential infornlation from his company or an offer of illicit sex) he advances from a small part to the lead. Parallels are skillfully drawn between The Beggar's Opera and the day-to-day activities of the society which is performing it. The National Theatre's production starred Michael Gambon as the shambling, madcap producer. "A brilliance and invention remarkable even by his standards."-Financial Times, London. "Symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heart-breakingly funny."-Guardian, London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5596) COMEDIANS. (Little Theatre.) Serious comedy. Trevor Griffiths. 13 m. 2 int. Taking the subject of comedy seriously, Comedians electrified Broadway audiences with its look at the ethics of getting a laugh in the world of stand-up comics. Students taking a night class for aspiring comedians work up their acts, perform and fail or succeed depending on whether or not they cater to the crass, philistine views of a talent agent.. "Intelligent, daring."-N.Y. Times. "A blistering drama ... [that] still packes a punch." -N.Y Daily News. "An exciting, entertaining, stimulating, very funny yet very powerful play illustrating the eternal arts debate of idealism/honesty vs. success/commercialism." -Critical Digest. "An irresistible serious comedy . . . as funny and painful as a play about comedians should be." -N. Y. Post. "Comedians does for comics what A Chorus Line does for dancers . . . . A great work of comedy about comedy and the serious business of being funny."-NBC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#325) THE DRESSER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Harwood. 10 m., 3 f. Compo int. Sir, the last of the great breed of English actor/managers, is in a bad way tonight. As his dresser tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear, he is having great difficulty remembering who and where he is, let alone Lear's lines. With a Herculean effort on the part of Norman, the dresser, Sir finally makes it on stage and through the performance-no thanks to the Luftwaffe-in a World War II era English provincial theatre during an air raid. Backstage in his dressing room after the performance, the worn out old trouper dies, leaving his company and his loyal dresser alone. "A stirring evening [that] ... bums with a love of the theatre that conquers alL... Perfectly observed, devilishly entertaining backstage lore."-N.Y. Times. "Enthralling, funny and touching. Lovingly delineated dramatic portraits. . . . Almost any actor would jump at them."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6115) AN ENCHANTED LAND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dale Wasserman. 8 m., 5 f. Various sets. This steamy tale oflove, jealousy, revenge and betrayal in Haiti is by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "A stunning human drama. "-The London Morning Star. "An Enchanted Land is about love in the face of prejudice, the power and pettiness of religion, and the triumph of self over stereotype. It brims with character and spirit. The sultry heat-haze of Haiti hangs close, the proverbs flow like water; Voodoo, Catholicism and superstition nestle comfortably together."-What's On. "Incredibly well-scripted. . . . The text alternates from deadly serious to the satirically funny."-London News Group. "The audience seemed totally mesmerized, the theatre so quite and intense it was a bit spooky. The use of music and the Voodoo ceremonies was brilliant."-African Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#7101) ENGLISH IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. (all Groups.) Drama. Peter Dee. 6 m., 7 f. This is a play about how fluency in communicating and comprehending affects people's lives. A community college attempts to confront the problem of learning disabilities by inviting a playwright to create a drama based on interviews with dyslexic students. The result is an astounding piece of theater that explodes myths and changes lives in an evening of laughter, tears and triumphs. "This hard-hitting, no-punches-pulled, two-act drama certainly provokes examination of the public's intolerance. . . for the less fortunate." -Cape Cod Register. "Has an upbeat theme . . . offering both poignant and funny moments." -Cape Cod Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7916)

See also Loves Labours Wonne, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It, The Bohemian Seacoast and Ardy Fafirsin. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4753) *SPRING STORM. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tennessee Williams. 4 m., 9 f. Int/ext. Set in the small town of Port Tyler, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1937, Spring Storm is a classic deep South tale about adolescent rites of passage. It presages the beguiling romanticism of such works as The Glass Menagerie. $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20894) ALL THE KING'S HORSES. (High School.) Drama. Deni Fuson. 6 m., 7 f. Various sets. Four idealistic high school girls set out on a mission to inspire hope by writing poetry on restroom walls. Their endeavor takes a dramatic tum when one is caught by an unscrupulous administrator. As the other three decide whether to tum themselves in or not, issues surface: How far does loyalty go? Can everyone be judged by the same measuring stick? When is it time, regardless of the consequences, to speak out? Is it ever too late to start anew? Is it possible? Many of the characters find answers to these complex questions that they can live with- answers they can live by. $6.50. ($60-$40.) (#3573) BUYING TIME. (All Groups.) Drama. Michael Weller. 9 m., 4 f. Various sets. A prominent law fum in the Southwest suffers a crisis of conscience when caught between the demands of a huge industrial client and a pro bono environmental group. The firm's idealistic leader, Bennett Traube, struggles to keep his colleagues on track while negotiating fum politics, career choices and the appeals of a provocative, driven environmental attorney. Based on a true story, this gripping drama takes a cinematic journey into boardrooms, barrooms, National Parks, corporate offices, hotel rooms and a mansion copied from a Scottish castle. It paints a vivid and unusual portrait of lawyers trying to make ethical choices under enormous pressure. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4233) CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Herb Gardner. 9 m., 2 f., 2 m. children (to be played by 12 actors). From the award-winning author of I'm Not Rappaport and A Thousand Clowns comes a powerful and funny play about three generations of a Jewish family on the lower East Side. "A brave, uncompromising feat."-N.Y. Times. "A sweeping epic with jolts of aching laughter."-N.Y. Magazine. "It's wonderful!"-WNYW-TV. "Best American play of the year." -Wall Street Journal. "Gardner cuts deep ... without relinquishing his status as a comic writer."-Newsweek. "Powerful, pungent and deeply felt. Gardner's best play!"-N.Y. Post. "Totally satisfying theatre."-New Yorker. "Splendid!"-Time Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty $75-$50.) Music and Sound Effects Cassette, $22.50; Digital Audio Tape, $)5.00. (Tape royalty, $10.00 per performance.) Posters (#5254) THE FOURTH SISTER. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Eva Nagorski and Janusz Glowacki. 9 m., 4 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. From Eastern Europe's leading contemporary playwright, the author of Hunting Cockroaches, here is a bold tragicomic farce-an unflinchingly funny and daring epic with a sly wink toward Chekhov. Three sisters in modem Moscow hunger for love and happiness amidst the uncertainty of a new world order. When an American filmmaker comes to town, they seize the chance to change their fates and maybe get to Hollywood ... or is it Brighton Beach? "Irresistible go-for-broke absurdity [with] ... sustained satire [that] recalls the dizzy excesses of Gogol."-N.Y. Times. "Audacious, a black comedy set in money-grubbing modem Moscow . . . . The play feels Brechtian [with] more humor."-New Yorker. "Powerfully impressive. . . . Has the tensile strength of the original Chekhovian weave."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8208) THE MESSIAH. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Steven Berkoff. 12 m., 1 f. (with doubling). simple set. Beginning with the image of Christ on the cross, this play pits His humanity and transcendent goodness against the evil of those who would kill Him and all He stands for. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 3, $23.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14817) ANIMA MUNDI. (All Groups.) Drama. Don Nigro. 8 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Unit set. A young American poet arrives in London at the tum of the century, falls in love with a troubled dancer and has his fortune told by Madame Blavatsky. Each tarot card triggers a vivid scene from his turbulent future. Yeats in the tower, the Satanist Alister Crowley, and cranky Ezra Pound in the mad house are there as well as Oscar Wilde among some French ladies of easy virtue, a shell-shocked Everett in no man's land, the bitter ballplayer Rex, and the manic Captain Blood. At a wild seance, Wilde's ghost is summoned to discuss God and chocolate eclairs. This poetic play traces the young American's search for his elusive love, God and the meaning of art in a stunning tapestry of memories and nightmares. A National Play Award finalist, this magical drama is central to the author's cycle of Pendragon plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3598) BLACK EAGLES. (Black Groups.) Drama. Leslie Lee. 12 m., 1 f. Comb. int. This is an extraordinary drama about the Tuskegee airmen, America's first black fighter pilots. The play opens at a reception honoring the airmen and Gen. Colin Powell. As the elderly WWII pilots reminisce, they are joined by their younger selves and the story of this brave company is retold. "Much of it is humorous, but the pressure of emotion underneath gives it strength."-New Yorker. "A fascinating play."-N.Y. Post. "A heart-felt and rousing salute."-Newark Star Ledger. "Loaded with dra-

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THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. (All Groups.) Drama. John Bowen. 10 m., 3 f. Unit Set. This moving and vibrant adaptation into modem English of the mystery plays of Chester, Coventry, Lincoln, Norwich, Wakefield and York shows a group of young actors presenting a mystery play from a pageant wagon. Dressed simply in black and white with minor changes to define new characters, they trace history from the creation to the crucifixion. Serious students of the texts may be either vexed or amused at the way lines from the various classics have been selectively used in this stunning Morality Play for the modem age. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#8152) FRANKENSTEIN 1930. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Fred Carmichael. 7 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. Harking back to the original concept of Frankenstein, this version amplifies the film's suspenseful horror and adds greater depth of character and motivation as well as a new and different love story. All of the eagerly anticipated elements are here: the stone-walled laboratory, the crazed scientist, angry villagers, a swooning heroine, a fearful storm and the hideous yet pathetic, deadly creature with its confused mind and powerful, undisciplined body. The final confrontation between the doctor and the creature produces a startling surprise. "A genuine thriller. . . . Memorable entertainment." -Gain ville News. "Will give you a full measure of thrills and laughs . . . [with] ever increasing suspense." -Glens Falls Post-Star. "Pure gold . . . . You'll have to go a long way to find a better (#8196) play." -Greenwich Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) HAMLET II. (BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL). (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sam Bobrick. Original story by William Shakespeare. 11m., 2 f. (doubling possible). Simple ints.!exts. Hamlet II is a mad, zany parody of the original with a much happier ending. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern come off like Groucho Marx, Ophelia is a loose woman and alas, poor Yorick is turned into a crazy comic. Then there's Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes and the old dead King as you've never seen them before. And what does Prince Hamlet think of this new approach to his life? He loves it and why not? To catch the conscience of the king, he gets to write a hit musical. Also included are the loves, hates, sword fights, poetry, religion, treachery and deceit that go with the territory as well as occasional stabs at the meaning of life. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10039) ICE CREAM. Comic drama. Caryl Churchill. 8 m., 5 f. or 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Originally produced to acclaim by London's Royal Court Theatre, this unusual play had an Off-Broadway run at the Public Theatre. Americans James and Vera travel to England to find James's relatives. They locate third cousins who are decidedly lowlife and become entangled in a murder, the ramifications of which follow them in America. "Terse and quite funny."-Spectator. "Highly comic . . . . Works like a short, sharp shock: an acidly entertaining statement about mutual cultural incomprehension." -Guardian. "An amusing, adroit, grotesque parable." -Evening Standard. "Very funny."-N.Y. Times. Published with Hot Fudge, $6.50. (Royalty $40(#11099) $25 or $60-$40 when performed with Hot Fudge.) JANE AUSTEN'S NORTHANGER ABBEY. (Little Theatre.) Historical romance. Adapted by Matthew Francis. 6 m., 7 f. Int., ext. This dramatic adaptation of Jane Austen's first novel wryly dramatizes the disparity between the heroilje's fantasy world of Gothic romance and mystery and the real world of England in the 18oos. It also captures Austen's incomparable irony and acerbic comment in witty dialogue .md narration. "It is impossible not to be caught up in both the romance and the fun of it. Francis's wit and taste are so nicely in tune with Austen's."-London Evening Standard. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#16916) MAFIA. (Little Theatre.) Thriller. Mario Fratti. 10 m., 3 f. When a man is killed in Sicily, his wife defiantly dresses in white. Why? Who killed him? The mystery deepens as clue after clue is discovered. "A terrific play."-Tallahassee Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15508) THE MALE ANIMAL. (All Groups.) Comedy. James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. 8 m., 5 f. Int. Tommy Turner has been married for ten years to Ellen, and he is quietly settled in a teaching job at Mid-Western University. This is the week-end of the Michigan game and Joe Ferguson, the greatest football hero Mid-Western has ever had, comes to town and sees Ellen, his old sweetheart. In addition, Tommy is drawn into a controversy when a young intellectual writes an article in which he calls the board of trustees fascists. Tommy wants to read a letter to his composition class written by Vanzetti and is about to join the ranks of the martyrs who have been fired because the trustees are shouting "Red!" Ellen tries to dissuade Tommy from reading the letter and he tells her to go with Joe and leave him to his books and his principles. Eventually Tommy challenges Joe to fisticuffs after he has fortified himself with the proper courage. He steadfastly maintains his right to read the letter and to teach the young to think. Ellen sees him as pretty good example of the male animal and stands up with him. "Dismisses you from the theatre in a spirit of dazed hilarity."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. Restricted Metropolitan NYC area. (#81) THE MOUNTAIN HOTEL. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Jitka Martinova. 9 m., 4 f. An exploration of the disintegration of human identities by the Czech master of comic despair, this play features characters who interrupt their odd romantic pursuits to look at their watches when they hear a train whistle in the background. Suddenly, one character speaks the lines of another as existential schizophrenia erupts. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15533)

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NORTHANGER ABBEY. See Jane Austen's Nonhange,. Abbey, above. THE SEA GULL. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. Translated by Michael Frayn. 8 m., 5 f. 2 ints.!2 exts. Tbis translation of Chekhov's classic permits the modem reader to appreciate more than ever before the qualities of the original by bringing the familiar characters to life with beautiful idiomatic English. A comprehensive introduction and chronology to the life and works of the playwright are included. $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Also available in translations by Stark Young and by Tom Stoppard and an adaptation by Brustein; see Index.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#21059) THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. (All Groups.) Farce. Carlo Goldoni. Translated by Edward 1. Dent. 9 m., 4 f. Ints.!ext. The style and flavor of this eighteenthcentury classic is faithfully maintained in a modem rendering. Here is all the charm of the original: the quickness of emotion, the directness of action, the intrigues, disguises and humor. When the delightful servant becomes embroiled in the problems of two sets of lovers, he gets more than he bargained for. In The Servant of Two Masters and Other Italian Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (Also available in a translation by Tom Cone, see Index.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#970) A SOLDIER'S PLAY. (Black Groups.) Drama. Charles Fuller. 13 m. (10 black, 3 white). Unit Set. In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white e.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain is assigned to investigate and Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assigning of a black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and, as he probes deeper, he finds the black soldiers are as corrupted with hatred as the whites. Each one had a motive for the killing. Davenport solves the case-and the truth is even more shocking than the murder itself. "A work of great resonance and integrity. "-Newsweek. "One of the contemporary American theatre's most forceful and original voices." -N.Y. Times. Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music Royalty, $3.00 each performance plus Rental Fee, $10.00 per production. (#21253) STEPPING OUT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Richard Harris. 1m., 12 f. Int. This is a comedy about ten women and one man trying to conquer their inhibitions and an overabundance of left feet in a seedy dance studio in North London. An ex-professional chorine tries her hardest to teach the bumbling amateurs some dancing skills for an upcoming recital. Sometimes it is hard for Mavis, the instructor, to get her pupils to stop quarrelling long enough to dance. Her students are truly a hilarious, motley but loveable crew who finally triumph at their recital. "A surefire winner."-N.Y. Daily News. "You'll stand up and cheer. "-WABC-TV. "Constantly simmers with laughter." -Sunday Express. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) NOTE: Music of the period is indicated in the acting edition. No music by Irving Berlin may be used in any production of this play. All producers are responsible for obtaining (#21781) permission to use the music of their choice. Posters TARTUFFE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Moliere. Translated by Christopher Hampton. 9 m.,4 f. Int. This translation of Moliere's classic depiction of hypocrisy in action was done for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "The assumption behind this ferociously brilliant production is that Tanuffe is much too serious and alarming a work to be insulated behind any English equivalent of French classical style. The greatest compliment I can bestow on Hampton's translation is that ... you hardly notice it. Plain, perfectly phrased blank verse does the job." -London Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in an adaptation by Miles Malleson; see Index. Please specify translator when ordering. (#22024) THAT'S THE SPIRIT. (All Groups.) Spoof. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 8 f. (or 5 m., 7 f.) Int. If you are looking for a spooky puzzle or an entertaining whodunit, you will find it in this cockeyed mystery spoof. A Hollywood psychic is murdered in the Laurel Canyon lodge that once belonged to a famous illusionist. Claire Voyant, a dingy psychic, shows up to investigate. Add a nasty ventriloquist dummy, a man with xray eyes, bewildered police, a fish-out-of-water niece, a ham actor, a crazed hermit, a walking lamp shade and other fun characters and you have a lampoon that is hysterically funny. The action is fast and furious. The rib-tickling chuckles and chills are nonstop in this easy-to-produce audience pleaser. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#22189) UBU COCU. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Alfred Jarry. Translated by Albert Bermel. 8 m., 5 f. Fluid set. A sequel to Ubi Roi, this play finds Ubu no longer king and in command of a gang of hoodlums. The text is broadly scatological and not for children, though it appeals to the children in many adults. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22991) BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Adapted by Robert Egan from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 9 m., 4 f. (to play var. roles). Unit set. In a story-theatre style this play tells of the fateful meeting between Dwayne Hoover, Pontiac Dealer, and Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut's alter ego, in Midland City where Dwayne bites off Trout's finger. Dwayne has gone crazy because of Bad Chemicals in his brain and because he has read one of Trout's novels (recommended to him by eccentric millionaire Elliot Rosewater) which has convinced him that everyone is a robot except him. This adaptation, which is perfect for reader's theatre, perfectly preserves the anarchic humor of the original and provides a fine directing and acting challenge. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slides, $35. (#4116)

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brief scenes linked and woven together through the use of a chorus. A tour de force of both writing and staging. And it's hilarious." -Village Voice. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21007) GRAND TENEMENTINOVEMBER 22. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Tom Eyen. 6 m., 7 f. Int. November 22 is a television program where the First Lady is being interviewed about the President. Simultaneously, the occupants of Grand Tenement watch the show. The tension begins when a girl in an apartment is murdered. Everyone is held for questioning and all seem to have a motive. At the end of the interview, the murderer is revealed in a chilling, unexpected climax. "Good-time entertainment-vivid, fast-moving."-Villag~ Voice. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9101) A TIME FOR MADNESS. (High Schools.) Comedy. Robert S. Mulligan and John W. Pulver. 8 m., 5 f. Sandra Billings returns from college with Julian Bruce, classmate and self-proclaimed poet, whom she says she loves. Sandra's boyfriend Jeff refuses to believe she would dump him for this freak. A reading of Julian's poetry is planned, but Gary finds some of Julian's inspired works and he and Jeff devise a parody of a poetry reading complete with pseudo-Greek costumes. Sandra thinks they are ridiculing Jul~an and, not knowing it is actually his work, says it's terrible. Julian leaves in a huff and Sandra and Jeff are together again. $6.50. (#22109) (Royalty, $35-$25.) PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW or A Working Girl's Secret. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Paul Loomis. 5 m., 8 f., optional extras. Int. Audiences roar and join in singing old-fashioned songs. On a dark and stormy night Purity Dean, a girl with a secret, seeks shelter from the storm in a Vermont inn. She falls in love with brave Leander, but the evil Mortimer is determined to win her by fair or foul means. And so he begins his campaign of villainy. Naturally Virtue eventually triumphs. Purity's secret is discovered, bringing her great wealth and happiness with Leander. Playe<l in modern costumes. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian ~nd Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#861) EMPEROR HENRY IV. (All Groups.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Edward Storer. 11 m., 2 f. 1 set. Takes place in an Italian Villa in our own time and marks Pirandello's growth as an artist as illusion and reality crystallize in the celebrated confrontations of form and life. Pirandello's kinetic pattern is still deception, outrage and remedy by larger deceit. To Pirandello, it can be marked from this play that form meant artistic form, and artistic form meant increasing dramatic form. Theatre and life as coexisting themes are at work brilliantly. "An intelligent and provocative, intellectual puzzle."-N.Y. Post. In Naked Masks, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly restricted. For other translations, see Henry IV, below, and the Index under Enrico IV and Henry N. Please state translator when ordering.

THE SCOTTISH PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Graham Holliday. 6 m., 7 f. Bare stage. Michael harbors an ambition to direct Macbeth and gets his chance with the autumn production of The Shellsfoot Thespians. He encounters problems from finding enough men to telling grande dame Geraldine she is riot to play Lady Macbeth, despite her offered bribe which would pay production costs. He casts his wife in the part opposite Frank, with whom she is having an affair (unbeknownst to Michael). It soon appears that the jinx surrounding the play extends to amateur productions and to Michael's life, but he remains determined to get the show on at any cost-that includes his job, his wife and finding a new venue when banned from the church hall. This witty play was first broadcast on BBC Radio. $8.95 (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21031) BLACK COFFEE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 10 m., 3 f. Int. Long out of print and unavailable in the United States, this little-known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans. The story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb (Black Coffee was written in 1934!). In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, naturally)and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie tradition. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4072) MAKE AND BREAK. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Michael Frayn. 11 m., 2 f. Int. John Garrard is a successful manufacturer who is driven by a compulsion to use and consume the world and the people around him. He is briefly intensely curious about everything he comes across, particularly other people's worlds: their religious beliefs, their sexual and artistic yearnings and their feelings about him. During one climactic night amid the hectic activities of a trade fair in Germany, it looks as if he will be forced to turn his sharp eyes upon himself and come face to face at last with silence and darkness. Recently done in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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MURDER AT THE VICARAGE. (All Groups.) Drama. Moie Charles and Barbara Toy, dramatized from Agatha Christie's novel. 7 m., 6 f. Int. Colonel Protheroe is the most unpopular man in the village. Everyone has a motive for wishing him dead, although the most obvious suspects are Mrs. Protheroe and her lover, Lawrence Redding. Lawrence does indeed confess to the murder-but it is obviously a false confession-and he admits it was made to shield Anne Protheroe. Amidst the heightening tension fostered by anonymous letters and bogus phone calls moves of Miss Marple, a sleuth whose old-maidish exterior conceals a very shrewd brain. She has the uncanny knack of knowing most people's secrets and it is she who is ultimately responsible for solving the mystery. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#722) THE POISON TREE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Ribman. 13 m. Simple sets. Short scenes in a section of a Western state prison set aside for Black inmates dramatize how the complicity between a sadistic white guard and a benumbed longterm prisoner brings about the suicide of a young inmate up for parole. This look at prison life from at black point of view is presented in a strong, vivid and startling terms. "A moving, compassionate play."-N.Y. Times. "A powerful work on an important theme by a significant American playwright."-Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#18005) MARCUS BRUTUS. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Paul Foster. 9 m., 4 f. Int. This acclaimed, brilliantly conceived play is an intensely intellectual metaphor on the nature of political murder structured as a psychological thriller. In a playwright's study his characters spring to life and Brutus's and Caesar's ancient blood feud over the abuse of power and the Republic's corruption for imperial ends erupts again as a contemporary conflict. The mounting sense of urgency and impending tragedy are pierced often by humor. "One of the most brilliant, intelligent, original and fresh tragic plays of these last years . . . . A masterpiece. Bravo!"-Claude Roy, Editor of Gallimard, Paris. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15008) GETTING MARRIED. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 9 f. A prospective bride and bridegroom and various members of their two families discover their dissatisfaction with marriage and divorce laws. They all attempt to frame a contract to suit their needs and end up in total disagreement. The young couple, putting their faith in each other, slip out and get married on their own. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9626) SARAH B. DIVINE! (Little Theatre.) Biographical fantasy with music. Tom Eyen. Music by Jonathan Kramer. 6 m., 7 f. (doubling possible). In the 1850s in romantic Paris Sarah Bernhardt is a girl going to dramatic school and sleeping in coffins. The play travels through her life with four different actresses playing her simultaneously as she meets Oscar Wilde and other luminaries of the age. The story is told through the eyes of her neglected son who narrates the scenes aided by his guitar. "Jampacked with theatrical trickery and the narrative is fragmented in time and space into

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the action. "A playwright of shining promise and talent."-NY. Times. $6.50. (#17048) (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. UPROAR IN THE HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot. 7 m., 6 f. Int. Pitt, newly appointed member of Parliament, has one more job to do for his present employer: sell a crazily designed, white elephant house to a knighted couple. To enhance the chances of sale, a model is brought in to pose as Pitt's wife and to make the place look liveable. Pitt and the girl try, but without practice they are caught in a web of lies from which they barely extricate themselves. Complications pile up: the real estate secretary has to be passed off as a servant and the model's finance is forced to play along, though his law training makes him a legalistic stiff. Then it seems that the woman with the titled buyer is not his wife, but a professional correspondent. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1147) THE BALCONY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 9 m.. 4 f. Var. Genet's horrifying vision has aroused violent controversy. Kenneth Tyncm called it "a theatrical experience as startling as anything since Ibsen's revelation about syphilis." The setting is a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police, who now enlists the regular customers to play out the fantasy roles that destiny has denied them. In macabre, climactic scenes, the playwright develops his mocking view of man and society. "Genet's dramas . . . have a shocking power and fascination that lies in the impression they create that here is the complete and unshackled expression of the utterly evil and decadent mind, set down with a kind of grotesque pride and in entire honesty."-NY. Post. $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. (#251) PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! (All Groups.) Comedy. Brian Friel. 9 m., 4 f. Compo int. On the night before he is to depart for Philadelphia, an Irishman looks over the humdrum life he is leaving and wonders. As the housekeeper putters about, his father again engages the canon in a daring game of checkers. Later the lads toddle in to have a word of farewell. It is a moribund place. It will be good to leave his father lmd the gulf of their misunderstanding, as well as the bragging of the boys about their girls. It means leaving the girl who was is fond of him, but Philadelphia beckons more strongly. Toward the climax, the aunt and uncle with whom he will be staying in the U.S. appear and they are shockingly unstylish. This tale is told with a humorous doppelganger technique: opposite the youth is his devilish and ever-Irish alter ego who keeps popping irreverent thoughts into his head and keeps the proceedings hilariously restive. "A funny . . . [and] affecting play." -N Y. HeraldTribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music Royalty, $7.50 per production. Slightly Restricted. (#842) HUNGER AND THIRST. (Little Theatre.) Morality play. Eugene lonesco. Translated by Donald Watson. 10 m., 3 f. 3 sets. A man flees from his family and wanders about the world seeking answers. Finally he comes to a monastery whose monks act out the game of existential freedom, forcing them to confess belief in God to receive food. Religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom, constructed to fill voids in the human heart. "A remarkable play, an astonishing work of a great playwright's unique imagination . . . . Although it has moments as madly entertaining as a Marx Brothers movie, this is a profoundly serious work about a man's hunger and thirst for happiness."-Boston Record American. $6.50. (Roy.alty, $50$35.) (#10160) MURDER ON THE NILE. (All Groups.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 8 m., 5 f. Int. Simon Mostyn has recently married Kay Ridgeway, a ricb woman, having thrown over his former lover Jacqueline. The couple are on their honeymoon and are at present on a paddle steamer on the Nile:With them is Canon Pennefather, Kay's guardian, lmd Jacqueline, who has been dogging their footsteps all through the honeymoon. Also on the boat are a rich, ill-tempered old woman with her niece and companion, a rather direct young man, a German who nurses a grudge against Kay's father and Kay's maid. During the voyage Jacqueline works herself into a state of hysteria and shoots at Simon, wounding him in the knee. A few moments later Kay is found shot in her bunk. By the time the boat reaches its destination, Canon Pennefather has laid bare an audacious conspiracy and has made sure the criminals shall not go free. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#716) THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. (All Groups.) Farce. John Dighton. 7 m., 6 f. Int. Set after World War II, this delightful farce is about what happens when a boys' school receives the news that they are to billet another school which is allfemale. Events are complicated by the arrival of the parents. Each headmaster/mistress tries to conceal the fact that hislher school is now coed. Eventually, the parents learn the truth and are about to remove their children when news arrives that a third school is to be amalgamated into theirs. They all join together to keep out these intruders. This delightful, whimsical show about the breaking down of barriers (#10011) between th(~ sexes is ideal for all groups. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) GOLDEN FLEECING. (All Groups.) Farce. Lorenzo Semple, Jr. 11m., 2 f. Int. When the Navy pays a courtesy call in Venice, a lieutenant, an ensign and a civilian scientist take up residence in a plush hotel to execute a fantastic scheme: with the aid of a spotter in a local roulette palace they are going to relay numbers from one Particular wheel to the secret computer aboard a cruiser and use the scientific calculation of odds to break the bank. 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scientist runs into his old fiancee who is now engaged to a pompous windbag. The noose tightens on the schemers: a blaze of signal lights and counter-espionage brings the curtain down on a peak of hilarity and innocent resolution. "A good American farce . . . . Most enjoyable."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#9067) BETWEEN TWO THIEVES. (Little Theatre.) Biblical play. Warner LeRoy, adapted from Diego Fabbri's Processo a Gesu. 9 m., 4 f. Ext. Bare stage. Some travelling Jews enter a theatre. They draw lots for roles: thus begins the re-enactment of a drama that has been staged nightly since the Crucifixion. Their purpose is to 'examine why Jews have been persecuted for 2000 years and to fix the blame for the Crucifixion. The indictment accuses Jesus of being subversive in religion and politics. Caiaphas and Pilate testify before the leader's daughter cries halt. She is weary of this nightly repetition and wants to get beneath the law and to see Jesus Himself. The troupe begins to improvise. We meet Mary and Joseph, Peter, John, Thomas and Judas. The flfSt part ends with a general indictment of man: all are guilty. In the second part some of the actors are in the audience and they rise as spectators to comment on the previous scene. Among them are a priest, a rationalist and a woman who reasons with her heart. Every one of us has been found wanting in crisis; every one but Christ. "A theatrical miracle. . vivid. . hotly alive. . engrossing and provocative!"-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#267) THE MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN, or The Red Barn. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Brian J. Burton. 5 m., 8 f. Var. sets. Maria Marten was born in Suffolk in 1801. There she met William Corder by whom she had a child who died in infancy. In 1827, Corder murdered Maria and buried her body in the Red Barn. Because of his wife's recurring dream, Thomas Marten searched the barn and discovered the body of his daughter. Corder was convicted of the crime and in 1828 executed at Bury Gaol. The fact that the production gets unsullied, hearty fun from these macabre ingredients is proof of its sureness-{)f its energy that pushes aside any attempt to think seriously about the horrors. $6.50. Piano Score, $7.50. (Royalty, $35-$25. Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardi(#15157) an Melodrama, $12.95. THIEVES' CARNIVAL. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 10 m., 3 f. Int.l2 exts. or unit set. This most successful of Anouilh's works in the United States is an excellent lark loaded with humorous whims, romance and masquerades. The scene is a palatial home where two attractive young girls reside. The home is invaded by three affectionate thieves on the one hand and by a country bumpkin on the other. A lovely romance blooms instantly between one of the girls and the youngest thief. Being a very honest fellow, he cannot in conscience accept her love and instead turns with vengeance toward his job. But she is swifter in her wiles than he is in his. "Irrepressible humor, rueful wisdom . . . . Immensely entertaining."-Herald Tribune. "A witty masquerade . . . . Gay, ironic ... original, impertinent, and civilized."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (Music Royalty, $5 per performance.) (#1069) CURTAIN CALL FOR CLIFFORD. (High SchooI.) Comedy. William Dalzell and Newt Mitzman. 7 m., 6 f. Int. Clifford, the quiet, retiring brain of the senior class, is cast as the romantic lead in the school play opposite his secret love, popular Donna Bratton. Donna is pinned to Biff Reese, a braggart and bully. In a jealous rage, Biff tries to kidnap Clifford and then sabotages the play during opening night. In a riotous, action-packed final scene, Curtain Call for Clifford and the play within it are resolved simultaneously and Clifford becomes leading man in Donna's affections. The director of the school play is English teacher Eda Troutliver, who runs the full gamut of emotions and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown after hectic (#5201) rehearsals and opening night. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) NO MOTHER TO GUIDE HER: or More to Be Pitied th~n Censured. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Anthony Forsythe. 5 m., 8 f. Int. Audiences love this takeoff of an old-fashioned melodrama! When a beautiful young girl is found on the walk outside the Vandenburgh home, she is carried inside. She is suffering from a complete loss of memory. That black-hearted rogue, Talbot Twillingham, takes one glance at the chaste young heroine and decides that she will be chased as well. He reckons without the presence of a manly hero, Casper Vandenburgh. Folks everywhere revel in hissing the scoundrel and cheering the hero. $6.50. (Royalty, $35$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#767) THE TENTH MAN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Paddy Chayefsky. 12 m., I f. Compo int. In an old meeting room now used as a temple, a rabbi and various Jews meet for prayer on a winter day. They are not all devout; one is a comic atheist who says he only comes to the temple to keep warm and another is a young agnostic lawyer who has made a mess of his life and whom analysis is keeping from brink of suicide. One of the ten men who come this day brings his granddaughter who is in a trance. He believes she is possessed by a dybbuk; some of the others think she is just plain crazy. She glides from periods of lucidity into absolute irrationality and then into trance. During saner moments, she and the young agnostic are attracted to one another. The rabbi, convinced she has a dybbuk, arranges an exorcism. At the culmination of the ritual, it is the dybbuk of the young man that is exorcised, the one that has prevented him from loving anyone. "An enchanting play . . . . Thoroughly original . .. comic dialogue."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1067)

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DEAR PHOEBE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Tom Taggart and James Reach. Based on characters created by Alex Gottlieb. 6 m., 7 f. Int. Bill Hastings is hired by the Daily Star as the advice to the lovelorn columnist Aunt Phoebe. Riotous complications ensue when he gets a letter implicating a nightclub owner in a sports scandal. Bill, dressed as Phoebe, goes after the story with lovely reporter Mickey. The informant is murdered-and they must solve the crime before the morning deadline. Hilarity abounds in this adaptation from the television series. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6041) TISH. (High School.) Comedy. Alice Chadwicke. 5 m., 8 f. Int. Mary Roberts Rinehart's stories make a screaming romp that audiences will cheer. Letitia Carberry, Tish, is a middle-aged spinster who is blunt, outspoken and entirely lovable. She informs her boon companions, Lizzie and Aggie, that she is determined to get closer to nature. She buys a second-hand car and they start out on their madcap adventures. Tish gets everybody into and out of one difficulty after another. If you relish (#1079) laughter, you mustn't miss Tish. $6.50. (Royally, $35-$25.) DADDY LONG-LEGS. (High School.) Comedy. Jean Webster. 6 m., I f., 6 c. or 4 m., 4 f., 3 c. 4 ints. Judy is a pretty drudge in a New England orphanage. One day a visiting trustee becomes interested in her and decides to give her a chance. She does not know the name of her benefactor, but simply calls him Daddy Long-Legs. She writes him letters brimming over with fun and affection. From the home she goes to a fashionable college where a romance develops that constitutes much of the play's charm. The orphans appear only in the first act and may be played by small girls of any age. "If you write down the words delightful, charming, sweet, beautiful and entertaining, and add them up, the answer will be Daddy Long-Legs."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Restricted NYC and lOO-mile radius. (#6002) THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Sidney Howard. 9 m., 4 f., extras. This outstanding Theatre Guild production won a. Pulitzer Prize. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22063) ON MONDAY NEXT. (All Groups.) Comedy. Philip King. 8 m., 5 f., 2 m. extras. A stage. A repertory company is holding the second rehearsal for next week's play and things are proceeding in customary confusion. The star is in a hassle with her husband, who also plays the part of her husband in the play-within-a~play. This byplay adds plentifully to the confusion of the dialogue. The author shows up to offer ,his invaluable talent to the poor producer who is a pretty worried at this point. He has just been fished out of the orchestra pit into which he fell after a sally with a lefthanded carpenter and an amateur electrician. An imperturbable old trouper does her best to pacify all hands, but prospects are not hopeful. The stage manager departs in a temper as the remainder settle down noisily to resume the rehearsal. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17026) THE DISTAFF SIDE. John Van Druten. 5 m., 8 f. 2 ints. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6064) GOOSE HANGS HIGH. Lewis Beach. 7 m., 6 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#9084) STEPPING SISTERS. Howard Warren Comstock. 5 M., 8 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21334) THE MAYOR OF ZALAM~A. Calderon de la Barca. Translated by Edwin Honig. 11 m., 2 f. In Calderon de la Barca: 6 Plays, $30.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15070)

ANASTASIA. (All Groups.) Drama. Guy Bolton, adapted from the play by Marcelle Maurette. 8 m., 5 f. Int. Suppose you knew there were ten million pounds being held by banks for the children of the Russian czar? And suppose you found a girl who had told a hospital nurse she was the surviving princess so you see a chance of cashing in on that fortune? This temptation lures Beunine, a Berlin taxi driver and former wealthy Russian prince. The girl, lost in amnesia, falls into his hands and the conspiracy prospers. Success is in sight but there is one last test. The imperial grandmother is alive and her acceptance is essential. In a scene of breathless suspense the two women meet and Anastasia wins her grandmother's sanction. "Superb."-N.Y. Times. "Theatre with a capital T."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, Record or Tape, $32.50. Restricted Major Cities. (#220) SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. George M. Cohan. 9 m., 4 f. Int. One of the most thrilling plays ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue-an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modem times. A writer goes to a mountain inn to plot. He gets more than he bargained for. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#971) POOR BITOS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 10 m., 3 f., 1 c. Int. In Anouilh: Five Plays, $19.95. Please state Methuen Edition when ordering. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18095) DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY. (All Groups.) Drama. Alberto Cassella. Rewritten for the stage by Walter Ferris. 7 m., 6 f. Int. Produced with great success on Broadway, this striking drama has established itself among the important plays of our time. It is based on the poetic conception of death suspending all activities for three days during which he falls in love with a beautiful girl and through her realizes why mortals fear him. The mood of the play is established with remarkable skill and while it is charged with exciting moments, it is a perfect background for a love-story that is as simple as it is appealing. The character who symbolizes Death is a very human person, with no conventional claptrap dragged in for mere effect. Here is a play that stimulates discussion and presents a novel and optimistic philosophy of the problems of love and death. This is one of the most popular and successful plays for amateurs. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#356) MELODY JONES. (High School.) Comedy-Drama. Nathan Hale and Ruth Hale. 6 m.,7 f., optional extras. Int. Melody is honest, straightforward and uninhibited-the kind of girl every boy likes and every father adores because she gives him headaches, heartaches and the joyful life. All of the joy goes out of Melody and her family at a party when her cousin, Elaine, has a jealous fit and tells Melody she is adopted. This is the story of a young girl's laughter and tears. "I find it ideally suited to high school groups. It is a good, sparkling comedy that has audience appeal."-N. Dean Evans, Seaford Schools, Seaford, Del. $6.50. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#15081) CRY HAVOC. Drama. Allan R. Kenward. 13 f. Int. Hailed as a female Journey's End, this is the story of nurses on Bataan. In a sort of dugout subjected to gunfire the individual characters' emerge to offer a collective reaction to war. These include the strong-minded doctor, her restrained and poised assistant and the volunteer nurses: a vacuous Southern girl, a swaggering bully, a couple of timid aesthetes, an ex-burlesque girl and the inevitable spy. They get on each other's nerves, arrest the wrong person for spying and confront the real traitor. They are rescued from their buried dugout only to face the firing squad. This is a compelling, caustic revelation of human beings under fire. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5184)

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Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements (#12036) .............................................................. lnt. THE KNIGHT FROM OLMEDO. Lope de Vega, trans. by Jill Booty (#13029) ........................................ Unit LEADING LADY. James Reach (#14049) ............................................................................... Int. LET'S GET A DIVORCE. Victorien Sardou & Emile de Najac, trans. by F. Davies (#14006) ......................... 2 lnts. LETTERS TO LUCERNE. Fritz Rotter & Allen Vincent (#14071) ................................................... 2 Ints. LIFE CLASS. David Storey (#14008) .................................................................................... Int. LOCKED ROOM. Herbert Ashton, Jr. (#14113) ......................................................................... Int. MAD HOPES. Romney Brent (#15017) .................................................................................. Int. NUN'S VEILING. Ben Travers (#16659) ............................................................................. 3 sets THE OLD ONES. Arnold Wesker (#17001) .......................................................................... 7 sets PATTERNS. James Reach (#18038) ..................................................................................... Int. A PERFECT FRENZY. John D. Hess (#18054) ......................................................................... Int. PERIBANEZ. Lope de Vega, trans. by Jill Booty (#18058) ............................................................ Unit. A PRINCE THERE WAS. George M. Cohan (#18116) ............................................................... 3 lnts. PRIVATE SECRETARY. Charles Hantrey (#18123) .................................................................. 2 Ints. PUDD'NHEAD WILSON. Alice Chadwicke, based on Mark Twain (#18133) ............................................ Int. ST. LAZARE'S PHARMACY. Laszlo (#21019) ................................................................... Int.lDrop SECOND BEST BED. Cyril Roberts (#21052) ........................................................................... lnt. SET A THIEF. Edward E. Paramore, Jr. (#21085) ....................................................................... lnt. SONG AT THE SCAFFOLD. Emmet Lavery, from Baroness von Ie Fort's novel (#21268) .............................. var. SPRING DANCE. Philip Barry, Eleanor Gallen & Eloise Barrangon (#21298) ......................................... 2 Ints. STATE OF MIND. Nelson Bond (#21328) ............................................................................. Unit STOP THIEF. Carlyle Moore (#21343) .................................................................................. lnt. SURE FIRE. Rolf Murphy (#21393) ................................................................................... 3 Int. TAKE MY TIP. Nat M. Dorfman (#22012) .............................................................................. lnt. THREE WISE FOOLS. Austin Strong (#22088) ......................................................................... lnt. TO FIND ONESELF. Luigi Pirandello, trans by Marta Abba (#22128) ................................................ 3 Ints. TRAVELLER WITHOUT LUGGAGE. Jean Anouilh, trans by Lucienne Hill (#22192) ............................... 2 Ints. A TROPHY FOR MR. HEARTFELT. Paul Crabtree (#22219) .......................................................... lnt. TUCARET. Alain-Rene LesagelRalph G. Allen (#22231) ................................................................ Unit VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY: A TRAGEDY. Vlasimir Mayakowsky, trans. by Guy Daniels (#24040) .................. Unit WHA T HAPPENED TO JONES? George Broadhurst (#25068) ......................................................... lnt. WHITE STEED. 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*THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Edgar. 10 m., 4 f. (with doubling). Unit Set. The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy is an urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's eastern borders. "The greatest virtue of David Edgar's enthralling new play is that it confronts the kind of intractable ethnic conflict that has blown up in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise . . . . Edgar's erudition and appetite for major subject-matter have paid off. (#17852) This must be seen. "-Daily Telegraph. $15.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) THE CHERRY ORCHARD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anton Chekhov. 4 versions: translated by Curt Columbus, by Michael Frayn, by David Mamet, and adapted by Robert Brustein. 9 m., 5 f. Ext.l2 ints. These outstanding recent translations of Chekhov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life are wonderfuIly playable. Brustein adaptation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Columbus translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Frayn translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Mamet translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted. (As see index for translation by Start Young.) Please state translator when ordering. Columbus translation (#22807) Brustein adaptation (#4982) Frayn translation (#5069) Mamet translation (#5068) CHRISTMAS IN NAPLES. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Eduardo de Filippo. Translated by Maria Tucci. 8 m., 6 f. A befuddled father insists on maintaining the Christmas spirit, ignoring the fact that no one in his family is interested. Meanwhile, he turns a blind eye to the family's unspeakable behavior. In Eduardo de Filippo: (#5852) Four Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) EVERYBODY'S RUBY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Thulani Davis. 10 m., 4 f. Unit set. This hard-hitting and intense drama, a sensation Off Broadway, is based on a murder that happened in a smaIl town in Florida in 1952. Ruby McCollum, a black woman, is accused of killing a socially prominent white doctor. Famed writer Zora Neale Hurston is covering her trial for the national black press. With help from another fanlOus reporter, Zora uncovers an explosive collision of race, sex and class that is key to understanding the truth about the murder. "A complex and provocative drama ... Eloquent."- Village Voice. "An absorbing work that reminds audiences of a place and a period, not so distant, when crossing the lines of color and

convention meant almost certain destruction." -Star Ledger. "Engrossing." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7919) THE GATHERING PLACE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dusan Kovacevic. Translated by Dennis Barnett in collaboration with Martin Dimitrov. 10 m., 4 f. Int. If you could return from death and change things, would you? This absurd comedy by the renowned Yugoslavian playwright and screenwriter tells of one man who is given that unique opportunity. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9594) THE GENERAL FROM AMERICA. (Advanced Groups.) Historical drama. Richard Nelson. 11 m., 3 f. plus extras. Minimal sets. The Tony award- winning playwright of James Joyce's The Dead draws an iconoclastic portrait of America's quintessential traitor, Benedict Arnold. The focus is on how and why a military hero who nearly gave his life for the cause of American freedom ended up disclosing vital information to the British. The circumstances necessarily reveal some of the founding fathers' less than heroic machinations. First produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and in Houston and New York by The Alley Theatre, this is a rewarding look at intrigue in American history. "Takes a Shakespearean approach to Arnold's character. . . . Exploring the human complexity behind such a reductive term as 'traitor,' it exposes the puritanical hypocrisy and corruption that marched beside the heralded courage of our national beginnings."-Vil/age Voice. "Doesn't invite you to either admire [Arnold] or to despise him. It simply says these are the circumstances that sometimes produce the most extraordinary and contradictory forms of human behavior."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, $60$60.) (#8995) HOUSE & GARDEN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 7 m., 7 f., extras. Int.lExt. An unprecedented theatre event: two plays take place simultaneously in the same theatre but in different auditoriums. Characters walk off one set and onto the other throughout and yet each portion is a complete theatre experience. In House, two upper-crust marriages are in hilarious upheaval, the awkward confusion of young love abounds, a devious politician has bizarre ulterior motives and a French film star imbibes one too many drinks. And what is going on in the Garden? Further hilarity. Note: If the shows are performed simultaneously, audience members attend on two nights to enjoy both uproarious comedies. House and Garden may also be performed individually as each is a masterful full-length comedy. "Perhaps his [Ayckbourn's] greatest work. An engaging, high precision production."-Daily Telegraph. "It's audacious, crazy and altogether brilliant."-Time. $14.00. (Royalty, $60-$60 for each play.) Slightly Restricted.

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The firm insists on seeing Daisy Belle before handing over the check and, unfortunately, she is missing. June thinks she has murdered Edwina's brother and the Dimshrouds stash the "corpse" in exchange for June impersonating Daisy Mae. More thrills and hysterically funny dialogue ensue when the ghost of Pumpkin Cutter shows up, Granny considers taking up conjuring, Daisy Belle comes home unable to remember where she hid the $60,000 she borrowed to pay back taxes, and Edwina encounters two Daisy Belles! It is a hoot to watch the Dimshrouds unravel complication after complication to save the ole homestead. "You'll chuckle for a week."-Canyon Call. $5.25. ($50-$35.) (#16089) IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. (All Groups.) Mystery. Tim Kelly. 6 m., 8 f. or 5 m., 9 f. Simple int. Here's an "old dark house" spoof loaded with laughs and thrills. Ye Olde Wayside Inn is a chamber of horrors haunted by the spirit of a soldier who deserted Washington at Valley Forge. Residing there are three flaky cousins, their Uncle Silas and a hired girl who wandered in. Cousin Ebenezer is dangerous when it's stormy; he lures victims to the inn to avenge an old wrong. Foul weather forces a hard-nosed detective, an odd salesperson, some young nurses who think the aged uncle is their patient (he isn't), some college students, a state trooper and a key witness to a brutal crime to take shelter at the inn. But who is the skeleton in the wheelchair and why is it wearing a veil? When the wind howls and the lights flicker, the killing begins. This hilarious spoof winks at the classic touches: clutching hands, eerie music, a heroine in great danger and a twisted ending that brings us back where we started. Each role is an acting plum. "Murderously daffy romp that plays like The Addams Family meets Arsenic and Old Lace."--San Fernando Prompter. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#11089) LOVES LABOURS WONNE. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Don Nigro. 9 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Unit set. Dark and strange, ribald, funny, sad and beautiful, this unique play takes audiences on an inspiring trip deep into William Shakespeare's soul. Late on the stormy night on which he is to retire to the country, Shakespeare staggers drunkenly onto the stage of the Globe Theatre. Longing for quiet, green Stratford yet grieving for the London theatre world that has been his life, he is tortured by memories and. hallucinations of his early struggles in the vicious city quagmire. His daughters arise as Miranda and Ariel and join the notorious hack Robert Greene who comes from the dead to accuse him of Marlowe's murder. Queen Elizabeth makes a cameo appearance and people from his life mix with characters from his plays to create a wild hallucinatory investigation into the night(#14709) mare of art. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. (Little Thel;ltre.) Comedy. Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais. Translated and adapted by Bernard Sahlins. 9 m., 5. f, extras. Int. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15570) MY SON IS CRAZY - BUT PROMISING. (All Groups.) Farce. Tim Kelly. 8 f., 6 m. Int. This boisterous farce delights with non-stop laughs. A Hollywood screenwriter noted for such low-budget classics as The Return of the Radioactive Rabbit, decides to give up life in the fast lane to buy a lodge in Arizona, a termite pile close to the lost Dutchman Mine. He is convinced that a phony map and some digging will make him a millionaire. He doesn't figure on the lodge inhabitants: an old lady from Pasadena who communicates with space people, outraged tourists who thought the Ritz-Apache Lodge would be like the Ritz in Paris, an emotional mobster who won't stay dead and aspiring starlet who finds lizards cute. When his zany mother arrives, the madcap escapade goes into high gear and the jokes come fast and furious! Did we mention the FBI, the state lottery, the mysterious flight bag, alligator wrestling, brussels-sprouts-on-a-stick, the corpse-on-roller-skates? $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#15245) REDEVELOPMENT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Vaclav Havel. Translated by James Saunders. 8 m., 6 f. 1 set. In an attractive mountain stronghold lying above an exceptionally ugly town, a team of architects lives and works. They are planning a radical restoration of the village that is a soulless, characterless drawing-board monstrosity. The residents protest but are met with arrogance from the authorities. After a phase of apparent acquiescence comes a rude awakening. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#19944) THE RIVERS AND RAVINES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Heather McDonald 9 m., 5 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. Originally produced to acclaim by Washington D.C.'s famed Arena Stage, this is an engrossing political drama about the contemporary farm crisis in America and its effect on rural communities. "A haunting and emotionally draining play. A community of farmers and ranchers in a small Colorado town disintegrates under the weight of failure and thwarted ambitions. Most of the farmers, their spouses, children, clergyman, banker and greasy-spoon proprietress survive, but it is survival without triumph. This is an Our Town for the 80's."-Washington Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20131) ROAD. Dramatic Comedy. Jim Cartwright. See Index for description. SAY UNCLE, UNCLE SILAS. Trapped in a House of Fiends. (All Groups.) Melodramatic spoof. Tim Kelly. 9 f., 5 m. Simple sets. Savage murders! Blackmail! Thunderstorms! And yes-romance! This hilarious spoof of Gothic melodramas suggested by Sheridan LeFanu's Uncle Silas is set at a grim edifice where ghosts walk among the tombstones. Here Maud Ruthyn, a young heiress, finds herself menaced by a creepy relative. He hires a monstrous governess and schemes to force Maud to marry his brutish son, Dudley. Dudley has a secret wife so he formulates an alternate plan to get Maud's fortune-a nasty scheme involving deceit

JUMPERS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 4 m., 2 f., 8 gymnasts who double small parts. Basic set w. 3 playing areas. George is a professor of moral philosophy engaged in lofty debate. Unfortunately, his endeavors are continually interrupted by those investigating the all-too-true rumor that a professor of logic and member of a team of gymnasts was shot while performing for his young wife, a Marilyn Monroe-like singer, in her bedroom. "In the high-flying revival . . . everyone jumps in one way or another-verbally, emotionally, morally . . . . This comic mystery of murder, marriage and metaphysics [is] one of the most entertaining exercise sessions available in a city that loves a good workout. Leaps of faith, backflipping politics, somersaulting, self-inverting words and free-falling nervous breakdowns are all on offer . . . with scintillating style and polish. . . . There is also real emotional fire that flickers, blazes and roars."-N.Y. Times. "Brilliant. . . . Stoppard's dazzling tour de force . .. takes off to the moon."-N.Y. Post. "Dazzling . .. brilliantly human comedy."-Newsweek. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#12005) THE LADY IN THE VAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Bennet. 9 m., 5 f. Various sets. Alan Bennett draws from his memoirs to offer a dramatized account of the genteel vagrant, Miss Shepard, who parked her van in his driveway for fifteen years. Maggie Smith starred in London's West End. "A wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with roughly equal amounts of good journalistic copy and guilty landlord irritation."-Spector. "Hilarious. . . . A consistently enjoyable entertainment."-N.Y. Times. "Without doubt, the best new play of the year."-Daily Telegraph. "Bennett's writing is nimble, ironical, cruel and humane . . . . Gives the West End one of its saddest, funniest, and most distinguished offerings for years." -London Sunday Times. $15.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#13822) THOSE DAMNED GHOSTS. (A\lvanced Groups.) Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. Translated by Maria Tucci. 9 m., 5 f. A good-hearted but pathetic man attempts to overlook the ghosts in the apartment he and 'his hew wife (and her lover, the "ghost") are living in. In Eduardo de Filippo: Four Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $60(#22000) $60.) (THE) THREE SISTERS. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. 3 versions: translated by Michael Frayn, by David Mamet, and by Stark Young in collaboration with Catherine Alexander Burland and Richard O'Connell. 9 m., 5 f. 2 ints'!l ext. This poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with all their hearts to go to Moscow is classic theatre which has featured many of the world's great actresses and actors in the roles of Olga, Masha, Irina and Vershinin. Frayn translation, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Mamet translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $60$40.) Restricted. Young translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state translator when ordering. Frayn translation (#22102) Mamet translation (#22160) Young translation (#1075) BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jeffrey Archer. 11 m., 3 f. 2 ints. In the Central Criminal Court-the Old Bailey-Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the most important defence of his career-his own. Accused of the willful murder of his terminally ill wife, Sir David finds himself locked in legal combat with his old rival, Sir Anthony Blair-Booth QC, prosecuting counsel. After a tense and gripping courtroom scene, Act I ends just as we are about to hear the jury's verdict. Act II takes us back in time to the fateful night of Lady Metcalfs death and before, and the play ends with a surprising twist. Jeffrey Archer's first stage play enjoyed a successful run in London's West End with Frank Finlay and Wendy Craig in the leading roles. "A triumph."-Daily Express, London. "A smash hit."-The People. "I loved itlaughter, tears and tension."-TV-AM. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#3986) BREAD AND BUTTER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 9 m., 5 f. Ints. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol I, $40.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4223) CEMENTVILLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jane Martin. 5 m., 9 f. Int. The comic sensation of the 1991 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, this play by the author of Talking With and numerous hits is a brilliant portrayal of America's fascination with fantasy entertainment. In a locker room in a seedy arena in Tennessee, the scurvy bunch of professional lady wrestlers includes Tiger who has a drinking problem and a small dog; Dani who displays a chip on her shoulder against the promoter who owes the girls several weeks' pay; Lessa, an Olympic shot putter with delusions of being a pro athlete and Netty, an overweight older woman who appears in the ring as "Pajama Mama." The eager-beaver go-fer Nola and the Knockout Sisters, refugees from the Big Time banned for drug and other abuses, complete the roster for tonight's main attraction. Sparks fly when the other women (#5580) find out about them. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) HIDE AND SHRIEK. (All Groups.) Mystery/Farce. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 9 f., or 6 m., 8 f. Int. In an old house in the Ozarks, the Dimshrouds are knee-deep in wacky shenanigans. June Hungerford, a young women being hounded by dangerous Edwina Hyde for stealing the man she loves, shows up at their door. 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and murder. Will Captain Oakley and Lady Monica save Maud? Will the mystery of the locked room be revealed? Wonderfully goofy roles and easy production requirements add up to an audience and cast pleaser by the author of Egad, The Woman in White and The Face on the Barroom Floor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20995) THE TROUBLE WITH SUMMER PEOPLE. (All Groups.) Mystery.Farce. Tim Kelly. 5 m., 8 f. Int. Each role is a comic gem in this zany whodunnit. A former military policeman (reduced in rank for arresting the Norwegian Ambassador) on his honeymoon at his aunt's guest house on Cape Cod endeavors to solve a ghastly murder. Early summer people, especially an irksome child sleuth, accusations of theft, and a howling storm complicate the investigation. Did our sleuth and his bride really steal a weather vane from the Puckle Sisters' funky gift shop? Are the coins real? Why are the shabby rooms in the guest house three hundred dollars per night, and what has any of this to do with bicarbonate of soda? "Part crazy quilt, part thriller. . . . A fun ride."-Hollywood Canyon Crier. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22743) WHILE THE LIGHTS WERE OUT. (Community Theatre.) Farce. Jack Sharkey. 5 m., 9 f. lnt. A Thunderstorm! The lights go out! An agonized voice! A pistol-shot! The lights come up! A blonde in black lace stands over the dead man holding a bloody dagger! The detective examines the body and announces "He's been strangled! This is but the opening of one of the most astounding and hilarious murder mysteries ever staged. Every clue is a lulu and the plot twists furiously. The final solution involves the most bizarre motive ever conceived! The delightful evening of mayhem gallops madly about the stage and will leave your audience breathless with surprise and laughter. The mystery is topnotch, the character marvelous and the comedy explosive! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25093) THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR or "Glimpsed Through The Saw dust." (All Groups.) Melodrama spoof. Tim Kelly. Inspired by H. Antoine D'Arcy's poem. 6 m., 8 f. or 5 m., 9 f., optional extras and Olio Acts. I set. Insidious villains endeavor to separate Madelaine Mockingbird, chambermaid turned singer, from the fortune left her by an old miner and from her true-love: Jack "Toulouse" Goodhart, painter turned tramp. Extremely simple to stage, The Face on the Barroom Floor features good character parts, hilarious sight gags, throwaway lines, zany action, classic vaudeville routines, and some really terrible (and very funny) jokes. Easy rehearsals and no production problems make this a joy to stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8108) A FLEA IN HER EAR. (All Groups.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. 2 versions; translated by John Mortimer and by Barnett Shaw. 9 m., 5 f. Barnett translation: 3 int., compo int. Shaw translation: I int. This masterpiece of farce is one of the funniest plays ever written. To test her husband's fidelity, Yvonne sends a letter from an imaginary admirer suggesting a hotel assignation and touches off a dizzy string of madcap mix-ups. The John Mortimer translation starred Albert Finney at London's Old Vic. Gower Champion directed the Barnett Shaw translation in San Francisco and New York. "The play, translated by Shaw, is pure cotton candy-lighter than air. "-Variety. Mortimer translation, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Shaw translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. Mortimer translation (#58) Shaw translation (#8048) DEADWOOD DICK, or a Game of Gold. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Tom Taggart. 7 m., 7 f., extras. Here's the dramatization of a bloodthirsty dime novel just like those Grandfather used to read in secret. The lure of the Old West-of heroes, of redskins biting the dust, of lily-pure maidens and black-hearted gamblers, of the never ending "Game of Gold"-is still with us. In 1876 Edward L. Wheeler started turning out novels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick. Overnight Dick became so popular that the series continued for fifteen years. Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters and the most amusing dialogue from these novels, Taggart has fashioned a blood-and-thunder melodrama. Long-lost daughters, stolen gold mines, kidnapped heroines and hairbreadth escapes abound! $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and (#353) Other Old Favorites, $7.50. THE MIRACLE WORKER. (All Groups.) Drama. William Gibson. 7 m., 7 f. Unit set. This stirring dramatization of the story of Helen Keller is one of the most successful and warmly admired plays of the modem stage. Blind and mute, and nobody knows what Helen's fate might have been had she not come under the tutelage of Annie Sullivan, an Irish girl who had been born blind. The Miracle Worker is principally concerned with the emotional relationship between the lonely teacher and her blind charge. Little Helen, trapped in her secret world, is bitter, violent, spoiled and almost animal-like. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind waiting to be rescued from that dark, tortured silence. Annie's success with Helen comes only after some of the most turbulent, violent, and emotion-packed scenes ever presented on the stage. "Interesting, absorbing and moving." -N. Y. Post. "Magnificent theatre."-N.Y. Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. NOTE: Following instructions from the author, this play may be released only to amateur groups at which the audience is non-segregat(#79) ed. Publicity Kit and Posters ONE O'CLOCK FROM THE HOUSE. Comedy. Frank Vickery. 5 m., 8 f., 1 boy. Int. This scorching comedy of personalities and situations revolves around the funeral of an elderly father. The family includes a cook who bakes almondless almond cakes, a man who is convinced his shopping trolley is a dog he has already taught to

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS beg and a sister who is a happy inmate at a psychiatric home. The hilarity includes a posthumous joke played by Father on his daughters. This is not a close-knit family; they've even got the wrong person from the psychiatric home! "The most enjoyable piece of theatre I've seen in months."--Guardian. A great success in London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#17061) REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Rod Serling. 12 m.,2 f., extras. Var. sets. Many people believe that this famous story about a punchdrunk fighter on the fast route to oblivion began as a TV drama before becoming an acclaimed film. In fact, it was first written as a play and was first produced on Broadway in 1985 and revived to acciaim in 1996. John Lithgow starred in a magnificent performance as Mountain McClintock, the fighter who doesn't know when to quit. McClintock is a trusting soul, and his innocence proves his ultimate undoing as his conniving manager dresses him as Daniel Boone and enters him as a comic relief on the wrestling circuit. After a drunken rampage on discovering the manager's treachery, McClintock arrives at a decision that enables him to recover something of his damaged pride and self-respect. "The most exciting thing to happen on Broadway in a long time." -N. Y. Daily News. "The kind of experience . Such a great play."-N.Y. you wish every evening at the theater could be. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20646) CARDS ON THE TABLE. (Little Theatre.) Murder mystery. Adapted from Agatha Christie's novel by Leslie Darbon. 7 m., 7 f. Ints.!ext Mr. Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of snuff boxes and other objets d'art. One evening he invites two specialists, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, to a dinner party to view his special collection: four people who have committed murder and gotten away with it. As they play bridge after dinner, Shaitana is daringly murdered by someone at the party. Battle sets out to solve the crime aided, of course, by the eager Mrs. Oliver who begins' with psychological deductions from the bridge score-cards. After many red herrings, skeletons in the cupboard and two more deaths, Battle lays his cards on the table. "As a puzzle, this murder mystery constantly teases, frustrates and surprises." -Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (#5689) (Royalty, $50-$40.) PLENTY. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. David Hare. 10 m., 4 f. (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. (may be simply suggested). Originally produced in London by the National Theatre, this cinematic dr~a by one of England's pre-eminent playwrights reaped praise in New York when produced by Joseph Papp Off Broadway and later on Broadway. This unique view of post-war history is seen through the life of a former fighter in the French Resistance. Susan Traherne, a decidedly unheroic heroine, marries a career diplomat and proceeds to wreck their lives. "An explosive theatrical vision of a world that was won and lost during and after World War II."-N.Y. Times. "Plenty has a near-epic resonance and Susan Traherne must be the most extensive woman's role in the contemporary English-language theatre. . . . Crackles with the kind of passionate intelligence that these new woman(#870) centered plays seem to have." -Newsweek. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) VIRTUE TRIUMPHANT or Her Honour in Peril. (All Groups.) Comic melodra mao Pat Norris. 8 m., 6 f., extras. Simple ints.!exts. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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DARK DEEDS AT SWAN'S PLACE (or Never Trust a Tattooed Sailor). (All Groups.) Melodrama. Tim Kelly. 7 m., 7 f., optional extras. Simple set. This sparkling entertainment is loaded with laughs and seedy jokes. Montague Leech and Carlota Castanet make a tidy profit shanghaiing lads from a disreputable tavern. The owner expires leaving the tavern to his only heir, Bertha Birthright. Montague must get rid of the damsel. Enter Jack Swan, English sailor with a love for the theatre. He offers Bertha protection and the hilarity mounts, especially after gold is discovered. An optional miniature musical revue can easily be added to the p19t. Designed for easy rehearsals and no production problems, Dark Deeds can be expanded or shortened to a desired length. "A classic melodrama. . . . Plenty here to boo, hiss and sigh about. . . . Sparkling dialogue. Worth seeing."-News Chronicle. $6.50. (#6012) (Royalty, $25-$25.) ONCE A CATHOLIC. (All Groups.) Comedy. Mary O'Malley. 4 m., 10 f. Var. sets. This extremely funny comedy. based on the author's school days in a London convent does not necessarily finish the title phrase with "always a Catholic." What emerges here is the resilience of children to survive in spite of, not because of, their upbringing and indoctrination. All the girls in Class 5A are called Mary (apart from one Maria). The author identifies herself with an innocent who has not yet learned the gentle art of deception and who consequently finds herself the perpetual scapegoat. The author concentrates principally on the amusing ways the girls deal with the dogma constantly pumped into them. Hilarious moments have a more serious underlying theme: how true does much of this remain today? "Sharp and evocative ... refreshing play that will be a source of much merriment among the devout and lapsed."-Plays and Players. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17029) CLERAMBARD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Marcel Ayme. Translated from French by Norman Denny. English version by Alvin Sapinsley. 7 m., 7 f. 2 ints'!ext. Tyrannical Comte de Clerambard and his family are living in destitution until he is transformed by a monk and tries to emulate Francis of Assisi. His family thinks he is mad and takes steps to combat the disease. "Makes a motley jest of the difference between aspiration and reality, which is always the soul of wit in the theatre."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5117)

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ual descriptions. The plays are published separately, $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 per play or $50-$40 per group of three.) Vocal Score sheet music, $6.50. Sheet music for Shadow Play (3 songs), Red Peppers (2 songs) and We Were Dancing (I song), $1.25 per song. (#1086) MOON ON A RAINBOW SHAWL. (Black Groups.) Drama. Errol John. 10 m., 4 f. Compo int.lext. "Fills the stage with flesh and blood . . . and such warmth and understanding that the problems and characters of a mean backyard in Trinidad assume a validity of all teeming, troubled places on this planet."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15123) THE IMPOSSmLE YEARS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx. 9 m., 5 f. lnt. A psychiatrist is writing about teenagers, with two teen daughters of his own constantly underfoot. The 17-year-old has a menagerie in tow that includes a Greenwich Village beatnik and an anemic Peace Corps reject. It is discovered that this girl has married in Maryland under an assumed name. The trouble is, she won't say who of the bunch is her husband and this causes the harried psychiatrist some monstrous nightmares. The younger daughter is boning up on Fanny Hill but concludes that it is tamer than her own household. Add the gym teacher in a version of Bennuda shorts, a hypochondriac doctor who is against Medicare and the transistorized rhythms of the watusi and you have the makings of a cascading comedy that sparkles with humor. "The audience laughed loudly and frequently."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#572) THE AMEN CORNER. (Black Groups.) Comedy. James Baldwin. 4 m., 10 f. Compo int. A self-anointed woman-preacher in a store-front church in Harlem is about to have her haven crumble. Her son, the church organist, is bent on following in the footsteps of his jazz musician father. Vibrant scenes ensue when the jazz player comes home to die. "The characters are honestly observed, and the lines have wings and humor."-N.Y. Daily News. "Wholly rich and beautiful [with) strong and honest values [and) profoundly poignant scenes."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. "Truth, vividness and rich humanity."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#217) THE DESPERATE HOURS. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Joseph Hayes, adapted from his best-selling novel. Simplified version. 11m., 3 f. Unit set. A smash hit on Broadway and winner of the Tony Award for best play, Desperate Hours has been simplified to employ a less complicated set. This is the story of a home invaded by three escaped criminals/and of civilized people being driven to violence. The Hilliards are a typical family living on the outskirts of Indianapolis; abruptly, their pleasant home becomes a jungle full of cunning and violence. Mr. Hilliard and 19year-old Cindy are allowed to go to work while Mrs. Hilliard and lO-year-old Ralphie remain in the house as hostages. Meanwhile, the police search closes in inexorably, conducted by a deputy sheriff who has his own reasons for wanting to kill. The Hilliards are helpless. A murder occurs almost accidentally. The police move closer. "That very rare thing, an almost perfect melodrama-fast, tight. logical, combining sentiment with gunfire in exactly the right proportions." -New Yorker. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#360) ONE WAY PENDULUM. (All Groups.) Comedy. N.F. Simpson. 10 m., 4 f. Compo int. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#17037) A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ivan Turgenev. Adapted by Emlyn Williams. 8 m., 5 f., 1 C. Int.lext. A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor, just like all of the women in the household. The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17-year-old ward; they make a wonderful portrait of two different women in love. "What a charming play . . . . The workmanship is carefully wrought. The lines of characterization are fine.. . It seems like a breath of fresh air."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#15121) GOOD NIGHT LADIES. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Cyrus Wood, based on the farce by Avery Hopwood and Charlton Andrews. 4 m., 10 f. 2 ints. Revived Off Broadway under title of Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, it has perennial appeal. The story is that of a young college girl who is in love with a shy professor. Her brother-inlaw, a friend of the professor, brings them together at his apartment one weekend. The professor is more than shy; he's terrified of women. This particular night the women go to the turkish bath while the men take the professor to a nearby Pagan Revel party and to break down his phobia. The party is raided and the men end up in the ladies' turkish bath after donning disguises to shake the police. This is out of the frying pan into the fire. Their disguises finally slip, but they lead the policewomen a merry chase by pulling the fire alarm and creating havoc. The morning after is not so gay, but it does have its ending of romance and learning. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9075) LADIES NIGHT IN A TURKISH BATH. Cyrus Wood, based on the farce by Avery Hopwood and Charlton Andrews. See Good Night Ladies above. THE TAVERN. (All Groups.) MysteryComedy. George M. Cohan. 10 m., 4 f. Int. One of the most famous of Cohan's plays happens in a lonely tavern on a wild stormy night where a mysterious vagabond, a woman and the State Governor and his family who have been held up a short distance away gather. Several persons are suspected of the crime and the mysterious vagabond takes infinite delight in observing developments as they take place about him. When suspense reaches an almost unbearable climax, the vagabond is at last located by the keepers of a nearby

THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER. (Black Groups.) Drama. Leslie Lee. 8 m., 6 f. Platfonn w. area staging. This striking story of a middle class Black family in a small Northeastern city is told on two levels: events that transpire on one hot June weekend and flashbacks to the memories of the visiting grandmother as a young woman. She recalls the three men, two black and one white, who are the fathers of her three children. A resourceful woman, she feels some regrets, no shame and feels she has had a useful life. Lou, an oversensitive boy who is about to graduate from high school, worships the grandmother. The resolution of his problems and his acceptance of his sexuality and blackness fonn the backbone of the play. "The people emerge as richly complex human beings. . . Storytelling with a passion. . . [that has) all the old-fashioned virtues."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#439) KIND LADY. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Edward Chodorov, adapted from a story by Hugh Walpole. 6 m., 8 f. Int. A dignified, aristocratic woman living quietly in her London home is gradually surrounded by diabolically clever crooks who ingeniously alienate her family and friends and nearly convinces them that she is hopelessly insane. It looks as though the kind lady is doomed to lose her property and her sanity, but a supreme effort of courage and skill conveys the true situation to the outside world in this intensely exciting drama. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#622) ALL THE WAY HOME. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tad Mosel. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family by James Agee. 6 m., 7 f., 1 c, extras. Compo int.lext. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Best Play Award, this is a portrait of early twentieth-century family life and the crushing intrusion of sudden death. A young father sets off with his pregnant wife, son, mother, and his brother's family to visit Aunt Saidy and Grandma. The husband leaves to check on his dying father and is killed en route. ' 'A striking drama about death. . . . A somber and beautiful play."-N.Y. Post. "A quiet compassion that one will remember long after some of the theatre's flashier sensations." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#216) AFTER HAGGERTY. (All Groups.) Drama. David Mercer. 9 m., 5 f. Int. Soon after moving into the flat he has rented from Haggerty, Bernard is faced with the arrival of Claire. For Claire, Bernard's unexpected presence is part of the aftennath of Haggerty, like her baby son and her bitter memories. For Bernard (with two failed marriages behind him), Claire's presence mirrors his own position. He is caught between his half-guilty sense of political impotence and his half-guilty resentment of his own ill-educated father's narrowness. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3024) THE SNOW JOB. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. George Eastman and Jack Perry. 10 m., 4 f. Int. A copywriter is being sent to Montana in the dead of winter. He decides to grab a weekend with his wife at their yet unfinished chalet in New Hampshire first. Beginning with his next door neighbor who chooses this weekend for a skiing trip and a stop-in visit that never stops and adding assorted uninvited guests, the weekend snowballs with frustrating confrontations. A houseful of people and no place to put them, a raging snowstonn, no hot water and a snow bunny who is after the host are enough to ruin ,any weekend. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21243) THE BLACKS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 9 m., 5 f. This amazing symbolic drama probes the baffling enigma of reality and appearance. In a play within a play, accused colored players reenact the ritualistic murder of a white before a jury of white-masked Negroes who represent in caricature a missionary bishop, 'an island-governor general, a haughty queen and her dwarf lackey. When they have played out their weird and gruesome crime, they turn on their judges and condemn them to death. Then, with polite adieux to the spectators, they .dance the Mozart minuet with which the play began. "There is little doubt that Genet is the most important writer to have appeared in France since the end of the second World War."-N.Y. Herald-Tribune. $13.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#274) STEAMBATH. (Little Theatre.) Morality play. Bruce Jay Friedman. 12 m., 2 f, Int. The men's area in a steambath is a microcosm into which a girl walks, takes a public shower and then retires leaving the stage to two homosexuals who do a song and dance in lip sinc. After this prelude, a Puerto Rican gives orders to a scanning TV monitor which result in two car crashes, an act of incest and a theft in a bus terminal. Some of the wishes he projects are vindictive: giving one area more unwanted rain or throwing a dart into someone's eye. Some are erotic. A new arrival does not believe that this person has so much power. He himself is a trickster hung up on whiskey sours. There is a scene of transfiguration with beautiful lighting and music to make the audience wonder whether or not this is God. "This is no ordinary steam bath. It is limbo-a waiting room between this world and the next, and the Puerto Rican bath attendant is God himself. Has an acute sense of the ridiculous."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#998) TONIGHT AT 8:30. (All Groups.) One-act plays. Noel Coward. Nine one-act plays grouped as desired furnish three evenings of smart showmanship and clever contrast, or these works which restore the one-act play to its legitimate professional dignity can be done singly. Critics' and audiences' lusty laughter and hearty applause in London, New York, Boston, and Chicago attest to the genius of the playwright. Tonight At 8:30 was produced in New York in three installments: Hands Across the Sea, The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers; We Were Dancing, Fumed Oak and Shadow Play; Ways and Means, Still Life and Family Album. See Index for individ-

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Sanitorium and it is learned that he, a madman, has been responsible for the vastly amusing and complicated series of misunderstandings. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22023) A MAJORITY OF ONE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Leonard Spigelgass. 6 m., 8 f. 4 ints. A Jewish widow from Brooklyn accompanies her daughter and son-in-law to Japan. The young man is on a delicate diplomatic mission to forge a commercial treaty of paramount importance to both countries. En route, the rrfOther meets a charming and distinguished Japanese gentleman and a warm friendship develops. The son-in-law misreads the implications of this friendship and disrupts it, nearly wrecking the treaty negotiations. The wiser elders rescue it in time, showing that intolerance between nations and individuals stems from a lack of understanding. This heart-warming hurricane of hilarity was revived in 1999 at the Jewish Repertory Theatre in New York. "Lessons in life, love, forgiveness and global economics are delivered with comic flair." NY. Times. Terrific entertainment.' ,-N Y. Daily (#680) Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE SEA GULL. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. Translated by Stark Young. 8 m., 6 f. 2 ints.l2 exts. This is a precise and true translation of this classic story about Irina, a middle-aged and fading actress; Trigorin, a moderately popular author who realizes that he has failed to achieve greatness, and Irina's muddled and melancholy son who is lovesick over a pretty neighbor named Nina. Nina, enchanted by the debonair Trigorin and obsessed with becoming an actress. runs off with him to the city where she bears him a child and becomes a common actress. Deserted by Trigorin, Nina returns and again rejects Irina's pathetic son. The play careens to a sudden and tragic end when he kills himself. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also available in an adaptation by Robert Brustein and a translation by Michael Frayn, see Index. Please specify translator when ordering. (#966) A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Robert Bolt. 11m., 3 f. Unit set. Awards and critical praise greeted this play in New York and London. Paul Scofield was pronounced brilliant for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in his last years as Lord Chancellor of England. When the Pope fails to give Henry VIII a divorce so he can marry Ann Boleyn, Henry requires his subjects to sign an Act of Supremacy making him the spiritual and temporal leader of England. Neither Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey nor the King himself can get More to comply. This is treason, and death is the punishment. "A Man for All Seasons is the ageless and inspiring echo of the small voice that calls to us: 'To thine own self be true.' .. A masterpiece."-NY. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. (#76) A CASE OF LIBEL. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Henry Denker, based on Louis Nizer's My Life in Court. 11 m., 3 f., 3 extras. Int. w. inset. This Broadway success is about a celebrated war correspondent's libel suit against a syndicated newspaper columnist. Ostensibly, the correspondent is suing to stop wild attacks on both his patriotism and his personal life. "Of the obsessive, self-righteous defendant of the extreme right the play provides a character sketch of fascinating and almost insane ruthlessness. We get the thoroughly satisfying fireworks of a sizzling cross-examination [and] a ringing series of declarations on the dangers of extremism and hysteria and the precious values of justice and freedom of speech."-NY. Times. "A salutary success."-NY. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5031) MOBY DICK-REHEARSED. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Orson Welles, adapted from Herman Melville. 12 m., 2 f. An ingenious idea is employed to accommodate the sweep of this classic story on the stage. A Shakespearean company who puts down their rehearsal sides of Lear and curiously take up those of a new play entitled Moby Dick. On the rehearsal stage of platforms, the teasers overhead suddenly become yardarms with sails and a tall ladder becomes a mast. The platforms become the decks of the ship on which the cast sails through the storms and tribulations of the Pequod hunting for Moby Dick. "Admirably bold and imaginative."-NY. Post. "An adventure in theatre-going. As I left the first performance I felt myself rather oddly shaky and breathless. ., There is nothing else anywhere near like Mohr Dick in the theatre."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#700) GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alice M. Cannon. 8 m.,4 f. 2 c. Compo int.lext. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9110) SEVENTEEN. (High School.) Comedy. Booth Tarkington. 8 m., 6 f. Ext. Silly Bill fell in love with Lolo, the Baby-Talk Lady, a vapid if amiable flirt. To woo her in a manner worthy of himself (and incidentally of her) he stole his father's evening clothes. When his wooings became a neighborhood nuisance, his mother stole the clothes back and had them altered to fit the middle-aged form of her husband, thereby keeping William at home in the evening. But when it came to Lolo's goodbye dance. not to be present was unendurable. How William Sylvanus again got the dress suit, and how as he was wearing it at the party the servant, Genesis, disclosed that the proud garment was in reality his father's are some of the elements in this chruming comedy of youth. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please state nonmusical version when ordering. (#21094) THE CRADLE SONG. (All Groups.) Romantic play. G. Martinez-Sierra. Translated by John Garrett Underhill. 4 m., IO f., extras. 2 ints. This popular and appealing college and little theatre play tells the story of a child brought to a convent and of the extraordinary change in the lives of the nuns wrought by the presence of the infant. The child grows to young womanhood and the nuns lavish upon her all the tenderness which is usually absent from the lives of those who have dedicated

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The young organist of the village church is courting Nancy, the niece of Alderman Helliwell who doesn't think very much of the companionship. With two other leading citizens and churchgoers he calls the young man. Gerald, to his home to warn him that playing the organ is all that is required of him. It is with some glee that the organist informs them that he has discovered the parson was not qualified to marry couples and consequently the village's three staunchest and most respected couples are not married at all. The effect of the announcement is cataclysmic. Before things are settled, lives have been jarred amusingly and smugness has given way to hilarious adventure. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25077) MAN ALIVE. (All Groups.) Comedy. John Dighton. 7 m., 7 f. Int. In preparation for the New Year's day sale, a window-dresser has the bright idea of utilizing a special sun lamp in the display window which contains two female dummies and Waldorf, a male dummy fresh from the factory. The lamp's rays have fantastic properties and turn Waldrof into a beguiling young man-and later tum Hathaway, the store's unpopular owner, into a dummy. While Hathaway is helplessly immobilized, Waldorf revolutionizes the store by throwing a free champagne party. He also thoroughly enjoys himself with the adoring female staff. His human life is short, if exceedingly merry, while Hathaway's enforced sojourn in the display window has taught him a few valuable lessons. "A lovely and original bit of nonsense."-Evening News, London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15043) UNCLE WILLIE. (All Groups.) Farce. Julie Berns and Irving Ellman. 6 m., 5 f., 3 c. Int.! ext. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#23012) THE BOY WHO CHANGED THE WORLD. (High School.) Comedy. Patricia Malango. 8 m., 6 f., optional extras. 3 exts. or I set. A prehistoric teenager has a problem: he is flunking fighting, hunting, and fishing and he faces the certain death of exile. To impress glanl0rous Dorothy, he invents painting, poetry, and music-all humiliating failures. Just in time to save himself he invents the wheel and the villagers reward him with the status of manhood; it even looks as if his father will be elected mayor after all. Dorothy is available now, but George has learned the (#4104) meaning of love and chooses another. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE CAVE DWELLERS. (All Groups.) Comedy, William Saroyan. 9 m., 5 f. Bare stage. The Cave Dwellers records the adventures of some penniless people who are camping out on the stage of an abandoned theatre that is about to be pulled down for a housing project. One who calls herself 'the Queen' 1S the ruin of a former actress. 'The King' used to be a celebrated clown. 'The Duke' was once a prizefight champion. 'The Girl' (she is too young to have been famous at anything) is a homeless, frightened wretch who comes in off the streets. Although food is scarce and the cold is congealing, the characters have glowing spirits and wonderful memories of their triumphant days. Humor, grace, innocence and improvisation distinguish this Broadway classic. "One of the most enchanting stories he has ever told." -N Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#306) STALIN ALLEE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Albert Mannheimer and Frederick Kohner. 9 m., 5 f. Extras. lnt. A hilarious comedy that's also a penetrating commentary on the absurdities of the Communist way of life. "It is truth with a twist, a satire. . . There is wit and sophistication."-Dallas Times Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21320) NUDE WITH VIOLIN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 8 m., 6 f. Int. Brilliant painter Paul Sorodin dies; indecently close to death's heels come Sorodin's relatives, his business manager and others who, their grief not entirely un tinged with greed, anxiously await the reading of the will. Sebastian, valet and companion extraordinary to Sorodin, steps in with some jolting surprises for the mourners. One jolt makes it clear Sorodin was not all he had seemed. Also on hand with revelations of their own are an eccentric Russian Princess, an ex-show girl, an Eleventh Hour Immersionist and a mute but effective gentleman named Fabrice. Before they get through, reputations are arranged and reananged. "Bright and brittle humor, loads (#777) of laughs." -N Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE MISER. (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere. Adapted by Miles Malleson. 11m., 3 f. Int. One of the funniest plays in dramatic literature, this modem version abounds with laughter. The son and daughter of the miser fall in love and are about to declare their intentions when the miser announces his own wedding plans: he, to the girl with whom his son is in love, and his wealthy friend, to his daughter. After a few rollicking laps around the block in which the miser's hidden treasure figures, it is revealed that the rich friend is the long-lost father of the boy who loves the miser's daughter and of the girl who is loved by the miser's son. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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Also available in a translation by Albert Bermel, see Index. Please specify adapt. er/translator when ordering. (#698) GREEN GROW THE LILACS. (AU Groups.) Drama. Lynn Riggs. 10 m., 4 f., cowboys, girls, extras. This is the romantic play of pioneer life on which the musical Oklahoma is based. A tender and beautiful love story is told in the colorful language of cowboy life. Laurey loves Curly, the cowhand, but he is too cocksure and jaunty so Laurey uses eternal feminine wiles. A dark-minded ranch-hand is also attracted to the lithe, spirited Laurey and she is frightened of him. His threatening presence hangs over ~he romance. On Curly and Laurey's wedding night, in the course of a frontier chivaree, the inflamed jealousy of the ranch-hand breaks out and Curly is forced to kill him. This unusual and handsome play is always effective. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#493) TURN BACK THE CLOCK. (High School.) Comedy. Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes. 6 m., 8 f., extras. Int. The play is built around the universal truth that all generations are more or less alike after all. In a very brief prologue, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill are waiting up for their children, worried and concerned. Mr. Hill, a bank president and trustee of his church, is growing angry and harping on the socalled "irresponsibilities" of his own youthful ambitions and foibles, and the clock is turned back. We meet Mr. and Mrs. Hill as high school seniors in 1928 and get a gleeful glimpse into those not-so-dead days in which parents and children behaved in almost exactly the same way as they behave today. It's all laughter, heart-warming tenderness and surprises. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#1094) ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. (High School.) Comedy. Alice Chadwicke. 4 m., 10 f. Int. Green Gables is the home of lovable Matthew Cuthbert and his stem sister, Marilla. They agree to adopt a boy to help with the farm work. Imagine their consternation when Anne Shirley, a girl in her teens, is sent by the orphanage by mistake! Anne touches Matthew's heart with her vivid imagination and her charitable viewpoint, but it takes time to reach the tender heart beneath Marilla's hard exterior. Then there is young Josie Pye, a lad named Moody Spurgeon and Matthew, Anne's kindred spirit. This lovely classic is very simple to present and full of warmth and wit. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please state play when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#225)

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Charles Ludlam (#5242) ........................................................................................ Var. DAVY CROCKETT. Alice Chadwicke (#6020) .......................................................................... Int. DEAD SECRET. Rodney Ackland (#6034) ...................................................................... Cornp. int. A DIFFERENT DRUMMER. Gene McKinney (#362) .................................................................. Var. THE DISENCHANTED. Budd Schulberg & Harvey Breit (#6063) .................................................... 3 ints. ESCAPADE. Roger MacDougall (#60350) ............................................................................... Int. THE FIGHTING COCK. Jean Anouilh (#8026) .................................................................... Int.lext. A FULL HOUSE. Fred Jackson (#8085) ................................................................................. Int. THE GENTLEMAN FROM ATHENS. Emmet Lavery (#9019) ......................................................... Int. GOSSIPY SEX. Lawrence Grattan (#9090) ............................................................................... Int. THE GREAT AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY PARADE. Archibald MacLeish (#9109) ............................. Var. A GUN PLAY. Yale M. Udoff (#9131) .................................................................................. Int. HANG ON TO LOVE. Lynn Riggs (#10007) .......................................................................... 2 int. HERE COMES THE CLOWNS. Philip Barry (#10079) ................................................................. Int. HIS AND HERS. Fay Kanin &' Michael Kanin (#10095) ............................................................... 2 int. HOT CORNER. Allen Boretz & Ruby Sully (#10134) ................................................................... Int. I CAPTURE THE CASTLE. Dodie Smith (#11006) ..................................................................... Int. IN THE MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. Heinar Kipphardt, trans. by Ruth Speirs (#11039) ............... Int. IS ZAT SO. James Gleason & Richard Taber (#11068) ............................................................ Ext.l2 int. JUNE WEDDING. Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes (#12037) ........................................................... Int. JUSTICE WITHOUT REVENGE. Lope de Vega, trans. by Jill Booty (#12401) ......................................... Int. LAST WARNING. Thomas F. Fallon (#14039) ...................................................................... :.2 int. LIVE LIKE PIGS. John Arden (#14105) ................................................................................ Int. MAN WITH BAGS. lonesco, trans. by Marie-France Ionesco & adapted by I. Horovitz (#15001) ...................... Simp. MISTER PEEPERS. Marrijane & Joseph Hayes, based on the television series (#15118) ................................. Int. MYSTERY MAN. Morris Ankrum & Vincent Duffy (#15175) ........................................................... Int. NATURE'S WAY. Herman Wouk (#16012) .............................................................................. Int. THE OLD MAID. Zoe Akins & Edith Wharton (#17020) .............................................................. 3 int. PENNY. Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes (#18053) ..................................................................... Int. PORTRAIT OF DEBORAH. Charles Emery (#18104) .......... , ..................................................... .4 int. RIDDLE ME THIS. Daniel N. Rubin (#20032) ........................................................................ 2 int. ROAD TO YESTERDAY. Beulah Marie Dix & Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland (#20046) ................................ 3 int. ROLLING HOME. 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*CANDLES TO THE SUN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tennessee Williams. 13 m., 9 f plus extras. Unit set. Set in the Red Hills coal mining district of Alabama and dealing with attempts of the miners to unionize and with the bleak lives of their families, this play is the first full-length effort by playwright Thomas Lanier Williams to be produced. It subsequently opened to rave reviews in St. Louis. The work melds Williams' customary poetry with the angry polemic of Not About Nightingales. "An earnest and searching examination of a particular social reality set out in human and dramatic terms."-St Louis Star-Times. $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#5328) *FRANKENSTEIN. (All Groups.) Drama. Adapted by Dorothy Louise from the novel by Mary Shelley. II m., 5 f. plus extras. This remarkable adaptation rescues the classic story from simplistic notions of horror and fear, remaining faithful to Shelley's intention to show how the Creature gradually grows into malignity because of the continual rejection he experiences while his creator refuses to respond to his very human needs. Amateurs and professionals will find this to be the most successful Frankenstein ever adapted for the stage. "Frankenstein's new look tailors a play for performance and provides a strong plot suitable for contemporary drama."-Library Bookwatch. "Louise's new adaptation is faithful to Shelley's central point."-Stage Directions. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8230) *FUGITIVE KIND. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tennessee Williams. 19 m., 4 f plus extras. Unit set. Fugitive Kind, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, is one of Williams' earliest plays. Rich in dramatic material, the play takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront, in the shadow of Eads Bridge where Williams spent Saturdays away from his job in a shoe factory job and met many of his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA and even gangsters and G-men. $13.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#8695) *HOT I'LASHES. Comedy. Dori Appel and Carolyn Myers. (See Index for description.) *IVANOV. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Anton Chekhov. Adapted by Yasen Peyankov and Peter Christenson. IO m., 5 f. The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama. Ivanov, a young estate owner, is too intelligent and too bored to endure his provinciallife. He is a superfluous man attracted to a beautiful young woman who threatens his moral foundation with tragic results. This version beautifully captures Chekhov's dialogue for modem audiences. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also available in an adaptation by David Hare; see Index. Please specify adaptor when ordering. (#11703) *OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Sophocles. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. 6 m., 2 f plus chorus and extras. This brilliant work completes the translator's presentation of the Oedipus trilogy, with this play forming the bridge between events in Oedipus the King and Antigone (see index for these titles). It begins with the arrival of Oedipus in Colonus after years of wandering and it ends with Antigone setting off tow.ard her fate in Thebes. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16955) *THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Thomas Kekker. Adapted by Bernard Sahlins. 17 m., 4 f First performed in 1599, The Shoemaker's Holiday was the most popular non-Shakespearean comedy of its day. It is a hearty and occasionally ribald tale that overflows with rich characters and good humor. This adaptation streamlines the dialogue for contemporary audiences and makes it extremely playable. "The adaptations are invisible to anyone who is not intimately (#20893) familiar with the text."-Library Journal. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) *STAIRS TO THE ROOF. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tennessee Williams. 16 m., 8 f. plus extras. Unit set. Much of the play is set in a shirt factory in St. Louis and chronicles the daily frustrations of white-collar workers who find themselves stuck in dead-end jobs that stifle creativity. The protagonist, Benjamin Murphy, seeks release through frequent trips to the washroom to write poetry and a romantic affair with a coworker. He finds his ultimate escape hatch when he discovers an unused staircase that leads to the roof-and a wide world beyond. The fantastic, sci-fi-style ending predates the likes of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Trek by decades. The author called this play a prayer for the wild of heart who are kept in cages and dedicated it to all the wage eamers of the world. The theme is clear and still resounds today: can people control technology or does technology control mankind. $11.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) . (#20897) *STUFF HAPPENS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Hare. 19 m., 3 f, extras. Unit set. "Stuff happens . . . and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." Donald Rumsfeld's famous response to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference in 2003 provides the title for a controversial play about the extraordinary process leading up to the

invasion of Iraq. How does the world settle its differences, now there is only one superpower? What happens to leaders who risk their credibility with skeptical publics? From events which have dominated international headlines for two years David Hare has fashioned a historical narrative and a human drama about the frustrations of power and the limits of diplomacy. "His best political play yet.. . An exhilarating account of the genesis of the current war in Iraq." --New Yorker. "The most significant theatrical artifact yet to grow from our catastrophic times. "-Newsqay. "The most feverishly anticipated play in London in recent memory."-N.Y. Times. $15.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21969) 'ALLO 'ALLO. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. IO m., 5 f. plus extras. Unit set. Based on the popular British televison series, this uproarious comedy relates the adventures of a hapless cafe owner in occupied France. He and his wife have stashed a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis in a sausage in their cellar, where two British airmen are also hiding until the Resistance can repatriate them. Communications with London using the wireless that is disguised as a cockatoo add to the many embarrassments this intrepid proprietor endures in the company of his patrons. News that the Fuhrer is scheduled to visit the town inspires tricksters disguised as Hitler to frequent the cafe. Meanwhile Rene summons all the wit he can muster to save his cafe and his life. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3550) AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated from Le Dindon by Nicki Frei and Peter Hall. 9 m., 8 f.. Ints., exts. "[This] brilliantly paced bedroom farce is an absolute triumph from start to finish. The witty, highly risque translation sets the tone for an evening of frenzied Bacchanalian exuberance . . . [that is] enough to make you weep with laughter."-Daily Express. . 'Rises to an inspired climatic crescendo of pandemonium and panic . . . with three couples all accidentally booked into the same hotel room, all with plenty to hide . . . . A night of true escapist pleasure." -Evening Standard . 'In all of drama there are no characters so busy and so petty, so frantic yet so absurd as the sexobsessed men and women rattling round Feydeau's belle-epoque Paris . . . . How artfully Feydeau raises our expectations and how splendidly he fulfills them." -London Times. "An unassailable masterpiece." -Guardian. "A crowd(#3575) pleasing rib-tickIer."-What's On. $12.95, (Royalty, $60-$40.) ADVISE AND CONSENT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Loring Mandel, based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by Allen Drury. 18 m., 4 f., 12 extras. Cyc., wings, wagon insets. Here is a superb melodrama about backstage politics in Washington during a sub-committee investigation of a man proposed for Secretary of State. Was the candidate a communist? A witness says yes, but under adroit cross-examination, comes apart at the seams . The crotchety old southern senator who produces the witness now appears to be only a sour-apple obstructionist. But is he? In the ensuing backstage intrigues one opportunistic senator so forces the issues that they end in calamity and in death for the subcommittee chairman. But on the floor of the senate the next day, the senior members restore the traditions of probity and honor. "Big, bold, rough, tough, very exciting. .. You'll be on the edge of your seat."-N.Y. Herald-Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3022) AH, WILDERNESS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Eugene O'Neill. 9 m., 6 f 2 Ints., ext. Revived in 1998 to acclaim at New York's Lincoln Center and honored with numerous award nominations, Ah, Wilderness is a sharp departure from the gritty reality of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July Fourth weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town, it offers a tender retrospective portrait of small-town family values, teen-age growing pains and young love. "A breath of fresh air. . . . A miracle of sense and sensibility . . . . Vividly alive. "-N. Y. Post. "Happy days are here again in a positively winning revival [that is] . . . less a comedy than an elegy for a warm, safe, lost world. .. The note of tender elegy is sweet. "-N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#32) AMADEUS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Peter Shaffer. 12 m., 3 f., extras. Unit set w. insets. Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play, an Ocsar for Best Movie, and triumphant in recent revivals, this provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the Austrian court, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition-to be a great composer. Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless libertine who has achieved that which is beyond Salieri' s grasp. Full of envy and hatred. the mediocre composer sets out to destroy this child who effortlessly hears the music of the spheres. "An iridescent triumph. . of complexity of thought, emotion and dramatic power."-N. Y. Post. "Mozart blazes." -N. Y. Times. "Inspired." -Toronto Star. "Snags the soul and lives, in some way, forever. .. Vast and glorious. "-London Free Press. "Brilliant." -WABC-TV. "A theatrical wonder."-WCBS-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Posters (#155) COAST OF UTOPIA. (Advanced Groups.) Trilogy. Tom Stoppard. Ensemble cast of 18 m., 12 f. Various sets. This epic trilogy of sequential but self-contained plays vividly portrays a group of Russian intellectuals as they e\olve from philosophers into revolutionaries against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia ,md European upheaval. 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dollars playing the slots at Atlantic City and then promptly dropped dead. As his contentious family gets more and more distraught during this memorable evening concocted by the co-creator of Tony and Tina's Wedding, a fight erupts over opening the casket. Finally they do and Paddy's body is not in there! While the missing body is located, the audience is invited to eat, drink and be merry at an authentic Irish-American wake, complete with traditional Irish drinking songs and some lively tap and step dancing. Paddy is found, the party continues and all are treated.to a great surprise-one straight out of the song "Finnegan's Wake." "It's a cheerful event."-New Jersey Star Ledger. "A rip-roaring good time."-Irish Echo. "An evening of great fun." -On Stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8169) GRANDCHILD OF KINGS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Adapted by Harold Prince. 23 m. & f. (doubling possible). Unit set. Staged by Harold Prince as a piece of environmental theatre with action flowing around the audience, Sean O'Casey's turbulent life unfolds in lyrical excerpts from the first two books of his six-volume autobiography. The material is laced with music, singing, and dancing, crowd scenes, plays within the play, and monologues in which the older O'Casey watches early scenes from his life. "No synopsis could do justice to the richness of Grandchild of Kings. Every moment is alive with characters, with music and dancing, and with feelings that explode and vanish."-New Yorker. "Exuberant, emotionally rich. "-Time. "An ace of a play."-WNYW-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please write for information about the music. (#9176) GRANDMA SYLVIA'S FUNERAL. (Little Theatre.) Interactive comedy. Conceived by Glenn Wein and Amy Lord Blumsack. 12 m., 10 f Int. Audiences flock to join the bereaved at this Jewish funeral, a long-running interactive sensation Off Broadway and in Los Angeles. The mourners (i.e. the audience) at Grandma's funeral are treated to fond remembrances, biographical anecdotes, shameless bickering and vaudeville-like turns with the dearly departed's friends and family. A light mitzvah meal provides a brief respite in the on-going hilarity. "A raucous comedy."-N.Y. Times. "Puts the fun back in funeral. .. You'll die laughing."-N.Y. Daily News. "Wacky and engaging . . . . Only the food is Kosher!" -Jewish Week. "Life restoring. "-Newsday. "Sing with the Rabbi, schmooze with the family, or just sit back and enjoy. The festivities are hystericaJ!"-WNBC TV. "Interactive theatre reaches new levels . . . in which the entire audience is swept into the frolic."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Sheet music, $10.00. (Music Roy(#9200) alty, $10 per performance.) GUT GIRLS. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Sarah Daniels. See Index for description. HATED NIGHTFALL. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Howard Barker. 7 m., 5 f, chorus. Unit set. What occurred on the last night in the lives of the Russian imperial family remains forever shrouded in mystery. In just such absences of historical knowledge, Howard Barker's dramatic instinct flourishes. Here, he speculates on events and motives using a form of tragedy he calls "Catastrophic Theatre" that is poetic, metaphoric, unobjective and emotional. The protagonist is the children's tutor, a man catapulted to power but bent on ends at odds with official ideologies. Searching for an immaculate form of love, this aspiring saint swings between cruelty and pity. He murders with comic abandon those who stand between him and his (#10693) dream. $11.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) IF LOVE WERE ALL. (All Groups.) Drama. Norman Beim. 22 m., 13 f. (doubling and tripl{ng possible). Area staging. Based on new information that exonerates one of history'S most maligned women, If Love Were All is the colorful and dramatic true story of Margaretha Zelle (a.k.a Mata Hari). Married to a soldier many years her senior, this Dutch girl is swept off to Malaysia where she is brutalized by her husband and one of her children is poisoned. She flees to Paris and becomes a famous exotic dancer, has many affairs with important men, and becomes a spy for the French during World War I. The Germans see to it that the French think she has betrayed them and she is executed. Published in Infamous People, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#10974) INDIAN INK. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard .. 14 m., 4 f Unit set. Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. Intermittent scenes, which are set in England in 1980, focus on Nell as she sorts through the cherished letters to aid Flora's would-be biographer, Eldon Pike. Within this context, Indian Ink weaves a captivating, whimsical love story that underscores aspects of relationships between cultures and between the sexes that are indelible. "A celebration of the power of art and an elegy for its secrets."-London Sunday Times. "Moving and intelligent."-Guardian. "Charming. "-Financial Times. "An evening of wry, romantic melancholia."-Evening Standard. "A moving and entertaining evening-funny, sad, and touchingly gently.' '-Mail on Sunday. "This sad, funny play is a wonderfully affectionate remembrance of things past." -Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted. (#11118) THE INVENTION OF LOVE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Tom Stoppard. 22 m., I f (with doubling). Int., ext. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically alive. The river flowing through this play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early manhood, where high Victorianism is being challenged by the aesthetic movement and an Irish student called Wilde is about to burst onto the scene. By century's end, Housman, has secured his reputation in the sixty-three poems collected in A Shropshire Lad. The Invention of Love uses the free form of memory to give a sympatric

He and his sisters, like many young upperclass Russians of their generation, are enihralled by romantic idealism and German utopian philosophy. Leaving behind the passions and conflagrations of family life at the age of 26, Michael sails for Germany. His new friend Alexander Herzen, the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russian history, waves him goodbye. Shipwreck continues the story of Michael Bakunin, the critic Vissarion Belinsky, the writer Ivan Turgenev and their circle, but as the action shifts to Paris, it is Alexander Herzen and his wife who occupy center stage. Intoxicating anticipation vanishes into dashed hopes during the revolution of 1848. For Herzen, the loss of his political illusions is overshadowed by personal disasters. In Salvage, the year is 1852 and Herzen, retreating from public and private calamities, has arrived in London. Emigree circles are buzzing with intrigue and Herzen's money as well as his sardonic wit soon have an outlet among them. "Exquisite theatre. One is treated to a utopian journey of the~trical deligbts . . . in these marvelous plays." -londontheatre.com. "Beautiful. . . . The meanings cohere as you watch, not as narrative but as poetry, and keep growing in recollection."-Finanical Times. "Contains passages of breathtaking beauty."-Guardian. "Nothing of such intellectual ambition, such daring or epic scope has marked the National Theatre's . . . history as this brainstorm trilogy."-Evening Standard. Each play: $13.00. (Royalty, $75-$75 per play.) Slightly Restricted. Voyage (#24642) Shipwreck (#21481) Salvage (#21480) DONE TO DEATH. (All Groups.) Mystery-Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 8 m., 8 f. Int. Once famous mystery writers involve the audience as they apply their individual methods to solving various murders. They include a couple who write sophisticated murders, a young author of the James Bond school, a retired writer of the hardhitting method and an aging queen of the logical murder. "Ingeniously packed into the script is a parody of every mystery plot, hero, and villain created in the past fifty years. The story alternates between reality and imagination as tive mystery writers wrestle with the problem of writing a television mystery series. All around them murders occur." -Glens Falls Post Star. "Carmichael plays a skillful and fastpaced game of guess again with the audience. . Clever and rewarding." -Bennington Banner. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#365) DON'T DRINK THE WATER. (All Groups.) Farce. Woody Allen. 12 m., 4 f. Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture-taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully and frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador's son and the caterer's daughter even have time to fall in love. '''Moved the audience to great laughter. . . . Allen's imagination is daffy, his sense of the ridiculous is keen and gags snap, crackle and pop." -N. Y. Daily News. "It is filled with. . bright and hilarious dialogue." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#53) EARL THE VAMPIRE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sean WeIch. 9 m., 7 f Int. Earl has a problem. He is a vampire and tired of being invisible. Against the wishes of his family, he appears on television, contracts to write a book and heads up a movement to establish vampires as a recognized minority group in America. What follows is a public that wishes to exploit him, a government that wants to suppress him and a family that wants to disown him. Lurking in the background is Lord Evido, a.k.a. Earl. He is Hampton's worst fear: an old-fashioned vampire who knows the danger of destroying an age-old myth. The coffee table is a coffin and "finger" food is served at cocktail tilJle! $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#6965) EXECUTION OF JUSTICE. (Advanced Groups.) Docu-drama. Emily Mann. 26 m., 9 f. or 16 m., 7 f. Unit set. This sensational study of the killing of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay activist, takes place during the trial and uses the actual words of participants in the controversial case. Focus is on why Dan White committed the crimes and why the jury chose to convict him of voluntary manslaughter, not murder. "Pulls the audience forward . . . to analyze the social factors that contributed to the murders. It succeeds . . . in the theatrically tricky task of putting a complex actual event into dramatic focus." -Variety. "A dynamite play . . . about the meani~g of justice and politics in America. "-S. F. Chronicle. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7072) A FEW GOOD MEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Aaron Sorkin. 14 m., 1 f., m. extras. Int. This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea-bargain and a cover-up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial. "Triumphant . . . entertainment." -N. Y. Post. "Enormously entertaining." -N. Y. Daily News. "Plenty of wise-cracking humor and suspense."-Time Magazine. "Fresh and adroitly updated and conditioned to our time and socio-political climate."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) (Mandatory Music Royalty, $2.50 per performance.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#8146) FINNEGAN'S FAREWELL. (Little Theatre.) 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ac~ount of Housman in the age of Oscar Wilde, and it asks whose passion was really the fatal one? "Dazzling. . . . A magnificently funny play, but as fleshily layered as an onion, ideas wrapping around ideas, thoughts jostling at thoughts, all jigging into place . . . . Stoppard brilliantly places Houseman and Wilde ... in the English cultural landscape of the time."-N.Y. Post. "Stirring theatre."-N.Y. Times. "The calisthenics Stoppard provides for the cerebrum leave you giddy and exhilarated."-N.Y. Daily News. $12.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. (Advanced Groups). Comic drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by David Hare. 31 m., 6 f. (much doubling possible). Unit set. Here is a brilliant translation by the renowned British dramatist of one of the twentieth century's dramatic masterpieces. Diana Rigg starred at London's Royal National Theatre as the sturdy entrepreneur who struggles to use the war that is ravishing Europe to turn a profit, only to find that war means everyone loses. "A superb version that bristles with paradoxes, irony, and skepticism." -Independent on Sunday. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $75-$50.) For other translations, see (#15532) below. Please specify translator when ordering. MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHll,DREN. Comic drama with songs. (Ad vanced Groups.) Bertolt Brecht. 2 versions: translated by Eric Bentley and by John Willett. 18 m., 5 f., extras. Intl5 exts. Brecht follows Mother Courage and her children thTough twelve years of the 17th century holy wars in Sweden, Poland, Finland, Bavaria and Italy. Her first son is a dolt, but he makes a dashing soldier and plunderer. Her second son is honest: he meets an early death, so Mother Courage and her dumb daughter follow the armies with their wagon and wares as first one side then another wins. Bentley translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Willett translation, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano Score and/or orchestration available on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music: Royalty, $15 per performance.) Also see above for translation by David Hare. Please specify translator when ordering. Bentley translation (#706) Willett translation (#14983) MY ANTONIA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles Jones. Adapted from the novel by Willa Cather. 11 m., 7 f., 7 c. Unit set. This faithful adaptation brings the wonderful romantic novel's profoundly human characters and its expansive view of 19th century American frontier life vibrantly to the stage. The play celebrates Antonia's story and her extraordinary delight in the happenings of daily life. It moves from the raw hardships of her immigrant family's first year as settlers on the plains through her joyful and rebellious youth to her fulfillment as a farm wife and mother. "No romantic novel ever written in America is one half so beautiful as My Antonia."H.L. Mencken. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15272) NAPLES GETS RICH. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. Translated by Maria Tucci. 10 m., 7 f. Perhaps de Filippo's most trenchant play, this dark comedy about desperate people in desperate times is set in Naples during World War II and following the American occupation. In Eduardo de Filippo: Four Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16584) NECKTIE BREAKFAST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bill Nave. 16 m. and f. (with doubling.) Unit set. Produced twice to acclaim at New York's 29th Street Rep, this riveting piece is set around the last public execution in the United States, the 1936 hanging of a black man for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman in Kentucky. The mayor, surprisingly for this time and place, is a woman. She was reluctantly thrust into office after her husband's sudden death and now must preside over the execution, even as she takes a stand against hypocrites, including those in her own family. "A ferocious, fascinating slice of dark American history."-Back Stage. "Nave takes a fictional rather than a straight documentary approach, allowing him. . . to emphasize the most disturbing elements of the event, and best of all, to structure the play with fluid movement across time."-Village Voice. $6.50. (Royal(#16588) ty, $60-$40.) NOEL COWARD'S LONG ISLAND SOUND. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Edited from the original by Barry Day. 10 m., 12 f. Ints. This fictionalized version of an alltoo-real weekend the author spent as a guest on Long Island in 1937 so vividly characterizes certain luminaries of the era that it was neve, produced during their lifetimes. Lured by the promise of a quiet weekend at the shore, an unsuspecting British author on tour in America unhappily finds he is an exotic curiosity among the dashing Hollywood stars, socialites and wannabes who swirl mercilessly around him. Written in 1947, this hilarious farce is Coward's only play set in America. "A fast, funny comedy about an innocent among sharks.. . This is good 1930s farce, full of laughs."-N.Y. Post. "At its best . . . when everyone is on stage in a frenzy of social crisis." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#13807) NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Tennessee Williams. 19 m., 3 f., plus extras. Ints. An early work by a revered playwrigllt that caused a sensation in Houston, New York and London, this is a raw, sprawling dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937. Convicts who led a hunger strike to protest conditions were locked in a scalding cell where four of them died. The sympathetic treatment of blacks and homosexuals is revolutionary for this time and may explain why the play remained unproduced for sixty years. "Enthralling. . . . The emotions, both savage and painfully delicate, that saturate this work are arguably more rich and varied in tone than those of any American dramatist." -N. Y. Times. "Adds to the reputation of one of America's greatest playwrights."-N.Y. Daily News. "Changes our perception of a major writer and still packs a hefty (#16110) political punch. "-London Independent. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. (Little Theatre.) Comedy.Drama. Dale Wasserman, adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey. 13 m., 4 f. Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake when he clashes with the head nurse. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion,

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THE KILLINGS TALE: An Original Mystery. (All Groups.) Mystery. W.A. Frankonis. 12 m., 3 f., 1 m. child. Various sets. London, 1606. Murders that mirror and interrupt Shakespeare's plays are afoot in the Globe Theatre and everyone is a suspect, even Shakespeare. Some suspect a ghost. It is up to puritanical High Constable Colin Makepeace to sort through the dead-ends and false trails to find the truth and the killer. Along the way, the straitlaced constable finds he is falling in love with Nell Dancer, the spirited tavern owner who is Shakespeare's London girlfriend. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "Murder most entertaining . . . [with] some wonderful wordplay that captures Shakespeare's metaphor-rich speech. "-Metroland. "A richly layered show . . . that appeals to the senses and tickles the imagination. You'll be caught up in a good old-fashioned murder mystery . . . . Offers a unique sense of what it might have been like to work at the old Globe."-Daily Gazette. "A nifty show, full of intrigue . . . with a very tight plot that is not afraid to poke clever fun at the times while maintaining suspense. "-Northeast Public Radio. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#13057) LONG ISLAND SOUND. See Noel Coward's Long Island Sound. LYSISTRATA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Aristophanes. 2 versions: translated by Douglass Parker and by Nicholas Rudall. Var. characters. Int., ext. Women striking for peace using the most powerful weapons in the feminine arsenal are the core of this most popular of Aristophanes' plays. Parker translation, $5.99. (Royalty, $50$40.) Rudall translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Parker translation (#661) Rudall translation (#14200) THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Alan Bennett. 22 m., 6 f., extras. Ints. or unit set. In this sensational drama from the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain George III becomes increasingly erratic after losing the American colonies until doctors are brought in to cure his madness. All of them are eminently respectable quacks and one is in the employ of the Prince to Wales, a man with a strong motive for easing the king further into madness. When the King recovers with the aid of a country doctor, a constitutional crisis is averted. "Absolutely engrossing." -N. Y. Post. "A richly amusing evening of high office politics with plenty of contemporary resonances." -Daily Express. "What Mr. Bennett achieves with a consummate sense of theatre is in making this remote, ambiguous monarch character totally accessible to a modern audience, at once a fascinating figure of both tragedy and heroism."-Daily Mail. $14.95. (Royalty, (#15576) $60-$40.) MALCOLM X: MESSAGE FROM THE GRASS ROOTS. (Little Theatre.) Historical drama. Robert Riche. 12 m., 4 f., extras. Multiple sets. This powerful dranla explores the rise of the black militant from his days as a drug pusher and thief to his emergence as a major influence on race relations in American. "The audience is involved from the beginning as cops materialize from the stalls, guns go off, loud hailers blare out orders and KKKs invade the theatre. . . . A powerful evening."-Sunday Telegraph. "Both highly topical and of universal significance."-Evening Post. "As highly charged emotionally as you would expect a play about racialism in the U.S.A. to be. The technique is documentary; the subject, the Black Muslims; the message, the brotherhood of man."-The Stage. "Scenes evoke a tremendous family feeling and loyalty. . . . Tough, sardonic, and again, full of feeling. "-Village Voice. "Of the stuff that the real theatre is made."-Bath Chronicle. "Quite remarkable."-London Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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MANSFIELD PARK. (Little Theatre.) Play. Adapted by Willis Hall from the novel by Jane Austin. 11 m., 9 f. Ints.lExts. As a timid nine-year-old, Fanny Price is taken to live with her affluent cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Despite suffering many hardships as the poor relation, gentle and good-natured Fanny becomes an indispensable member of the household and marries her true love Edmund. This skillful dramatization incorporates the tantalizing plot and rich characterizations that made the novel a classic. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) Slightly Restricted.

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THE MASK OF MORIARTY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy thriller. Hugh Leonard. 12 m., 4 f. Var. sets. In this affectionate spoof of the exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the Tony award-winning author of Da farcically piles complications on hilarious exaggerations to steep his tale in comic enjoyment. The renowned detective and his ever-present cohort Dr. Watson are enlisted to prove the innocence of a young man accused of murder on the Waterloo Bridge. The trail of clues and red herrings leads the trusty sleuths to none other than Holmes' arch rival, Professor James Moriarty. "If the playwright bearing send-ups has the talent to surprise, as Hugh Leonard does, a 'comedy thriller' can live up to its billing, as The Mask of Moriarty does. . Capital fun."-N.Y Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restrict(#15548) ed.

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variety of unusual murder weapons and a room full of "silent partners" who are no (#18226) help in unraveling the mystery. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) THE REVENGERS' COMEDIES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. II m., 12 f. (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. or unit set. Henry Bell has come to the Albert Bridge to throw himself off because he has lost his wife and his job. Instead, he saves Karen Knightly who has thrown herself off the bridge already and is dangling by her caught coat. They spend a long night driving. Henry learns that Karen has been jilted by a lover who has gone back to his wife. She suggests revenge as a way to heal their emotional wounds: she will fix Henry's dreadful former boss and Henry must ruin her ex-lover's wife. Karen executes her part of the bargain with brilliance, but Henry falls in love with the wife. As he is drawn deeper and deeper into Karen's world he realizes that she is quite mad. Somehow he must escape from her and win the long-suffering Imogen from her cad of a husband. "Gloriously funny."-Sunday Express. "Great gags and splendid deaths proliferate."-Time Out. "Shows Ayckbourn's rare gift for combining moral fevour with the ability to wring from us tears of helpless laughter. "-Guardian. Note: The Revengers' Comedies is usually performed on two successive evenings since each part is over two hours long. $8.95. (Royalty, $120-$80.) (#20923) RITUAL IN BLOOD. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Steven Berkoff. Large cast. Simple set. In this look at the persecution of the Jews and, by implication, the persecution of all peoples, one small incident frighteningly escalates. Mob hatred is fomented by the cool cynicism of the moneyed classes. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 3, $23.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20112) THE RITZ. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Terrence McNally. 14 m., 3 f. Compo int. W. drops. When a straight guy on the lam from the Mafia hides out in a gay bathhouse, comic mistaken identities, bizarre chases and unusual confrontations result. Procio, the chubby middle-aged "hero" finds almost anywhere else would be a safer hideout as he is chased by Mafia types, a chubby lover, and a handsome falsetto-voiced detective who is in turn being chased by towel-clad gays. Close on their heels is a broken-down Puerto Rican bathhouse singer with dreams of making it Bette Midlerstyle who latches on to anyone who she thinks looks like a producer. And guess who owns the bathhouse? "I laughed a lot and who should ask for anything more."-NY. Times. "First-rate farce.... Perfect Broadway entertainment."-Women's Wear Daily. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted.

stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. His reward is a frontal lobotomy. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. "Captivating."-NY. Post. "Powerful."-NY. Times. "Funny, touching, and exciting."-NY. Daily News. "The stuff of great theatre."- WQR Radio. "Transforms the audience into one wild cheering section."- WNYC Radio. "One of the finest plays of recent times."- WPIX TV. Winner of both the 2001 Tony Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#88) OUR TOWN. (All Groups.) Drama. Thornton Wilder. 17 m., 7 f., extras. Bare stage w. 1901 costumes or simple sets. This winner of the Pulitzer Prize, perennially one of the most popular selections for high school productions, was revived in 2002 on Broadway starring Paul Newman. "Thornton Wilder's masterpiece. . . . An immortal tale of small-town morality [and] . . . a classic of soft-spoken theater."-NY. Times. "Beautiful and remarkable---oneof the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre. . . . A spiritual experience."-NY. Post. "No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves . . . . A beautiful revival."-NY. Daily News. "No play ever moved me so deeply."-Alexander Wooleott. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50, or CD, $60.00. Incidental sheet music, $1.25. Note: May not be done (#1) as cutting or one act. Publicity Kit and Posters PENTECOST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Edgar. 11m., 8 f. (doubling possible.) A fresco similar to The Lamentation by Giotto that will revolutionize Western Art if proved to pre-date the master's work is unearthed in an abandoned church in Eastern Europe. The discovery causes a dramatic struggle as representatives from the worlds of art history, religion and politics stake their claims for the ultimate prize. The unexpected arrival of twelve refugees sets events spiraling toward an explosive climax. This powerful play by the Tony Award winning adaptor of Nicholas Nickleby and author of numerous plays won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play of 1995. "One of those rare works that makes you want to climb on to roof tops to shout about its merits . . . . Funny, frightening and deeply moving."-Daily Telegraph. "Cuts to the heart in a smashing ideological epic."-NY. Times. $16.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#18968) PIANO. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Trevor Griffiths. Based on the film Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano by A. Adabashyan and N. Mikhalkov. 11 m., 3 f., I m. child. Ext. 1904. Early summer in the Russian countryside. The general's widow is entertaining two generations of friends, neighbors and family. It is an afte{lloon of food, drink, music, dancing, cards, fireworks and conversation. On display is the gamut of human behavior-comic, pathetic, dignified, visionary, blinkered in a society to whom history is about to speak. This play is a theatrical meditation on the imaginative Russian film makers' reworking of themes from Chekhov's short fiction and plays, most notably Platonov. (Royalty, $60-$40.) $6.50. Slightly Restricted.

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ROMANCE LANGUAGE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Peter Parnell. 15 m., 5 f., extras. Var. sets. The author of Sorrows of Stephen turns a modern eye on the romance of American nineteenth-century literature in this surreal comedy. The play begins with Huck Finn climbing through Walt Whitman's bedroom window. Since Whitman's male lover has just died, he decides to go on a picaresque journey with Huck down the river of American culture. They encounter Custer, Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Aleott, Charlotte Cushman and Emily Dickinson. The craziness reaches a climax at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where everyone is killed and goes to literary heaven. "Demonstrates Parnell's antic humors and his perverse wit. Also his imagination." -N Y. Post. "A smashingly funny, bravura piece of theatre."-Women's Wear Daily. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20087) SAL VAGE. Tom Stoppard. See The Coast of Utopia, above. SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Howard Barker. 15 m., 3 f., extras. Unit set. Glenda Jackson starred in this brilliant drama about a sixteenth-century Venetian painter commissioned by the Doge to do a mural commemorating the naval victory at Lepanto. She is a woman, a realist, a rebel and a free-spirit, so the government does not get the jingoistic celebration of political and military might it expects. Galactia reveals war in all its horror, cruelty and suffering and chooses prison over changing the mural. This fascinating parable raises issues of contemporary resonance. As the play unfolds, the paradoxical mystery of art is espoused: that works exist independently of their creators. "A modern classic."-Guardian. "Explosive, exciting."-Evening Standard. "Brilliant."-Daily Mail. "Nobody at work today in the British theatre writes more excitingly for actors and audiences."-Observer, In Howard Barker: Collected Plays, Vol. 1, $18.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#20978) SEMI MONDE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 16 m., 14 f. (doubling possible.) Int. Written in 1926, this play, originally titled Ritz Bar, offers a satirical take on the comings, goings and occasional collisions of elegant guest staying at an expensive hotel in Paris. It weaves storylines filled with clandestine affairs and (#21525) betrayals into its decadent atmosphere. $12.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) SHIPWRECK. Tom Stoppard. See The Coast of Utopia, above.

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PICKWICK PAPERS. (All Groups.) Drama. Lynn Brittney. Adapted from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. 16 m., 17 f. (doubling possible.) Various sets. The well-heeled and learned Mr. Pickwick travels with his earnest companions around the country to report on the character and manners of its populace. His friends seem well-suited to the task: Snodgrass is a poet, Winkle is a sportsman and Tupman is sensitive to the ladies' point of view---or so they claim. Their high notions and even higher ambitions are soon tested by con men, deaf matrons, servants, landladies, jailers and other characters that complete a picture of Britannia the way Hogarth might have painted it: raucous and cheeky but possessing a sense of fair play. The ~tory made Dickens famous at the age of twenty-five and this gripping adaptation does justice to his original in very respect. This nineteenth century tale can be done with simple sets. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#17816) PRISONER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. James A. l3ell. Based on Gerald Coffee's autobiographical book Beyond Survival. 14 m., I f., 2 c. Minimal set. Set inside the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, this drarna provides a close-up look at experiences of actual POWs in Vietnam. Navy Lieutenant Gerald Coffee was captured in North Vietnam in 1966. Prisoner follows his experiences with guards who endeavored to strip away his identity and break his will, and depicts how he finds the means to survive by communicating secretly with other prisoners. The terrors and the fleeting joys, including moments of connection 'and humanity between captor and captive, are brought to life on the stage. After three years of torture in captivity, Lt. Coffee is offered the ultimate temptation: he will be set free if he writes letter to Ho Chi Minh requesting amnesty. An inspiring story of life and honor, Prisoner won Best New Play at the 1994 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18225)

PSYCHO NIGHT AT THE PARADISE LOUNGE. (Little Theatre.) Mystery. Kitty Burns. 9 m., 7 f. (doubling possible). Int. Four customers and their friends are at the Paradise Lounge to murdering the singer. They do not know each other and are unaware of each other's evolving plots. As Cindy sings, the villains discuss with their accomplices the reasons and methods they've devised for her demise. One by one, four traps are set in Cindy'S dressing room. At the end of Act I, Cindy leaves the stage and a commotion is followed by a scream from the direction of the dressing room. The police arrive to investigate and instruct the customers to remain in the lounge while they question staff in the office. With the police out of sight, each potential murderer returns to the dressing room to remove evidence. Each springs a fiendish trap set by another and dies, leaving the police wfth four bodies, a

THE SKRIKER. (Advanced Groups.) Dark fantasy. Caryl Churchill. 5 m., 10 f. Ints., exts. (simply suggested). Drawing from British folklore, the eminent English playwright drops the Skriker, an ageless shapeshifter, into contemporary London. There she haunts two young women, one who is pregnant and one who is suspected of killing her child. While neither innocence nor shrewdness is effective against the ubiquitous Skriker as she appears in forms ranging from a petulant child to a barfly, the line between victim and predator is cloudy and even the language mutates in this startling fantasy that premiered at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre. "Astonishing. . . . This portrait of a London haunted by gremlins. . . turns the familiar into a hall of terrors. . . . Like the best fairy tales, it directly addresses the darker

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passages of the unconsciousness. . Ms. Churchill's most unsettling indictment yet of an incurably diseased world."-N.Y. Times. "Nutty . . . science fiction for the James Joyce set. . . . A phantasmagoria about death and damage."-N.Y. Post. $10.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21545) SLY FOX. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Larry Gelbart. Based on Volpone by Ben Johnson. 15 m., 3 f. 2 ints. w. insets. The Broadway revival of Sly Fox became the comedy hit of the 2004 season. This raucous, laugh-filled version of Volpone, reset in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, strikes a timely chord in modem audiences with its hilarious look at absurd greed. Foxwell 1. Sly, a rapacious miser, and his conniving servant plot to separate three greedy opportunists from their fortunes. Sly pretends to be near death and tells each that they will be his sole heir. Their outrageous attempts to acquire his estate are boundless. One is willing to disinherit his only son and another offers his wife to the lecherous Sly. "A rowdy reinvention. . . . The dialogue gleams with wicked delight and logical absurdity." -N. Y. Times. "Comic gold."-Talkin' Broadway. "The audience is knee-deep in laughter. . . . fGelbart's] . . . witticisms would make Oscar Wilde blush with envy."-Show Business Weekly. "Truly funny and exhilarating . . . . Brings real comedy back to the theatre." -N. Y. Post. "Pure comedy based on pure greed. It is full of pure laughs."-NBC. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40) (#98) SOLACE AT TWILIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Diane Shaffer. 5 m., 4 f. and 3 m., 4 f. lnt., ext. Two one-act plays by the author of Sacrilege capture with spunky bittersweet comedy the blaze of life that often precedes death. In Last Respects, Norman flees from the hospital where he is dying of cancer to smoke one last cigarette in the park where he has been grounds keeper his entire adult life. Casey in Last Requests arranges a meeting with her lifelong love from whom she has been estranged. In their favorite cafe, she tells an unsuspecting Brian she has cancer. Abetted by a gay waiter, a wine-loving fortune teller and some cafe regulars, the star-crossed lovers are reunited and Casey's request-to be buried next to Brianis lovingly granted. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40 or $35-$25 per act if performed alone.) Solace at Twilight (#21556) Last Respects (#13873) Last Requests (#13874) THE THREE MUSKETEERS. (AU Groups.) Audience participation swashbuckler. Willis Hall. Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas. 13 m., 4 f., ensemble. Simple sets. Following his successful stage adaptations of Jane Eyre and Mansfield Park, the author brings Dumas' swashbuckling tale to the stage in a fast-paced, often tongue-in-cheek romp of action-packed adventure. Staged with minimal scenery and plenty of audience participation within a carnival-like atmosphere, this lively version is guaranteed to delight all participants. "The most entertaining version of the famous story I have ever witnessed. . .. Slick, exciting and brilliantly staged. . . . A thrilling night for one and all."-Rotherham Advertiser. "Lots of clashing swords and dashing heros, sneaking bad guys and beautiful ladies,"-Derbyshire Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#22801) TWENTIETH CENTURY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Based on a play by Charles Bruce Millholland. Adapted by Ken Ludwig. 12 m., 4 f. Unit set. Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche starred on Broadway in this hilarious adaption of the much-loved play about Oscar Jaffe, the egomaniacal Broadway director, and Lily Garland, the chorus girl he transformed into a leading lady. Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, Oscar boards the Twentieth Century Limited and encounters Lily, now a temperamental Hollywood star, on the train. He pulls out all the stops to persuade 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!'-NYI. "Makes you fall in love with the theater allover again! . . . A really good time!"-Joumal News. "Perfection! . . . A nostalgic moment of flawless parody. . . . If you need to laugh, don't miss this one! "-Liz Smith. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#22302) VOYAGE. Tom Stoppard. See The Coast of Utopia, above. THE WEREWOLF'S CURSE or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. (All Groups.) Comedy. Billy St. John. 7 m., 8 f. Unit set. Poor Harry Pate! An American student at the University of Lipsync in Rumania, he is bitten by a werewolf cub while on a field trip. During the full moon, Harry sprouts hair and craves rare roast beef, to the dismay of his vegetarian fiancee. So it's off to Dr. Frank Einstein's castle to consult Madam Clara Voyant, where the doctor decides to make Harry a full-fledged werewolf he can sell to Professor Wonder. This hilarious spoof of 1930' s horror movies also features a mummy, a vampire who drinks juice (his mother was a fruit bat), a puny strongman, a belly dancer and other members of a carnival troupe as well as seven villagers who are all played by the same quick-changing actor. If you are looking for outrageous comedy, this play is a howl! $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#25650) YOU COULD DIE LAUGHING! (All Groups.) Comedy. Billy St. John. 7 m., 8 f. Unit set. Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has-been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for . . . and that is someone's intention! Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS sampled. Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#27023) FOUR PLAYS FOR COARSE ACTORS. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Michael Green et al. Var. m. & f., extras. Hilari~usly, everything which can go wrong in a production does so. 11 Fomicazione is a "grim" tale of operatic adultery, poison and mayhem. Streuth is the crime story Agatha Christie would never have dared to write. A Collier's Tuesday Tea combines the kitchen with the coal-mine with an irreverent glance at D.H. Lawrence. All's Well that Ends as You Like It pushes the genius of the bard to its limits while filching lines from most of his plays. In all, cues are missed, effects fail and props are lost and confusion reigns, but the coarse actors struggle on. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $20-$15 per play when done individually.) (#8094) THE COARSE ACTING SHOW 2. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Michael Green et al. Var. m. & f., extras. In each of these masterpieces from the authors of Four Plays for Coarse Actorssets collapse, actors fail to appear and props fall to pieces while the casts carry on, believing that the audience won't notice. Moby Dick is an ambitious attempt to reduce the epic novel to a series of quick-fire scenes. The Cherry Sisters, a previously undiscovered Chekhov fragment, is a desperately sincere piece with a teary ending (spoiled by a faulty prop that necessitates a standing death). Last Call for Breakfast is an avant-garde play shortened because an actor is in the wrong place during a black-out. Henry the Tenth (Part Seven) is a rarelyperformed tragedy with battle scenes that would amaze the bard. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $20-$15 per play when done separately.) (#5920) THE THIRD GREAT COARSE ACTING SHOW. (Little Theatre.) One-act comedies. Var. m. & f., extras. These plays cover a range of disasters appalling enough to turn any show into a coarse one. A Fish in Her Kettle by David Pearson: In this disaster, the cast is trapped on stage when the door jams. Present Slaughter by Jane Dewey and Don Starkey: This play collapses because the leading man cuts his wrist on a glass. The Vagabond Prince by Simon Brett with music and lyrics by John Gould: Here is a coarse musical with a chorus of gypsies and earthy tavern patrons. (Music available on rental, write for particulars.) Stalag 69 by Michael Green: This seminal investigation into the relationship between men and war unfolds on an inverted set that collapses completely during the second run through. Julius and Cleopatra by Michael Green: This Roman spectacular illustrates two laws of coarse acting: everyone in the crowd is hideously deformed and all pain is felt in the bowels, regardless of where the wound is! $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40 or $20-$15 per play.) (#22694) GOLDA. (All Groups.) Drama. William Gibson. 18 m., 7 f. (with doubling). Platforms, projections, wagons. A dramatization of the extraordinary life of Golda Meir, this play intersperses events from the 1973 Yom Kippur War with key moments in the Israeli Prime Minister's life. Also see Golda's Balcony. "Golda draws upon the valor, eloquence and growing humor of a very large figure of our times."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#4%) THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. (All Groups.) Comedy. Adapted by Matthew Francis from the novel by Mark Twain. 22 m., 8 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. Huckleberry Finn's adventurous journey along the Mississippi River is skillfully captured in this exciting approach to the epic story that was fIrst produced at the Greenwich Theatre in England. Minimal set and prop devices illustrate the many locations. This truly imaginative, moral and humorous tale of discovery offers flexible casting opportunities. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#3559) THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. (Little Theatre.) Play. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Paul Wilson. 8 m., 9 f. Various sets. A nonmusical treatment of this traditional theme that stands in contrast to the works of Gay and Brecht, this version casts Macheath and Peachum as heads of rival gangs of thieves. Both are subject to the power of police organizations. Each tries to defend himself against corruption and each has only himself to blame for the unfortunate results. In manuscript, $26.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#4265) BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. (Advanced Groups.) (Play with.songs.) Brian Marshall. 2 principals plus chorus to play 28 roles (doubling possible). This clever satire explores the Four Ages of Man from a modem perspective using dialogue, songs, dances and mime. A voyage of discovery that freely pokes fun at the styles and pretensions of theatre, this tongue-in-cheek piece is ideal for adventurous groups. "Challenging and entertaining."-Amateur Theatre. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4924) BLUE COLLAR BLUES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Denise Kay Dillard. 6 m., 6 f., extras. Compo int. This American College Theatre Festival winner is a down-home country-and-western comedy set in an Arkansas town where times ain't so good. The stage is trisected into three areas: the beauty salon, the saloon and the dj's broadcast booth. People in one section are able to converse with those in another. The local mill is laying off workers and the place is beginning to look like a ghost town. Desperation hits heavily on one laid-off driver whose wife is the manicurist in the beauty salon, and they end in tears and shards. A parade of other quaint characters and juicy gossip passes across the stage. Lots of juicy parts here for school productions!'6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4181)

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Everhart. (Also see Good Morning Miss Vickers and Merry Christmas Miss Vickers.) $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#10576) THE INVISIBLE MAN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ken Hill, based on the novel by H.G. Wells. 13 m., 4 f. plus extras (with doubling). Int., ext. This gripping novel has been converted to a music-hall romp that combines tongue-in-cheek humor with poignant tragedy and spectacular magic. In a performance supposedly taking place at the Empire in Bromley in 1904, the Company dramatizes the 'idious 'appenings that shook the bucolic village of Iping three years earlier with the Sinister Griffin arrived swathed in bandages and in a manner distinctly unsociable. The curious villagers search for his origin. When he takes off his bandages to reveal no hands and no head, the comic and malevolent pranks begin. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40,) (#73926) IS THERE A COMIC IN THE HOUSE? (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Billy St. John. 7 m., 8 f. Int. Seven wildly funny comedians, including the landlady, live in Shotzie Starr's boarding house. The only "normal" resident is Shotzie's granddaughter whose pizza-delivering boyfriend is-you guessed it-an aspiring comedian. The action at Shotzie's becomes manic when bumbling kidnappers crash their van and take refuge there with their victim, a haughty socialite, in tow. Police surround the house and the unrestrainable comics are suddenly in the proximity of reporters' TV cameras. All hilarity breaks loose, on stage and in the audience! $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#11919) THE KING STAG. (All Groups.) Comic fantasy. Carlo Gozzi. Translated by Carl Wildman. 19 m., 3 f. Unit set. The best known and most typical of the classic plays written in the Commedia del'Arte form, this imaginative romp places Pantaloon and Brighella in a fairy tale kingdom with a talking parrot and a mysterious king stag. In The Servant of Two Masters and Other Italian Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#13026) THE LOVE OF THREE ORANGES. Farce. Sergei Prokofiev. Translated by Albert Bermel. 9 m., 7 f. Fluid sets. In this surrealist fairy tale a melancholy prince undergoes severe trials to win a princess who has emerged from an oversized orange. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14720) MARDI GRAS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 10 m., 5 f. A gangling adolescent's first brush with sex and liquor plays counterpoint to the multiple affairs of a gold-digging demi-mondaine and the passionate protestations of her jilted ex-lover, a man who is weak in the head but strong in the purse after years of exile in Chicago. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15511) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Adapted by Everett Quinton. See William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Adapted by John Osborne from the novel by Oscar Wilde. 11 m., 4 f., extras. Int. w. apron. The author of Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence and The Entertainer has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a portrait painted by one of his lovers. "Osborne has done much more than a scissors-andpaste job on Wilde's famous story. He has . . . created a sense of evil through implication." -Guardian. "John Osborne . . . has found in Oscar Wilde's macabre morality a velveted barouche for his own favorite themes [and he] conveys the fabulous story['sl . . . fascination."-Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18954) Please state author when ordering. THE PIGGY BANK. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Eugene Labiche and A. Delacour. Revised translation by Albert Bermel 13 or 14 m., 3 or 4 f. Int., ext. Hailed as one of the funniest satires in the repertory on middle-lass manners, La Cagnotte (formerly entitled Pots of Money in English) concerns a group of rural card cheats who pool their money to go on a spending spree in Paris. They go afoul of the law when they run up bills they cannot pay. InA Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty $50-$35.) (#18110) THE PLOT, LIKE GRAVY, TIDCKENS. (All Groups.) Audience participation comic murder mystery. Billy St. John. 5 m. (to play 7 roles), 9 f. IIit. Great storm effects, spiffy costumes and lots of fun and mystery distinguish this work by the author of Abduction, The Reunion and others. Walter, the playwright's alter-ego in this madcap mystery, demonstrates just how to do someone in-in your imagination, of course! After introducing the audience to tyrannical millionaire Edward Worthington's relatives, business associates and household staff-most of whom have reason to wish the man dead-Walter exits, only to reappear in a tuxedo as Worthington. The knife from his birthday cake eventually ends up in his back and all are suspects. In Act II, the police detective-also played by Walter-investigates, allowing the audience to question or accuse suspects before the killer's identity is revealed in a surprising climax. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17842) SILAS MARNER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers from the novel by George Eliot. 15 m., 8 f. (with doubling). Bare stage w. props. Eliot's story of the reclusive miser who is transformed by a young girl is one of the most moving and memorable in Victorian literature. This adaptation captures the novel's thirtyyear sweep in a series of telling scenes, each displaying Eliot's gifts for' humor,

CARD PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Foxton. 16 m. & f. Unit set. Perfect for high school, children's theatre and college productions, Card Play is a funny. fast-paced play about a pack of cards! Each card has a character of its own (moaning, greedy, caddish, funny) and seniority depends on your face value! The greedy . and knaves hatch a plan (at the Bridge Club) to steal the trophies and gate money from an event at the stadium. Their plot is overheard by some of the minor cards who hasten to plot their downfall. The knaves of the respective suits become mixed up and many cards disguise their identities. The Queen of Hearts (whose tart baking competition becomes very much involved in these events) stutters her way through the proceedings until the plotters are foiled and the heroes rewarded. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4987) CHE GUEVARA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Mario Fratti. 16 m., 4 f. Ext. This highly praised dramatization of the life and death of Che Guevara mesmerized audiences in Toronto, New York and at the Venice Festival. "Stunning."-Village Voice. "Colorful."-Globe & Mail. "The best show in Toronto.'-it Toronto Daily Star. "Imaginative, inventive, stirring."-Canadian Tribune. $4.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4968) CLASS ACTION. (High School.) Short plays. Brad Slaight. Flexible cast. Twentyfive short scenes and monologues commissioned by San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre won critical acclaim for this entertaining yet realistic portrayal of teen situations. The pieces cover a variety of contemporary subjects, both serious and light-hearted. All take place outside the classroom but focus on situations important to high school students: prom night, homework, alcoholism, pregnancy, detention, teen idols, peer pressure and class elections. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40 or $20-$20 per piece.) (#5894) DAISY PULLS IT OFF. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Denise Deegan. 2 m., 18 f. Unit set. Daisy Meredith, the new girl, is the first scholarship student to attend the Grangewood School for Girls. The privileged students are determined to make Daisy look bad in the eyes of the administration. The administration has its own problems, financial ones. Daisy wins over her chums and saves the school when she cracks a secret code, finds a treasure and saves the life of her chief nemesis-all on the same night! A long-running success in London's West End, this inventive spoof of English school-girl adventure novels delights American audiences. "It's a perfectly ripping yarn."-Daily Telegraph. "Absolutely spiffy, not to mention 'scrummy'." -Sunday Express. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Sheet Music, $6.50. (No Music Royalty.) (#6137) DINNER AT EIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. 14 m., II f. 6 ints. In the social columns it was just another of those dinner parties to honor an English title, but the authors have disclosed the dramas of love, jealousy, greed, and ruin beneath the white ties and the pearls-and the very voluble but none the less momentous crises that involve the cook, the maid, the butler with his continental morals and the Italian chauffeur who is quick with a carving knife. It is an amusing, pitiful, moving, seething cross-section of life that the authors show so deftly beneath a suave exterior. "Thrilling [and] richly entertaining.. . An evening of sheer pleasure."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#363) A FLEA IN HER REAR, or Ants in Her Pants. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 10 m., 5 f. A wife's groundless suspicions enmeshes her husband and scores of others in a nightmare of physical and emotional torment that ends only when the author mercifully awakens them to reality. This Feydeau masterpiece is replete with farcical hilarity: a tempestuous Spaniard who massacres the language, frantic chases and split-second entrances and exits and a disappearing bed in the infamous Hotel Paramour. Published in a Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces, $15.95. (Royalty, (#8948) $35-$25.) Please state translator when ordering. THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Lynda Barry. 8 m., 14 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. This autobiographical comic drama by a noted cartoonist about growing up in an interracial neighborhood in the 1960s enjoyed a long Off-Broadway run. Twelve-year-old best friends, one black and one white, stand by each other through upheaval and tragedy, in spite of each family's disapproval. However, racial peer pressure eventually drives a wedge between the girls. Interspersed are songs of the period, some heard on the Victrola and others performed by the spirited cast. "Sure to earn the respect and laughter of young audiences. Lynda Barry's debut as a playwright is anything but cartoonish." -N.Y. Times. "Brilliant. .. [with] a masterly sense of progression, construction and dramatic form. It hits us in places we had forgotten, and tells things we never knew we knew."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Music Cassette, $22.50. (Tape royalty, $25.00 per performance.) (#4174) HEARTS 'N KISSES 'N MISS VICKERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Stephen Levi. 11 m., 6 f. or 8 m., 9 f. (doubling possible) Int. A side-splitting addition to the ever popular Miss Vickers adventures, this outing finds five present-day, time-traveling teens trapped in 1921 on Valentine's Day. A lovesick old maid ghost of a schoolteacher, Miss Vickers, contrives to have Cupid unite her younger, live self with the man of her dreams. With his arrows flying recklessly about at mismatched couples, the teens have their hands full unscrambling the chaos and avoiding the jaws of death. This is madcap merriment on a grand scale, a modem Midsummer's Night Dreamthat is exciting fun for the whole family. "The writing is gorgeous. I commend you for using your extraordinary talents to benefit young people. . . . Thanks for making a retired English teacher feel she has died and gone to heaven." -Joan

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FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS Bentley translation (#304) AudeniSternlStern translation (#5238) THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Int., ext. 39 m., 14 f $11.95. (Royalty, $50(#5618) $40.) Also see Davis version below.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. (All Groups.) Fantasy. Thornton Wilder. 4 or 5 m., 4 or 5 f plus many small parts and extras (doubling possible). Int., ext. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the satiric story of the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of the war-any war. They have survived flood, fire, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions. Ultimately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a wacky testament of faith in humanity. "Wonderfully wise . . . . A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable."-NY. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50, or CD, $60.00. Note: May not be done as cutting or one act. Posters (#111) TOMORROW! (Little Theatre.) Historical meditation. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Barbara Day. 12 m., 6 f. Havel's first play in twenty years had its public premiere anonymously in 1988 as part of a Brno theatre project in pre-revolution Czechoslovakia. While it recalls the non-traditional way in which events leading to the birth of Czechoslovakia in 1918 took place, it also became an unwitting prophecy. Its hero is a young politician: the spirit of the 1918 revolution. On its eve, he and his wife are considering both the best tactics for a peaceful revolution and the future of the newly emerging state. His view is complemented by actors reconstructing later events as comedy and documentary and recalling the nightmare of future developments in Central Europe. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#22149) TONY N' TINA'S WEDDING. (All Groups.) Audience participation comedy. By Artificial Intelligence. Conceived by Nancy Cassaro. 15 m., II f. 2 ints. One of the longest-running shows in Off-Broadway history, this delightful evening gives new meaning to the phrase "And now for something completely different!" Audience members are the guests at the nuptial celebration of Tony Nunzio and Valentina Vitale in all its tacky and hilarious glory. Following the church service is a reception where the audience joins the wedding party and their bickering families for a pasta dinner, champagne toasts, wedding cake and dancing to a five-piece band. "We've seen the future of theatre and it is wild! Off Broadway's most innovative play satirizes a garish New York Italian wedding, and it's more fun when the audience joins in!"-Glamour Magazine. "You don't have to be Italian to understand the cliches lampooned." -N Y. Daily Nffls. "The oddest, goofiest unlikeliest hit in New York."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Slightly Restricted.

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Adapted by Thulani Davis from the translation by William R. Spiegelberger. 10 m., 8 f., plus extras (doubling possible). Unit set. This daring version of Brecht's famous play is set in Haiti and its language is the patois of the Caribbean peasantry with a French colonial legacy. "Highly imaginative."-NY. Times. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Also see Manheim version above. (#5875) DRUMS IN THE NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Bertolt Brecht. 2 versions: translated by John Willett and by Frank Jones. 9-11 m., 6 f. Int. or unit set. Brecht's first public success is set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1918 German revolution and tells of a returning veteran who finds his girl has another man. Willett translation, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40,) Jones translation is in Jungle of Cities and Other Plays, $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. Both Slightly Restricted. Willett translation (#6200) Jones translation (#6122) THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR. (All Groups.) Satiric farce. Nikolai Gogol. Translated by Adrian Mitchell. 15 m., 4 f. 2 ints. Universally recognized as one of the greatest European comedies of the 19th century, this high-spirited and keenwitted satire on official crookedness and human stupidity remains fresh on stages throughout the world, where it continues to playas one of the most genial creations of the theatre. $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) For other translations, see The Inspector General and Inspector, below. (#9714) THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. (All Groups.) Satiric farce. Nikolai Gogol. Translation by John Anderson. 15 m" 4 f. 2 ints. See The Government Inspector, above, (#579) for description. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) INSPECTOR. (All Groups.) Comedy. Nikolai Gogol. Translated by Eric Bentley. 15 m., 4 f. 2 ints. This version of Gogol's classic is highly actable. (See The Government Inspector, above, for description.) In Inspector and Orher Plays, $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11051) THE GREAT EASTER EGG HUNT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ken Jones. 9 m., 6 f. Ext. This comedy centers around an Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Citizens vie for the ultimate prize attainable in Umatilla, Florida-the Golden Egg. Meanwhile Horseshoe and Clem Dumpling seek to avenge their shattered hopes of married bliss, the town flirt chases every man except for the one who is in love with her and two young lovers struggle to escape this small town. Judge Pulander officiates, but is soon overwhelmed by apple and cypress bark cider. The Rifle Association initiates a blood feud while the Women's Club fans the fire with gossip. The Great Easter Egg Hunt is a comic journey through one day in an isolated town that reflects the greed, cowardice, regret, avarice, love, stupidity, hope, passion and drama of life in America. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9165) IT'S THE TRUTH (IF YOU THINK IT IS). (Little Theatre.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Laurence Maslon. Various m. & f. roles. Int. This sparkling translation of Pirandello's famous dramatic illustration of the impenetrability and relativity of truth was presented to acclaim at Washington's Arena Stage. "Smashing . . . . This is stimulating theatre."-Montgomery Express. "The brilliant Liviu Ciulei turned minor Pirandello into major theatre by bringing his gifts for social observation to the play. An academic whodunit became a neo-Chekhovian satire."-Washington Post. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, .$60-$40.) Also see It Is So! If You Think So, below. Please specify translator when ordering. (#11122) IT IS SO! IF YOU THINK SO . (All Groups.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translation by Arthur Livingston. Var. m & f. Int. The title embodies Pirandello's famous statement of "relativism" and the play is about the struggle for life in its inner essence-life in the private depths. The struggle is exacerbated by others' desire to know the truth about a family-a truth that is both relative and subjective. In Naked Masks, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also see It's the Truth (If You Think It Is), above. Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#11072) THE LADY OF THE HOUSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jim Brochu. 5 m., 6 f., plus ensemble of 6 to 8 to play var. roles. Unit set. A fonner Broadway star and queen of the Washington social circuit, Didi Montgomery Mayflower, succeeds her deceased husband in the House of Representatives. Although she takes the job only to fill out her late husband's term, she soon sees that she can make a difference and becomes a force for political change. Didi speaks against a poll tax proposed by two of the House's most powerful members and decides to run for Congress in her own right, which causes a head-on collision with her son-in-law, Marshall Bronson, who is also running for the seat. When Marshall tries to blackmail Didi, she exposes him on live television, goes on to win the election, defeats the poll tax and, through her daily appearances on the C-Span network, becomes a national political figure. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14599)

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VOICES 2000. (Advanced High School Groups.) ComedylDrama. Peter Dee. Flexible cast. Bare stage w. pieces. This passionate, creative, deeply moving montage for young adults who are moving cautiously toward the end of the century is by the author of the well-known Voices from the High School. Scenes with two or three characters plus monologues and two optional songs vary in intensity from comic (a charming young woman who is a klutz) to serious (a teen mourns the shooting death of his brother) to whimsical (a young woman reflects on her wonderful but strange parents) to devastating (Jacinda tells of faith and injustice during the Los Angeles riots). These voices are woven with brilliance into an overwhelmingly powerful collection of truths for today's young people. The dialogue is honest and the issues contemporary. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival. "Has everything-past, present, future and glorious language, too."-Julie Harris. $5.25. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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WALKING ON THE MOON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Jason Milligan. 10 m., 6 f. Simply suggested Sets. Twenty years ago, astronaut Chad Williams accidently ran over a crew member with the lunar rover during a mission, leaving his colleague in a coma. Racked by guilt and shame, he is reduced to doing commercials for "the carpet so soft you'll swear you're walking on the moon." Now he has a chance at the big time; all he has to do is run over his comatose friend again to vault himself into the headlines. Walking on the Moon was originally presented as a staged reading featuring Burt Reynolds and Joe Mantegna. "A scathing parody of the dark side of human nature. The laughs and ridicule are plentiful, and the satire on target. "-L.A. Times. "Sharp and winning, packed with lovely absurdist details. ., A pure pleasure."-Entertainment Today. "A sparkling comedy."-Beverly Hills News. Winner of the Southeastern Theatre Conference's 1995 (#25621) Charles M. Getchell New Play Award. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Adapted by Everett Quinton. 10 m., 5 f Int.lext. The Ridiculous Theatrical Company's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the magical story of star-crossed lovers, overly ambitious homespun clowns and misadventures with the fairies. The fun can be multiplied by mixing and matching the male/female roles. The action begins at the beautiful court of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and later moves to the mystical forest inhabited by Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies. And don't forget Puck-fairyland was never like this! $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#15595) $40.) Restricted. Please state author when ordering. THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE. (Little Theatre.) Tragicomedy. Bertolt Brecht. 2 versions: translated by Eric Bentley and by W.H. Auden, James Stem and Tania Stem. 39 m" 14 f, 4 c., chorus, extras. Various sets. Bentley translation, $9.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Auden, Stem and Stem translation, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering.

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EXCHANGE. (Little Theatre). Comic drama. Yuri Trifonov. Translated and adapted by Michael Frayn. 9 m., 9 f. (doubling possible). Comb. int. Originally produced at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow where it ran eight years, this cinematic slice-ofMoscow-life was first produced in English using this fine version by the author of Noises Off and Copenhagen. A Muscovite machine supplier must barter his better nature and familial loyalties in a desperate search for better living conditions for his family. "Powerful, resonant." -Financial Times. "Anyone who likes Chekhov will be drawn to this play."-Daily Telegraph. "In Frayn's skillful translation is fascinating and funny."-Time Out. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

MR. PUNTILA AND HIS MAN MATTI. (Advanced Groups.) Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett. Over 15 characters. Unit set. $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also see Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man. (#14984) SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY. (AU Groups.) Drama-Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. English adaptation by Tom Simpson. 10 m., 7 f., 2 int. This highly-praised version is a sparkling contemporary commedia dell'arte about a feuding Neapolitan family. Peppino suspects his wife Rosa of infidelity and she is brooding because he spumed her cooking and praised a meal prepared by his daughter-in-law. The character-rich cast also includes a crusty grandfather, a formidable widowed aunt on the make for the family doctor, her mama's boy son and a "liberated" daughter-in-law. During the traditional Sunday dinner Peppino's and Rosa's tempers flare amidst a gathering of family and friends. Add to their feud generation conflicts, a lover's quarrel, humorous insights on momism and bourgeois Italian life and the meal is unforgettable. Of course, all is forgiven by Monday. "Remarkably modern."-New Haven Register. "[A] feast of family fights, frustrations and fun."-Meriden Record Journal. "A full-course delight."-Minuteman. "Delightfully comic."-Sunday Republican. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty $60-$40.) Also see Saturday Sunday Monday below. Please state translator(s) when ordering. (#21107) SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY. (All Groups.) Drama-Comedy. Eduardo de Filippo. English adaptation by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. 10 m., 7 f, 2 int. See description above. "I liked the play this side of idolatry."-N.Y. Times. "The dialogue is funny, the pace is fast. . . . Has got what it takes."-WWD. Best British Play of the Year award. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Also see Simpson translation, above. (#962) SPOFFORD. (All Groups). Comedy. Herman ShurnIin, adapted from a novel by Peter De Vries. 6 m., 9 f. Compo int. A farmer who has watched with awe the retreat of the wealthy from the city to his town crosses the line between the new-comers and the old-timers, causing a series of comic encounters. "Delightful humor and a (#993) great deal of sly wisdom." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE BALLAD OF SOAPY SMITH. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Michael Weller. 24 m., 9 f. (with doubling). Ints.lexts. or unit set. "Col." Jefferson Randolph Smith, known as "Soapy" to friends and foes, is a notorious con man whose reRutation has, alas, not preceded him to the Alaska Gold Rush town of Skagway in 1897. This charming gentleman starts a protection racket which brings law and order, a church and an infirmary to the town. Soapy, the criminal, becomes a force for moral good until the town's hypocrisy and vicious self-interest bring him down, a victim of the cardinal sin of believing in his own con. "Michael Weller deserves praise for a historical play with contemporary relevance, daring to accost a large canvas. The protagonist is a complex and absorbing creation. I left the theatre, for once, thinking rather than trying to forget."-N.Y. Magazine. "A rousing (#3975) epic." -A.P. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) DOCTOR FAUSTUS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Christopher Marlowe. Adapted by Nicholas Rudall. Var. m & f. Unit set. This classic of the pre-Shakespearean Elizabethan theatre has been deemed by many to be unplayable today. Not so in this sparking adaptation. The story, of course, concerns a scientist who makes a Faustian pact with the devil and loses his soul. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6182) MARINER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Don Nigro. 8 m., 8 f. (to play var. roles). Unit set. This wild epic celebrates the mad obsession and ambiguous triumph of Christopher Columbus. The charming Italian mariner and lover moves through the nightmare of his life, loves and struggles against aut~ority and stupidity, confronting the wondrous and terrible fruits of his obsession. He is brought to judgment before the inquisition for the sins of lechery and pride. Kings, queens, mermaids, dead sailors, lovers, princes, fools and even madhouse inhabitants haunt and taunt the compromised hero. This play, commissioned for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage, is rich in language, action, character and humor as it explores the consequences of exploration, discovery, madness and creation. $6.50. (Royalty,

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MAKIN' IT. (Teen Groups.) Comedy. Cynthia Mercati. 10 m., 13 f. Int. This vibrant and candid play about makin' it through high school is a favorite with teen actors across the country. Makin' it is tough: there's peer pressure, the fear of being a geek, a grind or a burnout and the specter of unpopUlarity. There's also pressure from adults, sometimes well-meaning, sometimes narrow-minded. These elements of teen life are blended into a quick-witted, up-front and funny play that takes a realistic look at surviving high school. The characters are recognizable but never "types". Brooke wants to be popular and is willing to pay almost any price while Pat fears that she may be paying too high a price. Karl buries his troubled home life by playing football. Scott wants to be an artist, but his father wants him to go to college and become a businessman. Jen accepts that she's never going to be one of the popular crowd, but it does hurt. "There are kids in this school just like the ones in the play!" -Student comment. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14987) EASY VIRTUE. (Advanced Groups.) Serious comedy. Noel Coward. 8 m., II f. Int. The family is scandalized when son arrives home married to an unsuitable older woman who drips diamonds, pearls, previous marriages and scandal. She is also kindly, articulate, generous, sympathetic and lovable, unlike the other characters. After a dramatic appearance wearing all of her jewelry at the family dance, she leaves her young husband in the hands of his wholesome former sweetheart and makes a stylish exit. "Stingingly funny lines."-London Broadcasting. "A shining jewel. . . . A brilliant, searing attack on narrow-minded morais and hypocrisy."-Today. In Coward: Plays One; $24.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#7006) FATHERS AND SONS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel, adapted from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. 9 m., 6 f. Var. sets. In the mid-nineteenth century, an anarchic young medical student arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend for a vacation. He wants to despise the family for their complacency and bourgeois effeteness, but he is tormented by conflicting emotions. His desperate action has tragic consequences. "The evening leaves you pondering not just the play's political implications but the ageless tragedy of parent-child relationship." -London Guardian. "Drama at its most stimulating and eloquent." -N. Y. Daily News. "A fine, solid piece of drama."-Time Out. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#8127) THE PICTURE THAT WAS TURNED TO THE WALL or She May Have Seen Better Days. (All Groups.) Melodrama spoof. Tim Kelly. 6 m., 8 f. or 7 m., 8 f. Int.lext. Here's another lampoon from the author The Face on the Barroom Floor and Dark Deeds at Swan's Place. Jubilee marries Little Billy Tapshoes so her father tosses her out and turns her picture to the wall. One year later, she returns a widow with a baby. Nasty Rudolph von Doberman schemes to take over her family'S hotel. He knows the army will soon build a fort nearby and he intends to open a nefarious saloon with some unscrupulous (and hilarious) cohorts. Only Fred, the stableboy, can save Jubilee. Characters, from a tough lady sheriff to a social secretary with a diamond in her tooth, are a wild slap-stick bunch. The spoof is stuffed with jokes, sight gags, puns, vaudeville routines (some rib-ticklers, some groaners), and even a Ninja nunchaka routine, and it is easy to rehearse, stage and produce. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17986) THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Family entertainment. John Morley, adapted from the novel by Kenneth Grahame. 22 m. & f. (doubling possible), chorus. Ints.!exts. John Morley has taken the well-loved characters of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger from The Wind in the Willows and woven their exploits into an exciting adventure story for all the family. Toad's addiction to caravanning and later his obsession with cars, his imprisonment and escape with the aid of Jenny and her washerwoman aunts, and his fight with the Weasels and Stoats to regain Toad Hall are all included. May be staged simply or elaborately; casting is very flexible. Choice of music is left to the producer (song suggestions are included in text). Will (#25149) provide an evening of magic and joy for all. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE FOUNTAIN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 20 m., 3 f. Ints.lexts. In The Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 3, $10.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#8122) CHRIS CHRISTOPHERSEN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 17 m., 2 f. Ints.!exts. In Eugene O'Neill Complete Plays, Vol. 1, $40.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.)

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THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Clive Barker and Amo Reinfrank. Large cast. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6179) THE MOTHER. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Steve Gooch. $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14982) VIRTUE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS. (Life in the Wicked City). (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Walter Boughton. 14 m., 5 f. (doubling possible). 3 ints. A damsel in distress takes refuge in the Truhart's house during a raging blizzard. She is trying to escape from the perfidious Warrington Chadbourne, after her because she is the heir to a huge railroad fortune. She falls in love with Tyrone Truhart, who proposes but she declines because of her sordid past. Tyrone remains indefatigable in his devotion, even when Chadbourne accuses her of having an illegitimate child. She leaves with the child and winds up on the Bowery, pursued hotly by both men. Will Tyrone come to the rescue in time? This is a delightful new old-time melodrama." $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Songs of the Gay Nineties & Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95.

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SHOGUN MACBETH. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. John R. Briggs. 12 m., 6 f. Unit set. This brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was produced by Pan-Asian Rep in New York to great acclaim. In 13th century Japan, General Macbeth is victorious in battle and awarded the title of Ryoshu of Akita. Almost immediately he is visited by the legendary witches called the Three Yojos. In the thrall of their spell, he is consumed by ruthless ambition. He instigates a plot to become the new Shogun and, with the help and incitement of his wife, begins to

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slaughter his way to the royal crown and ultimately to meet his doom. "Shogun Macbeth is a Kurosawa film on stage."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21141) YOU, ME AND MRS. JONES. (School Groups.) Comedy. Tony Horitz. 10 m., 9 f. (doubling possible.) Compo set or arena staging. Two unemployed teenagers who are uncertain about themselves and the world around them are sent on a quest to find "heroes fit to save the day." They encounter a hodge-podge of humanity: violent street gangs, cranky religious sects, unscrupulous pop groups, television characters and even a family of vagrants. In this final encounter they appear to find their her(}--the elusive Mrs. Jones. Unable to persuade her to return with them, they go back to empty-handed only to find that their commander has disappeared. Yet all is not lost--they have gained knowledge and gone from being Nobody to Somebody. This fast-moving comedy makes a serious statement in a delightful fashion. Notes about music for the production appear in the script. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#27027) DOOMSDAY. (Advanced Groups.) Religious drama. Tony Harrison. Large cast. Bare stage. See Index under The Mysteries for description. (#6161) THE NATIVITY. (Advanced Groups.) Religious drama. Tony Harrison. Large Cast. Bare stage. See Index under The Mysteries for description. (#15979) THE PASSION. (Advanced Groups.) Religious drama. Tony Harrison. Large Cast. Bare stage. See Index under The Mysteries for description. (#17093) ROBIN HOOD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Don Nigro. 14 m., 8 f. (more if desired.) Unit set. In a land where the rich get richer and the poor are starving, Prince John wants to cut down Sherwood Forest to put up an arms manufactory, a slaughterhouse and a tennis court for the well-to-do. This bawdy epic unites elements of wild farce and ancient mythologies with an environmentalist assault on the arrogance of wealth and power in the face of poverty and hunger using feeble and insane jesters, a demonic snake oil salesman, a corrupt and lascivious court, a singer of eerie ballads, a gluttonous lusty friar and a world of other grotesque characters out of a Brueghel painting. Maid Marian loses her clothes and her illusions among the poor and Robin tries to avoid murder and elude the Dark Monk of the Wood who is Death and perhaps something more. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20075) THE BAR OFF MELROSE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Barbara Beery, Mary Beeten, Pamela Chais, Dana Gladstone, Gloria Goldsmith, Kendall Hailey, Oliver Hailey, Nancy Becker Kennedy, Terry Kingsley-Smith, Jennifer Rhodes, Gary Soco/, Nalsey Tinberg, Vallie Ullman and Karen Weiss. 23 m., 15 f. Int. Cheers! Here is the definitive naturalistic bar play. Written by Oliver Hailey's playwrighting workshop and highly praised in its premiere in Los Angeles, it depicts a Happy Hour at a neighborhood bar. The large cast plays an extraordinary range of characters. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music is published in ~ript. (#3976) THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Baroness Orczy. Adapted by Beverley Cross. 16 m., 7 f. Var. sets. First performed in 1903, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the most successful play of its day-archetypal Edwardian theatre and the precursor of romantic Hollywood historical epics. This daptation brings to modem audiences the tale of the elusive hero who snatches helpless innocents from death and rescues the Comte de Tournai with the enemy hot on his trail. The Scarlet Pimpernel works in the shadows, his identity unknown even to his immediate followers. So disinterested is he in claiming credit for his heroism that he affects the persona of the biggest fool in London. He stands for English stability and against chaos and passionate fanaticism. "An evening of simple but unalloyed theatre magic."-Daily Telegraph. "Rumbustious, swaggering adventure tale."-Daily Mail. "Spectacular tongue-in-chic melodrama."-Mail on Sunday. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21047) PRA VDA. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Howard Brenton and David Hare. 25 m., 5 f., extras (doubling possible). Winner of the 1986 Society of West End Theatres Award for best new play, this modem Jonsonian comedy of menace took London by storm. Prm'da is about our western free press, which, as the authors point out, is about as free as the literal Soviet Pravda of the title. Dominating the play is Lambert Le Roux, one of the great stage characters in recent drama. Le Roux is a charming but totally unscrupulous South African newspaper magnate bent, it seems, on dominating England's press a~ he has elsewhere in the world. As we see Le Roux accomplish his aims, we see also how the press is not the organ of truth we like to think it is. The dissemination of the truth is no longer its primary goal under the Lambert Le Rouxs of our World. What is important now is what sells. "A savagely bitchy and often wildly funny evening."-Pun,h. "A magnificent epic drarna.' '-London Financial Times. $9.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#18158) CLASS DISMISSED. (High School.) Comic drama. Craig J. Nevius. 13 m., 12 f., extras. Comb. int. A 19-year-old high school graduate wrote this wonderful play about an English teacher who is frustrated with his students' lackadaisical approach to their education and takes severe measures: he holds his toughest students hostage in his classroom. They are an egocentric jock, the obnoxious class clown, the sensitive male and female intellectuals and the flippant prom queen. The lesson they learn is not about English but about life. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5746) TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD, (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Christopher Hampton. 16 m., 8 f., plus extras. Various sets. What if Odon von Horvath, the Austrian

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playwright who died before he got to Hollywood, actually made it to Tinseltown to meet up with the likes of Thomas Mann, Brecht, Garbo, the Marx Bros. and Jonny Weiss muller? "Both hilarious and tragic in the notion of the greatest literary brains in mid-century Europe having to flee the dictatorship of Hitler only to end up as slaves to the altogether different dictatorship of the Warner Brothers. "-Punch. "The play is built around a series of interlocking tensions between the tragic innocence of America and the guilty awareness of the Europeans . . . I felt as if I was seeing a play that took a fascinating slice of cultural history and transmuted it into the complexity of art." -London Guardian. "Enormous fun results from the culture c1ash."-London Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22015) A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. Translated by John Mortimer. 10 m., 3 f., 4 girls, extras. The translator of a popular version of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear scored another success with this acclaimed farce at the National Theatre of Great Britain. More slam-bang experiences in mistaken identities and sexual peccadillos, this hilarious story begins with M. Pinglet's efforts to have a fling with Mme. Paillardin, who is terminally bored with her husband. The lovers book a room in a very out-of-the-way hotel-which quickly becomes a destination for practically everyone they know. The hotel is raided by the police and they all end up in the hoosegow in a hilarious finish to a mad romp: $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#14171) WILD HONEY. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Michael Frayn. Adapted from an original play by Anton Chekhov. 12 m., 6 f. 4 sets. Frayn has transformed the young Chekhov's wild and rambling epic Platonov into a glorious and intriguing comic masterpiece that premiered at the National Theatre of Britian. "The triumph of Frayn's translation/adaptation is to have taken the bones of this immature work and molded it to offer us a tantalizing glimpse of the genius to come." -London City Limits. "The world can rejoice in an 'new' play by Chekhov . . . a sprawling study of a provincial Don Juan whose indiscriminate love of women leads not only to their downfall but to his own."-Sunday Express, London. "Brilliant."-London Guardian. "One of the best evenings in the theater that Broadway has given us over (#25690) the past few years."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) LIFE ON THE BOWERY or The Liar's Doom. (AI! Groups.) Comic melodrama. Tim Kelly. 8 m., 10 f., optional extras. Simple staging. Based on Robert Neilson Stephens' On the Bowery, this stage success depicts wild and wicked deeds. This version is easy to rehearse and produce, but misses none of the fun and thrills. Mrs. Drayton wishes her daughter Alice to marry villainous Thurlow Bleekman but she loves reporter Jack Hobart. The Drayton mansion is robbed and Bleekman blames Jack, forcing him to prowl the Bowery dressed as a Chinese waiter amid the riff-raf who congregate at Brody's. Meanwhile, Bleekman's girlfriend threatens to reveal his true character if he does not marry her. In the play's funniest scene the villain engages burglars to toss the troublesome girl from the Brooklyn Bridge. The villain meets his liar's doom, Jack and Alice marry, and a lost daughter and mother are reunited while the laughter rolls on. Optional olio acts can add to the hilarity. "Entertaining. . theatre rocked with good-natured laughter"-Hollywood Led(#14642) ger. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER. (AU Groups.) Comedy. Barbara Robinson. See Index for description. VOICES FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL. (High School.) ComedylDrama. Peter Dee. Hexible cast (doubling possible). Bare stage w. pieces. New Dramatists alumnus Peter Dee has developed a series of contemporary scenes and monologues that brilliantly reflect the joys and problems of growing up too quickly in America. The scenes are devastatingly honest, sometimes hilarious-always speaking from and to the heart. "A realistic look at today's teenagers, their problems and their dreams. This is not your usual high school pap."--N.Y. Times. "Zany, sensitive scenes ... hilarious, intelligent and theatrical." -Joseph Pintauro, prize-winning playwright. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40; cuttings quoted upon request.) (#24045) DARK OF THE MOON. (All Groups.) Howard Richardson and William Berney. 28 m. & f.roles. Var. sets. This perennial favorite is based on the haunting ballad of "Barbara Allen." Employing a large cast and imaginative settings in the Smoky Mountains, it recounts the story of an elfin witch boy who once beheld the beautiful Barbara Allen and immediately fell in love with her. He is given human form to woo and marry her on the condition that she remain true to him. The marriage is consummated and Barbara gives birth to a witch child whom the ffildwives bum. In a frenzy of religious revival Barbara is led to betray her witch boy husband, breaking the spell. She dies and he returns forever to the world of the mountain witches. "Gusto, vitality. humor, and a natural and easygoing way of introducing folk songs that add up to an engaging evening on Broadway. There's a swing and spirit to the best scenes that had some of the audience tapping its feet and humming." -N. Y. Post. "Weird, fascinating theatrical entertainment. . . . An enriching and pleasurable experience."-N.Y. World-Telegram. $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#50) JABBERWOCK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. 26 m., 17 f. Here are the thoroughly wonderful comings and goings, the doings and undoings of the Thurber family in Columbus, Ohio, on one evening as chronicled by James Thurber. It is a perfectly nutty family evening, with burglars and cops and Thurbers and neighbors. "Thurber beaten into delicate theatrical gold." -Dallas Iconoclast. "One of the world's great wits . . . A touch of the bittersweet and an electric car full of laughs."-Dallas Morning News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC area. (#607)

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are vivid characters who want to get more living done and are as unsure as Joe about how to go about it. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and of the Drama Critics' Circle Award. "One of the most enchanting theatrical works imaginable."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "Gleeful, heartbreaking, tender and hilario~s." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. Slightfy Restricted. (#1080) THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI. (Little Theatre.) Morality play. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by George Tabori. 30 m., 5 f. Brecht's shudderingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his henchmen on the one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the other is a vigorous eye-opener that was produced on Broadway with Christopher Plummer. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a "protection" campaign. His henchmen look astonishingly like Goebbels and Goring. Their activities include "accidental" fires and a St. Valentine's Day massacre. "A wild and grotesque sort of clown show, with everything seen through a distorting mirror. . . . An ideal vehicle for a director who knows how to shoot the work in his staging." -N. Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#917) THE VISIONS OF SIMONE MACHARD. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with and based on the novel by Leon Feuchtwanger. Translated by Hugh Rank and Ellen Rank. Var. roles. Ext. During the German invasion of France, a teen-age girl believes she is being called, a la Joan of Arc, to save France. Published with Schweyk in the Second World War, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#24619) SCHWEYK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. (Advanced Groups.) Comic drama. Bertolt Brecht. Based on The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek. Translated by William Rowlinson. 12 m., 3 f., plus supporting characters. Simple sets. Schweyk, incarnation of the indestructible little man, emerges in Nazi-occupied Prague and becomes involved with informers, patriots, and the Gestapo, never betraying whether his stupidity is real or assumed. Published with The Visions of Simone Machard, $16.00 (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#21636) THE GANG'S ALL HERE. (All Groups.) Drama. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. 15 m., 4 f 4 ints. Griffith P. Hastings is the compromise candidate for the presidency. He wins the election and brings his cronies along with him to the White House. They promptly begin dispensing favors and arranging scandalous financial deals. The easy-going president does not realize the extent of the shady dealings until a senator turns up evidence of the corruption. He is shocked at the news, but has the courage to expose and fire his friends. And then he himself dies, a disillusioned !p.an. "It is clean, simple, and bold in its storytelling."-N.Y. Herald-Tn'bune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9002) CAMILLE. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Alexandre Dumas fils. Translated by Pam Gems. 21 m.,7 f., 1 pianist (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. or unit set. This unforgettable classic drama about the doomed love of a Parisian courtesan and a Marquis' son in the 1840s is brilliantly rendered for the modem stage. "An intelligent, deeply moving re-examination of one of our most potent dramatic myths."-Time Out. "Superlative"-Observer. "A stunner. "-Spectator. "Compelling theatre."-BBC. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (Also available in a translation by Hen(#5196) riette Metcalf, see below.) Please specify translator when ordering. CAMILLE. (The Lady of the Camellias). (Little Theatre.) Drama. Alexandre Dumas fils. Translated by Henriette Metcalf. 11 m., 6 f, extras. 3 int. This exceptionally actable version of one of the most famous plays in the world originally starred Eva Le Gallienne. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (Also available in a translation by Pam Gems,see above.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#5009) A TALE OF TWO CITIES. (All Groups.) Drama. Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Fitzgibbons. 16 m., 10 f. Unit set. Using an English inn yard in the midnineteenth century to create a setting which solves the problem of portraying the countless locations in this tale of London and Paris, the playwright ingeniously employs four narrators (innkeepers) to help tum one of the great works of English literature into a tour de force for theatre groups everywhere. This stunning treatment gives full life to the premise and characters of the classic novel. "The Cleveland Playhouse production of A Tale of Two Cities could well mark the beginning of a new era in American Theatre. Bravo!"-Cleveland Gazette. $5.25. (Royalty, $50$40.) State Fitzgibbons Version when ordering. (#22042) NUINSKY: GOD'S MAD CLOWN. (All Groups.) Biographical drama. Glenn Blumstein. 34 parts: 7 m., 5 f. principals. Area staging. The greatest dancer who ever lived, before he descended into madness, is portrayed in intimate family and social settings and amid phantasmagoric scenes with theatrical imagery, ghoulish dancers, double-jointed puppets, and the phantasms of a living nightmare. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#16653) DON JUAN, or A STATUE TO SUPPER. (All Groups.) Satirical drama. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 18-20 m., 3-4 f. I set. Don Juan was performed in a bowdlerized version for almost 200 years, until actors. directors, and critics restored the original text, recognizing it as the most ambitious and mightiest of Moliere's prose plays. "We are grateful that a gifted translator and dramatist has turned his attention to Moliere."-Stanley Kauffman. In The Actor's Moliere: Volume 3, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6157)

MOONCHILDREN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Michael Weller. 12 m., 3 f. Int. This is the rootless generation of sixties' youth pinpointed. Five male college seniors and their three student cohabitants have no purpose in their lives and no reverence for anything. They go on marches and taunt the "pigs." The squares from outside whom the students put on bring forth the humor of the play. "A phenomenal, virtuoso display of wit and verbal imagination." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#704) DAVID AND LISA. (All Groups.) Drama. James Reach, adapted from the book by Theodore Isaac Rubin and the Screenplay by Eleanor Perry. 11 m., 11 f. Draped stage w. props. The award-winning motion picture has been adapted for the stage with the utmost fidelity. It retells the strange, appealing and utterly fascinating story of two mentally-disturbed adolescents: David, the only son of wealthy parents who is tortured by his mania against being touched, and Lisa, the waif with a split personality. One of her selves will speak only in childish rhymes and insists on being spoken to in the same manner. The play follows their exhilarating progresses and depressing retrogression during one term at Berkeley School, where they have come under the sympathetic guidance of psychiatrist Alan Swinford and his staff. Fellow students include Carlos, the street urchin; the over-romantic Kate and stout Sandra, among others. Laughter, heart-break and suspense distinguish this authentic (#51) and well-told story. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 14 m., 2 f., 12 extras, 6 musicians. Unit set w. platforms, cyc, drops. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are college chums of Hamlet's and their story is what happened behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play. The Players come and go; Prince Hamlet comes through reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad and escapes death. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their "only exit is death." "Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air." -N. Y. Times. "A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy."-N.Y. Daily News. Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Sound tape available on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. (Music royalty, $10-$5.) Restricted NYC and 75 mile radius. (#106) THE MATCHMAKER. (All Groups.) Farce. Thornton Wilder. 9 m., 7 f., 4 ints. A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker-a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his heart's desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide-and-seek scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his face. "Loud, slap-dash and uproarious ... extraordinarily original and funny."-N.Y. Times. "Rolls along merrily and madly and the customers are convulsed." -N. Y. Journal American. "The lines of Wilder are so often brilliant, sage, and witty."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) May not be done as cutting or one-act. Posters and Publicity Kits (#77) WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. (All Groups.) Thriller. Agatha Christie. 17 m., 5 f, 8 m. or f 2 ints. Only Agatha Christie could have conceived such a suspenseful thriller and then capped it with an uncanny triple flip-ending. A young married man spends many evenings with a rich old woman. When she is found murdered, the naive young man is the chief suspect. The testimony of his wife is expected to result in an acquittal, but she is a shrew who damages his case and all but hangs him before a vindictive mystery woman appears with letters against the wife. After the man is freed, it is revealed that mystery woman is actually the wife. She discredited and perjured herself because she felt that direct testimony on her husband's behalf would not have been' sufficient to free him. When he turns his back on his wife and goes off with another woman, we realize that he was the murderer. He does not get away it, for there is one tum of plot remaining. "A walloping success."-Herald Tribune. "Packs plenty of surprise in its cargo of suspense."-Daily Mirror. Winner of the New York Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award as the best foreign play of the year. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#1202) LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy-Drama. Ketti Frings. from the novel by Thomas Wolfe. 10 m., 8 f. 2 exts. w. inset. An authentic American classic, this powerful and vital play captures the sardonic humor and the grief, both private and universal, of Wolfe's novel about a youth coming of age. Concentrating on the last third of Wolfe's story, the play vividly portrays Eugene Gant, his mother who is obsessed by her material holdings and who maintains barriers against the love of her family, the father-a stonecutter imprisoned by his failures, and the brother who never breaks away. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Critics' award as best play of the season. "One of the finest plays in American dramatic literature."-N.Y. Post. "Quite simply, one of the best evenings I've ever had in the theatre. . . . A milestone in our time."-N.Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Publicity Kit and Posters (#655) THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. William Saroyan. 18 m., 7 f. 2 ints. Strarige, kindly Joe's search for happiness and answers to the far-reaching enigmas of life takes him to Nick's waterfront saloon where his friend and errand boy, huge and simple, falls in love with a fragile lady of the evening. To protect their happiness, Joe almost shoots a vice-raider. Wandering in and out of the saloon

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THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Sue Townsend. Songs by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. 8 m., 8 f.. extras. This long-running London comedy was adapted by Ms. Townsend from her international best-seller of th~ same title. Adrian Mole is a precocious young adolescent who fancies himself an intellectual hopelessly mired in a middle-class family which does not appreciate his mental superiority. Structured as a series of delightfully droll diary entries, the play incorporates a multitude of scenes wherein we see just what sort of existence young Adrian means to rise above. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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LORD ALFRED'S LOVER. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Eric Bentley. 29 m., 1 f., 2 c. or 10 m., 1 f., 2 coo Var. or unit set. Lord Alfred's Lover adds new dimension to the legacy of Oscar Wilde, skillfully weaving the facts of his life and the scandal that destroyed him with sensitive dialogue between fascinating characters. Lord Alfred Douglas serves as the play's nanator. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50(#14666) $40.) . AND STUFF. (Advanced High School Groups.) ComedylDrama. Peter Dee. Flexible cast. Bare stage w. pieces. The overwhelming success of Voices from the High School created a movement to provide adventurous, relevant, touching plays for teen actors. Now . . . and stuff. .. dramatizes the voice of today's teens using monologues and short scenes that reflect on current teen experiences in this country. A bit darker than Voices from the High School, this devastatingly honest play shares the joys and difficulties of becoming an adult. The play is deliberately more challenging than its predecessor because students throughout the country have demonstrated their ability to handle whatever is put before them, be it comedy, drama, music, dance; be it highly theatrical material or gut-wrenchingly personal. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#3924) THE WATER HEN. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. 2 sets. Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Translated by Daniel C. Gerould and C. S. Durer. 15 m., 3 f., 1 c. While a battle is (#25038) going on, Father organizes a card game. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) ON THE RAZZLE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 15 m., 10 f., extras, plus 6 musicians. Var. ints./exts. or unit set. This recent hit in London is a free adaptation of the 19th century farce by Johann Nestroy that provided the plot for Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers, which led to The Matchmaker, which led to Hello, Dolly. The story is basically one long chase, chiefly after two naughty grocer's assistants who, when their master goes off on a binge with a new mistress, escape to Vienna on a spree. "While preserving the beautiful intricacies of this construction, Stoppard has embellished Razzle with a dazzle of verbal wit-an unremitting firework display of puns, crossword puzzle tricks and sly sexual innuendos."-London Daily Telegraph. "Apart from Jumpers and The Importance of Being Earnest there may be no script in English funnier than On the Razzle."-London Observer. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#17615)

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JUNGLE OF CITIES. (All Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translation by Anselm Hollo. II m., 4 f., extras. Int.lext. Created out of gangster novels and set in a climate of rampant capitalism, Jungle Cities tells of a savage battle between two men whose relationship is homosexual and sadomasochistic. The action moves from a lending library in Chicago to a deserted railroad worker's tent in the gravel pits by Lake Michigan. In Jungle of Cities and Other Plays, $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Also see In The Jungle of Cities, below.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#12620) MASTERS OF THE SEA. (Little Theatre.) Drama with comedy. Gardner McKay. 13 m., 4 f. 2 alternating sets. From the deep stirrings within the core of a craggy island off the coast of Ireland comes the voice of this contemporary play. The island is Cliffhorn Heads and the islanders-great fisherman-face a famine caused by t~e international radar trawlers that have fished their waters clean. Yet there's stnl enough humor in these islanders to take the edge off their hunger. Masters of the Sea continues the action of Sea Marks; it is a sequel, though it stands alone and does not depend on its predecessor. Colm returns to his island followed by his wife-to-be (Timothea Stiles) who visits him only to bring him back with her. His father-The Macafee-appears to explain his own dying to his son. And Colm murders an Englishman he has rescued from drowning. "An absolutely brilliant piece of playwriting."-Kansas City Star. "Rich language, broad humor, and true wit-an authentic piece of literature." -Missouri Rep. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14990) GALILEO. (All Groups.) Biography. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Charles Laughton. 27 m., 4 f., extras. Cyc. and plat. set w. 6 drops and set pieces. This version played at Lincoln Center with Charles Laughton. The time is the emergence of the age of reason when Galileo was teaching young students the incredible account of how the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. His heretical announcement, that both the moon and Jupiter only reflect the sun's light, is brought to the attention of the church and Galileo is summoned to the Vatican. His friends abandon him and his appeal to the Pope is intercepted by the inquisitor. Galileo recants, but even while imprisoned continues his writings surreptitiously. "Unquestionably Brecht's masterpiece."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (For other translations, see Life of Cali/eo, below.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#475) LIFE OF GALILEO. (All Groups.) Biography. Bertolt Brecht. 3 versions: translated by David Hare, by Howard Brenton and by John Willett. See description for Calileo above. Hare translation, $8.95.(Royalty, $75-$75.) Brenton translation in manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Willett translation, $12.70. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. Please specify translator when ordering. Hare translation (#13786) Brenton translation (#14920) Willett translation (#14921) SHE FOLLOWS ME ABOUT. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. 10 m., 7 f. 2 sets. Set in 1943, this is an amusing satire on British prudery. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21120) A BIT OF A TEST. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. Large cast (doubling possible). 2 sets. Set in 1933, this farce revolves around England's cricket team in Brisbane. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4635) THEKLA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. 14 m., 4 f. 4 sets. This unusual farce is about a young woman, a native of Iconium during the Roman occupation, who becomes infatuated with a missionary named Paul (we know him as St. Paul). Eventually. Thekla's ardor for Paul cools, and she applies herself to strictly celestial devotions. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22661) DIRTY WORK. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Ben Travers. 11 m., 10 f. 2 ints. This lesserknown comic mystery by England's premier farceur is a perfect show for community theatre presentation. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6139) CINDERS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Christina Paul. Music by Richard Peaslee. 7 m., 8 f. Ints. or unit set. The New York Shakespeare Festival had a success with this pe'netrating allegory about a totalitarian police state by a Polish dissident playwright and novelist. In a reform school for girls near Warsaw a documentary director plans to film their production of "Cinderella." The authorities believe his film will show the world how enlightened the state can be in its institutions of social welfare. When the girl playing Cinderella refuses to participate in the charade, the director and the school authorities collaborate in her punishment. "One can only admire the author's will to make elegant Kafkaesque comedy out of his nation's nightmare of repression."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$40.) Music, $12.50. (Music Royalty, $15.00 per performance.) (#5071)

FiR (EMERGENCY ROOM). (Advanced Groups) Comic drama. Conceived by

Ronald Bennan, M.D., Zaid Farid, Richard Fire, Stuart Gordon, Carolyn PurdyGordon, Tom Towles, Gary Houston and Bruce A. Young. 9 m., 7 f., plus 1 m. child and 1 f. child. Int. Chicago's famed Org,mic Theatre Co., creators of the delightful Bleacher Bums, has scored again with this terrific slice-of-Iife comic drama set in a Chicago hospital emergency room on a busy Saturday night. An erstwhile cast of 18 plays various characters who inhabit and/or pass through the very realistically-conceived emergency room. Recently nominated for the coveted "Best Regional Play" award of the American Theatre Critics Association, ElR is the biggest hit in the history of the Organic Theatre. "A kaleidoscope of crackling comedy and drama."-Lerner Skyline Newspapers. "It's terrific."-L.A. Times. $6.50. (RoYillty, (#7637) $50-$40.) HAROLD AND MAUDE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Colin Higgins. 9 m., 8 f. Var. set. This is a stage adaptation of the movie about the suicidal 19-year-old boy who finally learns how to truly live when he meets that delightfully wacky octogenarian, Maude. Harold is the proverbial poor-little-rich-kid. His alienation has caused him to attempt suicide several times, though these incidents are more cries for attention than actual attempts. His peculiar attachment to Maude, whom he meets at a funeral (a mutual passion) is what saves him-and what captivates us. This stage version, a hit in France directed by the internationally-renowned Jean-Louis BarrauIt, will certainly delight both aficionados of the film and new-comers to the story. "Offbeat upbeat comedy."-Christian Science Monitor. $6.50. (Royalty, (#10032) $60-$40.) Restricted. THE LADY CRIES MURDER. (All Groups.) MysteFY. John William See. 11m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. "It is 1938. A successful radio producer has purchased a detective story from a writer named Raymond Chandler. Chandler is incensed that the producer is rewriting and distorting the story but seems powerless to do anything. With that as a background, the playwright segues into one of the slickest, smartest, funniest spoofs of the hard-boiled detective genre ever to hit the boards. "-L.A. Weekly. "The best written of its genre and certainly the wittiest." -L.A. Times. "One of the more successful spoofs of the hard-boiled privateeye yarns of the 30s." -L.A. Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14625) THE CASHIER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Glen Merzer. 7 m., 8 f. 1 set. An aspiring artist moves to California to spend a summer painting before marrying Dale, his fiancee in New York. To support himself, Ralf obtains a summer job as a mail clerk for the IRS. He grows fond of his co-workers there: Emily, a Zen enthusiast; Melba, a born-again believer; Frank, a practical-joker; and Mr. Thompson, a failed poet. Ralf, who never had a family, comes to feel a sense of family at his work. He also becomes intrigued by the blind cashier in the cafeteria of his office building. Meanwhile, his paintings are failures. Dale's career as a nightclub singer, by contrast, progresses admirably, as Ralf learns in phone conversations that grow increasingly distant. After Mr. Thompson confides in Ralf about his failed poetry, Ralf decides he is a mail clerk and not an artist. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5047)

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The latter two competed to do The Suicide. Stalin gave permission to present the play only after Gorki pleaded with him, but it was not allowed to open following a year of rehearsal. It was recently staged in Moscow for the first time. "A masterpiece . . . . Lights up the sky."-Guardian. "The best play in the Soviet repertory."-Nadezdha Mandelstam. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify author and translator when ordering. (#1041) THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. 2 versions: translated by Eric Bentley and by John Willett. 18 m., 11 f., extras. 4 ints., 3 exts. Three gods come to a poor village in search of one good woman: Shen Te, a prostitute. They give her money and she buys a store, but liberally gives to the needy and to parasites as well. She determines to marry a man and goes into debt for him but he spurns her. Conditions worsen until she disguises herself as her cousin and operates her business shrewdly and profitably, with no regard for others. As her cousin she is arrested for kidnaping herself. At the trial, the gods sum up the dilemma of the human struggle; it is pleasing to be kind, but only mercenaries prosper. The Bentley trnslation, $9.95; also in Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Willett translation, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano Score available on rental. Rental fee: $10 per performance; $25.00 deposit. (Music royalty, $20) Also see The Good Person of Setzuan, below. Please specify Wolpe edition or Dessau edition of piano score when ordering. Also please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. Bentley translation (#9076) Willett translation (#9699) THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Adapted by Tony Kushner from a translation by Wendy Arons. For description, see (# 499) above. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) JOHNNY ON A SPOT. (All Groups.) Farce. Charles MacArthur. 16 m., 3 f., 7 m. extras. Int. This fast-paced satire of American politics by a master of farce concerns the machinations of a particularly inventive campaign manager to elect Governor Johnny, a devout drunk and skirt-chaser, to the U.S. Senate. When he dies at Pearl's house of ill-repute on election day, the manager must devise a way to make people think he died from joy of being elected. "Funny as hell."-NY. Daily News. "A fast, loud, ribald, cynical, irresistibly funny example of Broadway craftsmanship. . . . Brilliantly imaginative. . . MacArthur's 'lost' gem come.s back to entrance audiences and instruct the trade in playmaking."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, (#609) $50-$40.) THE WILD DUCK. (All Groups.) Drama. Henrik Ibsen. 2 versions: translated by Christopher Hampton and adapted by Robert Brustein. 12 m., 3 f., 8 m. extras, 2 f. extras. 2 int. Here is the greatest account ever written of the destructiveness of missionary zeal. Gregers Werle enters the house of photographer Ekdal preaching "the demands of idealism' (a nicely ambiguous phrase in Hampton's translation) and systematically destroys a family's happiness. "If Ibsen's play is not a masterpiece, then the word is devoid of meaning." -Guardian, London. Hampton translation, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Brustein adaptation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde; see Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays.) Please specify translator when ordering. Brustein adaptation (#25254) Hampton translation (#25137) PEER GYNT. (All Groups.) Fantasy. Henrik Ibsen. Adapted by Paul Green. 8 m., 12 f. Ints.lexts. Peer Gynt is a wild and imaginative lad who journeys from outcast among the ugly and wanton back to the human melting pot to be molded again. He realizes too late nobody can exist alone. "Rich and elaborate. Exciting dances and music."-NY. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (Also available in a translation by Rolf Fjelde, see below.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#18044) PEER GYNT. (All Groups.) Poetic fantasy. Henrik Ibsen. Translation by Rolf Fjelde. 26 m., 12 f., 2 c. extras. Ints.lexts. (may be simply suggested). "At last Fjelde is giving us the translations, . . . our theater has needed for so long. With both student and professional actors, I have found his Ibsen texts marvelously playable." -John Houseman. "The truest to the original and unexcelled for theatrical performance."-Harold Clurman. A challenge to actors', directors' and designers' creativity-it has had a notable history on the international stage and has stirred controversy as a prophetic vision of the modem quest for identity. Mr. Fjelde's revised and anlplified translation captures the poetic form of the original and does justice to its subtlety of meaning and enduring theatrical vitality. $14.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Also available in an adaptation by Paul Green, see above.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#18043) OPERATION SIDEWINDER. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sam Shepard. 18 m., 3 f., extras (much doubling possible.) Ext. A snake developed by the Air Force is the unlikely focus of the play. Shepard's imagistic fantasy brings together a remarkable host of characters--each pursuing the snake for different reasons. The play is a stinging critique of political ideology and of dehumanization by technology. In Four Two-Act Plays by Sam Shepard, $12.95. Also in The Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#17044) WELFARE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Marcia Haufrecht. 8 m., 7 f. Comb. int. w. inset. A Puerto Rican high-school girl faced with her mother's terminal illness and an eviction notice seeks help at a welfare office. She is given comfort and guidance

THE MISER. (All Groups.) Farcical drama. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 8 m., 3 f. The most desperate, scheming miser in literature decides to marry the young woman his son also loves. With breathtaking skill and hilarity, events unfold in one outrageous scene after another. This version, which preserves the dramatic values of the original text, has played in Britain and the United States as a straight play and as a musical. "Bermel has rendered Moliere into an English that is speakable, playable, lively, witty and natural."-Lionel Abel. In The Actor's Moliere. Vol. 1, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also available in an adaptation by Miles Malleson, see Index. Please specify translator/adapter when ordering. (#15682) THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN. (All Groups.) Farcical drama. Moliere. 2 versions: translated by Albert Bermel and by Bernard Sahlins. 8-12 m., 4-8 f. This classic on snobbery presents Monsieur Jourdain' s obsessive desire to associate with the gentry. He spends a ton on outlandish outfits he thinks fashionable, on teachers of dance, music, and philosophy, and on bribes. He lavishes gifts on a countess. His family and others try to make him see how he's being bilked, but when he persists with his extravagances until they set up a phony ceremony to make him a royal Turkish mamamouchi. A festival of rich character studies and show-off roles, the Bermel version has been lightly edited to make room for lyrics so that it can be performed as a straight play or as a musical. Bermel version in The Actor's Moliere, Volune 2, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sahlins version, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Bermel translation (#4109) Sahlins translation (#4215) ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN? (Little Theatre.) Docu-drama. Eric Bentley, 25 m., 3 f. Int. The subject of this riveting and unusual drama is the i,nfamous HUAC hearings in the 1950's, in which figures from the world of show business were subpoenaed to testify as to their loyalty as Americans and asked to name any and all communists or suspected communists in their industry. Assembled directly from the transcripts of the hearings, the play uses the actual words spoken by the likes of Lionel Stander, Abe Burrows, Lillian Hellman, Larry Parks, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins and Jose Ferrer. Equally revealing are the questions asked by the committee members. "A rollercoaster of conscience. Superbly done." -N Y. Post. "A shattering experience."-NY. Daily News. In Rallying Cries, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#240) THE RECANTATION OF GALILEO GALILEI. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Eric Bentley. 34 m. (doubling possible). The author portrays Galileo as a spoiled darling of the establishment until he fails in his attempt to convince his contemporaries of his view of the universe. Only then does he become a scientific and social revolutionary. "Witty, humane, inspired. "-Detroit Free Press. In Rallying Cries, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#20042) THE FRENCH HAVE A WORD FOR IT. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Bamett Shaw. 13 m., 6 f. 3 ints. The action revolves around a flirt who refuses lovers so long as her husband is faithful. A wild plot to entrap her stumblingly husband in flagrante delicto becomes so frenetic that the seducers, angry husbands, spying wives, innocent maids, pubescent bellboys and police inspectors lose track of who's in bed with whom. "Sheer delight."-Dallas Downtown News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#8092) BARBARIANS. (Advanced Groups.) Drama. Maxim Gorky. Translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, Jeremy Brooks and Michael Weller. 15 m., 8 f. Int.l2 exts. A small provincial Russian town is suddenly aroused from its lethargy by the imminent arrival of the first railroad. Gorky is less concerned here with the Industrial Revolution than with the damaging personal effect of people who represent progress-in this case, two engineers who come to prepare for the railroad and who sweep into the lives of all and sundry with the force of a gale, upsetting stalemated romances, stale marriages and the equilibrium of the petty bureaucracy. An excellent choice for college and repertory production. Produced in New York by the BAM Theatre Company. "It is steadily engrossing. This version of a rarely produced play, in an articulate translation . . . offers additional proof of Gorky's importance as a playwright."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4045) FAUST. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated and edited by Johanna Setzer. Very large cast. Var. sets or unit set. This extraordinary complex and famous play is particularly recommended for colleges. Part I, $10.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Part 2, $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Part I (#8608) Part II (#8117) UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. (Das Weite Land.) (Little Theatre.) Drama. Arthur Schnitzler. Translated by Tom Stoppard. 16 m., II f., I m. child, 2 f. children, 2 ints.l2 exts. (simply suggested). Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, the play opened in London to critical acclaim. "A theatrical feast: a play that combines detailed psychology with a portrait of a society . . . . I think it's a marvelous play because it pinpoints decadence with wit and irony."-Guardian. Published with Dalliance, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#23009) THE SUICIDE. (All Groups.) Satirical comedy. Nikolai Erdman. Translated by Peter Tegel. 9 m., 5 f., var. minor roles, gypsies, extras. 2 ints.l2 exts. A brilliant and penetrating satire about an unemployed man who contemplates suicide and is besieged by spokespeople of discontented groups, from butchers to intellectuals, who want him to tum his suicide into a gesture on their behalf. 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by a radical black Jewish ex-teacher, but he rages at his own impotence, attacks a caseworker and is led away. Later, the girl is advised by an old Black recipient familiar with the ways of welfare and life. Her requests for welfare assistance are ignored so the girl protests, causing the office closing and the imminent arrival of the police. The old man gives her all the money he has and tells her to "stay away from welfare-ain't nothing' but cotton candy." "A winner. Captures all the awful indignities and humiliations of the dole. It's also loaded with sometimes biting, sometimes hilarious humor-and human kindness."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25058) MS. FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Albert Green. 6 m., II f. (doubling possible.) I set. In this comedy-packed version of the famous story, Baron Frankenstein is down on his luck. The sparsity of viewers staying up to see his old monster on late, late TV shows depresses his ego and his credit at the bank. Can he renew his fame and fortune as a monster-maker? Yes! He'll create a football super-star cheered by millions. But his sister, Baroness Frankenstein, has her own ideas. She furtively creates a female monster attractive enough to become a Hollywood star. A hot and hilarious confrontation flares up between the supporters of beauty and of brawn-the town's husbands are on one side and their wives on the other. The baron commands his monster to destroy his sister's. The reaction of the monsters at their first meeting is a tour de force of comic action. $6.50. (Royalty, (#15152) $50-$35.) THREE HISSES FOR VILLAINY. (All Groups.) Melodramas. Brian 1. Burton. 8 m., 8 f., pianists (doubling possible). Simple sets. This show consists of short melodran1as which, together with recommended Victorian ballads, form An Evening of Victorian Entertainment. One Month to Pay is a traditional story of a wicked landlord and a rent.to pay. The Drunkard's Wife is a temperance melodrama of the type popular in the 18oos. The Gypsy Curse relates the story of William Corder before he met Maria Marten. Acting Edition includes production notes with advice on the style of acting and direction. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $25-$20 per playlet.) (#22091) THE VIRGIN OF ORLEANS. (All Groups.) Romantic tragedy. Friedrich von Schiller. Translated and edited by Johanna Setzer. 20 m., 6 f., extras. Ints.lexts. This unorthodox portrait of Joan of Arc, written long before her canonization, has the divinely-inspired maid involved in palace intrigue, guiltily infatuated with an English general, and dying gloriously on the battlefield while leading the French army to victory. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#24032) FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic Comedy. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. 14 m., 2 f. Compo int./ext. When a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court and the President appoints a woman, there's dismay in this previously exclusive all-male body. Furthermore, she is a cool, dedicated conservative. Soon she is in headlong confrontation with Justice Snow, a cussing, cantankerous, liberal maverick. First, they clash over a pornography case-he championing complete freedom of expression, she denying the pornographer's right to pollute the moral atmosphere. Their second-act confrontation revolves around the question of whether a multinational conglomerate has illegally suppressed an invention that might ruin its profit picture. Snow gradually has his male chauvinism dechauvinized and she gradually loses the stiffness in her antiliberal spine. "Wry, dry and funny."-NY. Post. "Sprinkled with humor."-Wall Street Journal. $6.50. (Royalty, (#452) $50-$40) NATIVE SON. Revised Edition. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Paul Green and Richard Wright. Adapted from the novel by Richard Wright. 15 m., 14 f. (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world, was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman. "A powerful drama:'-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16010) CAUSE CELEBRE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Terence Rattigan. 15 m., 5 f., I boy. Unit set. This drama recreates the Alma Rattenbury trial of 1935, the first double trial in English history where the defendants tried to exonerate each other by taking all of the blame. "No one alive writes with such understanding of sexual love or with such profound pity for its victims."-Daily Telegraph. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#329) MUSEUM. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Tina Howe. 9 m., 9 f. (with doubling.) Simple in1. Museum takes place on the final day of a group show of three fictitious contemporary American artists being exhibited in a major museum of modem art. In the course of the day some forty people walk through the show: art lovers, skeptics, foreigners, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and of course, museum guards. The play is about the movement and yearning of these people. "Moving and beautiful ... a passionate and thoroughly personal play about the whole world."-Vil/age Voice. "The gallery becomes a parable of humanity ... [in this 1comedy of absurdities with a serious message."-NY. Times. "Excellent 'slice of life' comedy ... exceptionally good comment on the human condition."-Variety. $6.50. (Royalty, (#15161) $50-$40.) PRINCE FRIEDRICH OF HOMBURG. (All Groups.) Drama. Heinrich von Kleist. Translated by Diane Peters and Frederick Peters. 13 m., 2 f. (doubling possible). extras. Simple ints.lexts. Prince Friedrich, victorious over the Swedes in 1675, receives not laurels but the death sentence for disobeying orders. Consequently, his mood swings from abject terror to high-minded exultation as he first challenges, then accepts the rule of law and subservience to the state. $7.95. (Royalty,

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS $50-$40.) Also available in a translation by Bernard Sahlins; see The Prince of Homburg below. (#18121) THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG. (All Groups.) Drama. Heinrich von Kleist. Translated by Bernard Sahlins. For description see Prince Friedrich of Homburg, above. (#18185) $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE ALCESTIAD or A LIFE IN THE SUN. (All Groups.) Drama. Thornton Wilder. 18 m., 4 f., I boy, extras. Ext. Wilder retells the legend of Alcestis, who gave her life for her husband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from hell by Hercules. Wilder's Alcestis is a seeker after understanding, to whom "there is only one misery, and that is ignorance." Her life as wife, mother, Queenis apparently tragic: idyllic happiness is destroyed by death. Published with The Drunken Sisters. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#3619) STATE OF REVOLUTION. (All Groups.) Play. Robert Bolt. 20 m., 5 f., extras (doubling possible). Simple sets W. backdrops, screens. The play tells the story of the Russian Revolution and its chief personalities through the life of Lenin, opening at Gorky's villa on Capri in 1910 and ending just after Lenin's death with the suppression of his 'Testament' recommending the dismissal of Stalin. "A play to be stirred and enthralled by, to talk about far into the night, to savor and ponder and see again."-Sunday Times, London. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1017) JOSEPH ANDREWS. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. P. M. Clepper, from the novel by Henry Fielding. 7 m., II f., extras. Ints. and exts. This is Fielding's satire on "virtue in peril." A young virtuous male is being pursued and tries to keep his honor unsullied for the lovely maiden he wants to marry. Pure Joseph is besieged by high and low born females in 18th century England. There's also Parson Adams, a sort of plump Don Quixote of a clergyman, and Lady Booby, a lively widow trying her best to stoop to conquer her handsome footman. This farce provides a Hogarthian picture of earthy action and laughter. While relatively simple to stage, it is full of challenges for a wide range of acting skills. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12029) POOR MURDERER. (Little Theatre.) Play. Translated by Herbert Berghof and Laurence Luckinbill from the play by Pavel Kohout and the version by G. and A. Baumrucker. 6 m., 4 f. (with doubling), 4 extras, 3 musicians. Int. It is a play within a play set in a St. Petersburg mental institution in 1900. An actor playing Hamlet imagines he has killed Polonius-really killed him-or has he? By staging a psychodrama that enlists his former colleagues, he seeks to prove his sanity. But the developing action accumulates increasing evidence of deep-rooted instability. A running conflict between actor and the institution's head doctor is interrupted by flashbacks which recall his childhood, his stage career and his theater relationships. Where does the truth lie in this brilliant play that moves on several levels? "A strange, dazzling and intellectual play. .. I recommend the work most strongly . . . . One of the highlights of our season."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#18006) $40.) THE TRIP BACK DOWN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Bishop. 9 m., 6 f. (with dOUbling.) Compo set W. drops. Bobby Horvath, stock car racer, had visions of being the greatest, but he has returned home knowing he isn't and never will be. Racing brought him excitement and glamour-escape from the drudgery of a factory job. The play records his encounters with his father, the wife and daughter he deserted and also other friends and relatives. The action moves in and out of the past and the heart of the play is his struggle to come to terms with himself. But when past and present collide, the results are unexpected. The play is also about a blue-collar midAmerican town with its deadening routine of life. Boredom and depression begins to enfold Bobby with its futility and sterility. He returns to racing, even if it means he will be a loser. "Believable characters ... basic drama. . . solid, professional theatre."-NY. Post. "The genuine goods."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22003) LOOK AFTER LULU. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Noel Coward, based on Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Georges Feydeau. 15 m., 7 f., 2 boys, I girl. 4 ints. In Coward: Plays 5, $16.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14010) A BAD DAy AT GOPHER'S BREATH. (All Groups.) Farce with music. AI Ver Schure and Lee Ver Schure. 14 m., 4 f. (including I m. narrator-guitarist and I m. or f. piano player), extras. Area or platform staging. After many failures due to ineptitude, the notorious Rawlins gang rides into Gopher's Breath to rob the bank. While Rawhide Rawlins dreams of a farm for his rna, Sheriff Crutchwaffle-representing all that's rotten in town-also has his designs on the loot. He needs money to escape the clutches of Fat Jack Caldwell, the most feared man in the West. The outlaws and the sheriff force each other to alter their plans and the banker's niece enters the plot. Stricken by love, a Rawhide tries desperately to go straight, but his gang carries on and Crutchwaffle manipulates them to his own evil ends. Predictably, love deals Crutch waffle a bad draw in the end and Bambi and Rawhide ride happily into the sunset. Riddled with all the traditional cliches of the classic western, Gopher's Breath becomes the setting for hilarious happenings. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) , (#250) DANCE YOUR HEART OUT. (All Groups.) Play with music. Murray Spitzer. 6 m., 9 f., extras. 20 scenes. Apathy has taken over at Samuel Clemens High School. Principal Janice Turner wants to wake it up. She talks with Betty Foster, editor of the school paper. Somebody suggests an all-night charity dance marathon. 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passion for falling asleep and dreaming of being nude. He would dress her in finery; she wants to be undressed. Many nonsensical adventures ensue. Then it is discovered that Albertine is probably kidnapped by the pickpockets and dead. The people empty their pockets and their lives into a coffin-and Albertine emerges, naked at last. $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify author when ordering. (#17045) WHAT THE WINE-SELLERS BUY. (Black Groups.) Drama. Ron Milner. 11 m., 4 f., extras. Steve Carlton is a carefree high-school student, not good enough to become the professional basketball player he'd like to be but never dreaming of the easy life provided by crime and pimping. His hard-working mother becomes ill and his sinister neighbor Rico begins to pitch easy money. Steve's girl Mae, a cheerleader, dearly loves him. Under Rico's influence, Steve nearly decides to converted Mae into a prostitute. He sends her into the cellar with a middle-aged lecher, but repents at the last moment and calls her back into his arms. "A play worthy of attention, done with rapidly moving fluid staging."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1188) SATYRIC ON. (Little Theatre.) Paul Foster. Based on the Roman novella by Petronius. 9 m., 7 f., chorus. In Elizabeth I and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21030) MADONNA IN THE ORCHARD. (Little Theatre.) Paul Foster. 12 m., 5 f. A dramatic play of inner-confrontations by a man about to die with the weight of fratricide on his conscience. The ghosts of his past conflict with his efforts to find meaning for his life, and he struggles against them in an effort to overcome the prevalence of evil and corruption in his hellish private world. "A work of major ambition and intricacy."-N.Y. Post. In Elizabeth I and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15030) CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jay Broad. 13 m., 3 f. Int. A political adventure story about a head-on clash between the Presidency and the Supreme Court. "The author dares suggest corruption in the White House. Although all his characters are invented, soine are alarmingly like men who are or have recently been in public life in the uppermost levels. He has a tough way with conflicts as his characters collide fiercely. What gives this play stature is the larger conflict between the President's notion that he shall wield all his power ruthlessly . . . and Justice Balding's conviction that there is a more equitable way of running (#5136) the nation." -Boston Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brian Friel. 16 m., I f. Int. "Mr. Friel's play is set in Londonderry in 1970. An unauthorized Civil Rights March has been dispersed and three demonstrators-two young men and a middleaged mother of II children-take refuge in the Town Hall. Rumor inflates the trio to 40 armed rebels; they are besieged and when they surrender they are shot. . . . Friel fleshes the awful, numbing casualty statistics and gives them breath and life."-Sunday Telegraph. "Friel has written the best Northern Irish play since the present troubles began; it is also the least tainted by propaganda or the simplifications to which such a subject becomes prone."-Financial Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) . (#8075) SAINT JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS. (All Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Frank Jones. Var. characters. Int.lext. Lithuanian immigrants adrift in Chicago work in the stockyards where men are known to have slipped once and emerged from the plant in lard cans. Brecht's heroine, Joan, "wanted to know" and Brecht, with Marxism an influence and the Chicago Stockyards a setting, is the amiable teacher in the chosen city badly in need of an "entry of mankind. . ." into its maw. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21018) UBU ROI. (Little Theatre.) Burlesque satire. Alfred Jarry. Translated by Barbara Wright. Int.lext. Var. characters. One of the most excessive political caricatures, Vbu Roi ranks with the most original and powerful burlesques of all time. The character Ubu Roi was actually based on a schoolteacher who taught Jarry and was fat, mediocre, and hated-no more than Jarry hated the mediocrity he saw which was all lumped together in the nineteenth century bourgeois view of art. The play, which takes place in Poland-{)r nowhere, deals with the cruelty of despots and the stupidity of the human condition. "It is timeless, placeless, it shamelessly displays what civilization tries hard to hide."-Wright. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#23002) THE BIRDS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Aristophanes. Translated by William Arrowsmith. Var. characters. Int.lext. Undeniably a masterpiece and perhaps one of the greatest comedies of all time, the Birds lends a comic sense to mankind's crazy cosmic and comic dream. All this wish fulfillment seems darkened by death, but somehow the dream quality survives us. The Birds is splendidly lyrical, shot through with gentle Utopian satire and touched by the sadness of the human condition. The ironic gaiety and power of invention never flags, and in no other of his works is the comic vision so comprehensively or lovingly at odds with his world. In Aristophanes: Three Comedies, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4060) A MAN'S A MAN. (All Groups.) Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Eric Bentley. Var. characters. Int.lext. The place is India and the time is the nineteen twenties. Tommy learns to be Tommy and forgets to be himself, or what his mother told him he should be, because His Majesty's army has sold him in this attack against the militarized man and that organization which controls his thinking and so holds the balance of

outside affairs and parents object. Somehow, they enlist the help of Leslie Miller, radio personality. Somehow, they manage to get kids and a dozen rock bands into the field house. And somehow, determined kids stay on their feet for fourteen hours and dance their hearts out. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#6006) ARK OF SAFETY. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama with music. Howard Richardson and Frances Goforth, based on Tall Tales from Old Smokey by C. Hodge Mathes. 28 characters, extras (6 m., 6 f. with doubling). Area staging, minimal scenery. This drama of life in a tiny Appalachian community combines comedy and theatrical excitement with bluegrass music, hymns and country dancing to celebrate local heritage and traditions. The play presents the loves, hates, adventures, prejudices and deep religious faith of these people in the face of a meager existence. It is a memory play of half-forgotten tales of long ago. The story unfolds in the mind of Clyde Tollett, who returns after death to the time and place of his childhood and he relives the highlights of his life. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) PianoNocal Score available on receipt of a $10 rental fee per production plus a $10 refundable deposit. (#3107) THE 13 CLOCKS. (All Groups.) Adventure. Frank Lowe. Adapted for the stage from James Thurber's book. 13 m., 2 f. (with doubling). Simple ints. A Prince grown weary of rich attire, banquets, tournaments and the available princesses of his realm disguises himself as a ragged minstrel. He travels about learning the life of the lowly and slaying a dragon or two, until he hears of the matchless beauty of the Princess Saralinda who is held captive by an evil Duke. The Prince realizes that Saralinda is the maiden he has been seeking and resolves to win her hand in spite of the staggering perils imposed on her suitors by the Duke of Coffin Castle. The Golux, who must always be on hand when people are in peril (even though his magic is highly unreliable and his memory capricious at best) arrives to aid the Prince in this dangerous quest. Eventually the Golux and the Prince and Princess emerge victorious over the Duke and escape the even more malevolent and mysterious Todal. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#1071) YENTL. (Little Theatre.) Dramatic comedy. Leah Napolin and Issac Bashevis Singer. Based on Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashf:vis Singer. 12 m., 8 f. (with doubling). Var. sets. A rabbi's daughter in 19th century Poland has studied the Torah and refuses to play the hausfrau role traditionally allotted to Jewish women. When her father dies, she disguises herself as a man and flees to another town where she continues her studies and becomes involved in an unusual romantic triangle. "Delightful. "-Newsweek. "Touching and deeply funny. "-NBC. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#27002) GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRYl (All Groups.) Documentary. Carl Eugene Bolte, Jr. 14 m., 6 f. (5 principals). Int. This exciting drama of the Truman White House Years captures the saga of an improbable-but-great statesman, the events of his time and his momentous decisions. Also present are the women in his life-mother, wife and daughter. The high and mighty who helped him win lhe war and plan for peace and old friends from home also fill the stage. There is lhe colorful, salty speech of a bourbon-drinking Baptist who said "the buck stops here" -"I am tired of babysitting the Soviets" - "if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." Easilystaged, well-paced to thrill every audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9049) THE SCREENS. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtrnan. 88 characters: 7 m., 8 f. principals. Int. w. platforms & screens. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#21048) THE KAMA SUTRA. (Little Theatre.) Comedy witb songs. Tom Eyen. Music by Bruce Kirle. 7 m., 9 f. (doubling possible). A group :is led by a guru who's brought them from India to performed their interpretation of the Kama Sutra. "It's actually a hilarious satirical takeoff on 20th century theatre fonns. I haven't laughed harder in a long time. "-Villager. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays. $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#13002) THE SIMPLETON OF THE UNEXPECTED ISLES. (All Groups.) Allegory. George Bernard Shaw. 16 m., 8 f. (doubling possible). Var. sets. In a British tropical port an emigration officer and a young woman wilhout a passport meet a native priestess and priest and then two tourists. The six decide to live together to conduct an experiment in eugenics. Four children are bom. Twenty years later, an angel appears to announce Judgement Day stating only those tJJat are socially useful will remain. In Plays Extravagant, $9.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21179) TO BE YOUNG, GIFfED AND BLACK. Based on the life of Lorraine Hansberry as adapted by Robert Nemiroff. See Index for description. SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. 17 m., 3 f. 5 int. Incriminating letters written by a young European prince to the English girl he betrayed are in the hands of the dead girl's sister. She is in the clutches of a nefarious man. All this and Moriarty and Dr. Watson too. "A prime evening of entertainment."-N.Y. Daily News. "Constant stage magic to delight the audience."-Women's Wear Daily. "A theatrical triumph . . . one of the jolliest treats of the season." -Christian Science Monitor. "The most enjoyable show in town. . . a great evening in the theater. I. . . might find it difficult to like (#975) someone who did not love it." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) OPERETTA. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Witold Gombrowicz. Translated by Louis Iribarne. 24 m., 5 f., extras. Var. sets. A titled rake is after sweet Albertine who has a

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his fate in its dumb hands. In Baal, A Man's a Man & The Elephant Calf, $9.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano Score, $12.50. (Music royalty, $10 per performance, payable when the score is ordered.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#15053) THE WASPS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Aristophanes. Translation by Douglass Parker. Var. characters. Ext. In this political comedy old Philokleon, the 'demon dicast,' is weaned from his boss-ridden, jury-going way by his son Phobokleon who uses successive applications of force, logic and what might be called therapy. Philokleon is more than a symbol of Athenian excesses and Phobokleon has the virtues of a self-impelled snob. The contrast between Philokleon and Phobokleon provides the basic confrontation. In Aristophanes: Three Comedies, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25032) A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER. (All Groups.) Comedy. John Mortimer, 12 m., 7 f. Bare stagelint. There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son-as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so comical as at fIrst glance. We see the Son in his childhood with a friend named Reigate and a teacher named Noah, then as a man who has been told all he is meant to feel-sudden freedom growing up, the end of dependence-the step into the sunlight when no-one is taller than you and you're in no-one else's shadow. Lonely. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#24044) BAAL. (All Groups.) Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Eric Bentley and Martin Esslin. Var. characters. Int.lext. In Baal, A Man's a Man & The Elephant Calf, $9.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#4000) FORTY YEARS ON. (All Groups.) Drama. Alan Bennett. Various characters. Int. The old Headmaster of an all-boys' school reflects over his memoirs, spanning times of poverty, the second World War and ultimately the decline of authority, the decay of standards and the slow collapse of contemporary society. Franklin is the young Master and the old Headmaster's counterpoint with new ideas when the school dearly needs them. The Headmaster opposes Franklin's innovations and fInally capitulates, but not before he has had his say. $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Write for information about music. (#8069) THE NATIONAL HEALTH. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Peter Nichols. 16 m., 7 f. Int. In a men's hospital ward the patients come and go. Some linger, some die, some face illness with fortitude, others with boredom. The beautifully detailed documentary-background is juxtaposed with richly satirical scenes in which the staff become the romanticized characters of a TV series of hospital life. "A portrait of six inmates in a ward . . . [that] amounts to a study of the organization versus the individual. and to a microcosm of our society; but such themes only arise from his concern for the people themselves and their response to seeing each other die." -London Times. "Bittersweet, oxymoronic quality, had a pungency that Chekhov would have envied. . . . Caught me half in tears and half slain with laughter." -Guardian. $6.50. (Royalty, S50-$40.) (#761) THE FROGS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Aristophanes. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Var. characters. Int.lext. The play takes the form of a comic journey beyond the limits of the world, reminiscent in some ways of The Birds. As the Dead are encountered, they are used to speak the poet's own views and to plead for political harmony. At the end of the journey, a conversation between the two slaves, Xanthias and Aiakos, introduces the grand fInale between Euripides and Aeschylus who is depicted as a Colonel Blimp. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35) (#8081) THE ACHARNIANS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Aristophanes. Translated by Douglass Parker. Var. characters. Ext. In Aristophanes; Four Comedies, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3006) THE CLOUDS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Aristophanes. Translated by William Arrowsmith. Var. characters. Ext. If not the funniest play he ever wrote, it is certainly the cleverest. It attacks the sophist movement and Sokrates as a symptom of the movement. The improbable victim is exploited by comic representation of sophistic corruption. In Aristophanes: Three Comedies, $14.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify author when ordering (#5115) APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH. (All Groups.) Mystery. Agatha Christie. 9 m., 7 f. (with doubling). Int.lext. An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her-as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton's devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life. In The Mousetrap and Other Plays, $7.99. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#3097) THE IDIOT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Simon Gray. Adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Var. characters. The playwright uses some of the most vivid

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS and contrasting episodes recounting the strange involvement between Prince Myshkin, the good-natured 'Idiot', the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna and her desperate lover and husband, Rogozhin. The result is a haunting piece of theatrical bravura. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#11012) EDWARD II. (All Groups.) Drama. Benoit Brecht. Translated by Eric Bentley. 16 m., I f. extras. Int./ext. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#7008) EACH IN HIS OWN WAY. (All Groups.) D~ama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Ar1hur Livingston. Var. characters. Pirandello has labelled this playa comedy with choral interludes, having characters of the comedy on the stage and "real" people appearing in the lobby. This is one of Pirandello's best efforts in voicing, through Delia Morello, some of his noblest impulses and those best able to keep within the bounds of art-the sense in which nothing is true. It is an effort of heart and mind to fInd the true in the moral sense. In Naked Masks, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7001) DEVOTION TO THE CROSS. (All Groups.) Drama. Calderon de la Barca. Translated by Edwin Honig. 12 m., 3 f. extras. Ext. Calderon presents a modifIcation of the honor codes through the countervailing movement of the principle of mercy. The mercy principle, part of a theocratic code, triumphs in the end, without destroying the structure of the honor system it opposes. In Calderon de la Barca: 6 Plays, $30.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6057) GENEVA. (All Groups.) Political fantasy. George Bernard Shaw. 12 m., 3 f. 4 ints. This is a devastating look at the fascism that seemed to be overtaking the world in 1938 when Shaw wrote it. Three dictators, very clearly Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, are exposed in the court of world opinion. In Plays Political, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9014) SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR. (All Groups.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello.4 versions: translated by Edward Storer, by John Linstrum, by Frederick May and adapted by Robert Brustein. 12 m., 8 f., 3 c., extras. Pirandello discloses his feeling and closeness to life in a pattern which follows some of his other major plays. A Father is tortured since his thoughts, no matter how brilliant, are crippled by emotions which subordinate the thoughts. The Father is the strong character through which Pirandello allows us the insight needed to come to grips with a message for all six characters and the author. Storer translation in Naked Masks, $13.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Linstrum translation in Pirandello: Three Plays, $18.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) May translation, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Brustein translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Storer translation (#984) Linstrum translation (#21194) May translation (#21191) Brustein adaptation (#21176) ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGHIN. (All Groups.) ComedyVariety. George Schlatter-Ed Friendly Productions and Romart, Inc. 1968. This fast-paced adaption of the television show appeals to all tastes and ages. The script includes comedy material for the two masters of ceremonies, short sketches, sight gags, black outs, cameo commentary, variety acts and idemtifIable comedic caricatures. Simple to produce, this evening of hilarity and wholesome humor is fun for the performers and the audience. "A swinging version of Hellzapoppin."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#645) SUBJECT TO FITS: A RESPONSE TO DOSTOEVSKI'S THE IDIOT. (All Groups.) Drama. Robert Montgomery. Var. characters. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Four-part orchestration available on receipt of $25 refundable deposit. Music Royalty, $10 per performance. (#21378) CHEMIN DE FER. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau, adapted by Suzanne Grossmann and Paxton Whitehead. 10 m., 4 f. 2 ints. The title refers to a game of chance in which the deal and the bank progress from one player to the next, and it is a fItting simile for the game that Feydeau has concocted. The mistress of the house does indeed have a lover. When he comes to rent a suite in the house, he turns out to be an old classmate of her husband's. The husband catches the lovers and the result is chemin de fer: the husband passes his wife to the lover who in tum marries the wench, is himself cuckolded and so on: love is chancy, love is luck, love is chemin de fer enlivened with Feydeau touches of contretemps, mix-ups, lunacy and laughter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5083) ABELARD AND HELOISE. (Little Theatre.) History. Ronald Millar. 12 m., 9 f. Platform set. One of the greatest love stories of all time, tlus play was inspired by Helen Waddell's Peter Abelard and the letters of the 12th century lovers: a monastic scholar and poet and the innocent girl who came to adore him. Abelard loses his heart and his reason to Heloise, has a child by her and, in violation of his vows, enters into a secret marriage. Heloise's vengeful uncle alerts the ecclesiastical authorities. The lovers are separated and Abelard is castrated. She enters a nunnery and he a monastery. They meet again years later when he turns over to her, as abbess, a community he founded at their parting. "Will please people who like tragedy with their love and wit with their history."-N.Y. Times. "[This] story of the most famous star-crossed lovers outside of Romeo and Juliet. . is intelligently written, striking."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#200)

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THE THWARTING OF BARON BOLLIGREW. (All Groups.) Comedy. Robert Bolt. 21 m., extras. Bare stage. A tale of long ago, when dragons were still common. The Duke and his Knights, having slain the last dragon in the Dukedom, are looking forward to a nice period of inactivity. Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong, however, declares they must go elsewhere to do further good works. To avoid this, he is sent on a oneman mission to overcome the dragon in the Bolligrew Islands. There he meets the wicked 15th Baron and his blundering Squire Blackheart and others. After passing through many fantastic adventures, he at last encounters the Dragon. A marvelous play for all groups. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1076) THE PEOPLE VS. RANCHMAN. (Little Theatre.) Megan Terry. 15 or more m. & f Platform set. Ranchman is brought to trial for raping two women, a girl and a boy. With some calling for his death and some for his liberation, he is electrocuted. He reappears from the grave and is confronted again by his accusers. The victims reenact the rapes and this time Ranchman is both hung and shot. In the third segment, Ranchman in eternity is again confronted by his accusers. This time they beg forgiveness, dramatically demonstrating that we are all both guilty and innocent for the evil in the world and therefore cannot kill a man for sins willed to him. Published with Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18051) THE FRONT PAGE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. 17 m., 5 f., Int. An irresistible comedy with thrills and derring-do set in the news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop desk and phones his scoop to his managing editor. Their job is to prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the desk and finding their story. Some hoods are enlisted to remove the desk, but they get mixed up with a Boy Scout troop and the mayor and a cleaning woman, among others. It's a whirlwind wrap-up with Hildy finally making his breakaway, but the cynical managing editor has him arrested before he leaves town for having stolen a watch he planted on Hildy. "Gorgeously melodramatic. One of the funniest and most exciting of American plays."-NY. Times. "Fast, explosive, funny."-ABC-1V. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#449) CHILD'S PLAY. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Robert Marasco. 6 m., 9 boys. Compo W. wagon. Something is amiss in a Catholic boys' boarding school. The students have become sinister, furtive and conspiratorial as they steal up and down staircases after hours. The menace erupts in savagery as the students torture one of their members and then another and another. What is the disease that has settled in their souls? Who is torturing the crotchety classics professor by sending obscene photographs to his dying mother? And why? The answer is hate in its devilish forms of pride, envy and jealousy-a hate so perverse that it has infected the students and the staff. "An absorbing thriller. . . . Constantly engrossing, high voltage theatre . . . written with grace, wit and insight."-NY. Daily News. "A powerful melodrama that will thrill audiences for a long time to come."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#315) THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH. (All Groups.) Drama. Robert Shaw. 18 m., 3 f 3 ints. The brilliant New York and London successes starred Donald Pleasance as a vastly rich real estate operator in New York, a German Jew who flaunts this fact far and wide. This entails some risk apparently, for in fear he carries a revolver. When the fear materializes, he tosses the gun away and meekly surrenders: Israeli agents have tracked him down to try him as a Nazi officer who tortured Jews. He confesses in a tirade-only to have this mask sundered by a Jewish woman who says she remembers him well, but as a Jew, not a Nazi. "An engrossing play, fantastically effective."-NY. Times. "A disturbingly provocative thoughtfulness of meaning on several levels that make it strangely enthralling ... [and] striking theatrical."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#684) THE DEVILS. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun. 17 m., 6 f., extras. Ramps, arches, wings. In 17th century France, a worldly priest has a special attraction for the ladies--especially for . a psychotic prioress whom he spurns. She avenges herself by feigning diabolical possession by his incubus. The hysteria becomes widespread. Meantime, he is guilty of outrages against several prominent women and the cry against him grows. The antagonism of Richlieu ends the clamor of the convent, forces him to trial, torture and eventual death at the stake. "A stunning play, one of the finest of our age. A richness of imagination and perception hard to match in our time."-N.Y. Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6055) FIVE ON THE BLACK HAND SIDE. (Black Groups.) Comedy. Charlie L. Russell. 14 m., 7 f Unit set. You are living in Harlem and married to a man who makes you keep a daily time schedule. This man detests your daughter's fiance and one of your sons is living in rebellion on the roof. What do you do? What you've been silently planning to do as soon as the children were grown: pack up and leave. Except some of the women in the apartment convince you to stay and fight. "This is laughter of regeneration and of life. . . . It expands an audience's sense of the world and clarifies both hope and the challenge in a contemporary life." - Village (#441) Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS. (Little Theatre.) Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by John Mortimer. 13 m., 7 f., extras. 3 sets. The lady has two lovers: a ne'erdo-well who is secretly affianced to a Baroness' daughter and a flamboyant Spanish general who challenges to a duel any man who comes near her. An amateur compos-

THE LOWER DEPTHS. (All Groups.) Drama. Maxim Gorky. Translated by Alex Szogyi. 12 m., 5 f., extras. Int. In Gorky's greatest work, the characters are the dregs of society hovelled in a ramshackle inn: a thief, a degenerate baron, a prostitute, an alcoholic actor, the seedy proprietor, his sister-in-law who loves the thief and others. Their discontent grows until a whistler comes to perk up their spirits and they begin to grow hopeful. In one of their quarrels a brawl erupts, the proprietor is killed, others are jailed and the drunken actor rises to the pinnacle of his performance by hanging himself "It is, perhaps not a play at all, but a slow-moving graphic panorama of unrelieved woe. Nevertheless, truth is stamped indelibly upon it; it is the work of a master of dramatic realism."-NY. World. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14150) VIV AT! VIV AT REGINA! (All Groups.) History. Robert Bolt. 27 m., 2 f, extras. Area staging. The modem version of the epic contest for the throne of England. "A vivid tapestry of passion, blood, majesty and death."-Time. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) (#1166) CATCH22. (All Groups.) Comedy. Joseph Heller, adapted from his novel. 9 to 36 m., 2 to 8 f. X-ray set. This superb dramatization of the classic spoof of war and those who make it pay is told from the point of view of Captain Yossarian, a pilot convinced his number is up. Every time Yo-Yo reaches his quota of missions, the requirements are increased until he flatly refuses to fly. A C.O. bucking for general, a mess officer who runs an international cartel in scarce commodities, the ex-PFC who really runs the war by deciding which mail should go from one general to another, undercover agents who end up investigating each other, a Roman prostitute trying to kill Yossarian, the Army nurse with whom he is briefly in love, and the lads who die too young-all are splendidly presented with dramatic immediacy. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#303) CONDUCT UNBECOMING. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Barry England. 14 m., 4 f, extras. Int. In late 19th century India, two new lieutenants join the British regi!Dent to open a play that exposes the spuriousness and brutality beneath the romantic veneer of spit-and-polish. A widow at the post accuses one of the lieutenants of attempting to assault her. A kangaroo court is convened. The case is cut-anddried until the defense counsel notes discrepancies in the accounts of what happened and turns the investigation upon one of the older, more honored officers. "A rattling good play and a wonderful '\Yhodunit!"-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#5133) TONIGHT WE IMPROVISE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Marta Abba. Approx. 50 characters. Int/ext. The dramatic innovations in this play are legendary. Direct address, improvisations and in-and-out-of-character speeches are but several of the techniques Pirandello originated. The play within the improvisation concerns the wooing of a wife by a man who finds her family quite crazy. The players actually live their parts, with strong physical effects to themselves. Narration, interludes, a simultaneous dialogue, mime, processions, tableaux, (#22154) film, and song are also facets of the staging. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE JOURNEY OF THE FIFTH HORSE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Ronald Ribman, adapted from Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man. 12 m., 6 f. Several sets. A reader in a publishing house is given a diary to take home and read overnight. This sets three worlds spinning: the reader's dream world, the real world and the world of the diarist. In his dreams the reader is to marry the owner's daughter while his lady is eager to wed and bed him. In reality, he proposes to the landlady and is promptly scorned. The diarist loved a girl who fell victim to a dashing cossack and was left pregnant when his regiment moved on. The diarist is scorned for having provoked a duel, and the girl will not even have him as a foster father for the child. "Sure and subtle craftsmanship [and] . . . language with a grace and suppleness one does not often encounter."-Harper's Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12030) HADRIAN THE SEVENTH. (All Groups.) Comedy. Peter Luke. 26 m., 2 f. Dropand-wing w. wagons. Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an end to Hadrian VII. "An extraordinary play. . . . Enough to lift the heart and stir the mind . . . . A theatrical work of art."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#521) WE BOMBED IN NEW HAVEN. (Little Theatre.) Morality. Joseph Heller. 16 m., I f. 2 drop-and-wing, 1 wagon. Oscillating between reality and unreality, this play introduces a code-bound captain who assembles his flyers to bomb Constantinople. Why? Because his orders say to. One aviator is killed on the raid and the sergeant, realizing that he is next to die, skips over the hill. The captain pacifies the others by bringing out the toy chests and leading them along the regressive route from football to blocks to baby rattles. The replacement for the dead aviator is 15 years old. When the sergeant is discovered in the captain's home, the captain promises to help him but the military shoots him straight-away. Now comes the captain's tum to pass on 300 new recruits all bearing his son's name. "An exceptional quality of imagination that is at once comic, bitter and moving, and it is immensely effective in dramatic terms."-NY. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1182)

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er who hopes the lady will sing his song places his card in a bouquet sent anonymously and thereby seals his fate: the ne'er-do-well uses him to divert the general's flashing sword. Meanwhile, the ne'er-do-well is trapped in his skivvies outside his apartment. When the cops come to arrest him for indecent exposure, you can be sure it is the songwriter who goes to jail. The comedy vibrates with farcical situations and extrications before the truth is revealed. "A triumph of ingenuity, gaiety, absurdity and laughter."-Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5034) ALFIE. (Little Theatre.) Bill Naughton. 9 m., 9 f. Compo set. With sublime amorality Alfie swaggers and philosophizes his way through the play, chattily allowing the audience to eavesdrop as he goes from one bird to another. He tries hard to communicate his own brand of determined hedonism and carefully rejects anyone or anything that might touch him too deeply. Despite himself, he discovers a warm love for his bastard son and is puzzled and hurt when the mother shuts him out of their lives. An unexpected self-revulsion comes when he sees the aborted body of another son. He can still sustain himself with Cockney ebullience but his gaiety is clearly becoming more strained. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3031) THE DRUNKARD. (All Groups.) Farce. Brian 1. Burton, Music and Lyrics by Brian J. Burton 7 m., 8 f. Var. sets. The poor man did not start out to be a drunkard; mercy no! He was the penniless heir of his kindhearted father, from whom he inherited his virtues. He would not be moved by that villain lawyer to kick the widow and her daughter out of their cottage. Indeed, on seeing the fair daughter he proposed. The wedding of these two paupers does not produce financial relief. One day the lawyer lures the noble husband to a saloon; he becomes a drunkard and the poverty increases. The lawyer tries to get the husband to forge a name, but he is still too virtuous for that. It's the husband's half-wit brother who plays detective, finds out what the lawyer is up to, discovers his brother in the slums and finds the true will. With the help of all men of good will, retribution is realized in the end. "Capital songs in the best British music-hall tradition." -Stage. "Tremendous audience response."-Worcester Evening News. $8.95. Piano Score, $16.00. (Royalty, $50$35.) Please state author when ordering. (#370) NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Charles Gordone. 11 m., 5 f. Int. In this Pulitzer Prize winning drama, the owner of a bar in a black neighborhood has plans for making it big when his mentor is freed from prison. Disappointments abound and violence interfers. "Black-black comedy bursting with life and fact and laughter and anger. . A turbulence of living language."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#770) BORSTAL BOY. (Little Theatre.) Biography. Brendan Behan. Adaptation by Frank McMahon. 19 m., 4 f., 20 extras. Var. sets. The forge of suffering that fashioned the soul of a poet is captured in this award-winning play. Sixteen-year-old Brendan Behan is sent from Ireland by the IRA to blow up some British ships. He is caught, imprisoned, tried and sentenced to a reformatory. After three years, he is released and shies from revolutions forever. Most of the play centers on the hardships in prison where he is the victim of sadistic guards. There is greater civility in the reformatory, and much more humor, but there is also suffering caused by being Irish in a British land. Winner of N.Y. Drama Critics and Tony awards. "A happy song about tragedy of life, one of the best plays to come to Broadway in a long time. "-NBC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Write for particulars on music. (#4101) BACK TO METHUSELAH. (All Groups.) Drama. George Bernard Shaw. Condensed by Arnold Moss. 17 speaking roles. This adaptation compresses the essentials of the original into a conventional length play, using a Shavian-type conferencier to bridge the translations. The text is entirely Shaw's. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4006) ON THE ROCKS. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 12 m., 5 f. Int. The Prime Minister is ill and as a cure is urged to learn to think. He soon learns that being able to think isn't necessarily desirable when one is a politician. In Plays Political, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#17618) ANDROCLES AND THE LION. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 14 m., 2 f., 2 extras. Int.l2 ext. Here is Shaw's tale of early Christianity, starring an amiable chap who refuses to hunt or kill and who befriends animals to the degree that he is able to remove a thorn from a lion's paw. Androcles is captured and taken with other Christians to the Coliseum. When the hour arrives for them to be thrown to the lions, it is the grateful beast befriended by Androcles in the arena-a miracle sufficient to make Caesar declare Rome Christian. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#221) THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. (All Groups.) His\ory. Peter Shaffer. 22 m., 2 f., extras. Cyc. drops, inset. Pizzaro's expedition in the land of the Incas is recounted in a dazzling spectacle. The Spaniards kill 3000 unarmed Incas and take the sun god captive. The ransom is 9000 pounds of gold. The avaricious Spaniards mutiny, try the sun god in kangaroo court and garrote him, forcing the Incas behold their dead god. "High intelligence and bold, imaginative reach ... soaring passages that recall the stage to its lofty enterprise, and a theme of enduring significance." -N. Y. Times. "Greatest play of our generation. "-Daily Mail. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Write for information about music. (#930) TOM PAINE. (Little Theatre.) Paul Foster. 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al scenes. "Alive and vital . . . . Shows the liberal nonconformist spirit in agony. He does not whitewash Paine. His unbearable arrogance and conceit . . . are not denied any more than his drunkenness, but the author does defend his ideals."-N.Y. Times. "Mr. Foster has added much fictional decoration ... but. .. he remains true to the man's visions."-Glasgow Herald. $6.50. (Royalty, (#1082) $50-$35.) Write for information about music. SAINT JOAN. (All Groups.) George Bernard Shaw. 21 m., 2 f., extras. 6 int.lext. Considered by many to be Shaw's masterwork, it traces the life of Joan of Arc from the time she appears to her regional governor through her visit to the Dauphin (where she is undeceived by disguises) to the siege of Orleans, the coronation at Rheims, the trial and recantation, and her death at the stake. It is followed by the famous epilogue on her canonization. Running throughout are the themes of impending historical storm, the rise of nationalism and Protestantism. "The greatest play in English since Shakespeare."-Archibald Henderson. "Beautiful, engrossing, and at times exalting."-AIexander Woolcott. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#960) HOGAN'S GOAT. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. William Alfred. 10 m., 5 f., 5 extras. Compo int.lext. (convertible unit). One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history is set at the tum of the century in an Irish community in Brooklyn. The mayor has his hand in the till and the time is ripe for reform, but the upstart candidate has a secret: he has not yet married his wife in Church because he is still married to a dying a woman of drunkenness and disrepute. "Has the rhythms of highly charged verse, verse with a sting in its tail."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10113) ALICE IN WONDERLAND. (All Groups.) Fantasy. Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus, adapted from Lewis Carroll. More than 50 characters plus extras (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. Produced and revived on Broadway, this is the most successful dramatic version of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: a journey into a world of complete illusion. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) PianoNocal Score, $33. (#215) PINK MAGIC. (High School.) Comedy. Merritt Stone and Floyd Crutchfield, based on the novel by Margaret Lee Runbeck. 7 m., II f. Ext. Lambie Prowder has brains, but what's the good of brains to a 16-year-old girl? What she needs is charm and plenty of it, if she is to compete with Horty and Corney who are 17. The girls are packed off with a chaperon to study in Mexico. Told in light comedy vein, Pink Magic is infused with sympathy for the plight of an adolescent ugly duckling struggling to become a swan. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18073) J.B. (All Groups.) Verse drama. Archibald MacLeish. 12 m., 9 f. Int. Pulitzer Prize Winner. "A fresh and exalting morality that has great stature. It is one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry. . . . We are deep in the unanswered problems of man's relationship to God in an era of cruel injustices. J.B. is . . . Mr. MacLeish's counterpart of the immortal Job. The glory of the play is that, as in the Book of Job, lB. does not curse God. When he is reunited with is wife, two humbled but valiant people accept the universe, agree to begin life all over again, expecting no justice but unswerving in their devotion to God. . . In every respect, it is theatre on its highest level." -N. Y. Times. "It reached heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the American theatre."-N.Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters and pUblicity kits. (#86) THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA. (All Groups) Tragedy. Miguel de Cervantes. Translated by Roy Campbell and edited by Eric Bentley. 47 m., 18 f. Comp., ext. In both blank and rhymed verse the story of the conquest of Numantia, Spain, by the Roman general Scipio Africanus is told. In Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $35-$25). (#21157) THE DESK SET. (All Groups.) Comedy. William Marchant. 8 m., 8 f. Int. Shirley Booth opened to rave notices playing a woman with encyclopedic knowledge of facts and figures who works in a television network reference department. Electronic brains are installed to do the work of people, soon replacing whole departments, but Emmaracs can not best Bunny in a game of wits-she causes them to blow fuses. Here is a telling comedy rich in hilarity for anyone who has ever worked in an office. "A rollicking, frolicsome hit."-N.Y. Daily Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50(#376) $35.) GOODBYE, MY FANCY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fay Kanin. 8 m., 12 f. Int. A Broadway hit about a liberal Congresswoman who returns to her old school as an honorary visitor. Since her wartime experiences in Europe, she has devoted herself to the task of acquainting people with the horrors of war. That is why she has brought a documentary with her to be shown to the young graduates. The movie is considered harsh and improper by the trustees, so she has a fight on her hands. The conflict exposes the president as a spineless and irresolute figure, instead of the upstanding and outspoken professor with whom Miss Reed thought she had been in love with for so many years. The disenchantment drives her into the arms of a wartime acquaintance who, as a photographer, has come to cover the event. "An adult play with laughter on the surface and underneath, a fierce, almost frightening cry for common-sense." -N. Y. Journal-American. "It is amusing, it is likeable, and it is certainly on the side of the angels."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. (#495)

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he is made the butt of a practical joke, takes part unwittingly in the marriage of his daughter to a man of her choice, and is properly initiated into the nobility by a sham ceremony that only emphasizes the servility of those that pretend to greatness. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18126) VACANCY IN PARADISE. (All Groups.) Comedy. John Kirkpatrick. 5 m., 10 f. Int. The cabins at Paradise Glen where Wally stops to use the phone are run-down. He sees Ellen, the owner's daughter, and embarks on a campaign to put the place back on its feet. There have already been weddings at the glen, so Wally advertises romance in a big way. Women flock but men are scarce and Wally's efforts to get people to marry for publicity purposes prove disastrous, especially when he promotes a match between the daughter of the banker who holds the mortgage and a hobo. There are also two Boston librarians who take up Hula dancing, a sailor who has too many girls, his jealous fiancee who nearly wrecks the place, an out-spoken nurse, a hired man who isn't a hired man, and Ellen's scatter-brained mother who is an old flame of the banker's. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#1160) ONDINE. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Jean Giraudoux. Adapted by Maurice Valency. 17 m., II f. 3 sets. Out of the night and out of the sea springs a beautiful nymph. She falls in love with a handsome knight and they are married. All too soon, they learn that their love is too ideal to survive the shocks of the world. Audrey Hepburn became a Broadway star playing the nymph. "A romantic fantasy that truly is lyrical, philosophical, imaginative, touching, sometimes humorous." -N. Y. Post. "A work of art."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette or Tape, $32.50. Incidental vocal music, $3.00. (Music royalty, $5 per performance.) Consult script or write for informati~n on ,the music score by Virgil Thompson.
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THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. (Advanced Groups.) Comedy. Jay Allen, adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark. 4 m., 15 f. Platform set. Miss Brodie is a teacher, a formidable figure who molds young minds to her form. And what is more, she is so intensely interesting that the girls admire her above all else. But Miss Brodie is not honest. She prevaricates and then tells the girls to do as she tells them, not as she does herself. She is having an affair with the music teacher and has had one with the art teacher, and this is not the most exemplary conduct. A fantastic letter which some of her students write in her name to her lover falls into the headmistress' hands.Dismissai is averted by Miss Brodie's indomitable pluck as she threatens to sue for calumny. One girl grows too wise too soon and turns on Miss Brodie. "Fascinating in its insights into a marvelously portrayed eccentric human being."-N.Y. Times. "Endearing hilarious, lovely, perceptive and splendid."-N.Y. Daily News. "A dramatic intelligent and merciless study of character."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#94) TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron. 11 m., 6 f. Var. sets. Art Carney and Phyllis Thaxter played the Broadway roles of parents of two typical American girls enroute to college. The story is based on the wild and wooly experiences the authors had with their daughters, Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, themselves now well-known writers. The phases of a girl's life are cause for enjoyment--except to fearful fathers. Through the first two years, the authors tell us, college girls are frightfully sophisticated about all departments of human life. Then they pass into the "liberal" period of causes and humanitarianism, and some into the intellectual lethargy of beatniksville. Finally, they start to think seriously of their lives as grown ups. It's an experience in growing up, as much for the parents as for the girls. "A warming comedy. A delightful play about parents vs kids. It's loaded with laughs. It's going to be a smash hit." -N. Y: Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#1062) JANE EYRE. (All Groups.) Drama. Helen Jerome. Adapted from Charlotte Bronte's novel. 10 m., 12 f. 2 ints. The play is a dramatic version of the novel though it offers a more or less condensation of the story. Jane comes to Thornfield, Mr. Rochester's house, to be a governess to Adele, Mr. Rochester's ward. Mr. Rochester is an unhappy man with lunatic wife whom he must keep locked up. Jane's presence begins to thaw him a bit and they come to an understanding which it is suspected will lead to marriage. However, Jane finds out about the lunatic wife and so Jane leaves Thornfield. She returns to Thornfield to discover that the lunatic had finally succeeded in firing the house and in allowing herself to be killed in the fire. Now Rochester is free to marry Jane, and she accepts him. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.)
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BERKELEY SQUARE. (All Groups.) Fantasy. John L. Balderston. 7 m., 8 f. 2 ints. Events of the past, present and future mingle in the life of one man. Peter Standish, an ardent young American inherits a house in Berkeley Square and changes places with his ancestor, the Peter Standish who came from New York in 1784 and married his cousin Kate. He takes up the threads of the earlier Peter's life but falls in love with Kate's sister. They have to part, for the modem world recalls the modem Peter and his ancestor clamors to return to his period. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)
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THE PASSION OF JOSEF D. (All Groups.) History. Paddy Chayefsky. Music by David Arnran. 20 m., 3 f. Var. sets. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC &
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THE PHYSICISTS. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Friedrich Dtirrenrnatt. Translated by James Kirkup. 16 m., 4 f. Int. The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates: Newton, Einstein and a physicist who has visitations from Solomon. They appear to be likeable lunatics, but nothing is as simple as it seems. Are they really mad? Or are they playing a murderous game with the world as the stake? "Mixes bizarre comedy and satire, sometimes extremely amusing, with a science fiction (#845) approach."-Stage, Loridon. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Sean O'Casey. 14 m., 5 f. Int. The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. "Juno" was successfully produced in Ireland, England and the United States. It is a compelling story dealing with modem Irish city life. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. (#606) ANATOMY OF A MURDER. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Elihu Winer. Based on Robert Traver's novel. 17 characters. 2 insets. Defeated for reelection as District Attorney, Paul Biegler isn't looking forward to becoming a defense attorney but his first case is sensational: a Lieutenant is accused of murdering the bartender who allegedly raped his wife. It's a see-saw battle with many dramatic confrontations as Biegler uses every device to save the officer's neck. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)
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RHINOCEROS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Derek Prouse. II m., 6 f., extras. Ext.l2 int. The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition. A small town is besieged by one roaring rhinoceros-does it have one or two horns and is it the Asiatic or the African variety? Shortly more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses. The trampling becomes louder until one man remains, unable to change his form and identity. "An allegory for our times."-N.Y. Times. "Its satirical humor, combined with its provocative theme and surprisingly moving ending, results in an evening that is strange, disturbing and arresting."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound effects tapes available for four weeks only; please send a $25 refundable deposit and advise us of production dates. (Tape Royalty, $10-$5.) Note: Two recorders are required. (#919) BECKET. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Lucienne Hill. 24 m.,4 f. (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. Never have Anouilh's characteristic intelligence and irony been employed with more telling effect than in this drama of the tragic relationship between the King Henry of England and the introspective intellectual who had been his dearest friend, but who became his implacable enemy when intrigue raised him to the hierarchy of the church. Produced to great acclaim in London, New York and Paris. "Anouilh's finest play since Antigone . ... Splendid. "-Times, London. "Fine craftsmanship~ ... One of the finest feats of the kind."-Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sheet Music, $1.25. (Music royalty, $5.) (#260) THE WHOLE DARN SHOOTING MATCH. (All Groups.) Farce. Jack Perry. 11 m., 7 f. Int. Zany exploits, hilarious antics and wild ideas follow fast and furiously throughout this comedy about the advertising world. It is set in the Creative Room where a flamboyant TV commercial writer, an alcoholic artist, a flippant girl Friday, and their beloved leader, the Creative Director, engage in a running feud with the new president of the company, an efficiency expert, the office boy and everyone else who dares to interfere with their off-beat rules of office conduct. "An uninhibited hit!"-Tulsa Tribune. "The funniest script I have ever read."-Backstage. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1195) THE BEAUTY PART. (All Groups.) Farce. SJ. Perelman. 32 m., 12 f. (10 m., 5 f. with doubling). Var. sets. A young man goes into the world, leaving his riches behind him, to find and assert artistic truth. He meets Bert Lahr as the woman editor of grisly pulp magazines, as the pipe-smoking editor from Charnel House, as movie producer Harry Hubris, as a petulant old ice cream soda tycoon and as a judge dispensing his packaged justice on television. He meets a female Civil War writer, a beatnik poet who can't stand to be touched, and a rollicking covey of others. The whole evening becomes a headlong dash in Mack Sennett catastrophes, with laughs tumbling over laughs in abandon. "I have not felt helpless with laughter for some

LITTLE MOON OF ALBAN. (All Groups.) Drama. James Costigan. 10 m., 8 f. Unit set. A beautiful and stirring drama set in Ireland during the time of the Black and Tan troubles. "A compassionate and tenderly beautiful love story." -N. Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#651) DYLAN. (Little Theatre.) Biography. Sidney Michaels. Based on memoirs by Caitlin Thomas and John M. Brinnin. 15 m., 13 f. Var. sets. Alec Guinness starred on Broadway as the intemperate and often vulgar poet. The play begins with his farewell to wife and Wales to tour the states, follows him to colleges, bars and bedrooms and finally to the ship that bore his body home, dead at 39. "Sensitive, sympathetic and compelling. . . . An absorbing study in human disintegration." -N. Y. Post. , 'So absorbing that it became a personal experience, and not just a skillful piece for the theatre. One of the beautiful plays of our time."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#374) THE PRODIGIOUS SNOB. (All Groups.) Farce. Moliere, adapted by Miles Malleson. 16 m., 6 f. extras. Int. A nouveau riche bourgeois gentleman makes a jackass of himself by trying to impress everyone with his importance and wealth. He will not permit his dau&hter to marry anyone who is not a nobleman and is quite willing to suffer an indignity providing it comes from a person of quality. He will lend money, with no hope of recovery, to anyone who claims to be on speaking terms with the king. His attempts to dress in a style suitable to his new station are ludicrous. Finally

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time, but this had me down for a long count. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) . Sophisticated lunacies." -N. Y. (#259)

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SEIDMAN AND SON. (All Groups.) Comedy. Elick Moll. 9 m., 10 f. 5 Ints. Morris Seidman is a lovable guy who has come up the hard way. His daughter is boy-crazy and his son is a militant idealist. Morris has problems at work, too, due to hiring his son. Morris not only loses one of his biggest buyers, but loses some of his most valuable workers. But he did not get to his present position without resources, and in his genial way he concludes about his son that every generation has to learn from its (#21071) own experiences. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) TIME LIMIT! (All Groups.) Melodrama. Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey. 15 m., 2 f. Int. An Army major is brought to the Judge Advocate General's office for inquiry before being court martialed for collaboration with the enemy in Korea. It seems a cut-and-dried case to the General, but not to the Colonel who interrogates him. The Major will not talk. In a series of flashbacks we discover the truth of the events in the prison camp: the General's son had turned informer to be let off from more punishment. The prisoners drew lots and one of them killed him. He did not die gloriously as the General thought. The major then turned color in order to save his men from further punishment. "Crisply, tightly fashioned, suspenseful thriller."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22110) GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVE. (All Groups.) Comedy-Drama. William McCleery, from the novel by Frances G. Patton. 12 m., 10 f., extras. 6 insets. This famous novel has been expertly wrought into a funny, touching play. Miss Dove is a school teacher who exercises great influence on the whole town. Graduates come back to her for advice. Everyone calls on her at the hospital during an illness. But the richest parents in town bring her before the School Board on charges of undue severity. "Reminiscent of Our Town . ... For all her firm, simple outline, Miss Dove is a complex character."-Washington Star. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#9074) THE HOSTAGE. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Brendan Behan. II m., 7 f. Compo int.lext. A truly comic approach to both life and art, this is a circus of flamboyant colors and theatre styles. An innocent British soldier is taken into a bawdy Irish bar by the IRA as a hostage, to be shot if the British go through with the execution of an IRA youth. He has a romance with the barmaid. She and several habitues try unsuccessfully to arrange his escape. He is shot in the attempt-but not for long. Right in the middle of his own requiem he rises to sing a final rousing song. "Brimming with magnificent exuberance, wild, unruly, satirical, mocking . . . Throbs with sardonic vitality and an instinct for dramatic richness." -N. Y. Post. "The Hostage is priceless . . . . It is enchanting." -N. Y. World Telegram & Sun. In Behan: The Complete Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Music available on rental. (Music Royalty, $10, each performance.) (#541) SWEENEY TODD THE BARBER. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Brian 1. Burton: from George D. Pitt's drama. lIm., 5 f., extras. Various drops. The story of the demon barber of Fleet Street has been a classic since 1847 and was the feature of Queen Victoria's first command performance. Mr. Burton's version is laced with both song and humor in the best of old-fashioned melodramatic styles. "This is real theatre, exciting and fast. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Piano score, $7.50. (Music Royalty, $10 per performance.) Songs o/the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Please state author when ordering. (#21398) KNOCK. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jules Romains. Translated by James Gidney. 9 m., 6 f. 2 Int. W. inset. Dr. Knock is the doctor who takes over the practice in a town where everyone is healthy. To correct this, he hangs up forbidding charts and then offers free consultations. As the healthy townspeople pass into his office and by the charts, they begin to develop symptoms and complaints. "Bold and spinning scenes of delicious satire."-N.Y. Times. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#13031) THE FIGHTING LITTLES. (High School.) Comedy. Caroline Francke's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel. 5 m., 10 f. Int. Mr. Little makes two mistakes: he assumes Filmer is a model son and he supports Norman Peel's wish to marry daughter Goody who prefers amiable Ham Ellers. When Norman suggests Mr. Little doesn't run his business properly and when Norman tries to buy into the business, Mr. Little who has to admit he was mistaken about Norman. And then Filmer, who's in love with the girl next door, takes a dare and wrecks the family car in a dramatic way. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#8029) BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE. (Black Groups.) Drama. Jarries Baldwin, 16 m., 7 f. Bare stage. A caustic Negro who had been a junkie up north but kicked the habit returns to his parochial southern town and infuriates one person too many. An illiterate, cracker-brain poor White kills him. The murder, the eulogy, the trial and the acquittal follow one upon the other in a fluid dramatic form of time and space, fury and passion. "Superb . . . compelling . . . . The violent eulogy held up the proceedings with strenuous applause and shouts of bravo."-N.Y. Journal-American. "Fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes and a roar of protest in its throat. It throbs with fierce energy and passion. . . . Brings eloquence and conviction to one of the momentous themes of our era."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#278) WAITING IN THE WINGS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Noel Coward. 4 m., 14 f. Int. Coward's tribute to theatre is set in a retirement home for actresses, all former

stars. Jealousies abound, especially between Lotta and another who was also married to her former husband. A tragedy brings them to their senses and a new solarium brings out everyone's good nature. Lotta chooses to stay with her old friends rather than go live with her son. "Should rejoice those of us who still have hearts."-London News Chronicle. $8.95. Music $3.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#25007) THE VISIT. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Friedrich Diirrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency. 25 m., 5 f., 2 C. Drop and wing; frags. The Lunts chose this unforgettable play for their 'swan song. A wealthy woman returns to her debt-ridden home town and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help out. But there is a condition: she wants the life of a villager who years ago had caused her to be expelled from town in disgrace. Ringing denial of this absurd demand is followed by the gradual corruption of everyone in town. He is murdered and money is passed over his body to the town. The lady leaves with a fantastic entourage and with the coffin of her old lover. Voted best foreign play of the year by N.Y. Drama Critics Circle. "Stinging. . . . [with] astonishing power."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "A devastating drama." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1165) HOTEL PARADISO. (Little Theatre.) F'arce comedy. Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. Translation by Peter Glenville. 13 m., 8 f., extras. 2 int. This mad French bedroom frolic finds an assortment of refined people stealing through the halls and rooms of a cheap hotel comically intent on assignations. "One of the funniest comedies since the silent movies."-N.Y. Daily News. "Mr. Glenville's conception of this rumpus is riotous . . . bold, reckless and funny."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) For another translation, see Paradise Hotel, below. (#542) Please specify translator when ordering. PARADISE HOTEL. Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. For description, see Hotel Paradiso, above. $7.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#18184) THE BILLY-CLUB PUPPETS. (All Groups.) Farce. Federico G. Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell. 15 m., 3 f., extras. 2 ints.lext. There is a deliberate ambiguity about this roisterous farce implanted by the author: should it be played by persons acting like puppets, which has been the usual procedure, or by puppets acting like humans. Either .way it's wide-open fun, pitting three men for the love of a young maid who can't make up her mind. In Five Plays by (#4055) Lorca: Comedies and Tragedies, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) CHECKMATE. (All Groups.) Melodrama. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, from the novel by Maurice Edelman. 20 m., 9 f. Var. scenes. An American tourist in Russia calls on an old friend, a Soviet space engineer. They had been at the same university in the United States, but the Russian was blackmailed into returning home. With the backing of the American embassy, the tourist offers the engineer a chance to escape again in a drama wrapped in suspense, contretemps, hair-trigger intrigues and discoveries. It's a frightening escapade in a police state, where every act or thought is soon detected. "A fascinating melodrama."-N.Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5007) QUALITY STREET. (All Groups.) Comedy J. M. Barrie, 6 m., 9 f. (extras). 2 ints. Several sour and curiously officious maiden women plot against Phoebe, a sparkling lass whose heart flutters for Valentine. He goes off to the Napoleonic wars and returns ten years later to find that Phoebe and her sister have met economic misfortune. Rejuvenated by his return, Phoebe discards her prim clothes and expression to become gay and young again. The transformation is so complete that Phoebe is mistaken for a fictitious niece. Valentine discovers the evil plot and his love for (#885) Phoebe. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) UNDER MILK WOOD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Dylan Thomas. 17 m., 17 f. Area staging. In lyrical, soaring and sometimes earthy prose, verse and song, the most controversial poet of the mid-century stages a midnight-to-midnight prowl of a smug and ingrown Welsh fishing village. He explores the inhabitants' souls and lets us know and understand them. The vignettes-in-depth are threaded together by the Onlooker who conjures up characters and experiences in a cascade of racy words. "A lovely stage poem . . . . Words sparkle and sing."-N.Y. Daily News. "A lyric, often humorous and always incisive consideration of what is happening to all of us."-N.Y. Journal-American. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1142) THE POOR NUT. (High School) Comedy. 1.e. Nugent and Elliot Nugent. Preface (#18097) by Don Marquis. 11 m., 5 f., 3 int./ext. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE ENCHANTED. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jean Giraudoux. Adapted by Maurice Valency. 9 m., 11 f. Int.lext. A charming young lady in a provincial French town is obsessed by the supernatural. Most are tolerant of her, but the government inspector regards her as a threat to order and security. He summons all of the authority and power of the state to rid her of her obsession. She falls in love, thereby discovering the joys of the normal world and accomplishing in a split second what law, force and logic could not. "A fascinating, absorbing adventure!"--N.Y. Daily Mirror. "Valency's version has grace, flow and wit."-N.Y. Times. "Fresh, engaging, humorous."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound effects CD, $32.50. (Music (#398) Royalty, $5.00 per performance.) CURTAIN GOING UP. (High School) Comedy. Gregory Johnston. 7 m., JO f. (or 8 m., 9 f.), extras. No scenery. Among the comic obstacles facing Miss Burgess in

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her empty house. In Three Tragedies of Lorca, $12.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#276) DARKNESS AT NOON. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Sidney Kingsley, based on the novel by Arthur Koestler. IS m., 3 f. Int. This winner of the Drama Critics Award starred Claude Rains on Broadway. A Soviet Commissar with considerable power in the party is jailed as the curtain goes up. He made two serious errors: he once fell in love with his secretary and he shot off his mouth at an inopportune moment. His torments and frustrations in the cell are dramatically heightened by other prisoners who communicate with him by tapping on the walls. Retrospective scenes explain his sentence and the series of ludicrously unjust hearings that lead to his execution. "Brilliant. "-Herald-Tribune. "Pungent, spectacular melodrama."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6018) TIGER AT THE GATES. (All Groups.) Tragedy. Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Christopher Fry. 15., 7 f. Platform. Winner of the Critics' Circle Award as the best foreign play of the year and recipient of many other awards. On the platform stage, bare but for a pair of immense gates, stalks the inevitable tiger of war. Hector returns from battle as a peacemaker and convinces Ulysses and the populace of the insanity of war. Together they agree that the Trojan War shall not take place. But the poets need a war for their elegies and dirges; the king, because it is custom; the lawyer, because of his honor; and others, for various mean reasons. And so, in spite of all logic, the war erupts. "A play of beauty, dignity and quality."-N.Y. Post. "Conveys wit and thought and humor."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Tape available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit. (Tape Royalty, $10 per performance.) (#1077) MAJOR BARBARA. (All Groups.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw, 9 m., 7 f. 3 ints.lext. or unit set. A munitions maker makes a shambles of the morality of liberalism. To him the most shameful sin is poverty and the cardinal virtue is prosperity. He points to the generative power of his factories and the respectable residences of his workers, and then disdainfully contrasts them with the squalor of the poor to whom his daughter Barbara has dedicated herself in the ranks of the Salvation Army. Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Glynis Johns, Eli Wallach and Cornelia Otis Skinner appeared in the most recent Broadway presentation, "Here is theatre at its theatrical best.":...-N. Y. Daily News. "Certainly one of Shaw's brightest, slyest, most provocatively outrageous and most timeless comedies."-N.Y. Post. $9.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#683) ONLY IN AMERICA. (All Groups.) Comedy. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Adapted from Harry Golden's book. 17 m., 5 f., 3 extras. lnt.lext. w. inset. The story of a North Carolina Jewish journalist, a transplant from New York's Lower East Side. He's full of humor-an Hebraic Will Rogers-and the play abounds with his dry witticisms. After the publication of his first book, an anonymous letter to a New York paper opens his old wound and he feels he'll have to fold up. But swarms of telegrams' persuade him to stay. "It has heart and humanity. It is amusing and (#17040) touching. It's swell theatre."-N.Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) POINT OF NO RETURN. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Paul Osborn, adapted from John P. Marquand's novel. 14 m., 7 f., 2 c. 3 ints.lext. w. inset. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#18090) CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. 12 m., 9 f. Int. Emily Blachman has opened her mansiOll to boarders to ensure that her family will be housed and fed when her imaginative husband overextends himself. Already president of the trolley line, the bank and the laundry, he is always borrowing for new investments. The hilarious boarders are an old maid schoolteacher, a mysterious salesman, a widow who dresses extravagantly, an aged prospector, a man who sneaks up the back stairs to visit the teacher, an alcoholic yodeler, a widow who makes her son write poetry and a scion of an old Boston family. Both young men woo the Blachman's daughter. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#313) CALIGULA. (Little Theatre.) History. Albert Camus. Adapted by Justin O'Brien. IS m., 2 f. Ext. Caligula explores the absolutism of power and the catastrophe of tyranny. Caesar summons his council, whose first thought is of taxes. Very well, says Caesar, if taxes are more important than human hearts, he may safely kill without conscience. He pursues the logic to the bitter end. In the last scene, he is murdered, an ending he knew was inevitable. "Has given the theatre a red hot glow."-N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5005) FUENTE OVEJUNA. (All Groups.) Drama. Lope De Vega. 2 versions: translated by Roy Campbell and edited by EriG Bentley and translated by Adrian Mitchell. 19 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Unit set. This most famous play by Spain's most famous classic playwright takes its title from a Spanish village that rebels against its military tyrant. Led by a young woman, the peasants overthrow feudalism and embark on a golden age. Adrian Mitchell's version was recently produced to great acclaim by the National Theatre of Great Britain. "A robust new version [that] ... affirms the power of love over brutality." -Evening Standard. "It is hard to imagine a more gripping tale." -Time Out. Mitchell translation published with Lost in a Mirror, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Campbell translation in Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics, $14.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please specify translator when ordering.

producing her first play at the high school are a grouchy janitor, disappearing scripts, crossed-up romances, a stage-struck heroine and her bewildered boyfriend, an actor with a swollen head, a disgruntled athlete who feels out of place on stage, a flamboyant professional actress with advice, a banker's daughter driven to theftand, perhaps most unexpected of all, a romance for Miss Burgess herself! The solution to the mounting complications sets forth a worthwhile theme that will further satisfy any audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Posters (#324) LIFE OF THE PARTY. (High School.) Comedy. Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes. 7 m., 10 f. Int. The Hughes family moves to Butterfield and begins to choose friends. Mr. Hughes is there on business. Mrs. Hughes has social ambitions. Oldest daughter Mildred fancies herself in love with the snooty son of a bank president. Studious daughter Jean flings off her glasses and becomes the life of the party. Dapper Teddy gets into a merry mix-up juggling four dates at once. And daughter Amy falls in love for the first time. But the whole family is in for a hard aWakening. They all become aware of the serious implications of what had seemed very funny and make wise readjustments to one another and to life. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#648) A DREAM PLAY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Strindberg. Translated by Harry G. Carlson. Large cast (doubling possible). Simple exts. This classic example of blended realism, fantasy, myth and the psychology of dreams helped launch German expressionism and anticipated such works as Death of a Salesman. "Carlson's translations are the best available for a contemporary American director." -Theatre Journal. In Strindberg: Five Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6940) THE GHOST SONATA. (Little Theatre.) Drama. August Strindberg. Translated by Harry G. Carlson. Sm., S f., extras. Var. sets. Hovering between fantasy and reality, this eerie tale of a young man's search for the girl of his dreams is an important forerunner of German expressionism. "Carlson's translations are the best available for a contemporary American director."-Theatre Journal. In Strindberg: Five (#9641) Plays, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) FAMILY PORTRAIT. (All Groups.) Biblical play. Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen. 12 m., 10 f. Int.l3 exts. Judith Anderson starred on Broadway in this portrait of Christ's last three years told in modem parlance. "One of the most moving expressions of truth and beauty I have ever seen in the theatre." -N. Y. World-Telegram. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#430) LlLIOM. (All Groups.) Comedy. Ferenc Molnar. 17 m., 5 f. (extras). Int.l4 exts. Liliom is a shiftless young bully in Budapest. He works intermittently as a barker for a merry-go-round and many servant girls fall victim to his charms. Among these girls is Julie, whom he eventually marries. Learning that he is about to become a father Liliom participates in a robbery to enhance his fortunes. But he is caught and stabs himself rather than submit to arrest. He is tried in the Magistrate's court on high, but they see through him there. They know what repentance is in his heart though he is much too cocky to admit it. He is sentenced to a term of years in the purifying fires with the promise that after that sentence has been served he can go back to earth with a chance to do one good deed there. A tender and moving story told with a master's touch. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#649) THE VIGIL. (All Groups.) Biblical play. Ladislas Fodor. IS m., 6 f. Int. The dramatic Easter story translated into a modem setting in a small-town American courtroom. The action occurs between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. A man known as the Gardener is on trial, charged with having moved Christ's body from the tomb after the crucifixion. The characters involved in the great drama are called to the stand. Each tells in everyday language what he saw and the way he reacted. As each in his fashion contributes evidence for the defense or the prosecution, the familiar story achieves stirring suspense. In an electrifying, scene, Mary Magdalene steps down from the stand and reenacts her meeting with Jesus in the Garden. "Fresh, fascinating, disarming . . . [with] one well-drawn character sketch after another."-N.Y. Journal-American. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1164) RAIN. (Little Theatre.) Drama. John Colton and Clemence Randolph. 10 m., 5 f. lnt. The prize-winning play, adapted from Somerset Maugham's story. This is the foreboding tale about a missionary who encounters a raucous prostitute on a quarantined Pacific isle. Her contempt for him changes when she realizes that he has discovered bits of her life and can have her returned to prison in the States. So she plays up to him and asks to be forgiven and converted. The missionary deserts his wife and another white couple for several days as he prays Sadie into a sickly stupor. She is truly contrite, and resolves to give up her life of sin. But on the last night, after she and the Reverend enter her room to pray, something happens. The next day Sadie is her same blatant self again, accusing all men of being pigs, and that the Reverend is discovered on the beach, a suicide. $S.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#906) BLOOD WEDDING. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell. 9 m., 9 f., extras. 5 ints.l2 exts. or simple unit setting. Amateur and professional productions of this passionate tragedy have won singular fame for a play the critics acclaim as second only to The House of Bemarda Alba. The Mother has lost in feuds with the Felix family all her menfolks except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. She arranges a wedding with The Bride, who is loved by young Leonardo Felix. He and The Bride run away. Guided by The Beggar Woman (Death) and The Moon (A Young Woodcutter), The Bridegroom overtakes the lovers. He and Leonardo kill each other, leaving The Mother alone in

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astringent variation on that glorious refrain: There's no business like show business." -N Y. World Telegram & Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#5020) THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Philip Barry. 9 m., 6 f. Int. Ext. This Broadway hit starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord-of the Philadelphia Lords, a spoiled daughter of the privileged. A gossip weekly sends a reporter and a camera woman to report on her wedding arrangements and they are injected into the house by her brother who hopes to divert their attention from father's romance with a Broadway dancer. Tracy is fascinated by the reporter. After a party, Tracy and the reporter take a moonlight dip in the pool and meet her exhusband and her fiance on their way back to the house. Her intended smugly agrees to forgive her, but she ends the engagement and remarries her first husband to the satisfaction of everyone. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#843) NOT SO GRIM FAIRY TALES. Satire. Patricia Montley. 15 f. (doubling possible.) Bare stage. Five scenes present unusual variations on familiar tales. In Little Red and the Big Bad She Wolf Red is invited by Mae Wolf to quit Harvard Business School and get a start in the service-selling business--despite Granny's opposition (she is Mae's senior partner). In Bumble Stiltskin and the Baby Business Rumpel's put-upon wife implores the Queen to keep her royal baby and offers to set up a Day Care Center if she gets government support. Also included are Snow White and the Anti-Freeze, Jack and the Marijuana Stalk and Cinderella. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#16001) BIBLE HERSTORY. Satire. Patricia Montley. 18 f. (Doubling possible.) Bare stage. A feminist satire in six scenes. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4051) YOU, THE JURY. (All Groups.) Courtroom drama. James Reach. 7 m., 8 f. Int. This novel play permits the audience to act as a jury and vote whether Barbara Scott-on trial for the murder of Chestt:r Arthur Brant--is innocent or guilty. The cause of Barbara Scott, defended by her attractive lawyer-sister Edith and prosecuted by dynamic Allan Woodward, seems hopeless at the outset. Step by step, Allan relentlessly builds the case against her, including her purported confession and the dramatic testimony of Brant's fiancee who claims she saw Barbara in almost the very act of firing the fatal shot. Edith doggedly fights back and she is finally rewarded when help arrives from a totally unexpected source. Conflict and tension build until the audience renders its verdict. This excellent play for all groups is exceptionally easy to stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#1241) MARY OF SCOTLAND. (All Groups.) Drama. Maxwell Anderson. 22 m., 5 f. 4 ints.lext. The author has chosen the six years that began when nineteen-year-old Mary set foot on her unruly land as queen and ended when the last ray of hope faded with the sunset she watched from the window of her prison. It presents her as more than a puppet moving through a pedant's world. Mary is portrayed as a star-crossed girl seeking only to live and love and rule and worship as she pleases, bewildered by the intrigue which closed slowly in on her. Elizabeth is pictured as an older, crafty and ambitious queen seeking to remove from her path a gracious, romantic and religious rival. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) . (#687) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. (All Groups.) Comedy. Helen Jerome. 10 m., 16 f. 3 ints. A great success in New York and London. Mrs. Bennett is determination to get her daughters married. Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia are likely-looking girls in a period when a woman's one possible career is matrimony. To be a wife was success. Anything else was failure. Jane and her Mr. Bingley and Lydia with her Mr. Wickham are quite content with things as they are, but not Elizabeth! She actually refuses to marry Mr. Collins, whom she openly deplores, and Mr. Darcy, whom she secretly adores. The play is the story of the duel between Elizabeth and her pride and Darcy and his prejudice. Each gives in before the evening is over and pride and prejudice meet halfway. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#854) THE ROYAL FAMILY. Revised Edition. (All Groups.) Comedy. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. II m., 6 f. Int. The renowned Cavendish family comprises three generations of legendary American actors. There is Fanny Cavendish, widow of the first actor of his day, who at seventy is planning her tour for the coming season. There is her brother Herbert, a pompous player now in his decline. Fanny's daughter Julie is at the crest of her Broadway career and her son Tony has forsaken the stage for Hollywood. Granddaughter Gwen is just beginning to play important ingenue roles. Tony rushes home and then flees to Europe to escape the attention of a Polish picture actress. Soon he is back in New York, seeking refuge from a lovesick Balkan princess. Gwen jolts the family by marrying a non-professional and temporarily forsaking the stage. Through it all, Fanny rules the with her courage and a sharp tongue. Though her children are idols to the pUblic, they are defenseless (#107) under the withering fire of her sarcasm. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) LAD\' PRECIOUS STREAM. (All Groups.) Chinese play. S. I. Hsiung. 5 m., 5 f., extras. Var. sets. Produced successfully in New York and London, this is in every respect an authentic play written and performed in the Chinese manner with the delightful conventions of the ancient institution. This beautiful romantic drama of love, fidelity, treachery and poetry is a colorful fantasy that appeals to all theater goers. It tells, in varied scenes, of the devotion of a wife for her adventurous husband, of his prowess as a warrior and his ultimate return. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#641)

SPRING'S AWAKENING. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Frank Wedekind. Translated by Eric Bentley. 31 m., 8 f., extras. 6 ints.l5 exts. One of the precursors of expressionism, this play was a shocking theatre piece in its day. Throughout, parents and educators are shown to be the true case of the tragedy of youth because of their stultifying attitude toward sex. In Before Brecht: Four German Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Not available in Canada. (#21305) THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Liam O'Brien. 10 m., 4 f., 6 children, Int. Burgess Meredith starred as the genial, easygoing father of a family in Wilmington who is a very progressive though quiet thinker. Mr. Pennypacker has a branch office in Philadelphia and spends half of his there. He has established a second family in Philadelphia, never dreaming the twain should meet. But they do. The minister, whose son is to marry Pennypacker's daughter, is speechless. His wife hysterically refuses to believe it. His children are merely curious about his other children. But he is finally ostracized and has to be voted back in by family council. He comes back somewhat chastened and with a delectable solution to his two-family system. "An uproarious show."-NY. Times. "Hilarious."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#916) THE CAINE MUTINY COURTMARTIAL. (All Groups.) Drama. Herman Wouk. 19 m. (6 non-speaking.) Simple set. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a court martial has been adapted by the author into a superior stage thriller. A young lieutenant who relieved his captain of command in the midst of a typhoon on the grounds that the captain was psychopathic in the crisis and was directing the ship and its crew to its destruction faces harrowing odds. Naval tradition is against him, but testimony eventually reveals a devastating picture of the captain's disintegration. "Enormously exciting. It is the modem stage at its best."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#300) LADIES OF THE JURY. (All Groups.) Comedy. Fred Ballard. 12 m., 10 f. 2 ints. This Broadway success has starred many distinguished actresses and is always successful in amateur productions. In a .small town, a jury is selected and a murder trial is held. The dramatic proceedings are amusingly interrupted from time to time by Mrs. Crane, an eccentric juror. When the jurors retire to deliberate, the first ballot is eleven for "Guilty" and one "Not guilty." Mrs. Crane has her own theories and she will not give in; she knows that capitulation means sending an innocent woman to her death. Two days (and two acts) pass in the jury room as Mrs. Crane has uses unorthodox means to change minds. "Hilariously funny."-NY. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#640) THE MEMORANDUM. (Little Theatre.) Play. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Vera Blackwell. 12 m., 3 f. Simple set. This Orwellian gem is set in a model political bureaucracy where a harassed manager unwittingly authorizes an experiment that will introduce a new bureaucratic jargon to supplant the popular language and expedite regimentation. The fellow who engineered the scheme now bypasses his manager and becomes manager himself. The results of the new jargon are ludicrous-nobody is able to translate the new directives. The former manager fights back from his night-watchman job to regain his previous eminence-only to encounter a still newer gibberish designed to supplant the last one. In The Garden Party and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#15082) DAUGHTER OF SILENCE. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Morris L. West. 18 m., 5 f. Int.l2 ext. A young girl has shot the mayor of a small Italian Town. Against the advice of his father-in-law, a young lawyer whose marriage is on the rocks undertakes the girl's defense. As a child, the girl witnessed her mother's murder by the mayor who was a partisan underground leader. She has avenged that murder, and now she becomes the accused. The moral problems mount and the play has a shattering conclusion. An absorbing courtroom drama, a distinguished play."-NY. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6019) THE WIVES' FRIEND. (Little Theatre.) Melodrama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Marta Abba. 9 m., 10 f. 2 ints. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#25169) WE'RE ALL GUILTY. (All Groups.) Drama. James Reach. 8 m., 9 f. Int. Gary Durant is not an underprivileged, slum-born urchin but the son of well-to-do parents. Somehow he went wrong and, at 17, he was indicted for a brutal crime that resulted in the injuring of one girl and the crippling of another. Sylvia Frazier, an enlightened judge in Juvenile Court, is conducting the informal hearing that will determine Gary's punishment. Lawyers are not permitted and the principals are encouraged to speak their minds. Judge Frazier probes beneath superficial appearances and, in a climax that is both surprising and startlingly real, she is able to place the blame where it truly belongs. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1184) CAREER. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Lee. 11 m., 4 f. Multiple sets or lint. w. insets. A young man comes to New York from a small town to become an actor. He becomes a good actor, but the breaks never happen. He loses his wife and scavenges for a living as a waiter while doing his theatrical rounds. This is his unalterable destiny: to achieve success in the theatre or to spend the rest of his life in unending pursuit. The war calls him just when he might have his break. Afterwards, he's back on the same rounds. After many bitter years, he makes it. Was it worth the tears, the treacheries, the heart-breaks? There is only one answer for an actor. "Refreshingly

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wanderer who is something of a philosopher falls asleep after drinking in a forest. In his dream he observes the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the insects, whose problems and affairs are like those of humankind. The butterflies make violent love. The beetles hoard money and live selfIshly. The ichneumon flies murder crickets and stuff their larders with food, and parasites greedily devour what others work to save. Finally the red and yellow ants wage war to see which shall have the right to travel a particular sunlit path between two blades of grass. $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#25189) THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR. (All Groups.) Mystery. Bayard Veiller. 10 m., 7 f. Int. A success on Broadway. Helen O'Neill is engaged to wealthy Will Crosby. At a party in the Crosby home, an eccentric Irish medium has been invited to hold a seance. The woman is Helen's mother and she persuades Helen not to tell the group in order to spare Helen embarrassment. In the course of the seance, while all doors and windows to the room are locked, a man is killed. The police are unable to locate either murderer or weapon. Suspicion falls on Helen and her mother is worried. Many surprising developments ensue before the real criminal is unmasked by the clever medium. An unusual and thrilling play. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#22068) GREAT EXPECTATIONS. (All Groups.) Drama. Alice Chadwicke. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' novel. 7 m., 8 f. Int. Pip, a country boy who is apprenticed to become a blacksmith, is summoned to the home of an eccentric spinster to be a playmate for her young ward, Estella. Pip soon falls for her but she treats him with cold indifference. Consequently he longs to be turned into a gentleman. The surprise ending is warm and delightfully satisfying. Dickens' sly humor is very affecting on stage. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9111) STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. 7 m., 11 f. Int. Senator Cromwell, an old-line politician who keeps his women under stern rule, has a new daughter-in-law. When he learns Matthew's bride is a feminist leader campaigning for the Women's Rights Bill due to come up in the same election Matthew is running in for re-election to Congress, there is an explosion which shakes the family and threatens Matthew's marriage. "If you're looking for laughs, don't miss Strange Bedfellows."-N.Y. Mirror. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#1004) DEAR OCTOPUS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Dodie Smith. 5 m., 12 f. 3 ints. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6039) THE CHERRY ORCHARD. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Anton Chekhov. Translated by Stark Young. 10 m., 5 f. 2 int.lext. Also available 4 other versions: translated by Curt Columbus, by Michael Frayn, by David Mamet and adapted by by Robert Brustein. See Index for description. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Please specify translator when ordering. (#312) TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Bridie. 8 m., 8 f. Int.l3 ext. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22138) THE DIARY OF A SCOUNDREL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Alexander Ostrovsky. Translated by Rodney Ackland. 9 m., 7 f. 3 into In 1860 in Moscow an indigent Russian youth begins his ambitious ascent to social esteem. He progresses by wit, guile and rhetoric. Pitting one stupid person against another, he soon gains his ends. But he is tripped up by his uncle's wife, to whom he has made passionate love on his way to success, for she discovers the scoundrel's diary. In the showdown, the youth is still more than a match. for these stupid people and they determine it would be more prudent to retain him in their circle than to turn him loose. In The Modem Theatre, Vol. II, $23.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6059) FEAR AND MISERY IN THE THIRD REICH (A/KIA THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MASTER RACE), Being Scenes from German Life, 1933-1938). Bertolt Brecht. 2 versions: translated by Eric Bentley and by John Willett. Numerous characters and scenes. Brecht presents the vivid and changing scene of Hitler's war machine. There is a worker who only mumbles "Heil Hitlers" and a S.A. man whose suspicion of him is enough to mark him for life. There is an assaulted Jew who did no wrong and a judge who has a tragic inclination to be just. There are a mother and father who have good cause to fear that their son has informed on them. The war machine moves across Europe, bringing ruin and misery everywhere. Bentley translation in The Stage in Action, $69.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Willett translation in manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Bentley translation (#8145) Willett translation (#8153) WOYZECK. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Georg Buchner. 3 versions: translated by Eric Bentley, by Theodore Hoffman and by Nicholas Rudall. 13 m., 4 f., 5 C., extras. Buchner's anti-romantic and starkly realistic tragedy with expressionist overtones is a striking forerunner of modern drama. In quickly changing scenes, the life of Woyzeck, a common soldier, is traced with irony and compassion. Seemingly stupid, he attempts to make sense out of life and goes through a series of almost mystic experiences. Bentley translation, $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Incidental music, $10.00. (Music royalty, $10 per performance.) Hoffman translation in The Modem Theatre, Vol. I, $10.95. (Royalty, $10.) Rudall translation, $7.95. (Royalty, $50$40.) Please specify translator when ordering. Bentley translation (#25208)

QUIET SUMMER. (High School.) Farce. Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes. 8 m., 10 f. Int. James Clark plans to spend a peaceful summer concentrating on getting elected president of his country club, a first step toward becoming District Attorney in the fall. Uncle Jimmie's plans go astray when Pamela, 17, and Sonny, 15, arrive. He wins his election with inventive help from the kids, but they also all but wreck James' romance and turn the house upside down. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#19005) ELIZABETH THE QUEEN. (AU Groups.) Romantic drama. Maxwell Anderson. 16 m., 7 f., extras. 4 ints. Elizabeth and Essex, a military hero, are in love. He is a proud and brash man of barely thirty and Elizabeth is an aging woman with a need to control, so their love is an extraordinary paradox. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#396) THE SPIDER. (All Groups.) Mystery. Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano. 21 m., 3 f. 5 ints. A magician and his assistant are doing a trick on the stage. Suddenly the lights go out. When they go on again, a man, Carrington, is found murdered in the audience. Other characters in the play pop out of the audience: doctors and policemen. Carrington turns out to be an unsavory character and head of a narcotic ring. Suspicion falls on the magician, his assistant and others. Theatrical devices abound. House lights go on and off and at last the guilty scoundrel is discovered-in the audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21284) COME OVER TO OUR HOUSE. (High School.) Comedy. Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes. 8 m., 10 f., extras.lnt. The Eldridge family consists of a pretty widow and three teens: lively, ambitious Marion, attractive Lindy and Jay, a lad with a tale!}t for classical music and a flair for swing and musical patter. This lands him in the school vaudeville and in trouble with his grandmother, his mother's romances, a Hollywood scout and a Russian conductor of symphony orchestra. The children learn to stop trying to run their mother's life and mother learns the importance of love. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#5127) R. U. R. (All Groups.) Fantasy. Karel Capek. Translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair. 3 m., 4 f. 2 ints. Rossum's Universal Robots turns out millions of manufactured workmen with no souls, desires or feelings. Helena Glory, president of the Humanitarian League, comes to ascertain what can be done to improve their condition. Ten years later, due to Helena's desire to have the Robots more like human beings, the head of the experimental department has secretly changed the formula, and there are enough to make ringleaders and a world revolt of Robots is under way. The rest of the play is magnificent melodrama, with the handful of human beings at bay while their own robots close in on them. In the epilogue, Alquist, the company's builder, is the only human being left on earth. The robots know their bodies will wear out and there will be no new robots to replace them. But Alquist discovers two humanized robots, a young man and young woman, who have a bit of Adam and Even in them, and mankind is about to start afresh. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#905) ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. James Hagan. 12 m., 7 f. Ints'!exts. The hero is Biff Grimes, a handsome and impetuous bully. Unwelcome at the homes of the village belles, he meets them on the park benches and plies them with his fascinations. For hours they sit beneath the trees with him, talking of the birds and the stars in pretty language. Grimes' favorite girl is won away from him by his enemy, Hugo Barnstead, and he nurses a grudge. He becomes a dentist (in the prologue and epilogue he is to be seen viciously pulling one of Hugo's teeth). At theend Grimes meets his lost love. Her charm has gone and ill-nature has taken its place. >From then on life becomes sweeter to Grimes, both in the affection of his (#807) wife and in the hominess of his life. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCESS. (High School.) Comedy. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins.4 m., II f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17032) MURDER IN A NUNNEllY. (All Groups.) Mystery. Emmet Lavery, from Eric Sheperd's novel. 5 m., 12 f. Unit sets. The police are baffled when Baroness Sliema is murdered in the convent school chapel, but the nuns and students take it in their stride and they lead Scotland Yard a merry chase. It's an exciting, diverting mystery with a tingling air of the supernatural. The play is suitable for all types of school, college and community groups irrespective of religious faith. The author has caught life itself in the crucible of a murder story-and as we see how the nuns and students stand up to murder-we see in turn how the rest of us may stand up to life. The script is complete with production notes. "I consider it excellent theatre and a splendid vehicle for youth of senior high school age." -Sister Charitas, Director, Academy of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis, Minn. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#711) POST ROAD. (Little Theatre.) Mystery-Comedy. Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchel. 7 m., 8 f. Int. Emily Madison accommodates guests in her ancestral home. One evening, a dignified doctor asks for shelter for himself, his patient, her nurse and a chauffeur. In the morning there's an added visitor, an infant. Emily believes she's housing kidnappers and a kidnapped babe. She keeps her surmise to herself and sets about to foil them-until everything ends in a tumult with the state police shooting their way in. "A shrewd and exciting melodrama."-N.Y. Sun. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. (#18107) THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. (The Insect Comedy.) (Little Theatre.) Comedy. 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Hoffman translation (#25201) Rudall translation (#25276) UNCLE HARRY. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Thomas Job. 9 m., 6 f., 3 ints. A hit on Broadway, this is the ironic and whimsical story of a kindly and benevolent gentleman who manages to mange the murder of one disagreeable sister and the hanging of the other equally unpleasant one. He is tortured to the point of confession only to be unable to convince anyone he is guilty. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#23010) THE APPLE CART. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 10 m., 5 f. 2 int./ext. In some future time, the King of England rebels against being a rubber stamp for Cabinet decisions. His chief antagonist is the P.M. He's made to capitulate and the King threatens to abdicate, run for the House of Commons and become Prime Minister himself. The Queen and a royal confidante complicate his plans. And then comes the staggering News the United States is thinking of scrapping independence and rejoining the British Empire. This leads to an uneasy truce between king and cabinet. $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#3101) WE WERE YOUNG THAT YEAR. (High School.) Comedy. Aurand Harris. 8 m., 10 f. Ext. What happened to Nancy and Andy? Most people would say it is just an ordinary thing-the first time we fall in love. But as Nancy says, "When it happens to you, it seems different." That's what you are going to see, all the things that happened which are so important-all those wonderful moments that change your whole life. She speaks directly to the audience and the scenes materialize as she describes them. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#25048) TAKE A GIANT STEP. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Louis Peterson. 9 m., 7 f. 4 ints. A black boy is emerging into an bewildering adult world. He senses a growing estrangement from his white playmates and is expelled from school. Lonely and confused, he ends up in a saloon being propositioned by a harlot. Fleeing home feeling beaten, he receives an unforgettable scolding, becomes ill, and unburdens his heart to the family maid. She provides new experiences that allow his coming of age. "Original and poignant."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS

YERMA. (Little Theatre.) Tragedy. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell. 6 m., 17 f. 2 ints./3 exts. The tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood. In Three Tragedies of Lorca, $12.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS. (Advanced Groups.) J)rama. Sean O'Casey. 10 m., 5 f. 3 int./ext. This play is gripping from beginning to end. It has to do with the futile efforts of the leader of one of the Irish revolutions. He is finally killed and his wife goes mad after losing her unborn child. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18086) THE FAILURE TO ZIG-ZAG. (All Groups.) Drama. John B. Ferzacca. 16 m. (doubling possible). Simple set. Neither the captain of the USS Indianapolis, McVay, nor his crew were told the cargo they had delivenxi in Tinian contained the essential components for the atomic bomb to be dropped in Hiroshima. Having completed its top secret mission, the ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine. The crew languished in shark-infested waters while Naval authorities logged the ship safe in port. The navy's coverup and attempt to make McVay a scapegoat lead to a national scandal. "A play of epic scope. . . attempting to bring clarity and justice overdue to an incident in our history."--L.A. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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INDIANS. (All Groups.) Drama. Arthur Kopit. 22 m. America's apology to the Indians for our exploitation and destruction of them is the theme of this compassionate play. It is cast in the form of a vaudeville show-Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The hero is Buffalo Bill, a man whose life is ruined by an unfulfilled vision. He is decent and conscientious enough, but like all tragic heroes he has a fatal flaw in his character: he knows and loves the Indians, but he loves money and success more. He is instrumental in the destroying the buffalo herd which redures the Indians to starvation. Afterward, his ambition leads him to greater cruelty that destroys both him and the tribes. "One of the most theatrical evenings of contemporary American drama. . . moves daringly and adventurously through the mists and myths of the past, to bring us face to face . . . with history." -Philadelphia Bulletin. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Special effects music tapes, $50. Tape Royalty, $7 per performance.) Sound script, $8.00. (#574) THE CHANGING ROOM. (Little Groups.) Drama. David Storey. 22 m. Int. "Gritty and grandiose. . . . One of David Storey's best plays." -Sunday Times, London. "David Story's groundbreaking play [is] . . . enthralling."-lndependent of Sun(#5081) day. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) THE BASIC TRAINING OF PA VLO HUMMEL. (Little Theatre.) Drama. David Rabe. 19 m., 3 f. Area staging. A born loser gets.drafted into the Army. Pavlo is not very bright. He's the kind of guy who gets high, then goes out in a car to race some cop. The manual of arms is a mystery to him and so is his rifle. The next dumb thing he does is to steal a wallet from a comrade to find out if he is loyal-and of course he's discovered. The sergeants are real mean to Pavlo. To top it all, Pavlo gets beaten up by his bunk mates, for which offense he curses them three times three. Pavlo next tries suicide with 100 aspirins, but even at this he is unsuccessful. The saga proceeds from bad to worst with Pavlo going to war and meeting that destiny for which he was destined from beginning, death. "It's one of the most moving (#254) pieces of theatre I've seen."-WABC-TV. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE QUARE FELLOW. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Brendan Behan. 22 m. Int.lext. Behan's fame began with this controversial play. The subject is capital punishment and the scene is a jail where the prisoners bide their time, awaiting the hanging of a man on the morrow. It is little wonder that they should profane everything in sight. It is a grim and telling tale with suspense and magnificent passages of speech. In The Complete Plays of Brendan Behan, $15.00 . (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#19001) ROSS. (Little Theatre.) Biography. Terence Rattigan. 21 m. 7 insets and sets. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20069) MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL. (All Groups.) Poetic drama. T. S. Eliot. 10 m., 9 f. 3 ints. This well-known drama by one of the world's greatest poets tells of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket who, though tempted, refuses to seize temporal control of England. Highly recommended for advanced groups. $8.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#713) THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Arthur Guiterman and Lawrence Langner. Adapted from Moliere. 20 m., 9 f., extras. A classic favorite. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21042) TOM SAWYER. (High School.) Comedy. Paul Kester, based on the famous story by Samuel L. Clemens. 13 m., 8 f. 2 ext. The familiar character and scenes of the book are well handled and properly condensed in order to give dramatic point to the whole play. This refreshing epic of American boyhood will be welcome to audiences of grown-ups as well as young people. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) State adaptor when ordering. (#1083) THE ADDING MACHINE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Elmer Rice. 14 m., 9 f. 5 ints.l2 exts. This constantly interesting play shows in outline the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modem business. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#204) THE ERMINE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Miriam John. 8 m., 7 f. 2 ints. Franz is a struggling young businessman in love with an heiress. His business is failing and the man to whom he appeals is disdainful, though the man's wife sees in him a potential lover. The heiress' guardian is a duchess who is against the alliance of her ward to Franz. Finally the news of the financial help comes, but still the duchess will not have Franz as a husband for the heiress. So one night he

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STREET SCENE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Elmer Rice. 16 m., 11 f. Ext. An outstanding Broadway success and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles. Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighborhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic plot which has to do with a theatrical scene-shifter whose wife has been having a sordid affair with the milkman. The husband returns unexpectedly and kills them both. The incident serves chiefly to crystalize the viewpoint and very human reactions of the entire neighborhood. This modem classic that catches the varying moods of daily life as it is lived by millions in a large metropolis. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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BROADWAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. Philip Dunning and George Abbott. 11 m., 8 f. Int. Recently revived on Broadway, this play was the first to depict in true colors the atmosphere of night club life. It is concerned with the touching love story of Roy Lane, a hoofer in a night club, and Billie Moore, a cute and fascinating member of the chorus. There are gaiety and music, dark deeds and murder. This exciting and colorful play ran for 332 performances in New York in its original production and was a great success in other parts of the country and most of Europe. The revival was directed again by Mr. Abbott in celebration of his lOOth birthday. "A beautifully done reconstruction . . . lovingly restored." -N. Y. Post. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4110) ONCE IN A LIFETIME. (Little Theatre.) Satirical comedy. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. 24 m., 14 f. (doubling possible.) 5 ints. or unit set. Recently revived on Broadway to great acclaim, this is the rollicking tale of three down-and-out troupers who decide to head for Hollywood and try their luck with the newlyinvented talkies. Due to a series of consistent blunaers, the most stupid of the three is carried to pinnacles of fame and fortune until he's literally made a god of the industry. It's a fast-paced and wild romp and a marvelous spoof of tinsel-land. The Pullman car and waiting room episodes are classics in hilarity. "Ideal summer theatre . . . [with] comic climaxes that distinguish the humor of the 30s.. . Grand chains of lunacy."-N.Y. Times. "Lovely play . . . . Gracefully insane."-N.Y. Post. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#804) MADEMOISELLE COLOMBE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Jean Anouilh, adapted by Louis Kronenberger. 10 m., 5 f. 4 int. A youth encounters a girl who is delivering flowers to his celebrated diva mother. They fall in love. The youth leaves for war and the diva brings the young wife into the theatre where she is dazzled by the lustre and social gaiety. She embraces it with all her love. Her husband is advised she has been unfaithful. He comes home to find her as merry as ever, and unembarrassed by her new life.; she has passed him by and will go on to new glory without him. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#15024) DONA ROSITA, THE SPINISTER. (AU Groups.) Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell. 7 m., 12 f. 2 ints. In Five Plays by Lorca, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#6091) SHOEMAKER'S PRODIGIOUS WIFE. (All Groups.) Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell. 7 m., 9 f. 2 ints. In Five Plays by Lorca, $11.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21138)

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of ages."-Sunday Times, London. In Sixties Drama, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#939) CAPTAIN JINKS OF THE HORSE MARINES. Clyde Fitch. cha 13 m., 13 f. 2 int.lext. In Modem Theatre: Vol. 4, $23.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#5024) DECENT BIRTH, HAPPY FUNEREAL. William Saroyan. 11 m., 5 f. 3 ints. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#6048) JANIE. Bentham and Williams. 13 m., 8 f. Int. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#12011) THE LONE STAR. Symphonic Outdoor Drama. Paul Green. Large cast. Var. scenes. Texas knew she was right in her determination to be free from what she felt was an oppressive Mexican government, and Mexico knew she was right to try to make one of her rebellious states remain in her union as her constitution demanded. So the fur had to fly, and the play depicts its flying. $6.50. Restricted. (#670) THE LOST COLONY. Symphonic drama of American History. Paul Green. Very large cast, chorus and dancers. Ints.lexts. The story of the first English settlement in (#14141) the New World. $12.95. Restricted. THE COMMON GLORY. (Little Theatre.) Symphonic drama. Paul Green. Large cast. Var. scenes. Saga of the American struggle for independence. There's a love story of a Tory's daughter and a "New American" man who symbolize both side of the military and moral conflict. The scenes shift to various historical places and the cast includes a rich assortment of types of the era. $6.50. Restricted. (#5131) THE FOUNDERS. (All Groups.) Symphonic drama. Paul Green. Var. characters and scenes. Tells in dialogue, song, dance, pantomime and spectacle the often tragic and always dangerous adventures of early English colonization in America. $6.50. Restricted. (#8070) TRUMPET IN THE LAND. Symphonic Outdoor Drama. Paul Green. 13 m., 4 f., extras. Var. scenes. The heroic story of Moravian missionaries to the Indians in 18th (#22223) century Ohio. $6.50. Restricted. THE CONFEDERACY. Symphonic outdoor drama. Paul Green. Large cast. Var. scenes. This symphonic outdoor drama tells the story of the Civil War as epitomized (#5134) in the life and character of General Robert E. Lee. $6.50. Restricted. TEXAS. Symphonic Outdoor Opera. Paul Green. Large cast. Var. scenes. The story of ranchers and farmers in West Texas and their struggle to wrest a living from the land of America's last frontier. $6.50, Restricted. (#22043) WILDERNESS ROAD. (Little Theatre.) Symphonic outdoor drama. Paul Green. 67 characters. Extras. Var. scenes. Deals with the ruinous impact of the Civil War on an idealistic young school teacher and his divided people in the mountains of Kentucky. $6.50. Restricted. (#25140) THE STEPHEN FOSTER STORY. (Little Theatre.) Symphonic outdoor drama. Paul Green. 55 characters, extras. Var. scenes. The author has combined the various musical types and moods of his subject with pageantry, simplicity and story continuity to create a charming, unified whole. The forces that led Stephen Foster to compose his memorable songs come to life in this heartwarming drama of the Old South. $6.50. Restricted. (#21331)

kills her. In Anouilh, Five Plays, Vol. I, $19.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC area. (#7051) THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL. (All Groups.) Biography. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, 11 m., 5 f. extras. Platform stage. Produced around the country under the American Playwrights Theatre program, this drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting him, and ends on the morning of his release. Scenes portray his return from Harvard where he idolized Emerson, his attempt to establish a transcendentalist school, his career as a handyman and tutor in Emerson's household, his romance and his friendship with an illiterate cellmate. The end is a grotesque dream in which the characters take up guises in a mortal assault on Mexico. "Absolutely fascinating . . . . Imaginatively commanding."-Washington Post. "Scene after scene moves you to laughter or close to tears. "-Newsday. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC area. (#82) TOTAL ECLIPSE. (Little Theatre.) Drama. Revised version. Christopher Hampton. 10 m., 5 f., extras. Var. sets. The play is an intelligent look at the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine and shows considerable insight into the bourgeois and artistic societies of the period as well as a moving understanding of homosexuality. "The first six scenes develop the contrast between the two men . . . and their mutual need for each other as they move through and away from the literary life of the time and from Verlaine's wife and her family. A remarkable cafe dialogue with the two poets drunk and drugged subtly suggests the private, timeless world they built together and ends on a note of violence to show how fragile it was. . . . A compelling evening in the theatre."-New Statesman. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Restricted NYC and 50-mile radius. (#22172) THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. (All Groups.) Fantasy. J. M. Barrie. 13 m., 12 f. Extras. 2 ints. It is the Earl of Loam's whim to invite his servants once a month to the drawing-room where they are treated as social equals. His daughter and friends are forced to serve them-much to the distaste of the butler. When a group that includes the Earl and the butler are shipwrecked on an island, the social order (#3020) temporary shifts. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) RED NOSES. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Peter Barnes. 18 in., 5 f., plus extras. Unit set. This outrageous comedy by the irreverent author of The Ruling Class pits laughter against the Black Death rampaging in France in 1348. While society and its institutions are in chaos, Father Flote and his merry band of touring red-nosed comics fight back with bad jokes, bawdry and laughter. "A brilliant play. . . that celebrates the human spirit while deriding those who would tyrannize it." -London Guardian. "Wonderful play ... about how laughter can keep us sane in one kind' of crisis and play us false in another."-L.A. Times. In Barnes Plays, Vol. 2, $18.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Optional music available. (Music royalty, $15-$10.) Slightly (#20117) Restricted. THE RULING CLASS. (Advanced Groups.) Farce. Peter Barnes. 17 m., 5 f. Comb. int. w. traveller. When the twelfth Earl of Gurney inadvertently dies while pretending to hang himself dressed in a Napoleon hat and a tutu, a problem ensues because the heir believes he is Christ. While it is natural for a member of the ruling class to think himself all-powerful, the family thinks this is a bit much. What can they do to get control of the enormous fortune? Their schemes backfire when the thirteenth Earl realizes he is not Christ ... he is Jack the Ripper. "Its jokes are innumerable. . . . They engage your fielded of vision and blow away the accumulated dust

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Cohan (#4125) ................................................................ 3 Int.lExt. BROTHER PETROC'S RETURN. Emmett Lavery (#4130) ............................................ .1...... Simple BROTHERS. Herbert 1. Ashton Jr. (#4131) ............................................................................ 3 Int. BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. Jacques Copeau & Jean Croue (#4132) ............................................. 3 Int.lExt. BURLESQUE. George M. Watters & Arthur Hopkins (#4144) .......................................................... 3 Int. BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD. Leopold Atlas (#4147) .................................................... 3 InU2 Ext. CALL IT A DAY. Dodie Smith (#5006) .......................................................................... 2 Int.lExt. CAMILLE IN ROARING CAMP. Thomas Wood Stevens (#5010) ...................................................... Int. CARD INDEX. Tadeusz Rozewicz, trans. by Adam Czemiawski (#5019) ................................................. Int. CAREFREE TREE. Aldyth Morris (#5021) ............................................................................. Int. THE CAVERN. Jean Anouilh, trans. by Lucienne Hill (#5044) ........................................................... Int. THE CHARM SCHOOL. Alice Duer MiIler & Robert Milton (#5082) ................................................. 2 Int. THE CHILD BUYER. Paul Shyre, adapted from the novel by John Hersey (#5087) ...................................... Int. CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. Arnold Wesker (#5095) ................................................................ Var. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Charles Ludlam (#5244) ..................................................................... Var. COLLEGE WIDOW. George Ade (#5123) ...................................................................... .InU3 Ext. COMIC STRIP. George Panetta (#5129) ................................................................................ Unit COMMAND PERFORMANCE. C. Stafford Dickens (#5130) .......................................................... 3 Int. CONGRESSWOMEN. Aristophanes. Trans. by Douglass Parker (#5137) ............................................ Int.lExt. CONQUEST OF THE UNIVERSE or WHEN QUEENS COLLIDE. Charles Ludlam (#5241) ......................... Var. THE COOKIE LADY. Donald Oliver & Annette Harper (#5696) .................................................... Simple CORIOLANUS. Bertolt Brecht, based on Shakespeare & trans. by R.Manheim (Slightly Restricted) (#5719) ............. Var. COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW. Elmer Rice (#5728) ...................................................................... .4 Ints. COUNTRY SCANDAL. Anton Chekhov, trans. by Alex Szogyi (#5155) ........................................ 2 InU2 Ext. COWBOY AND THE LADY. Clyde Fitch (#5157) ............................................................... 2 Int.lExt. CRADLE SNATCHERS. Russell G. Medcraft & Norma Mitchell (#5170) .............................................. 2 Int. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Rodney Ackland & Fedor Dostoevsky (#5180) ........................................... Int. CROSS AND SWORD. Paul Green (not available for production) (#5182) DAGMAR. Frank Provo & John Pickard (#6003) ........................................................................ Var. DAPHNE LAUREOLA. James Bridie (#6017) ......................................................................... 2 Int. DEAR ANTOINE. Jean Anouilh, trans. by Lucienne Hill (#6035) ........................................................ Int. DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUST. Michel de Ghelderode, trans. by George Haugher (#6631) ........................ 2 Int.lExt. THE DEPUTY. Rolf Hochhuth, adapted by Jerome Rothenberg (#6050) ................................................. Var. DER RING GOT FARBLONJET. Charles Ludlam (#6177) ............................................................ Var. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. George Ross & Campbell Singer (#6060) .............................................. Comp. THE DIVINE FLORA. Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements (#6066) ............................................... Int.lExt. THE DOG IN THE MANGER. Lope de Vega, trans. by Jill Booty (#6085) ............................................. Int. DON JUAN. Moliere, trans. by Christopher Hampton (#6095) ........................................................... Ext. DON JUAN. Moliere, adapted by BertoIt Brecht & trans. by Ralph Manheim (#6655) ................................... Ext. DONOV AN AFFAIR. Owen Davis (#6093) .............................................................................. Int. DREAM A LITTLE DREAM. Hal O'Neill Kesler (#6118) .............................................................. Int. DRINK TO ME ONLY. Abram S. Ginnes and Ira Wallach (#6121) ...................................................... Int. DRUMS IN THE NIGHT. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by W.E. Smith & R. Manheim (Slightly Restricted) (#6131) ............. Int. THE DYBBUK. S. Ansky, trans. by Henry Alsberg and Winifred Katzin (#6130) .................................. 2 Int.lExt EASY COME, EASY GO. Owen Davis (#7002) ......................................................................... Int. THE EGG. Felicien Marceau, adapted by Robert Schlitt (#7010) ........................................................ Var. THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES. George Tabori (#7032) ................................................................. Int. ENCHANTED MAZE. Paul Green (#7042) ..................................................................... 3 InU2 Ext. ENEMIES. Maxim Gorky, English adapt. by Jeremy Brooks & Kitty Hunter-Blair (#7045) ................................ Int. EUNUCHS OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY. Charles Ludlam (#6987) .................................................... Var. EXCEEDING SMALL. Caroline Francke (#7061) ..................................................................... 2 Int. FARMER'S WIFE. Eden Philpotts (#8015) ............................................................................ 2 Int. FIRST NIGHT. Frederick Rath (#8042) ................................................................................ 2 Int. FOLLOW THE DREAM. Florence Ryerson & Alice D.G. Miller (#8059) .............................................. Var. FOLLOW THE GLEAM. Nancy Protter (#8060) .............................................................. .3 InU3 Ext. THE FOOL. Channing Pollock (#8061) ............................................................................... 2 Ints. FOR THE DEFENSE. James Reach (#445) .............................................................................. Int. THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST. David Belasco (#9038) .................................................. 3 Int.lExt. GIRL WITH THE GREEN EYES. Clyde Fitch (#9043) .............................................................. 3 Int. GIRLS IN UNIFORM (CHILDREN IN UNIFORM). Christa Winsloe, trans. by Barbara Burnham (#9044) ............. Var. THE GOLEM. Ruth Rehrer Wolff (#9070) ............................................................................. Unit THE GOOD HOPE. Herman Heijermans, trans. by L. Saunders & C. Heijermans-Houwink (#9072) .................... 2 Int. THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by Ralph Manheim (#9667) ............................ .4 Ints. THE GREY FOX. Lemist Esler (#9121) ............................................................................... 7 Int. THE GRAND TAROT. Charles Ludlam (#9159) ....................................................................... Var. GROWING PAINS. Aurania Rouverol (#9122) .......................................................................... Int. HALOES AND SPOTLIGHTS. John O'Donnell (#10005) ............................................................... Int. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Anita Loos (#527) ................................................................................ Int. HE. Alfred Savior, adapted by Chester Erskine (#10045) .................................................................. Int. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED. Leonid Andreyev (#531) ................................................................... Int. HEAVENLY EXPRESS. Albert Bein (#10053) .......................................................................... Int. A HELL OF A MESS. Eugene Ionesco, trans. by Helen Gary Bishop (#10067) ......................................... Var. HELD BY THE ENEMY. William Gillette (#10064) ................................................................. .4 Int. HEROES JUST HAPPEN. Robert Finch & Betty Smith. 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Federico Garcia Lorca, trans. by O'Connell.& Lujan (#11017) ........................... 3 Int.tExt. IN THE JUNGLE OF CITIES. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by Gerhard Nellhaus (Slightly Restricted) (#11045) ........... Int.tExt. INCOGNITO. N. Richard Nusbaum (#11046) ............................................................................ Int. INQUEST. Donald Freed, based on a book by W. & M. Schneir (#11057) ................................................ Int. IVORY DOOR. A.A. Milne (#11080) ............................................................................... Int.tExt. THE JAZZ SINGER. Samson Raphaelson (#12014) ..................................................................... Int. JIM DANDY. William Saroyan (#12020) ................................................................................ Int. JOAN OF ARC. Thomas Wood Stevens (#12021) ............................................................... Ints.! Exts. THE JOURNALISTS. Arnold Wesker (Slightly Restricted) (#12033) ................................................... 1 set. JOY TO THE WORLD. Allan Scott (#12032) ........................................................................... Int. JUSTICE. John Galsworthy (#12040) .................................................................................... Int. KEAN. Alexandre Dumas pere, trans. by Barnett Shaw (#13007) ...................................................... 5 Ints. KILLING GAME. Eugene Ionesco, trans. by Helen Gary Bishop (#13013) .............................................. Var. A KISS OF CINDERELLA. 1. M. Barrie (#13019) ............................................................. .4 Ints.tExt. THE KITCHEN. Arnold Wesker (#13001) .............................................................................. Var. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur (#14020) ............................................ .4 Int. LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR. Dorothy Parker & Arnaud d'Usseau (#14022) ........................................ 5 Int. THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S. Georges Feydeau, trans. by John Mortimer (#13879) ................................. Comp. THE LEFT BANK. Elmer Rice (#14053) ................................................................................ Int. LET FREEDOM RING. Albert Bein (#14062) ................................................................... 5 Int.tExt. LIBEL. Edward Wooll (#14075) ......................................................................................... Int. LIBERTY JONES. Philip Barry (#14076) .............................................................................. Var. LIFE OF EDWARD II OF ENGLAND. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by Smith & Manheim (#14088) ...................... Int.tExt. LIFE OF GALILEO. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by R. Manheim & W. Sauerlander (#14632) ................................. Var. LIFE OF GALILEO. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by Desmond I. Vesey (#9009) .............................................. Var. LlGHTNIN'. Winchell Smith & Frank Bacon (#14083) ............................................................ 5 Int.tExt. LITTLE OL'BOY. Albert Bein (#14096) ................................................................................ Int. LOMBARDI LTD. Frederick & Fanny Hatton (#14114) .................................................................. Int. LORENZACCIO. Alfred de Musset. Trans. by Renaud C. Bruce (#14121) .................................... .5 Ints.17 Ext. LOUDER, PLEASE. Norman Krasna (#14122) .......................................................................... Int. LOVE AFTER DEATH. Calderon, trans. by Roy Campbell (#14125) .......................................... .4 Int.l4 Ext. LOVE ON THE DOLE. Ronald Gow & Walter Greenwood (#14130) ............................................ .Int.l2 Ext. THE LOVERS. Leslie Stevens (#14139) .................................... ~ ..................................... Ext.lplats. LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG. William Saroyan (#14147) ......................................................... Int.tExt. LOYALTIES. John Galsworthy (#14151) ............................................................................. .5 Int. MACBIRD. Barbara Garson (#15011) .................................................................................... Int. THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE. Emmet Lavery (#15033) .............................................................. Int. MAKE A MILLION. Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore (#15039) ....................................................... Int. THE MAN FROM HOME. Booth Tarkington & Harvey L. Wilson (#15045) .................................... .Int.l2 Ext. A MAN'S A MAN. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by Gerhard Nellhaus (#15623) ................................................ Var. MARY BARNES. David Edgar (#15014) ................................................................................ Int. MARY STUART. Friedrich von Schiller, trans. by Joseph Mellison & Eric Bentley (#15066) ...................... 3 Int.tExt. MEN IN WHITE. Sidney Kingsley (#15085) .......................................................................... 7 Int. MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart (#15088) ..................................... 8 Int.tExt. MESSAGE FROM THE GRASS ROOTS. Robert Riche (#693) ........................................................ Var. MIDDLE WATCH. Stephen King-Hall (#15095) ....................................................................... 2 Int. MINICK. George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber (#15106) .................................................................. Int. MISS JAIRUS. Michel de Ghelderode, trans. by George Haugher (#1514) ........................................... Int.tExt. MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. Bertolt Brecht, trans. by R. Manheim (#15131) ....................... Var. MR. & MRS. NORTH. Owen Davis (#15139) ........................................................................... Int. MRS. JANUARY & MR. EX. Zoe Akins (#15150) ....................................................................... Int. MRS. O'BRIEN ENTERTAINS. Harry Madden (#15148) ................................................. , ............. Int. THE MUNDY SCHEME. Brian Friel (#15153) .......................................................................... Int. MUSIC MASTER. Charles Klein (#15165) ............................................................................ 3 Int. MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. William Saroyan (#15169) ..................................................... Var. MYSTERY-BOUFFE. Vladimir Mayakovsky, trans. by Guy Daniels (#15174) ........................................... Var. A NIGHT LIKE THIS. Ben Travers (#16655) .......................................................................... Var. NOBODY HEARS A BROKEN DRUM. Jason Miller (#16032) ...................................................... Comp. NOT BY BED ALONE. Georges Feydeau, trans. by Norman R. Shapiro (#16007) ..................................... 3 sets OFF A PEWTER PLATTER. Robert & Lillian Masters (#17011) ....................................................... Int. ONCE IN EVERY FAMILY. Marrijane Hayes & Joseph Hayes (#17030) ............................................... Var. OPERATION MAD BALL. Arthur P. Carter (#17043) ................................................................. Ints. OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. Ben Travers (#17916) .................................................................. 3 sets PADDY THE NEXT BEST THING. W. Gayer MacKey & Robert Ord (#318017) ....................................... Int. PAGE MISS GLORY. Joseph Schrank & Philip Dunning (#18018) .................................................... 2 Int. PANTAGLEIZE. Michel de Ghelderode, trans. by George Hauger (#1808) ............................................ .4 Int. A PASSAGE TO INDIA. Santha Rama Rau & E. M. Forster (#18029) ................................................ 5 Int. "PEACE IN OUR TIME". Noel Coward (#18045) ...................................................................... Int. PETER IBBETSON. John B. Raphael & Constance Collier (#18061) .................................................. .4 Int. PLUNDER. Ben Travers (#18153) ..................................................................................... 5 Int. POINT OF DEPARTURE. (Legend of Lovers) Jean Anouilh, trans. by Kitty Black (#18089) .......................... 2 Int. THE PONDER HEART. Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov; adapted from E. Welty (#18093) ..................... 2 Int.tExt. POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL. Eleanor Gates (#18096) ......................................................... 2 Int.l4 Ext. POPPA. 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COMMENTARIES AND GLOSSARIES by GEORGE SKILLAN
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DON JUAN IN HELL. (Dream episode from Man and Supennan page 123 of book.) (Little Theatre.) Reading. George Bernard Shaw. 3 m., 1 f. Made famous by Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead. "Written with unrelieved brilliance , . . witty in its analysis of human manners and institutions."-N.Y. Times. In Man and Supennan, $10.00. (Royalty $25-$25.) (#6096) THE MAN OF DESTINV. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., I f. Int. Young Napoleon is spending the evening in an Italian inn. A young Frenchwoman has beguiled an empty-headed lieutenant and is pilfering dispatches and letters he was to deliver to Napoleon. The thief wants to retrieve an incriminating love letter written, Napoleon subsequently discovers, by his wife. The dialogue between Napoleon and the lady is spiced with witty observations on many subjects. In Plays Pleasant, $15.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#15625)

9 CHARACTERS
THE CLOCK STRUCK TWELVE. Mystery-farce. James Reach. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Peggy, Gail and Mimi, a struggling singing team, seek shelter from a storm in the mansion where old Mr. Thomas was murdered by his grandson. After his sister identified him as the killer, he escaped and she had a nervous breakdown. On this night two years later they both have returned to the scene of the crime! At midnight, there are horrendous happenings-the ghost walks, a shot rings out-and there's a startling denouement. Easy to cast and produce. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING. Comedy. John Randall. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Henry Crocker's family has long dreaded his tantrums which are worse now due to business reverses. When Jed visits the family, Henry's long-suffering wife sees a chance for action. Jed saved Henry's life in the war and is Henry's idol. She gets Jed to bet Henry he can't go for a week without losing his temper. Everything goes wrong that week-enough to make anyone blow his stack. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14902)

6 CHARACTERS
CANDIDA. Play. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 2 f. Int. One of the world's great plays recounts the love-sickness of 18-year-old Marchbanks for Candida, the parson's wife. The parson is at first amused, then incensed and finally angered. In typical Shaw fashion there is a recognition and reversal; the mooning poet turns out to be the stronger suitor and the self-confident pastor the weaker. Candida remians one of Shaw's greatest insights into womankind. "Shaw's most popular play."-N.Y. Times. $7.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5025) MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION. Play. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 2 f. 2 int.lext. In Shaw's controversial attack on social hypocrisy, Vivie Warren is an intelligent and self-sufficient young woman who is astounded to learn her mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution and that she owns and operates a chain of brothels. Mrs. Warren ably justifies her past, attacking a society that rewards vice and oppresses virtue. She states a society that fosters poverty is the the real villain and that life in a brothel is preferable to life in a factory. Vivie respects her mother's courage and accepts her past but not her present. Rejecting her mother and all suitors, she throws herself into the independent life of a career woman. In Plays Unpleasant, $12.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#15151) SPIDER ISLAND. Mystery drama. Joseph Spalding. 6 f. Int. Two spinisters live in an abandoned lighthouse off the New England coast. Abbie is slightly pixilated and believes her dead brother is living in the lighthouse tower. Salem encourages her delusions. Two girls come to this queer household and are soon plunged into a series of hair-raising events. What was the Thing in the Tower? Why was Abbie afraid of the axe? Of what had Salem lived in fear for forty years? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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YOU NEVER CAN TELL. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 4 f. 2 int. ext. A young dentist with more good intentions than money finds himself amid the incomprehensible whirl of a flighty family. "It is brainy champagne . . . full of whimsical turns."-N.Y. Dramatic Mirror. In Plays Pleasant, $15.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.)

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DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS. Gay '90s Melodrama. Bill Johnson. 3 m., 7 f. Ext. This play tells the tear-jerking story of an innocent country girl and the viper who cruelly pursues her There are a number of places in the plot where oldtime songs are introduced. The text contains full directions for production. It may be performed by all-male or female casts to add to its mirth-provoking possibilities. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#55) MAID TO ORDER. Farce. Tom Taggart. 3 m., 7 f. Int. Faith Martin is happily married to the football coach. A rally is scheduled for the eve of the big game, but it's the night that Faith's old friend is to appear in a program of readings. Conflict and scandal arise just when Faith's rich aunt is visiting and the maid quits with (#682) hilarious results. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) LITTLE WOMEN. Drama. John Ravold 4 m., 6 f. Int. This dramatization of Louisa M. Alcott's classic novel about a mother's love for her children and their appreciation is timeless in its appeal? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Please state author and nonmusical when ordering. (#14101)

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11 CHARACTERS 8 CHARACTERS
ARMS AND THE MAN. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 5 m., 3 f. 2 Int.lext. One of Shaw's most distinguished plays, this work aroused controversy when first performed in 1894 and it has had a prominent place in the repertory of the Englishspeaking stage ever since. It is a satire about war and professional fighting men. Humor and serious points are made in his inimitably brilliant manner. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#3111) WIDOWERS' HOUSES. Play. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 2 f. 2 int., I ext. A young doctor discovers the fortune of his finance, Blanche Sartorius, derives from her father's exploitations of the poor. He is converted (in an unexpected way) to (#25131) Sartorius's views. In Plays Unpleasant, $12.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) THE PHILANDERER. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 5 m., 3 f. 3 int. Women find Charteris, a Don Juan-like character, irresistible and he has resigned himself to this fact-but it interferes with his first genuine love affair. In Plays Unpleasant, $12.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#18077) MAN AND SUPERMAN. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 6 m., 5 f. lint., 3 ext. Shaw's witty classic in which topics and institutions such as predatory women, motherhood, politics, moral progress, American millionaires, the rise of labor and man's coming dependence on the automobile are portrayed as he saw them. An opinionated, progressive and independent male tries frantically to escape his wily guardian, but he inevitably submits to the life force she personifies. $10.00. (Royalty, $20-$25.) (#15042) THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE. Satire in blank verse. George Bernard Shaw. 8 (#3018) m., 3 f. 3 int, 1 ext. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) LILY, THE FELON'S DAUGHTER. Melodrama. Tom Taggert. 5 m., 6 f. Gay Nineties melodramas are always fun for the audiences and actors. This tear-jerker tells the sad but silly story of Lily Fairweather, pure as the driven snow; of Compton, her weak but handsome sweetheart--and how villain Craven Sinclair thwarts their plans for everlasting bliss. One school wrote: "We know of no farce funnier than this old-time melodrama." $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#650)

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ONE MAD NIGHT. Mystery. James Reach. 7 m., 7 f. Int. Playwright Don Cutter, accompanied by his proverb-quoting Chinese valet, goes to the Cutter mansion to finish a play in peace and quiet. It's been deserted for years and reputedly haunted. Don's astonished when he finds the house occupied by some strange people, including Mr. Hyde and Lady Macbeth. They're harmless lunatics but Don doesn't know this. There's also a beautiful inmate with an amazing story of persecution and intrigue. Don's about to rescue her when his fiancee and her mother arrive. Ghosts, screaming women, disappearing guests and an escaped murderer fleeing for his life enter. When the curtain falls your audience will be weak from laughter. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#806) RESERVE TWO FOR MURDER. Mystery. John Randall. 7 m., 7 f. Int. A success at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre, this inventive mystery opens with a playwithin-the-play set five hu~ed years in the future. As it unfolds, the theater is plunged into darkness and an actor is shot by somebody in the audience. Weird, chilling developments follow, including a second murder, a vanishing corpse, and a diabolical spy plot. The mystery is unraveled by detectives who have come to see the performance. Action swirls around the audience and they sometimes take part. "Combines the best features of "Hellzapoppin' and 'Charley Chan in Greenwich Village.' "-N.Y. Post. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#20026) HANS BRINKER. Comedy. T(')m Taggart. 7 m., 7 f. (mostly children). Int. Raff Brinker was injured years ago and lost his memory. He can't remember where the family's small fortune is buried or how a valuable gold watch came into his possession. His family lives in poverty. How the buried treasure is found, how the mysterious watch points the way to happiness, how daughter Gretel wins the silver skates make a thrilling tale. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#524) THE ROARING TWENTIES. Comedy. Edward Trigger. 6 m., 8 f. optional extras. Int. This funny look at the fads and foibles of the 1920s is a delight. Dexter and Jessie Denning and their three children are an average American family. She is adept at calming her unruly spouse on the many occasions when he loses his temper, but when her ne-'er-do-well brother moves in Dexter hits the ceiling. A month later, the bank informs Jessie some unknown person has opened an account in her name and deposited ten thousand dollars! Jessie's unknown benefactor isn't revealed until the final curtain. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#20051) THE HAUNTED IDGH SCHOOL. Mystery-comedy. Orville Snapp. 6 m., 8 f. Int. At Eagle High School it's a tradition to celebrate "Youth's Day" when students and teachers exchange roles. There are strange happenings at the school: the principal has been killed by a car and other unexplainable accidents occur. The detective's bungling efforts only produce fiascos. The School Board is about to close the school down, but they hadn't reckoned on the students who meet and resolve to do everything possible to keep their school open and restore law and order. $4.50. (Royalty, (#10038) $20-$20.) LUNATICS-AT-LARGE. Mystery-comedy. James Reach. 7 m., 7 f. Int. This companion piece for One Mad Night finds slightly bewildered playwright Don Cutter, who runs a nuthouse on the side, up to his neck in odd characters, murder and hilarity. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14155)

CRAZY HOUSE. Comedy. Peter Williams. 6 m., 6 f. Int. Mild-mannered Mr. Beldinker is running for congress on the Good Government ticket. His wife is writing an opera and their children aren't ordinary teenagers-one's on a health kick, another paints incomprehensible modem pictures and the third is world brat #1. The plot centers around an encyclopedia salesman who hooks them on buying the set on socalled easy payments. Mad fun for all! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#5173) WHO'S CRAZY NOW! Farce. Gerald Bell. 3 m., 9 f. Int. A number of schoolteachers who have lost their mental balance trying to educate their pupils are in an insane asylum. The ladies hilariously talk and act like their former charges. A love story develops between the superintendent's niece and a staff doctor, but each thinks the other is an inmate Recommended for for churches, schools and parent-teacher asso(#25118) ciations. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) THE CASE OF THE LAUGHING DWARF. Mystery. James Reach. 6 m., 6 f. Int. The scene is a secluded mountain hotel. Legend has it the dwarf laughs when a death occurs. Georgia is about to close the hotel down when strange people begin to arrive. The dwarf laughs and murder is afoot! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#5033)

13 CHARACTERS
ARE TEACHERS HUMAN? Comedy. James Reach. 6 m., 7 f. Int. The focus is on teachers not students in this high school play, though there are many good characters among the students. A principal and an English teacher are determined to be successful in their new posts, but the obstacles they encounter are formidable. The play coach selects a "poetic" tragedy written by a student in free verse which defies understanding. Rehearsals are pure unadulterated hilarity. Other threads skillfully woven into the farcical plot include a romantic triangle and a football coach who goes to great lengths to keep one student eligible for the team. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#231) AFRAID OF THE DARK. Mystery farce. James Reach. 6 m., 7 f. Int. . On their honeymoon, Chauncey and Lillums arrive at an isolated country estate belonging to his aunt and supposedly unoccupied. After Chauncey confesses he's been afraid of the dark since childhood the lights suddenly go out. When they come on again they're surrounded by fantastic characters and plunged into a spy plot-with a difference. This is fast-paced entertainment with suspense and laughs galore. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#207) ON THE BRIDGE AT MIDNIGHT. Melodrama. Bruce Brandon. 5 m., 8 f. Int. Noble Horatio Wainwright marries beautiful Queenie De Lorme and brings her home to his aristocratic mother. Queenie has a past shrouded in secrecy. Her father was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He escaped and wandered all over the earth. Queenie knows if this gets out she will be sent packing. A wolf in sheep's clothing appears. He knows Queenie's secret and threatens to tell all unless she procures papers on Horatio's invention. It's all here: stolen papers, mortgaged homestead, and handsome hero thwarting the villain. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' (#17028) Incidental Musicfor Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. THE NUTT FAMILY. Farce. Walter Blake. 4 m., 9 f. Int. A large summer home that was formerly used as a sanitarium for patients with nervous ailments is purchased by the Nutt family: P. Nutt, Meta Nutt and her pet snake, Wall Nutt and Ima Nutt. Several former patients arrive and the fun begins. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#16049) MURDER TAKES THE STAGE. Mystery. James Reach. 6 m., 7 f. This exciting mystery is done on a bare stage that represents a summer theater run by Jane Bond where the season's opener is being rehearsed. Jane's eager niece has just joined the company. She's a crime stories addict and she's the heroine of the ensuing proceedings. The author has signed a glamorous theater personality to star, but she is detested by most of the troupe. During rehearsal, a gun loaded with blanks is fired at her and she plays a convincing death scene-for she's truly dead! The Sheriff and Mitzi set an ingenious trap for the murderer. The action's always plausible and will keep your audience thrilled. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15160)

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THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE. (All Groups.) Comedy. George George Bernard Shaw. 10 m., 5 f., extras. 1 comp, int., 1 ext. A free-thinking man clashes with the moral code of puritan New England. In Three Plays for Puritans, $12.00. (Royalty, $25$25.) (#6902) CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA. (All Groups.) Comedy. George George Bernard Shaw. 20 m., 5 f., Extras. 6 ext., 3 into The Cleopatra with whom Shaw confronts Caesar is not the grand queen, but a frightened girl of 16. Her country is divided and it is Caesar's job to unite the factions without losing his head. He educates her in the modes of a queen and she gives him a few lessons in political science. Caesar is terrified by her directness and simplicity. Finally a truce is made, the land united, and Caesar sails for home promising to send Mark Antony in his stead. $10.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5001) SPRING PROM MAGIC. Comedy. Natalie Farrow. 9 m., 12 f. Int. Terry Allister has a crush on Warren Spade, star athlete, and she is determined Warren will be her prom date. She decides she will make herself over to attract his attention, but haughty Ursula Peabody launches a campaign to disgrace Terry and snare Warren for herself. Just when it looks as though Ursula's scheme will succeed, her dishonest campaign backfires. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#21302)

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THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. Tragic satire. George George Bernard Shaw. 11 m., 3 f. 3 int., I ext. $6.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#6075)

**SPECIAL NOTE ON PLAYS BY George Bernard Shaw

All of Shaw's early plays through Man and Superman are in public domain in their original form, and may be performed without fee provided the text used is that of original publication. For his Collected Works, 1930-32, Shaw revised the texts of all of his early plays. These revisions, still under copyright protection, are incorporated in all authorized editions of the plays published since 1930, including th~ Samuel French acting editions and the Penguin editions. Those groups wishing to .perform the revised, definitive texts of the follo~ing plays may do so at a special Royalty Rate of $25 for each performance.

THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE ARMS AND THE MAN CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA CANDIDA THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA DON JUAN IN HELL

THE MAN AND SUPERMAN THE MAN OF DESTINY MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION THE PHILANDERER WIDOWERS' HOUSES YOU NEVER CAN TELL

FULL-LENGTH NON-ROYALTV AND BUDGET PLAYS

Plays designated Budget Play may be produced by amateurs with maximum seating capacities of 400 for one performance only without paying a royalty, provided the producer purchases as many copies as there are speaking parts in the cast. (If there are more than twelve characters, the producer is only required to purchase twelve copies). The royalty for each additional performance is $15, payable one week prior to the production. The right of performance is not transferable and is strictly forbidden in cases where copies are loaned, hired or purchased second-hand from a third party. Plays designated No Royalty may be produced without paying a royalty in the United States only by amateurs with maximum seating capacities of 400. Special arrangements must be made in all cases for productions by professional groups, by amateurs with seatjng capacities over 400, and for television and radio broadcasting. Please see page 5 for more information about restrictions, rights, royalties and ordering.

8-9 CHARACTERS
NOW I ASK YOU. Satire. Eugene O'Neill. 4 m., 4 f. O'Neill in an unaccustomed mode of satire, works the themes of Russian melancholy, self-realization, free-love, the Nietszchean superman, the Ibsen new woman and Shaw's Candidainto an articulate whole. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. I, $40.00. (No Royalty.) (#16078) THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Farce comedy. Oscar Wilde, 5 m., 4 f. Ext., 2 int. This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around an ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity. $6.50. (No Royalty.) State 3-act version when ordering. (#11912) OUR GAL SAL. Comedy. Peggy Femway. 3 m., 6 f. Int. Cecilia Vandyne is the social leader of the town. Her son Glenn is a snob, but her daughter Allison is democratic and charming. As children they played with a farm girl. When told she is coming to visit, Glenn hits the roof and tells Allison he will have nothing to do with a crude country girl. He doesn't know she has already arrived and overheard him. She plots revenge and before she is finished Glenn feels as though he had been through a wringer. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#17910)

THEY WENT THATAWAY. Western comedy. Pete Williams. 5 m., 5 f. Int. Charlotte Pelham is a city girl who has inherited a ranch. With her sidekick Lil Bower, Charlotte d,ecides to go into the dude ranch business. Operating on a shoestring is rough until Freddy Buck, an impecunious master of ceremonies, talks her into hiring him as a cowboy ( a job he is unqualified for). The dudes start arriving, all sorts of skulduggery takes place until finally Freddy Buck emerges as the savior of the ranch-to everyone's amazement-and wins Charlotte's heart to boot. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#22906) TEEN ANTICS. Comedy. Hazel Peavey. 4 m., 6 f. lnt. When Helen Stetson has to rush to her ailing mother's bedside, she leaves her two daughters alone in the house. Helen's sisters-in-law descend and announce they intend to spend the summer there-and spinster Veronica intends to rule the roost! Teenaged Patsy is displeased when she learns Aunt Veronica is after a handsome bachelor who is a family friend. Patsy plans to make things so unpleasant for Veronica she'll be glad to leave along with sister Stella. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#22623)

11 CHARACTERS
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM. Temperance Drama. William W. Pratt. 7 m., 4 f. 4 ints., 2 exts. One of the most famous of the old-timer temperance melodramas and it provides marvelous entertainment today-showing, in a fashion considered humorous today, the woeful effects of rum and its evil work. $4.50. Please state author when ordering. (No Royalty.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#22907) AUNT TILLIE GOES TO TOWN. Farce. Wilbur Braun. 4 m., 7 f. Int. An accidental suitcase switch leads to hilarity in this good-humored classic farce. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#3901)

10 CHARACTERS
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Drama. Richard Abbott. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson's well-known novel. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) Please state author when ordering. (#6078) "M'LISS." Western. Virginia Mitchell. 5 m., 5 f. Int. An up-to-date version of Bret Harte's novel. "M'Liss" is the lovable, quick-witted, quick-tempered, untutored child of the West. Her love for her no-account father; her affection for her friendsas well as her outbursts against enemies-form the basis for a fast-moving play. There are great parts for everyone. Easy to cast and play with a very simple set. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#15902)

12 CHARACTERS
THE IMAGINARY INVALID. Comedy. Moliere. Translated and adapted by Merritt Stone. 8 m., 4 f. Int. Monsieur Ardin is a thoroughgoing hypochondriac and he wants his daughter to marry a doctor despite the fact that both are infatuated with

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EAST LYNNE. Melodrama. Ned Albert. 5 m., 8 f. Int. In this version Lady Isabel Vane is left orphaned in her late teens. The home in which she spent her childhood, East Lynne, has been sold to Archibald Carlyle. What will become of her!? Will virtue triumph? $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) State author when ordering. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#7901) LENA RIVERS. Comedy drama. Ned Albert. Dramatization of Mary J. Holmes' novel. 6 m., 7 f. Int. Lena and her beloved Granny have to seek refuge with Granny's son John, who has changed the family name to Livingstone due to his wife's social aspirations. At the Livingstone plantation, Lena and her grandmother are treated as poor relations. Fate steps in and proves Lena's sterling character in a startling ending. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#14055)

someone else in this classic for the stage. $4.50. (Budget Play for Amateur Groups only. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) Please state translator's name when ordering. (#11029) THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. (All Groups.) Comedy. J.M. Synge, 7 m., 5 f. Int. During a quarrel, Christopher Mahon strikes his father with a spade and leaves him for dead. He finds his way to a village pub where his deed makes him a hero. But his father is not dead after all and everyone feels deceived. "A work of art. . . . Preserves the fresh music of country speech."-N.Y. Times. $8.95. Also in The Complete Plays of Synge, $10.00. (No Royalty.) (#850) THE RIVALS. Comedy. R.B. Sheridan. 8 m., 4 f. 18th century cost. A fine reading and acting edition of this famous play. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#75760) WHO KILLED AUNT CAROLINE? Mystery-drama. Grant Richards. 4 m., 8 f. Int. The Endicott Family are the kind of folks who live next door; but soon you realize one of these genial people has committed murder! Aunt Caroline deserved to die. But who could have killed her? You're kept guessing to the very end. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#25908) OH, PROMISE ME. Farce. Pete Williams, 4 m., 8 f. Int. Barry Hollis, Princeton graduate, has just inherited his father's fortune. Barry persuades his aunt to send a note to invite his new love for a visit. Another note goes to his old flame saying it's allover. Alas, the notes get mixed and the resulting complications are hilarious. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#17901) SAVED BY THE BELLE. Comedy. Thomas Sutton. 3 m., 9 f. Int. Rita Powers receives one bequest from her Uncle Henry when he dies: a fifty percent interest in a young contender for the middleweight championship. Since he and his trainer are penniless, she houses them in the garage and tells her mother they are dancing teachers. Zany complications ensue. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#21901) MURDERED ALIVE! Mystery-comedy. Wilbur Braun. 5 m., 7 f. Simple int. Wealthy Marvin Ryder dies in a motor accident. His will has two codicils. Ryder states he knows he will be murdered so he has set aside $10,000 for apprehending the murderer and the same sum for the person or persons who capture the criminal! Detective Action Chance arrives and his attempts at solving the crime lead from one ludicrous situation to another. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) . (#15915)

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TRELAWNY OF THE 'WELLS'. Comedy. Arthur W. Pinero. 10 m., 8 f. 4 Ints. $8.95. (No Royalty.) (#22759) THE DRUNKARD, or THE FALLEN SAVED. Melodrama. William H. Smith. 13 m., 5 f. Various int. and exts. This play was made famous by P.T. Barnum. While it has. amusing possibilities as a burlesque of the type of play it represents, it continues to have a genuine and moving appeal. Many opportunities are offered for the singing of sentimental ballads. $6.50. (No Royalty.) State author when ordering. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental (#6683) Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Comedy. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 12 m., 4 f., extras. Various ints. This is a most satisfactory edition of this great comedy. $5.25. (No Royalty.) (#79797) SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Comedy. Edited Version. Oliver Goldsmith. 15 m., (#20981) 4 f. 3 int; 1 ext. $5.25. (No Royalty.) UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Drama. From the famous novel. George L. Aiken. 15 m., 6 f. Several simple int. and ext. This is the original six-act version which has been produced thousands of times by professional and amateur companies. $6.50. (No Royalty.) Please note scripts are from original plates. The type size is small and in places hardly legible. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#23910) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Comedy. Tom Taylor. 10 m., 7 f. Simple sets. A 19th century classic. Please Note scripts are from original plates. The type size is small and in places hardly legible. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#17942) CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Heroic comedy. Edna Kruckemeyer. An adaption and arrangement of Rostand's celebrated play. 30 m., 16 f. 2 into 3 ext. This version is designed for use in secondary schools and colleges and has been produced with relative ease before enthusiastic audiences. Without radically changing the play, . Miss Kruckemeyer has simplified the more difficult- scenes. The book contains full stage directions, property plots, a short preface, and detailed stage diagrams. $6.50. Sound Effects Cassette, $32.50. Sound Effects Tape, $32.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#5205) MUMBO-JUMBO. Mystery farce. Jack Barnard. 8 m., 8 f. Int. Two college boys arrive at an uncle's country house on a mysterious mission and they are not dismayed when they learn Uncle John is away at a funeral. When they find all their money has disappeared, they decide to turn the place into a hotel. Soon they have a housefull of ill-assorted guests, one of whom is murdered. Since the house is on the county line, two sheriffs arrive. The corpse is on one side of the line and the evidence is on the other! $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $15 each thereafter.) (#15910)

13 CHARACTERS
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK. Drama. Dion Boucicault. 9 m., 4 f. Sometimes called The Poor of New York. $6.50. Please state author when ordering. (No royalty.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#21359) FASHION! or Life in New York (1845). (All Groups.) Comedy with Music. Anna Cora Mowatt. 8 m., 5 f. 5 int. As devised and staged by Curtis Canfield. Fashion! contrasts New York Society and its imitation of foreign manners with the true Americanism of types like Adam Trueman. The goodness and unabashed patriotism of this old farmer prevail in the end against the pretensions of Mrs. Tiffany, and the schemes of a bogus Count who is [mally exposed. Ten period musical hits enliven the proceedings. $6.50. (No Royalty for first performance. Additional performances. $15 each.) Music available. $15 Deposit Required. (Music Royalty, $5 per perfor(#8901) mance.) Please specify Canfield version when ordering. FASHION. Comedy. Anna Cora Mowatt. 8 m., 5 f. Cost. 1850. Simple old-fashioned (#8904) ints. $6.00. Please state author when ordering. (No Royalty.)

AU'DIENCE PARTICIPATION MURDER MYSTERIES AND OTHER PLAYS

FULL PRODUCTION PACKAGES FOR THEATRES AND DINNER THEATRES AVAILABLE: ALL APPLICATIONS REQUIRE RENTAL OF A MURDER MYSTERY PRODUCTION MANUAL: DETAILS UPON REQUEST

COMPLETE PRODUCTION MANUALS describe in detail the fonnat for producing an audience-participation murder mystery utilizing the entire theatre. Each production begins from the moment audiences enter the lobby. Actors disguised as audience members, theatre staff, detectives, doctors and, of course, killers stage scripted and improvised scenes throughout the theatre. A mysterious Master of Ceremonies guides the audience from reality to fantasy and back. Sets, lights and costumes can be adapted for low and high budget productions to transfonn the entire theatre into another place and time. For period productions, audience members may attend in costume and character. Everyone is suspect. A combination of actual audience members and actors in disguise are interrogated. Audience members interact throughout the perfonnance. They can interrogate each other. A detective guides the action. Every audience member can become his or her favorite detective, complete with clue pads provided by the theatre. Evidence discovered by the audience is displayed on a clue table or via slide projections. Multimedia and special effects options are suggested in every script. At the peak of the evening, after several murders, the audience mll&t determipe whodunit and why. There's much more to these diabolical masterpieces of murder, mystery and mayhem! "An exciting shot in the arm for the dinner theatre industry." Alan McCain, Producer, Green Park Inn Dinner Theatre. An innovative theatre experience for all types and all groups. Manuals are available on receipt of a refundable $25.00 deposit plus a weekly rental fee of $25.00 which includes shipping. (Royalties are quoted on an individual basis.) (#54724)

dead bodies. The world of gypsies and circus perfonners with their strange customs is a breeding ground for deadly escapades. The zany combination of gorillas, lion tamers, clowns, kidnappings, calliopes and fortune tellers leads to mirth and mayhem in this three-ringed circus charmer of a mystery. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted on completion of a special application fonn.) (#15278)

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BOARDWALK MELODY HOUR MURDERS. Comedy. Tom Chiodo. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The time is March, 1933. Prohibition is in full swing. This roaring mysterycomedy is set at the Imperial Ballroom in Atlantic City, where guests are watching a live radio broadcast while dining and enjoying an evening of entertainment. Host Sammy "Pretty Boy" Bambino has his hands full with a cadre of guests, crooks and ladies of the night. Sultry silent-screen star Miss Ruby Devine, on this very special evening, will debut her singing talents. But before a note is sung, a baby is snatched, a prisoner has escaped from the pen, a G-man arrives disguised as a nun . . . and the bullets start flying. This is non-stop interactive mystery comedy set in a time and place audiences will never forget. "Well-developed script.. .. An excellent production."-North County Examiner. "One of the most effective, thought-out of the interactive murder mysteries." -San Diego Reader. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application fonn.) (#4724) DEATH AND DECEIT ON THE NILE. Murder mystery. Peter DePietro. 4 m., 3 f., I extra. Int. An ancient Egyptian pharaoh's secret tomb and treasure has been discovered. Because of its extraordinary value, it has been named the "Eighth Wonder of the World." A cast of bizarre international characters assembles to view it: a scheming professor, a voluptuous princess, a daffy housekeeper, a slick lounge lizard, an astute writer and a dealer in exotic antiques. Suddenly, gunshots ring out! The archeological wonder becomes the focus of murder. Heated interrogations, shocking revelations and hilarious banter eventually give way to the dramatic realization of whodunit. When the killer is caught, the ancient gods of Egypt can rest easily . . . or can they? "Superb! One of the all-time best interactive murder mysteries."-Mystery Writers of America. "A wonderfully grand evening of mystery, comedy and intrigue."-Straight Times, Singapore. "Irresistible, tantalizing mirthful mayhem."-Post Star. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted on completion of a special application fonn.) (#6197) DEATH SUITE. Mystery. Peter DePietro. 4 m., 4 f., 3 extras. Natasha Kutchka, famed Kirov prima ballerina, and Sergei Bolstov, artistic director of the Kirov, are in the United States as part of a Cultural Exchange. Or are they? Secret codes are dropped, mysterious letters passed, and art soon gives way to a plot of international espionage. Detective Hudson Hotchkiss, actor-by-week and private eye-by-weekend, finds himself the sole orchestrator of justice when an American musician who is also a spy for the Soviet Union is shot dead. With whimsy and lines borrowed from Broadway shows, he solves the mystery and has the hills alive with sound of music. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application fonn). (#6143) THE END OF THE LINE; or, Beauty Meets the Beast. Comedy. Tom Chiodo. 6 m., 3 f., plus extras. It's the biannual symposium of a secret society searching for eternal youth. Membership requires that you donate body parts to the research of Dr. Heinrish von Schtooptenstein, founder of the Society for the Advancement of Beauty Through Tissue Research. A wacky yet spellbinding mystery unfolds when this modem day Dr. Von Frankenstein unleashes his human (~xperiments. Who's the beauty and who's the beast in this contemporary comedy with all the drama of a classic horror tale. Romance and love Mel Brooks-style abound until an investigative reporter and a bag lady named Annabelle team up to wreak revenge for deadly deeds of old. "A fast-paced comedy ... tale of beauty and beast."-Resorts Magazine. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application form.) (#7064) KNOCK 'EM DEAD. Comedy. Tom Oldendick and Will Roberson. 4 m., 3 f., I m. extra, I sm. dog. lInt. This unique comedy/murder mystery has six different endings! All hell breaks loose and the laughs fly when five outrageous contestants show up at Vinnie's Belly Laugh Club for the final talent competition. A ventriloquist with moving lips, a foul mouthed stand-up comedian, a baton twirling bimbo, the flamboyant owner of a lip synching poodle, a chanteuse with a questionable

5 - 6 CHARACTERS
THE HILARIOUS HILLBILLY MASSACRE. Comedy. Peter DePietro. 3 m., 3 f. Int. The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun-loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited. Everyone is promised a hog-slappin' good time. However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric I.R.S. agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the Birchbumbles stage their own auditions for Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed. Be sure to attend this long-awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with the "in bred" crowd. "Wonderful and exhilarating. The funniest interactive theatre I have ever experienced." -Post Star. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application fonn.) (#10904) THE MEDIEVAL MURDERS. Mystery. Tom Chiodo. 3 m. (to play 4 roles), 3 f. Int. It's the perfect execution! Kill the rich and give to the poor! This version of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table incorporates mystery and madness in a castle full of wenches, thieves, sorcerers, and knights to provide a bloody good time. Lords and ladies partake of an authentic medieval feast beside loony Lord George and his evil queen. All are celebrating the battle between White Knights and Black Knights. Have fun choosing sides in this ruthless and rousing comedy of errors, jousts, beheadings, pageantry, and pie-eating with a touch of fear. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted on completion of a special application fonn.) (#15277) MURDER AT THE PROM. Mystery. Peter DePietro. 3 m., 3 f. or 4 m., 2 f. Int. Stroll down the lane that love paved as you and your sweetheart attend the high school senior prom. You'll bask in the glory of your recent varsity victory and cheer as the king and queen of the prom are selected from among the guests. But beware! Glory days soon tum into gory days as one among you is murdered, then another. The list of suspects includes class snobs Charles Jonathan Edward Buckley III and Margot Ralston, the class outcast Patty Primpinpoof and a couple from the wrong side of the tracks, Vinnie DiMici and Bella Baloopi. Vinnie and Bella are always making a scene. This year Bella insisted on coming to the prom, even though she is "in the family way." Attend the prom and find out whodunit. "A hilarious plot, funny and outrageous characters and a challenging mystery all in one delightful evening. "-Globe and Gazette. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application fonn.) (#15259) MURDER UNDER THE BIG TOP. Mystery. Tom Chiodo. 4 m., I f., plus I f. audience member. The circus is in town. The Flying Bambinos and The Flying Ivanovitches, rival trapeze artists, face-off in a deadly act of daring feats. Tino Bambino and Princess Pinky are engaged and will be married over their fathers'

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accent and a hypnotist with a twitch all fight to win the grand prize. When Vinnie turns up dead, they're all suspects and the audience has the time of its life grilling them and fingering the murderer. A long running hit in Phoenix and San Diego, it is ideal for little theaters, cabarets and dinner theaters. "Lots of fun, an arsenal of laughter."-Phoenix Gazette. "Deadly good time."-Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) No Production Manual required. (#13036)

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the coffee and cordials are served? The Silver Sleuth Award is given to the guest who best explained the who, why and how-dunit of the murder at Rutherford House. "Wonderfully enjoyable."-Boston Globe. "As campy as a Boy Scout Jamboree, but a lot more fun."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application form.) Note: a special "Murder at Rutherford House Production Manual" is available. Details upon request. Restricted. (#15221)

10 - 11 CHARACTERS
BROADWAY BABYLON. Musical. Peter DePietro and T.J. Chiodo. 5 m., 5 f., 2 extras. Once upon a time in the world of glitz and glamour, there lived a bespectacled nerd who was cast away by casting directors and axed by agents. Now the toast of Broadway, this nerd plans to get even. On the Big White Way, revenge gets a standing ovation, murder wins the Tony, and all find themselves in a world of broken promises and faded hopes. This world is Broadway Babylon. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application form.) (#4139) A DEADLY HABIT; or, The Superbowl Massacre. Mystery. Tom Chiodo. 6 m., 5 f., plus 2 extras. A sports widow is "mad-as-hell" and she's not going to take it any more! The football commissioner mysteriously resigns. A cheerleader stages her own kidnapping. A referee is up to his ears in drug deals and bad calls. This deadly game goes into overtime for an intricate scheme of revenge and cover-ups that invites a lot of audience participation. "Super Bowl Sunday was never like this!! Great fun for sports fans and foes." -N. Y. Newsday. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application form.) (#6144) MURDER AT RUTHERFORD HOUSE. Mystery. Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro. 5 m., 6 f. It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Lord Rutherford. Lady Rutherford is throwing her annual dinner in commemoration of the event-to which you are cordially invited. You are given a character name and a dossier explaining your background and connection to the Rutherford family. Over cocktails, you mingle with the other guests, spotting the Baroness von Keepsemfrnmfloppen and figuring she's an actress, but what about all these other people? Suddenly, there's a gunshot resulting in the evening's first corpse. The body is removed and you sit down to dinner. A detective reveals himself and begins the investigation. What have you observed so far? Clues seem to be everywhere, but which ones count and which are red herrings? There is a parade of suspects for you to question. Perhaps you ask the right question at the right time and unmask the murderer. 'Perhaps you ask the wrong question and become the prime suspect! You begin to wonder: will you survive till

12 CHARACTERS
DEDICATED TO THE END. Comedy. Peter DePietro. 6 m., 6 f., 2 extras. Congressman Richfield is giving his acceptance speech on the eve of his election as Governor of New York when bullets start to fly. The intended victim is missed, but not for long. His wild, irresponsible son stages his own kidnapping and a madame, turned FBI informant, is killed because she knows too much. When a bitter female reporter uncovers organized crime links in the Governor-elect's background, the audience is sure it's on to the killer. But then diary notes and possible love interests surface. Who could it be? Certainly not Ms. Pinkbottom, the punctilious, loyal secretary to Mr. Richfield! A tough-nosed detective dressed undercover in female garb tips his wig and takes over an investigation that is comical chaos at its best. "You're consumed by the mystery. The whole world could have collapsed around us and we'd still be chasing the killer. After the resolution, the performers got a standing ovation."-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability are quoted upon completion of a special application form.) (#6145) A FATAL COMBINATION. Comedy. Peter DePietro. Adapted from Paging Death by Peter DePietro and Tony Hamill. 6 m., 6 f., 2 extras. A flamboyant, aging and loveable Greek art dealer; a reticent and revengeful librarian; a not-so-shallow bleached blond actress and a literary scholar all descend upon a posh Boston hotel to retrieve a rare Byzantine treasure secured in the hotel vault where it awaits an upcoming museum exhibition. Each wants the treasure enough to kill for it. George and Margaret Manning, a sharp-eyed husband-and-wife detective team akin to Charlie Chan and Number One Son, work hand-in-hand to solve this deliciously sinister plot of international intrigue. Margaret gets in the way of the calculating killer and becomes the fourth and final victim. This is a thriller to the end. "[The audience], at times, hurled suspicious accusations at one another with the vigor and purpose of discus throwers at a championship meet. . . . A dramatic resolution." -Boston Globe. $6.50. Production Manual: see above. (Royalty and availability is quoted upon completion of a special application form.) (#8112)

MORE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION PLAYS AND MUSICALS

7 CHARACTERS
LAFFERTY'S WAKE. Susan Turlish. See Index for description. MURDER AT CAFE NOIR. David Landau. Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern. See Index for description. NOIR SUSPICIONS. David Landau. Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern. See index for description.

10 CHARACTERS
Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien. See index for description. SONG OF SINGAPORE. Book by Alan Katz with Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin and Paula Lockheart. Music and Lyrics by Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin and Paula Lockheart. See Index for description.

14 CHARACTERS 8 CHARACTERS
FINNEGAN'S FAREWELL. Kevin Alexander. See Index for description. CLUE: THE MUSICAL. Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. See Index for description. .

15 CHARACTERS AND OVER

GRANDMA SYLVIA'S FUNERAL. Conceived by Glenn Wein and Amy Lord Blumsack. See Index for description. PROM QUEENS UNCHAINED. Conceived by Larry Goodsight and Keith Herrmann. Lyrics by Larry Goodsight. Music by Keith Herrmann. Book by Stephen Witkin'. See index for description. THE PLOT, LIKE GRAVY, THICKENS. Billy St. John. See index for description. THE THREE MUSKA TEERS. Willis Hall. Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas. See index for description. TONY N' TINA'S WEDDING. By Artificial Intelligence. Conceived by Nancy CasSarO. See Index for description

9 CHARACTERS
THE ANASTASIA TRIALS IN THE COURT OF WOMEN. Carolyn Cage. See index for description. SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS. Book by Charlotte Mann. Lyrics by Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler. Music by Jonathan Croose and Robin Forrest. See index for description.

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*AND NOW MIGUEL. Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Jim Hughes. Music by Will Graveman. 9 m., 5 f. (minimum) Unit set. Adapted from the Newbery Award-winning novel of the same name, this one-set musical combines children and adults in an expandable cast; it has been produced using as many as 35 people. The story involves an extended family of Hispanic sheep herders in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos. Twelve-year-old Miguel longs to join the men when they spend the entire summer in the high meadows grazing their sheep. He asks Saint San Ysidro to grant his wish, but when it comes true it is at a cost he does not want to pay. Adults empathize with this universal tale of the pains endured when children leave the nest while young people are captivated by a story about growing up. "It's a fun, very cute show the entire family should see."-Albuquerque Journal Review. Named Best Theatre for Younger Audiences by Westwood.com. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#2985) *CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD. (AU Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Stuart Hample. Music by David Evans. Lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen. Based on the book by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall. 3 m., 2 f. minimum. Unit set. Inspired by the international best-selling book of the same name, Children's Letters to God follows five young friends as they voice beliefs, desires, questions and doubts that are common to all people but most disarmingly expressed by children. Sixteen tuneful songs and assorted scenes, some based on actual letters, explore sibling rivalry, divorce, holidays, loss of a beloved pet, the trials of not being athletic, first love and other timeless issues. The message embodied crosses boundaries of age, geography and religion. This entertaining musical can be performed by age appropriate children or young adults. "Whimsical and charming family-oriented production about the innocent joys and sometimes simple sorrows of growing up." -N Y. Daily News. "Looking for a show for kids AND adults? This one might be the answer to your prayers !"-WCBS TV. "Clever, funny'and musically hip!'-Broadwayworld.com. Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Lyrics. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#5330) *GORILLA MAN. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Kyle Jarrow. 3 m., 2 f., 2 m. or f. Simple unit set. Puberty is hard enough without the insatiable thirst for blood! Waking one morning to find thick fur growing on the backs of his hands, young Billy discovers the awful truth his mother has been hiding from him for fourteen years: he's destined to grow up into a murderous monster. Cast from his home, he sets out on a journey to find his father, the legendary Gorilla Man. Combining a variety influences including horror films, picaresque tales, and glam rock, Gorilla Man is a strikingly original musical-a pUlse-pounding mix of comedy, concert, and carnival that explores philosophical issues of identity, ethics, and free will. It's a darkly comic coming-of-age tale filled with bombastic pop songs and peopled with lonely freaks by Obie Award winning playwright/composer Kyle Jarrow. "Big, bloody, ridiculous theatricality. . . . There's a unity of vision and insanity that's exciting."-NY. Sun. "Kyle Jarrow's philosophical fable has an antic charm!"-Variety . "This is a rock musical, and, dare I say it, a great one at that!"-Curtain Up. "Kyle Jarrow is New York's hipster playwright."-NY. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) set in a Chicago speakeasy. This comic valentine to musical theatre was the longest running show in the York Theatre Company's 35-year history before moving OffBroadway. "Witty! Refreshing! Juicily! Merciless!"-Village Voice. "A gift from the musical theatre gods! "-TalkinBroadway.com. "Real Wit, Real Charm! Two Smart Writers and Four Winning Performers! You get the picture, it's great fun!"-N.Y. Times. "Funny, charming and refreshing! It hits its targets with sophisticated affection!" -NY Magazine. "Hilarious! It'll keep you laughing from start to finish"-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#15752) rental. See p. 231.) *PACIFIC 1860. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Noel Coward. Adapted and revised by Barry Day. 6 m., 5 f. Unit set. Life is serene in Samolo-until the celebrated diva Madame Salvador disembarks on this South Sea island jewel in Queen Victoria's crown. The safe routines of the Stirling family are totally overset, particularly those of the youngest Stirling son. The two fall in love, but middle class Victorian morality intervenes to part them until . . . Pacific 1860 features one of Coward's most attractive scores, written for the show that starred Mary Martin and re-opened Drury Lane after World War II. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#17804) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) *SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS. (Little Theatre.) Audience participation musical. Book by Charlotte Mann. Lyrics by Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler. Music by Jonathan Croose and Robin Forrest. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. All is not well in a seedy cabaret bar on the planet Frottage III that is presided over by charismatic Saucy Jack. Cabaret performers are being picked off by a serial killer and danger lurks in every comer. Promising torch-song singer Vulva Savannah is the latest victim of the Slingback Killer. The Space Vixens, interstellar crime fighters, arrive to save the day with the Power of Disco and they hit the ground singing the explosive "Glitter Boots Saved My Life." The music is contemporary with electronic sounds and sequenced dance rhythms. This high-energy, electronic musical is performed in and around cabaret tables where the audience is seated. Raunchy dance music and an intense atmosphere completely envelop the scene and patrons respond by screaming for more. This vibrant, fully interactive show can be played in venues from theatres to bars. High quality backing tracks are available for performance, or live instruments can be used .. "A haven for hedonistic disco-bunnies."-Evening Standard. "Wall-to-wall bad taste and fun . . . . The Rocky Horror Show for the Millennium." -Daily Mail. $8.95. Demo CD available on request. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#17228) *STORYVILLE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by Mildred Kayden. Book by Ed Bullins. 6 m., 6 f., 1 m. child plus chorus. Unit set or mUltiple sets. This musical story of love and jazz is set in New Orleans in 1917. A notorious prizefight sends musicians, bands and entertainers "rollin' up the river" to St. Louis and Chicago. In the process, they give the gift of American jazz to the world. ,. Storyville rocked it's audience. The music and lyrics are sensitive, satirical, spirited and strong."-L.A. Times. "[The] music soars. What we have here is something of a jazz operetta, packed solidly with a score [and] lyrics . . . to die for."-Entertainment News and Views. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20899) *SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music by Marvin Harnlisch. Lyrics by Craig Carnelia. Book by John Guare. Based on the novel by Ernest Lehman and the MGMlUnited Artists motion picture. 18 m., 9 f. plus extras .. It's 1952. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour and power capital of the universe. 11 Hunsecker rules it all with a daily gossip column that is syndicated to sixty million readers across America. JJ has the goods on everyone, from the President to the latest starlet. Even 1. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy feed him scandal, and a battalion of hungry press agents bombard him with news hoping he might mention a client. If JJ turns on you, you are a nobody. "Guare has bravely gone beyond slavish adaptation while retaining many of the Hunseckerisms that fans of the film love to quote."-Curtain Up. 2002 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Musical. 2002 Tony Award Nomination for Best Musical Book. $7.00. CD. $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.)

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Festival to honor Noel Coward in his Centenary Year. The young Lady Windermere discovers that her husband has been seeing Mrs. Erlynne, a fascinating older woman, so she determines to run away with her admirer, Lord Darlington. Her honor is saved when Mrs. Erlynne intervenes and, in the process, compromises herself in the eyes of Victorian society. Lady Windermer never learns that her savior is the mother she thought was dead. This period concert version restores Coward's originallibretto, reinstates important cut songs and adds new linking material. "'The wit of Wilde set against the melodies of Coward. . . . Refreshing [and] infectious." -N. Y. Times. "A deft, inspired job."-New Yorker. "Splendid. . . . It's certainly worth seeing."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3564) ALICE IN CONCERT. (All Groups.) Musical. Elizabeth Swados. 6 m., 6 f. 7-piece combo. Bare stage. Meryl Streep made a great impression in New York in this musical directed and produced by Joseph Papp at the Public Theatre. This extremely imaginative rendering of the Alice in Wonderland story is performed done on a bare stage. The actors wear modern rehearsallplfy clothes as they impersonate the delightful Lewis Carroll characters. The music encompasses everything from countrywestern to calypso, all transmogrified by Ms, Swados' inimitable style. "Ms. Swados' new dramatized cantata ... made me think of Carroll very deeply . . . . [She] magnificently catches most of Carroll's divine nuttiness . . . . Her best musical to date."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#3616) ALICE THE MAGNIFICENT! (High School.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by Byron Tinsley. Book by Robert Higgins. 4 m., 2 f. or ensemble. 2 ints. This Alice is a lion.In contemporary America, she and her teenage owner enjoy all sorts of exciting adventures. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3035) ALL THAT HE WAS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Larry Johnson. Music by Cindy O'Connor. 7 m., 4 f. Bare stage. This winner of the National Playwright's Award and the ACTF Musical Theatre Award is a moving and surprisingly funny account of one man's struggle with AIDS. The deceased functions as host and narrator, invisible among the friends and family assembled to pay him final respects. Hoping for a day when the shattered pieces can come together, he leads them on a journey of shared reminiscences. "Arches from dysfunctionalism, jealousies and misunderstandings to unsteady truces and well-earned unities . . . . [It] carries on a bright, serious, witty and inclusive dialogue with anyone who may sit down in front of it."-L. A. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3583) ALLISON WONDERLAND. (All Groups.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by Thorn Racina. Var. characters. In this wild, multi-media show, Allison is a hip teen who falls into the TV set-and runs into the craziest group of characters imaginable. "Billed as a "mod, mad musical based on the original Lewis Carroll tale,' it's the theatrical surprise of the year! "-Chicago Sun-Times. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3045) THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DAN DAREDEVIL. (All Groups.) Musical melodrama. Book by Tim Kelly. Music by Arne Christiansen. Lyrics by Ole Kittleson. Flexible cast. Simple int. Here is a musical spoof of radio's Golden Age that's exciting, funny and easy to produce. Betty receives a strange letter from her weird Uncle Philo imploring her to help, so she contacts super hero Dan Daredevil. With Woof, the Wonder Dog, they travel to mysterious Nightmare Castle where there are thrills aplenty. When things get too frightening, there's a Crunchy Chews commercial or instructions on how to receive your personal invisibility ring and secret decoder. This goofy and engaging lampoon includes catchy tunes that are easy to sing and extremely clever. Suitable for all groups from schools to dinner theatres. "Hilarious." -Moorpark News-Mirror. "Rollicking good time ... the whole family will enjoy."-Simi Valley Enterprise. "A clever score with funny Iyrics."-San Fernando Weekender. $5.50. (Royalty, $75-$65.) Music available; write for information. (#3138) AMERICAN CANTATA. (All Groups.) Musical history. Elaine Kendall, Elaine Moe and Dennis Poore, adapted from John Sanford's Feed Their Hopes. Concert stage. 1 m., 29 f. (NYC production was played by 1 m., 5 f.) A celebration of the spirit and imagination of American women, as well as their triumphs and sufferings. The vignettes, half of which are in song, portray Sally Blauvelt, who bore children to Thomas Jefferson, Peggy Arnold, Molly Maguire, Mary Surrat (of the Lincoln conspiracy), Elizabeth Custer, Isadora Duncan, Bessie Smith, Golda Meir, Josephine Baker, Eleanor and Alice Roosevelt, Georgia O'Keefe and II other notable, quotable and quite remarkable women. Along the way we have portraits of the infamous Triangle Shirt-waist Fire, in which twelve dozen girls died, a "Dear John" letter, and numerous themes of feminist interest. "Rarely, if ever, do plays celebrate their subject matter as well. . . . American Cantata easily won my vote as the best celebration of American womanhood in recent reckoning."-East Villager. $7.00. (Royalty. $60-$40.) A PianoNocal Score is available upon receipt of a $50.00 refundable deposit, a music rental fee of $25.00 for the production, plus a $10.00 music royalty for each performance. (#3098) THE AMOROUS FLEA. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Jerry Devine. Music and Lyrics by Bruce Montgomery. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This tuneful Off-Broadway hit is based on Moliere's School for Wives. It revolves around the classic tale of the old goat who raises a young girl to be a perfect wife-for him. His plans are foiled on the

optional chorus. Unit set. Louis Prima and Keely Smith defined an era that is timeless in its appeal. The Wildest!!! captures the moment when they and other Las Vegas icons like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were international idols. It showcases nearly forty tunes, all performed with an on-stage live band, including "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Just a Gigololl Ain't Got Nobody," "That Old Black Magic," "Sing, Sing, Sing" and "I Wish You Love." This unique journey into the nightclubs of the late 50's and early 60's leads some to new discoveries and others to cherished memories. "Impressive high-octane musical. It smokes ... from the opening medley."-L.A. Times. "It'll leave you swingin' out of the theater!"-N.Y. Times. "A wonderful reminder of an amazing era.' '-Desert Sun. "A scintillating, exciting and energizing revue head and shoulders above the similar Smokey Joe's Cafe, Ain't Misbehavin' and Mamma Mia. The Wildest!!! is simply the greatest! "-ShowMag. Com. "A blockbuster!"-Keely Smith. "Outrageous. The audience went wild."-Santa Maria Times. "A knockout with the razzle dazzle factor."-Santa Barbara News Press. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#25271) available on rental. See p. 231.) A MY NAME IS ALICE. (Little Theatre.) Revue. 5 f. Bare stage w. set pieces. Conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. Originally produced by the Women's Project at the American Place Theatre in New York, Alice enjoyed a long run at the Village Gate Off Broadway. This slick and lively revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists and composers offers a marvelous kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the twenty numbers portray friends. rivals, sisters and even members of an all-women's basketball team. Winner of the Outer Critics' Circle Award: Best Musical. "Delightful. . . . The music and lyrics are so sophisticated that they can carry the weight of one-act plays."-N.Y. Times. "A boodle of laughs."-N.Y. Post. "Rates an A!."-N.Y. Daily News. "Slick as can be."-Village Voice. $7.00. CD: A . .. My Name Will Always Be Alice (selections from A ... My Name Is Alice and A .. . My Name Is Still Alice), $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#3647) A MY NAME IS STILL ALICE. (Little Theatre.) Revue. Conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. 5 f. Bare stage w. set pieces. The critically acclaimed sequel to the hit musical revue A . . . My Name Is Alice is similar in format. Written by a wide variety of writers, lyricists and composers, this lively entertainment continues to explore contemporary women-this time in the I 99Os. The music ranges from gospel to country western to rock to .some glorious pop ballads. "Forgos the meat cleaver for the ostrich plume and clearly would rather tickle a male chauvinist pig to death than hack him to pieces."-N.Y. Times. "Rretains the energy and desire to entertain that marked the first as a break through."-N.Y. Newsday. $7.00. CD: A ... My Name Will Always Be Alice (selections from A ... My Name Is Alice and A ... My Name Is Still Alice), $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3146) A .. MY NAME WILL ALWAYS BE ALICE. (Little Theatre.) Revue. Conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. 5 f. A . .. My Name Will Always Be Alice is a combination of thel984 award-winning Off-Broadway musical revue A ... My Name Is Alice and its 1992 sequel A . .. My Name Is Still Alice. The songs and sketches are among the most beloved from each revue and are designed to be performed on a bare stage with set pieces. In manuscript, $25.00. CD, $20.50. (#3572) (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE ACT. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by George Furth. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. 5 m., 2 f., plus m. & f. ensemble. One set. Liza Minelli took Broadway by storm in this "concept musical" about a Las Vegas nightclub performer named Michelle Craig, a has-been movie star now trying to make a comeback. All the terrific Kander and Ebb songs are sung by Michelle, making this an amazing tour d~ force for a performer. "A striking and intense show. . . . An ambitious and big time musical with terrific entertainment values and stage excitement."-N.Y. Post. "The Act is precisely what its name implies; it is an act, and a splendid one."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3913) AD HOCK. (Little Theatre.) Revue. Music by Ralph Affoumado. Lyrics by David Curtis and Alice Whitfield. 1 m., 2 f., plus I onstage pianist. This cabaret gem satirizes the wacky world of advertising, especially the Madison Avenue types who create deathless classics. There are hilarious songs and sketches like "Moscow Goes Madison Avenue" that offers an American-style radio spot on station WKGB"The station that listens to you!" There are wistful pieces too, such as "The Girl Who Sings the Jingles," about a commercial jingle-singer who once dreamt of something a little higher in her life. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3137) ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO. (All Groups.) Musical. Music by Clay Warnick & Mel Pahl. Lyrics by Edward Eager. Book by William Friedberg and Neil Simon. 7 m., 4 f. (extras). Singing Chorus. In manuscript.(Terms quoted on applica(#3021) tion, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) AFTER THE BALL. (Advanced Groups.) (Concert Musical.) By Noel Coward, based on Oscar Wilde'sLady Windermere's Fan. Edited from the original version and with additional material by Barry Day. 6 m., 6 f. (1 non-singing). Bare stage w. chairs. 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brink of marriage by a handsome young man, the son of an old fiend. A hilarious stream of devious servants, false names and falser friends, and mad-cap confusion culminate in the heroine discovering the plans of the conniving men in her life. "Fresh and highly entertaining."-N.Y. Newsday. "A fine concoction of clowning, cavorting and catchy tunes. It's nonsense in the classic vein, as stylish as all get-out, and as funny ... as a first-rate little musical should be."-Judith Crist. $7.00. (#3060) (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) AND ON THE SIXTH DAY . Musical drama. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 5 m., 5 f. (or more.) I set. This musicalization of the Bible from creation to the nativity is a reverent, a light-hearted romp. Satan employs increasingly ludicrous efforts to upset God's plan for mankind--only to find he's making people turn to God even more fervently. The verbal battles between God and Satan are theologically sound and hilarious. Here are Adam and Eve, Abraham, Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Noah and many more in an inspirational and entertaining show that is suitable for year-round productions and ideal at Christmas. Musical numbers include Satan"Urging the lions to devour Daniel and a quartet in barbershop harmony during Samson's shearing. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A piano/vocal score is available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a $15 rental fee per performance. Please advise us of number of performances and exact (#3648) dates. ANGEL. Musical. Based on the Ketti Frings play Look Homeward, Angel, derived from the Thomas Wolfe novel. Book by Ketti Frings and Peter Udell. Lyrics by Peter Udell. Music by Gary Geld. 10 m., 9 f. Unit set with cyclorama. It is early autumn of 1916 at the Gant boarding house and 17-year-old Eugene Gant is about to leave the home that has become a prison for his family. His father seeks sanctuary in drink and trying to carve the winged grace of an angel in stone, his mother devotes herself to the boarding house and its meager rewards, his tubercular brother is doomed, and his sister is a drudge. After a brief affair with a pretty boarder, Eugene rushes toward a brighter future. "A musical [for] the whole family."-N.Y. Daily News. "Pleasant old-fashioned all-American charm. . . . Endearing." -N. Y. Theatre Review. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#3070) available on rental. See p. 231.) ANGRY HOUSEWIVES. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by A.M. Collins. Music and Lyrics by Chad Henry. 4 m., 4 f. Var. sets. Bored with their everyday lives and kept in insignificance by their boyfriendslhusbands, these are four angry women. They try a number of outlets, but nothing suits until one of them strikes a chord on her guitar and suggests that they form a punk-rock group to enter the upcoming talent show at the neighborhood punk club? Their group "The Angry Housewives," enter and win. This genial satire of contemporary feminism ran for ages in Seattle and has had numerous successful productions across the country. "The show is insistently outrageous, frequently funny, occasionally witty and altogether irresistible."-Seattle Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#3931) available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters ANIMAL CRACKERS. Musical. Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Music and Lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. II m., 5 f., chorus and extras. This hallmark of Marx Brothers lunacy was recently revived on stage by Washington's Arena Stage. Audiences flocked as critics from coast to coast applauded the antics of Captain Spalding and company at Mrs. Rittenhouse's ritzy weekend gathering. "Delicious. . . . A nonstop riot-a profusion of puns, gags, and hysteria with only an occasional pause (or maybe, gasp) for breath."-The Washington Tribune. "The 1928 Marx Brothers' Broadway musical, lovingly reassembled by Arena Stage . . . is called Animal Crackers. But you might just as well call it bonkers!' .. Check your rationality at the door. Disorder is the order of the evening, and lowbrow humor is its high calling."-Washington Post. $7.00. Tape, $12.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#3646) ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Donald Harron, adapted from the novel by L. M. Montgomery. Music by Norman Campbell. 12 m., 17 f. The classic tale of an orphan girl who rises from destitution to happiness in the farm country entirely by virtue of her pluck and personality. Originating in Canada, the play left capacity audiences there to journey to London, where it opened to acclaim. "The book has been made into a neatly packaged family show, sentimental, tuneful and blending gentle bucolic humor with old-world pathos. . . . A pleasant atmosphere is created from the start; the songs are in neat harmony." -The Stage, London. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $32.00. CD, $35.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. Slightly Restricted. (#227) ANOTHER TORTOISE, ANOTHER HARE. A New Musical Fable. Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard Felnagle and John Mucci. See Index for description. (#3694) AVENUE X. (All Groups.) Musical. Concept, Book and Lyrics by John Jiler. Music and Lyrics by Ray Leslee. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This a cappella doo-wop musical takes place in Brooklyn in 1963. The Italian-Americans stay on one side of the street and the blacks on the other. Volatile issues and effectively nostalgic rock-and-roll history emerge when two youthful singers from different sides of the street put together an act for a talent show at the legendary Fox Theater. Twenty-four musical numbers affectionately recreate the genuine sounds of the era. "A sweet nostalgia trip . . . . The exuberant doo-wop vocalizing turns out to be . . . the brightest thing." -N. Y. Daily News. "Think of West Side Story to a doo-wop beat. . . . It is a real plea-

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BACK TO BACHARACH AND DAVID. The Songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Musical Revue. 1 m., 3 f. Conceived by Steve Gunderson and Kathy Najimy. Songs popular in the 1960s have new life in this glorious collection of thirty hits by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. At times sophisticated, at times brightly satiric, this tribute manages both to celebrate and look back with humor at some of the greatest pop songs ever written. Included are rarely heard gems and such unforgettable favorites as "Alfie," "Walk on By," "The Look of Love," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "Message to Michael" and "What the World Needs Now Is Love." "Brilliance and silliness."-N.Y. Times. "Jaunty, bombastic and teasingly lascivious, it never, ever lets up."-N.Y. Newsday. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#4314) BAD DAY AT BLACK FROG CREEK. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by John Gardiner and Fiz Coleman. Music by Andrew Parr. 6 m., 4 f., extras. Int. This wild West musical is fun for the whole family. The action takes place on Christmas eve in Diamond Tooth Lil's Saloon where all are busy with preparations for a Christmas party (could be changed easily to any holiday). Word comes that a badman and his gang are headed their way. It seems Diamond Tooth Lil helped the bad guy in a robbery years before-and he's coming for the diamond she has! This ingenious show may be produced straightforwardly, or you might want to include the audience by making your whole theatre into Diamond Lil's Saloon. $8.95 (includes music). (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4016) BALLROOM. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Jerome Kass. Music by Bill Goldenberg. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. 14 m., 17 f. plus ensemble. Ints.lexts. This delightful, warm and moving Broadway hit was developed by Tony Awardwinning director Michael Bennett of A Chorus Line fame. Based on the T.V. special "The Queen of the Stardust Ballroom," it concerns a widowed grandmother who decides to start living again by going to the Stardust Ballroom. There she meets a mailman and falls in love again. But: a complication-he's married. Naturally, this outrages one and all except the two lovers, who seem to have found life, and love, allover again. "It brings class to Broadway."-N.Y. Post. "Flows with grace and glows with affect." -Christian Science Monitor. "Ballroom is a major achievement in widening our understanding of the potential of musical theatre."-Women's Wear Daily. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#295) renta!' See p. 231.) BASHVILLE IN LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Adaptation and Lyrics by Charles Marowitz. Music by Michael Valenti. Based on The Admirable Bashville by George Bernard Shaw. 7 m., 2 f. Chosen as the best new musical of the year by the Dallas Morning News, this camp adaptation of Shaw's burlesque masterpiece employs the sprightly style of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. The antics of the agile butler to derail the romance between his aristocratic mistress and a prizefighter unfold with wit and verbal dexterity while rendering Shaw's blank verse in dashing prose that is more natural to modem audiences. "An amusing affair . . . [that] maintains the right comic attack for Bashville: stiff upper-lip and light on its feet." -Dallas Morning News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#4912) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Peter Del Valle and John Ahearn. Music by Michael Val~nti. Lyrics by Elsa Rae!. 4 m., 3 f. plus optional ensemble chorus. Simply suggested sets. This witty and sparkling version of the much-loved classic has been seen in Town Hall and many other New York City venues as well as in summer, college and community theatres in Canada and the United states. The score brings together the creative team who wrote Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. "A show intended for children and yet there is not one iota of condescension or compromise in it. Michael Valenti's music can best be described as romantic light opera. Elsa Rael's lyrics possess a delicate simplicity and never talk down to the audience. Hardly typical children's fare." -N. Y. Theatre Review. "Has a magic all its own."-Chicago Tribune. "A beauty of a production."-Chicago Sun-Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state authors when ordering. (#4194) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. REALLY. (All Groups.) Children's musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Abbot. 3 m., 4 f. Ext./int. Unexpected and hilarious twists make this version of the classic an entirely different romp for the whole family. The cast of seven play nine roles: Beauty, The Beast, Father, Mother, Stepsister, Boyfriend, a hound dog, a theatrical entrepreneur and a hopelessly inept tap dancer whose thankless job is to distract the audience during the scene alterations. There is only a single set that ingeniously converts from farm to castle and back again in a few seconds. Underlying the hilarity is a solid message about true beauty. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianoNocai Score is available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 each performance. (#4613) THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Musical. Adapted by David Turner from John Gay's play. New arrangements of traditional airs by Roy Darby. 20 m., 12 f. Simple sets. John Gay's famous "opera of the people" has been adapted for modem use. 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is not all peaches and cream. Life is not all a bowl of cherries. Win a little, lose a little. No pain, no gain. "The freshest, most lyrical and musically new cabaret revue I've seen-<>r heard." -San Francisco Examiner. "Glows with the warmth of innocence recollected and the acceptance of inner truth."-Progress. "A giant box of candy for those with a sweet tooth for musical theatre." -San Francisco/USA. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.)

escape and re-capture and his eventual pardon so a happy ending can be achieved. The settings are simple without complicated set changes. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#4064) BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Sidney Michaels Music by Mark Sandrich, Jr. 15 m., 4 f. Var. sets. A human portrait of Ben Franklin, beginning with his arrival in Paris to solicit help for the United States, and ending when he was presented to royal court as the ambassador of the new nation. "A very stylish musical. . . . A big fat hit." -N Y. Journal-American. In manuscript. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.)

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BLOOD BROTHERS. (Little Theatre.) Musical drama. Book, Music and Lyrics by Willy Russell. 5 m., 3 f., plus small chorus. Ints., exts. Blood Brothers, written by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, is ahauntying rags-to-riches tragedy of our times. A woman with numerous children to support surrenders one of her new-born twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm friends and falling in love with the same girl. One prospers while the other falls on hard times. A narrator warns that a price has to be paid for separating twins: the life of the blood brothers who die on the day they find out they are related. "The most exciting thing to have happened to the English musical theatre for years." -Punch. "A full-bodied musical, a wonderful melodrama that is also a thoroughly modem ballad opera."-Wall Street Journal. "There are so many good things to shout and sing about in this new musical."-Daily Mail. "Deeply moving."-l..ondon Broadcasting. "Totally beguiling."-City Limits. $8.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#4208) THE BODY BEAUTIFUL. (AU Groups.) Musical. Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman. Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. 20 m., 6 f., extras. Var. sets. A fight manager finds an Ivy League graduate who wants to be a fighter but he can't box. The manager and his lively secretary connive a fantastic winning streak that swells his head and threatens to break up his romance with the secretary. "Funny, swift-moving and tuneful."-NY. Journal-American. In manuscript (#4100) (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) BODYWORK. (Little Theatre). Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Large cast (doubling possible). Unit set. Originally written for Britain's National Youth Theatre by the lyricist of Starlight Express, Bodywork is a musical which takes place inside a human body. "A masterpiece."-Festival Times. For future (#4185) release. THE BUTLER DID IT, SINGING. Musical. Book by Tim Kelly. Music by Arne Christianson. Lyrics by Ole Kittleson. 5 m., 5 f.,optional chorus. 1 set. A delightful spoof based on the author's popular hit The Butler Did It. Miss Maple invites zany detective writers to an isolated house and forces them to impersonate their fictional sleuths. For entertainment, she arranges some classic touches-a hairy face at the window, an escaped lunatic, no communications with the outside world. She did not arrange is the body on the sitting room carpet! It's up to seedy Chandler Marlowe to solve the bizarre case and he makes a side-splitting mess of it! Everyone has a guilty secret to confess and the killer turns out to be the least suspected. The score is dotted with show-stopping songs. Simple to produce; the cast can be expanded. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Orchestration available on receipt of a $90 rental fee and a $50 refundable deposit. Choral package available on receipt of a $60 rental fee and a $35 refundable deposit. A perusal score is available on receipt of a $15 refundable deposit. (#4164) BY STROUSE. Musical revue. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Lee Adams, Martin Charnin, Fred Tobias, David Rogers and Charles Strouse. 1 m., 3 f., 1 pianist. Bare stage w. props. Charles Strouse, composer of smash Broadway hits, has created this musical revue. Using 46 numbers from a dozen shows, he's put together a fast, funny show without dialogue receiving unanimous rave notices everywhere it has played. "Masterful! A thoroughly entertaining musical revue!"-Variety. "So engaging the show should be a success anywhere."-A.P. "A tightly-organized, crisply paced production. . . with the songs in fresh contexts that give them a new dimension."-N.Y. Times. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music and librettos available on rental. See p. 231.) (#290) THE CASE OF THE DEAD FLAMINGO DANCER. (AU Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Dan Butler. Music by Donald Oliver. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. The summer of ' 42. A stormy night. In the drawing room, a corpse and six guests. Nick Lambent, the tap-dancing detective, arrives. Who dunnit? Nobody leaves the room until the case is cracked. Will Nick's incredible, crime-solving feet flush out the lies, leaky alibis and hidden identities or will our hero try to solve this one with his head like a regular flatfoot? Twists, turns, surprises, a little love and a lot of lunacy fill every scene. "The funniest of detective spoofs."-The Stage. "Outrageously funny . . . . The audience loved every foot-tapping minute."-Esher News and Mail. "Blithe entertainment."-Variety. "Melodious music and articulate lyrics . . . . It has 'hit' written allover it."-Southampton Press. "People who love dance, or old movies, or old musicals, or a good time won't want to miss it."-NY. Newsday. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#5877) CELEBRATION. A Simchas Torah Oratorio. Gary William Friedman. A very modem-sounding oratorio which was performed as part of the Simchas Torah service at Temple Israel, New York City. Friedman's composition, which was performed by a lO-piece orchestra and sung by the choirs of the congregation, is a blend of several musical styles sung in both English and Hebrew. It is a happy piece, combining elements of jazz, rock, classical, sacred and folk music, using Hebrew

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THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall. 6 m., 1 f., plus large ensemble. Var. sets. This hilarious sequel to that other whoreh6use musical is a clever skewering of sexual and political foibles. The I.R.S. has seized a Nevada brothel in lieu of millions in back taxes and brought in Miss Mona to recover that big chunk of money. The spirited songs are witty and delightful, and the book is loaded with laughs. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#246) available on rental. See p. 231.) THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall. 13 m., 14 f., extras. Unit set. This happy-go-lucky view of small-town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona's cozy bordello until that puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution. "Utterly charming, lively and genial."-NY. Daily News. "Humorous and good-natured."-NY. Post. "A font of fun and friendliness, engagingly rich in regional nostalgia and spiced with delicate bawdry. The country-and-western score is a delight."-Time. "Best Broadway musical of the season."-WABC-TV7. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $12.95. CD, 17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#44) THE BffiLE SALESMAN. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Jay Thompson 3 characters. Produced Off-Broadway, this is the story of a poor Black boy who has heard the call and seen the vision of the Lord at the foot of his bed. He's not sure what to do about it, but is easily enlisted as a Bible salesman by a pep talk from a manager. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#4640) Sey p. 231.) THE BIG BANG. (Little Theatre.) Comic revue. Music by Jed Feuer. Book and Lyrics by Boyd Graham. 2 m. plus on-stage keyboard player. Int. Performed by its wacky creators Off Broadway, this frenetic entertainment is long on shtick and historical hilarity. It is staged as a backers' audition for an 83.5-million-dollar twelve-hour stage history of the world from creation to the present. The opulent Park Avenue apartment "borrowed" for the occasion is trashed as the two snatch its furnishings to create makeshift costumes while singing and clowning their way through eighteen inventive recreations of the past, stopping occasionally for a little supplicating show biz patter. "Inspired nonsense."-NY. Daily News. "An inventively staged fiesta of eye-rolling idiocy."-Time Out. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. (#4268) Slightly Restricted. THE BIOGRAPH GIRL. Musical. Book by Warner Brown and David Heneker. Music by David Heneker. 4 m., 4 f. This British salute to Hollywood's glorious era of silent pictures is ideal for stock and community theatres. Characters include D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish. "This delightfully unassuming show contains the same naive charm as those early flicks . . . . [It's al minor miracle." -Daily Mail. "A joyous celebration." -International Herald Tribune. $8.95. PianoNocal Score. $25.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#4089) BIRDS OF PARADISE. (AU Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Winnie Holzman and David Evans. Music by David Evans. Lyrics by Winnie Holzman. 4 m., 4 f. 1 set. The members of an amateur theater group are joined briefly by a professional and this changes all of their lives. Lawrence Wood visits his hometown for the first time in years and winds up directing and starring in an original, zany musical by Homer, the youngest member of the group. As they work together, Wood changes Homer's script and his life. He also becomes involved with Julia, the spirited young woman Homer loves. As the amateurs approach opening night, their personal lives begin to mirror the plot twists of Homer's musical in increasingly comic ways. At dress rehearsal, just as Homer announces that he has rewritten the ending, Wood reveals that he's been offered a part on Broadway. He leaves, sending the group into turmoil until they discover Homer's new ending and how much they mean to each other. $7.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#4171) See p. 231.) Restricted NYC. BITTERSUITE: SONGS OF EXPERIENCE. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Music by Elliot Weiss. Lyrics by Michael Champagne. 2 m., 2 f. Bare stage. 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from parody (,The Twelve Steps of Christmas') to the traditional ('0 Holy Night') . . . . A light and lively way to take your mind off the holiday crush!" -AtEase CN1 Newspapers. $7.00. CD, $17.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music avail(#5855) able on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restlicted. CINDERELLA. Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Edna Kuder. Music and Lyrics by Peter Larson. 12 to 50 m & f. Unit set. The enchanting version of the classic story teaches children the joy of being on stage. It is perfect to be performed by, and for, elementary schools. The text is easy to learn and the songs by an awardwinning composer (whose songs have been recorded by Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick) are melodic, with a simple piano accompaniment. Running time is approximately thirty minutes. The music is published in the libretto. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) Please state musical version when ordering.

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CINDERELLA: THE TRUE STORY. Children's musical. (All Groups.) Book by Henry Fonte and Victoria Holloway. Music by Lee Ahlin . 6 m., 7 f., extras. Unit set. This delightful retelling of the classic story set in New Orleans during the Civil War had adults and children laughing at the American Stage Children's Theatre. Anne Marie Luise de Ville, helps win a battk for the Confederacy and then disappears. The governor announces a ball to celebrate the victory. The fairy godmother, a Jamaican woman, flies in and does a sprightly calypso number. "The best children's theatre can appeal as much to adults as to kids. That certainly is the case with Cinderella . . . . Just about everything is right with this production . . . . The music is some of [Lee Ahlin's] best work.--Weekly Planet Expression. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#5259) CINDERELLA MEETS THE WOLFMAN! (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Tim Kelly. Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkt~y. 9 m., 14 f. (doubling possible), optional chorus. Cinderella encounters a Prince who has inherited "The Charming Curse" and becomes a wolf every full moon. Igor, hired by King and Queen Charming to keep an eye on their son, a movie star who's come to attend the royal wedding (which will occur if Prince Charming can take a bride without devouring her), and a gypsy who can get a fortune for a genuine stuffed werewolf (she's got a silver bullet) add to the hilarity. This romp through sweet romance and bloodcurdling terror is fun for audiences of all ages. "The audience had a fabulous time."-Thousand Oaks News-Chronicle. "A delight."-The Moorpark News. "Filled with light-hearted songs and humor." -Press .. Courier. $7.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a Music Rental fee of $10 per performance. (#5914) CLASS MUSICAL! Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Abbot. 6 m., 7 f., optional chorus. From the author of Dracula: The Musical? When feminist Professor Muriel Wiggins connives with the senior girls to secretly rehearse a musical version of Little Women (with a 5-1 ratio of female-male roles) for graduation weekend at the Cransfield Conservatory for the Perfonning Arts, she is blissfully unaware that chauvinist Professor Horace Treacher is scheming with the boys to do a musical version of Helen of Troy (with a 10-1 ratio of male-female roles). The class beauty learns of the boys' project and blackmails her way into the "Helen" role. When Muriel and Horace discover there are two shows slated for the same time-slot, doom descends. The ultimate production, Little Women of Troy, provides a hilarious second act with topnotch tunes. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) A Piano/Conductor's Score is available upon receipt of a $50 refundable deposit. Write for particulars on orchestration. (#5191) CLOWN FACE. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. See Index for description. THE CLUB. (All Groups.) A musical diversion. Eve Merriam. With songs from the period of 1894-1905 arranged by Alexandra Ivanoff. 7 f. Runway stage. Members of a stuffy, all-male club, circa 1905, tap dance and sing fourteen songs of the era, all indicative of male smugness and superiority. During the finale, the audience discovers that the top hats, white ties and rails are actually being worn by women. "Extraordinary! High Caliber! Style and Verve!. .. A refrac1ing lens for the condescension and bigotry that pervade those good old songs, and by implication, our culture."-NY. Post. "Wickedly witty, delicious musical!"-Cue. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#127) CLUE: THE MUSICAL. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun-filled musical which brings the world's best-know suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. Only one hard-nosed female detective is qualified to unravel the merry mayhem. Comic antics, witty lyrics and a beguiling score carry the investigation from room to room. Even after the culprit confesses, a surprise twist delights the audience. This colorful crowd pleaser was devised by the authors of Murder at Rutherford House. "Superb! Terrific! Excellent! Fun!"-Heraid Gazette. "Has guts . . . along with its intrigue, 'colorful' suspects and deadly weapons."-Chicago Sun Times. "A show for the whole family!"-City Paper. "Effervescent fun. "-WBAL TV. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. Slightly Restricted. Posters (#5804)

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. (All Groups.) Musical play. Book by Christopher Bedloe. Adaptation and Lyrics by James Wood. Music by Malcolm Shapcott. From the novel by Charles Dickens. 39 characters and extras. (18 - 20 m. and f. with doubling). Pretty, singable music, witty lyrics and plenty of scope for dancing and colorful staging make this musical version of a well-loved story a real piece of Christmas cheer. Tremble with Scrooge at the sight of Marley's ghost and rejoice with him when he sees the errors of his ways, feel sorry for Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, and take comfort from the good spirits of Christmas who make everything right in the end. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $13.50. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) Please state Musical when ordering. (#5106) CHRISTMAS [S COMIN' UPTOWN. Musical. Music by Garry Sherman. Book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell. Lyrics by Peter Udell. Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 10 m., 10 f. plus extras, chorus, dancers. Ints.lexts. All those Dickensian characters dancing, jiving and swinging to a Harlem beat? Right on! Scrooge (Gregory Hines) is a Harlem slumlord about to foreclose an apartment house, a recreation center and a church when his late partner and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take him on their rounds. He comes upon his own grave after watching Tiny Tim's burial procession and he's reformed. Shedding his nightshirt, he orders Chinese food and Jewish deli (the only food available this Christmas mom) for the Cratchits. There's one addition to the classic tale-a rousing gospel number in a Baptist church. Otherwise the only difference is that Scrooge, Marley, the Cratchits and all are Black. "Eye-popping, ear-pleasing, exuberant entertainment." - WCBS- TV. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#5143) available on rental. See p. 231.) A CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE. (All Groups.) Revue. Conceived and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick. Musical arrangements by John Glaudin. 1m., 2 f. or 2 m., 3 f. Simple sets. This intimate revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. Armed with a copy of A Christmas Survival Guide and an optimistic attitude, the characters charge into an urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. In songs and vignettes, they learn to cope with the season in ways that are both hilarious and heartwarming. "Ho-Ho Hilarious! The funniest Christmas revue around!"-New York Press. "Audiences love it! We sold out."-Westchester Broadway Theatre. "Sold out for two years! Perfect for corporate and group outings."-Stepping Out Productions. "Knows when to put tongue firmly in cheek!. .. Songs, familiar and not-so-familiar . . . explore everything

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COLE. Musical. An Entertainment based on the words and music of Cole Porter. 5 m., 5 f. Devised by Benny Green and Alan Strachan. Here's a fresh musical about the King of Musicals, Cole Porter. Green and Strachan have cleverly put together most of Cole's hit tunes with a narration which tells the story of his life, from Yale to Paris to Manhattan to Broadway to Hollywood-and, ultimately, back once again to Broadway. Includes such Porter standards as "I Love Paris," "Take Me Back to Manhattan," "Love for Sale," "Night and Day," and "I Oet a Kick Out of You." A London success, this delightful new show may be done very simply on an almost bare stage with projections. $7.00. 14 slides designed for the original London production available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a rental fee of $50 first performance, $10 each additional performance. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#152) THE CONTRAST. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Royall Tyler. Adapted by Anthony Stimac. Music by Don Pippin. Lyrics by Steve Brown. 5 m., 4 f. In the first American comedy, written by Royall Tyler in 1787 and supposedly inspired by School for Scandal, the contrast is between Americans who decked themselves in powdered wigs and the more rough-and-ready countrymen-is America to cultivate its own customs and manners, or is it to follow the fashions of Europe? The play contrasts Sheridan's fops with robust and honest Americans, and includes the role of the servant Jonathan that was to define the American comic image on the stage for many years. "A thoroughly refreshing musical version of an American comedy." Brooks Atkinson. "Diverting. "-ABC-TV. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#5141) THE COOKIE LADY. Children's musical. Donald Oliver and Annette Harper. See Index for description. COPING. (Cabaret-Dinner Theatre.) Musical revue. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 1 m., 2 f. plus pianist. How do you cope with a nuclear power-plant in your neighborhood? With your daughter bringing home swains whose purple hair doesn't quite hide their earrings? With fickle lovers-your husband's Other Woman-sojourns in the hospital--early retirement-a fiance whose hobby is stealing cars-in fact, with just about any problem one has to face? This hilariously informative and Machiavellianly educational shows that absolutely nothing that occurs in life cannot be summarily and rather delightfully dealt with. Only three players, minimal props, and no set at all, and guaranteed to keep audiences howling with glee from opening curtain to riotous finale. $7.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Music available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. (#5213) COWARDY CUSTARD. Musical entertainment. Featuring the words and music of Noel Coward. Devised by Gerald Frow, Alan Strachan and Wendy Toye. 6 m., 6 f. Revue style setting. An immense success in London. An imaginative and innovative presentation of Noel Coward's words, music, sketches, which also shows us something of the man himself. Cowardy Custard contains not only those classic medleys and duets, but also previously unpublished material, snippets of plays and dialogues, material from his autobiographies as background and even a few of his little-known poems. The result is a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the Coward achievement. "More densely packed with entertainment than any that. has hit town for a long while."-Daily Mail, London. "A whole ravishing feast . . . never ceases to amaze."-Evening Standard, London. $7.00. PianoNocal Score, $25. (Terms quot(#321) ed on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE CURIOUS QUEST FOR THE SANDMAN'S SAND. (Children's Theatre.) Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Jenifer Toksvig. Music by David Perkins. 11 principals, chorus. Simple sets. Jesse, Meggie and Teddy embark on an eventful journey into the mysterious world of silver-tongued Harry, the Sandman, to retrieve the magical sand. Along the way they meet some extraordinary creatures (Snoodle Werps, the Trash Trump and Litter Bugs, to name a few) before their final showdown with Jewels, the Witch, and the awesome Gump Grump. This is a colorful, fun-packed adventure musical for a large cast of young people with a wonderful jazz and blues score. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. (#7144) CURLEY MCDIMPLE. (All Groups.) Mary Boylan and Robert Dahdah. 3 m., 4 f., 1 c. X-ray int., traveller. Back in the good-old-days, when Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne were reigning queens of the film world, one little curley-haired moppet stole the heart of America. She appeared with all the great stars, and with them sang and danced her way into the affections of everyone. Her name was Shirley Temple; and Curly McDimple is a fond recollection of that long-ago, told in contemporary musical terms. "An amiable spoof ofthe song-and-dance films of the 1930's. You'll have fun in never-never land where love and tap-dancing conquer all. "-Cue. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. PianoNocal Score available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape avaialble on request. (#5200) CURSE YOU, JACK DALTON! (All Groups.) One-act musical version. Book by Wilbur Braun. Music by Gerald V. Castle. Lyrics by Michael C. Vigilant. See Index under Foiled Again! CUT THE RIBBONS: A MOTHERIDAUGHTER MUSICAL. (Little Theatre.) Revue. Lyrics by Mae Richard. Music by Cheryl Hardwick, Mildred Kayden and Nancy Ford. 3 f. Trellis w. flowers. This witty musical revue with moving comments about mother-daughter relationships received rave reviews and standing ovations Off-Broadway. 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Twenty-four songs scored for synthesizer and percussion are included (can be shortened). Costume requirements are minimal. "Nimble songs."-N.Y. Times. "Songs have originality and wit."-N.Y. Post. "Clever numbers."-N.Y. Daily News. "You're going to love it."-Sally Jessy Raphael. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#5907) DAMES AT SEA. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. George Haimsohn and Robin Miller. Music by Jim Wise. 4 m., 3 f., 2 extras, flexible chorus.This long-running Off Broadway hit is based on the campy Hollywood musicals of the 30's. A sweet girl arrives in New York to make it on Broadway. Who should she chance to meet but a hometown boy, now a sailor, who has ambitions as a songwriter. She begins in the chorus, of course, while the show's star makes goo-goo eyes at the sailor and rocks the boat of true love. But in Hollywood fashion, the songwriter sailor saves the show with a smash tune and the hometown girl achieves stardom by singing it on the deck of the battleship. "An instant hit. "-UP. "A gem of a musical!"-N.Y. Times. Outer Circle Critics Award as best musical of the year. Chosen best musical of the year by Time, Look, Newsweek, and N.Y. Post. $7.00. CD, $20.50.(Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#49) THE DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD. (All Groups.) Christmas musical. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merrill. Book by Robert Emmett. 7 m., 3 f. Unit set. It is Christmas eve and the animals in the zoo are having a party. Lone T. Wolf hasn't been invited. He blames his social problems on Red Riding Hood and proceeds to tell his side of the story. Actually, she was on her way to Grandmother's to deliver a Christmas present and the wolf is not a bad dude. The score bubbles with cheerful holiday songs, catchy ballads that are well-suited to children's voices, and a slinky tango called "Granny's Song." $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#6180) DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE. (Elementary and Junior High Schools.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Julie Mandel. Based on the book by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. 6 m., 3 f., extras. Int. The adventures of young Danny Dunn. He and his friends use a computer to figure out tough assignments and book reports. But along comes Eddie, the snitcher, and the fur begins to fly. Danny and his friends discover what computers can and cannot do-and what man can do. Children are wild about this musical. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#6016) DAS BARBECU. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Jim Luigs. Music by Scott Warrender. 2 m., 3 f. Var. sets. Wagner's Ring Cycle is spun as a witty Texas fable with five actors playing more than 30 outrageous characters at breakneck speed. Songs run the gamut from Broadway to Texas swing, from jazz to twangy country-and-western. Mismatched lovers who meet on the day of their shotgun double-wedding. three generations of feuding families, a magic ring of power, wild-west lariat tricks, a synchronized swimming revue, a song and dance tribute to the joys of guacamole, and the sweetest two-step ever to slide across a stage add up to wild comedy. "Your sides will ache by the end of the fast-paced country-western musical comedy. "-Variety. "Conjure up your basic Texas hootenanny, complete with lassos, long-neck beers, fringed leather and steel guitars. Now, if you can, marry that image with Wagner's Ring Cycle, in all its operatic, melodramatic intensity. These improbable, no impossible, bedfellows come deliriously together in [this] a splendidly giddy musical."-Hollywood Reporter. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#6193) A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh. Music by Frank Lazarus. Additional Music and Lyrics by various composers. 4 m., 4 f., 3 pianists (one on stage). 2 sets. This is a musical double feature. Hollywood is a marvelous nostalgic spoof of the movies of the 1930s. Ukraine is the comedy the Marx Brothers didn't make, but could have. "The puns have wings . . . . You leave the theatre with the dizzy feeling of having witnessed a super . . . show."-N.Y. Daily News. "It is crazy, zany magic . . . . A smashing show, classy, sassy nostalgia."-N.Y. Post. "A splendidly funny and remarkably clever entertainment [that] has inspired lunacy, impeccable foolishness and perfectly hilarious nonsense." - WCBS- TV2. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $9.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) NOTE: A Night in the Ukraine may be produced by itself with a special score that includes additional music to expand it into a full evening's entertainment. Cassette tape available for Ukraine, $19.50. A Day in Hollywood may not be produced by itself. Vocal Selections, $8.95. A Day in HollywoodiA Night in the Ukraine (#6658) A Night in the Ukraine (#16057) DAZZLE. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by John Gardiner. Music by Andrew Parr. 5 m., 4 f., plus ensemble to play various roles. Var. sets or unit set. Dazzle, a parody of Star Trek, charts the first voyage of the Star Ship Sunburster One under the control of dashingly handsome (and doesn't he know it) Captain Sam Galatic. The mission is to transport Home World President Sekurikor's beautiful daughter Dazzle Star to finishing school. Captain Sam, First Officer Speck and an incompetent crew successfully defy Big Olga and her Bolshies on their Red Star satellite when Dazzle Star is kidnapped by an Irish astral pirate. Zany space-sirens rock'n'rotate you through a time-warp to the sixties and come face to pimple with Sue Zuki and the Greasers. The cosmic score sizzles and the book is packed with lunar-tic lyrics and stellar one-liners! $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#6580) available on rental. See p. 231.)

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DEAR MISS PHOEBE. Musical play. Based on Quality Street by James Barrie. Music by Harry Parr Davies. Book adapted and Lyrics by Christopher Hassall. 5 m., 7 f., children, extras. This enjoyable musical takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p.231.) (#6043) DIAMOND STUDS. The Life of Jesse James. (All Groups.) Saloon Musical. Music and lyrics by Bland Simpson and Jim Wann. Book by Jim Wann. 13 interchangeable dramatic, musical and vocal roles. A rip-roaring country and western rendition of the Jesse James saga that even had New York critics stomping their feet to the music. Jesse James is seen as a frustrated Southerner at the end of the Civil War, hamstrung by Northern limits imposed on the losers' personal freedom. He turns to bank and train robbery, ultimately to be done in by his pal, Bob Ford, for the sake of reward and publicity. "Unadulterated fun . . . . The whole evening is a gas."-N.Y. Times. "There isn't a flat moment. ... A fresh and funny fusillade of tomfoolery."-Newsweek. "It's a barrel of fun, with good music to match."-NBC. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#361) DIAMONDS. (All Groups.) Musical revue. 7 m., 3 f Unit set. Broadway director Hal Prince ventured Off Broadway with this engaging show about the national pastime. The All Star lineup of composers and lyricists includes Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Howard Ashman, Craig Carnelia, Alan Menken, Jim Wann and many others. Comic songs and ballads are interspersed with fast-paced sketches to create a montage of all that is baseball. "Holy cow! A baseball show that scores!"-N.Y. Daily News. "You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy Diamonds. The good-natured celebration of the American national pastime aims to please all comers and scores handily in the process." -Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#6135) See p. 231.) DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REALLY REFLECT UP? (Little Theatre.) Book by John R. Powers. Music and Lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric Jans. 6 m., 8 f. Simple unit set. Gleeful audiences flocked to see this show in Chicago (where it became that city's longest running show), in Philadelphia (where it broke attendance records during its two runs) and in cities across the country. Focusing on eight children during their Catholic elementary and high school education in the I 950s, it captures the funniest aspects of youthful growing pains and the trying moments of adolescence. Every number tickles the funny bone of anyone who ever went to school, public or private. It is a delightful musical for schools. "Very funny."-Philadelphia Inquirer. "The audience . . . was beside itself with glee. "-Philadelphia Daily News. "A divine comedy. "-Main Line Times. "Crisp and snappy."-Catholic Standard and Times. "You don't have to be Catholic to enjoy it."-lewish Times. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms Quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#6156) DOCTOR! DOCTOR! (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Music and Lyrics by Peter Ekstrom. Additional Lyrics and Material by David DeBoy. 2 m., 2 f., pianist. I set. Doctors and patients get a dose of rib-tickling comic medicine in sketches and songs about all things medical. Characters include the hillbilly organ donor who happened to hiccup and totaled his pick-up, a hacking smoker who loves his cigarettes, and a couple who live in an iron lung and every night go "bing, bang, boom!" There is even a "Hymn to the H.M.O." A number about the pain of death ("I Loved My Father More Than I Knew") and the joy of new life ("Nine Long Months Ago") make this a revue that touches the heart as well as the funny bone. "Jolly and jocular."-N.Y. Post. "Someone could die laughing."-N.Y. Newsday. "Clever ... [with] sharp and witty use of a broad range of musical styles, from baroque opera to the blues. "-Variety. "Broke all box office records . . . . Fun and sassy, Barter's audience will forever remember this show." Richard Rose, Barter Theatre Artistic Director. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. Posters (#6596) A DOLL'S LIFE. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. 1995 Revised Version. Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Music by Larry Grossman. Var. sets. 7 m., 6 f Revived by The York Theatre Company to acclaim, this reworking of the original Broadway script and score puts this hauntingly beautiful show within the reach of smaller producing groups. Thirteen actors double in several roles and two pianos create the sights and sounds of 19th-century Norway as Nora, Ibsen's heroine from A Doll's House, tries to make her way in a male-dominated society after she slams the door on her former life. "Changes payoff handsomely. . . . Grossman's sophisticated score has grown with age."-N.Y. Newsday. "We can now appreciate the beauties in the score and in the sharp, sometimes uncharacteristically hard-edged Iyrics."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#6662) DONNYBROOK! (AU Groups.) Musical comedy. Music and Lyrics by Johnny Burke. Book by Robert E. McEnroe, based on The Quiet Man by Maurice Walsh. 9 m.,5 f. principals. An American prize-fighter returns to Ireland to settle down after his last fight-in which his opponent died. With the help of the local matchmaker he woos and wins a comely Irish lass, but antagonizes her brother, who has no respect for a man who won't fight back when he's hit. He denies his sister her dowry. This doesn't bother the boxer, but it does the bride. Needless to say, all ends well. "Musical with a punch."-N.Y. Journal-American. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#6092)

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T COPE. (Black Groups.) Musical. Micki Grant. 6 m., 6 f., 4 musicians. Simple staging. A dynamic mixture of rock, calypso and ballad music. More of a revue than a show with a plot, it utilizes a dozen singer-dancers through twenty numbers. It is a forthright Black show: militant, yet gentle, set to vibrant song and dance. "Zesty and fun. . . lively score and lyrics. . . . Deserves a wide audience."-N.Y. Times. "The kind of show at which you want to blow kisses."-Sunday Times. "Sends you home wanting to snap your fingers and click your heels." -N. Y. Daily News. "Magical combination of passion and humor ... perfect."-New Yorker. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $9.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#366) DOONESBURY. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Garry Trudeau. Music by Elizabeth Swados. 7 m., 2 f Various Ints. and Exts. Zonker, Michael Doonesbury, J.J., Boopsie, B.D. and Joanie-they are all present and happily accounted for in this delightful show based on Mr. Trudeau's famous comic strip. While they try to make it through commencement, the Walden crowd must fend off Zonker's uncle Duke, who wants to bulldoze their off-campus house and replace it with condos. "The qualities that have made Garry Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury" a national treasure are all present."-N.Y. Times. "A larkish lampoon of an entertainment, sometimes sweet and often very funny. The score ranges from rock and calypso to tender ballad and boogie-woogie-a lively assortment of solos, duets and ensembles." -Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#6107) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE DRACULA SPECTACULA. Musical. Book and Lyrics by John Gardiner. Music by Andrew Parr. 24 m. and f, extras. Ints.lexts. In this bubbling modern extravaganza for the young, the immaculate Miss Nadia Naive and her three pupils are swung into riotous Transylvanian happenings with the irrepressible Count and his gruesome acolytes. On the side of right are noble Nick Necrophilic, Father 0' Stake, the cuddly Hansel and Gretel and the Fuddled Friends; can they prevail over the forces of darkness-when these include the creme de la horrible creme such as the Countess Wraith, Genghis the groveling minion, the Zombies, the Fanged Brides and the dynamic sanguineous gentleman the Price of Vampires himself? Plenty of good parts, a sizzling score and a fresh hilarious script. Libretto, $8.95. Vocal Score, $15.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) (#6675) DRACULA: THE MUSICAL? (All Groups.) Musical Farce. Rick Abbot. 4 m., 4 f At its New York City premiere, patrons stood in line in a blizzard for tickets. At its Australian premiere, every seat for every performance was sold, and one critic noted, "the performance was one of the most enjoyable I've seen ... My only other experience of the Dracula play . . . was the one that Sir Robert Helpmann directed. . . I can honestly say I enjoyed this one much more. It exhibited a superb sense of humor." Melodic, rollicking and hilarious, the show is also an economist's dream: one set, startling-but-simple special effects, and piano-only accompaniment. This delightful spoof of the classic horror tale is an unparalleled romp from start to finish. The author here unveils his merits as a superbly adept composer to the joy of performers and audiences worldwide. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) Note: A large-cast version of this show with full chorus in addition to the principals, plus four additional musical numbers and one additional sub-set (a crypt). Music available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit (large-cast version, $35) plus a music rental fee of $25 (both versions). Please specify when ordering whether you want the eight-char(#6112) acter version or the large-cast version. DRA T! THE CAT! Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Ira Levin. Music by Milton Schafer. 9 m., 6 f (principals). The scene is fin de siecle New York. There's a cat burglar who's none other than the beautiful daughter of the richest man in town. When old Bulldog Purefoy, our sleuth, dies, the Keystone Kops turn to his goodhearted and dumb son. In he stumbles, only to fall in love with the Lady Burglar. So he tries to reform her-and she tries to kill him. But do goodness and love triumph? Why, heavens yes! In manuscript. Vocal Selections, $6.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#6117) DREAMS FROM A SUMMER HOUSE. Alan Ayckbourn. Music by John Pattison. See Index for description. DREAMS OF ANNE FRANK. A Play for Young People by Bernard Kops. Music by David Burman. See Index for description. EATING RAOUL. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Paul Bartel, adapted from his screenplay. Lyrics by Boyd Graham. Music by Jed Feuer. 5 m., 4 f. (to play var. roles). Var. sets. The cult film classic has new life as a zany musical. The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdos to their apartment to kill and rob them? Soon, they are a financial success, but disposing of the bodies is a problem. Enter their devious apartment super, Raoul, with a proposition: he will take care of the corpses for a cut (when he's not performing at a tacky nightclub). The partnership runs amok and Mary ultimalely bops Raoul with her deadly frying pan. Now the Blands have the money they need and they celebrate with a gourmet meal-guess who's the main course? "Original, fast-paced and consistently funny . . . . It may prove th(~ season's most delectable treat."-Houston Chronicle. "The most entertaining musical about sex and cannibalism around."-Back Stage West. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#6970) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) EL GRANDE DE COCA-COLA. (All Groups.) Musical. Written by the Cast. Musical Arrangements by Alan Shearman and John Neville-Andrews. 3 m., 2 f A

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tale of Marvin who leaves his wife and young son to live with another man. His exwife marries his psychiatrist, and Marvin ends up alone. Two years later, Marvin is reunited with his lover on the eve of his son's bar mitzvah, just as AIDS is beginning its insidious spread. "Exhilarating and heartbreaking. . . . Falsettoland gains exponentially in power by being seen only 15 minutes, instead of 9 years, after the first installment."-N.Y. Times. "A masterly feat of comic storytelling and ... visionary musical theater."-Variety. "What a treasure this is: brave and hilarious, charming, disarming, loaded with honest sentiment and cynicism." -N.Y. Newsday. $7.00. Vocal Selections: $26.95. CD (2 disks), $35.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#8165) FANNY, THE FRIVOLOUS FLAPPER. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, Lyrics and Music by Charles George. 4 m., 6 f. plus a mixed chorus. Int. When a fashionable gown shop proprietor gets mixed up with jewel thieves and the head model is a lady detective, there is lots of roaring twenties fun. Detective "Biff' Bang even has to dress as a model in the fashion show to get the incriminating evidence. Short skirts and cloche hats are worn with hilarious effect and the Charleston and other steps are danced with glee and abandon. If you are looking for a genuine novelty, this is it. Complete libretto with detailed stage directions and a full piano score with lyrics, $7.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#434) THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD OPERA TIC SOCIETY'S PRODUCTION OF THE MIKADO. David McGillivary and Walter Zerlin Jnr. Based on The Mikado or The Town of Titipu by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Music arranged by Sue Van Colle. The ladies outdo even themselves in this hilarious staging of the classic operetta. $8.95. (Terms (#7975) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) FASHION. (All Groups). Musical comedy. Based on the 1845 drama by Anna Cora Mowatt. Adapted by Anthony Stimac. Music by Don Pippin. Lyrics by Steve Brown. 1 m., 9 f. Int. The ladies of the Long Island Masque and Wig Society, dedicated to early American drama, hit upon the inspired notion of doing Mowatt's Fashion. They will play male as well as female roles, of course. The result is a play with songs in which the director is the only male performer, a phony French count who almost wins the daughter of social-climbing Mrs. Tiffany. He is foiled in the nick of time. Other complications and misunderstandings abound. "The show won me over." -N. Y. Post. "A score that is as catchy and bright as any in the Gershwinto-Jerry Herman vernacular."-Women's Wear Daily. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state musical version when ordering. (#8017) FESTIVAL. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Stephen Downs and Randall Martin. Music by Stephen Downs. Additional book and special material by Bruce Vilanch. Acting version edited and prepared by Wayne Bryan. Based on the medieval French chantefable Aucassin et Nicolette. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. This delightful and easy-to-produce musical is the story of lovers who have a devil of a time getting together. "Bright, amusing and enchanting."-N.Y. Daily News. "A thoroughly charming and totally refreshing musical.... Magnificent, melodic score."-Hollywood Reporter. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#8610) A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE. (All groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Erik Haagensen. Music by Richard Isen. Adapted from the novel by Peter S. Beagle. 3 m., 2 f. (or 2 m., 2 f.) plus 1 raven (m. or f.). Ext. This charming love story is about two lost souls buried in a cemetery who fall in love, an eccentric old man who can see and converse with the inhabitants of the graves and a delightful Jewish widow who often visits her buried husband. A crisis arises that will separate the young couple. The young man has been deemed a suicide and must be removed from consecrated ground. Only the old man can help them. A Fine and Private Place premiered to sellout crowds at the Goodspeed Opera House. It is a happy, whimsical, sentimental, up-beat show which will delight audiences of all ages. $7.00. CD, $17.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#8154) THE FIREMAN'S FLAME. (All Groups.) Musical melodrama. Music by Richard Lewine. Lyrics by Ted Fetter. Book by John Van Antwerp. 10 m., 6 f., choruses. Simple Ints.lExts. in the old style. Produced with great success by John and Jerrold Krimsky. A gusty valentine, in the melodramatic tradition, about the life of the red hot hose boys in the days of the volunteer firemen. It is a heartening story of the triumph of the pure-hearted fire-laddie over the vile machinations of a snobbish rival, a highly perfumed lady, and a Wall Street crook. Through a succession of riotous scenes the villain pursues the maiden, is foiled, and the villainess pursues the hero, and is also foiled. A great success in New York for nearly a year. $7.00. Vocal Score, $8.00. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#8032) THE FIRST. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Joel Siegel with Martin Chamin. Music by Bob Brush. Lyrics by Martin Chamin. 48 m., 12 f. (or 20 m., 5 f.), plus 1 offstage voice. Var. sets. The First is the story of Jackie Robinson, the first Black to play major league basebalL It is also the story of Branch Rickey, the team owner who had the fortitude to defy racist tradition and hire Robinson. "A stirring piece of Americana."-WCBS-TV. "A rousing, true-to-life tale . . . . A story of the triumph of sport over bigotry, and the human spirit at its most noble."-Gannett Newspapers. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#8622)

simple show that is a laughable-a-minute and ridiculously wonderful! The action takes place in a terrible part of Trujillo, in a nightclub, which isn't too far from terrible itself. A local impresario, Senor Don Pepe Hernandez, has announced in the local newspapers that he is going to bring international cabaret to Trujillo. Eventually he succeeds, and we see the cabaret within the cabaret as it unfolds. A company known as the 'Low Moan Spectacular' causes all the laughs, as conjuring tricks don't work, people trip up, a blind American folk singer falls off the stage, chorus girls collide, etc. "Deliriously funny ... refreshingly lunatic ... high-spirited fun in the supreme American tradition that extends from burlesque to Charlie Chaplin, Ernie Kovacs, and Second City."-Women's Wear Daily. "A gaudily glistening jewel, insanely original"-Newsweek. $7.00. Sound effects tape available on receipt of a $39.00 refundable deposit. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#395) rental. See p. 231.) ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE. (Little Theatre.) Concert. William Finn. 3 m., 2 f., I pianist. Bare stage. Performed at Lincoln Center with a star-studded cast, this intimate and moving remembrance of departed friends is by the Tony award-winning composer of Falsettos and A New Brain. It pays tribute to a disparate group that includes impresario Joe Papp, actors Peggy Hewitt and Jack Eric Williams, a teacher, the Korean family who ran a deli frequented by Finn, relatives in New Jersey, friends, long-lost pets, and, in a moving sequence, Finn's mother. A three-song conclusion offers a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each number captures poignant, often funny glimpses of life and death that sparkle with the narrative sophistication always apparent in Finn's work. This musical evening is easy to produce, requiring only five good vocalists and a piano. "Resonates long after the final note."-N.Y. Times. "[Finn's] heart is as generous as his brain is playful."-Newsday. "Breathtaking in the depth and breadth of its commentary on the rewards and woes of being part of a family, of a group of friends and of a society in good times and bad. . . . The show offers infinite joy."-theatremania.com. "Very special ... moving, emotional and profound. 'Infinite Joy" is a bona fide masterpiece . . . with a soaring melody and powerfully simple Iyrics."-Show Business Weekly. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#7097) ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Janet Hood. 20-25 m., 11-16 f. (doubling or expanding possible.) Unit set. A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score, this piece is designed to include the community in a theatrical response to the AIDS crisis. It is often performed as a benefit for fund-raising and consciousness raising. "Dramatic." -Spectator. "Immensely powerful. . . . The songs are uniformly good; the final song is sensational." -Financial Times. "Bursts with humor, rage and hope." -Backstage. "Generates a feeling of love, humanity and common cause that sends you out glowing."-Glasgow Herald. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#7096) available on rental. See p. 231.) EVELYN AND THE POLKA KING. (Little Theatre.) MuSical. Play by John Olive. Music by Carl Finch and Bob Lucas:Lyrics by Bob Lucas. 1 m., 2 f. (to play various roles), plus an on-stage polka band. Unit set. Here is the world's first polka musical. Evelyn, an intense 18-year-old from Texas, has just discovered that dethroned polka king Hank Czerniak is her father. They unite Hank's legendary band and hit the road looking for Evelyn's mother. Part detective story and part caper comedy, this is a father-daughter love story and an exuberant celebration of polka passion. Originally commissioned by the Mad River Theatre Works in Ohio, it has had successful runs from coast to coast. "Wonderfully warm and loony." -Milwaukee Journal. "A comedy with lilt and tang [and] . . . cheerful charm."-Variety. "The winding road . . . is spiced and interlaced with lively music." -Chicago Tribune. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application; music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#7122) EVERYONE IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING. (All Groups.) Children's musical. Script and lyrics by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. Music by Victoria Bond. 5 to 20 m. & f. Simple set. There was a boy whose mother said he was good for nothing. In this universal story of a child trying to make his way in a difficult world, the boy meets a magical cat who tells him that everyone is good for something. As they journey along, the boy discovers his self-worth by rescuing the inhabitants of a sinister island from the evil power that holds them in thrall. The musical makes its point with humor, wit, and a touch of the marvelous. Each song is written in the style of a different American composer (Joplin, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Sondheim). The play lends itself to multi-ethnic casting. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#7125) F ALSETTOLAND. (Little Theatre.) Musical. William Finn and James Lapine. Music and Lyrics by William Finn. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. A continuation of the saga of Marvin from March of the Falsettos and In Trousers, this off-Broadway hit finds that archetypal contemporary gay man facing the specter of AIDS. "An achingly articulate musical."-N.Y. Times. "A burst of genius."-Time. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $19.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Also see Falsettos. (#8160) FALSETTOS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by William Finn. Book by William Finn and James Lapine. A seamless pairing of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, acclaimed off-Broadway musicals written nearly a decade apart, Falsettos won 1992 Tony Awards for best book and musical score. It is the jaunty

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Abe Burrows' adaptation from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Helen Jerome's play. Music and Lyrics by Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxto and George Weiss. 14 m., 12 f. 7 sets. Mrs. Bennett faces the problem of marrying her five daughters to men of social status and wealth. Not that the Bennetts are impoverished. The principal romance is that of Darcy, the social snob, and Elizabeth, who teaches him better manners. He considers her a giddy middle-class bore, while she refuses to cater to his conceit. Her method intrigues him, and gradually he succumbs to her charms. The other romances are doing well too despite Mrs. Bennett's audacious ruses and schemes. The scenes include glorious balls and colorful garden parties, where many extras may be used. "A stunning success. . perfect for college theatres and even advanced high school drama and music groups."-Iowa State University. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#8039) FIRST TIME. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Book by Kirk Foster and John Gardiner. Music by Kirk Foster and Paul Sabey. 9 m., 9 f. plus various other characters. Open stage, no scenery. This original and enjoyable show is best described as a musical revue which takes a light-hearted look at the first time experience and feelings all of us have or will come up against. Each song and sketch is associated with the word "first" in one way or another-First Child, First Job, First Glance, First Family Christmas, First Bite(!). The show can be presented simply but effectively on an open stage, and the large number of characters provides the opportunity for a mixed cast to playa variety of interesting parts, with doubling. A great success in England. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $16.50. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#8137) FLIBBERTY AND THE PENGUIN. Musical for children. David Wood. See Index for description. FLORA, THE RED MENACE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by David Thompson, based on the novel Love Is Just Around the Corner by Lester Atwell, originally adapted by George Abbott. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. 5 m., 4 f., to playa variety of roles. Various settings (may be simply suggested.) The first Broadway collaboration of Kander and Ebb, who went on to write such hits as Chicago, Cabaret, Woman of the Year and Zorba, this is the vehicle that made 19 year-old Liza Minelli a star. It was resurrected recently in New York by the Vineyard Theatre with anew, updated book that presents a romance of charming simplicity set amidst the American communist agitation of the 1930's."Highly entertaining."-N.Y. Newsday. "Flora has been reclaimed from the dust heap of forgotten musicals and is now viable for performance by any number of theatres."-Drama-Logue. $7.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#8139) FOILED AGAIN! (All Groups.) Two Musical Melodramas. Books by Wilbur Braun. Lyrics by Michael C. Vigilant. Music by Gerald V. Castle. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Heroes, villains, derring-do and music abound in this suite of two delightful new musical versions of our most popular one-act melodramas: Curse You, Jack Dalton! and He Ain't Done Right by Nell. Libretto with chorus part, $7.00. PianoN ocal Sore available on receipt of a $50.00 refundable deposit and a $25.00 music rental fee per production. (Royalty, $60-$40 when performed in tandem under the title Foiled Again! or $35-$25 each play when performed separately.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. (#8125) FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDEIWHEN THE RAINBOW 18 ENUF. Play with music. Ntozake Shange. See Index for description. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! A Broadway-style revue. Book and Lyrics by Helen Kromer. Music by Frederick Silver. 5 m., 5 f. (or less). Songs, sketches and connecting material which communicate the meaning of the Gospel in most contemporary terms. "Hilarious and hard-hitting by turns, saucy and sobering"--.the revue addresses itself to "Little Man" who is "having his fling at playing the role of the Almighty King." Man's idolatrous condition is then satirically explored through production numbers. First presented in Ann Arbor, Michigan and earned a standing ovation. It was subsequently produced in New York City and has been recorded and televised. Reviewed in the Christian Century, it has been acclaimed by both the clergy and laity. Book with study guide, $5.25. Music Score, $15.00. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#8065) FRANK MERRIWELL. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Music and Lyrics by Skip Redwine and Larry Frank. Book by Skip Redwine, Larry Frank and Heywood Gould. 8 m., 6 f. Here are the adventures of an America fictional hero who is good, clean, trustworthy, reverent, and has the strength ~f ten. Frank has come to Fardale to star in the backfield and on the mound. It is the time of the Spanish-American war and there is a sinister Spaniard lurking around in search of secret weapons. "A good show [that] . . . spins a tale of love, honor, and cliff-hanging adventures." -Village Voice. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#8073) THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER SHOW. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by John Crocker and Tim Hampton. Music by Ken Bolam. Lyrics by Les Scott. 11 m., 2 f.,extras. Simple ints'!exts. This inventive and exuberant musical brings the Frankenstein story up-to-date-into the computer age, in fact,. When Frank Enstein arrives at Enstein Hall from the USA, he continues the experiments of his deceased greatgreat uncle. Frank's expertise in computer robotics and the timely arrival of two

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rather suspicious undertakers, soon have remote-controlled monsters rolling off the production line. Demand soon outstrips supply, and it is then that Frank's scheme takes an even more sinister turn as he sets up "The Dungeon of Death" to obtain "voluntary" corpses. His plans are foiled by Dr Ruby Watson and John B. Good, the family solicitor, with a little help from Sherlock Holmes, Junior. Unfortunately, this involves most of the cast, goodies as well as badies, being killed off, but with the help of Frank's machine, all are reanimated in time for a rousing final chorus of Humanoid Boogie. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $15.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#8930) FURTHER MO'. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Conceived by Vernel Bagneris. 2 m., 3 f. Comb. int. This delightful sequel to the irrepressible One Mo' Time takes us back to the show's seedy stomping grounds, the stage and dressing room of the Lyric Theatre in New Orleans. It offers a second helping of vintage blues, jazz and popular tunes of the same era. Tension is introduced when the white nightclub owner confides to the performers that the club is not profitable and is to be burned to the ground after tonight's show for the insurance. The performers are afraid to remove their personal belongs for fear they will be accused of thievery-and, where will they be able to perform next? Not Mobile, Alabama, they hope! "Rollicking. . . . The music sails."-N.Y. Times. "Gives you more for your theatre dollar than anything on Broadway."-Village Voice. "Even Mo' fun this time . . . Lovely, warm and highly individual." --N. Y. Post. "Leaves the audience shouting for mo'."-Time Magazine. "01' timey, timely fun."-New Amsterdam News. "Wonderfully moving and exciting." -New Yorker. "Exhilarating. . two hours of non-stop pleasure." -N. Y. Magazine. $7.00. For Future Release. (#8201) THE GARBAGE CANTATA. (Little Theatre.) Children's musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Additional material by Jon Lonoff. 2 m., I f. (minimum). Unit set. The three R's used to be Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, but today everyone must learn Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. That is what audiences discover in this hilarious musical comedy that brings a garbage dump to hip-hopping, fingerpopping life. Designed for high school and community players, the cast can be expanded and sts, puppets and props can be created out of recyclables. "Children will delight in this creative production of song, dance and folklore!"-Dr. Noel Brown, UN Environment Program. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#9182) available on rental. See p. 231.) GEORGE M. COHAN: IN HIS OWN WORDS. (Little Theatre.) Biographical musical. Chip Deffaa. Songs by George M. Cohan. 6 m., 5 f. plus chorus. A dynamic performer, playwright and composer, George M. Cohan dominated the American theater in his day as no other ever has. ASCAP award-winning writer Chip Deffaa offers a fresh look at this quintessential showman's life and brings a glorious chapter in showbiz history to the stage. The 26 songs mix classics like "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag" with some fascinating rediscoveries. "A terrific, surprisingly moving show [with] . . . an amazing roster of Cohan songs."--NY. Post. "Solid musical entertainment . . . written and staged . . . in Cohan's style. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's enthusiastic applause coincided with my hope George M. Cohan finds the future it deserves. Bravo." -The New Voice of NY. "A passionate, revealing . . . musical."-Mario Fratti in American OGGI. "Cohan never looked and sounded so good!"-WOR Radio. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on re.quest. (#9593) THE GIG. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen. Based on the motion picture by Frank D. Gilroy. 8 m., 3 f. (with doubling). Minimal set w. area staging. Six men get together once a week to play jazz. It is the highlight of their lives. When one answers an ad and gets a two-week gig in the Catskills, they shed their ordinary lives and begin an adventure that reveals truths about friendship, the joy of music and the importance of dreams. The gig is not what they expected and each returns from the Catskills changed by the experience. The actors need not play instruments; they mime performances. This winner of the 1994 Richard Rogers Grant was inaugurated at the Manhattan Theatre Club's New Musicals in Concert at City Center and was developed at the O'Neill Music Theatre Conference and the Goodspeed-at-Chester. "A winning musical."-N.Y. Times. "A great show!"-National Public Radio. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. Slightly Restrict~ ~~~

THE GIRL WHO WAS PLUGGED IN. (All Groups.) One-act musical. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by David Spencer. Book by Alan Brenner. See Index under Weird Romance. GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER. See Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. GOLDEN BOY. Musical. William Gibson and Clifford Odets. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Lee Adams. 17 m., 4 f. Various sets. A corking good musical, beginning and ending with the rhythmic, breathing mimes in the prizefight ring. Sammy Davis had the lead role of a young boy from Harlem who wanted to be quit of the ghetto and rise from insult to fame in the brutal world of the White man. But he makes one mistake, in falling in love with his manager's girl-friend, only to learn too late that she still loves the manager. "A knockout, not only for the whirling excitement of its action but for the powerful punch in its comment." -N. Y. Times. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9066)

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS GOLDEN RAINBOW. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Ernest Kinoy. Music and Lyrics by Walter Marks. Based on a play by Arnold Schulman. 8 m., 4 f plus 14 secondary roles. A big, razzle-dazzle musical about Las Vegas, a father who's a dreamer, a girl who thinks she's a hard-hearted realist-and a little boy who loves them both. Based on the hit Broadway comedy, "A Hole in the Head," it has a presold audience wherever it is staged. There's a splendid score of 15 sparkling numbers. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9068) GOLDILOCKS. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr. Music by Leroy Anderson. Lyrics by Walter Kerr, Jean Kerr and Joan Ford. 8 m., 3 f, choruses. 9 sets. Back in the days of nickelodeon movies there is a producer who has a contract with a beautiful comedienne, and an obsession of doing a stupendous film on Egypt. Every cent he makes he spends on Egyptian scenery. Seeing no profits, his backers tell him it will be the last they will finance. To prolong the backing, he prolongs the film. The producer's trick serves to keep the actress under contract, and to keep the money coming in for more Egyptian statuary. "A funny musical comedy, and they don't hardly make them no more."-N.Y. Daily News. In manuscript. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9069) GOLF: THE MUSICAL. (All Groups.) Musical revue. Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael Roberts from a concept by Eric Krebs. 3 m., 1 f Unit set. The fun, frustrations and humor of the grand old game are celebrated in this fast-paced, tunefilled Off-Broadway hit. Hilarious skits, witty songs and even a putting competition make Golf an uproarious hit with players and non-players alike. "A hilarious re,-:ue that you'll savor."-N.Y. Times. "A madcap revue."-New Yorker. "Uproarious! Funny and fun for the whole foursome." -Golf Magazine. "Enormous fun! You're gonna love this show."-WOR Radio. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on appli(#9934) cation. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) GOOD NEWS. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Laurence Schwab and B. G. DeSylva. Lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. Music by Ray Henderson. 10 m., 5 f., principals, singers, dancers and musicians. 4 exts., 3 ints. The thrill that comes once in a lifetime is to score the winning touchdown for the varsity team when all seems lost. That is what happens to Tom Marlowe, football hero of Tait University, but the honor nearly escapes him when he flunks his astronomy examination. The harsh old professor is insistent that Tom qualify in this study, and things look dark, until Patricia, Tom's sweetheart induces her cousin Connie to tutor him. For once Tom places the habits of the stars on an equal footing with the gyrations of the pigskin and digs in. There are many surprises in store. First of all, Tom falls in love with Connie. Then, the professor, hated by everyone for his insistence upon rules and regulations, turns out to be tender-hearted and passes Tom on the ever of the big game. And the game itself-what a game! Tom is sorely needed, and the suspense is lifted when he makes the winning touchdown. $7.00. Vocal Score, $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#491) THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN. (All Groups.) Musical drama. Book by Eric Bentley, adapted from the play by Bertolt Brecht. Music and Lyrics by Michael Rice. This is an inventive new musical version of one of Brecht's most well-known plays, the story of three gods who come to earth in search of one good woman. They find her in Shen Te, a prostitute. The gods bestow their beneficence on her-which leads to her downfall. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. (#9684) GOODTIME CHARLEY. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Sidney Michaels. Music by Larry Grossman. Lyrics by Hal Hackady. 15 m., 7 f, extras. Pantheon setting with insets. Rave reviews greeted the recent 42nd Street Moon Theatre's reworked revival of this Tony-award nominee that originally starred Joel Grey as the Dauphin of France and Ann Reinking as Joan of Arc. The Dauphin develops from a funloving young man enamored of women in general and Joan in particular into a regal king while Joan follows her voices to her fate. "A delightful discovery . . . . Fresh, clever and charming" Gene Price Comminications. "Grossman's melodic, toe-tapping score ... [and] Hackaday's witty, intelligent, often moving lyrics make Goodtime Charley a special musical that did not deserve to be lost." Rossmoor News. "Charming and touching. . . . It is great fun, with seductive, stirring melodies and smart lyrics."-Marin Independent Journal. "Elegant."-Wall Street Journal. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted NYC. (#9083) GOREY STORIES. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Evening of sketches based on the stories of Edward Gorey. Adapted by Stephen Currens. Music by David Aldrich. 5 m., 4 f Int. This varied assortment of weird characters and humorous, horrid happenings is drawn from the best of Edward Gorey's illustrated works. "A unique, odd, perverse and engaging entertainment. It is not an evening you are going to easily forget." -N. Y. Post. "The world of Edward Gorey is a strange and gothic one. It is also exciting, because it presents a peculiarly personal vision of common abstract terrors."-N.Y. Post. "The sense of style is wonderful."-Women's Wear Daily. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9119) GORKY. (Advanced Groups.) Play with music. Book and Lyrics by Steve Tesich. Music by Mel Marvin. 11 m., 4 f, extras. Area staging. A fascinating, biographical portrait of the Soviet playwright and revolutionary set as a musical. 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impassioned revolutionary and last, the disillusioned old man, presumed victim of a Stalin purge. All three are on the stage together, talking and arguing with one another. But the play is more than just Gorky's story, it also explains a man, his character, his environment and times. "Sometimes ironic, but always moving musical."-Time. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9086) THE GRAND DUCHESS OF GEROLSTEIN. (All Groups.) Cornie operetta. Libretto by John Grimsey and Phil Park after the original French of Meilhac and Halevy. Lyrics by Phil Park. Music by Jacques Offenbach adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer. 17 principals, extras, chorus. 1 int., 2 ext. The tiny Duchy of Gerolstein's at war with a tiny neighboring state. The war's meant to divert the Duchess from her flirtations with attractive men. $7.00. (Terms quoted on applica(#9102) tion. Music on rental-details on request. See p. 231.) THE GRAND TOUR. (All Groups.) Musical. New Revised Version. Music and Lyrics by Jeiry Herman. Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble. Based upon the original play Jacobowsky and the Colonel by Franz Werfel and the play based on the same by S.N. Behrman. 29 roles, extras, singers and dancers. Var. sets. In 1940 France an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocrat, anti-semitic Polish colonel who's trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car, but can't drive. The Colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances that takes them to a carnival, a Jewish wedding and onto a train when the car breaks down. Accompanying them is Marianne, the Colonel's girlfriend who Jacobowsky falls in love with. But it is not to be. "A splendid evening with tuneful lyrics."-N.Y. Post. "Endearing, amusing and poignantly humane."-Time. "A first class Broadway musical. "-WABC-TV. $7.00. $8.75. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9103) GRATUITOUS SEX AND VIOLENCE (and Good Old Rock 'n' Roll). (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. The Heather Brothers. 4 m., 3 f. (with doubling) plus chorus and on-stage band. Simple set. Good and evil spar to a rock 'n' roll score by the creators of A Slice of Saturday Night. A man, Evelyn, and a woman, Adamun, are devout Christians who dream of establishing a television station committed to the glory of God. Reverend Rupert De La Ray and his side-kicks Clarissa and Tony supply the financing with Mafia money. G.O.D. TV is not an immediate success; Evelyn and Adamun are persuaded to supplement the unappealing gospel singing programs with depictions of Biblical stories-like Sodom and Gomorrah. The Mafia resorts to kidnapping and violence to recoup the money and an avenging minister "eliminates" hundreds of the station's detractors. Adamun ends up in bed with the wrong man. The devil, having decisively gotten the upper hand at a big concert, challenges God to another contest and it all begins again. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9945) GREASE. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. 9 m., 9 f. Plat. stage w. drops. This is the 1950's rock 'n' roll musical. Rydell High's spirited class of '59-gum-chewing, hubcap-stealing, hot-rod loving boys with D.A.'s and their wise-cracking girls in bobby sox and pedal pushers--capture the look and sound of the 1950s in a rollicking musical. While hip Danny Zuko and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski resolve the problems of their mutual attraction, the gang sings and dances its way through such nostalgic scenes as the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace, and the drive-in-movie. Songs recall the Buddy Holly hiccups, the Little Richard yodels and the Elvis Presley wiggles that made the music of the 50s a gas. Grease's eight-year run made Broadway history and its recent longrunning revival put it among today's most popular musicals. "A lively and funny musical-as well as the dancingest one in town . . . . It's a winner. ... The songs ... are dandies [that portray] the early rockers . . . with zip and charm. . . . The sheer energy of Grease carries all before it."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. PianoNocal Score, $50.00. Vocal Selections, $14.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#6767) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters GREASE: SCHOOL VERSION. (All Groups.) Book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. 9 m., 9 f Plat. stage w. drops. Groups who perform for young audiences or produce musicals with young actors now have an ideal version of Grease for their needs. Shorter and more suitable in content for teens and subteens, this abridged version retains the fun-loving spirit and immortal songs that make Grease a favorite among rock and roll fans of all ages. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN BACKSTAGE MUSICAL. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Bill Solly and Donald Ward. Music and Lyrics by Bill Solly. 3 m., 3 f Basic or elaborate set. This funny, fast-moving entertainment evokes the bright world of 1940s Hollywood musicals in which an obscure young singer and her equally-obscure song-writing boyfriend play out their romance against a theatrical background of auditions, misunderstandings, self-sacrifice, overnight stardom and a full score of songs. "Smash hit musical."-L.A. Daily Variety. "Simply a delight. "-S.F. Chronicle. "A little jewel."-Financial Times, London. $7.00. CD: $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9108) THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS. (All Groups.) Family musical. David Paterson and Steve Liebman. Based on the novel by Katherine Paterson. 1 or 2 m., 4 or 5 f., 3

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c. (l m., 2 f.), extras (school children). A spirited musical about the adventures of a feisty foster child in search of love and her real mother, Gilly captures hearts and garners acclaim with every production. The tale is drawn from one of the most popular novels of all time (or young people. Rich with humor, emotion and memorable songs, it hits home with every child and parent. "A rare piece of children's theatre that doesn't wear a sugar coat. .. Rewards in abundance await audiences [ofthisl excellent, bittersweet play."-NY. Times. "Irresistible. . . . Go-take your parents."-NY. Post. "Funny and moving . . . topnotch entertainment."-Louisville Courier Journal. "Marvelous, . . . a good story loaded with engaging characters brought vividly to life. . . . Like all fme works, whether for children or adults, Gilly can be taken on many levels. But first and foremost, it's . . . fun."-Time Out. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#9202) THE GREEN HEART. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Charles Busch. Music and Lyrics by Rusty Magee. Based on the story by Jack Ritchie. 2 m., 3 f. Ints., exts. This camp comedy thriller of greed and romance is about an Ivy League playboy who has squandered his fortune. Assisted by his girlfriend, he schemes to restore his wealth by wedding a botany-crazed spinster heiress. He discovers that her conniving lawyer and sinister housekeeper are already robbing her blind and know that he plans to bump her off to become a merry widower. Soon, murder is clumsily afoot, alliances are formed and reformed, and plans that do not come to fruition bare unexpected fruit. "Plump with funny Iines."-NY. Times. "Funny! Inventive! Outrageously outrageous!" -N Y. Post. "Plenty of laughs." -N Y. Daily News. "Playful, funny and original!"-Gannett Newspapers. "pemented and delightful. . . . The jauntiest musical since Little Shop." -Newsday. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9187) GROUCHO: A LIFE IN REVUE. Play with music. Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher. See Index for description. GROWING UP NAKED. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, Lyrics, Music and Orchestrations by Richard A. Barbie. 4 m., 4 f. Simple staging. Arrangements for piano only or combo. Only the character's emotions are naked as eight distinctive teenagers bare their inner thoughts and feelings to provide a striking perspective on the pleasures and problems of adolescence. Eighteen musical numbers form the nucleus of monologues and short scenes tracing each character's development in school. Laced with side-splitting humor and theatrical sparkle, there's also a serious side providing insight into problems troubling teenagers for generations. There's memorable melodies, sophisticated rhythms and the polished slickness of modern pop music. The original production played to cheering sold-out houses. $7.00. (#9124) (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) GUNMETAL BLUES. (All Groups.) Musical mystery. Book by Scott Wentworth. Music and Lyrics by Craig Bohrnler and Marion Adler. 2 m., 1 f., small combo optional. Simple set w. piano. Is this a hard-boiled detective tale disguised as a lounge act--or the other way around? Direct from The Red Eye Lounge, Buddy Toupee tickles the ivories and serves up plot concoctions like a Chandleresque Greek chorus. The private eye searches for a missing blonde through a doubledealing world of smokey bars, rain-slicked streets and more blondes. This quest lures the audience to an unnamed city of mystery, music and demolished dreams. "Every theater company dreams of producing the perfect show. A show with a small cast and low budget that will go rolling along week after week . . . . It's Gunmetal Blues. . . . You'll have' fun keeping up with the fast-paced action."-Time Out. "Ingenious plotting is only one of the many tricks, and by no means the neatest, pulled by this delightful musical." -San Francisco Chronicle. "Torchy, swiveling melodies echo the moody grandeur of 40's 'mm noir' soundtracks."-NY. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#9178) rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. THE HAGGADAH. (Jewish Groups.) Musical. Elizabeth Swados. 19 m. and f. for various parts. Simple set. This "Passover oratorio" by the composer of Runaways is a disarmingly simple account of the birth and life of Moses, and of the Exodus, done with masks and a clever use of puppetry. "Children should find delight in the puppets . . . is one of (Swados) happier efforts and worthy of becoming a public theatre institution".-N.Y. Daily News. This unusual show was originally produced (and later revived) during Passover at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10022) HAMLET, CHA-CHA-CHA! Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Monk Ferris. 7 m., 4 f., plus chorus. Shakespeare rocks in this insane musical version of Hamlet. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. (#10075) HAPPY END. Musical. Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill. Original German play by Dorothy Lane (Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht). Book and Lyrics adapted by Michael Feingold. 9 m., 6 f. (principals). 1 basic set. This landmark musical by two of the greatest collaborators in musicals history was the 1929 forerunner of Guys and Dolls as well as the progenitor of Cabaret and Chicago. Set in Brechtian Chicago-it is the tale of a Salvation Army girl who falls for Chicago's toughest gangster and reforms him and his gang. 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melodrama and part comic strip. "A delight. . . constantly entertaining. . . . The music is sheer genius."-NY. Times. "A treat: musical comedy with a wicked leer . . . sinuously seductive songs."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) (#10019) HAPPY NEW YEAR. Musical comedy. Based on Holiday by Philip Barry. Adapted by Bert Shevelove. Songs by Cole Porter. 14 m., II f. (doubling possible.) Var. ints. (may be simply suggested). This clever show has given new life to one of America's most popular comedies. The story concerns an eager young man who falls in love with the wrong rich girl. In the final scene he realizes that it is her young, unconventional sister whom he really loves, and the two turn their backs on old money and old values for a shared life that should prove to be a holiday. "Mr. Shevelove has matched Barry's happy-go-lucky book with a fountam of effervescent Porter tunes."-NY. Times. "A playful, tuneful, civilized musical."-NY. Post. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10021) A HARD TIME TO BE SINGLE. (All Groups.) One-act revue. Words and Music by Brian Gari. Continuity and Monologues by D.F. Sweedler. 3 m., 2 f. Cabaret setting. From the composer and lyricist of Broadway's Late Nite Comic comes a contemporary pop musical about single life today. Catchy tunes capture an entire emotional spectrum from laughter to tears. Monologues by a well-known comedian integrate and complement the songs, providing a lively and easily produced entertainment for cabarets and theatres. No special set or props are needed and only a piano or rhythm section is required. "Fast paced. . . . Gari is an expressive songwriter who is musically comfortable across a wide range of styles."-NY. Post. "Lots of fine original material with sleek professionalism. "-Variety. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. (#9967) HARK! (Little Theatre.) Musical. Lyrics by Robert Lorick. Music by Dan Goggin and Marvin Solley. Cast of 6. The story-theme involves growing up in America. The cast dissect everything sacred with wry wit and irreverence. At first, they offer a slightly ironical number and then begin a life-cycle, starting as children dreaming of their adult ambitions. As they grow older, maturer references seep in, and the songs grow, too, along more problematic and subtle lines. Eventually, they begin brooding over whether the future will remember them. "Fresh and highly likeable entertainment."-NY. Post. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10029) HARRIGAN 'N' HART. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Michael Stewart. Music by Max Showalter. Lyrics by Peter Walker. Includes songs of the period by Edward Harrigan and David Braham. Based on material compiled by Nedda . Harrigan Logan and on The Merry Partners by E. 1. Kahn, Jr. 8 m., 7 f. (to play multiple roles). Var. sets. Nineteenth-century songwriter and vaudevillian Edward Harrigan and his partner, Tony Hart, were the first to integrate story-telling, song and dance onstage. Here is their story, told with an innovative blend of their songs, stage performances, and new material that captures their off-stage relationship. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10033) HEAD OVER HEELS. (All Groups.) Musical fantasy. Book by William S. Kilborne, Jr. and Albert T. Viola. Music by Albert T. Viola. Lyrics by William S.Kilborne. Based loosely on The Wonder Hat by Ben Hecht and William Sawyer Goodman. 3 m., 2 f. 1 simple set. Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Punchinello people this whimsical tale of love and magic. "A musical romp brimming with innocent charm. . . . A jewel of a musical."-Gannet Papers. "A confection."-NY. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10052) HE AIN'T DONE RIGHT BY NELL. (All Groups.) One-act musical version. Book by Wilbur Braun. Music by Gerald V. Castle. Lyrics by Michael C. Vigilant. See Index under Foiled Again! HEIDI. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by William Friedberg and Neil Simon, adapted from Max Liebman's television spectacular and based on the book by Johanna Spyri. Music by Clay Warnick, based on the works of Robert Schuman. Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. 4 m., 5 f., extras plus chorus. Var. sets. This heart-warming adaptation for the musical stage blends the dramatic qualities of the immortal story and the lovely Schulman melodies to create a show with universal appeal. $6.50. Principal and Chorus Parts, $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#10060) See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO F ADDUH! The Allan Sherman Musical. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by Allan Sherman. Conceived and written by Douglas Bernstein and Rob Krausz. 3 m., 2 f. (minimum). Unit set. Hilarious song parodies are woven into a merry musical about the life of Barry Bockman and his beloved, Sarah Jackman. From birth to summer at Camp Granadae to marriage to suburbia and the shopping mall to retirement in Horida, the audience is treated to a zany cast of characters inspired by the Grammy-Award-winning song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" and Allan Sherman's eight record albums. Outer Critics' Award nomination for outstanding Off-Broadway musical and four Drama Desk Award nominations. "Breathlessly paced . . . live-wire comic exuberance that crackles across the stage."-N.Y. Times. "Parodies brilliantly built into a show . . . . One of the Year's Ten Best."-NY. Post. "A party, nutty as a Viennese table and splashy as a fruit-punch fountain . . . . Daffy and divine !"-Newsday.

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Ralph Bezoier, Edina High School, Minn. Libretto, $6.95. Chorus Books, $4.95. Complete Vocal Score, $13.95. Rental band arrangement one month, $35. Each additional month, $25, plus $50 Refundable Deposit. Rental Fee for guide two months, $25. Each additional month, $10 plus $25 refundable deposit. Write for particulars. (#18072) A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FILM. Musical. Book and lyrics by Christopher Durang. Score by Mel Marvin. 9 m., 6 f. Various sets. A hilarious take-off on American films, especially from the 1930s through the 1950s. The principals playa variety of characters. There is a Cagney-Bogart-Dean-Brando type-and a FondaStewart-Peck-Perkins type. The women, too, are types-basically Bette Davis, Loretta Young and Eve Arden. The parts they play are wild parodies from many Hollywood genres; a silent tearjerker, slum idyll, gangster epic, courtroom melodrama, chain gang-social justice thriller, screwball comedy, Busby Berkeley backstage musical, war propaganda-canteen musical-not to forget "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane" and a variety of minor genres. "Authentic, inspired and possessed comedy."-NY. Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#549) See p. 231.) HOMEROOM. (High Schools.) Musical. Andrea Green and Selma Tolins-Kaufman. 8 m., 6 f. Unit set. Matters of importance to contemporary high school kids are explored in this delightful revue, from dress codes to personal and academic crises, school discipline, cafeteria food and school lockers. Crafted by a music therapist and a school counselor, psychologist and administrator, Homeroom begins with a student expressing the belief that the kids in his homeroom have nothing in common. Eighteen songs later, the kids realize how untrue this is. A sellout at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, this insightful show is a perfect choice for high schools. $7.00. (Tenns quoted upon application. Music available rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#10108) HONKY-TONK HIGHWAY. Musical. (Little Theatre.) Book by Richard Berg. Music, Lyrics and Additional Dialogue by Robert Lindsey Nassif. 4 m., 1 f., optional backup band. This foot-stomping Off-Broadway hit broke house records at Goodspeed Opera and in productions across the country. Here is the story of countrywestern singer Clint Colby, told through the autobiographical songs he wrote and made world famous. It takes place in 1970 at Tucker's roadhouse in the Tennessee mountains, where Clint's astonishing career began. His backup band, the Mountain Rangers, has put old wounds behind them to reassemble for a one-time reunion concert to pay tribute to Clint on the anniversary of his death. Whoever puts on Clint's famous baby-blue cowboy hat 'becomes' Clint as the action flashes back to relive his rise and fall and to celebrate the way he turned their lives into songs. Cast members play their own instruments; use of a back-up band is optional. The sparkling score is by the award-winning composer of Opal. "Thoroughly enjoyable. . . Run, don't walk. "-Backstage. "There's something for everyone in this toe-tappin', two steppin' show! Ya'll come!"-Theatre Week Magazine. "A delight from start to finish!. .. Not to be missed. "-WHCY Radio, N.Y. A seamless succession of 20 delightful songs. It's the real thing."-Chicago Sun-Times. "A new classic."-Chicago Tribune. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music (#10706) available on rental. See p. 231.) HOODWINKED. (All Groups.) Musical farce. Music and Lyrics by John Carlton and Steve Liebman. Book by Bryan Leys, John Carlton and Steve Liebman. 8 m., 3 f. Var. ints.lexts. Foot-stomping production numbers and soaring solos and duets punctuate this hilarious romp through Sherwood Forest. Robin Hood and his famous band come face to face with some very liberated women. When the Sheriff of Nottingham captures Maid Marian for the umpteenth time, the ensuing antics involve such plots and ploys as Tuck's confession concession, dancing bears, a strike by the Nottingham hangman's local, the proclaiming of a holiday for villains-and the liberation of Maid Marian in more ways than one. Here is a show for all those men who dream of being Errol Flynn and all those women who would rather rescue themselves. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10127) HOPE FOR THE BEST. (All Groups.) Musical Farce-Comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 3 m., 3 f. 1 set. "Haute Couturiere" Hope Chapman and her pessimistic assistant. Deslie, are about to file bankruptcy for their business when a great opportunity comes by. Can they tum a millionaire's daughter from ugly duckling to swan in three days, to attract the attention of rich Gregory Tarlton? But daughter Angela, is a real project-almost irretrievably unattractive, totally wrapped up in her hobby, fish survival, and madly in love with the family butler. Then Gregory mistakes Hope for Angela and, Hopt! not realizing who he is, they fall madly in love with one another. But Gregory and Angela are set for a mutually unwanted marriage-and everybody else is equally unhappy. Complications mount until finally true love unites the proper parties-at least they hope it's proper-because everybody may be related to everybody else! Some twenty hilarious and/or romantic musical numbers add to your audience's enjoyment. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A Piano Vocal Score is available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per perfonnance. (#10131) HOT 'N COLE: A Cole Porter Celebration! (Little Theatre.) Musical Revue. Words and Music by Cole Porter. Devised by David Annstrong, Mark Waldrop and Bruce W. Coyle. Musical Arrangements by Bruce W. Coyle. 3 m., 3 f. 1 set. The spotlight is on the timelessness of Cole Porter classics, presented here with wonderfully fresh arrangements and a contemporary twist. Over fifty of his songs are woven into an entertainment that feels as much like a book musical as a revue. By

"It's a hoot. "-A.P. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10597) HENRY, SWEET HENRY. (All Groups.) Book by Nunnally Johnson. Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill. Based on The World of Henry Orient by Nora Johnson. 8 m., 8 f. Don Ameche appeared in this Broadway hit as the peripatetic roue and conductor who gives far-out concerts. While Ameche is chasing all the pretty ladies around the block and bedroom, unbeknownst to husbands and others, two teenagers are stricken with love for him and follow him everywhere--unbeknownst to him. "Zesty songs . . . A thoroughly pleasant and most affectionate musical." -N Y. Daily News. We're given a hilarious sample [of] music depicting the rise of Man from primordial slime."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10076) HER PILGRIM SOUL. (All Groups.) One-act musical. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by David Spencer. Book by Alan Brenner. See Index under Weird Romance. THE HIGH LIFE. (All Groups.) Musical comedy (formerly called The Gay Life.) Book by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin. Lyrics and Music by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. Suggested by Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anato!' 21 m., 14 f., (much doubling possible.) Extras. Various sets. The last great musical by the team that wrote "That's Entertainment" and "Dancing In The Dark" is finally available! Anatol, the most famous ladies' man in turn-of-the-century Vienna, decides that he's finished with love-he wants to get married. All his amours-from a magician's assistant to a society wife to the third swan from the left in the royal ballet-face this prospect with varying reactions, adding up to an evening of hilarity. When Anatol discovers, however, that his timid "frau" is a great deal more lively than he had expected, it is he who has the last laugh! "A great, big, gorgeous confection filled with good, solid entertainment. The lyrics are deft. . . and the music is a full bodied score." -N. Y. Daily News. "A sumptuous slice of strudel. . . stuffed with a tart story and tangy score."-Ronald Evans. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10094) THE HIGH SCHOOL THAT DRIPPED GOOSEFLESH. (High Schools) Musical Horror Spoof. Book by Tim Kelly. Music by Arne Christiansen. Lyrics by Ole Kittleson. 8 m., 12 f., optional chorus. Simple sets. From the authors of such musical hits as The Butler Did It, Singing and The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil comes this hilarious spoof. It's Grad Nite at Mandrake High-the one night students stay in the building. until dawn. Unfortunately, the school is built over the resting place of a manitou, a spiteful creature from another world. It's chills, thrills and spills as bodies stack up in the library (nobody ever goes in there) and the fight is on to save the walls. Every terror movie cliche is dragged out for laughs. There's a sensational cast of colorful characters: hyper students including one with supernatural powers, bewildered faculty, a zany disc jockey and some truly frightening creeps. The wonderful score is heavy on rock. Production demands are minimal, the show is easy to rehearse, and the entire event is screamingly funny for both cast and audience. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) (#10176) HUACK OVER HYGENIA. Children's play with music. David Wood. See Index for description. HUINKS! (All Groups.) Musical. Robert Kalfin, Steve Brown and John McKinney. Adapted from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines by Clyde Fitch. 9 m., 6 f. (playing many roles.) Var. sets. Madame Trentoni, famous Italian opera singer, is en route to New York to make her American debut. Captain Jinks, young dandy, wagers with two friends he can have a flirtation with her. When he first see her he's immediately smitten with true love. She falls for him too-but complications ensue when she suspects he only pretends to love her to win his bet. The original play made a star of Ethel Barrymore as Madame Trentoni-who's actually from Trenton, N.J.! This delightful musical version incorporates many of the wonderful songs of the period which help make this fun show a delight from start to finish. Originally produced Off Broadway. "A meringue of an evening. . . . A convivial entertainment."-N.Y. Times. "An unalloyed delight."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on (#10088) application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE HIRED MAN. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Melvyn Bragg. Music and Lyrics by Howard Goodall. 14 m., 5 f., extras (doubling possible.). Unit set. Based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of rural and industrial working life early in the twentieth century, The Hired Man tells of one family's-Bragg's grandparents'journey from land laborers to colliers and back to the land. The superb score is a marvelous succession of chorales, operatic duets and vigorous foot-stomping rhythms. "Bracing, rugged and exhilarating [with] splendidly original music."-Time Out. "Thoughtful and, on occasions, most moving . . . . That rare thing: a folk opera of our immediate past. "-Daily Mail, London. "Melvyn Bragg's qualities as a novelist-humanity, idealism and a complex and highly articulate man's understanding of those who are simple and inarticulate-shine out from the musical."-Sunday Telegraph. $8.95. CD (2 disks), $46.50. (Tenns quoted on (#10178) application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) H.M.S. PINAFORE. Band Accompaniment and Production Guide. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's operetta arranged for a band by a musician familiar with their works. Easy to read, accurate and authentic arrangements for an easy production. Also---<:ompiled and edited by Henry K. Meachem-the most complete and accurate production guide containing all infonnation for a successful, authentic, traditional production. "The production guide is the most complete we've seen."-

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turns wry, irreverent, romantic, touching and hilarious, this is a post-modem Cole Porter evening unlike any other. "Smart, gorgeous and fun." - Louisville Courier Journal. "Pure theatre . . . . This is about interpreting character and defining relationships through song. . . . A superior entertainment." -Albany Times Union. "A fast-moving contemporary revue ... put together in a totally innovative manner. Hot 'n Coleis fabulously entertaining."-Schenectady Gazette. "A stylish, vivacious revue that gives the audience more fun than it bargained for." Saratogian. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10697) HOT GROG. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Jim Wann. Music and Lyrics by Bland Simpson and Jim Wann. 7 m., 4 f. Unit set with mobile set pieces. The time is 1718 and the place is coastal Carolina. There we meet Edward Teach-better known as Blackbeard. This legendary pirate isn't presented in a sentimental light-he's neither hero nor heel, but portrayed rather as a realistic, if somewhat inefficient, businessman. Blackbeard and his crew have been granted pardons if they agree to give up piracy. But somehow they can't kick the habit. The story touches on women's lib in an offbeat way and takes a stand against capital punishment. But it's mostly lighthearted fun-with a dash of romance in this "Delightful, tuneful and witty romp about piracy on the high seas."-The Record. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10136) HOW TO EAT LIKE A CHILD (and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Up). One-act revue. Delia Ephron, John Forster and Judith Kahan. 6 to 30 children (10 to 15 is ideal), ages 5 to 15. Area staging; unit set. This musical romp through the joys and sorrows of being a child is hilarious. Children give 23 lessons in such subjects as how to beg for a dog, how to torture your sister, how to act after being sent to your room and how to laugh hysterically. The pace is fast, the tone subversive and the recognition instant. "Applause, applause, applause!"-Steve Allen. "Delightfully clever."-Hollywood Reporter. "Razzle-dazzle staging, Broadwaystyle songs and an imaginative script."-TV Guide. "A musical revue for children that can also be enjoyed by the parents . . . . A charming and witty score."-Backstage. "A winner . . . should become a classic."-Seattle Times. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#10690) HOWARD CRABTREE'S WHEN PIGS FLY. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Conceived by Howard Crabtree and Mark Waldrop. Sketches and Lyrics by Mark Waldrop. Music by Dick Gallagher. 5 m. In this side-splitting musical extravaganza by the creators of Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo!, new heights of hilarity are achieved in outrageous skits. During its long off-Broadway run it has been honored with two Drama Desk awards including Best Musical Revue and two Outer Critics Circle awards including Best Off-Broadway Musical. "Crabtree's creations send When Pigs Fly soaring to silly heights . . . . Waldrop's lyrics are skillful and funny."-NY. Daily News. "A good old-fashioned revue given a gay new-fashioned twist and the kind of fantasicated costumes that could have your eyes out on stalks. . . . Gallagher's music is glitter bright and tuneful."-NY. Post. "Exceptionally cheerful . . . [with] enough hilarity, wit and outre humor to evoke that era when bright, irreverent revues were commonplace on Broadway . . . . This show works."-NY. Times. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $16.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#25239) HOWARD CRABTREE'S WHOOP-DEE-DOO! (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Conceived, created and developed by Charles Catanese, Howard Crabtree, Dick Gallagher, Phillip George, Peter Morris and Mark Waldrop. Songs and sketches by Dick Gallagher, Peter Morris and Mark Waldrop. Additional material by Brad Ellis, Jack Feldman, David Rambo, Bruce Sussman and Eric Schorr. 9 m. Minimal sets. Host and costume designer extraordinaire Howard Crabtree triumphs over a tiny budget, balky actors and a near-electrocution to produce this dizzy collage of songs and sketches. It's spectacle on a shoestring and a valentine to classic musical theatre-with a twist. Underneath it all percolates an upbeat celebration of gay sensibilities, but the audience appeal cuts across all boundaries. "Inspired lunacy."-Variety. "Campy ingenuity."-NY. Times. "Zippy, unaffected energy, hap-hap-happy music. A fun show."-NY. Post. "Inspired silliness."-NY. Daily News. "Outrageous, but never offensive. . . . A cohesive, ingenious show that gives its audiences a wonderful time. "-UPI. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Musical available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#25216) THE HUMAN COMEDY. (All Groups.) Folk opera. Libretto by William Dumaresq. Music by Galt MacDermot. 12 m., 10 f., plus extras. Unit set. This pop-folk opera about small-town life in America during the early days of World War II is based on the novel by William Saroyan. "Like Our Town, which it resembles in so many ways, The Human Comedy concerns life and death and growing up in a small community. . . . Along with its poignancy and heartfelt feeling for home, the adaptation captures Saroyan'sjoie de vivre."-Christian Science Monitor. "Funny, charming and touching . . . a stirring flight of musical fancy . . . . This has to be the most inspired, inventive and downright pleasurable music to grace Broadway in a long, long time."-WCBS-TV. Newsweek praised "MacDermot's plain, openfaced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel" as "ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated." $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Piano tape available on request. (#10678) I (CRISTOFORO COLOMBO). (All Groups.) Musical. Mario Fratti and Giuseppe Murolo, based on a story by L. Marola and N. Montalto. 8 m., 4 f., optional chorus.

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS Int. w. slides. This love story between Chris, an Italian American, and Isa, a Hispanic, takes place in New York City in the Public Library on Forty-second Street on October 12, 1992. They meet in the library while the music of the Columbus Day parade is heard from the street. The characters magically become Cristoforo Colombo, Queen Isabella, King Ferdinand and Cardinal Talav(~ra. Love, tension, conflict, beautiful songs and the voyage are followed by problems, rebellion, doubts, mutiny . . . land! Cristoforo, who was not allowed to love Queen Isabella, falls in love with an Indian woman. He names her Isabella. Back in Spain there are celebrations with songs and dancing. Chris and Isa, happy lovers, join the 1992 parade as love and the human spirit triumph. "Perfect fusion of dialogue and music . . . . Very original story . . . . Enchanting music . . . . Some of the songs are real 'hits'-they will be sung allover the world like Modugno's Volare . ... A crew of Italians, Jews, Spaniards and Portuguese encounter the peaceful inhabitants of a new world. . . . A great love story."-La Follia di New York. Published with Two Centuries, $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#5790) THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Everett Quinton. Music by Mark Bennett. Lyrics by Everett Quinton and Mark Bennett. Over 15 characters (doubling possible). Unit set. This uproarious send-up of Victor Hugo's novel is truly ridiculous-as in the famed Ridiculous Theatrical Company where it was a success. Hugo's tale is enhanced with a hilarious assortment of major and minor characters, some in drag. The score is an eclectic mix of country-western, gospel, disco and rhythm and blues. "Combines farce and pathos in the best Ridiculous Theatrical Co. tradition."-Tish Dace. "Blatant silliness that proves too funny for words. There is a lot of merry-making in song that leads to wild guffaws from the convulsed audience."-Private Lives. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#10180) I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING IN PLACE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music & Lyrics by Barbara Schottenfeld. 7 f. Int. A compassionate, touching, extremely funny musical with witty lyrics, strong book and uplifting songs. The action occurs in a Soho loft during six weekly workshops. Led by psychologist Michelle in role playing the women learn to express their needs in a theatrically exciting way, propelling the ensemble, their newly separated leader, and the audience to a compelling climax. "A winner! A strong musical with a delightful score."-N.Y. Post. "A humorous, compassionate and attractive new musical." -New York Magazine. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11081) I LOVE MY WIFE. Musical. New Revised Version. Book and Lyrics by Michael Stewart. Music composed and arranged by Cy Coleman. Based on a play by Luis Rego. 6 m., 2 f. Variable set. A musical that takes place in Trenton, N.J.? Yes-and a delightfully funny one too. It's about a would-be menage a quatre-two couples who want to plunge into liberated mutual sexuality but only manage to get their toes wet. The masculine pair of the foursome are Wally, a public relations man; and his friend Alvin, who's in the furniture-moving business. Their respective wives in this escapade are Monica and Cleo. What is truly innovative about the show is putting the musicians on the stage-not merely to play their instruments. Actually they are welded into the play, they sing, dress up in fancy clothes and keep commenting on the action. "Bright, inventive, and breezy . . . vastly diverting and highly amusing."-NY. Times. "Tasteful marriage of music, laughs and all-around fun . . . best new entertainment this year ... lovable."-WABC-TV. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $12.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#9) I SENT A LETTER TO MY LOVE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music by Melissa Manchester. Book and Lyrics by Jeffrey Sweet. Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens. 2 m., 3 f. Various sets. This soul-stirring journey of renewal begins on a Maine summer night in 1955. Gwen appears to rent a cottage from Amy and her wheelchair-bound brother Stan. She is venturing into a new life following the death of her mother, whom she nursed. On a whim, Amy places a "Wanted to Correspond" ad, but her notions of romance backfire when only Stan responds. Just when things get out of hand, longing, love and loyalty conspire to open new doors for all in this seamless blend of well-developed characters and memorable songs by the noted pop artist. "An inspiring fable ... [with] a richly romantic score."-N.Y. Times. "Possesses a charm and literacy and attention to character all too rare in modem musicals . . . . Manchester's aching melodies, tinged with autumnal fire, are matched by rich, poetic Iyrics."--Chicago Sun Times. "Moving and tuneful. . . . An altogether delightful charmer."-NY. Post. "Almost 'Letter' perfect." -North Shore Sunday. "Engrossing 'Letter' delivers." -Boston Globe. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11906) I'LL DIE IF I CAN'T LIVE FOREVER. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Music and Lyrics by Joyce Stoner. Original book concept by Karen Johnson. Additional music and arrangements by William Boswell. 3 m., 3 f. Minimal set. Six singers march in wearing evening garb. They become auditioners for a show-within-a-show, simulating two theater innocents, a couple of roommates and an unlucky married couple. The story celebrates the dubious "joys" of Manhattan life and also includes broader social satire, such as the American male's addiction to football and inflation. Requires only one piano, minimal set and few costumes. "Tonic effect is marvelous. Fresh as a daisy, sharp as a tack and as funny as it is fast." -N Y. Times. "Wholesome and charming and thoroughly good natured ... cJever."-N.Y. Daily News.

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days from 10 to. 20 years on. . . . The score . . . is actually melodic . . . . The lyrics have the same sharpness and insights as the dialogue and at least two or three of the songs would seem to have the ability to stand alone."-Variety. $7.00. Prerecorded tape available, $13.50. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#11670) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) IT AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman, based on an original idea by Ron Taylor. 5 m., 2 f. plus 6 musicians. Various sets. This sizzling revue of the blues and blues-infused songs took-New York by storm. Songs trace the music from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago. "This rich, evocative, rousing show, with some 50 musical numbers . . . is more than a musical feast. Besides its cornucopia of splendidly interpreted song, It Ain't No th in , but the Blues is a potent blend of visual eloquence and historical sweep that engages the eye and touches the heart while its songs soothe the ear, occasionally work mischief on the funny bone and always raise the spirits. . . . It's a sure cure for the blues!" -N. Y. Times. "It rocks the audience right up to heaven!" -Newhouse Newspapers. "A sizzling, red-hot hit!"-WWOR-TV. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#11929) THE IT GIRL. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Michael Small and BT McNicholl. Music by Paul McKibbins. Based on the Paramount picture It. Lyrics by BT McNichol1. 3 m., 4 f. (with doubling.) Unit set. Here is a lighthearted tribute to silent movies and Clara Bow that reinvents her 1927 film about a sassy department store salesclerk who wins an advertising contest held to find the girl with the elusive, thrilling quality know as It. Among those she enchants with sexy charm is the heir to the retail empire that employs her. "Perky . . . with a savvy score. . . . Has the heightened melodramatic tone of a silent movie."-N.Y. Times. "Flapper flamboyance gives 'It' to 'Girl'. . . . [This charming] musical with plenty to flaunt . . . infuses the . . . story with funny, frothy tunes."-N.Y. Daily News. "Breezy, funny valentine to the Jazz Age."-Entertainment Weekly. "All the elements gel. . . . [It is] full of endearingly corny one-liners and displays a satisfying disregard for reality. . . . The show embraces it's small scale with cheerful elan."-Time Out. "A dandy . . . flapper period piece which features some excellent music . . . . Marvelous."-WOR. "I decided I must have an original cast album! Rig~t now! Can this Paul McKibbins write genuine musical theatre music!" - Theatre. com. $7.00. CD, $17.50. For information on slide projections for rental, call 212 757 6756. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11694) IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Thomas M. Sharkey. Based on the Frank Capra film and the original story by Philip Van Doren Stem. 9 m., 4 f. 1 set. About to kill himself on Christmas Eve, George discovers, with the help his guardian angel Clarence, what the world would be like if he had never been born. "Funny, moving and memorable! Thomas M. Sharkey did a wonderful thing when he took one of America's favorite holiday film classics and wrote music and lyrics for it. Frank Capra would be proud!" -Woodstock Herald. "Great! Memorable! It's even better the second time around!"-Quad City Times. "Charming! Endearing! It's' a wonderful life and you just have to believe it! "-Northwestem. "Wonderful! Great charm! A real holiday musical!"-Dubuque Dispatch and Argus. "Superb! A musical to remember!"-Norfolk Daily Press. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11097) IT'S SO NICE TO BE CIVILIZED. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Micki Grant. 4 m., 6 f. plus dancers and singers. 1 set. This poignant and optimistic show introduces the black residents of Sweetbitter Street: a sharpster, a nightclub owner, a couple awaiting their first child, the street-smart gang, a bag lady, and a matriarchal grandma. Enter the social worker whose job it is to initiate an art project in the ghetto. "Glows with a special wattage. . . . The music is resolutely upbeat." -N. Y. Times. "Pleasant melodies, strong beats, lots of rhythm . . . energetic dance numbers."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p.' ~31.) (#11077) JACK THE RIPPER. (Little Theatre.) Musical Play. Book and lyrics by Ron Pember and Denis de Marne. Music by Ron Pember. 8 m., 8 f. extras. Compo int.lext. Set partly in a music hall and partly in the surrounding East End London streets and buildings, the play is a musical reconstruction of incidents relating to the East End murders which took place between August 31st and November 9th, 1888. A solution of Jack the Ripper's identity is hinted at, but the play is an atmospheric commentary rather than an historical reenactment, shifting between reality and artificiality, with characters representing "real" people as well as members of the music hall audience and players. $8.95. PianoNocai Score, $15.00. (Terms quoted (#12002) on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) JACK'S HOLIDAY. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Mark St. Germain. Music by Randy Courts. Lyrics by Mark St. Germain and Randy Courts. 9 m., 5 f. (with doubling). The 1921 boast of Police Chief Thomas Byrnes that Jack the Ripper would be captured within thirty-six hours in New York City sets off a series of murders and catches a young reporter in the midst of them. Based on the premise that Jack the Ripper actually crossed the ocean, as chronicled in the newspapers of the day, Jack's Holiday delves into the nature of evil and the responsibility of the press while holding a mirror up to our time. "Mightily entertaining . . . . At the cutting edge of musical theatre, the knife has rarely been sharper than this." -N. Y. Post. "Elegantly sinister, period inspired melodies."-N.Y. Times. "Fascinat-

$7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#571) I'M GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer. Music by Nancy Ford. Bare stage. 6 m., 4 f. This musical was a hit at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and Circlein-the-Square. It is about a 40-year-old song writer who wants to make a come-back. The central conflict is between the song writer and her manager. She wants to include feminist material in her act-he wants her to go back to the syrupy-sweet, non-controversial formula which was once successful. "Clearly the most imaginative and melodic score heard in New York all season."-Soho Weekly News. "Brash, funny, very agreeable in its brash and funny way, and moreover, it touches a special emotional chord for our times." -N. Y. Post. In manuscript. Vocal Selections, $8.95. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11025) IMAGINARY FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Musical farce. Nora Ephron. Music and Lyrics by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia. 1m., 3 f. Unit set. Novelist Mary McCarthy's notorious statement on the Dick Cavett Show calling playwright Lillian Hellman a liar exploded into one of the most famous of all literary feuds. This surreal farce portrays these two literary lionesses battling it out in hell. It chronicles a compelling story of two women shaped by their different but equally unsettled childhoods, their looks (one was a beauty, one was not) and the men in their lives whil~ it brilliantly examines to great comic effect the concept of truth in fiction: Who can you believe? Interspersed throughout are witty songs that enable the ensemble to comment on the action. The acclaimed Broadway production starred famed actresses Swoozie Kurtz and Cherry Jones. "Highly theatrical and engaging . . . . The songs . . . add considerably to the show's entertainment value . . . . echoing the vaudevillian brouhaha of the headline-making feud."-Curtain Up. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11136) INSIDE OUT. (Little Theatre.) Musical. 6 f. Unit set. Book by Doug Haverty. Music by Adryan Russ. Lyrics by Adryan Russ and Doug Haverty. Desperate, smart, sassy, affectionate, aware and determined women give and get support in spirited weekly meetings guided by Grace, a savvy therapist. A hesitant new member, alters the chemistry of the group and stimulates a round of evocative and uplifting breakthroughs. Many women's issues are explored with humor, wit and sensitivity. The vibrant score ranges from hysterical Broadway patter to no-holes-barred gospel and good-time doo-wop. "[The] characters seem like real people even when they sing and dance. . . . A bright, witty and wise musical comedy about the way we live now."-N.Y. Times. "A cheerful enterprise with buoyant music . . . . Very satisfying."-N.Y. Newsday. "Could be the next Fantasticks!"-WABC-Radio. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#11130) IN TROUSERS. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. William Finn. 1 m., 3 f. Bare stage. In Trousers is the Marvin musical that precedes March o/the Falsettos and Falsettoland. It centers on the women in Marvin's life-his wife, his teacher and his high school honey-and on his attempts to decide if he is hetero, homo or bi. "These exploits . . . are set to music-funny, bouncy, cleverly constructed music . . . it galvanizes whatever it touches. Finn's lyrics are even more cause for celebration. Densely packed with off-the-wall wit, these compact poems are tough little cookies that speak knowingly of the ups and downs of modem urban life." -N. Y. Post. "An innovative musical which succeeds as completely satisfying theatre." -Hollywood Reporter. Eventually, of course, Marvin does leave the rather shrewish and demanding woman in his life to find happiness with dear, delightful "Whizzer" Brown. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#11658) INNER CITY. (All Groups.) A Street Cantata. Music by Helen Miller. Lyrics by Eve Merriam Conceived and directed by Tom 0' Horgan. See Index under Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical. INTO THE FIRE. (All Groups.) Comedy with music. Book by Francis Swann. Music and lyrics by Albert Moritz. 5 m., 6 f. Int. In manuscript. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Piano score available on receipt on a $15 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 each performance. (#11060) IONESCOPADE. (All Groups.) Vaudeville musical. Taken from the works of Eugene Ionesco. Conceived by Robert Allan Ackerman. Music and Lyrics by Mildred Kayden. 6 m., 4 f. 1 set. This zany trip through the mind of the brilliant absurdist playwright features mime, farce and parody, all hilariously balanced on the edge of madness. "Delicious . . . . Snaps, crackles and spins across the stage." -N.Y. Times. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p.231.) (#11062) IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Jeffrey Kindley. Music & lyrics by Craig Carnelia. Suggested by the Ralph Keyes novel of the same name. 5 m., 3 f. Unit set. Small onstage combo. This is a "memory musical". Our stalwart cast plays various characters remembering the joy, the laughter and the pain of what it was like to go through high school. "Charming, funny, touching and likable . . . it's a gentle, low-key piece that wins its way by being so enjoyable. Somehow it touches a common chord; audiences can relate to it, and to the gallery of characters that inhabit it, as they look back on their high-school

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ing . . . . A humdinger of a show."-Gannet Newspapers. "No bona fide ripperologist will want to miss [it)."-N.Y. Observer. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#12590) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) James A. Michener's SAYONARA. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by William Luce. Lyrics by Hy Gilbert. Music by George Fischoff. Adapted from the novel by James A. Michener. 5 m., 6 f. (principals), plus others to play var. roles. Ints,. exts. A best-selling novel, a Hollywood hit and a lavish musical in the grand tradition of American theater, Sayonara premiered at Houston's Theatre Under the Stars and has toured major cities. The classic tale recounts the haunting love story of jet pilot hero Major Ace Gruver and exotic Japanese actress Hana-ogi, star of Japan's all-female Takarazuka Theatre, whose forbidden passion grows against a lush backdrop of Oriental tradition, soaring melodies and lavish production numbers. Mesmerizing, moving and entertaining, this is the first Michener musical since South Pacific. "A spectacle with a soul."-N.Y. Times. "Hugely entertaining."-Variety. "Dazzling."-ABC Radio Network. "A big, sexy, sprawling American musical."-Seattie Herald. "Has the dramatic sweep, the narrative and visual energy and the lush, pop-romantic score of a classic American mu~ical."-Houston Chronicle. "Colorful and full of mood and heart."-Rex Reed. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#20968) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Richard Nelson. Music by Shaun Davey. Lyrics by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. 5 m., 8 f. plus a cellist and a violinist. Int. Adapted from Joyce's literary masterpiece, the last and best-known of the short stories collected in The Dubliners, this intimate musical portrays a homespun Yuletide party with Irish music, dancing, food, drink and good fellowship. The sparkling songs, many of them traditional-sounding Irish melodies, are all original. Christopher Walken starred in a production that moved from Playwrights Horizon to Broadway. "A theatrical treat that enchants, surprises and finally thrills with unexpected depth. . . . It is Joyce made manifest . . . providing sequence after sequence of heart-stopping drama."-N.Y. Post. "An elegant . . . marvelous job of musicalizing The Dead."-N.Y. Daily News. "Achieves a softspoken air of intimacy that has you leaning forward like a fascinated eavesdropper."-N.Y. Times. Winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical Book. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape , available on request. Slightly Restricted. Posters (#12591) JEKYLL HYDES AGAIN! (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 5 m., 5 f. (minimum), plus optional extras. I set. This is the tale of Junior Jekyll, fresh out of medical school, who arrives to clear up his late father's estate and rediscovers Formula Number One, the dangerous potion that turned Dad into Mr. Hyde. Junior is soon ears-deep in a mess-wanted by the police, plunged into poverty, in love with the lab assistant and-worst of allengaged to marry Grumby's rotund daughter Gretchen. As Hyde he encounters a saloon-singer who knows the secret of Jekyll's Formula Number Two. By show's end Formula Number Three is unearthed and all ends happily for everybody except nasty old Grumby. This show is ebullient; the dialogue is priceless and the songs range from frightening to charming to hilarious. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianoNocai Score is available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit, plus a Music Rental Fee of $10 per perlormance. (#12018) JERRY'S GIRLS. (All Groups.) Musical revue. A Broadway Entertainment: New Revised Version. The Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman. Concepts by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento and Jerry Herman. 3 f. plus f. chorus. Bare stage or var. sets. This Broadway hit features all the best songs for women from such immortal musicals as Mame, Hello Dolly!, Milk and Honey, Mack and Mabel. A Day in HollywoodiA Night in the Ukraine and La Cage Aux Folies. "A brilliantly lively and scintillating evening of cabaret."-N.Y. Times. "Warm, witty, lively and. terrific!"-AP. "A show of tremendous musicality and great wit." -Variety. $7.00. CD (2 disks), $46.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please note: Jerry's Girls must be produced with only the material in the New York production. No additions or deletions of any sort are permitted. Productions must adhere in every way to the published material. (#12610) JEWISH GIRLZ. (High School and Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Elizabeth Swados. 10-12 f. (8-10 teens, 2 adults). Int. During a weekend retreat sponsored by two female rabbis, the atmosphere in the country log cabin evolves from shyness and contempt into a tell-all session among adolescent Jewish girls from all types of families and backgrounds. Stories and songs transcend stereotypes to find individuality, heart and humor and to touch on sensitive issues such as pressure, self-esteem, the fast pace of this decade and what it means to be a girlnot just a Jewish girl-in modem society. Meet the loner with the inflatable mattress, the rich girl, the observant young woman with the gay brother, the anarchist, the all too mature teen and an intriguing mix of other vivid personalities. Songs range from contemporary pop tunes to upbeat numbers based on religious liturgy, all by the author of Runaways, The Red Sneaks and other legendary musicals for young casts. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#12586) JOHNNY GUITAR. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Nicholas van Hoogstraten. Music by Martin Silvestri. Lyrics and Music by Joel Higgins. Based on the Republic picture Johnny Guitar. 6 m., 2 f. (with doubling) plus 4 musicians. Unit set with added pieces. This laugh-filled musical based on the legendary Joan Crawford cult western embraces and sends up fifties-style movie acting, melodramatic romance and rough-and-tumble cowboy action. Featuring a se~nsational score with

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echoes of doo-wop and steamy southwestern ballads, Johnny Guitar tells the story of a sultry saloon keeper and her jealous nemesis, the town's tycoon. When a handsome stranger with a secret past rides into town, the stage is set for a hilarious showdown unlike anything the Old West-or the theatre-has ever seen! "Bravo! Johnny Guitar works, joyously!"-N.Y. Post. "Screwy fun! A rip-snorting, bang 'em up, rootin', tootin' good time!" --WaR Radio. "Staged with the agreeable goofiness of a Mel Brooks spoof."-Newsday. "A tuneful, family friendly musical." -N. Y. Times. "Couldn't be funnier. This perlectly shaped musical delivers the goods."-Danbury News-Times. "A must-see! You'll find yourself guffawing out loud!"-Next Magazine. $7.00. CD, $17.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#12663) JOHNNY JOHNSON. (All Groups.) Musical drama. Book and Lyrics by Paul Green. Music by Kurt Weill. 49 m., 6 f., extras. Var. scenes. This dramatic fable is the story of a common man faced with the problems of war and peace. A bumbling young American soldier with a tank of laughing gas sets forth like Don Quixote to conquer the enemy. Like that knight he has some hilarious as well as sobering adventures. The staging of Johnny's saga offers abundant opportunity for experimental interpretation, colorful effects and choreographic creativity. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#12026) JOLSON AND COMPANY. (Little Theatre.) Musical biography. Stephen Mo Hannan and Jay Berkow. 2 m., 1 f. This musical captures on stage the story of America's greatest entertainer during his years as a star in the 1920s and Ills comeback in the 1940s. While Al Jolson recalls colorlul moments from his life during an interview, two actors play all of the other characters, including some show business luminaries and his wives, Ruby Keeler among them. The vivid memories-his mother, vaudeville, Broadway, feature films and five marriages-together with unforgettable renditions of "Swanee," "You Made Me Love You," "Sonny Boy," "California Here I Come," "April Showers," "Mammy" and other 101son standards made this sparkling bio-musical a hit Off-Broadway and in London. "An intelligent and winning musical . . . that brought cheers and applause. . . . Does justice to the man and his music."-N.Y. Times. "It's impossible not to enjoy ... . There is both charm and humor and it flows incredibly well dramatically . . . . Highly recommended."-nytheatre.com. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Mu(#12910) sic available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. JOSEPH. (All Groups.) Religious musical. Book by Earl Reimer. Music and Lyrics by Marshall Lawrence. Large, flexible cast. Multiple sets. This exciting musical by a popular playwright of Christian drama takes a fresh look at the fascinating story of Joseph and his brothers. The dynamic musical score runs the gamut from poignant to campy. Joseph delights audiences wherever it plays with its contemporary script and engaging, tuneful music. $5.25. (Royalty, $100-$75.) Choral package (2 Piano/Conductor's Scores and 20 Vocal Scores) is available upon receipt a $60 Rental Fee plus a refundable deposit of $50. A perusal score may be obtained for 14 days upon receipt of a $15 deposit. (#12053) JOYCE DYNEL. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Robert Patrick. 16 m., 7 f. A phantasmagoria-a party on the lower East Side where the life of Christ is perlormed by a lover crazed poet. All the guests are pulled into the play, which examines the effect Christianity has had on our romantic relationships. Wildly funny and touching. Winner, Show Business Best Play Award, 1969. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Thea(#12004) tricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Write for information about music. JUDITH VIORST'S LOVE AND SHRIMP. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Lyrics by Judith Viorst. Music by Shelly Markham. 3 f. Bare stage. In songs and poems and musings, with wit and wisdom and rue, three women take us on an emotional journey from young to not-so-young, from dumb to not-so-dumb, from single to married, from parenthood to upper eyelid droop. Set in the living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and car pools of our imagination (in actuality, on three stools), Love and Shrimp examines the often hilarious and sometimes painful clashes between expectations and our realities. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#14198) JUNO. (Little Theatre.) Musical drama. Book by Joseph Stein. Music and Lyrics by Marc Blizstein. Based on the play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey. 9 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Ints.lexts. or unit set. New York's Vineyard Theatre revivified this nearly lost musicalization ofO'Casey's play. Set in a Dublin slum in the 1920s during a flare-up Irish-English hostilities, Juno is about an idler who would rather drink with buddies than do an honest day's work, his good wife Juno, his daughter and his lame son who may be involved with the I.R.A. Suddenly, good fortune visits them. A lawyer from England informs Jack that he is the beneficiary of a large sum of money. Jack begins to live like a king on credit, until he learns that there will be no money coming after all. "A well-made musical in which the songs and the dialogue are woven together with impressive fluency." --N. Y. Times. "There's great humanity here, and above all a lustrous score. . . . An absorbing and ultimately touching event." -Star-Ledger. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#12647) JUST SO. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Mark St. Germain. Lyrics by David Zippel. Music by Doug Katsaros. 5 m., 2 f. Simple settings. This clever musical comedy based on Kipling's "Just So Stories" is the perlect family show. The characters include the Magician who created the dawn and all the animals, which include the Camel, the Giraffe, the Rhino, the Elephant, the Leopard and last, and for quite a while certainly least: Man.. In revue style, we see Kipling's charming

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fables about how the giraffe got his neck, how the camel got his hump, how the leopard got his spots, etc. The music is quite delightful, ranging from ballads to soft rock to blues. This is a wonderful show for kids of all ages, and adults will enjoy it, too. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Musical available on rental. See p. 231.) (#12048) KING MACKEREL & THE BLUES ARE RUNNING. Songs and Stories of the Carolina Coast. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Bland Simpson and Jim Wann with don Dixon and J.L. Mills. 3 m. set Simple set. Tall tales and rollicking songs in the Diamond Studs and Pump Boys and Dinettes tradition transport audiences to the Outer Banks for a pleasant spate of fun and fishing. Staging a benefit concert to save the Comcake Inlet Inn, the lively cast of fishermen-musicians sing up a storm, tell fish stories and ghost stories, and relate accounts of first loves and ones that got away. "A pure salt-watered delight. .... For a near vacation experience, it would be hard to beat."-NY. Times. "Pump Boy's cousin gives a good taste of the Carolina coast. . . . A breezy, whimsical musical review . . . . [that is] the next best thing to a trip to the coast."-Wall Street Journal. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape avililable on request. (#13047) KING OF SCHNORRERS. Musical comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Judd Woldin. See Index under Petticoat Lane. KING'S RHAPSODY. Operetta. Ivor Novello. Lyrics by Christopher Hassall. 18 m., 10 f. 7 int., 2 ext. $8.95. Vocal Score, $12.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#13015) KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Terrence McNally. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the novel by Manuel Puig. 15 m., 3 f. Int. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Broadway Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle. Cell mates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress (played by Chita Rivera and Vanessa Williams) with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss. "Thrilling."-NY. Times. "Compelling, beautiful, funny and moving [with] . . . a poetic charge."-NY. Daily News. "C.reates an entire world out of a prison cell. . . . Dazzling. "-Newsweek. "Capture[s] the magic musicals were meant for."-Wall Street Journal. "[A] show with a wild heart and a fresh eye."-NY. Newsday. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $18.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#13050) KUDZU: A SOUTHERN MUSICAL. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Herrick, Doug Marlette and Bland Simpson. Based on the comic strip Kudzu by Doug Marlette. 11 m. (with doubling), 3 f. Exts. Kudzu is the story of a boy who comes of age against the changing face of the American South. Like the comic strip from which it is adapted, this musical celebrates the values, humor and original characters still found in disappearing rural America. "Kudzu has everything from down-home clogging to tangos right out of the silent cinema, from gospel choirs to a capella quartets . . . . Deliriously funny."-Raleigh News and Observer. "A joyous musical score and delicious satire."-Boston Globe. "An improbably good stage doppelganger for Mr. Marlette's amusing strip."-Washington Times .. $7.00. CD, $17.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#13622) KUNI-LEML. (All Groups.) Musical farce. Book by Nahma Sandrow. Music by Raphael Crystal. Lyrics by Richard Engquist. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This gem garnered the Outer Critics' Circle awards for best book, best music, best lyrics and best OffBroadway musical. A tale of young lovers defying tradition-in this case the arranged match of the young heroine to the ultimate schlemiel, Kuni-Leml is classic Yiddish farce. A family musical with universal appeal, it is bright, modem, and easy to produce. "A kind of vestpocket equivalent of Fiddler on the Roof . .. A warm and high-spirited evening of comedy . . . . Kuni-Leml is an expertly crafted tuneful presentation. " -N. Y. Times. ' 'An outrageously delightful musical farce."-NY. Daily News. "I dare you to leave Kuni-Leml without a big smile on your face. "-WABC Radio. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#13620) KURT VONNEGUT'S GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER. Musical satire. Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Alan Menken. Additional Lyrics by Dennis Green. 10 m., 4 f. (principals-also double smaller roles). Extras, musicians. Var. ints. and exts. "One of Vonnegut's most affecting and likable novels becomes an affecting and likable theatrical experience, with more inventiveness, cockeyed characters, high-muzzle-velocity dialogue and just plain energy that you get from the majority of playwrights."-Newsweek. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#630) LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. (Little Theatre.) M~ical. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman. Based on the play by Jean Poiret. 7 m., 3 f., chorus of 10 m., 2 f., plus extras. Var. sets. Winner of the 1984 Tony Award. One of the all-time biggest Broadway hits, La Cage aux Foiles adds new dimensions to the boulevard comedy about homosexuals whose twenty years of domestic tranquility are shattered when a son, fathered during a one-night fling, decides to marry the daughter of a bigoted politician. Albin and Georges run a transvestite nightclub in

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St. Tropez, where Albin is the featured performer Zaza. Georges agrees to masquerade as "normal" when he meets the father of the bride-to-be, with hilarious results. "This is Jerry Herman's best musical yet-happier, more assertive, more buoyant than Hello Dolly! or Mame."-N.Y. Post. "The schmaltziest, most old-fashioned major musical since Annie. Highly enjoyable."-NY. Times. "Carry your maiden aunt off to La Cage aux Foiles . ... It's a family show, . . . a glittering, faststepping extravaganza."-NY. Daily News. Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. $7.00. Vocal Selections: $9.95. Vocal Score, $50.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#637) LA PERICHOLE. (All Groups.) Comic operetta. Original libretto by H. Meilhac and L. Halevy. New libretto by John Grimsey and Phil Park. New lyrics by Phil Park. Music by Jacques Offenbach, adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer. 17 principals, extras, chorus. 2 ints.!l ext. Available from the Archives, $25.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) . (#14032) LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL. (Little Theatre.) Musical drama. Lanie Robertson. 1 m. piano player, 1 f., 2 musicians. Bare stage. The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday's last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music. "The richest jazz singing in town just now is at [this] subtle absorbing dramatic performance. . . . Evokes all the sordidness of a woman entirely shaped by suffering. . . . By the end . . . one is filled with an unexpected joy. . . . Robertson's play is a spare, shrewdly constructed piece." -N Y. Times. "Hurts and exhilarates in just the right proportions."-New York Magazine. "Original and riveting."-London Times. "A searing portrait of a woman whose art was triumphant."-On Stage. $7.00. Vocal Selections: Billie Holiday Anthology, $19.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#13881) available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. LANGSTON HUGHES'S LITTLE HAM. A Harlem Jazzical. (Black Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Dan Owens. Music by Judd Woldin. Lyrics by Richard Engquist and Judd Woldin. Based on the play Little Ham by Langston Hughes. From a concept by Eric Krebs. 8 m., 6 f. Various sets. Love and loyalty in the heyday of the 1930's Harlem renaissance, a tale set to a bubbling jazz score, won rave reviews Off Broadway. The downtown mob is threatening to take over the uptown numbers game. Only Hamlet Hitchcock Jones, known as Little Ham, stands in their way. A smooth operator with big dreams and fast feet, he rallies his neighbors and wins his lady love. "An uptown Guys and Dolls! A jazzy musical bauble with sass and charm [and] a high-spirited melodious score with terrific lyrics. . . . The level of sophistication is through the roof."-NY. Times. "A snappy score [and] rousing numbers."-NY. Daily News. "A gem! A musical extravaganza . . . [with] marvelous lyrics and foot-tapping music. Delicious."-N.Y. Amsterdam News. "Jubilant! "-Newsday. "The effortlessly tuneful jazz score [is] the best of its kind in years! "-Time Magazine. $7.00. CD, $17.95. (Terms quoted on applica(#13783) tion. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE LAST SESSION. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Jim Brochu. Music and Lyrics by Steve Schalchlin. Additional Lyrics by John Bettis and Marie Cain. 3 m., 2 f. Int. An Off-Broadway sensation, The Last Session gathers a swinging group in a recording studio to lay down a pop/gospel idol's last album. With one exception, these are old friends (including an ex-wife) and the session is full of warmth, wit and incredible music. The mix is somewhat altered by a Bible-thumping, homophobic gospel singer who is there to replace the one no-show of the regular back-up singers. All of them, even the sound mixer in the glass booth, are deeply connected to Gideon yet are unaware that he plans to end his struggle with AIDS after the session. Harmony is restored through friendship and the power of music. "Exquisite."-NY. Times. "Very affecting . . . . Bright and funny."-NY. Post. "Funny [with] charm and power."-NY. Daily News. "The script is full of biting humor [and] the music is incredible . . . . Guaranteed to move you both musically and emotionally."-MTV Online. "Stirs every emotion in your body."-Outlook Magazine. "Powerful. . . . It touches the heart and tickles the funnybone."-Forefront Magazine. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#13833) THE LAST SUPPER. (All Groups.) Inspirational musical. Music and Vocal Arrangements by Gary William Friedman. Book and Lyrics by Thomas Mitz. Based on an original concept by Andy Krey. 14 m., 3 f. plus vocalist(s). Int. Leonardo da Vinci has been commissioned to create a mural of The Last Supper and it is his first attempt at painting in ten years. He fears he has lost his artistic vision by squandering his gifts. An angel/muse inspires him to invoke the Apostles and ultimately their last meal with Jesus. By discovering what each individual was thinking and feeling at the moment of crisis, Leonardo confronts his own betrayal and learns that through love and faith he can rediscover the vision of divine inspiration and the purpose of life. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#13831) THE LAST SWEET DAYS OF ISAAC. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer. Music by Nancy Ford. 1 m., 1 f. This two-part, two-person rock musical won four top awards. Acclaimed by New York critics as the freshest musical since Hair, it is a sad and funny spoof of computerized claustrophobia in a world where one mechanical breakdown can end it all. In the first act, Isaac and Ingrid are trapped in an elevator. They talk, make a fumbling try at sex and depart. In the

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second act, Isaac is in jail with a television that sends and receives pictures. Alice is in the next cell. Though Isaac and Alice can only see each other through their television screens, they try to communicate. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on appli(#14038) cation. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) LATE NITE COMIC. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Allan Knee. Music and Lyrics by Brian Gari. 1 m., 1 f. principals plus 6 or more to play var. roles. 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. "A winning score [with) vibrant words and music . . . . Gari's most engaging work to date."-Rupert Holmes. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request.

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS musical set in London and New York. When Samantha "Sam" Scott, an American street entertainer cum actress, arrives at Alan Shaw's small London apartment expecting to marry his ex-lodger, Alan and his young daughter Jodie are in for a big surprise. Sam moves in and tranquility moves out. Alan is a music copyist who writes musicals in his spare time. Sam's often less than helpful encouragement actually precipitates a production of his work The Way Back. It lures star Helen Robins out of retirement and the West End beckons. And that's when the nightmare really begins. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#24985) LOVE FROM JUDY. Musical. Book by Eric Maschwitz and Jean Webster. Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Jack Gray. Music by Hugh Martin. 7 m., 8 f., 4 c., dancers, singers, extras. Var. sets. In manuscript. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#14137) LOVE WITH A TWIST-Four O. Henry Musical Cocktails. (All Groups.) Musical. Simple sets. Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 3 - 8 m., 3 - 7 f. Short stories by O. Henry have never been so charmingly and hilariously staged. The Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf, The Love-Philtre of [key Schoenstein and The Marry Month of May are interlinked into a series of overlapping tales. Each is introduced with a minioverture of seasonal music. The finale, with all characters filling you in on what happened to them after their tales ended, is worth the price of admission. The characters are unforgettable, the dialogue is sparkling with wit, and the songs are sensational. $7.00. (Royalty, $60-$50). Music available on receipt of a refundable (#672) $25 deposit plus a music rental fee of $25. LOVELY LADIES, KIND GENTLEMEN. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by John Patrick; based on his play Teahouse of the August Moon and the book by Vern J. Sneider. Music and Lyrics by Stan Freeman and Franklin Underwood. East meets West in the classic comedy about American occupation forces and wily Japanese villagers. "A bright, engaging musical."-N.Y. Daily News. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#14136) LOVESONG. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Music by Michael Valenti. Lyrics by a host of lyricists, from Sir Walter Raleigh to A.E. Housman to Elsa Rael. 2 m., 2 f. Unit set. "The most melodic, original music heard this side of Richard Rodgers, Lovesong is not only an incredible piece of musical theatre, but it's tasteful, exciting, funny and very beautiful. There are 26 songs in the show, and you want to go out humming all of them."-Cue Magazine. $7.00. CD, $17.50. For future release.

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LEND AN EAR. (All Groups.) Musical revue. Sketches, Music and Lyrics by Charles Gaynor. 10 m., 11 f. One of the all-time great revues that featured in New York the dancing of such unknowns as Carol Channing and Gene Nelson in a sketch about a company of "Gladiola Girl" which the Shuberts had sent out into the sticks in 1925 and then lost track of. Miss Channing smashed them again in the finale as a diva in an opera company that economized by doing away with the orchestra. "Refreshing, fast, funny, tuneful, youthful hit."-N.Y. Daily News. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#14056) LITTLE BY LITTLE. (All Groups.) Musical. Music by Brad Ross. Lyrics by Ellen Greenfield. Lyrics by Hal Hackady. Story by Annette Jolles and Ellen Greenfield. I m., 2 f. Simple sets. This delightful story, told all in song, traces the lives of three friends who have know each other since childhood. It chronicles the emotional traps that catch us all as we confront the hilarity and heart-break of living and loving. "A lot of fun . . . . A refreshing, intimate show."-N.Y. Post. "Charming . . . . You actually care which girl will get the guy." Village Voice. "Appealing."-Time Out. "Sharp and sassy . . . . You leave the theatre feeling buoyant." Miami Herald. "This little musical makes a big impression." -Palm Beach Post. "A beguiling journey in which we recognize ourselves every step of the way."-Miami SunSentinel. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#14714) rental. See p. 231.) LITTLE HAM. See Langston Hughes's Little Ham LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE. (All Groups.) Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Besoyan. 6 m., 3 f. extras. One of the most successful Off-Broadway shows ever produced, this musical played to packed houses for nearly three years and won every award. It is a loving lampoon of old-time operettas that is an American institution and an international favorite. "The burlesque is delightful, lively and humorous." -N. Y. Times. "Bubbles with music and mirth."-N.Y. Herald Tribune. "Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences. Audiences shout with laughter."-Time Magazine. $7.00. Vocal Score, $30.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#8) LITTLE WOMEN. (All Groups.) Musical play. John Ravold. Music by Geoffrey O'Hara. Lyrics by Frederick Howard. 4 m., 6 f. Int. In manuscript (full vocal score and libretto combined), $25.00. (Royalty, $25 per performance.) Please state musical when ordering. (#14100) LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Bernard Miles, adapted from Henry Fielding'S Rape Upon Rape. Lyrics by Lionel Bart. Music by Laurie Johnson. 15 m., 4 f. A story of elopement in eighteenth-century London, Lock Up Your Daughters was a London hit that has enjoyed a major, successful revival. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $12.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#14112) available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted Metropolitan NYC. LOVE AND SHRIMP. See Judith Viorst's Love and Shrimp. LOVE BITES. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. The Heather Brothers. 2 m., 2 f., I f. child. Ints. Opposites attract and love blossoms in this bitter-sweet rock and roll

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LUST. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by The Heather Brothers. 19 m., 12 f. (doubling possible.) Unit set. Following the smash-hit success A Slice of Saturday Night, The Heather Brothers collaborated on this wildly entertaining musical which premiered in London at the Theatre Royal. Based on William Wycherly's comedy of the 1660s, The Country Wife, Lust is a rollicking anything-goes musical farce that follows the tireless sexual exploits of a handsome young rake. "Deliciously smutty and clever. . . . An operatic: orgasm!"-Variety. "Three words describe Lust: FA . . . BU . . . LOUS!"-Philadelphia Daily News. "Good, clean, smutty, sophisticated fun." -Coity Paper. "Hurrah for Lust . .. bright wonderful, rollicking."-Wilmington News Journal. "Lust is a must."-Daily Mirror. "The funniest West End musical around. "-Guardian. "Huge fun from beginning to end . . . . Absolutely shameless . . . . A triumph. "-Financial Times. "A full scale romp. . . . A most enjoyable cross between a bedroom farce and a satire on pomposity and hypocrisy. "-Daily Express. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#14710) available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. LUST 'N' RUST: The Trailer Park Musical. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Frank Haney, Carol Kimball and Dave Stratton. 5 m., 4 f. Can the new manager of the Agribig find love with the soon-to-be divorced waitress at Smitlie's Diner? The intriguing loves and heartaches of residents at the Red Bud Mobile Estates in Twister Plaines, Illinois are revealed in an appealing story with quirky characters and fourteen original alternative country songs. "Feisty and stirring country music."-Chicago Tribune. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#13808) available on rental. See p. 231.) MACK AND MABEL. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Based on an idea by Leonard Spigelglass. Book by Michael Stewart. Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman. 10 m., 5 f., extras. Various sets. Now available in a revised version that contains changes made for the London revival that won the Evening Standard's coveted Drama Award for Best Musical, this saga of the silent film era is the story of legendary director Mack Sennett and his greatest star, the adorable Mabel Normand. It is told in flashback by Mack Sennett himself as the protagonist-narrator and he opens a broken man, made obsolete by talkies, having to sell his studio, and reminiscing about the past. He recalls his triumphs and his turbulent love affair with Mabel. He loves her, but never tells her. She leaves him for a drug-pushing director; and, engulfed by cocaine, she dies an early . tragic death. "Mr. Herman has the common touch, a gift for melodies . . . familiar and memorable. . . . A musical in the old and true tradition."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $9.95. CD, $17.50. Silent Film Clips available from Killiam Shows, 500 Greenwich St., Suite 501A, NY, NY 10013. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slight(#681) ly Restricted. THE MAD SHOW. Musical revue. Book by Larry Siegel and Stan Hart. Lyrics by Marshall Barer, Larry Siegel and Steven Vinaver. Music by Mary Rodgers. 3 m., 2 f.

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS (flexible). The pages of Mad Magazine come to life in this insanely funny and tuneful revue which spoofs everything from television commercials to the generation gap. Mad's Academy Awards for the not-so-greats of parenthood and self-help primers like How to Be President are interspersed with zany original sketches. Many of the outlandish songs are show-stoppers. $7.00. Slides, $11.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music and sound effects tape available on rental. See p. 231.) (#15019) MAGGIE FLYNN. (AU Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, Music, Lyrics by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George D. Weiss, et al. 12 m., 6 f. principals. Maggie runs an asylum for Negro children orphaned by the Civil War. She is fond of a Union office and nearly weds him, when from out of the past wanders her vagabond husband who left her to play Hamlet and returns as a circus clown. The Confederate insurgents stage the riots and sneak guns into the area for further violence. But in a rip-roaring finale they are quelled and true love finds its way to the heart. $7.00. (#15029) (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE MAGIC PEBBLE. Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Nancy Kierspe Carlson. Music by Elizabeth W. Chapman. See Index for description. MAIL. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Jerry Colker. Music by Michael Rupert. 9 m., 6 f., 2 sets. Mail piles up for months while Alex, an unpublished author, slips away to escape anxieties over his artistic and romantic problems. When he returns to open the accumulation, each letter springs to life. Alex's girl friend, his family and his best friend-even those sending bills and hilarious junk mail-fill the stage with song and dance. This is a wild and wacky musical by the authors of 3 Guys Naked/rom the Waist Down. "A least 12 songs are solid enough to stand on their own. If Mail can't deliver, there is little hope for the future of the musical theatre. "-Drama-Logue. "Make room for the theatre's newest musical geniuses."-The Same. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#15199) MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF. (All Groups.) Musical. Words by John Clifton and Ben Tarver. Music by John Clifton. 3 m., 3 f. A fanciful tale of romance and intrigue in a nineteenth-century English inn, this sprightly musical brought critics' kudos. "Perfectly charming."-N.Y. Times. "An instant delight. . . . Few composers could equal this score."-Cue. In manuscript. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quot(#15047) ed on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS. Musical. William Finn. 3 m., I f., I m. child. Unit set. "Has an exhilarating champagne tang . . . . In an operatic mode, sans dialogue, Finn ... unveils the bitter-sweet saga of Marvin, who divorces his wife to be with his male lover. . . . In astringency and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim."-Time. "One feels the unmistakable charge of pure talent."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Also see Falsettos. (#15055) THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. (All Groups.) Musical Mystery. 8 m., 4 f. Int. Music and Lyrics by Thom Racina. The previously untold story of Sherlock Holmes and the Black Pearl of the Borgias finds Holmes considering giving up criminal investigation until Countess von Hassenfeffer engages him to find the Black Pearl. The hunt unearths clues which ultimately points to The Creepy Salami, the villain, and his accomplice, Helga the maid. However justice triumphs delightfully in this musical mystery for children. In manuscript. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#15062) MA YOR. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Music and Lyrics by Charles Strouse. Book by Warren Leight. Based on Mayor by Edward I. Koch. 4 m., 4 f. Bare stage. If you love New York--{)r if you hate it-you will be sure to enjoy this peppy show, which is as much about life in the Big Apple as it is about the Mayor. Virtually every aspect of the social and political life of New York City is genially lampooned, and the result is an entertaining evening-even for audiences who wouldn't be able to tell Ed Koch from Frank Perdue! "An extremely entertaining blend of polemic, satire, song and dance."-Women's Wear Daily. "While Mayor Koch has been called many things by his fans and detractors, adjectives like 'genial, mild' and 'sweet' have generally not been among them. It's those words, however, that most accurately describe both Mayor and the character it places center stage." -N. Y. Times. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $8.95. (Tenns quoted on application. Music avail(#15192) able on rental. See p. 231.) ME AND MY GIRL. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber. Music by Noel Gay. Book revised by Stephen Fry. II m., 8 f., chorus. Var. sets. This grand old (1938) musical was revived in London in 1984 and came to New York in 1986. The late Viscount Hareford had a youthful, unfortunate marriage-and kept discreetly out of sight was a son and heir. The Hareford Hall set are despondent when the family solicitor finds the legitimate heir in Lambeth. There is a cockney invasion of the haIl-Bill, his girlfriend and his mates, and the Lambeth Walk is danced by all. "Has uncorked the innocence of the old-fashioned musical comedy so ingenuously that for once a theatre goer is actually sucked directly into that sunny past rather than merely suckered into nostalgia for it."-N.Y. Times. "A honey. It has humor, music, dancing, charm, wit and a deft expertise and that takes your heart away."-N.Y. Post. "The freshest and funniest musical to hit Broadway in ages."-Newsweek. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $8.95. CD,

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$17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#15197) ME, MYSELF AND I. (Little Theatre.) Musical. 1 m., 3 f. Int. Book and Lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn. Music by Paul Todd. Mrs. Mary Yately is no run-of-the-mill housewife-she has been chosen by the Evening Echo as Mum of the Year. And, Mrs. Yately is no ordinary character in this brilliantly inventive new musical by Britain's comic master-she is three separate personalities, played by three actresses. One actor plays all the men in Mary's life, all of whom are, shall we say, not on this world to make her life easier. "We know that Alan Ayckbourn writes more ingenious comedies than anyone else. Now, he is starting to write more ingenious musicals as well. Me, Myself and I offers more civilized pleasure than any other British musical I've seen this year."-London Guardian. "Splendid, galloping music and rapid-fire lyrics."-London Standard. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. (#15198) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE ME NOBODY KNOWS. (All Groups.) Musical. Music by Gary William Friedman. Lyrics by Will Holt. Adapted by Robert Livingston and Herb Schapiro. Based on the book The Me Nobody Knows edited by Stephen M. Joseph. Additional lyrics by Herb Schapiro. Arrangements and orchestration by Gary William Friedman. 12 m. and f. (age 12 to 25). A New York hit, this insightful musical sets the writings of ghetto children-their reflections, dreams and observations of the life around them-to a semi-rock score. As the kids sing, dance, speak, mock, enjoy, resent, understand, reject and love, they create an irresistible evocation that excites and finally overwhelms with its power. "One of the best musicals on Broadway."-N.Y. Times. "An unforgettablejoy."-N.Y. Post. In manuscript. CD, $17. 50. Vocal Selections, $9.95. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#689) THE MERRY WIDOW. (All Groups.) Operetta. Book and Lyrics by Charles George. Music by Franz Lehar. Special version. 6 m., 12 f. Flexible chorus. Int. All the world-famous songs have been retained, embellished with new lyrics that critics believe to be the best words ever to the Lehar score. There's a new story of a dashing European prince and his romance with a beautiful American widow. The comedy is clever and wholesome and is not difficult to cast or stage. Libretto and Vocal Score, $6.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Eleven-piece orchestration-an all new arrangement-available on rental, $10 each perfonnance plus $25 refundable deposit. (#15090) MIDSUMMER NIGHTS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Bryan D. Leys. Music by Kevin Kuhn. 6 m., 8 f. Unit set. Here is Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream crossed with Grease and Beach Blanket Bingo to create a wacky musical that is narrated by beach-bum Puck. He is backed up by a chorus of three girls in bikinis: Moth, Blossom and Cobweb. The young lovers are high school kids, an archetypal nerd and an air-head. Theseus is the high school coach and Oberon and Titania have been re-cast as delightfully out of place beatniks. Shakespeare's basic plot fits right into American sixties culture to fonn a delightful show that is ideal for high school and college productions. "A frothy show with lively tunes and some sassy and clever lyrics."-N.Y. Times. "Charming ... lively and cute. A great deal of fun."-Newark Star-Ledger. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#14953) THE MIKADO. Band Accompaniment and Production Guide. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's operetta. Now any band of moderate skill can provide rich, fullsound accompaniment and still be in balance with the most underdeveloped solo voice. The parts are clear, easy to read, accurate and authentic. In addition-there is available the most complete and accurate production guide compiled by an expert on traditional Gilbert and Sullivan movements. It contains all infonnation necessary for a successful production-and allows the most inexperienced director to mount an authentic traditional perfonnance with ease. Libretto, $6.50. Chorus books, $5.00 each. Complete Vocal Score, $14.50. Rental band arrangement one month, $35 (each additional month $25, plus $50 refundable deposit.) Rental fee for guide two months, $25 each additional month, $10, plus $25 Refundable Deposit. Write for particulars. (#15100) MINNIE'S BOYS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher. Music by Larry Grossman. Lyrics by Hal Hackady. A madcap musical based on the lives of the Marx Brothers. But it's much more than that. It's touching, song-filled celebration of a show business legend and about gutsy, tender, Minnie Marx who started it all. It is the warm and rollicking story of this extraordinary woman who gave birth to a generation of laughter in the fonn of the maddest, merriest quintet that ever drove a mother wild and then proceeded to do the same with audiences throughout the world. This is their story-and Minnie's. Such hit songs as "Mama a Rainbow", "Rich Is", "He Gives Me Love" and "Minnie's Boys'Theme" are heard on radio and television daily. With "Minnie's Boys", audiences are in for a most melodious, loony and lovely evening. In manuscript. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#15107) MIRACLE IN MEMPHIS. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Dorothy Velasco. Lyrics by James Giancarlo, Dorothy Velasco and Malcolm Lowe. Music by Malcolm Lowe. 1 m., 4 f. Unit set plus fragmentary pieces. Jolene and Earl can't even have a baby until Jolene's mama tells her to pray at Elvis's grave. It's a miracle! Jolene is chosen to bear Elvis's posthumous child. Jolene and Earl move into Graceland Mobile Estates where they meet Ruby, a temptress who looks surprisingly like Dolly Parton. When Jolene gives birth to a baby girl (played by an

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adult), life becomes complicated for these naive heroes. Presley Ann, the miracle child, quickly grows into a resentful teenager and Jolene alienates everyone, but finally learns she can be somebody worthwhile on her own. Miracle in Memphis is hilarious for Elvis lovers and everyone else. "Energy, creativity, and a broad appeal to all kinds of audiences." -Philadelphia Reporter. "A smashing hit." -Ashland Daily Courier. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#15269) MONEY, POWER, MURDER, LUST, REVENGE, AND MARVELOUS CLOTHES. Spoof. (All Groups.) Book by Tim Kelly. Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey. 6 m., 8 f., optional large chorus. The ridiculous plot excesses of prime-time soap operas are outdone in this hilarious musical. Even the songs are a scream in the soap opera Destiny! which details how plain and poor Destiny Mink becomes fabulously beautiful and wickedly wealthy. "Intriguing plots and subplots have been included in this great put-on."-California Enterprise. "Bubbly . . . . If you love-or better yet-hate those lavish nighttime soaps, you're bound to enjoy. The writers . . . have made an art fonn of the schnoz joke!"-News Chronicle. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Piano/Conductor's Score available on receipt of a $60 rental fee and a $50 refundable deposit. 9-part Orchestration available on receipt of $90 Rental Fee and a $35 refundable deposit. (#15186) MOTHER EARTH. (All Groups.) Musical. Sketches and Lyrics by Ron Thronson. Music by Toni Tennille. A rock musical based on man's ill-spent use of his environment, consists of a series of sketches for ten young and attractive people. The sketches are spoofs of General Motors and other sometimes ecological mobsters; a sketch on a television quiz show called "Killatron" comes near to lauding suicidean ecological reality with twists of irony and satirical bravura. In manuscript. (Tenns (#15134) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) MUSICAL CHAIRS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Barry Berg, Ken Donnelly and Tom Savage. Music and Lyrics by Tom Savage. Based on an original story concept by Larry 1. Pontillo, 8 m., 8 f. int. + apron. This bright show is about an audience watching a play. Joe Preston has not had a hit in years, and is hoping his new play will revive his career. He is at the mercy of an off-Broadway audience consisting of two typical "grey-haired matinee ladies", a married couple who fight all the time, an anxious young man waiting for his date, an illiterate rock singer trying to impress his date with some culture, a Texas business man and his culturevulture wife and three critics-one of whom hates Preston's work and another who begged his editor not to assign him to his show because Sam, his lover who recently jilted him, is in the cast. Poor Joe Preston! .Marvelous music, hysterical comedy and at least 6 showstoppers make this a surefire winner! "It is clever, 'it is funny, it is original."-N.Y. Post. "A lively, entertaining musical."-Variety. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#150) MY HUSBAND THE WIFE. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Ira Rubin and Brady Rubin. Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. I m., I f., Int. When a staid attorney falls in love with a wacky younger man, little does she realize that this could lead to something drastic-marriage. He promises connubial equality, but what does equality mean? He goes from med student to house husband to his own career while she puts in 16-hour days at the office. They may be equal, but who has time to notice? Eventually, she thinks his late nights involve another woman and she starts singing a different tune. $7.00. Royalty, $50-$50. Write for particulars about music. (#15921) MY OLD FRIENDS. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Lyrics and Music by Mel Mandel and Nonnan Sachs. 7 m., 4 f. Int. At the Golden Years retirement hotel, there's a mixed bag of guests, a little romance, plenty of time for song, a little dancing and lots of jokes. "There isn't a more cheerful evening in town." -N. Y. Daily News. "Funny, handsomely melodious and totally delightful."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#729) MY SON THE ASTRONAUT. (All Groups.) Musical Comedy. Jack Sharkey. 3 m., 3 f. principals, 6 m. supporting roles, chorus and one monster. This wacky musical is about one George Kipple, whom his archetypal Jewish Mother likes to refer to as a "professional failure". George has never succeeded in anything; but he finally achieves success when he inadvertently becomes an astronaut to Mars, where he defeats the Red Nemesis (a monster who is decimating the Martians), gets the girl (his Earth sweetheart Miriam) and becomes a financial success to boot. Fans of Jack Sharkey are sure to love this show. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianolVocal Score available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per perfonnance. (#15172) NATURE'S HOUSE. Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Donal Davoren. Music by Frank Nelson. See Index for description. NELL OF THE OZARKS, or, "Tobacco Island Meets Treasure Road". (Community Theatre.) Musical melodrama. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey. 4 m., 4 f., plus chorus of 3 m., 3 f. Nell knows where Grandpa Ninny hid a pirate treasure. Seventeenth-century pirates, nineteenth-century mountain dwellers and a modem-day I.R.S. agent make hilarious attempts to get her to reveal its whereabouts in this zany audience pleaser that is full of hand-clapping show-stoppers. The finale, which combines a hideous fate for the prime villain and the triumph of true love will have your audience on its feet cheering with delight. Toe-tappingly tuneful and very, very humorous, this is excellent comic entertainment for the entire family. $7.00.

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianolVocal Score is available upon receipt of a $25 deposit, (#16077) plus a music rental Fee of $10 per perfOlmance. NELL'S BELLES. (All Groups.) Musical. Kjartan Poskitt. 35 m.and f. Simple sets. It's the swinging 1660s and King Charles II wants to keep it light-politics are a bore. Enter Nell Gwyn and other actors from Drury Lane. Charles is entranced by the saucy songs and cheeky antics these delectable characters use to enact events relating to the Great Fire and the Black Death. This hysterical and easily-staged rock and roll musical is the ideal way to make history fun for young audiences. $8.95. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#16583) A NEW BRAIN. Musical. (Little Theatre.) Music and Lyrics by William Finn. Book by William Finn and James Lapine. 3 m., 4 f. Int. By the Tony-award winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comic musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children's television show that features a frog - Mr. Bungee - and the specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce. "Jaunty [with] moments of captivating eccentricity."-N.Y. Times. "Apt and original . . . . A fascinating story."-N.Y. Post. "Filled with beguiling, buoyant melody [and] witty and original lyrics. . . . The kind of musical theatre invention we have corne to expect from this gifted artist."-InTheatre. Vocal Selections, $18.95. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#16593) NEW YORK ROCK. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Written and Composed by Yoko Ono. 8 m., 2 f. This allegorical rock musical weaves a tale of senseless violence, heart-wrenching despair and resurgenc:e of the human spirit. In New York, love blooms between a woman who has had to flee from an abusive husband and a budding rock musician whose mother was slain by street hoodlums. The lovers' developing relationship engenders an atmosphere of renewed optimism until urban violence erupts again, changing lives forever. The show ends with a cry for peace and hope. "Endearing and enjoyable. . . . You'll leave . . . buoyed up by the infectious tunefulness, gusto and life-enhancing merriment. . . . The tunes-and there are many of them-are lively and lilting, ear-tickling and foot-stomping." -New Yorker. "A personal coda to a defining 20th century tragedy [and] . . . an authentic document of survival."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#16665) A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE. (Advanced Groups.) Musical Revue. Act II of A Day in HollywoodiA Night in the Ukraine plus additional music for a full night's entertainment. See Index under full title for description. (#16057) NINE. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. Book by Arthur Kopit. Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston. Adaptation from the Italian by Mario Fratti. 1m., 22 f., 4 boys (or 10 m., 13 f., 4 boys). Unit set. This spectacular winner ofthel982 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2003 Tony for Best Musical Revival is based on Fellini's classic film 8 112. Nine is the story of a famous film director lmd his attempts to come up, with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life-which will become the material for his next film: a musical version of the Casanova story. "Rich and thrilling."-N.Y. Post. "A galloping fantasy [with aI ... ravishingly inventive and tuneful score. "-N. Y. Times. "Yeston's score comes across with extraordinary power."-N.Y. Daily News. "A startling act of the imagination, independence and daring; and, hence, a show to treasure." - WCBS- nf. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $17.95. CD, $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#784) THE 1940'S RADIO HOUR. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Walton Jones. Based on an idea by Walton Jones and Carol Lees. Music by various composers. 10 m., 5 f. Int. A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy" (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet-playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller. "Totally exhilarating hour of singing, dancing and funny commercials."-N.Y. Daily News. "This is fun with a capital fun." -ABC-TV. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music (#782) available on rental. See p. 231.) Not available in Canada. Posters NO MORE SECRETS: The Musical. Children's musical. Geraldine Ann Snyder and Paul Lenzi. See Index for description. "NO, NO, A MILLION TIMES NO!" (Only a Farmer's Daughter.) Melodrama. Book by Eskel Crawford. Lyrics and Music by Bud Tompkins. 4 m., 8 f. M. and f. chorus. I set. A wildly hilarious old-time melodrama with music! You'll get a good idea of the hilarity by reading over the list of songs which include: "No Mother to Guide Her" and "The Villain Still Pursued Her." Stafford Blackman lures Nellie Quackenbush, innocent farmer's daughter, to the big city for the purpose of wedlock (so she thinks!). But when Nell gets there, she senses he "won't do right by Nell"

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS and flees while she is still "pure as the driven snow" -returning to the farm and the arms of her country sweetheart, Noble Hart. There's several sub-romances running through the story. It's all screamingly funny, easy to cast and produce. A ideal feature item in a variety show or revue. Each book contains the full text with stage directions and the piano score of all the music. (Amateurs may produce this show free of royalty for one performance when purchasing at least 12 copies. $20 royalty for each additional performance.) $7.00. No orchestrations. (#768) NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Douglas 1. Cohen. Based on the novel by William Goldman. 2 m., 2 f. This theatrically charged musical comedy thriller about a publicity crazed actor turned killer and the endearing detective who pursues him is based on the best-selling novel that became a renowned movie. It is a devilish blend of humor, romance and murder with four meaty roles, two requiring great versatility: the killer adopts a myriad of disguises including a tango instructor, French waiter, female barfly and priest while one actress plays the detective's mother, the killer's mother and three of his victims. This winner of a 1987 Richard Rodgers grant was nominated for Best Revival by the New York Outer Critics Circle. "A fine way to treaf a musical! A real winner."-N.Y. Post. "Catchy tunes and snappy Iyrics."-N.Y. Times. "A lighthearted romp."-AP. "A fine and dandy way to treat an audience. . . . It should be on Broadway."-N.Y. Observer. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#16100) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. NOAH'S ANIMALS (All Groups.) Musical allegory. Book, Music and Lyrics by John Patrick. 10 m., 9 f (speaking parts). 8 m., 8 f (nonspeaking parts). I int.l2 exts. Old Captain Noah is frustrated. He and his wife are at odds about what could and should be done as to enticing an entire menagerie into his ark for their own selfpreservation. Pairs of animals arrive and complications arise about signing them up and finding them proper quarters. Only the intercession of a dynamic blues-singing angel spiced with written messages from the Lord helps to restore some semblance , of sanity to the situation. Then discrimination among the animals takes place. Unicorns and Griffins prefer to become extinct rather than associate with the likes of rats, skunks and others. But after forty days and nights, their stormy voyage on the ark is ended-and its passengers depart for a brave new world and new complications in accommodations on terra firma. "Completely charming . . . wise and witty." -St. John Drum, Virgin Islands. "Rib-tickling comedy and heartwarming inspiration."-Daily News, St. Thomas. $7.00. Sound Effects Tape, $10.00. (Terms (#16006) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) NOBODY LOVES A DRAGON. Children's musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by David Vos and Robert Gerlach. 5 m., I f, optional extras. Scored for one piano with musical sound effects. Various sets. Clarance, the golden-tailed dragon, is a peaceloving fellow who collects wild flowers and helps young Prince Robin with his homework and has poetry competitions with kindly old Sir Slipshod until. . . evil Sir Cad and his accomplice, Lady Sorrowell, a sorceress, pursue him for his golden tail. Clarence is captured and forced to fight for his life in a tournament at court. Everything comes out happily in the end in this delightful, whimsical fairy tale for both children and adults. The melodic score includes "Clarence, You're a Most Exasperating Dragon", and the tender title song. Written by the authors of the hilarious Broadway musical Something's Afoot. $7.00. (Terms quoted on applica(#16037) tion. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) NOBODY'S EARNEST. (All Groups.) Comedy with music. Music by Alec Wilder. Lyrics by Ethan Ayer. Adapted by Arnold Sundgaard from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. First produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, setting new house records for attendance. This hilarious comedy with music has lost none of the charm and outrageous wit of the original, while the lovely, tender score is matched by deft and telling lyrics. Both serve to enhance and heighten the play's ingenious comic invention. This story of double mistaken identities and impassioned romance has long been recognized as a masterpiece of farce as well as a shrewd commentary on Victorian society. A perennial favorite, this new musical version carries a similar appeal for a wide range of acting and musical talents. "Charming, tasteful, wonderfully beguiling. A delight."-Boston Globe. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#16036) NOEL AND GERTIE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Devised by Sheridan Morley from the words and music of Noel Coward. Arrangements by Jonathan Cohen. I m., I f, lon-stage pianist. Simple int. or bare stage. A triumph in London, this witty and moving show tells of the friendship between two of this century's greatest stage personalities: Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward. Although they only appeared in two productions together, Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30, they epitomized an era of style and elegance. The songs, sketches and snippets of scenes pieced together here have the entrancing effect of accurately portraying this remarkable duo and the era they helped to define. "Touching and memorable. . . . Morley helps us understand the nature of the tried and true friendship which bound them together through the years."-Daily Mail. "Best of all, for Coward-lovers, there are the clever and musically inventive songs."-Spectator. "Elegant and civilized."-Guardian. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#789) "NOT THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO?!" (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 2 m., I f. I set. 3 acts. Three ragtag actors trying to stage a musical version of The Count of Monte Cristo despite limited sets, funds and costumes provide music hall tomfoolery at its best. "Crammed with ridiculous dialogue, absurd situations and a virtual midway of

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Var. sets. A new teacher in a small midwestern town encounters fear, hypocrisy, jealousy and resentment because he is a conscientious objector. "What a lovely fresh musical this is. . . . Tuneful and thoughtful."-Cue. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music avail(#16046) able on rental. See p. 231.) NUNSENSE/NUNSENSE AMEN! (Little Theatre.) Musical. Dan Goggin. 5 f Unit set. Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off-Broadway Musical in its original New York production, this hilarious international hit was revived in New York with a male cast-Nunsense A-Men!. The show is a fund-raiser put on by tht; Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). This zany musical has been videotaped for television starring Rue McClanahan as the Mother Superior. "A hail of fun and frolic! Wacky and outrageous with a hysterical anything-goes sense of fun!"-N.Y. Times. "You don't have to be Catholic to love Nunsense!"-Entertainment Tonight. "Inspired madness! Go see it!"-Jewish Post and Opinion. "Guaranteed to lift your spirits . . . . Very, very funny."-National Catholic News. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $16.95. CD, $20.50. Video of television broadcast, $25.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#16074) NYMPH ERRANT. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book by Steve Mackes and Michael Whaley. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter. 1 m., 7 f. Various sets. This famous "lost" musical, a hit in London in the thirties and later a triumph for Gertrude Lawrence and Elizabeth Welch, was recently restaged to bravos in London. Its whimsical story follows innocent Evangeline Edwards as she bids farewell to a Swiss finishing school and sets off across Europe and looking for love and adventure. She gets into one scrape after another and is rescued by a series of unsuitable men (a French producer, Russian musician, Austrian nudist, Italian count, Greek magnate, Turkish Pasha and a eunuch-all played by the same actor). "The new script is full of delightful jokes [but] what makes the evening are Porter's jaunty and brilliantly witty songs. . . . A handful of hauntingly beautiful numbers can stand with Porter's finest love songs."-Daily Telegraph. "This is a treat."-London Sunday Times. "An upbeat winner."-CMB Observer. $7.00. (Terms quoted (#16118) on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) AN O. HENRY CHRISTMAS. (All Groups.) Christmas musical. Adaptation, Music and Lyrics by Peter Ekstrom. 2 m., 2 f (or 3 m., 3 0, I pianist. I simple set. Two heart-warming one-act Christmas musicals based on classic O. Henry stories capture the true spirit of giving. The Last Leaf and The Gift of the Magi are both set in turn-of-the-century New York City. "Tuneful . . . . The capacity audience, which included many small children, was totally captivated. . . Captures anew the real Christmas spirit."-Louisville Courier-Journal. "Solid enough to play any time of the year . . . . Ekstrom has written some beautiful music . . . . A masterpiece."-Kingsport Times-News. "Absolutely delightful."-Portsmouth Herald. "A wise Christmas present for families to share."-Sacramento Bee. $7.00. Gift of the Magi also published separately, $7.oo.CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo tape available for each play; please specify one-act title (deposit required). An O. Henry Christmas (#16972) The Last Leaf (#14593) The Gift of the Magi (#9642) ODODO. Black Musical. Book by Joseph A. Walker. Music by Dorothy A. Dinroe. 6 m., 6 f Various sets. In manuscript, $25.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#17002) OF THEE I SING. (All Groups.) Musical play. Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. 14 m., 5 f. and extras. Various simple int. and ext. scenes. Pulitzer Prize winner. The story follows John P. Wintergreen's campaign for Rresident until his triumphant election on the slogan "Put Love In The White House." As the chairman explains. "What you need for an issue is something that everybody can get excited about and yet something that does not really make any difference." It is decided the candidate shall marry the winner of a beauty contest after proposing to her in every state. Wintergreen, however, falls in love with pretty and demure Mary Turner instead. Interwoven are the comic adventures of Alexander Throttlebottom, the new VicePresident seeking recognition. Political and legal complications add to the merriment of the finale where the graybeards of the Supreme Court dance and sing their way through important decisions to one of the most absurd and delightful climaxes seen on Broadway. 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enchanted evening . . . . I enjoyed it more than Les Miserables and Starlight Express." -N.Y. Post. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#801) OH, BROTHER! (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Donald Driver. Music by Michael Valenti. 16 m., 10 m., (much doubling possible). Var. sets or unit set. Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors, substantially revised, augmented with song and dance, and set in the modem Middle East, provides an evening of hilarious slapstick comedy. "Nonstop zaniness . . . with perpetual motion belly dancers, burlesque turns, bad puns, gun-toting Arab revolutionary chorus boys and other assorted sight gags, from a sneaker-shod camel to a self-propelled skateboard."-Women's Wear Daily. "It'll be great in dinner theatres."-WMCA. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.)

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OPAL. (Little Theatre.) Family musical. Robert Lindsey Nassif. 3 m., 6 f., I f. child. Unit set. This award-winning Off-Broadway hit from the composerllyricist of Honky-Tonk Highway is magical, delightful, poignant and poetic. It tells the story of a seven-year-old aristocratic girl who is orphaned in a shipwreck and placed in an Oregon lumber camp in 1904. Her one desire is to find the secret way to return to her parents and her fonner life. To survive, she creaWs a world of fantasy and enchantment. The magic of her extraordinary imagination transfonns the lives of those around her the shy lumberjack, the blind girl and her embittered foster mother. Finally, in the ashes of a devastating forest fire, Opal discovers hope and home. "Splendid . . . . Lovely music draws one into a place of magical transfonnations. It is a rare achievement."-N.Y. Times. "Bravo! I'd gladly watch this musical gem again."-New York Voice. "A mesmerizing musical gem . . . brimming with ideas and overflowing with heart." -Weekend Plus. "A charmer and a wonderful production for adults, children and grandchildren."-The lewish Forward. Winner: Richard Rodgers and AT&T Awards. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#16987) OPERETTA! (A stampede through nostalgia). (All Groups.) Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 5 m., 4 f. plus chorus. This tuneful show is part nostalgic tribute, and part hilarious send up, of that quaint musical fonn of yesteryear, the operetta. Every convention of the genre is used, just slightly askew. We heartily recommend this show to all those who love operettas and to all those who hate them. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a musical rental fee of $10 per perfonnance. Please state musical when ordering. (#17046) ORPHAN TRAIN. Family musical. Susan Nanus and Barbara Anselmi. 7 m., 7 f. (with doubling.) Rachel wants to run away from home and is unwittingly transported back to 1927 when orphan trains carried destitute city children to the Midwest for possible adoption. This charming show for young audiences by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth focuses on how divisions created by race and class can be overcome with friendship $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on (#17688) rental. See p. 231.) ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD. (All Groups.) Comic operetta. Various characters. Int., ext. From the original by H. Cremieux and L. Halevy. New Book and Lyrics by Phil Park. Music by Jacques Offenbach. Music adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer. This mad romp among the Gods is not strictly according to Homer. $15.00. Vocal Score, $27.50. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#17049) OVER HERE! (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Shennan and Robert B. Shennan. Book by Will Holt. 10 m., 8 f. plus orchestra. Various sets. Over Here is a choo-choo ride into the past-to wartime America of the 1940s-and it brought the two surviving Andrews Sisters to Broadway to great acclaim. It's an affectionate lampoon of the big-band-brassy and exuberant America of World War II. On a train full of draftees heading for Europe, the DePaul (Andrews) sisters are looking for a third singer to transfonn their duo into a tri.o. They find her in Mitziwho turns out to be a sneaky Nazi spy with a slinky Dit~trich manner-and a secret lipstick mike. There are subplots too, but what really makes the show are the seventeen big-band numbers that evoke the originals of the era. "Engaging and devilishly clever." -Clive Bames, "A triumph " Delightful and exhilarating."-N.Y. Post. "Warm, wise and witty show."-Newsweek. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#824) PAGEANT. (Little Theatre.) Spoof. Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly. Music by Albert Evans. Conceived by Robert Longbottom. 7 m. Int. One of the rowdiest farces ever staged, Pageant pits six beauty queens against each other in the Glamouresse annual extravaganza. Miss Texas, Miss Great Plains, Miss Deep South, Miss Industrial Northeast, Miss West Coast and Miss Bible Belt sing, dance and camp it up in gowns and bathing suits. A hilarious talent contest is equaled only by the zany "spokesmodel" event which requires them to hawk the sponsor's outrageous cosmetics. While les girls swirl around the charming host, judges from the audience decide who will be Miss Glamouresse. Rave revues appear in city after city when Pageant is in town. "Screamingly funny!"-N.Y. Times. "Hilarious! Incredible! 90 minutes of the kind of laughter that makes tears run down your face."-Gannett Newspapers. "So funny I thought I was going to die."-Susan Powell, fonner Miss America. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18688) PAINTING IT RED. (Little Theatre.) Concert play. Book by Steven Dietz. Music by Gary Rue. Lyrics by Leslie Ball. 3 m., I f., plus 3 musicians. Bare stage. Engaging songs provide a hilarious account of a singer's stonny relationship with a restaurant critic and with a sympathetic-possibly loveable-chimney sweep. At times she is perfonning with the on-stage band while other songs offer insights into her personal life. Both romantic interests are played by the same actor. "Marvelous fun. . . . A rock musical with brains and winning music. Whatever it is-a play with songs or a set of songs linked by dialogue-Painting It Red is engrossing, engaging and awfully funny."-Marin Indepelldent 101~mal. "A delightful look at the beginning, end and aftennath of love . . . told with spirit, verve and frequent hilarity."-Sacramento Bee. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted NYC. (#17983) THE PAPERTOWN PAPERCHASE. A musical play for children. David Wood. See Index for description.

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OH! MY GIDDY AUNT or Himalayan Madness. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Music and Lyrics by Mildred Kayden. Based on the farce My Giddy Aunt by Pat Cooney and John Chapman. Musical Book Adaptation by Michael Patrick Moran and Mildred Kayden. 5 m., 2 f. (with doubling). Int. Hilarity and music, two murders and a seance denouement brighten this lively adaptation of the classic comedy thriller. The aristocratic, daffy mistress of a tea plantation in British India that was managed by her murdered husband is plagued by wacky nephews who scheme to inherit the estate by various means: having her committed to an institution or doing her in by hiding a poisonous spider on her hat. The situation changes when a solicitor brings news that Lady Hester has actually inherited the plantation on the demise of her father. When a glamorous investigator arrives with a psychic from Texas, comedy reigns while the nephews are unmasked. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on (#16965) application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) OH! SUSANNA. (All Groups.) Comedy with music. Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Score and Lyrics by Ann Ronell, based on the songs by Stephen Foster. 7 m., 3 f. principals. 7 Minstrel Men, chorus, extras as desired. In manuscript. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score, $13.00. (#17014) THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS. On-act musical. David Rogers and Mark Bucci. A musical version of J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 2 m., 4 f., magician. Int. Complete libretto and piano score, $7.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state musical when ordering. (#17019) OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. Family musical. David Wood. See Index for description. OLYMPUS ON MY MIND. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Barry Harman. Music by Grant Sturiale. 3 m., 3 f. Ext. This Broadway hit is based on the Amphitryon myth. Jupiter comes to Earth in human fonn to woo beautiful Alcemene, wife of Amphitryon. He appears to her in the body of her absent husband and quickly wins her love. Things go swimmingly until the real Amphitryon shows up. The chorus consists of Tom, Dick, Horace and the delightfully dizzy Dolores (who is only in the show because she is the wife of its financial backer. "Percolates with an old-fashioned sense of naughty musical comedy fun."-N.Y. Times. "A dazzling musical spoof . . . bounding music and witty Iyrics."-Newsday. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Post~ ~~

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. New Simplified Revised Version. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Music by Cy Coleman. Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by Bruce Milholland. 17 Principal roles, plus singers and extras (doubling possible). Var. sets. Whether perfonned with elaborate scenery or on a simple scale, this brilliantly comic musical appeals to audiences everywhere. The story concerns the efforts of a flamboyant theatrical impresario to persuade a film star to appear in his next production and to outwit rival producers and creditors while getting rid of a religious nut and the film star's boyfriend. And, he must do all this before the 20th Century Ltd. reaches NYC! "Spectacular . . . funny . . . elegant . . . civilized wit and wild humor."-N.Y. Times. "A perfect musical. . . . A gorgeous show!"-N.Y. Post. "A rare delight: a musical that tells a story and does so with delicious wit. . . . A hilarious . . . American sequel to My Fair Lady." Hartford Courant. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $16.95. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#819) ONE MO' TIME. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Conceived by Vernel Bagneris. 2 m., 3 f., plus 5-piece combo. 1 set. This long-running Off-Broadway show revived, to acclaim in the 2002 Broadway season, has audiences rockin' the rafters and dancin' in the aisles, thrilling to this artful recreation of old-time, 1920's Black vaudeville. "There are sizzling renditions of the Charleston, the black bottom and the cakewalk; the band lashes into 'Tiger Rag' and 'Muskrat Ramble', and when the whole company belts out 'A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight', the mercury leaves the thermometer. From one minute to the next, One Mo' Time is a hot, wild, ribald and rousing delight."-Time Magazine. "If you grab your honey and sashay on down . . . I can promise you a hot time in the old town tonight."-N.Y. Post. "Yes, you say . . . this is what black vaudeville must have been."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted NYC. (#17063)

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS PARK. (All Groups.) Musical. Paul Cherry. Music by Lance Mulcahy. 2 m., 2 f. An intimate Broadway musical. One by one four persons appear on the stage-boy, a girl, a man and a woman who wants to be left alone. We soon realize they are all one family and their meeting is a form of group therapy where they exercise their psyches and strip the dross from their souls. It's easy and inexpensive to produce. "A warm little musical. . . . Has a lot of pretty darn fine moments." - WABC-TV. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) (#18025) PEACE. (All Groups.) Book and Lyrics by Tim Reynolds. Music by Al Carmines. 8 m., 7 f. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18042) A PENNY FRIEND. (All Groups.) Musical. Music by Shirley Hansen. Lyrics by Ed Graczyk. Story by Ed Graczyk, dramatized with Mary Lou Cassidy. Cast of 18. Simple set. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. (#18048) See p. 231.) PERSONALS. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Words by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta Kauffman. Music by William Dreskin, Joel Philip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Steven Schwartz and Michael Skloff. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This is a wonderful collection of songs about people who place lonely-hearts ads: lonely people looking for that certain someone. In other words: Personals is about Most of Us, about the unending search for love in the Post-Me Decade. "Are you looking for that 'special' night where everything is going to be peachy, and you are going to meet the swellest little show of your dreams? .. Personals is a winner, destined to find, apart from anything else, its own special place on the singles scene, the date-show forthe young in heart, the Jacques Brei of the '80s."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. (#18635) 231.) PETE 'N' KEELY. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by James Hindman. Original Music by Patrick Brady. Original Lyrics by Mark Waldrop., Patrick S, Brady and others. 1 m., 1 f., 3 on-stage musicians. Int. Staged as a live taping of a 1968 television special that reunites a divorced singing duo, this kitschy spoof had New York critics singing its praises. As Pete and Keely stroll down memory lane (in eyepopping costumes) reprising songs from their days of stardom, they take "unscripted" swipes at each other that dredge up hilarious moments from their turbulent past. This small scale musical from the director of When Pigs Fly and the producer of The Mystery of Irma Yep features unforgettable renditions of the era's popular favorites as well as original songs in the spirit of the times. "Campy [with] nostalgic belly laughs."-N.Y. Times. "A rattling good time . . . [that] should leave no one unsmiling."-New York Magazine. "The brightest, happiest, and most entertaining little show in town."-New York Observer. "A sequined, bell-bottomed parade of escalating fabulousness! "-Newsday. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on applica(#17836) tion. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) PETER PAN. (All Groups.) Musical fantasy. 1. M. Barrie. Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne. 28 characters, extras, 4 ext., 2 int. First produced on Broadway with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard and more recently a major hit starring Cathy Rigby, this is one of the world's most celebrated musicals. Here is all the charm of Barrie's Peter and Tinker Bell and the children, pirates and Indians of Never Never Land, embellished with show-stopping songs. "As wondrous as it has been since in first appeared on Broadway." Boston Globe. "Bountiful, good-natured. . . . A vastly amusing show."-N.Y. Times. "A delightful entertainment. . . . The young in heart of all ages will love it." -N. Y. Daily Mirror. "The musical version of this most endearing of all theatrical fantasies is a captivating show."-N.Y. Daily News. In manuscript. . Vocal Selections, $9.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Please state musical when ordering. Posters (#102) PETTICOAT LANE. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, music and lyrics by Judd Woldin. 15 roles, 5 m., 2 f. (minimum). Orchestra of 2 to 5. Freely adapted from Zangwill's delightful novella King of Schnorrers, Petticoat Lane takes place in the East End of London in the eighteenth century. It follows a young man with a working-class Ashkenazic heritage as he seeks to win the hand of a haughty Sephardic beggar's daughter. ''Tunefully musical and a delightful comedy." -N. Y. Times"The producers have a classic on their hands." -U.P.I. "The verve and universal appeal of Fiddler on the Roof" -William Raidy. $7.00. (Terms quoted on (#868) application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) PHANTOM. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Arthur Kopit. Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston. 30 m., 7 f., plus ensemble (doubling possible.) Ints., exts. This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award-winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "First-rate." -N. Y. Daily News. "Rhapsodic music entrances, moves and haunts."-N.Y. Times. "Phantom's love story-and the passionately soaring music it prompts . . . jerk enough tears to fill that Paris Opera Lagoon."-San Diego Union. "A rich, ripe, rewarding evening."-Chicago Tribune. "One of those musicals you thought they just didn't write anymore."-Chicago Sun-Times. "One of the most appealing America musicals of recent years."-Dallas Morning News. $7.00. Vocal Selec-

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tions, $12.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental (#18958) See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA-THE PLAY. (All Groups.) Play with music. Book and lyrics John Kenley and Robert Noll. Music by David Gooding. 9 m., 6 f. (doubling possible.) Var. ints. This love story-thriller has been adapted from the original novel by Gaston Leroux and the famous Lon Chaney motion picture. It tells the full story of the mysterious masked terror who inhabits the cellars of the Paris Opera House. The entire play is musically underscored. The singing is done live. The organ playing is recorded but can be done live, if the actor playing the Phantom is capable. $7.00. Audio tapes containing all accompaniment music, incidental music and sound cues are available on cassettes or reel-to-reel. Two cassettes, $35.00. Set of two reel-to-reel tapes without leaders, $50.00. Set of reel-to-reel tapes fully leadered, $80.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#17987) PIAF. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. Pam Gems. 25 m., 5 f. (or 9 m., 5 f) plus onstage combo. Unit set or bare stage w/inserts. This hit from the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's West End tells the rags to riches story of the chanteuse who captivated the entire world but who was only happy on stage performing before her adoring fans. Between scenes Piaf s songs comment cleverly upon the action. This relentlessly driving show is a tremendous vehicle for an actress. "The skillful, indeed subtle, combination of the Piaf songs. . . and the scenes from Piaf s origins make up an enthralling evening."-N.Y. Post. "Gems' writing has power and velocity; Piafleaps at us right from the gutter."-Newsweek. $7.00. (Terms quoted (#18111) on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) PIANO BAR. (Little Theatre.) Musical play. Music by Rob Fremont Lyrics by Doris Willens. Story by Doris Willens and Rob Fremont. 4 m. (1 nonspeaking), 2 f. Int. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo (#18076) Tape available on request. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. (All Groups.) Musical Drama. Jack Sharkey and Dave Resier. 6 m., 4 f. 1 basic set. Several surprises enliven the familiar plot with strange and startling configurations. A cast of 10 plays 21 parts-the more to point up Dorian's self-made trap as he reaches middle age. This is a gripping tale of love, lust, addiction, scandal and sly social satire-all leading to a harrowing climax. The world premier in Riverside, CA, won an award for its incredible special effects (via that famous portrait of Dorian which ages, even while he stays eternally young). $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score available on receipt of a $25 refund(#18099) able deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. THE PINCHPENNY PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Musical Mystery-Farce. (Dinner Theatre/Community Theatre.) Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 2 m., 2 f. Gaston, proprietor and star tenor of a tacky opera house, can only afford a chorus of two (Pristine and Bubby) and one guest soprano per opera. The guest sopranos keep succumbing to ghastly fates such as strangulation, electrocution, enraged bulls, banana peelings underfoot, poison fleas, falling chandeliers and hypothermia. Why? Because unscrupulous Airwick (Phantom of the Opera) wants Pristine to star-and at the rate he bumps off her rivals, she'll soon be the only soprano in grand opera! This hilarious melange of crazed desire, gruesome death and bone-headed ambition--done with only four players on a single set -is a romp for audiences and players alike. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianoNocal Score is available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. Posters (#18177) A PINK PARTY DRESS. One-act musical. David Rogers and Mark Bucci. A musical version of Margaret Bland's Pink and Patches. 1 m., 3 f. Ext. Complete libretto and piano score, $7.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#18642) PIPPI LONGSTOCKING: The Family Musical. (All Groups.) Family musical. Music and Lyrics by Sebastian. Adapted for the stage by Sebastian and Staffan Gotestam. Based on the novel by Astrid Lindgren. 6 m., 4 f., 3 c. plus chorus. Pippi is the high-spirited, warm-heart~d incarnation of every child's dream of freedom and power. Dressed in strange clothes and living with her horse and pet monkey, she possesses supernatural strength and untold wealth. And now the rollicking adventures that put her at odds with the demands of life in a small town fill an-effervescent family musical written by Denmark's celebrated composer/lyricist/recording artist. When Pippi is not dancing with burglars who are trying to steal the gold coins given to her by her father (a pirate who is revered as a king by a tribe of South Sea island cannibals), she is at the circus fighting the strongest man in the world or playing tag with policemen. This uproariously funny musical starring the world's most popular enfant terrible has played to sold-out audiences in Scandinavia, Israel and Spain. "The greatest family musical ever to play in Madrid."-El Mundo. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted.

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PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Band accompaniment. Those who have used the other arrangements know that they can expect the same sensitive orchestration, recreating Sullivan's original as closely as possible, yet, at the same time, carefully balanced so as not to interfere with even the youngest solo voices. With the instrumental problems virtually solved through the use of the band, the director can concentrate on bringing out the full beauty of this work, which is one of Sullivan's most melodic. Rental Band Arrangement one month, $35, each additional month $25, plus $50

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Refundable Deposit. For Sale Only: Libretto, $10.50. PianoNocal Score, $13.95. Chorus Books, $5.95. Write for particulars. (#18078) PISTOL PACKIN' SAL. (All Groups.) Hillbilly musical comedy. Book by Eskel Crawford. Lyrics and Music by Bud Tomkins. 7 m., 7 f., optional extras. Int. Here's a short musical comedy with a good story and catchy songs. Sal, daughter of Sheriff Skinner, has been appointed "deppity" during his absence. Into her lunchroom in the hills of Idaho comes a good-looking stranger who becomes the chief suspect in a holdup. Each book contains the complete text with stage directions and positions and a detailed piano score, $7.00. (Amateurs may produce free of royalty, for one performance, upon purchase of at least 14 copies. $20 royalty for each additional performance.) (#847) PLAIN AND FANCY. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Joseph Stein and William Glickman. Lyrics by Arnold B Horwitt. Music by Albert Hague. 19 m., II f., extras. Var. sets. A New Yorker and his sophisticated girl friend drive down around Lancaster, Pa., to sell a piece of property. Here they meet the Amish, whose speech and habits haven't changed for centuries. The city slickers are amused by the Amish rituals of community life: their customs of betrothal and marriage, bam raising, and the "shunning" one who breaks the rules of the community. Of course, the dress and habits of the city folk are equally hilarious to the Amish. There is a touching love affair within the Amish community and some stunning scenes of their religious and household life. "One of the most original musicals in many a semester. It has everything-the best of everything. . . . Finds humor . . . without ever poking fun."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. Chorus Books, $6.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#848) PLA Y THE GAME. One-act musical. Bill Tordoff. Music by Paul Woodhouse. See Index for description. THE PLOTTERS OF CABBAGE PATCH CORNER. Musical play for children. David Wood. See Index for description. POP STAR. (High School.) One-act musical. Book and Lyrics by Peter Morris. Music by Ben Morss, 5 m., 16 f. Int. Westfield High is the next stop for Pop Star, a nationally televised talent search that will make some lucky high school student the next American Idol. When the show's sl~azy host and his put-upon assistant roll in with the cameras, the strain of competition pits friend against friend. Who will be chosen: Densie, the spoiled rich girl? Jesssica, the Jewish rapper who is ashamed of her heritage? Chanel, an African-American whose white boyfriend is afraid to let people know they are in love? Before petty jealousies and racial tensions tear the school apart, the students realize that sticking together is more important than winning. Fast-paced and fun, Pop Star is propelled by an infectious pop rock score that includes II original songs. $4.75. (Terms quoted on application. Music avail(#17855) able on rental. See p. 231.) PREPPIES. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by David Taylor, with Carlos Davis. Music and Lyrics by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. 7 m., 5 f. Var. sets. If Parker Richardson Endicott III dies without leaving an heir, the Endicott Trust (which contains Central Park among other things) will pass to his villainous cousins. Endicott draws his lawyer and trusted servants, Joe and Marie Pantry, into a plot. He persuades the Pantrys to raise their infant son, Paul, as Parker Richardson Endicott IV, to be known as Cotty. If he has not been unmasked by his twenty-first birthday, he may claim the trust. The musical follows Cotty as he makes his way through the schools and social rituals that make a Pantry into a preppy. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#880) PRETZELS. (All Groups.) Musical revue. Book by Jane Curtin, Fred Grandy and Judy Kahan. Music and Lyrics by John Forster. 2 m., 2 f. Various improvised sets. Four young performers play satirical sketches and sing catchy songs. A wide range of subjects, fifteen in all, get a natty, sophisticated going over including Mozart, mod singing stars, unemployment benefits, cosmetology, college reunions, pretentious young men on the make and neglected suburban housewives. Because they concentrate on real life situations there's many a sad moment mixed in with loud and robust laughter. "The music is. . . extraordinarily deft pastiche. .'. the lyrics ... witty and original."-NY. Times. "Sophisticated commentary . . . pure entertainment."-Women's Wear Daily. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#853) available on rental. See p. 231.) THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. (All Groups.) Family musical. Music and Lyrics by Neil Berg. Book by Bernie Garzia and Ray Roderick. Additional Lyrics by Bernie Garzia. Musical Supervision by John Glaudini. 8 m., 3 f. (to play various roles) plus optional ensemble. Unit set. Mark Twain's timeless tale about look-alike boys who change places-and change the destiny of a nation-is transformed into a swashbuckling musical. Enter medieval London and meet the young, protected Prince who gazes from his window at a world he is not allowed to explore while a destitute boy dreams of escaping the thievery and filth that surrounds him. The Prince and the Pauper dazzled audiences of all ages in its multi-year run at the Lambs Theater in New York City. Rated Number I in family entertainment by The Wall Street Journal and the Zagat Theater Survey, it overflows with the thrill of adventure, the power of youth, magical sword fights and enchanting songs. "Soars on the wings of theatrical fun!"-NY Times. "Light and lively!"-NY. Daily News. "A memorable score [is] sure to delight the young and young at heart!"-AOL Reviews. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18698)

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS PRIVATES ON PARADE. (Little Theat.re.) Play with songs. Peter Nichols. Music by Denis King. 10 m. (2 non-speaking), I f. Drops and wings. Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya. "A marvelous . . . evening of treasurable gaiety."-Guardian, London. $8.95. Vocal Score, $15.00. (Terms quoted on appli(#18007) cation. See p.231.) THE PRODIGAL SISTER. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by J. E. Franklin. Music and Lyrics by Micki Grant. 15 m., 20 f. (doubling possible). 3 Int. 3 Ext. An updated version of the prodigal son. Only now he is she-and Black. Jackie is a pregnant high school girl from a backwater town who takes off for Baltimore to escape her parents wrath. There she takes up with street people and winds up working in a coffin factory which is a front for dope peddlers and prostitutes. But all turns out well and all is forgiven. "Entertaining, innocently charming. . . . There's something there that everybody williove."-NY. Amsterdam News. $7.00. (Terms (#18125) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) "PROGRESS MAY HAVE BEEN ALL RIGHT ONCE-BUT IT WENT ON TOO LONG." (Nash at Nine.) Musical revue. Based on the writings of Ogden Nash. Music by Milton Rosenstock. 3 m., 1 f., 1 boy. Simple set. LibrettoNocal (#18013) Score, $25. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) PROM QUEENS UNCHAINED. (Little Theater.) Musical. Conceived by Larry Goodsight and Keith Herrmann. Lyrics by Larry Goodsight. Music by Keith Herrmann. Book by Stephen Witkin. 13 m., 10 f. (doubling possible.) Unit set. Actors and audience interact in a 1950's high school. The lunatic plot, reminiscent of a bad drive-in movie, involves competition for prom queen, 1m alien invader, a science student who turns his right arm into a hamburger, murders and other mayhem, all at an accelerating pace that overtakes all with hilarity. "Nonstop silliness . . . . The show grows steadily loopier until it becomes permanently and deliriously unhinged."-NY. Times. "Genuinely hilarious. . .. A sure-fire crowd-pleaser."-NY. Post. "Explodes on and off the stage with raucous cheerfuiness."-UPI. "A zany, exuberant, take-no-prisoners assault on the 1950s in general and high school in particular that makes Grease and Bye Bye Birdie seem rather pale."-Chicago Tribune. "Has more subplots per square minute than any other show and each of them is a frolit . . . . A hilarious spoof."-Back Stage. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18208) PROMENADE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Maria Irene Fornes. Music by Al Carmines. 10 m., 5 f. This Obie award winner was a big Off-broadway hit. "It is a triumph. A wickedly amusing musical. A great show. A joy from start to finish." -N Y. Times. The play cent~rs around the daydreams of the poor and the idleness of the rich. Its message: "Live with your own truth (whether you like it or not)." The slight story line concerns two escaped prisoners, one black and one white, who dig their way out of the jail and go to a party of the silken rich, only to find this is not the life they really want. To them, the world has Alice-in-Wonderland balminess where the chief cruelty is callousness and that is the world they want no part of. Al Carmines' music is a magical blend that takes the audience from rock to blues to Puccini to Noel Coward. In Promenade and Other Plays, $13.95. (Terms (#18128) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES. (All Groups.) Musical. John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. The pump boys sell high octane on Highway 57 in Grand Ole Opry country and the dinettes, Prudie and Rhetta Cupp, run the Double Cupp diner next door. Together they fashion an evening of country-western songs thaI received unanimous raves on and off Broadway. They perform on guitars, piano, bass and, yes, kitchen utensils. "Both musically and theatrically ... a triumph of ensemble playing. It doesn't merely celebrate the value of friendship and life's simple pleasures, it embodies them."-NY. Times. "Totally terrific. ..It is such fun."-NY. Post. "A gasser . . . with buoyant, earthy humor."-NY. Daily News. "Totally delightful."-Newsweek. "When the inevitable 'closing time' comes along, you'll wish you could stay a while longer."-Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#18135) PURLIE. Musical. Ossie Davis, Phillip Rose and Peter Udell. Music by Peter Udell. Lyrics by Gary Geld. Purlie Victorious, that strutting, new-fangled preacher is back home and he wants a church and he wants freedom. Wit, memorable music and heaps of fun unfold as Purlie outmaneuvers 01' massa. "The book is so strong, the performance so magnificent, that this musical should have you calling out 'Hallelujah! By far the most successful and richest of all Black musicals, chiefly I think for the depth of the characterizations and the salty wit of the dialogue." -N Y. Times. "A robust, tuneful and thoroughly enjoyable musical comedy, with dandy songs."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $8.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms (#859) quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) PUSHOVER. (All Groups.) One-act nusical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Ken Easton. 2 m., 3 f. plus chorus. Back-drop. This unusual musical tells the story of Samson with reverence for biblical facts, yet with an eye to the wryly incongruous behavior of its hero--and his impact upon the young Israelites who look up to him, despite his casual approach to his vows. Musical styling will surprise and delight you, ranging as it does from waltz to beguine to ragtime, perfectly suited to the widely varying moods of the plot. The much-reprised and hilarious "Sincerity Rag" will start your audiences' feet tapping. $4.50. Chorus Parts, $5.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (Music Royalty, $5 each performance.) (#18008)

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product of Prospero's Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft. Winner of an Olivier Award for Best Musical. "A masterpiece. . . . Take one plot (Shakespeare's The Tempest), one B movie (Forbidden Planet) and for added flavor plunder the entire Shakespearean cannon for dialogue (the more pungent the plagiarism, the more piquant the final effect). . . . Your favorite blasts from the past. . . ring out of the story with such unadulterated audacity that the cue lines themselves beg for mercy."-What's On. "Prepare to dance in the aisles."-Time Out, "The best rock and roll show in town. . . . You just have to laugh at the death defying puns ... and the way the songs are worked into the plot with perfect logic."-Daily Express. "Tacky, camp, irreverent and-frankly enjoyable..... A cult hit."-Daily Mail. "An outbreak of fun and joy. . . . It is irresistible."-lewish Chronicle. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#20122) Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien. 7 m., 3 f. Int. That sweet transvestite and his motley crew did the time warp on Broadway in a twenty-fifth anniversary revival. Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper and an array of other audience-participation props, this deliberately kitschy rock 'n' roll sci-fi gothic is more fun than ever. "Still a lot of fun [in thisllive version of the jolly audience-participation event that the movie version has become." -N. y, Daily News. "A socko-wacko-weirdo rock concert."-WNBC TV. "One of the most mutated, time-warped phenomena in show business,"-N.Y. Times. "Campy trash."-Time. Post. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#20049) THE RINK. (Advanced Groups.) Musical drama. Book by Terrence McNally. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. 5 m., 3 f. playing a variety of roles. 1 set. This innovative musical is set in a sort of Coney Island of the mind, on the ragged fringe of the New York show-biz world. Anna Antonelli's roller rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of her Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. The rink becomes an arena in which mother and daughter examine their past, present and future. "The show-biz ego-stark, aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable-has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. They have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys." -Time. "Serious ... innovative ... provides much pleasure."-N.Y. Post. In manuscript. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#950) THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Isaiah Sheffer. Music by Bobby Paul. Adapted from a novel by Abraham Cahan. 21 m., 15 f. (may be played by 9 m., 6 f.) Var. sets. A turn-of-the-century drama about the Jewish immigrant experience, this musical captures the interaction between history and individuals as young David loses his passion for the Talmud in his quest for lucre. "The music . . . carries with it the lilt of sentimental European waltzes and Yiddish folk dances."-N.Y. Times. "A musical that zestily explores serious moral issues."-Bergen Record. "Treats its material honestly and intelligently, capturing both its humor and its despondency."--N.Y. Dally News. "A moving, joyous Off Broadway triumph."-UPl. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20652) ROBERT AND ELIZABETH. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Ronald Millar. Music by Ron Grainer. >From an original idea by Fred G. Morrit, based on The Barretts of Wimpole -Street by Rudolph Besier. 30 m., 10 f., extras. The year 1845 finds the Moulton-Barrett family of London tight in the grip of a tyrannical father. His invalid daughter Elizabeth is gaining a brilliant reputation as a writer. Her verses reach Robert Browning who falls in love with her before they have ever met. Browning sweeps into Elizabeth's life with the invigorating force of a sea breeze and her father senses that his absolute authority is in danger. Tension mounts as Edward Moulton-Barrett and Robert Browning engage in a struggle for Elizabeth's life and happiness. A big musical hit in London. $8.95. Vocal Score, $23.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#923) ROCKASOCKA. (AU Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by John Gardiner. Music by Andrew Parr. 6 m., 6 f., plus up to 25 extras (doubling possible). Unit set. Following their success with Dazzle, the authors have turned their attention to football (a.k.a. soccer) in this hilarious musical about a hapless city team out to win the World Cup Six-a-Side Championship. With a host of comic characters, this funfilled comedy is a sure winner. Rockasocka offers opportunities for flexible casting and can be played on a proscenium or thrust stage or in the round to create a football atmosphere. $8.95. Vocal Score, $25.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) (#20121) ROCKY HORROR SHOW. (See Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show.) ROMANCEIROMANCE. (Little Theatre.) Two one-act musicals. Book and Lyrics by Barry Harman. Music by Keith Herrmann. 2 m., 2 f. 2 sets. Two one-act musicals take varied looks at romance seekers. The first is a delightful romp through the sexual ennui of turn-of-the-century Vienna based on Schnitzler's tale The Little Comedy. Act 2 is a modem look at affection and disaffection in a two-couple summer house in the Hamptons based on the Jules Renard play Summer Share. An Off-Off-Broadway sensation that successfully moved to Broadway, Romance/Romance is a perfect change from the modem mega musical. "Sparkles with

PUSS'N BOOTS. (High School.) Musical. Adaptation, Book, Lyrics and Music by Robert Williams. 9 m., 2 f., extras. Int. Two jesters run on stage carrying on oversized story book. They sit on a bench, then notice that there is an audience. "Once upon a time, a miller lived with his three sons in a small village far across the sea" the Jester tells, and so the magnificent story of Puss in Boots is underway with a sense of casual charm in this adaptation. The music and lyrics are impressive. In 'manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18137) RADIO GALS. (Little Theatre.) Musical comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick. 3 m., 4 f. or 1 m., 6 f. Int. In the twenties when small radio stations thrived, music teacher Hazel C. Hunt received a transmitter as a retirement gift and station WGAL was born in Arkansas. A wacky quintet of singer/musicians gather daily in her parlor to set hearts thumping and toes tapping with rib-tickling songs, homey chat and plugs for a rejuvenating tonic that owes its kick to the still out back. Hazel's habit of wave-jumping to find a clear channel brings a government inspector to shut her down. She discovers a stage-struck tenor beneath his bureaucratic facade and he is quickly ensnared in musical and romantic shenanigans. Twenty-one original songs performed with thematic props produce the zany hilarity you expect from the creators of Pump Boys and Dinettes and Smoke on the Mountain. "Keeps the music, country humor, conflict and romance coming fast enough to charm the ear and occupy the eye."-N.Y. Times. "A dynamite miniextravaganza." -Newsday. "The nonstop music keeps the action cranking along like a well-tuned Model T."-L.A. Times. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#19955) RAISIN. (All Groups.) Musical. Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. Music by Judd Woldin. Lyrics by Robert Brittan. 9 m., 6 f., chorus and extras. Unit set. This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical Comedy ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record-breaking national tour. A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a drama rich in emotion and laughter. Taking place on Chicago's Southside, it explodes in song, dance, drama and comedy. "Pure magic ... dazzling! Tremendous!. .. Warms the heart and touches the soul. . . with a human dimension that takes the measurement of man! "-N. Y. Times. "A tidal wave of soul !"-Ebony. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (#907) (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) REALLY ROSIE. (Children's Groups.) Family musical. Book and Lyrics by Maurice Sendak. Music by Carole King. Rosie, the sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue P, entertains herself and her friends by acting out show-biz fantasies, notably directing and starring in an Oscar-winning movie. Written by the author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are and other popular children's books, Really Rosie is a jewel for children and adults. "There is such juicy vitality, such insouciant grace, such frolicking exploration of the waist-high jungle of childhood. . . . You will regret not being able to wrap up a large chunk of the proceedings and take them home with you. "-New York Magazine. "Provides more honest fun than most ... musicals. "-Women's Wear Daily. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20643) THE RED SNEAKS. (Teen Groups.) Musical. Elizabeth Swados. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. This free-wheeling contemporary musical for teens is a loose adaptation of the The Red Shoes, transposed to today's urban jungle. The allegorical montage of songs, scenes and monologues centers around a welfare hotel resident who is persuaded by a mysterious young drifter to accept a pair of glittery red sneakers. Whoever is wearing them may wish for anything-and every wish comes true, but the easy way out turns out to be a fast trip to an early death. "The most refreshing thing about The Red Sneaks . . . is the chance to hear youths rather than adults talk about the nightmarish pressures of urban life." -N. Y. Times. "Remarkably clear, unsentimental and disturbing. . . . A gritty little musical that combines pop and rock with more traditional musical comedy."-AP. "A most effective contemporary morality play. . . . The music has real gusto." -N. Y. Post. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#20902) RED, WHITE AND ROSIE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Doug Lind and Christine Harger. Music by John Phillips Hutton. 5 m., 5 f. Unit set. This riveting musical is about the forgotten soldiers of World War II-the women who worked in the factories, building the ships and planes so vital to the war effort. We see their initial naivete about working in a man's world, their growing sense of pride in what they are accomplishing and, eventually, their strength as they stand up for their rights. "Rosie the Riveter helped build planes in World War II. Now she has her own musical comedy. May it fly even longer than the planes did. Red, White and Rosie entertains without much strain, yet it also makes pointed comments about sexism, racism, militarism, even capitalism. You can enjoy it as a piece of nostalgia, but it has a lot more on its mind than most World War II musicals."-L.A. Times. "Original and clever."-Drama-Logue. "As entertaining a new musical as any in town." -L.A. Reader. $7.00. (Terms quoted upon application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#20109) RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET. (All Groups.) Musical. Bob Carlton. 7 m., 4 f. Int. Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D'Illyria where a sci-fi .version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller-skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the

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This musical is perfect for elementary school classes to perform or for children's theater groups, ages 6-12. Its an absolute channer for parents or any audience. Cast size may be expanded to as many as 40 and the physical production may be simple or elaborate as conditions permit. Running time is approximately 30 minutes. $7.00. (Terms (#20144) quoted on application. See p. 231.) RUNA WA YS. (All Groups.) Musical. Words and Music by Elizabeth Swados. 11 m., 9 f. (children of various ages). Unit set. Runaways is a collection of songs sung by troubled children. While the subject is primarily runaway children from broken homes, Runaways also comments on the larger world in which the children live. "Elizabeth Swados makes us eavesdrop on the sufferings of children. That sounds ominous but it isn't. . . . The calligraphy of childhood is one of the wonders of nature even when the message it writes is heartbreaking."-NY. Times. "An immensely affecting show.' '-Newsweek. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. Please state author when ordering. Posters (#938) RUTHLESS! (Little Theatre.) Musical spoof. Book and Lyrics by Joal Paley. Music by Marvin Laird. 1 m., 5 f or 6 f. Unit set. Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. Anything includes murdering the leading lady! This aggressively outrageous musical hit garnered rave reviews during its long Off-Broadway run which opened with Brittany Spears in the title role. "A spoof that has enough absurd plot twists and multiple identities to fill several old movies. . . . The fun comes from the sheer brazenness!"-NY. Times. "Hilarious.... It is beyond praise!"-NY. Daily News. "Wild amusement."-NY. Post. "A demented pleasure. Cheery, cheeky burlesque humor that evokes Your Show of Shows."-NY. Newsday. "Merry mayhem . . . . Malicious, delicious and a total joy."-NY. Observer. "Brilliant."-USA Today. "A wonderfully smart and funny send-up of every Broadway brat from Gypsy to The Bad Seed. . . loaded with campy wit and chann."-Variety. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music avail(#20705) able on rental. See p. 231.) Posters SAIL A WA Y. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book, Music and Lyrics by Noel Coward. 19 m., 9 f. (doubling possible). Various sets. "Why do the wrong people travel?" bemoans the cruise director on a luxury ship as she sings one of Coward's most famous songs from this witty and wonderful show. And cruise director Mimi Paragon does have her hands full on this voyage with a motley collection of passengers who are, to varying degrees, Coward's "wrong people." He has captured the comic essence of the resulting hilarious situations with brilliant lyrics and memorable scenes. The inevitable romances that bloom aboard the ship--one involving Mimi herself-add sentimental spice to this delightful musical voyage. "A big, handsome, rakish vessel of a musical. It carries a cargo of shrewdly observed people, swift funny lines, full-length comic scenes, gay production numbers and a sentimental love story."-NY. Times. "[An] agreeable and at times brilliant entertainment."-NY. Post. "lrresistible."-NY. Mirror. "It is no surprise that the best Coward lyrics are found in the several musical satires. . . . [In Sail Away] these are (#21515) tart and tasty."-NY. World Telegram. For future release. CD, $20.50. THE SALOONKEEPER'S DAUGHTER. (All Groups.) Musical melodrama. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Resier. 6 m., 6 f. Your delighted audience will have ample opportunity to cheer, hiss and boo-all to musical cuesin this romp through melodrama-land with include Mannly Rasch (villain), Red White (the saloonkeeper), Lily (his daughter), Parson Kindly and his daughter Charity, saloon girls Cinnamon, Sally and Molly,. prospector Grimes, Seedy Shlepper (Manly's stooge) and, of course, hero Rusty Witts (stalwart, but stupid). The insane plot, 19 delightful musical numbers, asides to the audience and the hilarious comeuppance of the villain make this show a classic. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianoNocal Score is available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. (#21017) THE SAL VA TION OF IGGY SCROOGE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Larry Larsen and Levi Lee. Music by Edd Key. 16 m., 12 f. (or 10 performers). Unit set. A cross between Dickens and a rollicking trip down pop culture memory land, this is a phantasmagorical evening of irreverent Christmas cheer. Ebenezer is a burned-out misanthropic superstar who snarls through Christmas Eve until a top-ofthe-charts gaggle of ghosts shows up: rock legends Buddy Holly, Bob Marley and King Elvis come to boogie with Iggy and set his warped values straight. The rock icons cook up a jambalaya of reggae, Cajun, rockabilly and heavy-metal numbers in this inventive Christmas offering that reverberates with saucy lampoonery, showstopping tunes and characters that never occurred to Dickens. "Rocks the

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS house. . . . Belongs on every ardent rocker's holiday wish list. And the rock impaired might get a metallic bang out of it, too."-Seattle Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20991) SAMMY'S MAGIC GARDEN. (Little Theatre.) Children's musical. Kjartan Poskitt. 5 m., 5 f., chorus. lnts., exts. (simply suggested). This entertaining and funny musical ghost story introduces Sammy, a clever schoolboy, and his unusual parents, brainy Egbert and witty Gloria. They havf: just moved into a new house overseen by a creepy housekeeper and a kindly, bumbling gardener. When weird things start happening, curious Sammy insists that that the gardner admit him to the wildly overgrown garden where they find proof that a witch has enslaved enchanted Flower-children. Sammy and his friend Alice save the day: the children are released from their spell and even the witchy housekeeper is won over. $8.95. (Terms quoted on (#21628) application. Musical available on rental. See p. 231.) SANDERS FAMILY CHRISTMAS. (All Groups.)Musical comedy. Written by Connie Ray. Conceived by Alan Bailey. Musical Arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin. 4 m., 3 f. lnt. In this sequel to the ever-popular New York hit Smoke on the Mountain, the Sanders family returns to Mount Pleasant, NC, home of the Mount Pleasant Pickle Factory. It's Christmas Eve, 1941. Reverend Oglethorpe has invited them to the Baptist Church to sing and witness, getting the congregation into the down-home holiday spirit before the boys, including one of the Sanders' own, are shipped off to World War II. More than two dozen Christmas carols, many of them vintage hymns, and hilarious yuletide stories from the more or less devote Sanders family keep the audience laughing, clapping and singing along with bluegrass Christmas favorites. Richly entertaining, this wildly infections musical brings cheer to audiences eager to see how their friends from Smoke on the Mountain have been getting along. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.). Slightly Restricted. Posters (#20948) SAYONARA. See James A. Michener's Sayonara. SCRAMBLED FEET. Musical revue. New Revised Edition. John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow. Musical direction and arrangements by Jimmy Wisner. 3 m, 1 f., 1 duck. Bare stage. This intimate musical revue is a zany, hilarious spoof dedicated to satirizing every conceivable aspect of show business. Among the many skits are a pointed parody of theater-party ladies, a wrestling match between "The Elephant Man" and the paraplegic hero of "Whose Life Is It Anyway?", the traumas of a suburban couple getting to and going from the theatre, a madrigal on the popularity of British plays and performers, takeoffs on critics and on Joseph Papp and his Public Theatre. It's a perfect show for anyone involved with the theater. "A most agreeable surprise . . . . Funny and irreverent. "-N Y. Daily News. "Pretty damned funny . . . bright and sassy." -N Y. Post. "Torrential fun . . . crazed . . . blessedly irreverent . . . genuine satire."-New York Magazine. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#1026) SCROOGE! (All Groups.) Christmas Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Various m. and f Various sets. In 1970, renowned writer-composer-Iyricist Leslie Bricusse adapted the classic Charles Dickens tale A Christmas Carol into the hit screen musical Scrooge! Now available as a charming stage musical, Scrooge! has enjoyed a hugely successful tour of England and a season at London's Dominion Theatre starring the late Anthony Newly. Included are six new songs not performed in the film. Now this sure-fire audience pleaser is available in two versions: as a full-length musical and in a 55-minute adaptation that is ideal for small theatre groups and schools, where it can be performed as a short play or as part of a seasonal concert. Selected verses from the most popular musical numbers are included in the shortened adaptation. "If you liked Phantom of the Opera, just wait until you see Scrooge!"-Radio 3, Australia"Wonderful theatre."-Yorkshire Evening Post. "Sensational . . . it was terrific." -BBC Radio 2. "Here is a musical on a grand scale-a rollicking, frolicking feast of entertainment."-The Country Border News. "Don't miss it!"-Swindon Evening Advertiser. $7.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters Full-length version (#21029) Short adaptation (#21520) THE SECRET GARDEN. (Little Theater.) Family musical. Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman. Music by Lucy Simon. Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 12 m., 10 f. I f. child (doubling possible). Ints., exts. This enchanting classic of children's literature is now a brilliant musical by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Orphaned in India, an ll-year-old girl returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid son. The estate includes a magic garden. Flashbacks, dream sequences, a strolling chorus of ghosts, and some of the most beautiful music ever written for Broadway dramatize The Secret Garden's compelling tale of regeneration. This Tony Award-winner is a treasure for children and adults. "Elegant. . . . The best American musical of the Broadway season. "-Time. "It's all you can hope for in children's theatre. But the best surprise is that this show is the most adult new musical of the season."-US.A. Today. "Achieves the irresistible appeal that moves audiences to standing ovations."-Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $18.95. Vocal Score, $100.00. CD, $20.50.(Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#21644) THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. New Revised Edition. Based on the story by James Thurber. Book by Joe Manchester. Music by Leon Carr. Lyrics by Earl Shuman. 5 m., 6 f, and as many extras as

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CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#972) SHAKE, RIPPLE & ROLL: A Rock and Roll Musical. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Jenifer Toksvig. Music by David Perkins. 5 m., 7 f. Int. This exuberant, fun-packed musical written for a large cast of young people features a glitzy rock 'n' roll score and plenty of action. Unless Joey Nobody and private detective Kirk Manley find Angelos's will in time, bogus heir Deanne la Domme, the glamorous film star, will sell Angelo's New York ice cream parlour to Crazy Flavors. So get out the bobby socks and join Chuck and the gang as they rock in this sizzling hour-long musical for schools and youth groups. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request.

desired. Various simple sets (or one basic set). On his fortieth birthday Walter Mitty reflects on his drab, ordinary life. Defeated in his quest for wealth and glory by family responsibilities, a mortgage, and a routine job, he creates elaborate fantasies in which he is the hero. His secret world is so enticing that he often loses sight of the boundary between dream and reality and comically slips into his imagination. An attractive would-be chanteuse aptly named Willa de Wisp encourages Walter to leave his wife, shed the burdens of suburban living and really live the secret life. Unfortunately it is as unattainable as it is appealing. At the end of the play Walter discovers that he is happily committed to the real world. "A thoroughly pleasant musical evening."-Time. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#967) SEESAW. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music by Cy Coleman. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Book by Michael Bennett. Based on the play Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson. 4 m., 4 f, extras. Drop and wing w. wagons. Seesaw is an intimate, engaging love story and a big, brassy musical comedy rolled into one delightful evening of theatre. It is the story of Jerry Ryan, a tall and handsome WASP lawyer from Omaha who has left his wife and domineering father-in-law to come to New York, and Gittel Mosca, a sassy, loveable Jewish girl from the Bronx who wants to be a dancer. This unlikely couple meets, falls in love, and parts in a bittersweet tale that is full of fun, music and laughter. Sparkling musical numbers capture the street scenes of New York, the dynamic dancing escapades of Gittel and her choreographer friend David, and the ups and downs of Gittel and Jerry's affair. Included is a balloon dance that The NY. Times calls "the nuttiest-and maybe just plain funniest-number I have seen in a musical." "A love of a show."-NY. Times. "One of the best musicals I've seen."-Rex Reed. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $12.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#968) THE SELFISH GIANT. (All Groups.) Children's musical. Based on the short story by Oscar Wilde. Music, Lyrics and Adaptation by David Perkins. Additional lyrics by Caroline Dooley. From the composer of the popular Shake, Ripple and Roll and other works for children, here is an enchanting ghost story written for a large cast of young people. Libretto, $8.95. Spiral-bound Libretto with PianoNocal Score: $29.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music or CD available on rental. See p. 231.)

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SHELTER. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer. Music by Nancy Ford. 5 m., 3 f. Int. Michael is a television writer, who writes commercials, lives in a studio, which is really a special apartment for TV commercials, and shares it with a computer named Arthur. Arthur can sing, do strange things with back projections so that Michael can command his environment, from day to night, from country scene to moonlit stratosphere, and does party tricks. Michael has a wife and seven children. He tries to keep Maud, a distressed actress who has just lost her husband, from growing more distressed. She stays the night, but when morning comes, so does the beautiful cleaning girl who is madly in love with Michael, and then, too, his wife shows up. "An electronic 'fantasticks' ... intimate and spectacular."-Village Voice. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. (#21125) SHENANDOAH. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell and Phillip Rose. Music by Gary Geld. Lyrics by Peter Udell. 11 m., 3 f. 2 c., chorus of 14 m. Drop and wing w. x-rays, wagons and scrim. This colorful and dramatic saga revolves around a strong-willed Virginia farmer who tries to keep his family neutral during the Civil War. But the Union forces and the Confederates see things only in Union blue or Confederate gray so the family is inevitably swept up in the conflict. Their story is a heart-warming and heart-rending portrayal of the upheaval that left wounds on the land and people. "A show for you and your children to love and cherish and enjoy."-Newsday. "Lovely ballads, very tuneful."-NY. Times. "A first-rate show, an antiwar musical with heart and humor. It is not afraid to believe in the goodness in man."-NBC. "A musical that celebrates American in the same excellent way that Oklahoma did. The score has many beautiful songs."-CBS. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $10.95. PianoNocal Score, $47.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#109) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CURIOUS ADVENTURE OF THE CLOCKWORK PRINCE. Cleve Haubold. Music by James Alfred Hitt. 6 m., 4 f. See Index for description. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA. (All Groups.) Musical mystery. Book by Tim Kelly. Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey. 7 m., 8 f., chorus. Suggested by the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle. This mirthful adventure involving Mata Hari, Jack the Ripper, Queen Victoria, beautiful Lady Fitzroy, Mrs. Hudson, Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard and of course, evil Professor Moriarty is the only tale Dr. Watson did not write down. A jeweled dagger, miniaturization chamber, opium den, immobilizing gas and a hideous idol are part of the merriment, as the Victorian spoof moves from the London docks to Regent's Park. The score is filled with show-stoppers, the lyrics are hilarious, the roles are great fun and the production requirements are minimal. Adaptable to arena staging. $5.95. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Choral package (2 Piano/Conductor's Scores and 10 Vocal Scores) available on receipt of $70 rental fee plus a $60 refundable deposit. A perusal score may be obtained for 14 days on remittance of a $15 refundable (#21684) deposit. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by John Clay, Greer Woodward and Rick Curnrnins. Lyrics by Ms. Woodward. Music by Mr. Cummins. 4 m., 1 f, to play various roles. Unit set. This delightful adaptation of the well-known Connan Doyle story for young audiences can be enjoyed by one and all. In it, a young man who wants to be a detective and his friend who wants to be a doctor but who has an interest in crime-solving investigate a murder and theft. "An extraordinary, action-packed, free-wheeling musical mystery."-Covington Press. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Production tape with all music available on rental of $50 per performance plus $35 refundable deposit. (#21124) SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE MUSICAL. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. 12 m., 4 f., plus ensemble (doubling possible). Various. Ints. & Exts. This delightful show by the man who brought you Stop the World and Roar of the Greasepaint was a long-running hit in London, where it starred Ron Moody (Fagin in Oliver!) as the intrepid detective. The show begins with Holmes and Moriarty grappling in their celebrated fight at the Reichenbach' Falls. Both fall to their apparent deaths; but, later, Holmes re-appears in London, having survived. Moriarty was not so lucky, however. A mysterious woman appears, named Bella, to whom Dr. Watson is quite attracted. It soon becomes clear that she is Dr. Moriarty's daughter, and she is bent on revenge-by framing Holmes for murder! ':An extremely lively . . . . zestful cartoon parody."-Daily Express.

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THE SENTIMENTAL SCARECROW. (All Groups.) One-act musical. Book and Lyrics by S. Charles Shertzer. Music by Nathan Brown. A musical version of Rachel Field's The Sentimental Scarecrow. 2 m., 5 f, plus gypsies. In manuscript. Music available on rental. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state musical when ordering.

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SERIOUS BIZNESS. Comedy revue with music. Jennifer Allen, David Babcock, Winnie Holzman and Don Perman. Music by David Evans and David Babcock. 2 m., 2 f Cabaret set. Up-to-the-minute social satire is the hallmark of this clever, easily-staged revue. A score of sketches and songs parody modem manners and morals at a machine-gun pace. It covers everything from the problems of using the telephone in the age of divestiture, to explaining the origin of babies to some obnoxiously precocious children, to arranging a dinner party for a date by which one of the proposed quests will be-unfortunately-dead. Songs include a bizarre torch song in the style (if not the spirit) of Piaf, a Steve 'n' Eydie-style Vegas number and a new-wave rendition of "A Bicycle Built for Two." "Unerring instinct for the heart of the matter. ... Downright laughable."-N.Y. Times. "As frisky and funny and original as anything in town."-New Yorker. "This is a comedy with a master's degree in literacy. Cheers all round."-Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21078) THE SEVEN. (All Groups.) Rock musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Charles Harter. 7 m., 9 f., plus dancers and backing vocalists. Simple set. Six of the notorious "Deadly Sins" have come to Lady Penelope's "Half-Way House for Sinnernolics" in the hope of achieving redemption, only to learn the heard way that she is herself the most formidable Sin of all-Pride. $8.95. Vocal Score, $10.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21087) SEVENTEEN. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Sally Benson. Lyrics by Kim Gannon. Music by Walter Kent. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. 13 m., 12 f. 4 exts., 1 int. Poor Willie Baxter is moonstruck from the moment he meets cute, blonde and baby-talking Lola Pratt who has come for a summer visit. All the boys vying for Lola's attention. Willie goes to such lengths to impress her that he wears his father's much-too-large formal dress suit whenever he calls on her in the evening. "Seventeen has lost none of that old fond enchantment. Put on as a musical play, it is still a touching and uproarious portrait of the torture of adolescence."-NY. Times. $7.00. PianoNocal Score, $13.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. (#21095)

70, GIRLS, 70. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by David Thompson and Norman L.
Martin. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke, adapted by Joe Masteroff. Ensemble cast. A group of 70-yearolds decide to liven things up in their retirement hotel by becoming a shoplifting gang. "A disarming tribute to age . . . [which] never permits you to wax sentimental over the jaunty members of the stage's considerably more mature set."-NY. Post. "Unlike its two predecessors jn the same genre, No, No, Nanette and Follies, 70, Girls, 70 is not founded on nostalgia."-Wall Street Journal. In manuscript.

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SLOW DOWN, SWEET CHARIOT. (All Groups.) Musical. Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 4 m., 7 f. Single set. When Kitty Shannon dies, she refuses to accompany her guardian angel to heaven when she learns daughter Joan's fiance Nonnan Gonnan is a scheming swindler in love with another woman. Songs range from the wildly funny one wherein Kitty and Joan lament they can't stand half of the invited wedding guests to a lilting romantic number wherein Joan and the man she should be marrying pretend they really don't love one another to a poignant one when Kitty finally must bid goodbye to her daughter. Audience laugh through their tears during this heart-warming show with a lively and lovely score, startling special effects and zany plot. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) A PianoNocal Score is available upon receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per perfonnance.

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SHOW ME WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE. Revised Version. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book by Leonora Thuna. Lyrics by Rhoda Roberts. Music by Kenneth Jacobson. 5 m., 4 f. (expandable). Unit set. This musical suggested by Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid transplants the story to New York's Lower East Side in 1913. This is a love story between Aaron, a cunnudgeonly hypochondriac who is living to die, and his flamboyant second wife who is dying to live while there are still some good times to be had. The melodic score burst with waltzes, tangos, ragtime, razz-ma-tazz vaudeville and show-stopping numbers as Aaron tries to force his daughter to marry a nitwit doctor so he can get free medical attention . A crowd pleaser."-N.Y. Times. "The good times roll like an old-fashioned merry-goround."-Washington Post. "Hilarious."-Baltimore Sun. "A gem-laden evening."-Hearst Newspapers. "Has audiences rolling in the aisles. . . . A spirited and tuneful show." -Syracuse Herald Journal. $7.00; Revised version in manuscript. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.)

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SMILE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Marvin Hamlisch. 6 m., 7 f., ensemble. Var. sets. This light-hearted musical by the creators of Little Shop of Horrors A Chorus Line and They're Playing Our Song' revolves around the shenanigans of the California finalists in a beauty competition. "A swift-paced . . . and thoroughly professional entertainment. "-Time. "Wonderful Marvin Harnlisch melodies. Smart, clever move-the-story lyrics from Howard Ashman . . . . This is the best Broadway score in years . . . . Smile? I did. Your will."-ABC. "This good-looking show has a lot to like. . . . Sit back and enjoy the pageant."-Women's Wear Daily. "Impressively crafted lyrics."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo (#21232) Tape available on request. SMITH. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Matt Dubey, Dean Fuller and Tony Hendra. 6 m., 2 f., extras and chorus. This loving parody of musical comedy conventions, theatrical trappings and the illusions of make-believe is framed within a clever and original scenario: A stuffy young botanist (part Scrooge, part Everyman) is inexplicably whisked into a stereotypical musical, complete with a wonderfully inane plot, cliches and a hilarious score in which every song is a spoof of a different musical comedy genre. "A musical with originality, vitality, and zestful fun. "-WABC-TV. "Thoroughly brilliant, delightful and original."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21237) SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Constance Ray. Conceived by Alan Bailey. Musical arrangements by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The year is 1938. It's Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, NC, and the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to provide an upliftin' evening of singin' and witnessin'. The audience is invited to pull up a pew and join in the rollicking good time. More than two dozen songs, many of them vintage pop hymns, and hilarious stories from the more or less devout Sanders provide a richly entertaining evening that has audiences clapping, singing, laughing and cheering. "Totally beguiling . . . foot-stomping soul food."-N.Y. Post. "Wildly funny . . . . So welJ-written that I found myself laughing, rooting for the family, and singing along and clapping with the rest of the audience." -Trenton ian. "Exhilarating! . . . A rollicking . . . cornpone Chorus Line. "-Variety. "A sophisticated audience went simply wild."-Philadelphia Daily News. "A charming and funny celebration of Americana."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#21236) Posters THE SNOW QUEEN. (AU Groups.) Operetta. From the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Music arranged and adapted from the works of Edward Grieg by King Palmer. Book and Lyrics by Winifred Palmer. Hobgoblin,a wicked creature of black magic, casts a spelJ over twelve-year old Karl. He goes to visit the Snow Queen who lives near the North Pole. She places a little glass in his heart. Meanwhile, Gerda, his younger sister, and his grandmother worry over his visit. Gerda seeks out the Snow Queen and her innocence is her strength in rescuing Karl from the spelJs of Hobgoblin and the Snow Queen. $8.95. Vocal Score, $14.50. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. See p. 231.) Not available in Canada. (#21244) THE SNOW QUEEN: A Musical adapted from Hans Christian Andersen. (All Groups.) Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Adrian Mitchell. Composed by Richard Peaslee. 7 m., 7 f., 2 c.(with doubling). Friendship and loyalty are put to a harsh test when young Kai is whisked away by the Snow Queen and his friend Gerda sets out to rescue him. Strange creatures help her or test her courage, especially the Snow Queen's often inept polar bear henchman. Amid singing flowers, the Garden Lady tries to keep Gerda from continuing, a helpful crow and his dancing flock guide her until she is waylaid by an old robber woman and her daughter, and an old reindeer carries her northward after she escapes from the robber's camp, determined to find the Ice Palace and free Kai. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute, CD won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Audio Book. "A snow show as warm as the summer sun. Go bask in it."-News of the World, London. "Haunting . . . and gorgeous."-Troy Record. "The music and lyrics . . . were . . . excellent. "-London Morning Star. $12.95. Vocal Selections, $14.95.CD (Audio Book and Study Gide), $17.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 53.) (#21460) SNOW WHITE. (Elementary Schools.) Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Edna Kuder. Music by Peter Larson. Flexible cast. This enchanting version of the classic story is designed to teach children the joy of being on stage. It is perfect to be perfonned by and for elementary school children. The text is easy to learn and the melodic songs by an award-winning composer whose work has been recorded by Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick employ a simple piano accompaniment. Cast size

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SHINE!: The Horatio Alger Musical. (AU Groups.) Musical. Book by Richard Seff. Music by Roger Anderson. Lyrics by Lee Goldsmith. 13 m., 6 f. Various sets. This charming rags-to-riches romp with a melodic score follows Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's first best-selling hero, from penniless bootblack to budding Wall Street entrepreneur. His adventures bring him face to face with scheming ex-convicts, vicious comic villains, kind benefactors and a world of colorful street characters. Set in the New York Centennial summer of 1876, this full of hopes and dreams musical is perfect for the whole family. Winner of the National Music Theatre Network Award. "Highly tuneful. . . . A friendly show of considerable good humor." -Playbill-on-Line. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) CD, $17.50. Slightly Restricted. Posters (#21529) SIDE SHOW. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Henry Krieger. 13 m., 9 f. Various sets. Based on the true story of Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Depression, Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. Told almost entirely in song, the show follows their progression from England to America, around the vaudeville circuit and to Hollywood on the eve of their appearance in the 1932 movie Freaks. "Daring, enthralling ... [with) passion, empathy and directness [that is) reflected in the tidal pull of the music and the winning simplicity of the lyrics. . . . Grafts the Hilton sisters into the hearts of their audience."-N.Y. Times. "A bright and moving musical."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $17.95. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#21540) SING A CHRISTMAS SONG. Musical. (High Schools). Book and Lyrics by Peter Udell. Music by Garry Shennan. Flexible cast. Simple set. It is easy to produce a Christmas musical with Broadway quality accompaniment in an auditorium or classroom using this novel package. Two sixty-minute audio tapes, one for rehearsals with lyrics and music and' one for perfonnances with music only, enable students to present an up-dated version of A Christmas Carol to a quality soundtrack with lyrics by a Tony Award winner and music by a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Styled as a contemporary beggars opera infused with humor and social insights and written in easy-to-learn rhyme over rhythm, the play within a play features inner city street musicians that perfonn a modem version of Dickens' timeless tale. The setting accommodates a diverse student body and the entire show is a pleasure to stage. Libretto/Conductor's Score, $15.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music tapes available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20987) SING OUT SWEET LAND. Cavalcade of American folk music. Walter Kerr. 3 major roles plus singers and dancers (doubling possible). Simple sets. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) Piano score, $50 deposit. (Music Royalty, $15 each perfonnance.)

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SKYSCRAPER. Musical comedy. Book by Peter Stone, based on a play by Elmer Rice. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Music by James Van Heusen. II m., 5 f., extras. Julie Harris starred in this off-beat musical about a daydreamer whose New York brownstone is threatened by a skyscraper. "Bright, amusing and imaginative . . . with freshness ofhumor."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21203) A SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by The Heather Brothers. 4 m., 5 f. Unit set. The Heather Brothers' homage to swinging sixties music was a smash hit at the King's Head Theatre and it enjoyed a long run after transferring to London's Arts Theatre. "Slice has a lot of lively original songs in it, 30 of them, each neatly perche~ on the edge between parody of early rock and the real thing."-Boston Globe. "A pleasurable, lightly satirical revel in sixties manners and music . . . with bite, kick and hanky-panky. "-Guardian. "Full of such clever, self-mocking charm that it's difficult to come away feeling anything but thoroughly entertained. . . . The real pleasure comes from The Brothers' shameless poaching of an eclectic cross-section of famous numbers . . . . Superb comic pastiche and sharp, cuff-link humor."-Time Out. "A musical pastiche that takes you spinning back to the swinging decade to celebrate the eternal embarrassment of teen age."-What's On. $8.95. CD, $20.50. (Tenns quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#20985)

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determined to achieve success and fame as an artist is encouraged by four of the Muses, cleverly portrayed as a girl singing group, to leave her village for the city. In Athens she is challenged to compete by the jealous goddess Athena. The resulting showdown of mythic proportions forever changes her view of the world and her creative life. The tuneful pop-rock score has gospel, doo-wop, blues and more. Original and smart, Spin is ideal for schools and community theatres looking for a charming, off-the-beaten-track musical that is perfect for all audiences and suitable for multiracial and ethnic casting. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#21960) available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo CD available on request. THE SPITFIRE GRILL. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Music and Book by James Valcq. Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley. Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. A feisty parolee follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill. "~ soul-satisfying. . . work of theatrical resourcefulness. The story moves, the characters have many dimensions and their transformations are plausible and moving. The musical is freeing. It is penetrated by honesty and it glows."-NY. Times. "The amiable country-flavored tunes and lyrics are rendered with the kind of conviction and expertise that make them transcendent.."-NY. Magazine. "Soaring melodies!. .. Well before the show reaches its conclusion, many . . . city slickers ill the audience may be ready to enter Percy's raffle."-Wall Street Journal. $7.00. CD, $5.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#21462) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. SPOKESONG. Play with music. Book and Lyrics by Stewart Parker. Music by Jimmy Kennedy. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int.-ext. Set in and around a bicycle shop in Belfast, this wise and humorous play concerns Frank, the current operator of the shop started by his grandfather. Frank believes that all the world's problems can be solved if people simply switch to bicycles for transportation. Like Brendan Behan and Bertolt Brecht, Parker uses songs to comment on the action. All are original except "Bicycle Built for Two," sung by Frank to his girlfriend Daisy. The bicycle and the shop become an ingenious metaphor for the problems in Northern Ireland and, indirectly, about the problems of modem civilization. "Spokesong sings. Literally and figuratively . . . touches the heart and stirs the imagination." -Christian Science Monitor. "A play infinitely worth your attention." -N Y. Post. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) (#1036) STAND BY YOUR MAN. (Little Theatre.) Biographical musical. Mark St. Germain. 7 m., 3 f. plus ensemble. Int. Tammy Wynette-the woman behind the legend and the incredible songs that made her the first lady of country music-leaps off the stage and into your heart. Through her eyes, the audience relives her journey from the cotton fields of Itawamba, Mississippi, to internatiOl~al superstar. With comic flare and dramatic impact Stand by Your Man recounts triumphs and tragedies and explores Tammy's relationships with the five husbands she stood by, including George Jones, her beloved daughters, her strong-willed mother and two of her dearest friends: colorful writer and producer Billy Sherrill and film star Burt Reynolds. Among the 26 songs are "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," "Til I Can Make It on My Own" and "Golden Ring." "The best thing I have seen and heard in years. I mean the best! From the first minute to the last, this was a pure joy."-ThatsCountry.com. "Humor perfectly peppers the tragedy and triumph. But ultimately, the show's heart and honesty are what bring it to life. . . . Miraculously, it squeezes a host of songs into the story without cluttering the proceedings."-Fort Worth Star-Telegraph. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#21494) STARBLAST. (All Groups.) Family musical. Book and Lyrics by Barry Harman. Music by Grant Sturiale. 3 m., 2 f. minimum (can be done with up to 25 m. and 0. This colorful musical demonstrates the importance of imagin~tion in a world overwhelmed by technology. A young star voyager named P-T-I1I crashes his spacecraft on a bleak and forbidding world ruled by the dreaded and unseen Starblasters. He has 60 minutes to depart or he must face the Starblasters in mortal combat. His desperate search for help leads him to a nervous space dragon, a floating Moon Valley girl, two vaudevillian computer robots, some teen space greasers and finally, the awesome Mother Space. Each offers him advice but no help. Time is up and PT-Ill faces the Starblasters. He is victorious at first, but the Starblasters re-generate over and over until Peter Trenton III wakes up clutching his new Starblasters video game. Would-be astronaut Peter stares out at the stars and knows it is fun to dream. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#21832) STARDUST. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Music by various composers. Conceived by Albert Harris. 3 m., 3 f. Simple set. Winner of the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. Stardust gathers together 35 of Mitchell Parish's most enchanting songs. Included are "Deep Pwple," "Moonlight Serenade," "Don't Be That Way," "Sophisticated Lady," and, of course, the title song. Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Benny Goodmam, Harry White, Peter DeRose-all play second fiddle to the extraordinary lyrical talent of Mr. Parish. "A gentle, easy to like, nostalgic tonic."-NY. Times. "The best revue of its stand-up-and-dance-and-sing type in years."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $24.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted. (#21322)

can vary from 17 to 50, and the settings 'can be simple or elaborate. Running time is approximately 30 minutes. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. See p. 231.) Please state authors when ordering. (#21231) SNOW WIDTE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Elsa Rael. Music by Michael Valenti. 3 m., 2 f., 7 children. Simple unit set w. insert. This sprightly version of Snow Whiteran over three years at New York's Theatre East, a record unprecedented in the history of children's theatre. It has played to the delight of children of all ages from Toronto to Los Angeles to Miami. The exceptional score and the caring relatedness of the young girl and the dwarfs distinguishes this version. "The best children's show in town. Without slavishly following the Disney film (the dwarfs here are more like the Lost Boys in Peter Pan than little old men), Elsa Rael's script and Michael Valenti's score find much of the film's charm" -N Y. Times. "A thoroughly diverting and remarkably tuneful variation of the famed classic. . . bursting with invention, originality and, perhaps most extraordinary of all, a musical score that ranks with much that is heard in the major Broadway houses." -Players Magazine. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Piease state musical when ordering. Demo Tape available on request. (#21250) SOME CANTERBURY TALES. Musical. Freely adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer by Kenneth Pickering. Music by Derek Hyde. 4 m., 3 f. Minimal set. Six of Chaucer's best known tales-the Knight's, the Wife of Bath's, The Pardoner's, the Franklin's, the Nun's Priest's and the Miller's-are freely adapted to the stage with an original and tuneful score. Strolling players spontaneously begin each story and the group's members enact the various roles. One of the tales can even be played as a Victorian melodrama! With plenty of scope for energetic improvisation, this lively setting of some of the tales is popular with youth groups and dramatic societies. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $12.00. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#21257) SOMETHING'S AFOOT. (All Groups.) Musical-Mystery. Book, Music and Lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert Gerlach. Additional music by Ed Linderman. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Scored for seven instruments. May be done with one piano. A zany, entertaining show that takes a satirical poke at Agatha Christie mysteries and musical styles of past years. Ten people are stranded in an isolated English country house during a raging thunderstorm. One by one they're picked off by cleverly fiendish devices. As the bodies pile up in the library, the survivors frantically race to uncover the identity and motivation of the cunning culprit. "The audience adored the show."-NY. Times. "Engaging, funny, refreshing and original."-N.Y. Post. "An enchanting spoof."-N.Y. Daily News. "Both a spoof and a tribute to Agatha Christie. . . played with fine-tuned, flamboyantly melodramatic affectations." L.A. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#988) SONG OF SINGAPORE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Alan Katz with Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin and Paula Lockheart. Music and Lyrics by Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin and Paula Lockheart. 8 m., 2 f. With the Off-Broadway popularity of this zany recreation of a seedy bar in Singapore, circa 1941, environmental theatre has come of age. When patrons enter, they are transported to those heady days when the band played on while the Japanese invaders approached. The story is a daft parody of old movies that is full of intrigue. Throughout, the music is hot and the cast never hesitates to reach for a laugh. Whether produced as a hilarious cabaret or a lively piece of audience-participation theatre, Song of Singapore is an uproarious hit. "A madcap audience-involving frolic."-NY. Times. "The music couldn't be better. "-Variety. "A gorgeous spectacle. . . . Theatergoers of the world, delight."-Time Magazine. "Has been attracting packed houses . . . and rave reviews from virtually every major critic."-Chicago Tribune. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#21726) SONGBOOK. Musical. Book by Monty Norman and Julian More. Lyrics by Julian More. Music by Monte Norman. 3 m., 2 f. A fictitious songwriter and fifty years of his music provide an ideal spoof of musical revues. "Call it clever and color it rose."-NY. Post. "It is a hilarious send-up of virtually every sort of pop song."-WCBS-TV. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21270) THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. (AU Groups.) Children's musical. Book and lyrics by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Valerie Smith. Music by Diane King. 2 m. principals, 12 or more m. and f. roles (doubling and/or puppets possible). Bare stage w. props and set pieces. The world is in a mess. Children are disappearing due to a power-hungry sorcerer who plans to rule the universe. The League of Astrological Super-Heroes is arguing and doesn't even notice that their Masterlog of Magic has been swiped. Is it only a matter of time before the fiend turns every child into a Creeple? Or can a reluctant apprentice save the day? The happy ending is a lesson in believing in yourself, even when others don't. Originally performed by South Coast Repertory's Young Conservatory Plays, this imaginative adaptation uses simple tunes, puppetry and staging to provide an hour of fun and entertainment for young performers and audiences. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21736) SPIN: A MUSICAL MYTH. (AU Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by M. Kilburg Reedy. 3 m., 6 f. 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STARMITES. (All Groups.) Family musical. Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Book by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross. 6 m., 6 f., plus 2 droids. Dreaming her way into a comic book adventure in deepest space, Eleanor saves the galaxy in this zingy rock musical. It is Eleanor, Spacepunk, the Starmites and the lizard man against the evil Banshees led by Diva and Shak Graa. Diva's entrance song, "Hard to Be Diva," is a guaranteed show-stopper. Every space-age possibility for light-hearted thrills is thoroughly exploited to delight fun-loving comic book fans. "A space-age Peter Pant . . . Assets include Mr. Keating's eclectic pop-rock score, which occasionally pauses for a sweet ballad or gospel number between the hard-driving 60's style melodies. .. A light-hearted space flight."-N.Y. Times. "Wonderful entertainment for the young and the young at heart." -WNBC-TV. "The score is irresistible."-ABC-Radio. "A campy adventure aimed at the latent teenager in all of uS."-Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. Posters (#21340) STEEL PIER. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by David Thompson. Music and Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson. 7 m., 8 f. & chorus of 8 m., 5 f. Var. In the honky tonk world of marathon dancing in Atlantic City in 1933, a captivating assortment of depression era souls eager to dance their way into fame and prizes gather on the Steel Pier. The spectacle is presided over by an oily-tongued emcee who is secretly married to Rita Racine, the champion dancer. Her usual partner doesn't show up, so she is paired with a handsome pilot on leave. As the hours of dancing whirl on, Rita becomes increasingly disillusioned with her sleazy, conniving husband and more and more infatuated with the handsome young aviator and a vision of life in a peaceful cottage. Songs by the creators of Chicago and other classics of the Broadway stage throb with the dancing rhythms of the era. "Beautiful songs . . . skillfully interwoven with the plot."-N.Y. Daily News. "Spectacular."-NY. Post. 'Steeped in wistfulness."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $16.95. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted (#21558) on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) STREET DREAMS: THE INNER CITY MUSICAL. (All Groups.) A street cantata. Book and Lyrics by Eve Merriam. Music by Helen Miller. 4 m., 5 f. Int. This version of Inner City is based on the book The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam. This is a catalogue of urban ills which modernizes nursery rhymes so that the city's ills can be seen in a documentary and entertaining way. "It's all presented by a fascinating parade of characters: a local congressman, a prostitute, the cop, the drug pusher, . . . each of them has a chance to address the audience, to tell their story, and they tell the audience how things really work. . . . The songs have verve and drive, the lyrics have an exuberant and refreshing frankness." -ABC- TV. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#1050) THE STREETS OF NEW YORK. (All Groups.) Musical farce. Book by Barry A. GraeJ, based on the Boucicault play. Music by Richard B. Chodosh. 8 m., 7 f., chorus. Cyc. and latticework frame. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for an offBroadway musical, this is a rip-snorting version of the Boucicault classic about an evil banker and a pure and deprived heroine embellished with exciting musical accents. Simple to stage. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state musical when ordering. (#1007) STRIDER. (All Groups.) Play with music. Mark Rozovsky, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's story. English stage version by Robert Kalfin and Steve Brown, based on Tamara Bering Sunguroffs translation. Music by M. Rozovsky and S. Vetkin, adapted and with new additional music by Norman L. Berman. Vocal and instrumental arrangements by Norman L. Berman. Russian lyrics by Uri Riashentev. English lyrics by Steve Brown. 12 m., 7 f. (with doubling), 4 musicians. Bare stage. Tolstoy's story of life seen through the eyes of Strider, a piebald horse, has been brilliantly and magically adapted to the stage and it makes Strider seem both equine and thoughtfully hqrnan. Despite his maverick coat, Strider is a thoroughbred and a champion. He tells his story to the other horses in the stable; it is one of unexpected triumph and undeserved despair, running much the same as his master's, a dissolute prince. Strider is also an allegory about the indomitability of the pure in spirit-and while inspirational, it is also a valid commentary on the injustices of the world. "A 'play to be cherished . . . . It restores glory to our theater. . . . Lovely and moving." -N. Y. Post. "An artful experiment in the magic of illusion as well as a play with an uplifting message."-N Y. Times. "A rare thing, a serious and captivating show that ought to please everyone." -Newsweek. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $7.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#149) THE STUDENT GYPSY, or THE PRINCE OF LIEDERKRANZ. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Rick Besoyan. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#21375) SUGAR BABIES. The Burlesque Musical. Conceived by Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby. Sketches by Ralph G. Allen based on traditional material. Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin. Additional Music and Lyrics by Arthur Malvin. "Sugar Baby Bounce" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. 8 m., 2 f. (principals), chorus girl, extras. Drop and wing, wagons. Sugar Babies is a riotously funny, nostalgic trip for those who remember burlesque and a happy discovery for those too young to recall this irreverent form of American entertainment. All of the classic scenes, including a hilarious dog act are here, along with such wonderful songs as "Exactly Like You", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby" and "Don't Blame Me." On Broadway Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller starred.

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"Brings it all back--<:horus girls, tap d~ncing, fan dancing, double and quadruple takes, fright wigs . . . . A big fat, old-time hit. . . . Sugar Babies . .. that's entertainment."-WCBS-TV2. "A sizable Broadway hit and a homage to a classical American theatrical form."-NY. Post. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters (#156) SULLIVAN & GILBERT. (Little Theatre.) Musical play. Kenneth Ludwig. Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Lyrics by William S. Gilbert. 8 m., 4 f. Var. ints. or unit set. This clever show takes place at the Savoy Theatre in 1890. Gilbert and Sullivan, who have been feuding for years, are forced to work together one more time: Queen Victoria commands a performance of their most popular songs. Part docu-drama, part period comedy, and part "Gilbertt and Sullivan's Greatest Hits," this is a delightful revue from the author of Lend Me a Tenor. "A charming show."-Boston Globe. "A warm, and affectionate behind-the-scenes look at this tempestuous, hilarious relationship."-Middlesex News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#21385) SWEENEY TODD THE BARBER. Brian 1. Burton. See Index for description. SWEET AND HOT: THE SONGS OF HAROLD ARLEN. (Little Theatre.) Musical revue. Conceived by Julianne Boyd. 3 m., 3 f., plus 5 musicians. Unit set. This razz-ma-tazz, high energy revue celebrating the songs of one of America's greatest composers has played to rave reviews around the country. Among the three dozen selections included here are "Stormy Weather," "Get Happy," "It's Only a Paper Moon," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "That Old Black Magic" and "Over the Rainbow." The setting suggests a 1930's jazz club, a Coney Island Pier and a Caribbean port. "Fast-paced and flowing."-Variety. "The evening sizzles [and] radiates polish and pizzazz. It's a sweet and hot way to rediscover Arlen." -L.A. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape available on request. (#21950) THE SWEETEST GIRL IN TOWN. (High School.) Musical comedy. Charles George. 7 m., 9 f. Extras. Int. At a summer hotel Harry Hart falls for Jackie Sweet, a manicurist. His father is a nouveau-riche millionaire and his mother aspires to social position. Determined to break off the engagement with Jackie, Mother has her fired. Riotous complications culminate in a happy ending. In manuscript. Vocal Score, $7.00. (Royalty, $25-$25. Terms for rental of orchestration quoted on application.) (#21403) SWINGTIME CANTEEN. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Linda Thorsen Bond, William Repicci and Charles Busch. 5 f. Unit set. This star-spangled hit enjoyed long runs Off Broadway and in London. MGM is putting glamorous movie legend Marian Ames out to pasture, but this is 1944 and no time for self-pity. Marian gathers her instrument-playing gal pals from the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the troops in London. Her show is a rip-roaring canteen extravaganza that features five archetypal film characters from the 1940s singing over 30 vintage classics. Laughs, emotional fireworks and air raids punctuate this hilarious and heart-warming musical celebration. "A Wowser. An evocative balancing act of music and comedy, parody and sentiment. They make the good war sound great."-Time Magazine. "I loved it."-NY. Times. "A must seet"-NY. Post. "Hit-paraders of the era sound evergreen as ever." -Newark Star-Ledger. "High octane. Rip-roaring." -New York Newsday. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#21949) TAKING MY TURN. (Little Theatre.) Musical. New Revised Version. Book by Robert H. Livingston. Lyrics by Will Holt. Music by Gary William Friedman. 4 m., 4 f. Unit set. "A musical about aging that is irrepressibly young at heart. . . . This is neither a musical with a story nor a random collage, but a show on a single subject, with music thematically integrated . . . . Necessarily, the show is also concerned with dying, but it is never depressing. Instead it is rejuvenating. . . . Many of the lines are pungent, and the songs maintain a level of sophistication even when dealing with potentially sentimental matters. . . . the first act is fine; the second act soars."-N.Y. Times. "Pleasant, engaging."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22013) A TALE OF CINDERELLA. (All Groups.) Children's musical. Book by W.A. Frankonis. Music by Will Severin and George David Weiss. Lyrics by George David Weiss. 5 m., 5 f., 5 c. plus chorus of 6 m., 6 f. (doubling possible.) A delightful new spin on the classic tale set in Venice, this musical has lots of Italian spice and fire. To find love and happiness, a self-reliant, strong and beautiful Cinderella must overcome a powerful amuletto d' amore to free her father from her stepmother's mysterious spell. The music is co-written by the legendary American composer of "What a Wonderful World" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." This an ideal musical for the whole family was originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "Dazzling."-Backstage. "This Cinderella will live happily ever after."-BuJfalo News. "A runaway success."-Albany Times Union. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $14.95. CD, $17.50. Video, $19.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#22280) available on rental. See p. 231.) THE TALE OF THE MANDARIN DUCKS. (All Groups.) Family musical. Book and Lyrics by Katherine Paterson and Stephanie Tolan. Music and Lyrics by Steve Liebman. Based on the book by Katherine Paterson. 5 m., 3 f. Simple set. This dramatic adaptation of a Japanese folktale is two stories: that of a pair of Mandarin ducks and the samurai and kitchen maid who come to their aid. In the end, it is the ducks who save the human pair. The play draws on conventions of Japanese theater

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The songs, romantic, reflective and stirring by turns, heighten the drama and emotional thrust of this timeless story. Ideal for youth and adult groups to produce, A Tale of Two Cities offers opportunities for splendid chorus work and powerful stage spectacle. $8.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22579) TALES OF HOFFMANN. (All Groups.) Operetta. A modem version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta. Book and Lyrics by Charles George. 5 m., 7 f. Chorus. Int. In manuscript (with complete dialogue and stage directions, detailed piano score, cue parts). (Royalty, $35-$25.) Eleven-piece orchestration available on rental, $10 per (#22019) performance plus deposit. THE TAP DANCE KID. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Charles Blackwell. Music by Henry Krieger. Lyrics by Robert Lorick. Based on the novel Nobody's Family's Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh. 5 m., 5 f., ensemble. Var,. Sets. This longrunning Broadway musical also had a lengthy tour. It's a wonderful cornucopia of music, drama, comedy and above all, tap-dancing. The story concerns a lO-year-old Black kid named Willie who doesn't want to be a lawyer like his stem father; just has to dance, like his uncle, an aspiring Broadway choreographer who is very much Willie's mentor. And, dance he does! "Stunning, warm-heated new musical comedy." -Christian Science Monitor. $7.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#22617) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THE TAXI CABARET. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Peter Mills. Conceived by Cara Reichel. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. The Taxi Cabaret follows six people in their twenties during their first year in New York City. Scott, an aspiring novelist, discovers that you do have to suffer to write. Mark and Sara test their relationship when they move in together. Zach lives an E-ZPass lifestyle, staying safely in the closet, while the eternally unlucky but relentlessly optimistic Karen falls for him, only to have her heart broken. C.C. is an actress/temp who longs for something in her life that will last more than sixteen bars. "If you're someone who frets about the future of American musicals, you'll hail The Taxi Cabaret."-Backstage. "Peter Mills . . . could win this year's Stephen Sondheim Successor Award in a walk."-Village Voice. Selected by Backstage as a "Best Musical" and by The Village Voice as a "Critic's Pick." $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music (#22585) available on rental. See p. 231.) TELEMACHUS, FRIEND. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Sally D. Wiener. 4 m., 1 f. Based on the O. Henry story. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22628) TELLER OF TALES. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Neil Wilkie. Music by Neil Wilkie and David Stoll. 12 m., 7 f., 1 c. plus extras, chorus and optional donkey (doubling possible). Var. sets. Here is a richly textured musical adventure about the charismatic author of Treasure Island. Young Robert Louis Stevenson defies chronic ill-health and Victorian family traditions by going places and taking risks. His high spirits and sparkling talent dazzle London's literati until a turbulent romance sends him on a reckless odyssey to California. A stranger in colorful old Monterey, he finds that winning at love becomes a life-and-death struggle to salvage his writing career and save himself. Launched with simultaneous premieres in Scotland and California, Teller of Tales has a powerful script, witty lyrics and a memorable musical score ranging from reel to ragtime. "Well told . . . with melodic music. "-Scotland on Sunday. "An ambitious, entertaining musical." -Carmel Pine Cone. "An irrepressible, living portrait of a great writer."-Monterey County Herald. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Demo tape available on request. Slightly Restricted. (#21989) TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM. Musical Comedy. Fred Carmichael. Based on the drama by William W. Pratt. 7 m., 4 f., 1 boy, Chorus of 3 m., 4 f. This rare combination of music and nonsense leaves the audience asking for more. All of the well-remembered scenes are intact: Little Mary as she pleads with her fallen father in the bar, the evils of alcohol claiming the owner of the saloon, Little Mary's death scene and the regeneration of drunkard Joe Morgan. New suspense is added as Goldie Hills, a saloon singer with a heart of gold, is tied to a mooring post by villainous Harvey Green and sings "I Am More to Be Pitied Than Censurd" as the water rises. In keeping with the period, olio numbers are suggested to be perform between scenes. Chorus songs and dances are worked into the plot with over twenty numbers in all suggested. To be authentic, the scenery is all painted on backdrops and the production problems are minimal. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites,$7.50. Please state musical when ordering.

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TEN NOVEMBER. (Advanced Groups.) Drama with music. Steven Dietz. Music and Lyrics by Eric Peltoniemi. 9 m., plus 3 on-stage female musicians. Unit set. On November 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior, taking with it 30 men. Inspired by the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald," this docu-drama is a compelling inquiry into the unanswered questions about that tragedy. "Instead of taking the issue of blame head-on, Dietz has treated the tragedy like a source of light refracted through the characters involved-the captain, the crew, the widows, the owners. The cumulative effect of these interlaced fragments gives troubling life to what might have been dry facts."-Variety. "Eerily evocative."-Detroit News. "A wonderful mixture of music, historical research and personal reflection-all of it wrapped in the metaphorical power of sea literature and in the evocative emotion of achingly beautiful folk songs."-St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. $7.00. (Terms quoted on applica(#22135) tion. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Neil Simon. Music by Marvin Harnlisch. Lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager. 1 m., 1 f., ensemble. Var. sets. America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line collaborated on this hit musical, a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carol Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully-but this ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course, there's a happy ending. "It is fun and it is funny, full of blithe good humor, hilarious jokes and witty, pointed characterizations. . . . The concept of the musical is absolutely beguiling. . . . Simon has gotten himself another odd couple even odder than his first . . . and is at his most sprightly and acidly comic."-N.Y. Post. "Engaging light entertainment."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on applica(#18) tion. Music and sound effects tape available on rental. See p. 231.) Posters THE 31/2 MUSKETEERS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Tim Kelly. Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey. 14 m., 8 f., chorus. Thrilling adventure! Duels! Romance and intrigue! Here is Alexandre Dumas' novel turned into a hilarious musical. Darth Canyon, a country lad, dreams of becoming a King's Musketeer. In Paris he joins three of the best: Annistice, Pothole and Applesauce. Because Darth is very short, they are known as "The 3 112 Musketeers" and they find themselves in the middle of a wild plot. The songs are absolute knockouts. Minimal production requirements. An open stage serves as the basic set for this fast-moving spoof. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Choral package (2 Piano/Conductor's Scores and 10 Vocal Scores) available on receipt of a $60 rental fee plus a $35 refundable deposit. (Write for particulars about orchestrations.) A perusal score may be obtained for 14 days on remit(#22696) tance of a $15 refundable deposit. THREE GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. (Advanced Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Jerry Colker. Music by Michael Rupert. 3 m. Unit set. The three guys are stand-up comics. Wild and crazy and very-very hip, their unique blend of intellectual and slap-stick humor propels them from unpaid neophyte performers to the Johnny Carson Show, instant stardom, and their own television show. Then, commercial success evaporates the magic. "Riotous!' .. Bursting with daring ideas about how to do musicals. It transforms stand-up comedy into new unexpected forms of theatrical energy."-N.Y. Times. "Breezy, funny, vulgar, fresh athletic, corny, sentimental and irresistible. The entire conception is strikingly original and oh those three guys! Should run as long as there's a laugh in us."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. CD, $28.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22688) THREE WISHES FOR JAMIE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows. Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane. 12 m., 5 f. plus extras. Jamie McRuin is offered three wishes and his wise choices-travel, a dream girl to marry and a son who will speak the old Gaelic tongue--offer some charming surprises. "Frank and funny."-N.Y. World Telegram & Sun. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22089) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. (All Groups). Musical. Carol Hall. 7 m., 7 f. (including pianist). Conceived by Carol Hall, who wrote the music and lyrics to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, this joyful musical took Off-Broadway by surprise. It is a tuneful, warm and witty observation of what really goes on in the hearts and minds of people as they participate in a church service. The ninety minutes of song, monologue and poetry require almost no set and only one piano. Done in a theatre or church sanctuary, To Whom It May Concern is perfect for all church and theatre groups, especially those with access to glorious voices. "A celebration! . . . Communities will be presenting To Whom It May Concern for years to come." -N. Y. Times. "A melodic score and a joyous communal spirit which doesn't end until the house lights come up!"-A.P. "Witty, inspiring. It's applications are universal."-N.Y. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on (#22131) rental. See p. 231.) Demo Tape ayailable on request. TOM SAWYER. Musical play. Book, Music and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. See Index for description. TRAFFORD TANZI. (Little Theatre.) Play with music. Book and Lyrics by Claire Luckham. Music by Chris Monks. 3 m., 3 f. Environmental setting. See Index for description. TRICKS. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Jon Jory. Music by Jerry Blatt. Lyrics by Lonnie Burstein. 6 m., 3 f., 4 musicians, 3 dancers. 1 set. A musical adaptation of

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Moliere's Scapin with that impertinent comic servant as central character. He makes fools of his masters, robbing them of their dignity as well as their money. Basically, the style is Commedia Dell' Arte and set in Italy. It has twin sets of young lovers, a rock score and rock quartet to sing it. "Tricks" had a highly successful run at both the Actor's Theatre of Louisville and Washington's Arena Stage. "It is a show for fun and fun only. I can't imagine anyone not having a glorious time at it."-U.P.I. "Scarcely time for a dull moment."-NY. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#22207) TRIXIE TRUE, TEEN DETECTIVE. (All Groups.) Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Kelly Hamilton. 4 m., 4 f. Var Ints. (simply suggested or played on a unit set) Hack writer Joe Sneed has been ordered by his boss to grind out yet another mystery about Trixie True, America's foremost amateur sleuth. Joe is sick of her. So, he begins one last mystery-which will finish off Trixie for good. The bulk of this clever show then becomes The Mystery of the Tapping Shoes, in which Trixie is called on by the F.B.I. to break a Nazi spy ring. "A fine night of sly craziness." -A.P.. "A cleverly camp celebration of some of the greatest pulp fiction ever written." -N Y. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) , (#22216) TURKEY IN THE STRAW. (All Groups.) Musical. Jack Sharkey. 9 m., 7 f. Simple staging. How can a trapped troupe of performers on the straw hat circuit salvage a Broadway-bound turkey without the producer-author discovering they're changing the show behind his back? And how will the lovelorn set-painter make the egotistic leading man fall for her? He has a passion for his co-star, a movie queen, he finagled into the show without the producer's knowledge. And how can a heavy-handed "message" musical about tolerance and love for aliens from other planets be turned into a smash hit in the show-with-in-the-show? A bright, tuneful show you'll enjoy doing with sprightly dialogue and lyrics. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) Write for partic(#22777) ulars about music. TURNABOUT. (All Groups.) One Act Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Ken Easton. 6 m., 2 f., large chorus. 1 set. Based on The Book of Esther, Turnabout is a lyrically hilarious tale incorporating the world's first recorded beauty contest and lots of plotting, counter-plotting and treachery. Dealing reverently with good guys and irreverently with the bad' guys, it offers an entertaining evening that demonstrates the futility of all plotters who dare to scheme against the chosen of God. How Esther is selected as Queen, foils the villain and saves her people from destruction makes for an inspiring and uproarious theatrical event. (#22004) $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Write for particulars about music. 2 BY 5. (Little Theatre.) Musical cabaret. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Conceived and Originally Directed by Seth Glassman. 3 m., 2 f. Minimal staging. The talented writing team of John Kander and Fred Ebb have put together this musical cabaret from both popular and obscure songs of theirs from known and unknown shows. "Has style and class . . . works beautifully!"-NY. Times. "Delightful! Full of energy and freshness!"-NY. Daily News. "Entertaining and engaging potpourri." -Newsday. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please state authors when ordering. (#1100) ULYSSES. Musical. Ken Pickering and Keith R. Cole. Various parts with chorus. In this rock odyssey, Ulysses faces the curvaceous Calypso, the cool, California Lotuseaters, one-eyed Cyclops and liberated Circe and her sauna girls. $8.95. PianoNocal Score, $17.75. (Terms on application. See p. 231.) (#23005) UNSUNG COLE (AND CLASSICS TOO). Musical revue. Arranged by Norman L. Berman. 2 m., 3 f. Bare stage. "This clever, delightful, de-lovely revue is a tribute to Porter's genius. It focuses not on the standards, but on the little-known, un-sung songs, such as the lovely torch song 'After You Who' from Gay Divorce. Andwell, of course, there are just a few standards thrown in to add to the fun. "-N Y. Times. "A cabaret revue fashioned from funny, sometimes wacky, often very tender songs in the sophisticated Porter style . . . . His music was in the Broadway vernacular and yet unique to him. . . . [It 1mirrors a time in our past and an image we had of ourselves as perhaps no other composer has done quite so precisely." -N Y. Post. "A rare evening. Funny and memorable." -WNBC. $7.00. (Terms quoted on appli(#23014) cation. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) UP FROM PARADISE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Arthur Miller. Music by Stanley Silverman. 9 m., 1 f. Simple set. This musical version of Mr. Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business is about the first First Family-Adam and Eve. Which makes it the perfect show for synagogue and church production. How can you go wnmg? You have a book by one of America's preeminent playwrights, and music by the celebrated theatrical composer Stanley Silverman, whose music was praised by the NY Times for its' 'merry use of barbershop, baroque and gospel harmonies." "Delightful score, ranging from Handel to Weill, and with all sorts of entertaining stops in between."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#23016) UP IN THE AIR, BOYS. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Robert Dahdah and Mary Boylan. Songs by Robert Dahdah. 5 m., 5 f. I basic set or 4 simple set. The producer may at his own option augment the cast with female, male or mixed chorus of any number of members for any number of production routines. 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Broadway Show, they combine it with a fashion show for a failing dress shop. But an irate spurned French star prevents the show from being done in any Broadway theatre so they decide to do it on airplanes with the audience on the Empire State Building. "Brilliant. Astaire Rogers magic."-NY. Times. "Better than Dames At Sea."-WOR-TV. From the man who gave you Curley McDimple. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Restricted NYC. (#23031) THE UTTER GLORY OF MORRISSEY HALL. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Clark Gesner and Nagle Jackson. Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner. 4 m., 18 f. Int. This whimsical musical about nutty mischievousness in an English girl's school and a cheerfully oblivious head-mistress is full of the light-hearted charm and sprightliness of British boarding school humor. The play takes the form of a series of miscellaneous pranks performed by the girls of Morrissey Hall, climaxing in a hilarious battle between students and faculty. Through it all is the imperturbably sunny and optimistic headmistress, trying to remain the center of sanity in the midst of the girls' comic and benign lunacy. "It takes off in a chain of delightful absurdities . . . . There is a playfulness to it that is most appealing." -N Y. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#23020) THE VAGABOND KING. (All Groups.) Musical play. Music by Rudolph Frirnl. Book and Lyrics by W.H. Post and Brian Hooker. 18 m., II f. Int.l4 exts. Louis XI visits a tavern in Paris and is angered when Katherine de Vaucelles rejects his advances. He seeks revenge. To this tavern comes Francois Villon, fresh from jail. Katherine seeks Villon's aid-France has been betrayed by Thibault d' Aussigny and she begs Villon to remove him. D'Aussigny is stabbed and Villon arrested. Villon's earlier declaration of what he would do if he were King has set Louis thinking. Villon is made Marshal of France, and chooses a kingdom for a day and then the gibbet, rather than his liberty. One thing may save his life-the love of Katherine and her consent to marry him. King and Court gather to see the hanging of the savior of France. The people plead in vain for his life, but Katherine declares her intention of marrying Villon. He will become her vassal and cannot be hanged. $7.00. Piano/ Vocal Score, $25.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#24004) VARIETY OBIT. Musical. Music by Mel Marvin. Lyrics by Ron Whyte and Bob Satuloff. 2 m., 1 f. A fanciful musical about an obituary notice in Variety, the weekly theatrical trade publication. Daniel Jefferson, the last remaining member of an American vaudeville family dating back 200 years, has just died. "We are treated in song to the American dream as seen through the eyes of generations of vaudevillians, to the accompaniment of a reading of the terse matter-of-fact obit." -Daily News. Published with Welcome to Andromeda, $6.50. (Royalty. $35-$25 or $50-$40 when performed with Welcome to Andromeda.) (#24012) VIVA MEXICO! (All Groups.) Musical Comedy. Book by Phil Park and Bernard Dunn. Lyrics by Phil Park. Musical adaptations and arrangements by Ronald Hanmer. 7 m., 6 f., (principals). Extras. 5 simple sets. Hilarious spoof of old Mexico. There's a Mexican-style Robin Hood, a revolutionary, ruthless Police Chief, a matriarch, senoritas, comic sidekicks, and a wealthy American senator and his daughter. When the dust settles everything turns out all right. This delight can be adapted to the musical and the acting strength-and the budget of individual groups. $15.00. Vocal Score, $15.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#24003) WALKING HAPPY. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Roger O. Hirson and Ketti Frings, based on the play Hobson's Choiceby Harold Brighouse. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Music by James Van Heusen. 14 m., 7 f. Hobson is an exasperated bootmaker with three eligible daughters. He thinks they're all giddy girls, but the eldest is really is the only level-headed person in the shop. She rebels and sets up her own shoptaking along her father's best bootrnaker whom she marries. The transformation of this poor humble chap is a comic delight. The younger sisters are now free to marry and their gruff father must bend to the inevitable and acknowledge the marvels of femininity. "An ebullient musical comedy. . . . It rejoices in good taste as well as high spirits."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#25010) WANNA PLAY?! (Teen Groups.) Musical. Conceived by Bryan Young. Book by Linda Bergman. Music by Jeff Rizzo. Lyrics by Barry Dennen. 12 m. and f., aged 10-15. A superlative entertainment about the pains, pleasures and insanities of early adolescence. "A spectacular smash. I only wish that half the New York musicals I have seen in recent years were a fraction as tuneful." -Kansas City Star. A finalist (with "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rogers") for the Alpha Award for excellence in children's television. $5.25. (Royalty, $75-$75.) Original cast cassette recording, $9.95. Full Orchestration (2 Piano/Conductor's Scores, 15 Vocal Scores, and one each: Percussion, Trombone, Flute I1II, Piano/Celeste, Clarinet) available upon receipt of a $90 rental fee plus a $35 refundable deposit. Choral Package (2 PianoNocai Scores and 15 Vocal Scores) available upon receipt of $60 rental fee plus a $35 refundable deposit. A perusal score (2 volumes) may be obtained for 14 days upon remittance of a $35 depOSit. (#25024) WEIRD ROMANCE. (Little Theatre.) One-act musicals. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by David Spencer. Book by Alan Brennert. 5 m., 4 f. Unit set. This off-beat musical by the composer of Little Shop of Horrors and the Disney films Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid is two short musicals of speCUlative fiction. The Girl Who Was Plugged In is about a homeless bag-lady whose soul is transplanted into the body of a gorgeous female android by a company which manufactures celebrities. The second, Her Pilgrim Soul, is about a scientist who researches holographic imaging. One day a mysterious "living" holograph appears

MUSICALS AND OPERETTAS and changes his life forever. "It's worst moments are still more intelligent and provocative than the best moments in Cats. . . . Her Pilgrim Soul. . . is so cunningly written and musicalized with such emotional sincerity, I dare any proponent of new age philosophy to resist it."-USA Today. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $22.95.(Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Weird Romance (#25224) The Girl Who Was Plugged In (#9173) Her Pilgrim Soul (#10594) WHADDA 'BOUT MY LEGAL RIGHTS? (High Schools.) Musical. Book by Lauren Goldman Marshall and Andrew Duxbury. Lyrics by Lauren Goldman Marshall, Andrew Duxbury and Suzanne Grant. Music by Suzanne Grant. 3 m., 3 f., plus ensemble. Unit set. This clever show is a great way to educate high school kids about the law. The story' follows six teenagers as they encounter a variety of legal problems ranging from a racist, sexist boss to a school principal who won't let kids wear shorts. Other topics include sex abuse, child support payments and teen pregnancy. This show addresses itself to important concerns, in a meaningful and fun way. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#25028) WHAT A SPOT! (All Groups.) Dinner theatre play with music. Book, Music and lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 2 m., 2 f. 1 alt. 1 set. Take Robinson Crusoe, his friend Friday, an amorous gorilla named Lolita, and two lovely kootchdancers named Ginny and Denise who pretend to be shipwrecked society ladies. Join the castaways on "Stupid Island." Good, clean fun with a double dose of zaniness and mixups and wild special effects. Topnotch music and lyrics. All accompaniment provided entirely by piano and one economical, simple set. Excellent for dinner theatres-community and school groups too. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score available on receipt of a $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 per performance. (#1185) WHAT'S A NICE COUNTRY LIKE YOU DOING IN A STATE LIKE THIS? (Satirical Revue.) New Revised Version. Music by Cary Hoffman. Lyrics by Ira Gasman. This hilarious, all-musical revue of social and political satire offers enough sparkling material for anywhere from five to a dozen performers. "Gives a once-over-lightly to such timely issues as nuclear testing, Latin American revolutions and American politics as usual."-N.Y. Times. "Funny ... and very topical indeed. Recalls the great "New Faces" revues of Leonard Sillman."-N.Y. Post. "Witty ... pointed hilarity. Deserves to be planted in the middle of the Kennedy Center!"-John Simon. "Merrily murderous entertainment!"-L.A. Free Press. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. Up-dated material also available. See p. 231.) (#1220) WHEN PIGS FLY. See Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly. WHISPERS ON THE WIND. (All Groups.) Musical. John B. Kuntz and Lor Crane. 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage. These are vignettes about growing up in America of the 50's and 60's, linked together by a folk-rock score. "Wry and aware and very warm."-N.Y. Times. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#25090) WHITE HORSE INN. (All Groups.) Musical. 16 m., 6 f. Several sets. Musicalizations of the popular play by Hans Muller and Erik Charell. An up-to-date version of a grand old style of operetta, with a history of three seasons in London. It's the story of a charming Alpine inn-keeper, her celebrated guests, and her problems in hiring a headwaiter who will not try to marry her. It is also about two fathers and their daughters, and their cross-designed romances. But most of all it's the music that makes this such a glorious show, and that has made it a lasting favorite in Europe. $8.95. Vocal Score, $15.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. (#25099) THE WILLIE TREE. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. Music by Alec Wilder. See Index for description. THE WIZ. The New Musical Version of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum. Book by William F. Brown. Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls. 11 principals, various small parts, singers and dancers. Var. sets. Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new fantasy for todaymysterious, opulent and fanciful. "Radiates so much energy you can hardly sit in your seat ... great fun."-N.Y. Post. "A continuous festival of movement ... splendid character songs. "-WWD. "A carnival of fun ... wickedly amusing show. "-Time. "A virtual musical circus ... driving rhythms, soaring songs ... boisterous, exuberant."-WABC-TV. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $16.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Slightly Restricted. Posters (#147) WHOOP-DEE-DOO! See Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo! THE WOMAN IN WHITE. Musical. Tim Kelly and Jack Sharkey. 4 m., 8 f. Subtitled "A Cautionary Chronicle of Monstrous Evil and Black-hearted Villainy in Song & Dance", this is a loony musical spoof of Wilkie Collins' grim Gothic novel. Amid murder, madness, betrayal and vile deeds, the music is merry. There are even two fiendish murders set to music! The central cqaracter, villainous Sir Percival Glyde, and his cohort in crime Countess Fosco (Proprietor of a madhouse) are two of the vilest-and funniest-foul fiends ever set to toe-tapping music. $7.00. (Roy-

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alty, $60-$40.) Music available on receipt of a refundable deposit of $25 plus a rental fee of $10 per performance. (#25184) WOMAN OF THE YEAR. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book by Peter Stone. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Music by John Kander. Based on the M-G-M film by Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin. 11 m., 6 f., chorus. Var. sets. Lauren Bacall made a triumphant return to Broadway in this Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the famous Tracy/Hepburn film. Tess Harding, a glamorous is a high-powered anchorwoman of a network TV morning news show. She makes some derogatory remarks about comic strips on the air and comes head-to-head with Sam Craig, a famous cartoonist who introduces a lampoon of Tess into his comic strip. The feud turns to romance and marriage, but not to harmony in this delightful battle of the sexes between two out-sized egos. "It is funny, it has zing, it has sass . . . . It also has some very attractive music and lyrics, a clever book, an air of class and a superior sense of imagination to it. In a word, it is terrific." -N.Y. Post. $7.00. Vocal Selections, $12.95. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#1210) WOMAN OVERBOARD. (All Groups.) Musical. Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. 5 m., 4 f., chorus. Contented housewife Peggy Tremayne, taking a Caribbean cruise under the name of her swinging sister-in-law, begins to live up to her alias's reputation. She nearly wrecks her happy marriage as she tries to promote a romance between her niece and a stuffy archaeologist. A guaranteed fun evening for audience and cast with its hilarious mixture of music and madcap machinations and romantic complications. $7.00. (Royalty, $50-$50.) PianoNocal Score available on receipt of $25 refundable deposit plus a music rental fee of $10 each performance. (#25171) YANKEE DOODLES. (Ballet-In-Blue-Jeans.) (All Groups.) Emmet Lavery. 6 to 12 boys, 6 to 12 girls. No formal scenery. Extensive use of off-scene public domain music and on-scene dancing. Adaptable for auditorium or arena staging. This is a play as well as a folk ballet and some good actors are essential, two in particular: Yankee, who plays Yankee Doodle, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt; and Doodle, who plays Mrs. Yankee Doodle, a mining camp cook, a baseball umpire, and a dancing class teacher. In manuscript. No changes in text permitted. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#27004) YANKEE INGENUITY. (All Groups.) Musical comedy. Book and Lyrics by Richard Bimonte. Music by Jim Wise. Based on Fashion, 19th century comedy by Anna Cora Mowatt. 8 m., 5 f. Various sets. Yankee Ingenuity is set in pre-Civil War New York City and satirizes the vanities and wild extravagances of the new rich while extolling the virtues of an earlier day. Mrs. Tiffany, the leading character, adopts European mannerisms and spouts fractured French. Mrs. Tiffany sends her daughter in pursuit of a fashionable but bogus count. An elopement attempt follows a costume ball and there all sorts of comings and goings. "Strong, viable characters, singable songs, color and comedy to spare."-Variety. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. (#27003) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) YOU NEVER KNOW. (All Groups.) Musical. Based on the play Candlelight by Siegfried Geyer, Karl Farkas and Robert Katscher. As adapted by Rowland Leigh. Additional Adaptation by Paul Lazarus. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. This romantic musical is set in Paris in 1929. Filled with delightful, witty Cole Porter songs, the story takes place in Baron Rommer's elegant suite at the Hotel Ritz. The baron and his butler switch identities so they can pursue two woman through a door-slamming farce with wonderful songs and dancing. "It is classy, intimate, happy with terrific music"-L.A. Times. "A lovely little ensemble piece. "-Variety. "Good time from beginning to end."-Boston Globe. "Utterly delightful. . . . As sparkling as a glass of champagne on a careless romantic evening."-WBZ-TV, Boston. $7.00. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) Please specify play number when ordering. (#27607) YOU NEVER KNOW. Musical comedy. Based on the play By Candlelight by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas. Music by Cole Porter and Robert Katscher. Lyrics by Cole Porter. Additional Lyrics by Rowland Leigh and Edwin Gilbert. Book adapted by Rowland Leigh. 3 m., 3 f. + 1 x. Int. Baron Ferdinand de Rommer is enamored of a married lady. He has his valet Gaston impersonate him singing over the telephone asking her to dine. When the lady arrives, Gaston continues the impersonation and the Baron pretends to be the valet. Maria's husband arrives looking for his wife, but he finds only the maid impersonating her. The real Maria arrives impersonating her maid and the foursome of master, valet, maid and lady dine by candlelight. Includes such Porter greats as "At Long Last Love" and "For No Rhyme or Reason." "Delightful and slyly amusing." -N. Y. Journal. "Reaches a high point of hilarity" .-N. Y. World-Telegram. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#27031) ZOMBIE PROM. (All Groups.) Musical. Music by Dana P. Rowe. Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey. Based on a story by John Dempsey and Hugh Murphy. 5 m., 5 f. (with doubling). Ints. This girl-loves-ghoul rock and roll Off-Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the style of 50s hits keeps the action rocking across the stage. "A blast. ... Slick fun

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for the whole nuclear family."-NY. Daily News. "Stays safely on the sunny side of the macabre. . . . A gentle send-up of the teenage romance films . . . given a radioactive glow ofnovelty."-NY. Times. "If you like Grease . .. you [will] like Zombie Prom."-NY. Daily News. $7.00. CD, $20.50. (Terms quoted on applica(#28008) tion. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) ZORBA. (All Groups.) Musical. Book by Joseph Stein. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Adapted from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. This splendid musical ran for a year on Broadway and was followed by a widely acclaimed national tour. The story of Zorba, the carefree vagabond, and his chosen friend and master, the shy, inhibited Nikos; the romance of Zorba and the lusty but aging Hortense and of Nikos and the withdrawn and beautiful widow; the failure of a mine, murder, suicide, a feud-Zorba has all the ingredients that make for popular theatre. Plus a powerful score from the composers of Cabaret. It combines a great

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score with a rousing story, and is an opportunity for fine singing and acting. In manuscript. Vocal Selections, $8.95. CD, $17.50. (Terms quoted on application. (#1249) Music available on rental. See p. 231.) OTHER MUSICALS (See Index for descriptions or write for information.) American Portrait Chain of Jade Cyrano The Dancing Years Dirty Work at the Crossroads Family Good Evening How Now, Dow Jones The Last of the Leprechauns My China Doll The Oldest Trick in the World Old King Cole One for the Money, etc. Song at the Scaffold Wild, Wild Women

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'M' is for MOON AMONG OTHER THINGS. Radio play. Tom Stoppard. I m., I f. In Stoppard Plays for Radio, $20.00. (Royalty on application.) (#15183) ROUGH FOR RADIO I. Radio Play. Samuel Beckett. I m., I f. voices. Int. In Ends and Odds, $8.95. Restricted as to manner of production. Write for details. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#20604) ALL THAT FALL. Radio play. Drama. Samuel Beckett. 11 voices. A little old Irish lady is wending her palsied way to the railroad station. The train is unaccountably late, but at last arrives with her blind husband. Today is his birthday. Together they toddle home, reminiscing about the depressions in their lives, getting wet in a sudden rainfall. A messenger from the station overtakes them and gives the old man a ball. What made the train late, the woman asks. And the messenger says: It was a little child, ma'am. He fell under the wheels of the train. Produced by BBC radio. In Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces, $11.00. Restricted as to manner of production. Write for details. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#3042)

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ROUGH FOR RADIO II. Radio Play. Samuel Beckett. 3 m., 1 f. voices. In Ends and Odds, $8.95. Restricted as to manner of production. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#20605)

12 CHARACTERS
THE DOG IT WAS THAT DIED. Radio Play. Tom Stoppard. 9 m., 3 f. One of the best radio plays of 1982 allows Stoppard to revel in his gifts as a master-parodist. Not since The Real Inspector Hound has a contemporary genre been given so comprehensively hilarious a come-uppance. This time it is the world of moles and other troglodytes, of the covert exchange of portentous banalities on park benches, of double double agents and tripl~ bluffs, of Whitehall committee rooms, which is caricatured. In Stoppard Plays for Radio, $20.00. (Royalty on application.) (#6083) IF YOU'RE GLAD I'LL BE FRANK. Radio Play. Tom Stoppard. 7 m., 5 f. Simple ints.lexts. (may be suggested.) Adapted for stage use, as successfully performed by the Young Vic. To his astonishment, Frank recognizes the voice of the GPO speaking clock as that of his long-lost wife. Determined to get her back, he forces his way into the inner sanotum of bureaucratic authority to demand her release. Meanwhile, stiI1loving him, she is almost broken by her never-ending recitation. Underlying the light-hearted story is a satiric comment on man's servitude to the" clock-and a reminder that Time itself is independent of the tick-tock of the clock. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (Royalty on application for radio purposes only.) (#585)

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ANOTHER MOON CALLED EARTH. RadiI} play. Tom Stoppard. 4 m., I f. In Television Plays, $11.95. (Royalty on application.) (#3095) TEETH. Radio play. Tom Stoppard. 2 m., 3 f. In Television Plays, $11.95. (Royalty on application.) (#22626)

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A SEPARATE PEACE. Radio play/one-act stage play. Tom Stoppard. 2 m., 4 f. 2 ints. A sly, gentle dig at society's conventions and preconceptions. John Brown arrives at a country nursing home with a case of money expecting hotel-style service. He's a kind of dropout bound to puzzle a profession geared to treating the sick. He's not physically ill and apparently not mentally so. He settles into the routine and cocoon-like security. Everyone speculates as to his identity. Maggie, his favorite nurse, leams enough so they're able to locate his relatives who come for him. She feels guilty, but he says he doesn't blame her. He tells her it would have been all right if he'd been really sick-and if he wanted his relatives, he'd have found them. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$15.) (Royalty on application for radio purposes only.) (#1015)

13 CHARACTERS
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Radio Play. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., 7 boys., chorus. In Stoppard Plays for Radio, $20.00. (Royalty on application.) (#25663) NEUTRAL GROUND. Radio Play. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., 1 f., I boy plus various small roles. In Television Plays, $16.95. (Royalty on application.) (#16643) ALBERT'S BRIDGE. Radio play/one-act stage play. Tom Stoppard. 14 m., 2 f. Albert has a degree in philosophy and with a job as bridge painter has a new perspective on life up high. Through CPAs and programmed efficiency, he replaces four painters and the bridge is all his. He also has to get married-but that's another story. He's bothered bya reluctant suicide and by 1400 additional painters causing the bridge and Albert's dream to collapse. $4.50. (Amateurs planning to stage the play may adapt it at their own expense on paying a Royalty of $20 each performance.) (Royalty on application for radio purposes only.) (#3620) THE FOLLOWING PLAYS BY SAMUEL BECKETI ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR AMATEUR RADIO USE. ROYALTY ON APPLICATION. THAT TIME. FOOTFALLS. THEATRE 1. THEATRE 2. CAS CANDO AND OTHER SHORT PIECES which includes WORDS AND MUSIC, PLAY, COME AND GO and CASCANDO. See Index for descriptions.

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ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE. Radio play. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., 1 f. A fascinating, bittersweet play. We meet three artists in their declining years and one of them is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Was it accidental or was it murder? Then in flashbacks, we see them in their younger days and their involvement with young Sophie who eventually goes blind and later commits suicide in their presence. Then the action moves forward in time ending up with the present. Throughout the scenes Stoppard parodies the pretensions and fads of the artistic world. In Stoppard Plays for Radio, $20.00. Please state radio version when ordering. (Royalty on application.) (#3657)

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THE DISSOLUTION OF DOMINIC BOOT. Radio Play. Tom Stoppard. 6 m., 4 f. In Stoppard Plays for Radio, $20.00. (Royalty on application.) (#6695)

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*BALLOON RAT. Comic drama. Don Nigro. If. Bare stage. A young Gennan woman tells about mysterious events in her Munich apartment, where she lives with her little girl and a cat. A large, demonically clever rat seems to be moving around at night among balloons left on the floor after her daughter's birthday party. She is desperate to discover if this rat is real or imaginary, and she comes to believe that it is connected in a mysterious way to her upcoming thirtieth birthday. Funny and touching, this compelling monologue reveals a woman coming to tenns with time and mortality. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20(#4250) $20.) *MOONCALF. Dark comic drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. Bare stage. An oldwoman is writing a letter to her son. She tells him the grotesque story of the night her cow gave birth. Because her husband won't go out in the cold, the calf freezes and they struggle to force the weak cow into the barn. The cow keeps staggering back to be with the dead calf. Finally, her enraged husband shoots the cow. The silver lining, explains the old woman, is that now they now have all the hamburger they can eat. This is a complex, funny and horrifying little tale that might explain why Ben never writes back. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

CHILDE ROWLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage. A drama professor wanders in the dark theatre at night, conversing with possibly imaginary people about his passion for adjudication, his loathing of his demented wife, his hatred for students, actors and theatre, his fondness for deconstruction, henneneutics and long memorandums, and his desire to murder his faculty. Plagued by ghosts of his victims tap dancing in the hideous theatre building, this intellectual con man/homicidal maniac delivers a dark meditation on the relationship of art to power that is half vaudeville and half neo-Jacobean nightmare. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#4960) A CHIP IN THE SUGAR. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads.

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A CREAM CRACKER UNDER THE SETTEE. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads. (#5786) CREATURES LURKING IN THE CHURCHYARD. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage with chair and table. It's 1901 and Inspector John Ruffmg is sitting with his gun beside him. His young wife is dead and there are creatures lurking in the darkness: two small red eyes look at him. He has no beliefs. He loves his daughter desperately, but he is suffering horribly. He tries to decide if suicide is a solution or only another chapter in the hideous demonic nightmare his life has become. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5836) DARKNESS LIKE A DREAM. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. Chair in circle of light surrounded by darkness. Desdemona, a lonely actress cast as a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream, invites a man she hasn't seen in seven years to a perfonnance. Surprised and a little frightened when he actually shows up, she suggests that they go for coffee. She takes her car; he follows in his. As she leads him on an eerie journey through a labyrinth of dark country roads, she grows more and more afraid of what will happen when they stop. This unusual monologue about loneliness, fear and enchantment is a fine showcase for a young actress. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6572) THE DEVIL AND BILLY MARKHAM. Comedy. Shel Silverstein. 1 m. Bare stage. In this amazing rendition of a tall tale written in rhymed couplets, Billy Markham loses a sucker's bet with the Devil but ultimately outwits him. "A tour de force with the jokes coming Faust and furious." -N. Y. Post. "A rip-snorting, raunchy delight. Very, very funny."-AP. Published in Oh, Hell!, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $75$50 when perfonned with Bobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet.) (#6728) DOG. Dark comedy. Steven Berkoff. 1 m. Simple set. Here is a day in the life of a man and his pit bull, both played by the same actor. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6921) DREAM AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Comedy. Nathaniel Eaton. 1 m. This hilarious and sometimes tragic monologue traces one man's adventure through the mayhem of Morocco in search of peace in solitude and an understanding of mysteries beneath the sheltering sky. Based on a true story, it stonns through absurd immunizations, hash-filled sex parlors, robberies, rituals, snake charmers, veiled women and one-eyed hustlers to end up high atop a snowy African mountain. Winner of the National Short Play Award at the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. $4.50. (Royalty,$35-$25.) (#6941) FAIRY TALE ROMANCE. Drama. M. Kilburg Reedy. I f. Simple set. A woman in her late thirties who yearns for marriage and children of her own tells a well-known fairy tale to her young (unseen) niece. Whimsical humor punctuates this poignant story of a woman whose eye is on her biological clock while she tries to overcome her boyfriend's fear of commitment. (About 15 minutes long.) Published with Second Lady and Astronaut in Second Lady and Other Ladies, $6.50. (Royalty, $15-$15 or $60-$60 when perfonned with the other plays in the collection.) (#7971) THE HAND OF GOD. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads 2.

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*NARRAGANSETT. Drama. Don Nigro. If. Bare stage. In 1874 Ada looks over the rail of a boat in Narragansett Bay and tries to make sense of her life, obsessively returning in her mind to 1854 when she was governess for Nathaniel Hawthorne's children duiing a trip to Italy. Her love for their beautiful but doomed daughter and their demonic son mix with eerie recollections of the ruins of Rome and a monstrous hairy creature crawling in her window as she prepares for the cold water beneath her. This haunting monologue about the sadness of time, the joy and horror of desire and memory, and the relationship of love to death is a powerful piece for a skilled actress. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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*WILD TURKEYS. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. Bare stage. In this powerful and poetic monologue. sixteen-year old Miranda talks about being fascinated and horrified by the grotesque wild turkeys that come down from the woods on foggy mornings. She has a premonition that they are messengers of death. This terrifying vision helps her decide if she wants to keep her unborn child. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#25915) ASTRONAUT. Drama. M. Kilburg Reedy. 1 f. Simple set. Perfect for an actress in her late thirties to early fifties, Astronaut is about a courageous female NASA pilot and space explorer who has admired and emulated male role models all her life. She has just returned to earth after leading the first NASA mission to colonize the moon and is appearing at a press conference. As she recounts the adventures and challenges of her mission, she comes to understand and treasure her femininity as well as the legacy she received from a female role model- her mother. Approximately 45 minutes long. Published with Second Lady and Fairy Tale Romance in Second Lady and Other Ladies, $6.50. (Royalty, $15-$15 or $60-$60 when perfonned with (#3731) the other plays in the collection.) BED AMONG THE LENTILS. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads.

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BROADWA Y MACABRE. Dark comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m. Chair on bare stage. The old producer, a skeletal, dying gentleman from the old days on Broadway, tries to convince a young playwright not to give up his big chance because he won't let anyone tamper with his script. During his increasingly impassioned diatribe, he relates his checkered and bloody history in the American theatre. This outrageous, moving, sometimes obscene play is weirdly uplifting. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#4749) BURGOO! Biographical comedy. William Schreiber. I m. Simple set. Alben Barkley, Truman's "Veep," uses folk humor and cracker-barrel philosophy to tell his life story. It begins in rural Kentucky and runs through over 40 years in Washington. Using hilarious one-liners and anecdotes, Barkley skewers presidents, preachers and politicians without sparing himself. $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4939) CAPONE. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m: Bare stage. Al Capone, his brain ravaged by syphilis, wanders in his retirement home in Florida, talking to himself, revisiting conversations he had years ago, trying to make sense of his life. The girls, the murders, glories and horrors of his mobster past mix with memories of his childhood and his time in prison, his hatred and his growing dementia. Here is a rich, funny, horrifying and moving outsider's view of American in the first half of the twentieth century. Published in Talesfrom the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, (#4949) $35-$25.)

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HARRIET. Monologue with music. Kisha Kenyatta. I f. In this big-hearted monologue delivered by a fonner slave, Harriet recounts her childhood, her path to freedom via the underground railroad and her return to lead her family and 300 other slaves to freedom. Her tale is laced with songs and hymns. Published with Acetylene in Award-Winning Plays, Vol 2, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9996) HARRY'S CHRISTMAS. Dark comedy. Steven Berkoff. I m. Simple set. Harry's Christmas is marked by the terrors of isolation, loneliness and enforced camaraderie. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#10566) HER BIG CHANCE. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads.

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ANIMAL SALVATION. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. 3 chairs on a bare stage. In this poetic play, a mad girl shares her terrible vision of a the future when humanity, consumed with guilt for exploiting, torturing and destroying animals, leaves children in the forest for wolves and lions to devour. The animals assume human guilt and pass it on to the plants. This unusual play is an audition piece of great power and strange beauty. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#3704) AUTUMN LEAVES. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. 4 chairs on a bare stage. In 1927, a young woman sees the story of her life in a painting by Millais of her sisters gathering leaves. Her tragic affair with her brother, her estrangement from a beloved sister, the birth of her illegitimate daughter, her reconciliation to dying and becoming a ghost, and her final understanding of her life's curious beauty form one of the loveliest plays in the Pendragon series. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#3869) THE AWARD. Warren Manzi. See The Award and Other Plays. AXIS SALLY. Monologue. Don Nigro. I f. See Index under The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines.

HIGGS FIELD. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. Circle of light in darkness. Andromeda awakens from a dream about ravens and runs to Higgs Field, a place she's been forbidden to enter, in search of a cat. Mr. Gott and the Quark family live in this strange, haunted place with a great black hole in the center. In this funny and oddly compelling monologue, surreal metaphors of modern physics spring to life as a Gothic nightmare. Published in Talesfrom the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#10579) THE IRISH GIRL KISSED IN THE RAIN. Monologue. Don Nigro. Bare stage. A young Irish actress speaks about the fascination she finds in tormenting her lover. When she looks in the mirror, she sees someone else. Escape from what frightens her is impossible; there is something missing inside of her and she doesn't know what it is. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#11928) JOAN OF ARC IN THE AUTUMN. Monologue. Don Nigro. I f. A bench in a garden. Following her trial, it as rumored that Joan of Arc was not actually executed and, in 1436, her brothers announced that she was alive. Three years later they came to Orleans with a woman they insisted was Joan. In this monologue, that young woman speaks about her confused memories of her life and martyrdom, which now seems like a dream in which there is much whispering and everything is burning. She speaks of her voices, sorrows and visions, and pulls us into her possibly imaginary world. Perhaps she is a mad girl found in a brothel; perhaps not. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#12637) A LADY OF LETTERS. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads. (#14685)

THE BIG BLACK BOX. Comedy. Cleve Haubold. I m., I voice. Ext. In this frighteningly funny parable of a modem man who puts all of his eggs into the wrong basket and then falls into that basket, the gullible Arnold is lured into conversation with a mysterious black box. The box tricks him out of his possessions and ultimately uses them to ensnare him. Arnold nearly escapes, but the box plays on his weaknesses to trap him inescapably.$4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#270) BONEYARD. Monologue. Don Nigro. I m. 3 chairs on bare stage. In this funny play about time, aging, and the eerie eternal life of art, Ben has turned forty and is going out with women young enough to be his daughter. He has odd flashbacks to television idols from his childhood: aging Cisco and Pancho trying desperately to mount fat old horses, toothless old sidekicks like Gabby and Jingles, and of the dying, heroic Beckett-like Buster Keaton playing all the parts in Romeo and Juliet in a dark theatre before a probably imaginary audience. A Pendragon play. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#4210) BORDER MINSTRELSY. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage. A razor-tongued, opinionated, eccentric antiquarian with an explosive temper and a colorful vocabulary rants against his enemies, his friends, his rivals, Sir Walter Scott, ungrateful boogers, meat eaters, literary scum, constipation and the French itching disease in this funny monologue about the relationship of chaos and truth on the border of madness. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#4220) BOX OFFICE. Comedy. Elinor Jones 1 m. Simple set. A lovable homosexual with a lisp has worked for years in the box office of the Off-Broadway hit Jellybeans. He has just turned 32, just left his lover of six years, and realizes if he has to pick up the phone again and say "Jellybeans, may I help you?" he'll go nuts. "A tour de force. . . . For 45 minutes Jerry holds our interest, simply talking, and that is no mean feat."-Villager. ,Published with What Would Jeanne Moreau Do, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$20 or $50-$35 when done with What Would Jeanne Moreau Do.) (#4670)' BREATH. Audiovisual piece. Samuel Beckett. One voice. In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $15-$15.) Slightly Restricted. (#4679) CAPTAIN COOK. Dramatic monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. Int. The young widow of Captain Cook, the famous explorer who was murdered on a beach in Hawaii, goes through a trunk of her husband's possessions and relives his life through them. A play about outer and inner investigations into truth, love and betrayal. In Cincinnati and Other Plays: Monologues for the Theatre, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#5772) CHICKS. Comedy. Grace McKeaney. I f. Int. In this unusual piece, a hit at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Shorts Festival, a kindergarten teacher is obsessed with telling us, her students, the truth about the world and what our lives will be like as we grow up and why our parents and the school administrators don't want us to know. Although funny, Chicks is a poignant portrait of a teacher trying to give her life meaning. In Chicks and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5747) CINCINNATI. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. See Index for description. CUL-DE-SAC. Drama. Jane Martin. I f. Bare stage. Trapped by a rapist in a secluded alleyway, a woman manages to turn the tables and exact a grisly revenge. In What Mama Don't Know, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Restricted NYC. (#5769) THE DARK. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage. A man in his late thirties is obsessed with a haunting moment in his childhood when he seemed to remember a previous existence. His struggle to understand this experience in light of his subsequent life leads him to the bare stage of an empty theatre. This haunting investigation into the nature of reality, dreams, theatre and identity, an addition to the Pendragon series embodies central themes of this playwright's large and varied body

THE LUNA TIC FROM NUMBER SEVEN. Richard Turtle. See Index under Lunacy: A Bathroom Trilogy.

MISS FOZZARD FINDS HER FEET. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads 2. (#14820) THE OUTSIDE DOG. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads 2. (#17074)

REFUGEES. Comic drama. Stephanie Satie. 1 f. (to play 3 m., 7 f.) Unit set. The hearts and minds of new immigrants and refugees as they reinvent their lives in American are revealed in five scenes that are set over five weeks in an English as a Second Language class. Each day in the classroom is linked by a brief interlude where the teacher begins the process of making peace with her own family. From tentative introductions to a victory celebration, students and teacher share stories, secrets, conflicts and even a little vodka. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#19773) SOLDIERING ON. Alan Bennett. See Index under Talking Heads. (#21725)

THREE WEEKS AFTER PARADISE. Drama. Israel Horovitz. I m. Bare stage. A man who lived with his family in the shadow of the World Trade Towers gives a personal account of the horrific terrorist attack and its aftermath. (Note: proceeds from this play and its film version are donated to a scholarship fund for children and grandchildren of the 9/11 victims.) Published in Israel Horovitz: 5 Short Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35 or $75-$75 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#22809) UNCLE CLETE'S TOAD. Comic monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Int. A scream and barking interrupt Uncle Clete as he has his morning coffee with his parakeet Wendell Wilikie. His wife has just discovered an enormous toad on the bathroom scale. He puts it out in the yard, but next morning there it is again. He can't get rid of it, and [mally marks it with lipstick to be sure it's the same toad. At last, he puts it in a bucket and takes it to the county line, but he is foiled by the sheriff who wants to know why he has a toad wearing lipstick in a bucket. This funny vaudevillian mediation on the nature of reality and toads is part of the Pendragon series. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22996) WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME. Drama. Joyce Carol Oates. 1 f. Simple set. An elderly woman relates in blank verse the story of her childhood as part of an immigrant Hungarian family in America. (#25268) Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) WITH A SIDE OF SABOTAGE. Comedy. Karen Manno. 1 f. Int. Devora, a chef to L.A. celebrities, doesn't have a clue why she keeps getting fired. She admits that her culinary skills are limited, but it's her passive-aggressive behavior that enrages her clients. Finally, she is hired by a family she adores and wants to cook for, but the celebrity grapevine scuttles her. Published in Service, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15, or $60-$40 if performed with the other plays in Service.) (#6223) WOLFSBANE. Dramatic monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage with table and chair. Uncle Fritz sits on the verandah of a restaurant in a tropical country, sipping a blood-red drink and planning the seduction of his waitress. He speaks about the nature of love, his war memories and the relationship of God to werewolves. He sees the world as a grand opera and his experiments on humans as his own works of art. This is a dark mediation on the nature of evil delivered by an old man who has been to its core and found much satisfaction. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#25723)

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of work. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#5938) DEAD MEN'S FINGERS. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. See Index under The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. DIOGENES THE DOG. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage. In this outrageous and irreverent monologue, Diogenes the Dog (who is either the ancient Cynic philosopher, a deranged modem street person, or some bizarre combination of the two) rails against every form of hypocrisy and self-righteousness. He does his best to offend everyone while conducting his own manic and demented investigation into the nature of man. It is a perfect showcase for a wild and slightly insane character actor. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6737) FRANKENSTEIN. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. Bare stage. A pretty young woman in a low cut dress has something must tell her date before she invites him in: she is obsessed with Frankenstein-the old movies, the comic books, the original novel and the world of Shelley and Byron from which it evolved, and Genesis because the Frankenstein myth is one powerful manifestation. Through the sheer force of her imagination and passion, she wants to become every person and every element in a created universe. This is a unusual showcase for an actress with energy and charm. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#8936) FROM A MADMAN'S DIARY. Drama. Nikolai Gogo!. Adapted by Eric Bentley. I m. Int. A middle-aged or young man reads from his diary in his room at home in St. Petersburg about 1830. In Inspector and Other Plays, $14.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#8652) FULL FATHOM FIVE. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. See Index under The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. GENESIS. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. A stool on a bare stage. In this provocative, sad and funny play about the kind of monkey we are, a feisty Eve speaks about life in the Garden of Eden with the simple-minded Adam, the turquoise-eyed serpent, and the elusive and brooding Creator with his bizarre rules and enigmatic disposition. Eve has her own views on love, sin, loneliness, and the motives of the tortured and frustrating Lord of the Garden, and they are not at all what she is supposed to (#9910) believe. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) GEORGE L. SMITH. Comedy. Cliff Harville. 1 m. Ext. or bare stage. Mr. Smith sits in his children's back yard and apprizes us of the facts of his life. He has been put out to pasture, his wife is in a nursing home and he has lung cancer. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#21387) GOLGOTHA. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m. 3 chairs on a bare stage. In this complex monologue, a man confuses his life in contemporary Pittsburgh with vivid memories of a simultaneous existence as Jesus. These identities interpenetrate his struggle to work out his relationship with Mary Magdalene and to perceive the nature of salvation. Pontius Pilate, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Lazarus coexist in the troubled world of the speaker as he shares his torments. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#9942) HAUNTED. Monologue. Don Nigro. 1 f. 2 chairs on a bare stage. In this impressionistic,lyrical stream of consciousness play set in 1823, a beautiful young woman in a white dress compUlsively relates the complex, Gothic story of her brief and tragic life. It is an erotic and eerie tale of passion, incest, drowning and a haunted family in a haunted house; part of the author's Pendragon family plays. In Genesis and Other Plays. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10593) HELP, I AM. Monologue. Robert Patrick. 1 m. Ext. A demented, sophisticated dwarf, the last man on Earth, is trapped atop the Empire State Building with only an endlessly repeated radio message for company. In his paranoia, the trivialities of our time are hilariously, pitiably reflected. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10629) HOMEBOUND. Drama. Lyndall Callan. I f. Area staging. The father of a young waitress is dying of cancer and her boyfriend is at boot camp. Her emotions and fealties are stretched to the point of desperation when her father writes her a note: Get away from here! She withdraws her pitiful savings and starts hitchhiking. She talks to the friendly drivers about her mother, father, siblings, and boyfriend in an affecting piece about a young woman adrift in an ocean of emotions. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 17th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#551) HORSE FARCE. Comic monologue. Don Nigro. 1 m. Bare stage. An old stage actor reminisces about his triumphs in a certain famous farce, but his defective memory and his many backstage amours disrupt the flow of his narrative. La Rue, a compulsive raconteur, doesn't let this stop him. The increasingly convoluted stream of sordid and hysterical memoirs reveals the absurdity, vanity, sadness and joy of a life spent in the cruel chaos of the theatre, providing a wonderful piece for a character actor. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10704) HOW MANY CHILDREN HAD LADY MACBETH? Monologue. Don Nigro. I f. See Index under The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines.

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS KILLER'S HEAD. Drama. Sam Shepard. 1 m., Int. A man in an electric chair contemplates his nonexistent future. The switch is thrown and, still smiling, he dies. In The Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#13610) THE KING OF THE CATS. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 f. A rocking chair on a bare stage. This monologue takes us into the mind of a deaf, mute old lady who witnesses the epic battle between a vicious, vulgar man who marries into her family to steal the farm and a fat, old tomcat. A plague of mysterious killer walnuts, a nephew wielding an ax, and an army of family skeletons make this an entertaining addition to the chronicles of the Pendragons. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#13037) LAST EXIT BEFORE TOLL. Comedy. Carrie Goldstein. I f. Int. This scatterbrain skit gets more and more credible as it goes along. A woman can't pay the toll so she leaves her baby with the toll taker as security and claims she will pick up the child when she comes back to pay. Something comes up so she says she'll have her husband get the baby tomorrow on his way home from work. The husband forgets, takes a different bridge home and the baby remains at the toll booth. Then, she can't get the child because she has just had another baby. On and on it goes until the toll taker retires and no longer knows where the baby, now grown, is. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#14598) MADELINE NUDE IN THE RAIN PERHAPS. Comedy. Don Nigro. I f. Chair on a bare stage. Madeline's encounter with an insane Frenchman on a bus jolts her back to intense moments of her life spent naked in the rain with friends. Also evoked are fantasies involving Charles Boyer, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Were~olf of Paris. A play about the proximity of ecstasy and horror, this is a rewarding piece for ayoung actress. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60(#14942) $40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) MADRIGALS. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 f. 1 chair on a bare stage. A pretty girl about 20 years old sits painting her toenails. In her slightly mad fashion, she explains human existence through her intense study of birds. Help also comes from the Venerable Bede and the other inhabitants of Sarcey's Palace, a house of ill repute in Terre Haute. This compelling play explainsthe Zen of toenail painting and the infinite compassion of God. In Genesis and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14943) MAJOR WEIR. Dark comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. Simple int. This supernatural play takes place in a famous haunted house: the former home of Major Weir and his demented sister who were executed in Scotland in 1670 for devil worship. Here the Major must relive his story each night while his mad sister spins at her wheel and plays with her dol!. This play will cast a spell on all who see it. In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15574) MINK TIES. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m. A chair on a bare stage. A paunchy, middleaged man in a rumpled suit wears mink ties, a sure-fire conversation starter, until he encounters a strange girl, a raccoon and a 1914 Republic truck that give him firsthand experiences with traps, homed and screaming fat women, and the urge to gnaw one's leg off. This is a fine showcase for a character actor. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15600) A MODERN PROPOSAL. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m. 1 set. In the year 2075 Bishop Michael Stega is in a panic. Because of over-popUlation, hungry people are eating priests and missionaries. Over the phone, Bishop Stega is trying to stop some Mexicans from cooking another priest while even the Pope is helpless to stop those in New Delhi from making a gigantic stew out of the Maryknoll Fathers. In Outrageous! and Other Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15565) MR. HAPPINESS. Comedy. David Mamet. 1 m. Simple set. This curtain-raiser for The Water Engine takes place in a 1930s radio station. A prim, sincere advice-tothe-lovelorn personality answers-by some magical exposition of instant radio-the letters people have written him. In an unctuous, urbane voice "Mr. Happiness" solves everyone's problems in the best style of a 1930s radio and newspaper "Miss Lonelyhearts." Published with The Water Engine, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $50$40 when performed with The Water Engine.) (#725) NIGHTMARE WITH CLOCKS. Dramatic monologue. Don Nigro. I m. An antique dealer has a haunting series erotic dreams which begin to intrude into his daily life. He finds the clock-filled mansion that haunts his nightmares and makes a desperate attempt to get to the girl in his dream. This funny, frightening and strangely romantic play was produced by the Triangle Theatre Company in New York. In Cincinnati and Other Plays: Monologuesfor the Theatre, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) . (#16647) NOTES FROM THE MOA TED GRANGE. Monologue. Don Nigro. I f. See Index under The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. ONE PERSON. Monologue. Robert Patrick. 1 m. Bare Stage. An author appears and apologizes for luring the audience to the theatre since tonight's mono-drama is only for one person-his estranged lover. He reenacts their tragic affair from his own point of view in a virtuoso piece for a talented actor and mime. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17602)

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show in her school bus with a bird in flames painted on one side and a woman making love to a swan on the other. Cairo ain't been the same since. In What Mama Don't Know, $6.50. (Royalty, $15-$15.) Restricted NYC. (#22752) THE WEIRD SISTERS. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. 2 chairs on a bare stage. A woman believes her unborn twin sister is living in her skull. The sister speaks in tongues and urges her to increasingly bizarre and alarming acts. Vivid, strange and haunting, rich in language and atmosphere, this is a play you will never forget. In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#24999) WENDLEBURY DAY. Comedy. David Henry Wilson. 1 m. Int. A 60-year-old man looks back on his life, examining the good times and the bad with a strange mixture of fantasy and reality. He concludes that he has enjoyed it all. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plays, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#25648) WINCHELSEA DROUND. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. Chair on a bare stage. A young woman is obsessed with the ancient city of Winchelsea, now submerged in the English channel. She identifies more and more with its doomed inhabitants as she sinks into madness. This is a poetic audition piece. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#25226) WITHIN THE GHOSTLY MANSION'S LABYRINTH. Comic drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. Bare stage. Lonely old Mrs. Winchester, having lost her family tragically, is advised by the spirits to build them a house. She spends years constructing a grotesque labyrinthine mansion. Now she wonders if the ghosts are friends or out to get her. Strange, funny, beautiful and sad, this spectral monologue will haunt you. In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25244)

ONLY A COUNTESS MAY DANCE WHEN SHE'S CRAZY. Comedy. H.M. Koutoukas. Published in When Lightning Strikes Twice. See Index for description. (#17939) ONE FOR THE MONEY. Warren Manzi. See The Award and Other Plays. PICASSO. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m. An easel on a bare stage. Braque has a problem: his friend Picasso sees a demonic squirrel in his new painting. The more Braque looks, the more he too can see it. His desperate attempts to paint out the insidious creature are devastating to his creative and personal life. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#18956) A PIECE OF MONOLOGUE. Samuel Beckett. 1 m. A white-haired man in a nightgown, in the terrible solitude of the night, agonizes over remembrances of loved ones. In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly restricted. (#18643) ROCKABY. Monologue. Samuel Beckett. 1 f. This brief piece charts a woman's journey back into life before she arrives at death. "Overpowering."-N.Y. Times. "This great writer's innovative use of language grows increasingly exact and painful."-Chicago Tribune. In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#20627) SARA HUBBARD. Comedy. Cliff Harville. 1 f Int. (may be very simply suggested). Sara is 78and a spinster. She always wears her drawers under her nightie-and that's the way she wants to be buried after she concludes her sunset years. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#21387) SING A PRETTY SONG. Richard Turtle. See Index under Lunacy. SHASTA RUE. Drama. Jane Martin. 1 f, Bare stage. A middle-aged Black woman wearing a beauty contest swag reading "Miss Prettybelle Kentucky" tells how she and her daughter Shasta Rue crashed the beauty pageant. This hilarious anecdote is published in What Mama Don't Know, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Restricted NYC. (#21675) SQUIRRELS. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 f Chair in a pool of light. In this demented monologue a young woman gives birth to hundreds of squirrels. She relates the difficulties of trying to name and keep track of them, the traumatic effect they have on her cat, and her mixed feelings about their sudden departure for the woods. Wildly funny, this play about the mystery of creation is unlike anything you have ever seen. In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly (#21837) Restricted. Please state author when ordering. SUDDEN ACCELERATION. Comic drama. Don Nigro. 1 f. 2 wooden chairs on a bare stage. A woman's new car rams her son against a wall as she frantically stomps on the brake. When the automobile manufacturer refuses to admit fault and sends carnivorous lawyers and public relations people to convince her that she is responsible, she takes matters into her own hands with chilling results. In Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21414) THURSDAY IS MY DAY FOR CLEANING. Monologue. Jordan Crittenden. 1 f. 1 set. A housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown shoots her vacuum cleaner and phones the police to turn herself in, but she is interrupted by a deaf-mute vacuum cleaner repairman at the door. Notes are exchanged through the mail slot. The encounter is full of conflict until she starts to confide in him-only to turn violently against him. She finally decides everything is the vacuum cleaner's nightmare. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22692) TONGUES and SA VAGEILOVE. 2 monodramas. Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin. 1 m. These strange but arresting stream of consciousness concertos were originally presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival and performed by Mr. Chaikin. "These are interior monologues, daydreams and nightmares, communicated as from analysand to analyst. The actor exposes his emotions and recapitulates his life. Weare enthralled."-N.Y. Times. In Sam Shepard: Seven Plays, $15.95. (Royalty, $40-$30 when performed together or $25-$20 per play.) Tongues and Savage/Love (#22152) Tongues (#22733) Savage/Love (#21637) TRADITION 1A. Monologue. Howard Rice. 1 m. Int. A man recollects how good life has been to him. Oh, he's had some malign spots from too much sun, but he just goes to the dermatologist again and again to get them cauterized. As little pieces of him are taken away, he looks into a shoe box of mementos and notes from his wife and children and is revivified. One day the doctor asks how long he's had the growth on the back of his neck. Be prepared for a heart-wrenching experience. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 14th Series, $6.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22753) TRA VELLIN' SHOW. Drama. Jane Martin. 1 m. (could be f) Bare stage. Cairo, Tennessee was a quiet, safe town until Leda Phoenix arrived to put on her outdoor

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*ALL IN LITTLE PIECES. Comic drama. John Yearley. 2 f. Molly is trying to sell a house to Mary, but Mary is not there to buy. As they talk and get acquainted, it seems as if they are made for each other. The action twists and Molly realizes suddenly that Mary is not as stable as she seems. In fact, she is rather frightening. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, #29, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#3549) *THE BLONDE. Comedy. David Paterson. 1 m., 1 f Unit set. A kidnaping goes awry in this comedy with richly drawn characters that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. Published in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#4899) *DESIGNATED DRIVER. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 f. 1 set. A young lady plays good Samaritan by driving a drunk stranger home. The rambling, embittered woman can't remember where she lives and, as they ride around in circles looking for her house, she drunkenly discourses on life, love and the man they have in common. Published in One Man's Vision, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6922) *FEET OF CLAY. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. David Caudle. 2 m. Int. Two men sit out a rainy day in a remote mountain cabin while their wives shop in town. Vaughan has been a welcome benefactor to down-on-his-Iuck Clay since they met recently at a public pool, but this benevolence is not motivated by a desire to help his fellow man, and he can't keep his secret a moment longer. Will Clay have the same desire? Will he at least have a price? If so, can Vaughan afford to pay it? "Hilarious and well-written."-Miami Herald. Heidemann Award Finalist. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, #29, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#7964) *FINAL APPROACH. Comedy. David Paterson. 2 m. or f. Unit set. Lovers face a daunting family holiday in this warm comedy that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. PubJished in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#8585) *FRIENDLY FIRE. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m. 1 set. Two Italian-American mobsters are stuck in Limbo after a bombing gone wrong. As they wait to find out their ultimate destinations, they learn some surprising tniths about each other. Pub(#8691) lished in One Man's Vision, $8.9~. (Royalty, $20-$20.) *MY WIFE'S COAT. Drama. Kellie Overbey. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Peter enters a bedroom at his bon voyage party to get his wife's coat from the pile on the bed and discovers his mistress wearing it. She wants him to stay with her, but he is moving with his wife and kids across country to get a promotion. She asks him to grant one last request before she'll relinquish the coat. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, #29, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15745) *ONE LAST TIME. Comedy. David Paterson. 2 m. or f. Unit set. A person is forced to bury a friend in a thought-provoking comedy that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. Published in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#16948) *ONE MAN'S VISION. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m. Simple sets. A young movie director finds the ideal producer: a money man who refuses to interfere in any way with his personal vision. As the shoot proceeds, the producer's cheerful

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agreeableness slowly drives the director crazy. Published in One Man's Vision, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#16943) *THE TALE OF THE JOHNSON BOYS. Drama. Don Nigro. 2 m. Bare stage. Two boys tell the true story of their capture by Indians near the Ohio River in the late 1790s and the bloody events that resulted. It is the defining experience of their lives. The play, a haunting and complex allegory of violence, compassion and ambiguous betrayal, was first produced in New York by the Grey Wing Stage Company. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22578) *THANKSGETTING. Comedy. David Paterson. 2 m. or f. Unit set. Distant siblings try to reconnect in this thought-provoking and richly humorous play that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. Published in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#22586) *THEODORE ROOSEVELT ROTUNDA. Comedy. Jennifer Camp. I m., If. Int. A video game designer and a professor of literature are attracted to one another. The trouble is they've never met or spoken. They see each other in the 10Qby of the Museum of Natural History, where each is drawn for other reasons. The unexpected possibility of love begins to take shape as they work up the nerve, over the course of four weeks, to speak. Monologues, imaginary conversations and a shared dream hilariously propel this unlikely duo toward a profound connection. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, #29, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#16580) ABORTIVE. Drama. Caryl Churchill. I m., I f. Int. Roz and Colin are having a difficult time with sex, largely because of an invisible yet forbidding barrier between them. Roz became pregnant after being raped and had an abortion. Roz is not sure she made the right decision and Colin is not altogether convinced his wife was raped. In Churchill: Shorts, $22.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3887) THE ADOPTION. Drama. Joyce Carol Oates. I m., I f. Simple set. Dark comic undertones color this tale about a married couple at a mysterious adoption agency. Although they want a baby, they bravely agree to adopt an eight-year-old Third World child who appears to be deformed or disfigured. They learn he has siblings and are faced with an even more difficult decision, one that leaves them shaken and exposed. This fast-paced exploration of serious contemporary issues offers incisive satire that never becomes harsh or judgmental. Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#3553) THE BABEL OF CIRCULAR LABYRINTHS. Comic drama. Don Nigro. I m., I f. Int. An old blind writer sits in a circle of light in a dark library asking why he doesn't just sit in the dark, why a raven is like a desk and what is the nature of labyrinths. He hears footsteps and smells perfume. The intruder is a beautiful woman who mayor may not be a character in a story he is writing. She brings a knife from the labyrinth of mirrors. Someone is going to die in this unusual play about art, time and the relationship between fiction and flesh. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4281) BLUEBERRY WALTZ. Comic drama. Liz Amberly. 1m., 1 f. Int. One week after an accident in a Pennsylvania coal mine that trapped men underground, a miner's wife is afraid to move on with life even though her husband was uninjured. His playful, even silly attempts fail to alleviate her obsessive terror. When she reveals what she really thought during his ordeal, her honesty strengthens their relationship. As a favorite song plays on the radio, they dance' and know that they can face the future. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#4932) THE BOHEMIAN SEACOAST. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. A bench. The mad Shakespearelll scholar Delia Bacon has devoted her life to proving that his plays were actually written by her namesake, Francis Bacon. Ignored by all, she talks her way into Shakespeare's tomb and intends to spend the night digging up evidence to support her contention. She does not expect the bard himself to appear, or other snobs and cretins who can't believe a poor actor from Stratford could have written such plays. Published in Palestrina and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#4737) CHAIN MAIL. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A man obsesses to his wife about an unopened letter and its consequences. Published in Judgment Call and Other Plays, $8,95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#5869) CHUTES. Drama. David Paterson. 2 m. Ints./exts. In a distant nation during a recent war, two wayward American paratroopers are trapped by their chute strings in the jungle canopy miles behind enemy lines. The green recruit and the grizzled veteran prove to be much alike in their personal agonies and desire to survive as they are captured, imprisoned, hospitalized to recover and returned home. Published with Shades of Autumn, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#4972) CLARA AND THE GAMBLER. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A send-up of silent-screen westerns, this wacky comedy takes place in a room above the saloon where Clara is packing for her honeymoon. A stranger interrupts to tell her he has won her in a poker game. They fight and might fall for each other, but not before they realize they are victims of an inventive scam. An optional third character can

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(Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#5833) CRASHING THE GATE. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 1 m., I f. Int. Two young terrorists are stuck in a motel room, just killing time and getting on each other's nerves while they wait for orders. She is a fiercely committed revolutionary; he is self-involved and just interested in the perks. A phone call suddenly raises the stakes to a lethal degree. This is a sharp and scary comedy. "[Kidney Stones is] an unexpected theatrical joy' Smart, witty, incisive, right on, and slightly skewed."-live/y-arts.com. Published in Kidney Stones: Four One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#5212) THE DEAD WIFE. Drama. Don Nigro. 2 f. Int. On her wedding night Laura sits in her nightgown waiting for her husband. His dead first wife appears to warn her that her groom is a murderer and, 'preying upon Laura's doubts, fears and terror of mirrors, she plants a deadly seed of suspicion. The husband, a celebrated hero praised for his socially approved acts of violence, is com:mg up the stairs. Laura must decide what is real in this Gothic battle of wills. Like many of the celebrated author's plays, The Dead Wife features strong roles for actresses. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95 . (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6212) DEATH KNOCKS. Comedy. Woody Allen. 2 m. Int. Nat Ackermann is on his bed reading when a mysterious figure climbs through his window and claims to be Death. Death is a little nervous; it's his first day on the job. Nat suggests that they play of gin rummy. If Nat wins, he doesn't have to go to the Happy Hunting Ground for twenty-four hours. In Getting Even, $14.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6046) DECK CHAIRS III. One-act plays. Jean McConnell. See Index for description. THE DEVIL'S PAROLE. Comedy. Eric Giancoli. 2 m. or f. Simple set or bare stage. Once every millennium the Devil has a parole hearing with God to see if he will be released from imprisonment in Hell. This time around the Devil believes he's found a loophole. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6555) A DOCTOR'S VISIT. Drama. Mark Loewenstem. 2 m. Int. Based on historical legend, this intriguing play takes place in King Richard the Lionhearted's tent during the Crusades. Sultan Saladin, an adversary with whom Richard enjoys an unusually cordial relationship even as their armies clash, has sent his personal doctor, Moses Maimonides, to treat the malaria that is debilitating Richard. This recounting of the tale, one often used to illustrate the peaceful relationship between Islam and Jew, points to a sober lesson: the faith that nourishes and sustains us also drives us to war, and we have still not found a way to have one without the other. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#6243) DOMESTIC BLISS. Comedy. Karen Manno. 2 f. Int. When Marcy, 41, moves from Philadelphia to Chicago to live with Bob, she discovers how much he depends on his Polish maid Ania. This possessive domestic drives Marcy crazy- and back to Philadelphia, where she learns that Bob and Ania are honeymooning in Karkow. Published in Service, $6.50. Royalty, $20-$15, or $60-$40 if performed with the other plays in Service.) (#6225) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Drama. Frederick StroppeI. 1 m., I f. lnt. Michael, a desperately unhappy man, is at the brink of suicide. The reason: his wife Sandy is perfect. Too perfect. She caters to his every whim and he is sick of it. Sandy tries to prove that she is human and imperfect, but she can't. Michael finds that he has to leave her to preserve his own sanity, putting Sandy in a desperate situation of her own. In Single and Proud and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6934) THE DUCK VARIATIONS. Comedy. David Mamet. 2 m. Bare stage with props. This play dramatizes the old adage that people who talk the most with authority about something are the ones most likely to know the least about it. Two old men discuss the ways of ducks and life, making observations that are profoundly hilarious. "The most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. SaIinger."-Village Voice. Published with Sexual Perversity in Chicago, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with Sexual Perversity in Chicago.) Slightly Restricted. (#6694)

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THE FERRY. Comedy. Ryan Hill. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. A pick-up line ("Are you from Staten Island?') turns metaphysical as a woman from Iowa tries to explain how the world works to an insulated Staten Island native. As she speaks, she reveals her prejudices while he, though limited in perception and worldliness, displays the ability to accept what he sees and meet others on equal footing. The Ferry was commissioned for a benefit for families of busboys, dishwashers and other nonsalaried restaurant workers in the World Trade Center. Published in Off-Off Broad(#8593) way Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) FLIGHTS. Comic drama. Susan Cameron. 1 m., I f. Int. Maggie bumps into Carl at . the airport. It's been many years and he doesn't even recognize her. Soon they are talking about old times, his several marriages and her one, mutual friends and current happenings. Underlying their banal encounter is Maggie's heart-wrenching secret: she loves Carl and has for years. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#8958) FORWARD TO THE RIGHT. Drama. Lily Ann Green. 1m., 1 f. Int. Condemned to burn at the stake, Joan of Arc is denied a rosary, a cross or any form of service. Her sympathetic guard arranges for her to receive last rites. In consequence, he is imprisoned 'after Joan's death. He refuses to acknowledge her powers of witchcraft. Like Joan, he will not gain his freedom at the expense of the truth. Winner of the Best Original Play Award at the Ontario One-Act Pay Festival. $4.50. (Royalty,

LOOKIN' FOR A BETTER BERRY BUSH. Comic drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 f. Simple ext. This is a humorous and touching tale by the author of A Bag of Green Apples. A hard-working waitress and a street woman who have had vastly different life experiences clash on a city street, only to find themselves sitting together in front of a brownstone and tentatively reaching out for understanding. $4.50. (Royal(#14927) ty, $25-$25.) A LOW-LYING FOG. Drama. John Yearley. 2 m. Bare stage. Brotherly love is put to the test as Phil and Greg try to determine what really happened on a day that forever changed their lives. This story of awful mistakes made by good people-and the love that redeems such errors-unfolds as the two men directly address the audience. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty,

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LUNCH. Drama. Steven Berkoff. 1 m., I f. Ext. Two people meet on a park bench near the sea. Through mutual catharsis, the man learns how easy it is to be honest and reveal himself. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 1, $24.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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MAMET WOMEN. Comedy. Frederick ~troppel. 2 f. Int. Sally is in a bind. She has to host a Tupperware party and her babysitter has canceled. A good friend graciously offers to help out, but the price she demands for her services is more than Sally can bear to pay. The play is a comic power scene performed in female Mamet-speak. In Single and Proud and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15585) MASSAGE. Comedy. Steven Berkoff. 2 m. Simple set. Here is a no-holds barred erotic comedy for advanced groups. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 1, $24.95. (Royalty,

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FREE GIFT. Drama. Israel Horovitz. 2 f. Int. A young, educated black woman calls on a middle-aged white widow to sell her insurance. The conversation drifts into personal matters and gradually their attention shifts to the customer's young son, a black child she adopted when he was left on her d60rstep. Published in Israel Horovitz: 5 Short Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35 or $75-$75 when performed with (#8687) other plays in the collection.) THE GENUINE ARTICLE. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m. Int. This jaunty comedy chronicles the misadventures of a rural con artist masquerading as a traveling faith healer and his none-to-bright sidekick. As they rehearse their chicanery just before a revival meeting, their duplicity turns to awe-the bogus healer may be able to heal after all. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) Amateurs may apply (#9595) for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. GETTING EVEN. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this comic dialogue with crazy surprise turns premiered in a car showroom. Two guys seeking revenge are thrown together by bizarre circumstances. They eventually realize that teaming up is their best alternative. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) Amateurs may apply for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. (#9596) "HELLO, MA!". Comedy. Trude Stone. 2 f. Int. The telephone is the umbilical cord that connects a widowed mother and her grown daughter. Ma patiently responds to her daughter's problems with warmth, humor and bite until she is distracted by love and marriage. Published in Hello, Ma! and Other Plays, $6.50. Also in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 5th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#10630) HOMESICK. Drama. Joyce Carol Oates. 1m., 1 f. Simple set. A duet for voices, this drama with undertones of black comedy introduces Pinktoes, a woman who has been murdered in a desolate area of Texas by Mr. America, a serial killer. Pinktoes speaks from beyond the grave without sentiment or self-pity while Mr. America speaks from prison. Each is an eloquent variant of American archetypical primitive innocence. Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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MORNING COFFEE. Drama. Frederick Stroppel. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Katy and David have been living together for five years, but now it's over. They can't stand each other. They have to split up, but who gets the apartment? Neither wants to leave and neither will give in. Their anger and frustration pour out in a final summation of their rocky relationship. In Single and Proud and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-

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MRS. TOWNLEY HAD A POMERANIAN. Drama. Mark Dunn. 1 m., 1 f. Int. After a horrific bus crash kills most of a small Methodist congregation, Maddie Weathers is contacting grieving families and friends to be sure orphaned pets are being cared for. She and a fellow surviving church member who, like her, is wrestling with his faith, begin to hear a disembodied soprano voice singing hauntingly in the sanctuary. This play about profound loss, tested faith and the definition of God is by the popular author of Belies, Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain and other plays. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15738) MURMURS. Drama. Scott C. Sickles. 2 m. Int. Here is a quietly touching coming-ofage play. Jason, a former athlete, invites his lab partner over to watch baseball. Jason subtly probes rumors concerning Les' sexuality and, uncovering the truth, shares his own secret: a heart murmur ended his dreams. They hear each other's heartbeats and find comfort in each other. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st (#15283) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) MUSTARD SEED. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 1m., 1 f. Ext. This play about having faith involves a woman who thinks small and saves her life. Published in Eight Plays from the Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15741) NEGATIVE. Dark comedy. Joyce Carol Oates. 2 f. Simple set. Mary and Veronica are roommates at a fictitious American college where racial stereotypes are reversed. Caucasian Mary belongs to the minority race and black Veronica is a smugly altruistic representative of the majority. In the guise of friendliness, Veronica exploits and finally exhausts Mary while remaining oblivious of her own motives.Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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AN INTERVIEW. Comedy. David Mamet. 2 m. See Index under Death Defying Acts. ITCH. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A well-traveled hooker and a needy husband meet in a motel room. He has a maddening itch-in the middle of his back-and is willing to pay handsomely for relief. But is she that type of girl? "[Kidney Stones is] an unexpected theatrical joy! Smart, witty, incisive, right on, and slightly skewed."-lively-arts.com. Published in Kidney Stones: Four One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#11143) THE JUICE OF WILD STRAWBERRIES. Comic drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. I m., I f. A woman seeks renewal after loss in this touching 35- minute play. Ellie, who has lived on land "flat as an old man's feet" for forty years, packs a satchel, covers the sofa with a sheet and sets out to see what's on the other side of the mountain. She is followed. Is it Calvin there behind her, or is it her husband? "This gem celebrates life, love and the wisdom that comes with age." -Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#12659) LABOR PAINS. Comedy. 1 m., 1 f. Michele Palermo. In this award-winning comedy about the dubious honor of being a parent, a couple is caught off-guard by the early onset of labor. They are not quite ready for this challenge and a delightful battle of the sexes ensues. This slice of life is as moving as it is comical with some marvelous material for scenes and monologues. Published with A New York Minute in The

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NETHERLANDS. Comedy. Don Nigro. I m., I f. Ext. Van Gogh sits in the rain on a park bench in the shadow of a windmill. A Dutch girl wearing wooden shoes and carrying a pail of clabber joins him. She is obsessed with tUlips and all things Dutch. He is hallucinating and gives her a little wooden coffin. (It looks like a dried apricot, but is actually his ear.) Then this play begins to get weird as he has a strange vision just before he dies. Published in Palestrina and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-

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A NEW YORK MINUTE. Comic drama. Michele Palermo. I m., I f. Winner of five Drama-Logue awards, including Best Writing, this acclaimed play is about friends separated by death. Harry was thirty-two when he ended his life in front of a subway train. As Melissa packs up his apartment, his ghost helps her make an important discovery. An intense melange of comedy and tragedy, this piece challenges creative minds and includes excellent material for scenes and monologues. "Wonderful."-Drama-Logue. Published with Labor Pains in The Other Half, $6.50. (Roy(#15972) alty, $25-$20 or $50-$35 when performed with Labor Pains.)

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AN OLD BEAGLE CALLED AMORE. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 2 f. Int. Lucindafacesa dilemma when her sister Florence arrives and asks her to watch her old beagle. Worse ensues as Lucinda learns that Florence is thinking about returning home after years of living in the city. A whirlwind of conflicting emotions results. Published in Eight Plays from the Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#16953) THE OTHER HALF. Michele Palermo. See Labor Pains and A New York Minute for descriptions. OVEREATING, AND THE DISAPPEARING NANNY SYNDROME. Comedy. Karen Manno. 2 f. Int. Evelyn, whose negligent mother allowed her to be cared for by a series of psycho nannies while ignoring her daughter's eating disorder and obesity, is facing the prospect of caring for her senile mother. Now svelte but angry, Evelyn rants hysterically about the bizarre succession of maids who raised her and the progression of her tremendous weight gain. Published in Service, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15, or $60-$40 if performed with the other plays in Service.) (#17723) PACKAGE DEAL. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 f. Int. In a chic L.A. restaurant, actress Starla Simmons meets her agent, Cody Jacobsen, for lunch. Starla plans to sever their relationship becauset Cody has done nothing for her career. Cody uses flatters, accuses and whines to change Starla's mind, then reveals that she is dropping Starla as a client. Starla is shocked, but she still has a literal ace in the hole. In Single and Proud and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17955) PALESTRINA. Comedy. Don Nigro. 2 f. Ext. Becky Reedy sits on the porch step of the Palestrina house in Armitage, Ohio, in the autumn of 1946, having just been sick from too much wine and lasagna. She is not making a very good first impression on her boyfriend's Italian mother, a tough woman who supported her family through the Depression by making bathtub gin. Two very different women, one who has devoted her life to her children and one who is lonely, defiant and doesn't like her children much--especially after her first husband hung himself in the barn-struggle to communicate in this addition to the Pendragon plays. $8.95. (Royalty, $25$25.) (#17818) THE PARROT. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. I m., I f. Ext. This nostalgic comedy portrays the complicated courtship between two Southern teenagers: a preacher's son who skips church to meet the daughter of an often drunk, unwed mother. Patsy's mom has a new pet, an exotic parrot, and Kevin wants to see it. More than that, he wants to be with Patsy. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#17823) A PEACE REPLACED. Drama. Brian Maloney. I m., I f. Int. A liver transplant recipient is compelled to have a meeting with the grieving Hispanic widow of his donor. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#17834) PERFECT PITCH. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 3 m. Int. A producer pitches an idea for a movie to a studio executive. What's in the bowling bag? His wife's head. Published in Judgment Call and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#17826) A PLACE WITH THE PIGS. Comic drama. Athol Fugard. I m., I f. Int. Based on an absurd but true story, this poignant and sometimes hilarious tale is about a Russian soldier who deserted during World War II and spent ten years hiding in his pigsty. As the play begins, Pavel Ivanovitch is preparing to rejoin the world and throw himself on the mercy of his countrymen, but his wife has used his old uniform for rags and he refuses to wear the suit she has pressed. Instead, she goes alone to the ceremony to unveil a monument to the war dead and returns reporting that the townspeople wept at the mention of him and his martyr's death fighting fascism. Also, a local bigwig proposed to her now that she is officially a widow. What should she do? Will Pavel Ivanovitch ever be able to leave the pigsty, or is it his only safe haven? $10.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18966) QUICK AND DIRTY (A SUBWAY FANTASY). Comedy. David Riedy. 1m., 1 f. Int. This steamy and provocative wake-up call for daydreamers toys with a potential liaison on a subway platform. There's an attractive woman and a good-looking man. Eyes meet. The attraction is obvious, but where does fantasy end and reality begin. "A deliciollsly insightful pas de deus . . . with highly-charged sexuality . . . . Brilliantly explores the unbridgeable chasm between . . . female and male sexual fantasy."-Theater2K.com. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#19030) REAL TO REEL. Comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. I m., I f. Int. A woman in her fifties, the high priestess of intellectual film critics, is helped to her Brownstone apartment by a handsome young man who just saved her from a mugging. The young man is an actor and film maker whose work she loathes and whose latest picture she is scheduled to review. The electric atmosphere is fueled by his Casanova reputation and her desire. Will a favorable review be traded for a one-night stand? In A Way with Words, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#19977) SHADES OF AUTUMN. Drama. David Paterson. 2 m. Ints. After not seeing his father for many years, Douglas is alerted by a worried neighbor and returns to his childhood home where his elderly parent is displaying signs of senility. Douglas relocates hi~ father into a small apartment near his own. The move triggers an

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS emotional journey through time as Douglas growing up with his emotionally distant and gruff yet caring father. Scenes traverse three decades of joy and pain, regrets and discoveries. Published with Chutes, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#21421) SMOKE-OUT. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 f. Ext. Two women stand outside a Manhattan office building grabbing a quick cigarette. One is a gabby middle-aged suburbanite who is proud to be a big boss's secretary. The other is a young, ultra-hip Goth, so laid-back she's practically comatose. These unlikely companions chat about urban development, music, oral sex and other conundrums of modem life in a delightfully quirky comedy. "[Kidney Stones is] an unexpected theatrical joy! Smart, witty, incisive, right on, and slightly skewed."-lively-arts.com. Published in Kidney Stones: Four One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#21488) SOULMATES. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. I m., I f. Int. A man and woman strike up a conversation in a bar in New Jersey and the talk turns to their common profession-murder. Published in Judgment Call and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#21490) TALES FROM THE RED ROSE INN. Comedy. Don Nigro. I m., If. Int. In Ohio during the Revolution, a dangerous-looking stranger wins Susannah Rose and the Red Rose Inn in a game of chance. Susannah rages as he tries to gain her acceptance. She is in love with a man she never met, a man who years ago carved his name on the old tree behind the inn. The confrontation escalates when her adversary calmly admits that he murdered that man and buried him the garden of a Boston brothel. A funny romantic comedy in the Pendragon cycle. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22594) THE TEST. Drama. Paula J. Caplan. 2 m. Int. On death row, elder inmate Cleveland has taken young, mentally challenged Bradley under his wing and is trying to teach him to read. When word arrives that Bradley's new lawyer has arranged for him to take a mental competency test, Cleveland tries to convince Bradley that this is one test he does not want to pass. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22283) THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a Half) THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT. Comic drama. Don Nigro. I m., If. Int. Ben wanders out of his bedroom to find Tracy sitting in the dark, troubled. During the play they saw earlier, stage hands in black rearranged the furniture between scenes. Tracy fears that someone might rearrange their furniture while they sleep. What she is really afraid of is the ultimate subject of this funny and compelling play about love, reality and fear featuring the characters from Seascape with Sharks and Dancer. Part of the Pendragon series. Published in Tales from the Red (#22295) Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THOSE SINGING SUNDAY MORNINGS. Comic drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 f. Simple set. An artist who dwells in a tree house is heading out to play poker in Peru with a monkey on her shoulder. Her niece wants to drop out of high school and see the world with her. Are they looking for adventure or running away? Will dipping their toes in lotus ponds in Japan, eating raw eggs in the hills of Eastern Europe and seeking the wee wild ones who dance in the woods of Ireland at the full moon heal these hearts? Laughter, tears and unanswered questions fill the backpacks of these wanderers-if they are allowed to leave. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22274) TICKETS, PLEASE! Drama. Anthony Sportiello. 1 m., I f. Int. An angel of death is accidentally sent to collect the wrong soul. When he realizes his mistake, he tries to convince his "almost" victim to take full advantage of her second chance. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22298) THREE QUESTIONS. Comic drama. Maurice Martin. I m., I f. Bare stage with set pieces. Franklin is horribly depressed and about to blow his brains out when he receives a call from Brenda, a 'research specialist' who wants to ask him three questions about his dry cleaning habits. James's recently deceased wife always handled such things, but Brenda is relentless. The two form an unusual, often hilariolls, connection as they trade question for question, his delving into her remarkable ability to cope with a recent personal tragedy and hers to fulfill her employer's quota. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (# 22285) TWO. Comic drama. Jim Cartwright. I m., I f. Int. A bickering husband and wife and the dozen regulars who pass through their pub in an evening are played by two actors. Each vignette skillfully combines pathos and humor. When a little boy is left behind by his father, a fragile reconciliation occurs as their own dark tragedy is revealed. "Astonishing, funny and sad."-Daily Express. "Entertainment of a very high caliber. "-Sunday Correspondent. "Vastly entertaining."-Jewish Chronicle. "Go to laugh and be moved."-City Limits. "Absolutely riveting."-Daily Telegraph. In Cartwright Plays: I, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22934) VIRTUAL REALITY. Comedy. Alan Arkin. 2 m. Int. The author and his son starred Off Broadway as men waiting for equipment to do an unspecified job. The one in charge insists on doing a dry-run inventory of the contents of the expected crates.

CHARACTERS The purely hypothetical assumes a wacky, sinister autonomy that transports them to a frozen wilderness. "A deeply funny, finely graded psychological portrait that becomes a tribute to the conjuring powers of theatre. . . . Imagine the testy, silly one-upmanship of Abbott and Costello crossed with the menacing ambiguity of Harold Pinter. . . . [It is a] deftly constructed two-handed exercise . . . that acting students are sure to take to their bosom." -N. Y. Times. "Absurdist humor [like] Abbott and Costello lost in the Twilight Zone."-N.Y. Daily News. Published with The Way of All Fish and In and Out of the Light in Power Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#24060)

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communications that often barely conceal major attitudes and emotions." -Chicago Sun-Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3608) A.I.D.S. Drama. Mario Fratti. 2 m. (1 f. optional) In a hospital room young Otto is dying. Evan, his best friend, is loyal and tender. He wants to help Otto, who knows he is going to die and also knows that the hospital staff has a special project for AIDS patients. His doctor, he discovers, has concocted a Machiavellian plan to "help" his patients. Otto takes advantage of it and leaves his friend a generous gift. "A sensitive, moving play."-London Press. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3877) A.K.A. MARLEEN. Comedy. Carol K. Mack. 3 f. 1 set. A(lso) K(nown) A(s) Marleen takes place in a sleazy dressing-room in the Pink Confetti Nightclub. A housewife with amnesia is mistaken for the missing lead singer by the Misty Sisters, her backup duo. Despite her objections, they urge her to get ready for a big night. As the sisters bicker and dress, the housewife's memory returns in flashes till she finally remembers who she is . . . but as the music starts, she decides to be Marleen (for this night anyway). In Postcards and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#3912) ANGEL ON THE TRAIN. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Rob comes home from work to a routine evening with his wife. When she asks how his day was, he tells her a fabricated story about a woman he met on the train. She was everything he wants his wife to be. Instead of picking up the real reason for the tall tale, Betsy has a few lies of her own to tell. "Hilarious."-New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#3074) AT HOME. Comedy. Michael Weller. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set. See Index under Split for a description. (#3668) AT LAND'S END. Drama. Marcus Steinour. 1 m., I f. Ext. A couple have stayed at the same beach resort for forty-four years. The woman is dying and knows this will be her last visit. Gently she tells her husband he must marry again as a confirmation that he found happiness in marriage. She compares the end of the land to the end of her life and tells him he must go on without her like the islands beyond the land. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#3713) AUDIENCE. Tragicomedy. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Jan Novak. 2 m. Int. Ferdinand Vanek, the eternal dissident, is the central character in Private View, in Protest and in this impressive autobiographical one-act. Here Vanek, formerly a well-known scriptwriter in Prague who is laboring in a brewery, is offered a better position if he will write reports for the secret police. $4.50. Also available in Three Vanek Plays, $12.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3718) THE AUDITION. Warren Manzi. See The Award and Other Plays. AUTUMN LEAVES. Drama. Julianne Bernstein. 2 f. Ext. Two sisters share sad but proud and fond memories a brother lost in Vietnam as they stand among the falling autumn leaves at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. Please state author when ordering. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3180) AWFUL PEOPLE ARE COMING OVER SO WE MUST BE PRETENDING TO BE HARD AT WORK AND HOPE THAT THEY WILL GO AWAY. Comedy. H.M. Koutoukas. 1 m., 1 f. Published in When Lightning Strikes Twice. See Index for description. (#3151) BADIN THE BOLD. Farce. Courteline. Translated by Albert Bermel. 3 m. Int. Courteline was a pitiless opponent of bureaucracy. In this knife-edged playa clerk in a government office is suffering from a familiar allergy: he can't tolerate his work. He begs off by saying he's attended the funerals of more relatives than anyone person has the right to have been blessed with. His boss calls him into the inner office with startling results. "A welcome find for amateur companies." -Punch. In The Plays of Courteline, $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4611) BALLYCASTLE. Drama. Sylvia Cahill. I m., I f. Simple set. An American girl celebrating her college graduation with a trek through Europe decides to hitchhike in Northern Ireland. An Ulster boy who consciously resembles James Dean offers her a ride. She begins to see in him every terrifying movie killer she can recall. Just as she approaches hysteria, he drops her safely at her destination. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4299) BAR AND GER. Drama. Geraldine Aron. 1 m., 1 f. Simple set. Produced to acclaim in London, Edinburgh and South Africa, this is the tender, simple story of the relationship between a sister (the author) and her younger brother, described in realistic and down-to-earth language. Episodic flashes of dialogue through the years are linked by the sister's narrative. "Has captured a flavor everyone will recognize in the ghosts of his own childhood. A gem. "-Argus. "Reveals a remarkable feeling for words and a fine sense of the dramatic."-Sunday Express. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4609) THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING. Satire. Luigi Jannuzzi. 3 m. Int. Two feudal lords trying to decide what type of tea to drink are interrupted by a serf who is hysterically babbling about barbarians laying siege to the castle. As the battle draws

A VISIT FROM MISS PROTHERO. Comedy. Alan Bennett. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Mr. Dodsworth has recently retired. Sitting at home, he is contemplating his life and achievements with quiet satisfaction. There is a sharp ring at the door. His former secretary has come to ruin it all. Ironic wit and compassion mark this touchingly real story. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25, or $60-$40 when performed with Green Forms under the title Office Suite.) (#24624) THE VOYEUR AND THE WIDOW. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. E1gen wants to be the best lover in the world. He makes a bold suggestion to a young war widow and she is very tempted. Published in Eight Plays from the (#24643) Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35.) THE WAY OF ALL FISH. Comedy. Elaine May. 2 f. Int. The first of the three hit comedies produced Off Broadway under the title Power Plays, this is a ping pong power game played between a self-absorbed executive and her seemingly drab secretary. Over an impromptu'dinner together, the executive's condescending graciousness drains away as the secretary explains her fantasy of gaining immortality by killing someone famous and successful-someone like her boss. "Oodles of laughs."-N.Y Daily News. Published with Virtual Reality and In and Out of the (#24987) Light in Power Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20. Slightly Restricted. THE WONDERS OF THE INVISmLE WORLD REVEALED. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A young housemaid is fascinated by a bad-tempered and impatient yet compelling lodger whose room is full of strange bottles. Wrapped in bandages with no flesh showing, he tells her he is invisible. She thinks he must be a dangerous lunatic until he describes some private moments in her bedroom. By turns funny and frightening, this dark love story reveals the wonder of many kinds of invisibility. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25727) YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO KANSAS CITY TO MEET THE DEVIL. Drama. Le Wilhelm. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. On a beautiful Sunday morning Christine encounters a tempting man after church. The day and Christine change dramatically. Published in Eight Plays from the Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#27606) ACT WITHOUT WORDS. Mime. Samuel Beckett. Two mimes. (1) 1 m. (2) 2 m. In the first scene, a man enters a bare stage. Soon inanimate objects appear that begin to tantalize him. In the second, two men prodded into life emerge from sacks. The sacks are transposed at the end--each man having gone through his daily routine in the interim. In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett, $15.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 each.) Slightly Restricted. (#203) THE ADJUSTMENT. Farce. Albert Bermel. 1 m., 1 f. Simple int. Belinda Groat, an attractive widow who has had a flood in her basement, is determined to receive adequate compensation. When the adjuster arrives, she's busily adding to the damage and touching up the debris. But this particular insurance man, Mr. Fester, is hard to convince. And he has a way of asking unanswerable questions. Mr. Fester makes Belinda uneasy, then terrified, because she realizes she's going to get more compensation than she bargained for. Performed by amateur and professional groups in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany and at the Spoleto Festival. In Six One-Act Farces, $16.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3615) ADMIT ONE. Comedy. Elyse Nass. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Youth v. age, innocence v. experience is the theme of this delightful comedy. A 75 year-old man has placed a personal ad for the companionship of a younger woman. He receives a reply and arranges a meeting in a hotel room where this odd couple get to know each other. Admit One was originally performed in the Playwrights Unit of the famed Actors Studio in New York City. Published with Cat Connection and Second Chance in Three One-Act Plays About the Elderly, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#3697) AFRAID TO FIGHT. Comedy. Courteline, translated by Albert Bermel. 1 m., 1 f. int. It's morning and they have just come home from a dance. The young husband is boiling with jealousy as he throws his weight-and household objects-around. His wife danced with an army officer, even flirted with him. He should have taken that officer outside and thrashed him. Except that-well, could he have been afraid to fight? The action consists of a furious squabble between an enraged man and a taunting woman, handled with rich character humor. In The Plays of Courteline, $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3607) AFTER THE FACT. Comedy-drama. Jeffrey Sweet. 1 m., 1 f. Simple set. An old man confronts a young reporter over the errors she has made in his best friend's obituary. "Gave me a special nudge . . . and I am tempted to elbow all my peers . . . . [Sweet has] talent and a facility for the small sounds of life, simple

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nearer, the serf grows more frenzied and the lords converse on women and boulder heavers. When the barbarians arrive, will raw muscle rule over culture and etiquette? Hysterical moments and hilarious revelations climax in a powerful statement on who the barbarians are among us. Winner of the Goshen Peace Prize and acclaimed from New York to Hollywood, this is an excellent tournament play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#3972) BATBRAINS. Comedy. Barbara Daniel. 2 f. int. Jane Batts is an up-and-coming fashion designer who lives in a loft with her husband Rico, a successful artist. Until now, Rico has been paying most of the bills-but Jane has a strong chance to break out on her own with a series of bat-shaped dress designs. First, she must contend with her old college roommate, a self-proclaimed psychic who has arrived in New York to teach "telepathic lovemaking"-and plans to crash with Jane for awhile. Two fine roles for actresses in their 20's. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 5th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4610) THE BATTLING BRINKMIRES. Comedy. Daniel Meltzer. See Index under The Square Root of Love. BECAUSE I WANTED TO SAY. Comedy. Sean O'Donnell. 1m., 1 f. Simple set. AIDS has taken Steven, Ann's best friend. She relives funny, touching and important moments from their long friendship in her mind, trying to come to terms with his death and to make sure that nothing is left unsaid. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4291) THE BEGGAR OR THE DEAD DOG. Allegory. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Michael Hamburger. 2 m., extras. Ext. Outside the city gate the Emperor confronts a blind beggar who has recently lost his dog. The beggar has nothing more to lose, so he tells the emperor the truth about himself. In Brecht Collected Plays I, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#4175) A BENCH AT THE EDGE. Comedy. Luigi Jannuzzi. 2 m. or 2 f., 1 extra. Ext. A man sits on a bench at the edge of an abyss watching the human race rush into it. Along comes a second man contemplating "a heroic dive." What is the abyss and what are these men doing here? Terrifying concepts and visions of deepening mysteries emerge from their confrontation,and they conclude that life is precious after all. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 6th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS hire Sebastian himself. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133) THE BOY WHO ATE THE MOON. Drama. Jane Martin. 1m., 1 f. Int. A young man-a boy, actually---comes to a doctor's office for treatment of a most unusual condition; he has eaten the moon. This haunting short play is by the author of Talking With. In What Mama Don't Know, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Restricted NYC. (#4701) BREAKDOWN. Comic drama. Bill Bozzone. 2 m. Int. Two soap-opera script writers are hacking out another installment. One wants to finish, the other wants to be a "legitimate" Hollywood movie writer and has submitted a script to an agent. A disappointing phone call seals his fate: both writers are caught in the bind of their strange profession. This wonderful absurdist comedy has a fine dramatic edge. In Buck Fever and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4674) THE BRIDGE. Mario Fratti. 3 m. Published in Races, $6.50. (Royalty, $10-$10.)

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CAMERA OBSCURA. Science fiction. Robert Patrick. 1 m., 1 f., offstage voices. When a computer-matched man and woman meet via long-distance television, a transmission time-lag results in crossed questions and crooked answers, misunderstandings, tears, and a surprise resolution. Overtones of totalitarianism, over-popUlation, regimentation and the communication gap surround the play's wry comments on the nature of the sexes. A natural for contests or wherever a strong, short entertainment is required, this classic play is effective on a bare stage or in an elaborate production. "A perfect play." -Show Business. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#302) THE CAT CONNECTION. Comedy. Elyse Nass. 2 f. Simple ext. Part of an excellent trilogy about what life is like for elderly people in America, this amusing play takes place in a park, where two old women have little in common--except they feed the same cat. "A beautiful study of loneliness and the elderly. However, the universal situation can be appreciated by all."-East Side Express. Published with Second Chance and Admit One'in Three One-Act Plays About the Elderly, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#5785) tion.) A CHANGE FROM ROUTINE. Drama. Ross M. Levine. 2 m. Int. A young man named Joel has come for his first time to a seedy Southern California homosexual bathhouse where he meets Nino, a married man with two kids who comes for "a little escape now and then." Nino is attracted to Joel, but Joel is very timid. The core of the play is their sexual cat and mouse game. In Off Off Broadway Festival (#5679) Plays, 8th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) CHERRY AND LITTLE BANJO. Drama. Stephen Levi. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. In this tender look at lost innocence, two 14-year-olds (often played by older actors) meet on an abandoned pier. Cherry likes to dream about her merchant marine father who pursues the Great Red Whale, a creature that spouts the cherry soda water he brings her. Little Banjo, a runaway, shatters her fantasy by pointing out that she doesn't have a father and that her mother is a prostitute. Rage ensues as Cherry discovers that he has been following and spying on her, but one-upmanship eventually gives way to empathy. Published with Red Roses for My Lady and The Gulf of Crimson in Cherry Soda Water, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4966) CHA TEAU RENE. Drama. Sam Ingraffia. 2 m. Int. In the crumbling relic of a once famous chateau live a has-been mobster and his lieutenant. Like the dreamers waiting for the iceman to cometh, the has-been is waiting for a drug king to bring the cash he owes. The lieutenant knows the truth: the has-been is permanently down and out and about to be tossed in the street so the building can be demolished. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5788) CHINAMEN. Farce. Michael Frayn. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Two actors play five characters. She has asked a woman, her new hippy boyfriend and some other guests for dinner. He invited the woman's deserted husband. The object is to keep the estranged husband and wife apart. They dine in two different rooms and maneuver the guests so that these two are never in the same room. In The Two of Us, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.)

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BETWEEN THE LINES. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Lorna Kerrigan's husband has left her, so she thinks her daughter Kitty, a coed with her own apartment, should come home. Kitty, who is secretly living with her boyfriend, doesn't wish to move back. "Hilarious."-New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the (#3983) other plays in the collection.) BIBLE. Dark Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 2 f. A park bench. In this Victorian primer gone berserk, Papa is a Christian censor. Mama has taken Annabel and Harry to the park to read them edifying passages from the Bible. The Old Testament story of lust, incest and murder she stumbles on is not what Mama had in mind, but it holds them all spellbound. This play will infuriate people like Papa, but its madness and witty irreverence reveals the unexpected beauty buried in a complex book that hypocrites who would control what we read are too blind to see. This unusual play would make an excellent pairing with God's Spies. In Something in the Basement and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4699) BINNORIE. Drama. Don Nigro. 2 f. 2 chairs on a bare stage. Young sisters are in love with the same man in this lyrical work that mirrors the tragic story told in an old Scottish ballad. Jealousy, desire, murder and madness are the ingredients of this dark play that works well with the author's Specter and Lurker and also contains excellent audition material for young actresses. In The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4204) BIRDBATH. Drama. Leonard Melfi. 1 m., 1 f., Int. A young, unsuccessful poet meets a young girl while they are both working at an all-night cafeteria in Manhattan. It is obvious that she does not want to return home to the Bronx where she lives with her mother, so he convinces her to come to his place. He gets drunk and entices her to drink a little. He tries to seduce her in the mildest manner possible. She resists in the most devastating way imaginable, turning the evening into a nightmare for both of them. It is a boy-meets-girl love story unlike any other. In Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#271) BLACK AND SILVER. Michael Frayn. 1m., 1 f. Int. In this short, affecting and laughable scene parents are awakened in the middle of the night by the baby. They stumble about trying to pacify the infant. At one point the husband panics because he cannot hear the baby breathing in the cradle, which is only reasonable because the wife has put it on their bed. In The Two of Us, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#4643) BLIND SPOT. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 3 m. I set. Egbert and his uncle, Sir Lulworth, are the only two people at the funeral lunch of just-buried Aunt Adelaide. Going through his aunt's letters, Egbert finds proof that the cook, Sebastian, murdered Uncle Peter. He wants to call the police, but Sir Lulworth insists that Sebastian is too good a cook to send to prison. To quiet his remonstrating nephew, he agrees to

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THE DEATH OF VON HORVATH. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. 2 chairs on a bare stage. In 1938 playwright Odon Von Horvath was killed when lightening struck a tree he had taken shelter under. No one else under the tree was hurt. In Paris to escape the Nazis, he was on his way to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In this haunting play about fate, Von Horvath's flight takes him first to a room in Amsterdam where a beautiful gypsy reads his fortune and gives him a choice. In The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6585) DIARY. Drama. Marcia Ann Shenk. 1 m., 1 f. lint. Platform. Recommended for high school productions. This suspense play explores the thin line separating reality from fantasy. Jenny returns to her apartment and finds a strange young man waiting for her who knows every detail of her life. The clue to his identity and what he stands for lies in her diary. As he reveals her secrets, she realizes who he is. How she deals with this knowledge is an important and painful step toward becoming an adult. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#664'6) THE DICKS. Comedy. Jules Feiler. 2 m. Int. Two-time Obie Award-winner Kevin O'Connor starred in New York in this hilarious comedy about two hotel detectives. Ed is exasperated with his rookie partner. The kid has no interest in doing what Ed feels is required-peeping through keyholes, creeping out on the fire escape to take Polaroids of the guests (unbeknownst to them, of course) and talking the correct lingo (women are "dames"-unless they are "dolls"). Will Ed succeed in straightening out this mixed up kid? In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 9th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6663) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE JEWS. Drama. David Mamet. 2 m. lnt. This unusual piece by the master of contemporary naturalistic dialogue is a debate between two men about of Jewish heritage, the meaning of various events in their past and the contemporary meaning and relevance of their Jewishness. Published with The Luftmensch and Goldberg Street in Three Jewish Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $50$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#6711) DO. Drama. Gary Apple. 2 m. Bare stage. This play of deceptive simplicity deals with two men "engaged in an unusual confrontation. One is eager to prove he's the better of the two while the other chooses not to compete. A startling reversal raises questions about who the true aggressor is. This captivating work reminds us we all must "play the game" in one way or another. In Plays for an Undressed Stage, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6653) DO OVER. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 1 m., 1 f. lnt. A young lady is preparing for a date. A young man awakens on her living room floor-and frightens her half to death. It is her date, but he's twenty minutes early, and how did he get in, anyway? To tell the truth he's not really there; he's miles and years away. He has appeared from the future to ask her not to keep their date. He knows that their love affair will not work out and wants to stop it before it begins. The woman disbelieves him but he tells her things that would otherwise be impossible for him to know. This is a contemporary love story with a marvelous twist. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 14th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6724) THE DOCK BRIEF. Drama. John Mortimer. 2 m. Int. Performed in London and on American television and stage with What Shall We Tell Caroline? A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking and laughing. The trial ends and the verdict is a foregone conclusion. The lawyer begs his client to let him appeal. Ironically the man is reprieved because of the ineptitude of his defense. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $50-$35 when performed with What Shall We Tell Caroline?) (#6649) DOLOROSA SANCHEZ. Drama. Stanley Taikeff. 1 m., 1 f. lnt. A drama major seeks help with arequired text, Aristotle's Poetics, from a professor who realizes that she cannot grasp the main ideas. Dolorosa tries to communicate her frustration and finally convinces him to let her enact a scene. He is overwhelmed by her performance of material that inadvertently dramatizes Aristotle's principles. The ominous ending questions if art has indeed triumphed over life. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6577) DOSTOEVSKY. Keith Miles. 1 m., 1 f. See Index for description. THE DOUBLERS. Comedy. Betzie Parker White. 1 m., 1 f. Int. John Doubler believes the future of the human race depends on colonizing Mars. To prove his point, he abducts his wife Grannie and embarks on a voyage to the red planet in a rocket ship he built himself. After three months in the windowless space capsule, Grannie is ready to kill. She's convinced he is crazy and tries to escape. He is afraid that Grannie has gone mad and tries to subdue her. One is right as revealed in a I (#6669) surprise ending. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) DUTCH TREAT. Comedy. Peg Lynch. 1 m., 1 f.lnt. Is there anything more exasperating than women trying to figure out who owes what for a Dutch treat lunch? It is certainly a trial to a man-as Albert finds out when he is frantically trying to get to a movie before the feature starts and Ethel is on the phone with her friends "subtracting the oysters from the chocolate supreme." In Ethel and Albert Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6693)

and the play ends on an echo of his drama, The Proposal. In Russian Masters, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when done with Dostoevsky.) (#20091) CLOSET MADNESS. Comedy. Murray Schisgal. 2 m., Int. Sam Kogan, once a successful playwright, hasn't had a hit in years. True, he recently wrote an Oscarnominated screenplay; but it didn't win. Sam has a plan: he's going to be "gay" (since he perceives this as a prerequisite for Broadway success today). He's gonna have some difficulty, though, persuading his buddy Billy Wesker to help him out in this regard. In Closet Madness & Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5678) COMANCHE CAFE. William Hauptman. See Index under Domino Courts /Comanche Cafe. COME NEXT TUESDAY. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Come next Tuesday, Louise and Harvey will have been married eighteen years. Louise is reminiscing over her implicit trust in Harvey over the years, which she feels she may have reasons to doubt. Harvey keeps hearing a sound and finally runs to the bedroom to see, while Louise goes on bantering, when suddenly . . In Present Tense, $6.50. (Royalty, ($20-$15.) Not available NYC. (#5693) CORNERED. Comedy. Robert Patrick. 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage. A young woman has painted herself into a corner of the room she is preparing for a nursery. Her husband waits in the doorway while the paint dries. Their dialogue reveals her fears, his devotion and her growing maturity. She emerges from the corner ready for the responsibilities that face her. "As warm and fuzzy as a teddy bear."-Village Voice. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5713) CORRECT ADDRESS. Drama. Judd Silverman. 2 m. Int. A young man in a stripped apartment is packing his lover's memorabilia to send home to his mother. Suddenly the friend appears as aghost. They had quarreled over telling his mother about them, but she didn't have to be told. She wouldn't let her son's lover come to the funeral. The two men weep together. "Powerful."-New York Native. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 17th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#342) DADDY'S HOME. Drama. Ivan Menchell. 1 m., 1 f. Comb. Int. A teenager and his mother are packing to move out of their house. Daddy is not home. He has moved out, leaving his son and wife to deal with feelings of rejection. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 11th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6705) THE DARK. Drama. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. 1 set. A young black womIDt waits in a hotel room for her white lover. It is his father, her boss who shows up. These two people find each other, but the prospect exists that only pain will follow their decision to actualize this love. "Worthy of commendation. "-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#5944) DARK PONY. Drama. David Mamet. 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage. On a night auto ride a father tells his young daughter her favorite bedtime story to pass the time. "Mamet' s writing is terse but sensitive-everyday language distilled into homely poetry."-N.Y. Times. In Reunion: Three Plays by David Mamet, $6.50. Royalty, $20$15.) (#6208) DATA ENTRY. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m, 1 f. 1 set. Carrie and Kevin have been seeing each other for a few weeks and Kevin thinks he has found the perfect woman because they were brought together through a computer dating service and because they have great sex together. When Kevin proposes, Carrie confesses that she lied on her data entry sheet; she is not who he thinks she is. A hilarious piece. ''Terrific festival work."-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#5942) DAVID AND NANCY. Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 1 m., 1 f., Int. David wakes up with an anxiety attack, rushes to his daughter's bedroom and wakes her, certain there is a prowler outside. After she convinces him no one is there, what is really upsetting him surfaces. She is getting married in the morning and he thinks she's making a horrendous mistake. He goes through all the reasons why she should not marry Martin, reasons so outrageousthat Naney just sits there letting him have his tantrum. His love for his daughter and sense of loss at-her impending marriage that are the cause of his upset. In Bedrooms, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#244) A DAY IN THE NIGHT OF ROSE ARDEN. Drama. Jules Tasca. 1 m. 1 f. 1 set. Unhappily married, Rose accepts the advice of her marriage counselor and takes a separate vacation from her indifferent husband. She is by herself in London, in an unshakable depression, and ready to quit the Tour Di Europa. The tour guide walks into her life and this meeting with a kindred spirit fills her emptiness in this bittersweet play. "Poignant . . . We sympathize with the loneliness these people are feeling."-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#6729) THE DEATH ARTIST. Comedy. David Henry Wilson. 2 m. Ext. After making his fortune, a miser is visited by a man assigned to kill him. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plays, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6706)

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Former 60's free spirits, he still avoids the hassle of the workaday world while she is now a professional who is proud that she has "grown up"-and embarrassed by the aging flower child she is married to. They stilI love each other; they just can't live together anymore and they watch the sunset-of nature and their marriage. In Off Off Broad(#7615) way Festival Plays, 9th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) AN EMPTY SPACE. Drama. Ron Villane. I m., I f. Int. A man in his thirties is about to move and has asked his ex-wife to come get some items that belong to her. The play contrasts the way each has adjusted to divorce. Judy has accepted that they loved each other but were incompatible. Rich tries to recapture the past and is bewildered when his memories become empty spaces. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 4th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#7613) ENEMIES. Drama. Arkady Leokum. 2 m. Int. An imperious gentlemen dines daily in a restaurant and constantly complains to the waiter about everything. He considers the waiter indebted to him because he taught the man his profession. The waiter claims he is now part-owner of the restaurant and has other investments. The diner begs him for financial help and, when the waiter says it was all a pipe dream, the diner is humiliated. In Friends and Enemies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. (#7621) EVENING EDUCATION. Drama. Jeffrey Scott Elwell. 2 m. Int. This forty-minute play dramatizes a confrontation between polar opposites: a young, white professor and a fifty-year-old black janitor. Working late one evening, Toppman accuses Aaron of breaking the marble obelisk on his desk. Aaron asserts his innocence, first calmly and then more vehemently, and in the process reveals his own past as well as the professor's. A bond based on mutual understanding and respect is forged between the two men . . . or is it? Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th (#7921) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) EVERYWHERE. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a Half.) FAIR ROSAMUND AND HER MURDERER. Comedy. Don Nigro. I m., If. 2 stools in a pool of light. Rosamund is mistress to Henry II of England and her beauty is so great that the jealous king has secluded her in a rose garden at the center of a labyrinth. Here she lives a lonely life until his jealous queen sends a murderer. The killer makes his way through the labyrinth and gazes into Rosamund's lovely eyes. A strange romance flowers. This play about romantic love features rich language, appealing characters and a dark medieval elegance. In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#7985) F AMIL Y NAMES. Farce. Edna Pelonero. 2 f. Int. This play draws laughs like the Abbott and Costello classic Who's on First? An attractive woman announces to a receptionist that she is her husband's mistress. She is not married but her brother does have the same name as the husband in question and the receptionist has the same name as her sister-in-law. In fact, this large family has many identical names. The more questions the mistress asks, the more bewildered she becomes. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8163) THE' FANTASY BOND. Drama. Jules Tasca. I m., I f. I set. Alice takes her husband on a second honeymoon, unaware that he has fallen in love with her close friend Gwen. Alice interprets his beating around the bush when she asks if he loves her as evidence that he does and ascribes his mood to a mid-life crisis. Ironically, when Charles goes into the shower, Alice calls Gwen to tell her the good news: her husband still loves her. "Worthy of commendation. . . . Terrific festival work."Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#8162) FATHER AND SON. Drama. Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Jules Tasca. I m., I f. I set. Here is a beautifully nuanced and sensitive story of a young man whose father has just died. He is meeting his father's lover and is shocked to discover that she is very young and that she has an infant son-his brother. Hope is reborn as he replaces his father in her affections. In The Necklace and Other Stories, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#15990) tion.) FERRYBOAT. Drama. Leonard Melfi. I m., I f. Int. Joey is searching the Staten Island Ferry as it leaves Manhattan. He boldly sits down besides a girl and tries to strike up a conversation. He realizes he isn't getting anywhere but decides to continue telling her about himself anyway. When the boat is ready to dock the girl finally reacts, coolly insulting Joey. He lashes back at her, finally being honest, and

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS discovers this is the way he should have communicated with her in the first place. In Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8611) FINE LINE. Comedy. Janice Van Home. 2 f. Int. Two classy ladies make the fur fly (literally) behind the scenes of a Park Avenue party. Dody and Zee-inseparable since they first confronted each other across a sandbox-strain the limits of bestfriendship. Dody, vulnerable and married, questions howlif to leave her husband. Zee, sleek and single, feels unaccountably threatened and is unable to respond sympathetically. Wit/cruelty victimlkiller, friendship/betrayal, rage/giggles are some of the fine lines challenged as these contemporary women take a shattering peek at the wasteful fabric of their lives. A hit at N.Y.C.'s Ensemble Studio Theatre. $4.50. (#8130) (Royalty, $25-$20.) FIRE. Mario Fratti. I m., I f. Published in Races, $7.00. (Royalty, $10-$10.)

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CHARACTERS authentic, Jason and Medea are to deliver it. Bill knows Jason-sailed with him during the war-and Betty putters in pottery with Medea. A hitch develops. Jason is taking off with another doll, and Medea is doing a slow burn. Everyone remembers the impending tragedy, but no one envisioned it taking place here and now-with hilarity. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#488)

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HER VOICE. Drama. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A young woman has been kidnapped. She is gagged and cannot communicate with her young kidnapper. We hear her original and unpredictable thoughts, things the young man could never guess. "I recommend Fratti' s plays for those with a penchant for murder mysteries with social significance." -Alice Barnet. Published with The Piggy Bank, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10077) THE HERO. Comic mime. Arthur Kopit. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. A tired man walks across the desert with an attache case and tall scroll. He takes out binoculars and looks around, unrolls the scroll (it's blank), sets it up like a billboard and begins to paint an oasis on it. A woman enters. She can't see an oasis, even with binoculars, but she's happy to try to eat his rock-hard sandwich and join him as the sun sets and the cold of night approaches. In The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10636) HOW MANY TO TANGO? Comedy. Sandra 1. Albert. I m., I f. Unit set. This is a flirtation as elegant as a dance. A couple who have only talked by phone finally meet. At parting, he kisses her and says he will see her next Wednesday for dinner at his apartment. He says he doesn't want to hurt her, so he will not kiss or make love to her. Wednesday he becomes tipsy and changes his mind, but she will not make him feel as he would like. He dips her in a tango. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#10703) I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a
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GOODS. Drama. Isidore Elias. 2 m. Int. An electrifying encounter between a mercantile chiseler and his friend finds each ready to do in the other for a buck. Pithy, graphic dialogue paints a riveting portrait of a ravenous shark looking for victims to devour, making this a stunning and unforgettable drama. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9940) A GRAVE ENCOUNTER. Comedy. Gene Ruffini. I m., I f. Ext. A young ItalianAmerican visits her father's grave every Father's Day to fill Papa in on what's been happening with the family. This year she is interrupted by Pasquale on his daily visit to his father's grave. His papa died four years ago and for the past two he has been talking back to Pasquale, showing particular interest in soap operas plots. Marianna is annoyed that her papa doesn't talk to her, but she accepts that these things take time. She also takes a close look at the timid baker and sees that she has finally found a man with whom she has something in common. Published in Off-Off Broad(#9616) way Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) GUARDING THE BRIDGE. Drama. Chuck Gordon. 2 m. Ext. A bigoted father who is steeped in ignorance and his well-educated son occupy a broken-down bridge in a remote wooded area. The father is actually a manifestation of the son's memory as he recalls events that occurred on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. It becomes increasingly obvious that, despite the younger man's protests to the contrary, his father's prejudices are embedded in his subconscious. Structured as an extended monologue with occasional interruptions from the father, this analysis of the evolution of racism dramatizes its inherent roots in fear. Co-winner of the 1998 Michael Kanin Award for Best Short Play. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9949) GUERNICA. Drama. Fernando Arrabal. English translation by Barbara Wright. 1 m., 1 f. (extras). Int. Here is an earthy verbal recreation of Picasso's famous painting. An old Basque couple is caught in an air raid and their behavior reflects the madness that war produces in all people. In Guernica and Other Plays by Arrabal, $14.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9679) THE GULF OF CRIMSON. Drama. Stephen Levi. I m., I f. Ext. After a day of work, a voluptuous prostitute searches for her 14-year-old daughter Cherry. She finds a glowing case of cherry soda water on her front steps, a sign that her love has returned from the sea full of passion and tall tales. The exuberant Irish sailor wants to meet the daughter he has never seen, but she insists he settle down to become a husband and father before she will let him near Cherry. He can't pay this price; he has one more voyage to complete before he dies at sea. This powerful love story is full of vitality. Published with Cherry and Little Banjo and Red Roses for My Lady in Cherry Soda Water, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9956) GUMS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m. I set. Welcome to Senior Citizens's Professional Football. Suave announcer Chuck Chickie calls the game on the radio while Mihauser provides the color, having retired at 89. The field is only 50 yards long and there are twelve time-outs in each 7.5-minute quarter. Old women can be cheerleaders if they have their own teeth and can jump without causing bone damage. This broadcast culminates in the demise of star Gums Garretty. In Outrageous! and Other (#9959) Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) HALLOWEEN. Drama. Leonard Melfi. I m., If. Int. Luke, thirty, has finally broken away from his parents and moved to a Manhattan roach-infested, furnished roomand he's just been robbed of all his belongings, including expensive gifts from his family. A meeting with the building'S cleaning lady turns into an afternoon of revelations. Painful and embarrassing truths lead to temporary comfort and under(#10602) standing human contact. In Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) HARDSTUFF. Drama. Jules Tasca. 2 m. Int. Jon and Pinky, both pharmacists, are at a secluded cabin for a weekend of hunting, but Jon has other plans. He wants to find out if Pinky is having an affair with his wife. With a gun in his hand and menace in his voice he gets Pinky to tell all. This is intense melodrama with a twist. "On a scale of one to ten this rates a definite ten."-New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#10608) HARRIET TUBMAN VISITS A THERAPIST. Drama. Carolyn Gage. 2 f. Int. Harriet Tubman, suspected of plotting an escape on the Underground Railroad, has been sent to a therapist for evaluation. The doctor, also an African-American woman, wams Harriet about the dangers of radical action while Harriet accuses her of colluding with the enemy in the guise of practicing therapeutic intervention. As the therapist ties to convince Harriet to accept what she cannot change and live one day at a time, Harriet uncovers a secret that gives her access to information she needs. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 23rd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20(#9971) $15.)

IN OTHER WORDS. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a Half.) INFLATABLE YOU. Comic dra{lla. Jules Tasca. 2 m. I set. George Ibus, once a child movie star but now a bit player, is married to popular Hollywood actresses Evelyn Max. She makes him feel inferior, but he is afraid to confront her and create problems. He takes an inflatable, life-sized doll to the Romance Ranch and takes out his pent-up aggressions on the surrogate Evelyn. Afterward, he telephones her and reveals the pathetic other George, the one living in the hell of his own marriage. "Worthy of commendation. . . . Terrific festival work."-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. '(Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other (#11112) plays in the collection.) INSTINCTS. Drama. Jason Milligan. 2 m. Int.It's 3:00 a.m. on New Year's Day in a jail cell in a small Southern town. Frank and Andy are being held on drunk-driving-and possibly manslaughter-charges. Andy grabbed the steering wheel while Frank was driving and purposely side-swiped a college boy's sports car. Did he die? The atmosphere in the cell becomes increasingly tense. They argue and nearly come to blows before coming to terms with each other and the accident. In Southern Exposures: Five Plays About Life in the South, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#11656) IT'S OKAY, HONEY. Comedy. Bertha Brown. 2 f. Int. A very liberal mother who thinks her daughter is a lesbian attempts to convince the girl that her homosexuality isn't a problem. The problem is the daughter isn't gay. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 23rd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10994) THE JEWISH WIFE. Bertolt Brecht. English version by Eric Bentley. 1m., 1 f. Int. A tour de force for an actress, this classic opens with a woman saying goodbye to friends on the phone and and then rehearsing a speech she intends to deliver to her husband. We come face to face with the awful truth: she is the Jewish wife of a Nazi scientist and she knows it is better for him if she goes away. She knows it will be forever. In the conversation that ensues, both pretend that she will only be going for a little while. In The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.)
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KING OF THE PEKINESE YELLOWTAIL. Comedy. Sarah Brown. 2 m. Ext. How can an obvious hoax become so believable? Duck hunters conspire to have the migratory paths to themselves by concocting a story about Pekinese Yellowtails from China flying a few miles to the south. The more one tells his sidekick about the mysteries of the Pekinese Yellowtails, the more enthralled they become until they are hooked on their own invention in this astonishing upside-down comedy. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#13039) LADIES' MAN. Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 f. Int. While waiting for guests to arrive at her elegant soiree, worldly-wise Angelique learns she and her naive young cousin are both expecting to marry the same man, an unprincipled cad with plans of his own. This sentimental salon duologue presents a side of Feydeau not usually seen in his later farces. In Feydeau, First to Last, $15.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#14016) THE LADYKILLER. Comedy. John S. Wells. 1 m., 1 f. When Jerry's wife switches them to a vegetarian diet, he snaps and becomes a serial killer of tofu-eating women. Jeremy's spree ends when his seventeenth victim is electrocuted-with his wife-in his bathtub. A new age psychic, octogenarian twins, a redneck mechanic, a ninja and a bull mastiff join forces to bring him to justice. Fun abounds in this tour-de-force that is perfect for competitions. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#13869) LANDSCAPE. Harold Pinter. See Index under Landscape, Silence.

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LANDSCAPE WITH WAITRESS. Comedy. Robert Pine. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Arthur Granger, an unsuccessful novelist who lives a Walter Mitty-like fantasy existence, is dining in an Italian restaurant with only one waitress and one customer-him. As he selects his dinner he fantasizes about a romantic conquest involving far-fetched plots. The waitress portrays characters in his fantasy. Soon, Arthur is chattering at such a clip that his sanity is in doubt. He finishes his dinner and goes home, ending as he began-as a lover manque. "A devious and slightly demented comedy."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$150.) (#14619) THE LAST CIGARETTE. ComedylDrama. Steven Fechter. 1 m., 1 f. Int. In the last smoking bar in Santa Monica a beautiful woman in a green evening dress sits alone, smoking and drinking martinis. She has a past, a secret and no future. Watching her from the bar while he drinks doubles is a man with little to lose who will stop at nothing to win her. Drinks are downed, stories are told, strangers dance and kiss. As they are leaving together, she reveals her secret. This funny, heartbreaking tale is told in the evocative language of film noir. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 24th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#13836) THE LAST DANCE. Comedy. Clare Tattersall. 1 m., 1 f. Int. In a last-ditch stab at happiness, a twenty-eight-year-old woman on the brink of despair places a classified ad for " . . . a dance partner for hours of pleasure. Must be experienced and handsome." Devouring Twinkies to feed her desire and talking incessantly to conceal rampant nervousness as she attempts to seduce an equally quirky auditionee, she inadvertently discloses her morbid childhood. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#13844) LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, EARLY SUNDAY EVENING. ComedylDrama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 f, Bare stage. Lovely Olivia walks through the rooms of her Boston home with hyacinths in her arms and amethysts in her ears, remembering her past incamations and finding this one lacking in excitement. Her granddaughter is due; she has an announcement to make! Published with Is that the Bus to Pittsburgh?, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#13848) LEA VIN' CHEYENNE. Comedy. Percy Granger. 2 m. Ext. This insightful comedy isa Western Waitingfor Godot.1t takes place around a campfire in the desert, where a trail cook and a young cowboy are talking and eating. The tired old man can't find anything to believe in anymore while the rambunctious kid believes there is honor in the middle of the Great American Desert in the middle of the night. Published with Working Her Way Down and Forbidden Copy, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. (#14629) LENA AND LOUIE. Play. Leonard Melfi. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. Lena and Louie are bums who carry all their possessions around in shopping carts. They are also lovers. They meet in Central Park. Tonight, they wait for a catastrophic act of nature to take place. In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $40-$30 when done with Rusty and Rico.) (#14628) LIFE COMES TO THE OLD MAID. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 2 w. Int. A reclusive old lady is visited by a woman who remembers things that she is too young to have experienced: hayrides, dances and the final farewell of a boyfriend on a river bank. In a photograph album she recognizes the younger woman as her younger self. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 20th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS The Disappearance of the Jews and Goldberg Street Three Jewish Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14672) LULLABY. Drama. Jason Milligan. 2 f. Int. Meg is staying with her older sister Eva because her husband left her when their son was born blind. It's taking Meg several months to get back on her feet and Eva has begun to resent supporting her and the baby on her grocery check-out job. Thelid of this pressure cooker blows: pent-up anger, resentment, longing, and the wish for better lives is shared-for perhaps the first time. In Southern Exposures: Five Plays About Life in the South, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when done with the other plays in the collection.)

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LUNCHTIME. Drama. Leonard Melfi. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Avis is waiting for Rex in the bedroom of her duplex apartment in Greenwich Village. He arrives at high noon ready to do his job-refinish the furniture. Avis is rich, beautiful and married with no children. Rex is poor, handsome, married and has a little boy. Both are unhappy and lonely-a modern Beauty and the Beast who convince themselves that the memory of the afternoon is better than no memory at all. In Encounters, $7.50. (#14606) (Royalty, $20-$15.) LURKER. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. Two chairs on a bare stage. A man catches a glimpse of a girl undressing in her bedroom window and becomes obsessed with her. He lurks in her bushes and spies on her as she sunbathes in her garden. One night he finds an unlocked window in her house. Unfolding simultaneously from the points of view of both characters, this tale of obsession and terror was produced in New York by Manhattan Class Company. In Something in the Basement and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#14679) THE MAN IN BLUE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. 1 set. "Choo-Choo" Henderson, a major league umpire, hires call girls when he is on the road during the season. When he tells his expensive escort at the Romance Ranch Hotel he requires a special service, she balks until he explains exactly what he wants: because of all the abuse flung at him during games he simply wants Nickie hold him and tell him over and over that she loves him. By the last line, Nickie feels compassion for the poor soul she holds in her arms. "A good character play. . . . Humorous . . . . Worthy of commendations . . . . Terrific festival work."-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the (#14962) collection.) MANNY AND JAKE. Drama. Harvey Fierstein. 2 m. Int. Two young men meet in a bar. One is praying for sex; the other is only too eager to provide it. What the latter man does not know is that the man trying to pick him up has AIDS. In Safe Sex, (#14964) $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) MD 20/20. Comedy. Matt Williams. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Jason Ruppert Carter the Third, a black wino with a sense of humor and an undying devotion to Bruce Lee, stumbles across Norwanda Lynn Redman in the New York Public Library. She is a loner who spends her days reading poetry and contemplating the hereafter. After a guarded first encounter, they share a bottle of cheap wine, a copy of John Donne and their views of life and death. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 7th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15080) THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. Comic drama. Howard Korder. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Late one night while going over bills at the kitchen table, a husband and wife debate the role of money in their lives. In this short play, the author of the hilarious Episode 26 exhibits a flair for serious, philosophical comedy. Published with Lip Service, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15189) MR. FOOT. Comedy. Michael Frayn. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A tour de force for an actor and actress-and a foot. It seems the man's foot jiggles uncontrollably at various moments and the woman enjoys discussing this with a little man who isn't there. In The Two of Us, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15703) MR. LEWIS AND MRS. WEXEL. Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Mr. Lewis, a widower, invites Mrs. Wexel, a widow who lives in the same Florida senior citizen center, up to his apartment to see his fish. He then tries to seduce her and though both are in their eighties, he pursues her as if they were sixteen .. When she finally gives in, he's too tired to do anything. In Bedrooms, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#244) tion.) A MODEST PROPOSAL. Selma Thompson. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Although John and Mer have worked to create the ideal liberated relationship (and even love each other), they are growing apart. Then John arrives at Mer's apartment unannounced, late at night and in the middle of a snowstorm with a solution. She mistakes his suggestion of a weekend in the country for a marriage proposal, forcing her to consider the wedding she both wants and fears. This gentle satire, a comedy of errors, explores their confusion over what love, marriage and commitment mean today. $4.50. (Roy(#15687) alty, $20-$15.) MOLLY AND JAMES. Drama. Sheila Walsh. 1 m., 1 f. Int. James Joyce and one of his most famous characters, Molly Bloom, meet in her boudoir. Joyce has come to plead his case; he wants to use Molly as it character in Ulysses and he needs her cooperation. She refuses, then agrees-for ten percent of his royalties. As the play

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LIP SERVICE. Comedy. Howard Korder. 2 m., Unit set. A morning TV talk show co-host, formerly the host, is clearly being eased out because he is a "bum-out." The guy management is making their transition towards, on the other hand, is energetic and young. He is also glib and shallow-just the thing to appeal to the younger audience management is trying to reach. When the younger man takes over the show entirely;the old fuddy-duddy manages to have the last laugh. Published with The Middle Kingdom, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14166) A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THE DUCKS. ComedylDrama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage with props. Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Contest and the Princeton Players One-Act Playwrighting Contest. This is a story of a zestful, youthful courtship. She is 68 and he is 79. They put their moves on each other in a minuet that is a joy to behold. Published with A Scent of Honeysuckle, (#14911) $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) LOST AND FOUND. Comedy. Peter Maloney, 1 m., 1 f. Int. On a stormy New Year's Eve, at the end of a fancy party, Leo loses his umbrella and finds love. He is a shy, neurotic young man who at first refuses to be cheered up by Jeannie, a shy but well-adjusted elementary school art teacher. By the time the rain has stopped and the curtain falls, a new world of possibility is in sight. Produced at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre. "Direct and enjoyable with amusing and accurate observations."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#14649) A LOVE STORY. Drama. Norman Beim. 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage. Letters trace the poignant relationship between a young woman in a small Polish town just after World War I and a middle-aged married man in Prague. In My Family, The Jewish (#14934) Immigrants, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE LUFTMENSCH. Drama. David Mamet. 2 m. No set. In this strangely-compelling vignette two older men talk about an older man from their past. Published with

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NUINSKY CHOKED HIS CHICKEN. Drama. Reinaldo Povod. I m., I 12 year-old boy. Int. See Index under La Puta Vida. NOTHING IMMEDIATE. Drama. Shirley Lauro. 2 f. int. Su'spense builds when two women are thrown together in a motel in Iowa. Sandra, a young Jew from New York, is there to be near her dying father. Edna, the proprietress, is a fanatically religious right-winger of pioneer stock. Her motel is failing and her only relative is a Viet Nam casualty. Grudgingly, Edna registers Sandra and gradually reveals her deep hostility towards her and the world she represents. An uncanny tension mounts as Edna blames Sandra for her misfortunes and the play sweeps forward to its menacing conclusion. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 4th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16637) NOTHING IN COMMON. Drama. Jennifer Fell Hayes. 2 f. 2 insets. In this moving drama, a successful business woman who cannot have children offers to adopt the baby born to a young woman whose boyfriend has flown the coop. Each gingerly feels out the other: Will she make a good mother? Will the baby tum out all right? What if she changes her mind? In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16914) NOW DEPARTING. Comedy. Robert Mearns. 2 m., Int. This amusing piece is set in the front seat of a flashy cadillac. Frank is taking his buddy to the airport. Tommy is flying out to see his girlfriend, and Frank proceeds to give him hilarious tips about how to deal with women. He also plants seeds of doubt in Tommy's mind-doubt that the girl cares as much for him as he for her. This is a hilarious look at male camaraderie. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 9th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25(#16059) $20.) OHIO IMPROMPTU. Abstraction. Samuel Beckett. 2 m. or f. Explores the poignant interdependency of its characters, Reader and Listener who, in reading and listening to the story of their relationship, buoy each other up against the terror of the night. "A classic expression of the solipsism that obsesses Beckett's post-human heroes."-Chicago Tribune. In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett, $15.95. Slightly (#17656) Restricted; write for availability. (Royalty, $25-$20.) ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN. Plays. Robert Patrick. 1 m., I f. Bare stage or simple set. Six plays examine facets of male-female relationships. Mirage chronicles the first year in the homesteading life of Jeb and Sharon. Cleaning House shows the near-reversal of courting roles in a modem slum as a boy and girl deal with sexual and personal freedom. Bank Street Breakfast finds a couple musing on the history of money. She goes to work while he writes-and does the dishes. In Love Lace a boy and girl to transform the stage into dozens of mythical and historical locations as they seek to end or enrich their relationship. In Cheesecake a young couple take their first trip together. His paranoia and her euphoria show how far apart they are. Something Else is a tour de force nominated for a special Obie Award. A couple begin as aspects of the author's warring personality, but fight for their existence and their right to marry each other, the author, and the audience. $6.50. (Royalty, $20$15 per play.) Mirage (#15601) Cleaning House (#5664) Bank Street Breakfast (#4608) Love Lace (#14601) Cheesecake (#5625) Something Else (#21602) One Man, One Woman (#17038) ONE NAKED WOMAN AND A FULLY -CLOTHED MAN. Comedy. Diana Amsterdam. 1 m., I f. Int. A married couple sit watching a movie. We are treated to the wife's interior monologue as she watches what she thought was going to be a nice romance but turns out to have too much nudity and sex for her taste. She becomes obsessed with the fact that her husband's prurient interests are aroused, he doesn't want her, that he wishes his wife looked like the actress in the movie, and that the sparkle is gonefromf her marriage. In Sex and Death: Four One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#17666) tion.) Restricted NYC. ONE QUESTION. Comedy. Trude Stone. I m., I f. Int. Ruth, a widow, asks her friend Sol, a widower, to marry her. They have been dating for three years, but Sol tries every excuse under the sun to remain "as-is." There is a lot of humor and a very satisfying tum-about ending. Published in Hello, Ma! and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16977) OPEN ADMISSIONS. Drama. New Revised Edition. Shirley Lauro. 1 m., I f. A black student accepted at City College of New York under the "Open Admissions Plan" for minorities believes his white instructor, Dr. Alice Stockwell, is shuffling him through with "B's" irrespective of the quality of his work while concentrating her efforts on white students. Eager to succeed and bursting with frustration, he comers her in her office and levels his charges. The emotionally-charged confrontation that ensues shows tliat they are trapped in different worlds. "Explosive . . . provocative. . . a powerhouse." -N. Y. Times. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 4th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state one-act version when ordering.

ends, she is dictating the stream-of-consciousness monologue that ends Ulysses. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 10th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

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MONGOLIAN IDIOT. Comedy. Fredric Sirasky. I m., I f. Int. Alex Henderson's is smitten with his history teacher, Ms. Payton. All of the other students in the class are unseen, so the focus is on Alex as he deals with his feelings in droll asides to the audience during Ms. Payton's lectures. The no-nonsense teacher sees only Alex's mind wandering, and she is determined to make him stick to the business at handlearning history. This charming play was performed at two leading Off Broadway theatres: Ensemble Studio Theatre and Manhattan Punch Line. "Rambunctiously droll."-Village Voice. In High School Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

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MOVIE OF THE MONTH. Comedy. Daniel Meltzer. 2 m. Int. A television programming executive is anxious to bolster his network's sagging ratings. His eagerbeaver assistant has a script he is sure can be made into a hit "Movie of the Month." It's about a Danish prince who comes home from college to find that his uncle has murdered his father and married his mother. Naturally, the executive has his own ideas about how to fix such a totally unbelievable plot. $4.50. (Royalty, (#17621) $20-$15.) NECROPOLIS. Drama. Don Nigro. I m., I f. Bed and wooden chair. In a room in an eastern European country tom by civil war, a journalist and a strangely detached young girl with whom he has spent the night discover that they are strongly attracted. His probing questions elicit the fact that she spends her days as a sniper. Horrified and fascinated, he is drawn into her grim world as they struggle for understanding in the midst of a nightmare landscape.In Glamorgan and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16093) A NEED FOR BRUSSELS SPROUTS. Murray Schisgal. 1m., 1 f. Int. See Index under Twice Around the Park. A NEED FOR LESS EXPERTISE. Murray Schisgal. I m., I f. Int. See Index under Twice Around the Park. THE NEW QUIXOTE. Michael Frayn. 1m., 1 f. Int. A woman on the verge of middle-age spent the night in her flat with a 20-year-old she met at a party. Now it's Sunday morning and time for her to get on with the business of a new day, but the boy returns with all his records and books. He announces that he has found happiness and intends to stay. He is so sincere that she is swept along in the tide of his new-found love. In The Two of Us, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#16615) THE NEW GIRL. Comedy. Vaughn McBride. 2 f. Int. Clarissa and Flo live in an Idaho nursing home. Clarissa is practically bed-ridden and Flo, the "new girl," is in a wheelchair. She enters Clarissa's room to get acquainted and a marvelous relationship quickly develops. In a surprise twist, it turns out that these old ladies take turns being "the new girl"-and it's Flo's turn! This affecting and wonderfully humorous play about growing old was a hit at the Great American Play Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. "Illuminating, sensitively wrought play . . . achieves the very considerable feat of making us feel the tragic implications of a serious theme by letting it serve as the basis for a free-wheeling comedy."-Louisville Courier(#16047) Journal. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) NEXT TUESDAY. Comedy. Jason Milligan. I m., I f. Int. On five Tuesday afternoons during the spring of 1955, a young mobster in prison is visited and counseled by a young church volunteer. Mickey is less than enthused at first. As time passes, these two fight, make up, laugh, learn, change ... and fall in love. In New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15984) NICKY AND THE THEATRE FOR A NEW WORLD. Comic drama. Ernest Joselovitz. I m., I f. Unit set. Nick Salvatore reminiscences about his youthful years with Buffy Harmatz as producer at a scratch-for-survival theatre, revealing both the exhilarating craziness of theatre and the harsh realities of maturing. The magic of theatre, the sixties diminishing into the seventies, and, most of all, the battling pushand-pull friendship which transcends it all are delightfully portrayed. In Four OneAct Plays by Ernest Joselovitz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16648) NIGHT. Brief sketch. Harold Pinter. I m., I f., Two people sit at a table sipping coffee and talking about how they became lovers. In Complete Works; Three, $14.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. (#16652) NIGHTS IN HOHOKUS. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m. Int. Manny and Lenny are wild-and-crazy guys who spend their time in a bar in Hohokus, New Jersey, complaining. Lenny wakes up one day and realizes he's got to do something with his life. He gets a job as an astroturf groomer at Giants Stadium, much to the 'dismay of Manny who claims he can't work because he has a metal sliver in his hand. Here is a funny and poignant look at what happens to a friendship when half of it grows up and moves on. In New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#16649) tion.)

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threatening suicide because of her husband's infidelity. He can't understand why he can't have both wife and mistress. He gets an inkling when his wife takes a lover. When the couple is open on both sides, craftily notes the wife, "It becomes very drafty." "A breezy" delight, an entertainment with too much on its mind to be considered lightweight and too much wit to be mistaken for a polemic. It's brazen, outlandish and pointed comedy."-Marin Independent Journal. In Dario Fo Plays 2, $20.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17947) OPHELIA. Drama. Karen Sanford. 1m., 1 f. Ext. In this graphic example of the eternal struggle between good and evil, a young girl's lonely rural existence is interrupted by an exciting stranger on the run. He is compelled to win her confidence; she would gladly trust him iibe would accept Jesus. As he attempts to lure her into his truck, she tries to lure him toward heaven. Frustrated, he reveals his intentions, only to be shown the evil within himself. Years later, he remembers her offer of salvation while she survives to sing at his funeral. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 24th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17722) OTIS PROPOSES. David Wiltse. (See Index under Triangles for Two.) PAINTING DISTANT MEN. Drama. Richard Greene. 1 m., If. Int. Warren has left his wife and is staying in the apartment of his friend Susan, a portrait artist. Susan tries to find out why his marriage ended and he tries to convince her to change her lifestyle: her relationships with men are short-lived. He finally confesses his love for her. She sees him only as a friend and she tells him he is ordinary. Warren leaves and ends up with a divorcee not unlike his ex-wife. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS PENANCE. Drama. Jules Tasca. 2 m. I set. Joe has just said goodbye to Val at the hotel room door when Rudy, a teacher at the same Catholic school, knocks. Although Rudy is married, he and Val were lovers before Joe arrived on the scene. An intense cat and mouse game ensues. Joe is a priest and Rudy knows exactly how to tear at his guilt and fear. Then Rudy admits his relationship with Val was wrong and he pushes Joe to hear his confession, a heart-wrenching experience for Joe. An intense climax ends this dynamic play. "Terrific festival work. ... Worthy of commendation. "-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or (#17974) $75-$60 when perfonned with the other plays in the collection.) PENGUIN BLUES. Comic drama. Ethan Phillips. 1 m., 1 f. Int. This beautiful play by the star of TV's Benson wowed audiences and critics at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays. A manic alcoholic who knows the score and a nun who denies that she is an alcoholic are at a rehabilitation center. In the moving climax, she finally acknowledges her problem and takes the painful first step towards sobriety. "One of the loveliest moments of emotional revelation I've seen in the theatre."-News of Delaware County. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18934) A PERFECT MATCH. Comedy. Joan Forster. I m., I f. Int. On a snowy evening Alison is waiting for a date arranged through a computer dating service. Unbeknownst to her, he is delayed by the weather. A television repair man who didn't show up when he was supposed to arrives, dressed for a party and just making one last call. Alison thinks he is her date and he is surprised and charmed by the reception he receives. He soon realizes that she is waiting for someone else and tries, (#18933) with much difficulty, to tell her the truth. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) PIECE FOR AN AUDITION. Monologue. Steven Tenney. 1 f., plus I non-speaking m. Bare stage. A young actress is auditioning for a producer. Or is she? Is this real, or is it fantasy? The writing is richly and poetically evocative of the helplessness actors must feel at the hands of those who can make or break careers. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 9th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18919) A PINK CADILLAC NIGHTMARE. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 2 f. Int. Becky has just one dream-to win the a pink Cadillac given to the most successful saleswoman for a line of makeup. Can her friend Julie help her reach her goal before things get out of hand? Or has she gone a little too far already? This is a warm and zany comedy. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20(#17843) $15.) PHYSICAL THERAPY. Comedy. Jean Reynolds. 2 f. Int. Is physical therapy the answer? The tenn takes on new meaning when Beulah contacts a male escort service and gets more than she bargained for. Over gin, Beulah attempts to persuade a friend facing a medical crisis that physical therapy solves most problems. As the alcohol flows and edges blur, Beulah's powers of persuasion escalate and the' friend's resolve wavers. "Reynolds definitely has a talent with words."-N.Y. Times. "Devilishly charming." -Time Out. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 24th (#18694) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE PLEDGE. Tragedy. Victoria Nonnan. 2 f. Int. Once upon a time two girls took a pledge "to remain true to each other in friendship as long as we both shall live." But time passes and people change. Stacy joins a faster crowd, a raucous group wholly unappealing to reclusive Beth, who feels betrayed, abandoned and poised for tragedy. This heart-wrenching event examines teen suicide and, without moralizing, demonstrates that none are immune to tragic guilt. In Off Off Broadway Feslival (#18953) Plays, 15th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) POPPA DlO! Drama. Reinaldo Povod. 1m., 1 f. Int. (See Index under La Puta Vida). THE POWER AND THE GLORY. Drama. Le Wilhelm. 2 f. Int. This bracing play is about two women in an elevator. One undertakes to reassure the other and to convince her that what women have and men want gives them an inestimable amount of power. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18213) PREGGIN AND LISS. Tragicomedy. Robert Patrick. 2 m. Int. Preggin, a wealthy teen, and his poor-but-proud buddy Liss have dropped-out and are whiling away a day in a Florida motel. Preggin, a wastrel, talks only in spoonerisms. As the afternoon goes on, tragedy looms: Liss is leaving for work and Preggin, who can find nothing to do with his life, retreats into madness. "Theatre of the very highest type."-Show Business. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18605) PRESENT TENSE. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. I m., I f. Int. Father peeks out the window while the doorbell rings. Mother knows it's "her" by her ring, and father keeps watching and refusing to let "her" in. The madness mounts as they do not open the door, and the father finally spills the beans-he is leaving. This is an avantgarde Beckett-like script. In Present Tense, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Not available NYC. (#18664) THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY. Comedy. Jason Milligan. I m., I f. Int. Misty is setting up a display of St. Patrick's Day cards in her shop in a small town in Mississippi when a young man saunters in to buy a Valentine. Since it is the day after Valentine's Day, they are half price. He chooses a card and presents it to the abashed girl- his buddies have bet him fifty dollars that he can't walk right in and get Misty, who mayor may not bethe prettiest girl in Lafayette County, to

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PAPA NEVER DONE NOTHING . MUCH. Comedy. E. P. Conkle. 2 f. Int. An interviewer talks with the widow of a man who recently died. The widow tells her that the man didn't "do nothing . . . much" -then proceeds to tell the many, extravagantly ridiculous and surprising things the man did in his life. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18610) THE PARADE. Comedy. Warren Giarraputo. 1m., 1 f. Ext. A man, possibly a fonner sousaphone player, fantasizes a conversation with a woman while waiting for a parade. The woman becomes real enough to be assaulted and destroyed, but then (#18611) resumes her place among the spectators. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) PASSING FANCY. Comedy. Claris Nelson. 1 m., I f. Int. A CBS television newscaster returns to her home town in Pennsylvania on the day her divorce is final, hoping to tind the life and the love she left behind. She arranges to run into her high school sweetheart in his favorite bar. He is still unmarried and works as a foreman in an electronics finn. They rediscover their old romance and then discover why a life together is not and wasn't ever possible. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 7th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18622) PASSION COMEDY. Drama. Jules Tasca. I m., I f. 1 set. Two retired college teachers are traveling in Europe. They have every malady of the aged: diarrhea, burning stomach, wheezing, heart disease, high cholesterol, bad backs, hernias, bladder woes, impotence, sight and hearing problems. They've decided kill themselves at the end of the tour-at the theater of Dionysus in Athens. When she changes her mind, he threatens to do it alone. But this old couple has been together too long. "Charming. . . poignant."-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collec(#18949) tion.) PASTORAL. Comedy. Peter Maloney. 1m., 1 f. Ext. Daniel Stem and Kristin Griffith starred originally at NYC's Ensemble Studio Theatre in this perceptive comedy about a city couple temporarily tending a farm. He hates the bucolic life and is terrified by such horrors as a crowing rooster; whereas she is at one with the land and the rooster. "An endearing picture of young love at a comic crossroads."-Vil/age Voice. Published with Last Chance Texaco, $6.50. (Royalty, $20(#17995) $15.) PEACE IN OUR TIME. Drama. Larry Cadman. 2 m. Int. At the Vietnam Memorial, a veteran who may have a bomb in his knapsack confronts a man who was deferred during the conflict. The veteran wants to destroy the memorial because it is phony. In the end, walks away. The deferred man looks in the knapsack and extracts a medal for valor. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#17961) PEARLS. Drama. Nira Lipner. 2 f. Int. Seven years after her husband's death Ruth, now in her sixties, invites her nemesis, the younger other woman, for a visit. A verbal chess match ensues as each tries to claim the deceased man's love, until they face the truth about their lives, understand their pain and move on. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 24th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17975) THE PEDESTRIAN. Melodrama. Ray Bradbury, 2 m. In a chilling futuce where authority is faceless and entirely automated, one man has talked another into venturing from his TV-walled room to the street at night-against the law. They are caught. A police car beams radar at them and tells them what to do. The police wagon they enter is empty, and the man wonders if his destination will be empty, too-if those who concocted these fantastic things are now dead and the machines are in control. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#838)

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RECENSIO. A Light and Dark Show. Drama. Eddie de Santis. 1 rn., 1 f. Unit set. This inventive piece is about a couple who fell in love as teenagers. Some scenes take place when they were young, others portray them as adults. Occasionally, one plays a parent or one plays one of their children. Directors and actors looking for something a little different need look no further. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 11th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#20649) THE REFUSAL. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 1 f. Published in Races, $6.50. (Royalty, $10$10.) (#19945) RESERVATIONS FOR TWO. Comedy. Lori Goodman, 1 m., 1 f. Int. Jim met Anne at a party and has asked her out to dinner. As they are finishing their dessert he makes his move. Anne appreciates his honesty, but launches into a progressively more out-of-control (and hilarious) tirade against the way men-in general, of course-try to seduce women. She gets so carried away that Jim (not that bad a guy, actually) decides he's having dinner with a crazy and abruptly ends the date, as well as what could have been a promising relationship-if he had cut the b.s. and she the defensive apprehension. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8672) THE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE. Dark comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. 1 set. A notorious womanizer is found out by his spouse, Anne. Thinking she is lying on a sofa depressed, he tries to make amends for his waywardness. He eventually discovers that Lady Anne is dead, which gives an ironic twist to all that he has said. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133) REUNION. Drama. David Mamet. 1 m., 1 f. bare stage. In this haunting piece a father and daughter meet after a 25-year separation. The father, a drifter and reformed alcoholic, tremulously attempts to establish a relationship. "A touching, terrible confrontation." -N Y. Post. "Mamet, in a near-Pinteresque mood, lightly, gradually and surely touching our emotions and then leaving us with an aftertaste of solitude." -NY. Daily News. In Reunion: Three Plays by David Mamet, $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35). (#20029) RINGROSE THE PIRATE. Dark comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. Int. In 1916 writer Henry Jame$, confined to his bed by a stroke, dictates to his prim young typist. Much of what he comes up with dances on the edge of gibberish, a bizarre and funny parody of his labyrinthine style. Suddenly, the great man begins pouring out an entirely inappropriate play: a rip-roaring pirate yam. Miss Bosquanet is shocked, and is even more horrified when Henry reveals his scandalous last request. This funny play about passion and creation plays nicely with The Daughters of Edward D. Boit. In The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#20911) ROUGH THEATRE IITHEATRE I. Play. Samuel Beckett. 2 m. Ext. In Ends and Odds, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#22604) ROUGH THEATRE IIITHEATRE II. Drama. Samuel Beckett. 3 m., Int. In Ends and Odds, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) Slightly Restricted. . (#22605) RUSTY AND RICO. Play. Leonard Melfi. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. Rusty is a prostitute and Rico, her lover, is a successful New York politician. They meet on the sly in the same place each night in Central Park. On this particular night tragedy, both romantic and violent, strikes. In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $40-$30 (#20640) when performed with Lena and Louie.) SAFE SEX. Comic drama. Harvey Fierstein. 2 m. Int. Two recently reconciled male lovers confront the re-establishment oftheir relationship in the age of AIDS. Ghee, a matronly type, may be using guidelines for safe sex as an excuse for his fading sex drive. This dismays Mead, a virile and no-nonsense blue-collar type. In Safe Sex, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#20992) SAILING. Drama. Michael Shurtleff. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. A man and a wife on a terrace watch sailboats in the bay and capsulize their lives. Their children are grown, the parade has passed them by, and still they are buffeted by the hostilities of life, vainly searching for peace. Winds rise and even the catamarans are flipping over. Common frustrations overwhelm and destroy the man before our eyes. He strides off determined to sail the bay, knowing he is going to his death. An Off Off Broadway Festival winner. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21604) THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE. Drama. David Mamet. 1 rn., 1 f. bare stage. This brief sketch describes in telegraphic brevity a marriage on the rocks. In Reunion: Three Plays by David Mamet, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20029) SEA WAVES INN. Drama/Comedy. Joseph Lizardi. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A woman is sitting in a bar waiting for her blind date. A man tries to pick her up. They seem to be from radically different worlds. Despite different dress, demeanor and accent (his is Spanish), they find they are kindred spirits. It is a warm and funny play. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21658) SEARCH AND RESCUE. Richard Turtle. See Index under Lunacy: A Bathroom Trilogy

kiss him. Though he does not win the bet, he may have won the girl---or at least a date with her. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 12th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25$20.) (#18167) PRIVATE VIEW. Tragicomedy. Vaclav Havel. 2 versions: translated by Vera Blackwell and by Jan Novak. 2 m. Int. Ferdinand Vanek, the eternal dissident, is the central character in Audience, in Protest and in this impressive autobiographical one-act. A happy marriage, domestic bliss and proud parenthood are all on display in Private View when Vanek visits the newly furnished apartment of friends. The resident couple attempts to persuade him to forgot about his writing and his actor friends to reap similar benefits. Blackwell translation, $4.50; also available in Three Vanek Plays, $12.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Novak translation in Garden Party and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Blackwell translation (#17845) Novak translation (#18993) THE PROBLEM. A.R. Gurney, Jr. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A husband and wife are caught in a complicated and perverse spiral of sexual fantasies that enable them to keep their marriage alive. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#857) PROTEST. Tragicomedy. Vaclav Havel. Translated by Vera Blackwell. 2 m. Int. Ferdinand Vanek, the eternal dissident and the central character in Audience, Private Viewand this impressive autobiographical one-act, is approached by a friend whose future son-in-law, a song writer/singer and member of an opposition party, has been arrested. Vanek is asked to formulate a protest resolution, collect signatures and activate interest abroad so that his friend can save his pregnant daughter'S intended spouse without endangering his comfortable middle-class existence. In The Garden Party and Other Plays, $14.00. Also in Three Vanek Plays, $12.95. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#18976) THE QUEEN OF THE PARTING SHOT. Warren Manzi. See The Award and Other Plays THE RABBI AND THE TOYOTA DEALER. Comedy. Murray Schisgal. 2 m., Int. Morton Prince is decidedly reformed Jewish-so reformed that he hardly knows his rabbi. He has a Big Problem. Morton is Very Guilty. So guilty that he now wants to become a Born-Again Jew. All his life Morton has been committing adultery. He hardly has time to sell Toyotas. Recently, however, he has really fallen for someone. Why is he telling Rabbi Guttenberg all this? Because she is The Rabbi's fiancee! In Closet Madness & Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#19990) RAGNAROK. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. 3 chairs on a bare stage. This chilling nightmare play is not what it seems. A young man and woman argue about the morality of experiments they are performing on less intelligent creatures. The woman feels sympathy for the laboratory animals and worries about their suffering, a position the man ridicules. The animals are humans and the two speakers are their alien conquerors. This play works well with Animal Salvation and Mink Ties. In The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#19986) THE RAIN OF TERROR. Drama. Frank Manley. 1m., 1 f. Simple Int. Part One of Two Masters, winner of the Great American Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This is a gripping story, narrated by Oletta Crews with help from her husband, about the night they harbored an escaped criminal and became convinced that he was sent to them by God so they could escape from the squalor and misery of their lives. All they had to do was kill him. Published with Errand of Mercy in Two Masters, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$35 when performed with Errand of Mercy.) (#20089) THE RAPE OF EMMA BUNCHE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Emma Bunche told her parents she was raped by her boyfriend. He was arrested, but she changed her story so he's free and prepared to confront Emma about what really happened. In the middle of the accusations and recriminations, it all happens again. "Hilarious."-New Hope Gazette, In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.25 (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#20653) THE RECLUSE. Drama. Paul Foster. 2 f. Int. A drama of self-imposed hell: two women claw at each other in a vicious struggle with rules as formal as a minuet. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20609) THE RECOGNITION SCENE FROM ANASTASIA. Drama. Adapted from Marcelle Maurette by Guy Bolton. The second-act scene from the fabulous Broadway hit is tailored for two women. It is a scene of tremendous power and emotion, wherein the daughter of the deposed Czar, thought to be an imposter, attempts to convince her grandmother of her true identity. "Stunning . . . . Left a grateful audience limp last evening."-NY. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#131) RED ROSES FOR MY LADY. Drama. Stephen Levi. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. Lidle Banjo's parents when the tortured, alcoholic mother discovers that her husband is planning to run off to revive his failed country music career. She brandishes a loaded rifle. The intensity of their pain and regret escalates as they face an unthinkable choice: must one of them die? Selected for the California Institute of the Arts New Plays Festival. Published with Cherry and Little Banjo and The Gulf of Crimson in Cherry Sida Water, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (19967)

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SECOND CHANCE. Comedy. Elyse Nass. 2 f. Int. Originally published in Best Short Plays of 1980, this superb one-act has excellent roles for elderly performers. A widow decides to begin a new life and her married neighbor tries to put a damper on her aspirations. "Powerful and meaningful."-Queens Chronicle. "Delightful."San Diego Senior Life. "Witty and brimming with idealism." -Business Times. Published with Cat Connection and Admit One in Three One-Act Plays About the Elderly, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21661) SEDUCTION DUET. Comedy. H. Appleman. I m., I f. Int. Simple set. Originally produced in New York by the Circle Repertory Company. Two insecure singles hilariously try to join the sexual revolution. Cynthia, a computer operator, returns home from an office party with Matt, an accountant. They discover mutual interests from saving dolphins, to conversation and reading-about butterflies, overpopUlation and sex. In a wild dance-seduction scene-when tequila and Mexican music take over-sparks fly. In one surprising turn-about after another, they reveal schemes, touching secrets and tender emotions, which lead to a charming conclusion. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 6th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21066) SENIOR PROM. Comedy. Robert Mearns. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. On Prom night a couple sit on the terrace. The guy is a young actor from New York who became friends with the girl when his theatre company played in the town. He once had one line on a popular soap opera-which makes him a celebrity at the prom. He is embarrassedand reluctant to tell her that he is not really a star. When he finally does, it doesn't matter. She loves him anyway. This sensitive, amusing look at young love is perfect for college and high school productions. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 10th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21652) SHAKESPEARE REVISITED. Comedy. Norman Beim. 1m., 1 f. Int. Winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Award. Shakespeare has returned to earth and witnessed a production of Richard 1JI set in ajunkyard with Lord Buckingham played by a bearded actress and Richard by an Afro-American. His response is not at all what the director hopes it will be. "Intelligent, right-to-the jugular."-Buffalo Art Voice. "Norman Beim ranks with the best in America today."-WHB1 Radio. In Six Award Winning Plays, $17.95. (Royalty, $15-$15.) (#21351) SHE NEEDS ME. Comedy. Trude Stone. 2 f. Int. A widow tries to convince her neighbor to join her in Florida, but the friend is afraid to leave her daughter, a career woman living away from home. Sylvia makes Ruth recognize that she needs her daughter more than her daughter needs her. This play's insights and sensitivity are expressed with witty dialogue. Published in Hello, Mal and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$15.) (#20984) THE SHINY RED BALL. Comedy. Cleve Haubold. 2 m. Int. Charlie and Johnny wander in to do a day's work. At a signal, they don their buyer and seller suits to play out a hilarious game of trading for a shiny red ball. Each tries every trick he can devise to outwit the other-alternately friendly, angry, subtle, doubtful, savage and indifferent. When the sale is made, they rest for a moment and then trade places to begin again. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#976) A SIGNIFICANT BETRAYAL. Drama. Le Wilhelm. I m., I f. Bare stage. Hoping to find answers about her life, Dorry slips into the swamp to meet an uncle who was cut off from the family after a mysterious incident before she was born. She delves into his sexual past and her family's hidden secrets to confront her future and universal questions about the nature of love, forgiveness, betrayal and the assumptions we make about other's suffering. This is a heartbreakingly beautiful companion piece to Meridian, Mississippi Redux. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 24th (#21426) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) A SILENT CATASTROPHE. Comedy. Cliff Harville. 1 m., 1 f. Int. An elderly couple go in and out of reality, believing that something has happened to everybody else in the world. Oscar has a heart condition; Hazel suffers from everything but a bad heart. They take turns humorously tormenting each other in these, their sunset years. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#21387) SIX INCH ADJUSTABLE. Drama. Stuart Warmflash. 2 m. Ext. Two brothers, fifteen-year-old Tudie and twenty-one-year-old Chip, battle each other in a suburban driveway as they come to terms with a broken motorcycle engine, their mother's remarriage and each other. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th (#21541) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SLIVOVITZ. Drama. Roderick B. Nash. 1m., 1 f. Simple int. At a table in the bar of the Munich airport two expatriates, a young woman from Poland and a man from Latvia, meet. He thinks he knows who she is. He has a bottle of Slivovitz in his camera case and, over drinks, they reveal some of the reasons why both have left their homelands. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 12th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21219) SNOCKY. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. 1 set. Madeline Bovery is dying to have an assignation with the captain of the lifeguards. They are checked into the Romance Ranch Hotel. A champagne breakfast sits on the table and mood music is playing when a phone call shatters the idyllic scene-her son's pet frog Snocky has hopped out of the house and caused an uproar. His call is the first of many interruptions in this hilarious audience pleaser. "Terrific festival work . . . . Worthy of commenda-

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tion."-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 (#21229) when performed with the other plays in the collection.) SNOW, LEOPARDS. Martin Jones. Comic drama. See Index for description. SNOW STARS. Comedy. Anne V. Sawyer. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. On a winter night with snow in the air a homeless old couple feast on the left-overs of fruit vendors and dream of far away warmth, maneuvering with arms around each other in a cardboard shelter. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 20th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21829) SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT. Don Nigro. 1 m., I f. Int. A young couple moves into an old house where they are troubled by the wife's reluctance to allow the husband to touch her and by her growing insistence that there is something making bizarre noises in the basement. Their fear turns into an obsessive struggle and a strange erotic triangle, the third member of which lurks in the darkness beneath them. An unusual play, funny and terrifying, about women and men and things that go bump in the night. In Something in the Basement and Other Plays, (#21620) $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) SOMETHING TO EAT. Comedy. Norman L. Rhodes. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A young urban couple can't decide where to go to eat. Every place he suggests she's against. She finally agrees to name a restaurant-lmd those she suggests do not appeal to him. Eventually they are able to make the crucial decision. In Off Off Broadway Festival (#21738) Plays, 9th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20) SPECTER. Dark Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 1 f. Two chairs on a bare stage. On a rainy night a young professor drives on a twisted road through the woods near Princeton, swerves into a ditch to avoid a girl in a white dress, and finds himself stuck in his car with an outrageous and possibly demented young lady who might want to murder or make love to him, or both. This ancient ghost story is retold as a funny and frightening play about the relationship of desire to danger and the perils of relying on the kindness of strangeTs. In Green Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (#21765) (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE SPELLING BEE. Comedy. Phillip Vassalo. 2 m. Bare stage. This animated comedy thrusts two young men on stage, one black and one white. Each has been victimized by the same crime. One at a time, they tell their story while the other plays humorous supporting roles to enhance the narrative. The black assails everyone he sees in the white world: neighborhood greasers, sociology professors and sleazy businessmen. Reverse discrimination, violence perpetrated by blacks and the impotent justice system form the core of the white man's tale. Their tirades culminate in an explosive confrontation-one's sister was stabbed to death and the other was charged with the crime and then exonerated. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please specify author when ordering. (#21838) SPITTIN' IMAGE. Drama. Stephen Metcalfe. 2 m. Int. Set before Strange Snow in the same college dorm room as Sorrows and Sons, this play focuses on a college student who is not doing well and simply cannot live up to his parents' expectations that he replace the brother killed in Vietnam. Megs, who plays an important role in Strange Snow and has not yet cauterized his pain at having lost his buddy in Nam, stops to see the friend's the kid brother. He sees the "spittin' image" of his dead comrade cramming for an exam. Megs cajoles him to loosen up and both begin the process of dealing with their loss. Published with Pilgrims and Sorrows and Sons. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21742) THE SQUARE ROOT OF LOVE. Comedy. Daniel Meltzer. See Index under The Square Root of Love. STEINWA Y GRAND. Drama. Ferenc Karinthy. 1 m., 1 f. Composite set. The woman has advertised a piano for sale and the man calls to inquire about it. On his second call we begin to sense something is wrong; he is not really interested in the piano. By the third call we suspect a swindle or a joke. His fourth call the window allows to go unanswered. And now the truth is out: the buyer is really a lonely man on the verge of despair. And so is the widow. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21774) STILL-LOVE. Romance. Robert Patrick. 1m., 1 f. Simple set. A tour-de-force love story played in reverse order. We first meet Gary and Barbara after their break-up. Then we see their final quarrel. their moments of happiness, and their meeting. Finally, we see them before they met. "Patrick has invented a cinematic style of story-telling."-Show Business. In Robel1 Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty $20-$15.) (#21612) STUDIO PORTRAIT. Comedy. Arlene Hutton. I m., I f. Int. Robert is a professional photographer whose easy-going manner helps Abigail overcome her nervousness during a photo session. However, all is not what it seems as the photo session unfolds. This bittersweet comedy of missed opportunities and lost love twists again and again with surprising revelations. Studio Portrait was selected for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston and the International Fringe Festival in New York. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 23rd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21941)

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TWO PART HARMONY. Play. Katharine Long. 1 m., 1 f.Int. This confrontation of wits between an alert child and a plentally unsettled man occurs when eight-year-old Jessie Corington, sick and home alone from school, receives a visit from Hank Everett, a former friend of the family who used to look like Bobby Darin. Hank's eccentric behavior challenges Jessie's cherished belief in adult maturity. Gradually a friendship develops but it is nearly shattered when the violence beneath Hank's innocence surfaces. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22775) UNPUBLISHED LETTERS. Comic drama. Jonathan C. Levine. 1 m., 1 f. Int. A sullen young man's bitter reflections on the day of his estranged father's funeral are interrupted by an unexpected visitor who claims to be his half-sister. They have vastly differing opinions of their father, a renowned writer. She knew him only through letters he wrote to her. She tries to entice him to read the letters because they convey a sense of love and family needed by both young people. This beautiful play was broadcast on Arts & Entertainment cable TV. "Subtle and touching."-N.Y. Daily News. Published with The End of the Shifty in Two One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$35 when performed with The End of the Shifty.) (#23033) URANIUM. Comedy. Pamela Hunt. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. Melanie wants her daddy back. He is wandering the desert, obsessed with finding uranium which will make him rich. She confronts him in the middle of his search . . . or is this but a room? A play in which one character is the reality, the other is imaginary-but which is which? This is a daffy turn in the absurdist vein. In 0ffOjJ Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#23620) VILLAGE WOOING. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 1 m., 1 f. 1 ext, 1 int. From the deck of an ocean liner to a village shop the female pursues the male with an abundance of Shavian wit and words. Two challenging parts. In Selected Short (#24604) Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) VORTEX. Drama. Wade Sheeler. 2 m. Ext. There are places where the fabric of reality is thin, and one of these is a vortex in Sedona, Arizona. Here a mysterious shaman collides with a desperate gunman. When they learn trust, they reveal secrets that test the power of nature and the human spirit.Originally produced by California Institute of the Arts as part of the New Plays Festival, Vortex won the Kennedy Center's National One-Act Competition. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Slightly Restricted. (#24639) THE WAY TO MIAMI. Comic drama. Donald Steele. 1 m., 1 f. Int. On the day that retirees Frank and Leola are moving to Miami Leola decides, to Frank's alarm, to set the table one more time with their best china. The morning spirals out of control from there as differences in how they have dealt with the death of their son surface painfully amid the fears related to moving. A new understanding evolves that allows them to make peace with their past and envision a happy future in Miami. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 23rd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

SWISS MISS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 1 m., I f. 1 set. A man from Cincinnati has a tatoo of the American flag on his chest and a boring life. On vacation in Switzerland, he has just put his wife and daughter on the lift for a day trip to the top of the mountain when he finds a beautiful girl burglarizing his hotel room. He threatens to call the police if she doesn't show him some "Swiss affection." She plays on his inflated patriotism and, in a hilarious finale, escapes from his fantasies. ' 'Wonderful . . . entertainment."-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#21825) A TANTALIZING. Drama. William Mastrosimone. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Originally produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, this intriguing mystery by the author of The Woolgatherer is about the attempts of a young woman to save a tattered and crazy old man she has dragged in off the street. Like Rose in The Woolgatherer, she has secrets in her closet and a particular reason to take such an interest an interest in the bum. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22021) TELL ME ANOTHER STORY, SING ME A SONG. Play. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 f. Bare stage or simple set. This witty look at mother-daughter relationships is a lighthearted exploration of irritations and misunderstandings that build walls between a woman and her female off-spring-and the love and compassion that destroys these walls. The crisis and humor of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age are evoked in acelebration of dissonance and the harmony between mothers and daughters. With the light touch of fantasy, it touches some of our deepest emotions. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22033) "THERE IS NO JOHN GARFIELD". Comic drama. Ernest Joselovitz. 1 m., 1 f. Unit set. Defining one person's refusal to substitute romantic fantasy for real-life involvement, this play is about Margo and Edgar. Their comic "arranged" gettogether must reverse the sad necessity of one's compromise for their sustained relationship. A national prize winner of the Dubuque One-Act Competition and the Larry Neal Writers' Award. In Four One-Act Plays by Joselovitz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22634) THE TIGER. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 f. 1 set. Wealthy Mrs. Packletide has just returned to England from an Indian hunting expedition with a tiger skin. The prized pelt was sought to make her rival and harshest critic jealous. Mrs. Packletide's traveling companion arrives to blackmail her because she knows the hilarious truth of how the tiger skin was obtained. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133) TO WIT AND TO WHOM. David Wiltse. (See Index under Triangles for Two.) TONECLUSTERS. Drama. Joyce Carol Oates. 1 m., 1 f., plus 1 m. voice. Bare stage. Frank lmd Emily are a nice couple with a house in a nice neighborhood. Why are they under so much strain? They are interviewed by an unseen interrogator and their story emerges: the body of a 14-year-old girl was found in their basement and their son is charged with the murder. Do they share in the guilt? Could we find ourselves in their situation? This extraordinary play by one of America's foremost authors won the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. Published with The Eclipse in In Darkest America, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when performed with Eclipse.) (#22727) TOUCH THE BLUEBIRD'S SONG. Louis E. Catron. 1 m., 1 f. Ext. A young man who has been in the Navy for several years is visiting his girlfriend at college. Their love is severely tested. They've become different people and question whether they can recapture their love. The contemporary theme and delicate treatment have made this play popular in high school, college, and community theatres. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1087) TREMULOUS. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 2 f. Simple ext. In this touching, funny and poignant play, two awkward teens meet in an orchard to carry out their pre-planned suicides. The girls discuss friendship, feelings and fears, observe the life around them, and opt for life. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22768) TRIANGLES FOR TWO. David Wiltse. (See Index for full-length play entry for Triangles for Two.) THE TWIN MENDACCIOS. Farce. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 1 f. Int. Thomasina and Terry are identical twins. Thomasina fills in for Terry on dates with Clarence and their deception is so successful that he does not know which twin he has slept with, eaten quiche in Joe Allen's with, danced in a disco with, or proposed to. Clarence, his mother on the telephone screaming, runs through the girls' apartment trying to sort it all out and find out who he is marrying. "Truly funny."-New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.25 (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#22243) TWO AND TWENTY. Comic drama. Paul Parente. 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage. A poetryobsessed young man and the woman he lived with for two years and still loves meet after their breakup. They discuss Why It All Had To End. Some scenes take place in the present, while others happen during a happier time when they both were less than two and twenty. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 12th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22244)

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earth has a moving and hopeful ending-a baby cries in the darkness. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25661) WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HOLLIS JAY? Comedy. Benjamin Bradford. I m., I f. Ext. College freshmen meet and she succeeds in getting him to ask her out. We hear what he thinks as well as what he says and there's a great difference between the two. Then the tables are turned and Ellie's thoughts are heard as their relationship grows. Toured in Europe and America. "Fresh and interesting. He never writes (#25080) a trite line. "-LA. Herald-Examiner. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) WHERE HAVE ALL THE LIGHTNING BUGS GONE? Louis E. Catron. I m., I f. Ext. Written by a college playwriting instructor, this nostalgic play captures the almost unspeakably poignant wonder of love. It is popular with high school, college and community theatres. A boy and girl meet and fall in love by discovering how to touch as people, not as sexual beings. The refreshingly innovative style makes it an ideal actors' challenge. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1190) THE WHITE WHORE AND THE BIT PLAYER. Comedy-tragedy. Tom Eyen. 2 f. Int. This play about one woman, before and after she made it, takes place in the room of a washed-up image (like Monroe or Harlow) in a sanitarium run by the Franciscans. Spiritually she imagines herself to be a nun while physically she is the whore the world saw. In the seconds before she dies, a suicide by strangulation on her wall cross, her life flashes by. Once she knows she is going to die her reacti.on is-to live. "A scorching death rattle, the last symphonic outcry of a soiled, sequined soul."-N.Y. Times. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25602) THE WHOLE TRUTH. Comedy. Viki Boyle. 2 f. Int. Two women jurors are sequestered in a hotel. They are nervous. News people are standing out in the street awaiting signs of activity. One juror is for the defendant and one against. The latter tries to change the other's mind though both know they should not be talking about the case. This cat-and-mouse plot is leavened with humor and finesse. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25682) WHOPPERS. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. I m., I f. Ext. This delightful comedy involves a loving husband and wife engaged in a fight while battling two enormous fish. They fight and fish their way to a hilariously huge misunderstanding. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25252) THE WINNING NUMBER. Comedy. Sarah Brown. 2 f. Int. Granny has humiliated her young kinswoman by swiping cards from others at the bingo table, stealing and bringing home scores of bingo cards from various parlors, and having them blackballed from games allover town. But she keeps praying-and stealing-and knows that her prayers will be answered. You'll recognize this granny immediately, and laugh yourself silly. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25703) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU. Comedy. Luigi Jannuzzi. 1 m., I f. Simple set. Sweet, adorable George is waiting for Mary in a restaurant. He loves her. She does not love him. In response he has alphabetized her mail, rotated her tires and followed her dates to prove their unfaithfulness. He has promised to show her photographic proof. Mary enters, wanting and not wanting to be there. A roller coaster of hilarity ensues. "One really wanted to know what happened next."-Louisville Courier Journal. "Funny. . . . A perfect tournament play to showcase two character parts and comic timing. "-Louisville Leo Magazine. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25256) THE WORKOUT. Farce. Albert Bermel. 1m., 1 f. Int. "An expert piece of comic' writing. . . . A tightly packed duologue rings the changes on three aspects of American conformity-salesmanship, evangelism, and physical culture. All are concerned. . . with salvation-so what is more natural than to fuse them together? Mr. Bermel does so with the all-too-plausible invention of a New York spiritual gymnasium. . . . Taut, witty, and without a single dead line . . . . Extracts its comedy as much from physical action as from dialogue."-London Times. Performed in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and elsewhere. In Six One-Act Farces, $16.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25737) YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a Half.) YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES. Dennis R. Anderson. (See Index under Crazy and a Half)

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*BAREFOOT IN NIGHTGOWN BY CANDLELIGHT. Drama. Don Nigro. 3 f. A circle of light. Three young girls tell a frightening story by candlelight. Cath is an orphan at a girls' boarding school. She is lonely in the big old house until Alicia and Belle initiate her into a midnight game of Mistress and Slave. Cards determine who gets to be the Mistress and who becomes the Slave and the Witness. The Mistress demands one action of the Slave and she must obey. At fust Cath is happy to have friends and be part of the exciting game, but the commands become increasingly dangerous, erotic, cruel and sinister. Eerie and complex, this excellent Halloween play was first produced at Shadowbox Cabaret in Columbus and by the Grey Wing Stage Company in New York. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#4259) *CLOSURE. Comedy. David Paterson. 3 m. or f. Unit set. Siblings involved in an amicable family divorce meet at a restaurant in this thought-provoking and richly humorous play that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. Published in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if per(#5327) formed with other plays in the collection.) *THE GATE. Comedy. David Paterson. 3 m. or f. Unit set. A smarmy stockholder tries to charm his way into heaven in this short comedy that is ideal for auditions, showcases and scene work. Published in The Blonde and Other Distractions, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.)

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*HERMAPHRODITE. Comedy. Annie G. 2 m., I f. Simple set. A son suggests a trip to his corporate mom and she becomes so stressed out that she divides herself into two people (played by a male and a female actor). This inventive one-act was originally produced at the Edinburgh Festival. Published with Open and Shut and 9.8 Meters Per Second in G-Force, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#10565) *IDA LUPINO IN THE DARK. Comedy. Don Nigro. 3 f. A sofa. In this funny tenminute play, Minnie sits in a dark room with her face illuminated by the eerie glow of an unseen television. Junk accumulated by her philandering artist husband surrounds her and forms a bizarre film in her mind. It is an imaginary combination of black and white movies with Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and herself as Ida Lupino. Minnie's sisters try to understand the reasons for Minnie's nervous breakdown and are pulled into her demented movie before discovering what pushed her over the edge. Lunacy and betrayal are densely packed in this nostalgic play. Published in Banana Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#10971) *SUICIDE CLUB. Comedy. Mario Fratti. 1m., 2 f. Int. A mother joins an unusual club. Her son is alive. "Vintage Fratti . . . . His comedies always reflect his satirical bent as he tum a cool eye on contemporary manners."-Bridge. NYC. Published with Candida and Her Friends, $6.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#21963) *TREE WORLD. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m., I f. In the not-so-distant future when nuclear options have obliterated all authentic foliage, a suburban couple goes shopping at Tree World. An obliging salesman tries to help them select the right tree for their lifestyle and budget. Published in One Man's Vision, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#22948) *TWENTY YEARS AGO. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m., I f. 1 set. When Joan accompanies her husband to his high-school reunion, she is accosted by a strange man who insists that she is the classmate he had an intense crush on twenty years ago. Published in One Man's Vision, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22304) AND GO TO INNISFREE. ComedylDrama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 3 f. Bare stage. It's October. The beach is deserted. A woman appears, flowered parasol raised and long skirt sweeping the sand. She has come 10 make a decision, but will she make it alone? The middle-aged matron she was argues for the comfort of a retirement home. The child she was urges her to sit again and eat blackberries, to lie under the brambles and study ants, and to arise at long last and go to Innisfree. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#3579) THE BALLERINAS. Comedy. Don Nigro. 3 f. Int. Three delicate ballerinas are in the dressing room during an intermission for Swan Lake. Scheherazade smokes cigars to relax. Petroushka, who has a drinking problem, is worried about how many buttocks she has and would kill for a meat loaf. Both are worried about Giselle who is so convinced that she is a swan that she is laying eggs. The roof leaks, they have not been paid, and Giselle is molting. This funny take on the transformational magic of art is by the author of The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4282) DEMONOLOGY. Mystery. Don Nigro. 2 m., 1 f. Int. In 1902 Inspector John Ruffing, who also makes appearances in Ravenscroft and other plays, is confronted by his most disturbing case: a young woman in an old sanitarium outside London who refuses to speak. His task is to find out what happened to her. Uncovering her horrifying secret draws him into the darkest comer of his soul. Published in Palestrina and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#6558) EXODUS FROM MCDONALDLAND. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this wacky comedy premiered in a furniture showroom. A salesman trying to sell a livingroom suite to

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LA CHIENNE IN THE PARK. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. Joshua has been in an accident that paralyzed his legs. In the park he encounters a young nymphet who is having an unrequited love affair with God. A sexually charged war of wills ensues as they discover a certain commonality. Published in Eight Plays from the Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#13819) LESS SAID, THE BETTER. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this play premiered in a train station. Two eccentric hit men grumble about having to work on New Year's Eve. Their assignment: to "take care of' an enchanting female traveler. Are these tough guys up to the task? Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) Amateurs may apply for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. (#13772) THE LESSON. Comedy. Eugene lonesco. Translated by Donald M. Allen. 1 m., 2 f. Int. An elderly professor and his young female student experience what must certainly be the most remarkable and bizarre lesson in the history of pedagogy. It ends with murder. Produced in New York by the Phoenix Theatre. In Bald Soprano and (#647) Other Plays, $13.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE LOST GIRL. Comic drama. Don Nigro. 3 f. A bench. Mala, a young tourist lost in a strange country with an erroneous map, sees Lara sitting on a bench reading a black book. Mala manages to communicate her situation and ask Lara for directions. Strangely, she understands Lara's foreign language more and more as the play progresses. She senses that there is something mysterious about this place but doesn't comprehend what it is until it's too late. This poetic play is by the author of Specter, Ravenscroft and other plays. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other (#14706) Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) LUCY AND THE MYSTERY OF THE VINE-ENCRUSTED MANSION. Gothic mystery. Don Nigro. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Lucy, sixteen and lost, is a fey occult investigatrix hungry for adventure. Amidst cooing doves, she tells of her alter ego, Imogen, 'who lives in a haunted house with her brother and his pet barnacle. He is plotting to murder the cousin who has inherited the mansion. The language is rich, strange and hypnotic as Lucy goes so deeply into her tales that she may not emerge sane while someone creeps through the moonlight with a rusty barnacle knife. This eccentric comedy is like a Gorey drawing come to life. Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4960) MATCH POINT. Comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. Two women strike up a pool side conversation at a desert resort. They discover their husbands have been coming to the resort at the same' time for many years but have never spoken. The younger woman inquires about the other's spouse and is told that he died. Several days later, when the husband arrives, he learns that a young woman they didn't know committed suicide. The husband is traumatized-the perfect murder has been committed. In A Way with Words, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15590) MONEY TALKS. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Yolanda has a blind date with Clark. Their meeting in a Manhattan pub begins pleasantly enough but turns into a blind date from hell when Yolanda is forced to fight for her dignity and her sanity. In Cross Country: Seven More One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) . (#15265) NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN. Drama. Caryl Churchill. 2 m., 1 f. Int. People live in one-room cellblocks in the London of 2010. Vivian, who is married to somebody else, wants to move in with Mick, a man old enough to . remember when it was safe to walk around in London, when there were still birds and when you could procreate without a license. Mick yearns for a cottage in the country. Maybe his son Claude, a celebrated musician who is coming to visit after several years, will find it in his heart to help. In Churchill: Shorts, $22.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) , (#16083) PATTER FOR A FLOATING LADY. Comedy. Steve Martin. Int. 1 m., 2 f. A magician levitates his female assistant, a former lover. He uses magic to give her the freedom he was unable to bestow when they were together. The trick has an unexpected resuft: she splits in two and reveals her utter contempt for him. Published in Wasp and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18964) RIVALS. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 2 m., I f. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this play premiered in a bank. A down-on-his-Iuck inventor has been turned down for a 10ftIl allover town. His last resort is an ex-rival from long ago who is now a hotshot bank executive. The banker is merciless until the inventor gets the upper hand, once and for all. Published in Here, There and Everywhere. $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) Amateurs may apply for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. (#20936) ROAD TRIP. Drama. Jason Milligan. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Vernon, a drifter in his late twenties, visits his brother Ron after a long absence. Their older brother Alan is in a coma and Ron, who is about to get married, wants to take Alan off life-support equipment after a prolonged period of little or no improvement. Is this for Ron's convenience or is it really time to let Alan go? Vernon questions the ethics of Ron's decision and fiancee Lisa joins the fray to protect Ron's interests in an emotionally charged confrontation that results in tentative steps toward unity and a sense of

newlyweds combats the the husbands's fanatical devotion to his job as a McDonald's manager. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#7115) DR. MAGIC. Dark comedy. Joyce Carol Oates. 2 m., 1 f. Simple set. The charismatic magician Dr. Magic hypnotizes a young married couple and instructs them to perform hilarious, startling and ultimately disturbing feats. In an unexpected reversal, the blundering, comical amateur couple triumphs over the enigmatic stage pro while confirming the power of their love. Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6246)

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FLOATING ISLAND. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 3 f. Ext. Two young women celebrate their mother's birthday on the river bank in a play that explores the stages of love and how often we are unaware of how deeply we care until the person is gone. Published in Eight Plays from the Heartland, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#8683) FORE. Comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., 1 f. Comb. int.lext. Two Hollywood writers and a secretary share a bungalow at a major movie studio. One is on his first assignment; the other is a famous novelist fallen on hard times. For relaxation they putt golf balls on the lawn, using the indented sprinklers as holes. There is good feeling between them until their golf attracts disapproval. If the game isn't discontinued, their jobs are in jeopardy. A test of courage for each results. In A Way with (#8938) Words, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) GIVE THE BISHOP MY FAINT REGARDS. Comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A young woman interviews a Hollywood screen-writing team, men whose extensive credits include a film with a line second in fame only to "Here's looking at you kid." They have always maintained they didn't know which of them wrote the line. Eventually the woman gets around to the loathsome question. Today, the answer threatens their union, sounding it to its depths with comic effect and a surprising conclusion. In A Way with Words, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9169) GOGOL. Comedy. Don Nigro. 2 m., 1 f. Int. The great Russian writer is going mad and is also constipated in this surreal investigation of artistic creation, sex, noses and other things. He puts a devil puppet on one hand and a gypsy girl puppet on the other and has violent three-way arguments with himself. A beautiful drowned maiden appears from under his bed clothing, a giant nose runs out of the closet, and pandemonium ensues. Gogol bums his masterpiece and disappears up a ladder to nowhere. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#9711) GREEN FORMS. Comedy. Alan Bennett. 1m., 2 f. Int. Doris and Doreen are comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organization. On a normal day they keep busy by flirting with nice Mr. Tidmarsh in Appointments or pursuing their feud over a plug with Mr. Cunliffe in Personnel. This is not a normal day. Someone has an eye on them and a shadow is falling across their tranquil lives. Are they about to be fired? $4.50. (Royalty $35-$25, or $60-$40 when performed with A Visit from Miss Prothero under the title Office Suite.) (#9946) HAIKU. Drama. Katherine Snodgrass. 3 f. Int. This sublimely beautiful play won the Heidemann Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Though severely retarded, Louise is at brief intervals miraculously "normal" and sometimes so super-normal that she speaks in beautiful haiku poetry . .Her mother has published the poems under her own name. When an older daughter visits, she refuses to believe that her Louise composed the extraordinary poems. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#10650) HARVEST TIME. Black comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Mike is gravely ill and on dialysis. His survival depends on his brother donating a kidney for a transplant, but now Billy has found another buyer for his organ and must decide whether blood is thicker than financial security. While the brothers battle, Mike's wife may have a solution they can both live with. "[Kidney Stones is] an unexpected theatrical joy! Smart, Witty, incisive, right on, and slightly skewed."-livelyarts. com. Published in Kidney Stones: Four One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$20 per play or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#10567) JABIRU. (Little Theatre.) Comic drama. Margaret Johnson. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Two young people who had been strongly influenced by an encounter with a man living in a nature reserve in Belize return to Central America. They find him still in residence at the reserve while they have moved on with their lives. $4.50. (Royalty, (#12587) $25-$25.) JUDGMENT CALL. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 3 m. Ext. Three umpires limber up for the coming season. One is at the top of the league and driven, one is a lowkey veteran whose confidence is waning and the third is an enthusiastic newcomer. Published in Judgment Call and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#12657)

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Is this the result of meeting an odd fan? Perhaps her awareness that now she is a commodity to be exploited is responsible? Or is it that strange, glowing box with a rocket on the side? In Churchill: Shorts. $22.95. (Roy(#21634) alty. $25-$20.) SEANCE. Drama. Don Nigro. 1m., 2 f. Int. Sir William Crookes, a respected physicist in 1875, is investigating a beautiful young medium. He becomes convinced that her alter ego from the spirit world is real, and she, seeing the great man falling under her spell. confesses that the vision emerging from the cabinet during seances in merely her underwear. Crookes refuses to believe she is a fraud until the spirit appears to settle the argument. This twisted love story about how desire subverts understanding is based on a true story. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other (#20951) Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE SIN-EATER. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1m., 2 f. Unit set. First produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, this intense, darkly comic play tells of an outcast whose life's work is to eat a symbolic meal off the chests of the dead to take their sins upon himself before they are buried. When his sister asks him to perform this ancient Welsh custom for a girl he desperately loved, he can't resist doing a bit more. But his beloved is not really dead and she is equally terrified of being buried alive and of being kissed by the filthy sin-eater. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95. Also in Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 4, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21151) SPEAKING WELL OF THE DEAD. Drama. Israel Horovitz. I m .. 2 f. 2 ints. A mother and daughter flashback to separate lunches with Dad at Windows on the World prior to his death on September 11th. Both were told that he wanted a divorce, but each thinks she is the only one who knows this. Published in Israel Horovitz: 5 Short Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$35 or $75-$75 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#21470) STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM .. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 1m., 2 f. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this humorous and ultimately touching play premiered in a soup kitchen. Two women, a teacher and one of her past students, run into each other in an urban soup kitchen on New Year's Day. Though it seems both are there to help feed the homeless, one of them is in dire need and too proud to admit it. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) Amateurs may apply for video recording rights for this title. Write for particulars. (#21466) TOUGH CHOICES FOR THE NEW CENTURY. Comedy. Jane Anderson. 1m., 2 f. Int. This satirical entry in the 19th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays is fashioned as a seminar in which a smarmy lecturer offers preparedness advice on a spectrum of catastrophes, laying the blame for everything from earthquakes to floods on lazy humans. Meanwhile his wife/assistant slowly and hilariously disintegrates in fear. "Very funny." -Variety. $4.50. (Royalty. $35-$25.) (#22186) . WAITING FOR RINGO. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 m. Int. This upbeat comedy, originally written to be performed in a diner, chronicles a night in the life of three members of a third-rate Beatles tribute band. How long can they k!ep putting on flea-bitten wigs and frayed suits and doing their act? It depends on which of them is asked-and their answers are at turns hilarious and touching. "There are delightful insights into these determined almost-musicians . . . . A very funny tribute."-Entertainment Today. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25(#24978) $25 or $60-.$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) WARBURTON'S COOK. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1m., 2 f. A table and 2 chairs. John Warburton was an English antiquary who possessed many rare Elizabethan and Jacobean scripts, including the only extant copies of several plays said to have been written by Shakespeare. These manuscripts were lost forever when his illiterate but devoted cook, Betsy Baker, burned some and used the rest to line pie bottoms. This funny and powerful ten-minute play takes place at the moment Warburton discovers what happened to his manuscripts. (Royalty, $35-.$25.) Published in Tales from the (#24981) Red Rose Inn and Other Plays, $8.95. A WAY WITH WORDS. Comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., I f. I intll ext. Life-long friends, a writer and an accountant, meet for lunch once a year when the writer visits New York. The writer always asks how the accountant's wife is and he always

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS replies fine, until today when he admits they have been divorced for over a decade. He has heard rumors of strife between his ex-wife and her current husband and he wants the writer to accidentally bump into her as she jogs in Central Park to see if there is any chance of reconciliation. The result is surprising, comic and moving. In A Way with Words, $6.50. (Royalty, .$35-$25.) (#25031) WHO MADE ROBERT DENIRO KING OF AMERICA? Comedy. Jason Katims. 1m., 2 f. Int. Red and Maggie live together. She wrote a well-received novel, but that was four years ago. He has been fired from his construction job and, using a manual on how to write and sell a screenplay in six weeks, is furiously typing away. He pitches his work to Maggie's agent and she loves it. The bidding gets hot and heavy-DeNiro may be interested. But he isn't and the deal dies. Undeterred, Red begins another screenplay about aliens. TIus delightful comedy was originally produced on Showtime. Published in Act One '95, $17.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25259) ACETYLENE. Drama. Erik Ramsey. 2 m., I f. Compo int. A poorly educated woman is enthralled by a rigid, righteous husband who expects precision in everything and an apple in his lunch box when he leaves for his welding job. The day she forgets the apple he has a fatal accident. When visited by her pastor, she wanders in and out of sanity as she blames herself for her husband's death and hallucinates about being tortured by an acetylene torch. Winner of the annual short play competition of the American College Theatre Festival. Published with Harriet in Award-Winning Plays, Vol 2, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#2991) ALAN, BETTY AND RIV A. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 1m., 2 f. Int. Alan gets his mistrt:ss Betty to agree to join him in a menage a trois with Riva, a hooker who calls herself a sex therapist. Betty gets cold feet and acquiesces only when Alan convinces her it will help him make the decision to finally leave his wife. Afterward, Betty is depressed and, when she realizes Alan still isn't going to leave his wife, she threatens suicide. In Bedrooms, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#244) ALL FOR ART. Comedy. Roy Friedman. 2 m., I f. Int. A poet and his actress wife have taken an outrageous tax deduction for their artistic endeavors. Ramachandra Prajapati, a tenacious IRS representative, invades their apartment determined to see that they pay the government every penny they owe. Philip and Fiona quickly convert the living room to an office, valiantly defend the role of the oppressed artist and appear to rout Ramachandra, but they suspect that the cliche about death and taxes may be true. However, the struggle with Ramachandra has given them a degree of immortality by infusing new life into their art. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3703) APPROACHIN(; LA VENDAR. Comic Drama. Julie Beckett Crutcher. 3 f. Int. While their father is marrying his fourth wife sardonic Jenny and herneurotic sister Abigail wait in a vestibule. They encounter the spacy ingenue who is to become their step-sister. Polite tolerance degenerates with comic results as the women's feelings about their parents' remarriage surface. A new understanding and forgiveness ultimately reveal the significance of sisterhood. Premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3649) THE ART OF DATING. Comedy. Jeffery Scott Elwell. 2 m., I f. Int. Two lawyers meet for lunch to discuss terms for their respective clients. As information is revealed about the man and women they represent, the lawyers begin to take an interest in each other. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 20th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25(#3863) $20.) AUTO-EROTIC MISADVENTURE. Drama. FJ. Hartland. 2 m., I f. Int. Brandon (a male hustler), Cliff (a moralistic homosexual) and Norma (an overweight secretary with a domineering mother) share a townhouse in Washington. Loneliness and fear draw them together, then self-centeredness and mistrust tear them apart. Months later, when each has a new life in a new location, their versions of their former relationships with each other are disclosed. This abstractly-structured realistic play is perfect for college productions. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 8th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3898) AWKWARD SILENCE. Comedy. Jay Reiss. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A boy and girl meet and speak as though in a novel: He said and then I said. Small talk and awkward silences descend into blah-blah-blah. Each considers breaking away but remembers how being alone is. They reminisce about childhood, growing up and so on until they suddenly become animated and rise to witty banter, establishing a rapport with no more awkward silences. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3161) THE BEST SOUVENIRS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., I f. I set. Jinny has been turning Europe upside down for gewgaws to impress the folks back home. Paul wants to go to museums, not to stores. They separate for the morning to pursue their separate pleasures, lose each other and panic. Jinny goes to the morgue to look for Paul and the hotel manager tells Paul that his wife is at the morgue. Reunited, he extracts a promise from Jinny that there will be no more shopping. Then Paul discovers that Jinny hasn't bought any souvenirs for his side of the family. "Good entertainment. "-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collectlon.) (#4708)

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likewise her happy marriage .. Pregnant and alone, she cannot face returning to America. Kate has the perfect solution. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5752) A CUT IN THE RATES. Thriller. Alan Ayckbourn. 1 m., 2 f. 2 int./l ext. When Miss Pickhart visits the illusionist Ratchet on official Town Hall business, she discovers a sinister secret. Alone in the cellar after Ratchet is called away, she confronts the ghost of Rosalinda who met an untimely death during the saw-thewoman-in-half trick. The ghost believes it was not an accident and calls upon Miss Pickhart to release her. To do this Miss Pickhart must relive that fateful night and climb into the cabinet. It seems as though she too is to meet a grim death until the play takes an unexpected twist. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5798) THE DESERTER. Drama. Norman Beim. 3 m. Int. In a deserted French chateau during World War II, a young deserter awaits execution. Taunted by his guard, he speaks of his misguided youth and his love for his wife. He tries to explain to the priest who has come to give him the last rites that killing is wrong, but the priest insists that God expects every man to do his duty. "Moving and compassionate play by a most gifted playwright."-Horton Foote. "A powerful, moving piece . . . sensitive but not maudlin . . . . A tense emotional drama."-Targum, Rutgers University. $4.50. Also published in Six Award Winning Plays, $17.95. (Royalty, $20(#6644) $15.) DISPATCHES FROM HELL. Drama. Melvin I. Cooperman. 2 m., 1 f. Comb. int. Set in the central dispatching office for the German train system during World War Two, this riveting drama is about the bureaucratic mentality that makes Holocausts possible. A dispatcher is frightened to death when an S.S. officer comes to see him, but the officer explains that his job is secure-if he can devise a plan to transport a large amount of waste product via rail to cleanse the Third Reich of toxins. The dispatcher draws up plans to carry thousands to their deaths, intent only on the logistical problems. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 10th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6688) THE DEVIL. Dark Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 2 f. Int. An old woman is hired to sit with a peasant's dying mother, agreeing to take a lump sum and stay as long as the mother lives. Perversely, the mother refuses to die until the old woman, losing money by the minute, employs a strategy to ease her along to heaven. Suggested by Guy de Maupassant's dark and funny story, this parable about greed introduces the Devil in its own strange way. In Something in the Basement and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#6721) DOES TillS WOMAN HAVE A NAME? Comedy. Theresa Rebeck. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Mel and Sarah have a lucrative enterprise. Mel writes and Sarah performs sexually explicit phone fantasies. Mel hopes her serious fiction will eventually sell. In the meantime, this pays the bills-much to the consternation of her boyfriend. Mel's scripts become more and more literary, but Sarah's callers are not interested in metaphors. This amusing satire, a favorite with festival judges, does contain some strong language. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6732) DOG EAT DOG. Drama. Tim Kelly. 3 m. Int. Mr. Starr lives out in the desert where he cares for dogs who have been mauled in the local "sport" of dog-fighting. Fed up, he decides to exact revenge for the dogs. He captures two human participants in this gruesome spectacle and forces them to fight in front of the dogs. Published in One Act Plays for Acting Students, $16.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6715) THE DONAHUE SISTERS. Drama. Geraldine Aron. 3 f. Int. The attic of the family home in Ireland, once a playroom, is the setting for this sinister play from the author of Bar and Ger. Awaiting the death of their father, sisters talk about their unhappy lives long into the night. The time comes for a ritual re-enactment of a violent incident from their childhood. Departing from the hitherto naturalistic style, Aron imaginatively has the sisters speak and act in unison to create the persona of a young boy. When the ritual is complete, things return to normal and the women seem to have found answers to their problems. Remaining is the uneasy prospect of the past repeating itself. Inventive and mysterious, this play is a challenge to both actors and directors. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6738) DROP. Comic drama. Dano Madden. 2 m., 1 f. Orflong and Zip are the lone dwellers on the planet Gavanuuy. They hunt Kalakazula worms with their sucknas (plungers) and play Gerfle, an infinite game. When Drop appears, they are fascinated by this English-speaking creature and the games she brings. The closer Orflong and Zip get to Drop, the more estranged they become from each other until they can no longer communicate. Drop presents a unique challenge as it is scripted in the Gavanuuyian language spoken by Orflong and Zip. Winner of The Kennedy Center's National Short Play Award and The Anchorage Press Theatre for Youth Playwriting Award. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6945) DUSK. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 3 m. 1 set. Norman, an old man who thinks he has a great knowledge of human psychology, is accosted by a young man who claims he walked out of his London hotel and forgot its name, spent all of his money on a beer and a bar of soap, and needs a loan. Norman wants to see the soap, but he says he lost it. He walks away but Norman finds the soap, calls him back to apologizes for not believing him and lends him money. Before the play ends Norman discovers he has been gulled by the young man anyway. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133)

THE BEST WARM BEER IN BROOKLYN. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 m. Int. This wild farce is about two chums, Joey and Eddie, who are reunited late one night in Joey's bar. Eddie tells Joey about the bizarre, horrible things he's subjected himself to so that he might suffer enough to create a masterpiece novel. Stoic Joey reveals that inside he's the one who is really suffering. To help each other, they form an insane plan to "kill two birds with one rock."The outcome is hilarious. In New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60$40 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#3953) THE BOOGEYMAN. Comedy-Drama. Edward Clinton. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. During a riot in a trailer park near Miami, a Vietnam vet huddles in the dark awaiting help and imagining that a beautiful stewardess lives in the next trailer. Suddenly, a door opens and out pops fat Fran, armed, like Johnny, to the teeth. Fran and Johnny comfort each other until the stewardess arrives and tips the balance into a laugh riot as the three jockey for position. "Surrealistic, darkly comic." -Gainesville Herald. "Hard-hitting . . . with so many fascinating aspects, so many symbolic acts and utterances, it will make you think for a long time." -Gainesville Sun. Winner at the Florida Festival of New Plays. In The Boogeyman, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60(#4720) $40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) BROTHEL. Mystery. Mario Fratti. 1m., 2 f. Int. A stingy old man rents a former brothel for he and his young, naive wife. The doorbell keeps ringing, leading to obsession, jealousy and revelations. Winner of the R. Ruggeri International Award. (#4931) Published withA.I.D.S. and Porno, $4.50. (Royalty, $lO-$lO.) BROTHERS. Comedy. William Gadea. 2 m., 1 f. In this sweet and wacky comedy, Biff meets Lorraine through the personals and takes her home with him. He neglects to mention that he is really trying to fix her up with his brother Ray and that Ray has no head. Will Ray find romance? Will Lorraine catch on to his complicated sign language? Can Biff atone for the guilt he feels about his brother's headlessness? In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4746) CALM DOWN MOTHER. Drama. Megan Terry. 3 f. A stage. Three women undergo transformations, beginning with a girl who approaches two Jewish women in a store who are more interested in their allergies than in serving her. Suddenly the women change: the one who has been the backbone of the family is stoned and lamenting the inevitable loss of the mother who upheld the family when father turned alcoholic. Next, the women are arguing in a cathouse, and then they devolve into plain people talking about female problems. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#301) CAN'T BUY ME LOVE. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 f. Int. It is a dull summer night in Batesville, Mississippi and three high school girls-know-it-all Ellen, peace-maker Sandy, and introverted dreamer Amy (who's been in love with the Beatles since she was six)-are bored to tears. They discover that Paul McCartney is worth $600 million Ellen suggests they phone him and ask for a million dollars since he'll never miss it. Moreover, Ellen insists that Amy be the one to call as she has a problem with boys and this will fix it. Amy gets through to the rock star and the girls find that there is more to life than money. In Southern Exposures: Five Plays About Life in the South, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#5779) A CHANCE MEETING. Comedy. Frederick Stroppel. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A man and a woman in a lounge glance, nod and speak in this bewitchingly comic piece. They have nothing in common but are attracted to each other. When another man enters and calls the first by a different name, he explains that the woman is really his wife and the pretense is merely to add spice to their marriage. The fur flies when the woman makes a pitch for the second man. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th (#5787) Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) CHEMISTRY. Comic drama. Catherine Butterfield. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Hugh (talked about in the author's No Problem) is visited by Carolyn, a crusader who wants him to sign a petition. A spirited discussion follows where Carolyn declares her belief in free will over "chemistry." Enter Zach, a jazz musician totally unsuited for a healthy relationship with any woman. Almost instantly, Carolyn's resolve crumbles. Published with No Problem and The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs in Life in the Trees, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) Slightly Restricted. (#5883) CHERRY BLEND WITH VANILLA. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. Standing by a riverside, a woman with her daughter suddenly smells the pipe tobacco that her deceased husband smoked. To get his wife over her prolonged bereavement, his ghost confesses to fictitious infidelities. Revitalized, the woman looks toward life among eligible widowers and even plans to enter her plants in the flower show. This is a play of warm hearts and fond remembrances. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5256) CHIMERA. Drama. Alec Baron. 3 f. 1 voice. Int. Kate is paralyzed from the waist down following a horrific car accident four years earlier. Cutting herself off from all friends, she copes bravely in her remote European country cottage with daily help from her' 'treasure," Mrs. Ponsello. Now Mrs. Ponsello is to move and Kate faces a bleak future. Then her closest friend arrives out of the blue from America. As they eagerly reminisce, it emerges that her glamorous Californian lifestyle is a sham-

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EDDIE LEE, EDDIE LEE. Comedy. Joe Sears. 1m., 2 f. Int. A memorable character created by one of the authors of Greater Tuna, Eddie Lee is a ne'er-do-well rodeo drunk. He awakes after a bender that followed a house fIre-his house set afIre by his wife. Over a hang-over curing cup of coffee Eddie Lee learns how his wife discovered the way to demonstrate to a man that you mean what you say. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6991) THE END OF "I". Drama. Diana Amsterdam. 2 m., I f. Comb. int.lext. Jerome started having intimations of mortality when his motorcycling buddy was killed in an accident. The reality of death weighs on him like an anchor dragging him into madness. Only two things can calm him: racing like the wind on his motorcycle and lying in his loving wife's arms. She is getting worried-particularly when he suggests that they visualize death together. She must somehow persuade him to choose life. In Sex and Death: Four One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) Restricted NYC. (#7630) END OF THE SHIFTY. Drama. Jonathan C. Levine. 3 m. Int. Late at night at a 24hour cash machine a man is assaulted by a knife-wielding thug. When the exit door malfunctions, victim and mugger are trapped in an confrontation with social and racial dimensions. Published with Unpublished Letters in Two One-Act Plays by Jonathan C. Levine, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $35-$25 when performed with Unpublished Letters.) (#7634) ERRAND OF MERCY. Drama. Frank. Manley. 1m., 2 f. Simple int. In a nursing home hospital room two women visit a stroke victim who can only communicate using a Ouija board. During the visit they learn the man's history and re-discover themselves. Published with The Rain of Terror in the award-winning Two Masters, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$35 when performed with The Rain of Terror.) (#7068) THE ESCAPOLOGIST. Comedy. David Henry Wilson. 2 m., I f. Int. A worldrenowned escapologist cajoles a man from Bethlehem into binding him in chains only to discover that he can't escape this time-or can he? In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plays, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#7624) EXMISS COPPER QUEEN ON A SET OF PILLS. Drama. Megan Terry. 3 f. Ext. A former beauty contest winner, disowned by her family after the birth of her illegitimate child, is sleeping off wine and goofballs in a skid row doorway. Two refIned female winos who collect things from garbage cans they can hock come along. The "Queen" parts with her bottle for a peek at the "baby" in the carriage. She believes she sees her child, slumps and passes into eternity. Published with People v. Ranchman, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#7650) FINDING THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. Drama. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 1 f. I set. Felipe has stolen his brother's wife and they have come to the Romance Ranch Hotel, where they are trying to fIgure out how they are going to live. Felipe's father barges in with a gun. When the young wife insists that they have acted in the name of love, the father explains that Felipe has been stealing his brother's girlfriends since they were kids and that running off with her is just an extension of sibling rivalry. The weight of the situation falls heavily on the sad but wiser young woman. . TerrifIc festival work."-Drama-Logue. In Romance Ranch, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or (#7997) $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) FIRST OF THE MONTH. ComedyDrama. Edward Clinton. 1 m., I f. All of the problems in their marriage crop up during Paul and Peggy's monthly bill paying sessions. To spice things up this time, Peggy has invited their beautiful neighbor to drop by for sexual hijinks, an invitation she neglected to mention to her husband, a cop. The hilarity is unrestrained when Peggy appears knee-deep in bills wearing a ratty bathrobe with her hair in curlers and learns it is time for a menage a trois. "Most impressive."-Sir Peter Hall. In The Boogeyman, $6.30. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (8187) FOG. Drama. Eugene O'Neill, 2 m., 1 f. Set onboard a lifeboat drifting without oars in a dense fog off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, this unusual piece is about being lost in a hostile cosmos-in other words, The Human Condition. The characters, a Poet, a Man of Business and a Polish Peasant Woman, represent diametrically opposed Points of View about the situation. In Eugene 0 'Neill. Complete Plays, Vol. I, $35.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#8671) THE 4H CLUB. Drama. Sam Shepard. 3 m. Int. A masterful evocation of psychological paralysis reminiscent of Albee and Beckett, here is a fascinating portrayal of the human tendency to substitute dialogue for action in the face of social change. .. An important and frequently compelling new playwright." -Saturday Review. In The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25). (#8641) FOUR MEN AND A MONSTER. Drama. Maryat Lee. 3 m. Int. In a rundown hotel room, three displaced people intent on ending their scavenging existence are preparing to commit a greedy, violent crime. >From their badly sewn seams a tough sweetness leaks forth to clash with greed and revolt against a world gripped in spiritual disaster. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8642) THE FOURTH PRISONER. Drama. David Henry Wilson. 3 m., 3 extras. Int. This is a harrowing tale of deprivation and judgement set in a prison, where only death awaits beyond the cell door. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plavs, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#8669)

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FRIENDS. Comedy. Arkady Leokum. 3 m. Int. A tutor lives by the sea and from his window he sees the yachts of the wealthy. His charge is a forlorn boy whose parents haven't time for him and who comes from his family's yacht to study. The boy doesn't need to learn; he's going to inherit millions, so why sweat? In truth, they need each other. The boy has learned to read while pretending otherwise and the tutor is dependent on the boy for the income to keep himself alive. In Friends and (#8648) Enemies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) FROM HERE TO THE LIBRARY. Comic drama. Jimmie Chinn. 2 m., I f.Int. Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father,has a new boss at the library. Mr Gostilow has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms out of work after an uncharacteristic fIt of temper and fails to return, Gostilow visits her to fInd out why. Despite the idiosyncratic and often hilarious comments from Beryl's father, Gostilow succeeds in showing her that she needs and is needed by the world outside. First presented at Hampton Court Theatre, this is a excellent playfor drama contests and high schools. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8928) GHOST STORIES. Drama. Annie Evans. 3 f. Ext. This poignant play is about three young women on a camping trip. Each has a truth to tell and each has her turn. In OffOffBroadway Festival Plays, 11th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9629) GIVE US A KISS AND SHOW US YOUR KNICKERS. Dark comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 2 f. Simple set. This is a wicked little play about roommates and a new boyfriend. Amy usually falls in love with awful men and is ecstatic about fInding the sensitive and caring Wes. She leaves Page to entertain him on the front porch. Page tells Wes strange tales about Amy's obsession with the people on The Benny Hill Show, her history of mental illness, and her compulsion to go after men with an ice pick. What is actually going on and who is really crazy? In Glamorgan and Other (#9915) Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. GOD'S SPIES. Comedy. Don Nigro. 1m., 2 f. Int. This is a hilarious send-up of religious television programs. A talk show is on the air that features interviews with people about their religious conversions. Guests offer testimonials of their faith. The fIrst person interviewed by stalwart Dale Clabby discourses on devil worship in popular music. The next claims to have talked to God in a belfry. Her testimonial is hardly what Dale expects. Published with Crossing the Bar, $6.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#9643) GOING TO THE CATACOMBS. Drama. Jules Tasca. 3 f. I set. Emilia, Mellisa and Sarah are nuns on tour. In Rome, Sarah's grudge against Emilia surfaces. She believes that Emilia has cut into her friendship with Mellisa and complains that they decide everything and leave her out. Sarah insists that all three go to the Vatican instead of the catacombs. This battle is fought on several psychological levels, making this an excellent piece for three actresses. "Poignant." -Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#9701) HAND ME MY AFGHAN. Comedy. Cliff Harville. 2 m., I f. Int. An elderly mom and dad are, to varying degrees, not all there. They also suffer from ailments common to those in their sunset years. Still, they'll be darned if they are going to let (#21387) sonny boy put them away. In Sunsets, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) HIGHWIRE. Drama. Brian Shields. 2 m., I f. Int. A tense stand-off develops when a corrupt New York City cop leans on an Irish bartender to make him recruit for the IRA. He is abetted by the bartender's foul-mouthed fIancee. Blackmail pressure is applied: the bartender accidentally killed a child in an IRA battle in Ireland. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 19th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#10586) HOME SECTION. Dark comedy. Janusz Glowacki. 3 m. I set. Three immigrants from Eastern Europe are painting an elegant apartment on Fifth Avenue. In the last room they discover a corpse hanging. This is inconvenient: they can't paint the ceiling with him dangling there, but they won't get paid if they don't do the entire apartment. They start to look for a solution to their dilemma. Published in Best American Short Plays, 1995-1996, $29.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#10939) HOT ROD. Comedy. Jeremy Kareken. 1m., 2 f. Int. Here is the story of a bridal registry gone horribly wrong. Julie is a bitter bridal registrar with an axe to grind. Jen is a bride who wants everything to be perfect. Marcus just wants to register for the Cuisinart Grin'n'Brew. Unfortunately, the only thing that's brewing is trouble. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#10696) I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM AT ALL! Drama. Shirley Lauro. 3 f. (or 2 f., 1m.) Int. Britt, the talented but troubled daughter of celebrities, isthe school brat. She has been selected to solo with the orchestra, but she arrives hours late for a rehearsal. The enraged teacher has it out with Britt and tells her, among other things, what it is to be a survivor of a concentration camp. Britt still feels rejected by her parents but the teacher's story helps her realize that adversity can be overcome. Produced in New York at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11606) IN THE CEMETERY. Comic drama. Michael Hardstark, based on In the Cemeterv by Anton Chekhov. 3 m. Ext. Set in a Jewish cemetery, this poignant and funny play is about a harried young businessman who has hired a rabbi to say prayers over his

CHARACTERS father's grave. They meet an out-of-work actor who is paying his respects at the grave of a Yiddish theatre star. The actor thinks of the star as a father figure, but he blames him for the failure of his career. The businessman also has unresolved resentments. Together, they come to terms with their hostilities. "The combination of silly comedy and deep pathos is quite astonishing."-N.Y. Daily News. Published with The Cure in The Last Laugh, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#11109)

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NAPOLEON'S DINNER. Comedy. Samuel Shem. 3 m. Int. This imaginative and funny play deals with an academic snob about to attend a dinner at the Royal Historical Society. This Oxford historian is dressed as Napoleon, which conveys an idea of the size of his ego. The other diners also come as Napoleon. The historian's father, dressed sloppily as a Napoleon, barges in planning to use the occasion as a last desperate attempt to communicate with his son. A success at New York's Impossible Ragtime Theatre. Published with Room for One Woman, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16602) THE NECKLACE. Drama. Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Jules Tasca. 1 m., 2 f. 1 Set. Mathilde borrows and loses a diamond necklace. Paying for a replacement pushes she and her husband into poverty. Ten years later, they learn the real truth about the necklace In The Necklace and Other Stories, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15990) NICK AND WENDY. Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A married couple check in for the weekend to attend a two day human potential encounter-type seminar. In five scenes that take place during the seminar's bathroom breaks, we ride the roller coaster of feelings they go through before ending where they started at the beginning of the weekend. In Bedrooms, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 (#244) or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) NO PROBLEM. Comedy. Catherine Butterfield. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Paula, a goofy aspiring actress, arrives late for a lunch date with her friend Terry. Whereas Paula is a nervous wreck, Terry is the picture of the cool businesswoman-until the waiter takes too long to bring back the steak she returned to the kitchen to be recooked. Terry goes into a frenzy that makes Paula look positively serene. This comedy has fine roles for actresses. In Life in the Trees, $6.50. Also in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with Chemistry and The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs.) Please specify the collec(#16651) tion title when ordering. NOTHING IN THE WORLD LIKE IT. Drama. Frances Galton. 1m., 2 f. Int. Here is a sympathetic look at college students caught in a universal dilemma. Edie, a junior from a broken home, meets Doug in the cafeteria to tell him she is pregnant and wants to get married. A senior intent on graduating, he maintains that they are not ready for marriage and offers to help pay for an abortion. Edie refuses, they argue, Doug walks out, and she contorts in pain. A cafeteria worker attempts to comfort Edie by expounding on the joys of motherhood, but this only confuses the younger woman. Doug returns and the three strike a tableau, each in a solitary world. Published in Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays. 24th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, (#16112) $20-$15.) ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVY DENNISON. Comedy. Stewart H. Benedict. 1 m., 2 f. No scenery. Here is an insightful look at a day in the life of a New York secretary. As she deals with her mother, her closest friend, the girls she works with, her boss and her boyfriend, the degree to which her life is circumscribed by cliches about religion, politics, education, entertainment and other people is are revealed. Published in Curtain Going Up, $13.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#74131) OPENING ACT. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., I f. Int. Walt and his girlfriend, a belly dancer named Caroline who insists on being called Serfu, are backstage at the Club Como in Newark. Serfu thinks she is a great artist and wants the world-and Waltto accept her for that. The world and Walt, however, see Serfu exactly as she is. "Hilarious." -New Hope Gazette. in The God's Honest. An Evening of Lies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#17663) AN ORDINARY DAY. Comedy. Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Translated by Joe Farrell. 1 f., 2 m., plus var. offstage voices. Julia has decided to do away with herself, but her phone number was printed by mistake in a magazine article about a self-help fad. She is continually interrupted by distraught callers who think she is a therapist. She is drawn into their lives and out of her own problems. Her final caller is a psychiatrist who is in the process of killing herself. Julia calls the police who arrive at her door thinking she is the suicidal doctor. This piece by the internationally acclaimed First Couple of Farce is a tour de force for an actress. In Dario Fo Plays 2, $20.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17940) OUT OF OUR FATHER'S HOUSE. Play with music. Based on Eve Merriam's Growing Up Female in America. Arranged for the stage by Paula Wagner, Jack Hofsiss and Eve Merriam. Music by Ruth Crawford Seeger, adapted by Daniel Schrier. With additional music by Daniel Schrier and Marjorie Lipari. 3 f. to play 6 roles, musicians. Int. This moving play is drawn from the diaries, journals and letters of women: a schoolgirl-founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement, an astronomer, a labor organizer, a minister, a doctor and a woman from the Jewish ghetto. They are seen as they grow up, marry, bear children and face being ostracized for wanting careers. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Additional music available in American Folk Songs for Children, $12.95. (#811) PASQUINI THE MAGNIFICENT. Comedy. Sam Ingfraffia. 2 m., If. Int. A hasbeen magician is making a comeback at a convention of meat packers. He encounters a woman in tears who has just slapped her husband for his philandering. The magician and woman start out at odds but come to commiserate with each other, after which the magician goes on to perform with new confidence. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#17964)

IS THAT THE BUS TO PITTSBURGH? ComedylDrama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 1 m., 2 f. Bare stage w. props. Winner of the 1992 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Contest and of the 1993 Dubuque Fine Arts Players National Playwriting Contest, this is a warm and poignant play about daring to make dreams come true. Three quixotic characters with adjoining plots in a community garden have varying images of Pittsburgh as a city of longing, of memories, and of dreams. Published with Late (#11121) Sunday Afternoon. Early Sunday Evening, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) JOHN'S RING. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 f. Int. In the1970's when John Lennon lived in New York City, three young women who worship the Beatles stumbled into the event of a lifetime: after seeing John on the street and professing their admiration, he gave them his ring! Who gets to keep it? A knockdown, drag-out fight ensues and the winner takes all after a wacky duel of wits. In New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed (#l2635) with the other plays in the collection.) JUST THINKING. Comedy. Alan H. Kravitz. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A young boy not quite bar mitzvahed is having sexual fantasies. He conjures a good-looking, athletic guy from a magazine and questions if he should love this man. A fairy godmother appears and tries to lure him. The good-looking guy proclaims to the godmother, "You may be his bride, but I'm his best man." In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, (#l2650) 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) KEEP TIGHTLY CLOSED IN A COOL DRY PLACE. Megan Terry. 3 m. Int. Three men share a cell-for life. They play games and fantasize about the event that brought them together: the hired murder of one prisoner's wife that was botched. This event is recreated with Sir Walter Raleigh and red men and Custer, and in recollections of rapes previously achieved. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#13605) THE LAST ACT IS A SOLO. Drama. Robert Anderson. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Laura Cunningham, once a star, lives amid costumes, props and memories of her career. Too frail to act, she remains fiercely independent and resists her nephew's attempts to move her to the country where she can be cared for. In fact, she has an interview that very afternoon with a director. Olympia Dukakis, Edward Herrmann and Gavin MacLeod starred in a broadcast on Arts & Entertainment Network. This haunting, beautiful play by one of America's foremost playwrights will amuse and move any audience. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#13850) LAST CHANCE TEXACO. Drama. Peter Maloney. 3 f. Int. Originally staged to acclaim at NY's Ensemble Studio Theatre, this is a haunting, lyrical play set in a gas station run by a mother and daughter in a small Texas town. Late one night, a city woman has a flat. Her unusual life intersects with theirs as they fix her tire. This gripping piece of theatre is an excellent source of monologue and scene material. (#13887) Published with Pastoral, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) LINGERIE. Comedy. Diana Amsterdam. 1 m., 2 f. Int./ext., simply suggested. Sweet, innocent Sally is dating urbane Max, who is trying to turn her into a sensuous woman like his closest friend, Sabrina. He buys her scanty lingerie. Sabrina warns Sally that Max will drop her if she wears the lingerie as he will not respect a woman once she has given in. So, Sally resists. And who does Max wind up with? Sabrina-who does put it on. In Sex and Death: Four One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) Restricted NYC. (#14682) MAKE-UP. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 1 f. 1 set. Would-be senator Herman Farmer is made-over completely by two slick political advisors. In order to win the election Herman deviates from every norm and ethic he has. He even agrees to smear his mother for political advantage. The make-up for his television speech becomes a thick and cracking mask that shows the depth of his compromise with his own morals. In Outrageous! and Other Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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THE PIGGY BANK. Comedy. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A young woman takes a man to her place. Unpredictable things happen: no sex but irony and fun fun fun. "A delightful satire." -Morning Telegraph. Published with Her Voice, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18155) PORNO. Mystery. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A young wife is blackmailed because she took part in a porno film when she was young and unemployed. Her husband sees the film in unusual circumstances and is defeated in his attempts to destroy her. Popular in Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and Argentina, this play has won numerous awards. Published with A.I.D.S. and Brothel, $4.50. (Royalty, $10-$10.)

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years. It is a moving though bleak comment on the gulf that separates one person from another-even when they are in the same boat. Published with Napoleon's Dinner, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20636) SCARECROW. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 2 f. Chairs on a bare stage. A lonely girl lives with her eccentric mother in an old farmhouse on the edge of a cornfield. She meets a strange man under a tree by the creek and is led into a web of lust and betrayal. Scarecrows are supposed to frighten crows, but the scarecrow in this cornfield is something more. In Something in the Basement and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21619) A SCENT OF HONEYSUCKLE. ComedylDrama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 3 f. Bare stage. This is a tale of three women and the tie that binds them: the irritating tie that rubs; the fragile tie that's knotted, broken and knotted again; the lasting tie that triumphs over age and death. . . the tie between mothers and daughters. Old Jess, her exasperated daughter and the laughing young mother she remembers struggle for independence in aradiant play about continuity of caring. Published with A Little (#21041) Something for the Ducks, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SECOND VOWS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 1 f., extras. George and Melissa are about to repeat their marriage vows after 25 years. The children are all in the den drinking and eating. The preacher is ready. The problem is that George and Melissa's marriage has really been over for a long time. They expend enormous energies . trying to cover this up. Alone, however, they unleash their real feelings with sarcasm and poignancy. "On a scale of one to ten, Second Vows is an eleven. . . . Sidesplitting." -New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.50. . (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21653) SECRET SIN. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 1 f. 1 set. Jane Troyle believes that one of her house guests is having an affair with her maid. She enlists her nephew Henry to investigate. He finds that what his aunt construed as love talk and love notes are actually song lyrics. The guest, an editor of Cathedral Illustrated, is secretly the author of pop hits which would be a professional embarrassment to him. The nephew turns the whole business to his advantage, acceptingmoney for breaking up the supposed affair and a trip to the Greek Islands for keeping his mouth shut about the songs. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with (#22133) the other plays in the collection.) THE SHAWL. Drama. David Mamet. 2 m, 1 f. A medium with a talent for hucksterism and his ruthless student meet with a woman who wants advice about her deceased mother's will. They plot to relieve her of the entire estate, but she tricks the medium into revealing what a charlatan he is. During the shock and pain of this moment, the medium experiences a revelation so profound that it changes the course of each character's life. "A fascinating exercise in film-flam. The dialogue has a keen poisonous edge. "-WNEW-TV. "Displays the subtle word play with which Mr. Mamet can develop a prosaic situation." -Christian Science Monitor. $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Slightly Restricted. (#21697) SHOES. Drama. Jason Milligan. 3 m. Int. Jim struggles to run a failing diner in a bad neighborhood. His brother drops by once a week to give him a hard time. On one such visit, they come face to face with a strange shoeless visitor who can barely speak English. Is he a bum? A homeless man? Is he lost? Was he mugged? A searing conflict over how to help the mysterious visitor brings the brothers together on a touching, personal level and they realize just how important family is. In New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21135) A SIDE TRIP TO DACHAU. Drama. Jules Tasca. 2 m .. 1 f. 1 set. An American Jew traveling in Europe with her husband refuses to leave the hotel room until they leave Germany. His attempts to get her to come out uncover a tangle of complicated emotions, including resentment over his past love affair. Her aggression hits several revealing targets until we see how her bitterness has destroyed her. "Poignant." -Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or (#21667) $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collection.) SILENCE. Harold Pinter. See Index under Landscape, Silence. SING TO ME THROUGH OPEN WINDOWS. Drama. Arthur Kopit. 3 m. Int. Played off-Broadway with The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis. For five years the boy has been coming to this sinister house to be entertained privately by a passe magician who lives in shadows with an impish and diabolical clown. The clown is really the master; his arts succeed while the magician can pull only rabbits out of the hat. Yet the boy is enthralled and wants to stay with the magician, but time has expired and he must vanish forever. In The Day the Whores Came Out to (#21705) Play Tennis and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SORROWS AND SONS. Drama Stephen Metcalfe. 3 m., Int. This poignant play takes place in a college dorm room during parent's weekend. The student is not doing very well in school, to the consternation of his rigid father. The real problem is that the father expects his remaining SOil to live up to the memory of the son who died in Vietnam. It's quite a burden. Published with Pilgrims and Spittin' Image, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21741)

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PORTFOLIO. Comedy. Tom Donaghy. 1 m., 1 f., 1 off-stage voice. This amusing satire was produced to acclaim and mirth at the comedy theatre Punch Line in Manhattan. At a photo shoot for an ad campaign, the photographer (present only in voice) has the brilliant idea of decking his model with live pigeons. He has hired a man to bring a truckload of birds. He becomes' annoyed when the pigeons (which are mimed) will not take direction, much to the distress of the hapless pigeon man. Meanwhile, the model remains unflappable-she is used to anything and everything (#18952) in this job. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) POSITION AVAILABLE. Comedy. Brad Gromelski. 2 m., I f. Bare stage or simple set. A classified ad for a personal secretary to novelist B.Wright draws Mel Shovanik and Grace Femino to the writer's door, where they are greeted by Bertram, the butler. Mel thinks Grace is the maid and she thinks he is the novelist. They discover that they are both after the job and competitiveness develops. Then they realize that Bertram is not a butler. In fact, he is not even Bertram. And Mel is not Mel. Nor is Grace Grace. Who are they? And who is B. Wright? After the mystery unravels, there is still a position available. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18232) POSTCARDS. Comedy. Carol K. Mack. 3 f. I set. Postcards is a fast-paced, dark comedy that takes place on the beach of a Caribbean resort. Under a blazing sun, an earthy veteran of several marriages and an intellectual therapist offer Jane wildly different advice on men and the meaning of life. As they try to "help" her, Jane's story hilariously unfolds, including glimpses of her stage-fright as a caterer, how she began her odd career, her adulterous husband and some surprising revelations. In Postcards and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when per(#18939) formed with the other plays in the collection.) THE PRICE YOU PAY. Dark comedy. Arlene Hutton. 3 f. Int. Two of the wealthy women in this absurdist comedy about those who marry older men find themselves in a power struggle when a stranger enters their odd world. "Proudmothers seem to be boasting about the abilities of their sons, but after the arrival of a third women it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. Hutton's talents for dialogue and humor are apparent."-The Scotsman. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 24th (#18990) Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE QUESTIONING OF NICK. Drama. Arthur Kopit. 3 m. Int. Two detectives are trying to break the story of a rough student suspected of being bribed to throw a basketball game. Playing on his pride, they learn bit by bit of his recent experiences, concluding with the fact he knows a certain racketeer. His boasting has betrayed him. In The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#19601) THE ROAD TO NINEVEH. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. 2 m., 1 f. Int. This is a moving play about two forlorn people who meet in a small-town restaurant one snowy Christmas season. The woman, who has been deserted by her man, still has the bravura to light a Christmas tree and place presents beneath it. The man's car skidded into a ditch while he was on his way to Nineveh. He, too, has been deserted, but he has a ring on his finger. Is he a widower? In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, (#19979) 17th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) ROMAN FEVER. Drama. Hugh Leonard. >From a story by Edith Wharton. 2 f., 1 m., Ext. On a restaurant terrace in Rome in 1930, Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley are reminiscing about a Roman holiday they shared many years before. Mrs. Slade is envious of Mrs. Ansley's daughter's engagement to a young and rich Marchese and cannot resist a spiteful jibe, thereby shattering a cherished memory. In the end it is Mrs. Slade whose illusions are shattered. Period 1930. In Pizzazz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.)

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ROMANCE. Drama. Ernest Joselovitz. 2 m., 1 f. Unit set. It's baseball time at Yankee Stadium for Sam and Barney. Sam is an aging actor with nothing to show for it but a soap opera contract and the sad bits and pieces of failed relationships. Barney-the father of teenagers in a jumble of confusing transitions-faces the balland-chain of a tenured professorship. Being forty is tough. Along comes Barney's wife's cousin. As the season progresses, Sam stumbles toward wedlock and Barney reaches a reaffirmation. This optimistic view of the hardships and rewards of marriage creates a free-flowing play of humor and wonderment. In Four OneAct Plays by Ernest Joselovitz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#20662) ROOM FOR ONE WOMAN. Drama. Samuel Shem. 3 f. Int. Produced with Napoleon's Dinner in New York at the Impossible Ragtime Theatre, this play concerns the efforts of an old, disabled woman to remain in the room she has lived in for 14

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it is now 21 minutes after. The best man is sloshed, but the groom refuses to give up on him despite pleas from his annoyed sister to leave the guy to his vodka and come back for the wedding. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 10th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20:) (#22772) THE UNREST CURE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 1 f., 2 extras. 1 set. Miss Victoria Huddle has a brother, Jonathan, who is so rigidly conservative that she hires an actor to loosen him up. This friend pretends to be a Reverend sent by the Bishop of the Episcopal Church to enlist Jonathan in an assassination plot to kill all the Jews in the parish. The humorous results of the actor's rouse cause a gun fight and a much changed Jonathan. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133) UNSEEN FRIENDS. Comedy. Katharine Long. 3 m. Int. In an ice cream parlor in Oak Grove, Missouri in 1932, three teenagers deal with courtship, friendship and Bette Davis. Charlie, the soda jerk and an avid film buff, finds his loyalty to Bette Davis is challenged by his attraction to a girl who resembles the star. To wrangle a date with this girl, Charlie enlists his cousin and an obnoxious character named Benny Sneed. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#23013) THE VAGABOND. Comedy. Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison Buloff, from a story by Chekhov. (See Index under The Chekhov Sketchbook.) A VIEW FROM THE OBELISK. Play. Hugh Leonard. 2 m., 1 f. Ext. Convalescing from heart surgery, Owen returns to his native Ireland with Rosemary and insists on showing her the view from a hilltop near Dublin. The climb takes a lot out of him and Rosemary goes off to summon a car. Owen strikes up a conversation with a young artist sketching the view as though he's known him for years. When Rosemary returns Owen realizes why the boy seemed so familiar. In Pizzazz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#24053) tion.) THE WALL. Drama. David Henry Wilson. 2 m.; 1 f. Ext. A young couple encounter a wall on which is written "WalL" They erase the word and write their own. The wall becomes a tabula rasa for modem man. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and (#25609) Other Plays, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) THE WASHTUB. Farce. Anonymous. Translated by Albert Bermel. 1 m., 2 f. Ext. A spiteful peasant quarrels with his wife using rhyming dialogue based on the original 16th century text. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25625) "WHAT'S A GIRL TO DO?!" Comedy. Jim Hansen. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Jill has just found out she is pregnant by her boring boyfriend Jack. Mary advises her to marry the twit, but she is not so sure. When Jill tells Mary she is not going to have an abortion, Jack realizes what is upsetting Jill and, in his awkward, nerdy way, he proposes. Jill turns him down, denies she is pregnant, and tells him to get lost. Heartbroken and embarrassed, Jack leaves Jill with no one to talk to but her unborn child. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty (#25657) $25-$20.) WHEN GOD COMES FOR BREAKFAST, YOU DON'T BURN THE TOAST. Comedy. Gary Apple. 2 m., 1 f. Int. What do you do when "The Almighty" drops in for a casual breakfast? When Harry and Beatrice Katzman are faced with this, the commonplace and the totally unexpected come together in a flurry of humor and excitement. This intriguing and entertaining theatrical experience is guaranteed to leave your audience feeling exhilerated. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25669) WHITE LIARS. Dark comedy. Peter Shaffer. 2 m., 1 f.lnt. White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller, a rock musician and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity. Recently revived at The Roundabout Theatre in New York with Black Comedy, White Liars is a sharply etched study of characters steeped in deception. "Farce with a capital F."-Christian Science Monitor. "A tour-de-force."-N.Y. Newsday. "A lot of fun."-New Yorker. Published with Black Comedy, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $50-$35 when produced with Black Comedy.) (#1192) A WIFE FOR A LIFE. Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 2 m., 1 f. Ext. Set in an Arizona minrng camp, this early. play (written in 1913) is about two miners who have struck pay dirt. Complications ensue because they both love the same woman. In Eugene (#25615) O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. I, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) A WINTER REUNION. Drama. Henry Miller. 2 m., 1 f. lnt. On Christmas eve a church sexton in Harlem welcomes his grandson. After some good-hearted banter about such things as grandmother who left to marry an undertaker, the boy tries to reconcile the old man with his mother-the daughter who long ago went wrong with dope and high living. Now she is desperately in need of help. It is a moving and heartfelt encounter. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 20th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25705) THE GIFT. Comedy. John Patrick. 2 m., 1 f. lnt. See Index under It's a Dog's Life.

THE SPELLING OF COYNES. Comedy. Jules Tasca 1m., 2 f. I set. A house painter in his forties schemes to marry an 80-year-old woman to inherit her money. . His fiancee is reluctant at first, but succumbs to his "how long can she last" refrain when she finds out the old woman is worth millions. At the conclusion of this funny look at greed, the old widow is celebrating her 105th birthday. "Poetic consciousness; originality, imaginative leaps, irony and inventiveness." -Howard Stein. In Best American Short Plays, 1994-1995, $15.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21831) A STORM IS BREAKING. Comedy. Jim Damico. 1 m., 1 f. (off-stage), 1 boy. Ext. Winner of the first National Collegiate Playwriting Contest, this is a portrait of a boy who has been following an ant along the sidewalk for several hours. It is a picture that is hard to put out of your mind, and its intimations leave lasting thoughts. The boy prevents a man from stepping on the bug-insect, the boy corrects him. For to the boy, everything on earth has size and significance. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21779) STRAWBERRY ENVY. Comedy. Kitty Johnson. 2 m., 1 f. Ext. (simply suggested). A customer at a roadside fruit stand may be interested in more than strawberries. The woman's handsome male companion, who is dressed all in white, is a cad-and an alluring figment of her imagination. She eventually lets go of the fantasy male and sees the nice, ordinary guy in front of her selling fresh strawberries. In Triplet, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with Mirror, Mirror and
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STRAWBERRY FIELDS. Drama. Kevin Brofsky. 3 f. Int. Edith Warren of Plant City, Florida, meets Vera Samuels, famous New York daytime television talk-show hostess, in a diner to discuss an interview. Edith became the subject of controversy when her son was killed in a strawberry field, apparently a bias murder because he was gay. Edith has agreed to the interview, but is having second thoughts due to the finger-pointing she has experienced, which includes the waitress serving them this day. Vera has to convince her to go on television and can only do that by revealing something personal and career-damaging about her own life. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21955) THE STOP AT THE PALACE. Drama. Jules Tasca. 1 m., 2 f. 1 set. This insightful look at the psychology of grief involves Judith and Bill Rabb, who are taking Judith's recently widowed mother on a European tour. She twists her ankle and announces that she is going home to mourn properly. Judith feels there is no reason to grieve since her father, a workaholic, was never at home for them. Her mother tries to explain why her father did what he did. Left alone with her husband, Judith is finally able to mourn her father's death. "Poignant."-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $5.95. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#21806) THE TEMP. Comedy. Roy Friedman. 3 f. Int. What do you do with a total incompetent who's supposed to type a complicated report for an over-demanding boss in a matter of hours? This is the high-pressure situation thata feisty administrative assistant, andan attractive young executive face when Miss Georgina Pritt arrives from an temp agency. Poor Georgina can't do a thing right, from holding a cup of coffee to turning on the word processor. She alsohas an attitude problem and is congenitally incapable of holding her tongue. Just when careers, patience and sanity seem lost, (#22167) a solution delights all. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THIRST. Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 2 m., 1 f. A Gentleman, a Dancer, and a West Indian Mulatto Sailor are adrift on a raft without food and water far off the normal shipping lanes, surrounded by sharks and slowly going mad. In Eugene O'Neill, Complet~ Plays, Vol. 1, $40.00. (Royalty. $25-$25.) (#22627) THE TIES THAT BIND. Drama. Matthew Witten. 1 m., 2 f. Int. Suppose you met a fascinating woman in a singles bar who invites you up to her apartment, where you meet her hostile roommate. The women are lovers who want a child and you have been chosen to father it. Would you say "thanks, but no thanks" --or would you do the gentlemanly thing and help the ladies? In Off Off Broadway Plays, 11th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22679) TOUSSAINT. Drama. Lorraine Hansberry. 1 m., 2 f. Int. This fragment from a work in progress, unfinished at the time of Ms. Hansberry's untimely death, deals with a Haitian plantation owner and his wife whose lives are soon to change drastically as a result of the revolution of Toussaint L'Ouverture. In 9 Plays by Black Women, $5.99. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Restricted. (#22173) TRIPLET. Comedy. Kitty Johnson. 3 f. Int. This insightful look at growing up female takes place on a wedding day. As the bride gets ready for the big event, she converses with herself as a 13-year-princess and as a 21-year-old virgin. The "three" reveal various truths about themselves, their lives as they thought they would be and as they actually are. This is a wonderful play by a distinct and clever voice. In Triplet, -$6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 performed with Mirror, (#22217) Mirror and Strawberry Envy.)

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get a date with her. She finally agrees to see him and he wins his prizes in the presence of his fiancee, who's agreed to go along with the whole tasteless act. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16618) SHE WAS LOST, AND IS FOUND. Drama. Richard Hensley. 1m., 2 f. Int. Ellen and Dan Clark anxiously await the return of their daughter, a teenage runaway. They search through their past attempting to explain her behavior but find no simple answers. Their anxiety increases when their older daughter, a model of obedience and achievement, reacts irritably toward her sisters expected return. All three face realities about themselves and their relationship with each other, and resolve to make new efforts to reconcile their family. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1024) RED CROSS. Drama. Sam Shepard. 1m., 2 f. Int. This Obie Award-Winning play explores the vampire quality of language, the power it conveys and the treachery it entails. In Chicago and Other Plays, $9.95. Also in The Unseen Hand & Other (#20611) Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) HITTING TOWN. Play. Stephen Poliakoff. 1m., 2 f. Compo set. A drop-out from Birmingham University drops in on his sister in her Leicester bedroom-sitting room. They decide to "hit the town." Against a background of commercial radio, citycenter precincts, and dangerous prac:tical jokes, the incestuous relationship that develops seems to be the only way of affirming their vitality. Winner of the Evening Standard's "Most Promising Playwright" award. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#10648) SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. Satire. Jules Tasca, adapted from Mark Twain's short stories. 3 m. Int. Mr. Simons loses his elephant and goes to the police chief who gets credit and a reward for getting rid of the elephant while Mr. Simons goes to jail for creating a public nuisance. In Five One-Act Plays by Mark Twain, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21606) THE SUICIDE. Drama. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 2 f. Int. A young couple sit up waiting for her mother. They become overwhelmed with guilt and they dwell on their shabby treatment towards the old woman. They become obsessed with the thought she has committed suicide. What will people say? When the old lady returns home after having done something kind and thoughtful-they turn on her and the cycle of cruelty begins again. Acclaimed by European critics. In Four by Fraui, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. (#21613) THE MAN WHO DIED AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Farce. Paul Green. 2 m., 1 f. Int. This amusing folk comedy tells the story of a young black couple who dress up and make the girl's old guardian believe he has seen the devil. He is forced to give up money he has been unjustly holding. which allows the couple to get married. In Fifteen American One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15628) OVERLAID. Comedy. By Robertson Davies. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Pop, an elderly farmer, is a rugged individualist. His daughter feeds her soul on good works and ambition for her son. When an insurance man delivers $1,200 from a paid-up policy, the question is: should Pop go to New York on a spree or will she use his money to buy the family tombstone her soul craves?In 10 Canadian Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#17601) HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND. Farce. George Bernard Shaw. 2 m., I f.Int. A humorous and human observation about a husband, his wife and her lover. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95 (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10670) AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT. Farce. George Bernard Shaw. 2 m., I f. Int. A short satire on the "Colonel Blimp" type-World War I vintage. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3666) BEAST OF A DIFFERENT BURDEN. Comedy. Faith Whitehill. 2 m., I f. Int. Gladys is pushing thirty and desperate. Her kid sister is getting married and the prospect is humiliating; Gladys will do anything to get a man. Enter the new neighbor. He's attractive, charming-and unattached. He's also strange. He's afraid people won't like him, just because he's a vampire. Peculiar or not, Gladys wants him. As the tug-o-war proceeds, it's hard to say who's vamping whom. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4620) WANTED. . DEAD OR ALIVE. Mark R. Edwards. 1m., 2 f., a male voice. Int. W. J. Wallace afk/a "Eddie Adams," was an outlaw famous for shooting policemen. He was, legend has it, betrayed by his girlfriend Megal MUlhaney. He died in a shoot-out in Wichita. His betrayal and final moments inspire a rollicking comedy on the war of the sexes. In vignettes, supplied with commentary by the Fairy Godmother of Wichita, we learn most American men dream of being the outlaw type, answerable only to themselves. Unfortunately, most American women, the play informs us, exist to shoot down such fantasies. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25614) LOVELY AFTERNOON. Comedy. Howard Delman. 2 m., 1 f. Int. About two teenagers and their unexpected escapades in a bedroom. Alan plans a lustful afternoon with his not-so-steady girlfriend, Pam. What results isn't what Alan planned. There's arguments about sex, respect, and much more. When the smoke clears, we wind up with Alan's broken bridgework, Pam's bruised self-image as a cut-rate prostitute, phone calls from Alan's friend who wants to know "how things are

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SQUIRRELS. Comedy. David Mamet. 2 m., I f., Int. Arthur, a once-famous writer, accepts a neophyte named Edmond as an apprentice. At the office Edmond meets Arthur's ex-collaborator, who is now his cleaning woman. This is a rollicking, frOlicking, nonetheless tender excursion into the forbidding realm of literary creativity, whimsy and despair. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#21763) WHA T WOULD JEANNE MOREAU DO? Comedy. Elinor Jones. 2 m., 1 f. plus 1 m. voice. Comb. int.lext. simply suggested. Cathy is alone in a restaurant getting potted on the day her divorce becomes final. A soap opera writer in her late 30s, she invents comic episodes in her head for a novel she yearns to write. When a suave Yugoslavian actor tries to talk to her, she fobs him off. The married restaurant owner also displays interest in her and again her timidity makes it impossible for her to face up to life. "Very funny"-N.Y. Post. "Converts the pains of life in New York into laughter."-N.Y. News World. Published with Box Office, $6.50. (Royalty, $35$25 or $50-$35 when done with Box Office.) (#25660) THE RECOVERY. Farce. Albert Bermel. 2 m., 1 f. Simple set. A post-operative patient finds it impossible to lie quietly and rest because of unnerving intruders, each of whom has urgent business with him. And the phone keeps ringing. Four female roles-an almost blind nurse, a sexy young nurse, the patient's wife and the hospital companion-are played by one actress and one actor also plays four roles: a doctor with a disturbing bedside manner, a prim bureaucrat who's lost the patient's deposit, a youthful orderly and an aged patient who's been hospitalized for longer than he can recall. In Six One-Act Farces, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20639) ROMANCE IN A FLAT (Amour et piano). Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., I f. Int. In this early Feydeau comedy, a pretentious young provincial intent on courting a celebrated Parisian actress inadvertently arrives at the home of an innocent young music student. She mistakes him for her famous new piano teacher. Double mistaken identities, abetted by a bumbling domestic, provoke confusion that grows in absurdity until the final happy resolution "Feydeau is devilishly hard to translate and Shapiro has done a first-rate job."Daniel Gerould. In Feydeau, First to Last, $16.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#20629) VIVIEN. Comic drama. Percy Granger. 2 m., I f. Unit set. Staged to acclaim at Lincoln Center, this lovely piece is about a young director takes his long-lost father to see his production of "The SeagulL" Along the way, each reveals a substantial truth about himself. The journey reaches its zenith in a restaurant after the performance. "A revealing father-son portrait that gives additional certification to the author's position as a very original playwright."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#24615) THE WITCH. Comedy. Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison Buloff, from a story by Chekhov. See Index under The Chekhov Sketchbook. RAPES. Mario Fratti. 2 m., I f. Published in Races, $6.50. (Royalty, $10-$10.) (#20615) THE OTHER ONE. Mario Fratti. 1 m., 2 f Published in Races, $6.50. (Royalty, $10$10.) (#17070) See Index under Races. PERIOD. Farce. Richard McBrien. 2 m., 1 f. Int. The setting is a scattergood household in the morning, the day's hubbub ahead, and man and wife at odds with each other. In comes the meter man. He is not a meter searcher, but a meter reader; and so the husband has to go find the meter-which leaves plenty of time for the wife and meter reader to get acquainted. The men exit in triumph, leaving behind a bemused woman. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 6th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18139) SITTIN'. Comedy. Chris Ceraso. 1 m., 2 f. ext. A 15-year old perched on a tree limb is trying to break the Guinness Book World Record for tree sitting. He is helped in this monumental endeavor by his younger sister. Just as he is about to succeed he receives a letter saying that the record is twice as long as previously thought-and Jimmie has only one more week before school starts. "The play is lovely. . . . [Cerasoj has great talent." -David Mamet. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#1028) ME TOO, THEN! Comedy. Tom Dudzick and Steven Smith. 2 m., 1 f. Int. This winner of the Double Image Short Play Festival asks the timeless question: Can a timid young bookworm find happiness with a dominating mother, an overbearing, humorless boyfriend and an amateur psychologist who doubles as a burlesque comic. The answer rapidly unfolds in a high-spirited comedy that had New York audiences howling with laughter. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 5th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#15651) THE NEXT CONTESTANT. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., 1 f. Compo set. This chilling play, first published in "The Best Short Plays," focuses on the lengths greedy people will go to win valuable gifts. In a broadcasting studio. the master of ceremonies challenges a contestant to call an old girlfriend he knows is engaged and

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THE SHIRT. Drama. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., I f. Int. Clarence, a young Southern gentleman, has come up for a weekend visit to New York. He meets TwiIa, a lovely Negro girl, and her boy friend, Marcey, a young good-looking boy. They become a friendly trio, and go up to Clarence's hotel room to drink. During the evening Clarence takes their pictures, watches them dance, and shows them a newspaper clipping and photograph of himself. Eventually Clarence puts on "the shirt" before their very eyes and a terrifying transformation takes place. In Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21608) YES DEAR. Comedy. Warren C. Graves. 1m., 2 f. Youthful parents suddenly feel old when they realize their children are now adults. This is what happens to John and Marie Grant while they are preparing for the 21st birthday party of their daughter. In the privacy of their bedroom, John reverts to the clown he was as a young man and sweeps Marie along with him into sheer zest of being alive. They realize that, for each other, they will always be the same in this charming and very funny comedy. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#27602) OWL. Cleve Haubold. 2 m., I f. Int. A soft-spoken man wanders into a pet shop to buy an owl. The poor guy is ignored and bullied by the receptionist, then subjected to the outrageous sales pitch by the peculiar Dr. Hollyhock, who tries to persuade Ben that owls are only a popular superstition. As his frustration grows, Ben slowly turns into an owl and settles accounts with Hollyhock in a funny and frightening finale. Anyone who has ever suffered from high-handed secretaries and mindless highpressure salesmen will delight in this wild, witty and unusual comedy. Ben's gradual transformation into an owl is a rich opportunity for any actor. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#17654) DAUGHTER OF A TRAVELING LADY. Comedy-drama. Peter Dee. 1m., 2 f., Int. A study of a teenage girl, conditioned by the independence her upbringing has thrust on her, who moves into an empty house in the suburbs and awaits the arrival of her wandering parents. Involved in her vigil are another teenage girl and a young telephone man, who try unsuccessfully to manipulate her. There is comedy and compassion in this drama which moves simply and indicates the essential strength of the lonely teenage girl. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6606) THE RAPE OF BUNNY STUNTZ. Comedy. A. R. Gurney, Jr. 1 m., 2 f. Int. An efficient suburban matron, chairing an evening meeting, finds that she has to cope with a strange, offstage intruder who claims he knows her. The meeting degenerates step by step into a wild party, even as the i,ntruder becomes increasingly insistent and insulting to the leader. Ultimately, the lady finds herself confessing to the lure of a liaison with this representative from the under side of society, and by going off with him, she manages to appease whatever it is that tears groups apart. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20606) A SHORT WALK AFTER DINNER. Drama. Cleve Haubold. 1 m., 2 f., Int. Charles Haven returns home from a short walk after dinner to find something has gone hauntingly, terrifyingly wrong with his life. With growing alarm he tries to explain away the strange change that has come over him, finally discovering he has unac(#21691) countably lost twenty years during his walk. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE INFORMER. Bertolt Brecht; English version by Eric Bentley. 1 m., 2 f., I c. Int. In Nazi Germany apprehension turns into paralyzing fear. In The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. (#11653) THE PUBLIC EYE. Comedy. Peter Shaffer. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Produced on Broadway and in London with "The Private Ear," this is a very arch and continuously funny comedy about a hop-scotch character who at the moment is playing the part of a private eye for a wealthy accountant who suspects his wife of infidelity. "Delightful . . . deftly contrived, cheerfully entertaining."-N.Y. Herald Tribune, $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with The Private Ear.) (#856) PLAY. Drama. Samuel Beckett. 1m., 2 f. Cyc. In three urns side-by-side are encased two women and a man. The style is brilliantly abstract, ranging from choruses of existential oblivion to ruminations and reiterations of a common experience that ended unhappily for a man, his wife and his mistress. In Cascando and Other Short (#849) Pieces, $8.95. (Royalty $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. THE CHAIRS. Comedy. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald M. Allen. 2 m., 1 f. extras. Int. "The Chairs" was greeted with great critical acclaim when it was produced in New York by the Phoenix Theatre. Mr. Ionesco was hailed as a true innovator and one of the important new playwrights of the present-day theatre. A challenging play for advanced amateurs. In Bald Soprano and Other Plays, $13.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#308) THE PRIVATE EAR. Comedy. Peter Shaffer. 2 m., 1 f.Int. Produced on Broadway and in London with The Public Eye. This is a tender account of a rueful romance. The boy has invited to his hovel for dinner a girl he met at a concert. In the interim he has romanticized her as another Venus, and not to appear gauche, he has asked his man-about-town friend to coach him. When the girl arrives, she is a very common sort and he is awkward to the point of clumsiness, and destroys the mood. She slaps him for trying to kiss her forcibly. She departs, and he returns to his record, now badly scratched, and the curtain descends on a broken love song. "Delightful . . . are deftly contrived, cheerfully entertaining." -N.Y. Herald Tribune. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$35 when performed with The Public Eye.) (#855)

going" and a delivery boy who delivers a pizza at the worst possible time. $4.50. (#14660) (Royalty, $20-$15.) CHEE CHEE. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. English translation by William Murray. 2 m., I f. Int. Chee Chee is a born gentleman, whose features rapidly change expression, reflecting every turn of his active imagination--and he is a clown. Pirandello has him pitted against Squatriglia, a one-eyed commander, and Nada, Chee's sweetheart, or nothing. Pirandello shows through him the inevitable freak of nature at work-in a spiritual sense and, as is typical of Pirandello, that alone is worth some reward on earth. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5630) THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. 2 m., I f. IntlExt. English translation by William Murray. A confrontation between a commuter who missed his train and a man with a flower in his mouth, or at any rate, under his moustache, inevitably leads to a conversation focusing on women-their demands, lack of demands, etc., as a Woman in Black looks on. A few of the subtle and naturalistic touches, at which Pirandello excels, work superbly in this philosophical discourse. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) Slightly (#15602) Restricted. Please state translator when ordering. I'M DREAMING, BUT AM I? Drama. Luigi Pirandello, English translation by William Murray. 2 m., I f. The young lady's room, in a large city, is Pirandello's setting for one of his most hope-filled fantasy/dream plays. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#11601) THE ROCK GARDEN. Drama. Sam Shepard. 2 m., I f. Int In The Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#20625) SO PLEASE BE KIND. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., I f. A Man and a Woman are ushered into a double bedded room by a Bell Boy in New York, as the Man tries to guess from the Woman's 'non' descriptions the name of somebody in a movie, and finally calls her ex-something on the phone to find out. Gilroy handles the affair in this one-act play swiftly and with delicacy. In Present Tense, $6.50. (Royalty, $20(#21722) $15.) Not available NYC. THE OLD ONE-TWO. Drama. A. R. Gurney, Jr. 2 m., 1 f. A professor of Classics becomes obsessed with a girl student who challenges the relevance of his course and finally leads him into an overnight affair. Meanwhile, the Dean of the department, joining her in the attempt to bring the curriculum up to date, has become involved in a sly relationship with the professor's mysterious wife. The play is saved from a tragic ending by a sudden surprising discovery. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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Compo lnt. In a rooming house, a young man is unpacking when in walks a young lady looking for rope. She wants to hang herself. Well, the man hasn't any, but has some twine; so in desperate seriousness, they barter. Finally she takes the twine to her room, puts on the phonograph, and prepares to hang herself; while he unpacks. The first effort fails, but the second is succeeding nicely, when suddenly the record stops. She tries to get down to fix the phonograph, but can't. And both the young man and the doddering old lady who wheels herself into view will not lend a hand to help her. It's only because he decides to move out of this crazy place, and needs the twine to pack, that the girl finally is freed. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#85) THE RED KEY. Drama. Charles Emery. 1m., 2 f. Int. Karen has come to stay with Nicholas and his mental case sister, Hester. Nicholas and Karen's father were partners until Karen's father suddenly vanished. Hester tells Karen the door in the room concealed by a drape has not been opened for seven years. Hester claims a key on a red ribbon in Nicholas's possession opens the door. And that there is a corpse hidden there! Remembering it was seven years ago that her father disappeared, Karen's suspicion increases and the red key becomes a symbol of fear and mistrust. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#911) A SOMETIME THING. Drama. James Lineberger. 2 m., f. Int.-Ext. National Collegiate Playwriting Contest winner. Ed encourages the affections of the widow, Emma, only to steal her savings. It helps that Emma is attracted to his young son, Eddie who doesn't know his father i5 a thief. When Emma catches Ed trying to flee with her money, she drives him off but keeps Eddie with her. Eddie realizes he must leave. He can't bear the thought his father is bad, but without him, his father is alone with no one to love him. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#989) A RESOUNDING TINKLE. Comedy. N. F. Simpson. 1m., 2 f. lnt. It would be wrong to say nothing surprises the Paradocks, Bro and Middie. It's just that they take in their stride the things that would surprise us. The elephant in their garden, for instance, has actually been ordered, but this year the shop has made a mistake and sent the wrong size. The arrival of Uncle Ted does cause Middie to raise her eyebrows momentarily, for he has become bored with being a he and is now an elegantly dressed young woman. Their social habits are different from ours and their talk satirizes the life of suburbia, and in the intervals, turns a mildly disconcerting eye on all of us. "A delightful exercise in off-beat humor." -Daily Herald. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20) HEAT LIGHTING. Comedy. Robert F. Carroll. 2 m., I f. lnt. Out of a summer storm, a panic-stricken girl rushes into a bus stop tenninal on a deserted highway, and bolts the door behind her. Encountering a lone passenger waiting for the last bus, she gaps out her frightening experience of having just witnessed a murder and escaped from the maniac. Gradually, the man's insistent questioning about the murderer's identity leads the girl to realize he's the man. The realization is shattered when a flash of lightning reveals another man's face at the door. The second man is admitted. Now the girl has her back to the wall, not knowing who is to be trusted and who is to be feared. Her decision is the climax ofthe play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#10625) TO OPEN, PRY COVER. Comedy. Peg Lynch, 2 m., I f. Int. Who hasn't wrestled with the top of a pickle jar, only to find it must have been sealed with cement. And then didn't you want to sit down at once and write an irate letter to the manufacturer? Well, Albert runs the gamut of pickle jar emotions-irate letter and all--only to find there's many a slip twixt the jar and the lip. In Ethel and Albert Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22718) RED CARNATIONS. Comedy. Glenn Hughes. 2 m., I f. Ext. A dainty little satire, written with wit, humor and distinction. A boy and a girl and a man engage in a very amusing trialogue near a park bench. Very easily produced and for light comedy, well worth doing. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20610) A MINUET. Poetic drama. Louis N. Parker. 2 m., I f. During the French Revolution an aristocratic nobleman and his estranged wife are touchingly reunited as they both await the guillotine. This classic verse play establishes proof of the innate nobility of character in certain French aristocrats who show a type of moral courage rare in any era. Though the play calls for considerable talent, it is so well written and conceived that high school students can produce it effectively. Excellent for tournaments. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15675)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS THE SISTERS MCINTOSH. Comedy. Richard Corson. 1m., 2 f. Int. Lulie and Tizzie are two maids who live only for and with their family album and their cat. Grandma and Grandpa both lived to be more than a hundred and they plan to live till Judgment Day. A man appears and they let him in after much discussion of the dangers therein. He says he is their nephew. They question him about relatives. Some he remembers, others he apparently has never heard of. . . so they decide his is a thief after their money. They frighten him away by pretending they are insane (this takes little effort). In going through his luggage they are momentarily mystified at finding a photo of their Grandma Bullfinch and Aunt Matildy. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#983) THE WEAK SPOT. Comedy. George Kelly. 1m., 2 f. Int. A satire illustrating how only too often superstition lies latent beneath the scoffing of the practical-minded. Mr. West thinks the superstitions of Mrs. West are quite, quite silly, and he doesn't mind telling her so. An old peddler woman who tells fortunes reads the cards for Mrs. West, and when coincidence proves her predictions not too far from the truth, Mr. West finds himself indulging in his wife's beliefs-not that he would ever admit (#25631) it to her. Highly amusing. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE SHIRKERS. Thriller. C. M. S. Mclellan. 2 m., I f. Int. A shepherd, driven to despair by loneliness and sorrow, stabs his wife and returns to his humble cabin exactly one year later to find her body, warm and freshly bleeding, precisely where he left it. "As of this date, it is the most amazing work of its kind ever written in English. With a cast of only three people and a setting which could not be simpler, it evokes pity and terror with almost unbearable power."-Percival Wilde. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21690) THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST. Comedy. Arthur Kopit. 2 m., I f. Ext. A delectably loony play. It starts off quite properly, with a man and woman scaling Mount Everest through the clouds-in summer clothes and barefoot. They are well equipped, however: a sandwich, bottle of coke, a Brownie camera and a penlight in case it gets dark on the way down. They mount the summit just before the arrival of a Chinese soldier, with oxygen mask, banner and machine gun. He is considerably perplexed. But back to our two American tourists: they decide that they like each other, that they ought to quit their guided tour and proceed by themselves, and that it is now time to descend. In The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5705) LUNCH HOUR. Drama. John Mortimer. 1m., 2 f. Int. A young man and woman meet in a wayside hotel during lunch hour to express their love. In order to be discreet, he has fabricated a story of marriage, children, distant home, to satisfy the concierge The woman is confused when confronted with this fabrication, and as she unravels the matter in her mind the enchantment of love begins to fade. The room is dilapidated, the concierge an intruding bore, and it's too cold to take off one's overcoat. The result is that she leaves at the end of the hour, never to see him again. The bloom of love is dead. In brilliant dialogue by one of England's best writers. First produced on the BBC. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when (#14662) ordering. THE PEOPLE IN THE GLASS PAPERWEIGHT. Tragicomedy. Gene McKinney. 2 m., I f. Int. Produced on ABC-TV, this play strikes a satirical blow against our society and fear of involvement. A middle-aged couple have insulated themselves from the world. Wally creates totally useless inventions and Frances gives her paperweight collection a daily dusting. Their only visitor in years is a fireman who answers Frances' false alarms when she thinks Wally's inventions are burning up. The fireman tries desperately and unsuccessfully to awaken them to their responsibility in life. A vivid, comic presentation of non-involvement. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#18627) $15.) THE BRUTE. Comedy. Eric Bentley, from Anton Chekhov's Russian. 2 m., I f. Extras. lnt. Mrs. Popoff, widow of a landowner, has vowed never to remarry and abjures the company of men forever. Then Smirnoff, one of her late husband's creditors, forces himself into her presence. He's had some little experience of women and also sworn off love. So-they seemed groomed for quarrelling and they do to the point where the anti-feminist Smimoff challenges her to a duel. To his surprise and delight-she accepts. The misogynist creditor suddenly becomes a suitor and by the end it's realized Mrs. Popoffs widowhood is also about to end. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4688) FINDERS-KEEPERS. Play. George Kelly. 1m., 2 f. Int. A very striking and popular one-act drama with an unusual and revealing situation. Mrs. Aldrid. finds a purse containing four hundred dollars. Of course her husband thinks that she intends to return the purse, but Mrs. Aldrid offers Mr. Aldrid a distressing look into her true character when she announces that she will keep it. Even when they learn that the money belongs to a very good friend, she doesn't change her mind. Mr. Aldrid changes it for her in the ensuing action which puts her in her place. $4.50. (Royalty, (#437) $20-$15.) ONE EGG. Farce. Babette Hughes. 2 m., I f. Int. Simple set. Hilarious and extremely popular farce in which two young people, meeting in a restaurant, are brought together by the difficulty of ordering one egg for breakfast. Lots of sure-fire laugh lines and a perfect surprise finish. Contains excellent waiter part for a comedian. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17628)

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GUILLOTINE. Comedy. Steve Martin. 1 set. 3 m., 1 f. A guillotine salesman hocks his wares to a customer who wants one for self defense. His French maid's efficiency in dusting becomes her undoing. Published in Wasp and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9955) IN AND OUT OF THE LIGHT. Comedy. Elaine May. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The final act of the Off Broadway hit Power Plays, this farcical delight revolves around a workaholic Jewish dentist attempting to have a fling with his curvaceous assistant. His plans are set hilariously awry by an after-hours patient who is a mega-neurotic psychologist with a pain phobia and by a surprise visit from his son who has two heartbursting announcements to make: he is gay (but celibate) and, worse, he doesn't want to be a dentist after all. "Freewheeling. . . farcical chaos. . . with a surreal finale." -N. Y. Times. Published with The Way of All Fish and Virtual Reality in Power Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#10990) LEAVING TANGIER. Comic drama. David Johnston. 3 m., I f. Ext. Cooper, an American expatriate poet, has traveled from Tangier to a rural Southern town with the ashes of Oswin Everett Pickett, a famous writer and notorious gay figure who had been living in northern Africa. Pickett left specific instructions that there be no religious observance when his ashes were returned to America, but his great niece and the local preacher are determined to give him a "good Methodist funeral." Pickett's great nephew, a young man obsessed with the notorious man's works, urges Cooper to tell him about his deceased relative. In return, Cooper suggests that the young man should come to Tangier with him. Published in Off-Off Broadway (#13759) Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) LIFE AFTER ELVIS. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 m., 1 f. Int. What if Elvis is alive and living in middle America? This play answers the question in farcical fashion, suggesting that the rock legend has been placed by the Witness Protection Program in the home of an average couple. When their son returns unexpectedly from college and finds a stranger in his room, chaos reigns. In Cross Country: Seven More One(#14194) Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25 per performance.) THE LOVE COURSE. A. R. Gurney, Jr. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A female professor has been teaching a course on the literature of love with a younger male colleague. She has fallen in love with him through the books and the experience of the classroom. Now, in the last class of the year, she is attempting to bring the course and their relationship to a climatic conclusion. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#659) MACNAUGHTON'S DOWRY. Drama. Don Nigro. 2 m., 2 f. Unit set. At the end of the seventeenth century the estates of Alexander MacNaughton, including the castle of Dunderave, were forfeit after he fought on the losing side at Killiecrankie. His son thought to reclaim his inheritance by marrying one of Sir James Campbell's daughters, but young MacNaughton married the one he did not love. The tragic consequences for all form one of the darker tales of Scottish legend. The conclusion of this funny, erotic and grim tale will haunt you. Published in Palestrina and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#14801) THE MALEFACTOR'S BLOODY REGISTER. Drama. Don Nigro. 1 m., 3 f. Bare stage. In this true story of abuse and murder from the pages of the notorious eighteenth-century compendium of crime, The Newgate Calendar, three serving girls to sadistic Mrs. Brownrigg and her son are beaten and tortured by their employers. One escapes and summons help, but help is not easy to come by in their world. The eerie tale is told from the point of view of the girls and the son. One died, one lived and one was lost. Which was which? Published in Tales from the Red Rose Inn (#15510) and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE MANAGER. Darrin Shaughnessy. See Index for description. MOSQUITO DIRIGmLE AEROSOL DEODORANT. Comedy. Conrad E. Davidson. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Dr. Ballone, a professor of literature, is highly susceptible to suggestion. His mind snaps at the mere mention of a possibility or the sight of a picture. When he spotted a photograph of the Hindenburg on his classroom wall, he instantly thought he was a dirigible. Mrs. Ballone, who wants her husband back, brings him to a psychiatrist. During his therapy session, Dr. Ballone undergoes two more transformations: first into a mosquito and then into a can of aerosol deodorant. Unfortunately, the psychiatrist has an obsessive fear ... of mosquitoes. Someone nearly dies. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15732) MOTHER'S DAY. Drama. Kate Aspengren. 4 f. Unit set. Victoria accidently learned that she was adopted when she was thirteen. Now an adult, she is still angry with her adoptive mother and has discovered the identity of birth mother. After meeting her, Victoria is able to begin a reconciliation with the woman who raised her. Mother's Day is a touching and sensitive play about the personal journeys of three women. Published with Dear Mrs. Martin, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with Dear Mrs. Martin.) (#15244) PADPARADSHA. Comedy. Nick Hall. 3 m., I f. Int. See The Curse of Ravensdum for description. (#17801) RIVERSIDE DRIVE. Woody Allen. 2 m., 2 f. See Writer's Block. (#19770)

WHAT'S THAT TUNE. Comedy. Peg Lynch. 2 m., 1 f. Int. Doesn't it drive you crazy to hear a haunting melody when you can't remember the name of it? Ethel and Albert hear a workman outside whistling a tune. Complications ensue when they invite him into the house to solve this frustrating dilemma. In Ethel and Albert (#25659) Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE OPEN MEETING. Comedy. A. R. Gurney. 2 m., 1 f. Int. A typical public meeting soon degenerates into mystery, which in tum becomes a ritual re-enactment of a primal, oedipal confrontation. In Public Affairs, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#17636)

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Steve, a thirtyish New Yorker, shows up at a singles' seminar. The only other attendee is Sylvia, a 60year-old grandmother. Seminar leader Jackie Johansen outlines various bizarre programs and strategies but Steve is only interested in getting his money back until a beautiful young woman enters. Aided by Jackie's gambits, the newcomer gets to know Steve in an original and intimate way. In Single and Proud and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (21158) THE SPIRITUAL PURSUIT OF COSMETIC SURGERY. Comedy. Karen Manno. 4 f. Ints. Cuban-born Rita Rivera Goldstein married several times and converted religions even more often until settling on Judaism. For years she has been the servant and companion of Weeba Epstein, nee Weeba Post of Connecticut, a protestant who always felt Semitic. Weeba has elected to surgically increase the size of her nose to reflect her inner Semitism in a warm and funny play about identity and friendship. Published in Service, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15, or $60-$40 if performed (#6223) with the other plays in Service.) THREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. Drama. Caryl Churchill. 2 m., 2 f. Unit set. This is the first time the author employed her now famous device of overlapping dialogue. All three scenes take place in bed. In the first, a husband and wife have a virulent argument over who's cheating on whom. In the second, a husband drones on about the plot of Alien as his wife slits her wrists. The wife from scene one is in bed with the husband from scene two in the final vignette. Is there a happy ending in their future? In Churchill: Shorts, $22.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22656) WASP. Comedy. Steve Martin. Int. 2 m., 2 f. In the fractured landscape of 50s suburbia, a prototypical white protestant family exists in a dark limbo of expectation and routine. Mom is surrounded by people but deeply alone, dad speaks in delicious platitudes, and the children fear anything new. The play vibrates with satire and dark lyrical irony as the family meanders blindly toward catastrophe. Published in Wasp and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Slightly Restricted. (#25622) ZIG ZAG WOMAN. Comedy. Steve Martin. Int. 3 m., 1 f. Pushed to amazing lengths to relieve profound loneliness, a waitress magically separates herself into three parts to facilita(e her quest for a man. She encounters an old man waiting for true love, a middle-aged man who has stopped looking, and a fiery young man who longs for a woman in pieces. Published in Wasp and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#28006) THE APPOINTMENT. Comedy. Luigi Jannuzzi. 2 m., 2 f. This is a light-hearted comedy about Mr. Toemeali who has a 3 o'clock appointment with God. In the waiting room he becomes upset when he meets two women who also have 3 o'clock appointments. Macho Tomeali tries to manipulate God's receptionist but only manages to miss God, who is one of the women. This funny, insightful play is successful for groups from classroom to church. Puiblished in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, (#3708) 20th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) BY THE NAME OF KENSINGTON. Comic drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 m., 2 f. Simple set. From the author of A Little Something for the Ducks, White Room of My Remembering and Looking for a Better Berry Bush, among others, comes the story of a well-bred cricket from London who is dismayed to fmd himself playing doppelganger to a woman in Appalachia. In this humorous and touching tale of the relationship between an arrogant black cricket with a Bond Street address and a poorly educated young woman who aspires to better herself, this award-winning playwright has created two uniquely lovable characters. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) $4.50. (#4240) CHEERS, TEARS AND SCREAMERS!! Short Melodramas. Brian J. Burton. These playlets written for music-hall programs may be performed together or separately with little or no scenery. Save My Child! or Trapped By the Bottle: 2 m., 2 f. (#21623) Fanny's Prayer or All Was Not Lost: 4 m., 2 f. (#8677) Mayhem at the Mill or Fortune's Fate: 3 f., I f., extras. (#15969) Victorian ballads may be effectively interpolated into productions. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play or $35-$25 when performed together.) Songs of the Gay Nineties, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Musicfor Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#5784) CRAZY AND A HALF. D.R. Andersen. (See Index for description.) CROSSING. Reza de Wet. Translated by Steven Stead. See Index under Missing/Crossing. (#5819)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS DECISIONS, DECISIONS. Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 3 m., 1 f. Bare stage w. 2 set pieces. This funny and bittersweet play catches a moment in the life of Troy Watkins, an indecisive single woman in her thirties who lives alone in New York City. She meets an intriguing stranger in the park, a man who looks like a tramp but obviously is well-educated .. What has reduced him to his current state? Drugs? Financial difficulties? Crime? As they share thoughts and get to know each other, Troy decides to trust him. Is she right or wrong? The answer lies in a very funny yet poignant conclusion. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25) (#6595) DEJA RENDEZ-VOUS. Eliot Byerrum (See Index under Gumshoe Rendez-vous for description.) THE ECLIPSE. Drama. Joyce Carol Oates. 1 m., 3 f. Int. A middle-aged professor lives with her ailing mother. The old lady, once a brilliant teacher, moves in and out of reality, has a fantasy Latin lover, and makes her daughter's life miserable. One night she whirls in a torrid dance with her lover while her daughter sleeps; death has released both from suffering. This haunting play by one of America's foremost authors was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Humana Festival and was subsequently produced Off Broadway. Published with Toneclusters in In Darkest America, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when performed with Toneclusters.) (#7633) EXTRACTION. Black comedy. Jules Tasca. 3 m., 1 f voice. 1 set. A dentist has discovered a vaccine that eliminates gum disease and tooth decay and makes tooth nerve tissue immune to damage. Given to infants, it eliminates decay for life. The American Dental Association cannot abide such a breakthrough and arranges to have the researcher eliminated. In Outrageous! and Other Comedies, $6.50. (Royal(#7127) ty, $35-$25.) FRANCIS BRICK NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. ComedylDrama. Jeff Hoffman. 4 m. Int. Four brothers at their father's wake differ in their ideas of what he was actually like. What was Francis Brick, really? What were his secrets? Only the oldest son knows and he is determined to share the information his father revealed to him before he died, despite the devastation that these revelations might cause in the family. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 23rd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, (#8193) $20-$15.) GENDERMAT. Drama. Mark Dunn. 2 m., 2 f. Int. This is tag team theatre with a bite. At the end of a relationship, two characters meet in the basement laundry room of an apartment building. Four actors step in and out of the roles of Carrie/Cary and FranceslFrancis to create the story offour breakups: a man leaving a woman, a woman leaving a man, a woman leaving a woman and a man leaving a man. The gender permutations reveal the simple fact that rejection and lost love are universals. In parting, the characters learn important truths about themselves and move, not without bitterness, toward a fresh start. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9598) THE LAST TIME I SAW TIMMY BOGGS. Comic drama. Catherine Butterfield. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Marrianne is on the phone to a suicide hotline when her sister Camille bursts into her apartment with the news that childhood friend Timmy Boggs is coming to visit. They haven't seen or heard from him in 20 years. The surprising effect Timmy has on each of them, as well as on the disillusioned surgeon Camille is married to, brings the one-acts in Life in the Trees full circle. Published with No Problem and Chemistry in Life in the Trees, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) Slightly Restricted.

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Louisville Play Contest. In The Boogeyman, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 (#21415) when performed with the other plays in the collection.) TOTALLY COOL. Drama. Jan Buttram. 2 m. (to play 6 roles), 2 f. Unit set. This drama depicts the relationship between two seemingly average teenage girls, Connie and Suzy, and shows how the two descend into destructive substance abuse. The play dramatizes the emotional and physical consequences inherent in drug use. Both funny and sad, at times lighthearted and intense, Totally Cool mixes extreme realism and dream-like qualities to create a stirring and thought provoking experience. The dramatic landscape includes a variety of characters who help complete the story of Connie and Suzy: two paramedics, a pair of morgue attendants and the local medical examiner with his sidekick. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22724) UN TANGO EN LA NOCHE. Drama. Dan Hunter. 2 m., 2 f. Ints., ext. Here is a powerful folktale about an old man's struggle with pain and death. Don Viejo is hated by all in his poor Mexican village, except for Maria who welcomes the nine pesos he spends when he limps painfully to her caf each morning. This day he strides in bursting with the strength and vigor of a young man and he enacts an astounding story: at a crossroads at midnight he bargained with the Devil and was magically transported back in time to a nightclub in Mexico City where he experienced one moment of genuine love. He tells Maria he has outwitted the devil-but there is one more twist in this lyrical play of love and memory. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#23044) VISITING OLIVER. Drama. Bill Nave. 3 m., 1 f. Int. A woman visits an asylum for the retarded to see the son she drooped off here twenty-odd years before. A retarded man enters and, mistaking him for her son, she showers him with presents and with talk about their early life and how she left her husband after he beat the child. Then the orderly wheels in her son in a wheelchair and the mother has to start over again with a new, different son who is unable to speak. In Off Off Broadway Festival (#24059) Plays. 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty. $25-$20.) WATERWORKS. Comic drama. E. 1. Safirstein. 3 f., 1 m. 1 int.l2 ext. A co-winner of the 1988 American College Theatre Festival Short Play Award, this gentle, funny play is about two teenagers forced at an early age to confront illness and death in their lives. The conflict between brash, aggressive Ruth and shy, bookish Ben provides the tension and humor through which we see their deep vulnerability and loneliness. "Has a youthful zest and a most affecting power."-Washington Times. "Artfully develops characters."-WashinglOn Post. Published in Award-Winning (#25616) Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) A BAG OF GREEN APPLES. Drama. Jean Lennox Toddie. 2 f., 1 f. c., I m. c. Int.lext comb set (simply suggested). Patricia, a young woman of twenty, returns to the scene of her childhood-her aunt Ester's beach house. She hopes to learn from her aunt, who raised her, answers about her past so that she can better understand who she is in the present. She interacts with Patty (her ten-year-old self) as well as with Ester of past and present. She finally decides to stay. $4.50. (Royalty, $25(#4705) $25.) THE HEARTBREAK TOUR. Comedy. Peter Morris. 2 m., 2 f. Area staging. Real and make-believe stories ingeniously commingle asa troupe of actors visit schools to perform a play about Stephen Foster before assemblies of rowdy brats. Their lives-loves they have left behind and dreams of the stars the hope to be- get mixed up with their disastrous straw-hat-and-cane impersonations of Stephen Foster. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 15th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

staged with four moving chairs the only props; it is also suitable for reader's theater. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 20th Series.. $8.95. (Royalty. $25-$20.)

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SPECKS. Drama. Rob Shimko. 2 m., 2 f. Int. In a diner on New Year's Eve a waitress named Molly, her mother and an obsessive-compulsive regular who makes intricate sculptures from his dishes are trying in vain to have a party. The entrance of a stranger from a real party across the street triggers catastrophic changes for all three when he begins to seduce Molly and antagonize the others. Molly chooses between her old life and a new one with the stranger in a fiery climax. $4.50. (Royalty, $35(#21436) $25.) TlIlS IS HOW IT IS. Comedy. Bryan Patrick Moses. 3 m., I f. Int. Sam and David, college seniors, meet at their local bar. When Jill enters, Sam watches as David tries to hook her with his' 'nonverbal codes." This balance of power play provides shifts and turns that are certain to delight audiences, especially college groups. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21982) THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN NEATO-MAN. Farce. Timothy Harris. 2 m., 2 f. Int. In this wacky. super duper farce, an innocent nerd answers an employment ad and winds up in the clutches of a combination Batman-Superman in need of a sidekick. His mother, who might be King Kong, is fun for the cast and audience. The avenging son rights all wrongs in the city and has a direct line to the police chief, who has never called. There is lots of razzmatazz, ding-dong lights and machinery to convince the nerd that he has the makings of a hero. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 15th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3698) THE BAKER'S NEIGHBOR. Drama. Jules Tasca. See Index under Spirit of Hispania for description. DOMINO COURTS. William Hauptman. See Index under Domino Courts/Comanche Cafe. THE INNER CIRCLE. Drama. Patricia Loughrey. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Mark tried drugs once, sharing the needle with an acquaintance. His friends are more important to him now and drugs are behind him, but he has AIDS. The characters build a time capsule of memories and images of their time with Mark. The script includes up-todate information on AIDS and has been seen by over one million students internationally. "The most innovative and significant youth AIDS awareness project of its kind."-CBS Evening News. $3.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please state one-act, (#11632) male/female version when ordering. THE MICE HAVE BEEN DRINKING AGAIN. Comedy. Cleve Haubold. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Jerry and Julie Reed are a happy young couple living in a small apartment. At least they would be happy if it were not for Roxanne Conch, who lives with them. This screwy comedy is filled with ingeniohs comic situations and laugh-packed (#694) surprises. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) MY DEAD WIFE'S MOTHER. Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Albert Bermel. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A sleeping wife is awakened by her husband who has been out all night. The squabble that ensues is fast and furious until a hideous piece of news threatens to change their lives. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $20(#15534) $15.) NIGHT ERRANT. Comedy. Georges Feydeau, translated by Michael Pilch. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A translation of Feu la Mere de Madame, this farce is set in 1910.. Things go seriously wrong when Lucien arrives home from a ball in the early hours of the morning dressed as Louis XIV. His late arrival and his enraptured account of the ball invite the wrath of his wife, which is heightened when he unwittingly makes disparaging remarks about her figure. The couple's argument is interrupted by the news of his mother-in-law's death-luckily it is a case of mistaken identity. "The play is concentrated essence of Feydeau; a series of matrimonial bedroom wrangles that says as much about married hell as Strindberg and gets more laughs." -Plays and Players. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#16056) THE PARTY. Comedy. Robert 1. Flaherty. 1 m., 3 f. Ext. This thoroughly charming play is about a successful woman executive who is planning to retire and move into a beach front community. Old friends are planning a party for her and she has some surprises in store for them. The first is that she is getting married. The second is that she is marrying a multi-millionaire. The toper is that he happens to be the local handyman whom they are always ordering about-"You mean, our Henry?" All four roles come through with a splendid flourish. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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HIDDEN IN THIS PICTURE. Comedy. Aaron Sorkin. 4 m. Ext. This delightful satire on movie-making is the original one-act play which subsequently became the second act Of Making Movies. See Index for description under Making Movies. Published in Best American Short Plays. 1990, $15.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) For future release. (#10687) HUMPHREY PUMPHREY HAD A GREAT FALL. Comedy. Alfred Greenaway. 2 m., 2 f. 2 simple sets. Opening on a bare stage, as a clock strikes thirteen, we find Humphrey, lately deceased, reliving, through flashbacks, the events leading up to his being pushed off a cliff by his wife. He obviously provoked her, or did he? Perhaps she was the one who should have been despatched to the other side? Why did the picnic hamper contain rope and a hammer? Who was having an affair with whom? Will Humphrey convince the Authority that he is innocent and worthy of a place in Heaven? Inspector Gabriel arrives to deliver the verdict. With ingeniously simple staging the play is witty, entertaining and very unusual. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

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REMEDIAL SURVEILLANCE. Eliot Byerrum. (See Index under Gumshoe Rendezvous for description.) SMALL CLAIMS. Comedy-Drama. Edward Clinton. 2 m., 2 f. 2 ints. (may be simply suggested). Timmy and Fiona are rich, powerful and on the verge of bankruptcy. Timmy's Harvard response is to sue everyone, even the IRS. When they sue high school dropouts Dusty and Adam for not doing a good enough job painting their house, Adam and Dusty counter-sue. As tensions rise and tactics grow more and more dire, both sides carry rationalization, self-justification and nastiness to extremes in this hilarious look at how individuals abuse the system and each other by taking personal frustrations into the legal area. A finalist in the Actors' Theatre of

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THE DAUGHTERS OF EDWARD D. BOlT. Dark comedy. Don Nigro. 4 f. Int. Four young sisters are trapped for a century in a famous painting by John Singer Sargent, arguing over which if any of them actually slept with the Italian steward on the ocean liner that took them to Italy, and over the relative pleasures and dangers of physical experience, fantasy, self-denial and art. Florence believes in experience, Jane in mystery, Mary Louisa in art, and baby Julia has had to go to the bathroom since 1882. This loving tribute to a very great painting is an imaginary journey into the world of the four girls imprisoned in it, and also deals with serious questions such as whether cockroaches are edible and why nobody would sleep with Henry James. In Green Man and Other Plays. $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6726)

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THE WOODMAN AND THE GOBLINS. Dark Comedy. Don Nigro. 1 m., 3 f. Four wooden chairs on a bare stage. A lonely woodcutter finds three eggs in the middle of the dark forest, brings them home, and they hatch into three beautiful young girls who first enchant, then torment and finally destroy him. This scarey, funny and haunting play is based on an old European folktale that was a favorite of Charles Dickens. In Green Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25731) ESCAPE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. Two Americans are in Paris on vacation. Gil is a handsome miser. Klutzy Martin is a free spender, but a nightmare of a travel mate. He drops cameras from cathedrals, spills food on other tourists and walks around Notre Dame with one pant leg stuck in his socks and an open fly. When Gil picks up two girls and tries to seduce them while spending a minimal amount, Martin stabs one of them in the eye with a loaf of bread. They wind up with no girls, just each other. "Wonderful!"-Ashland Daily Tidings. In Tour Di Europa, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when done with the other plays in the collection.) (#7635) WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA? Comedy. Warren Graves. 2 m., 2 f. Int. James, an elderly English gentleman and ex-Army Officer, is now living in Canada with his "Batman", Herbert, in strained circumstances. Whereas Herbert has a regular job as a doorman, James has been looking for work since 1945. It seems the world simply changed too much, as a result of the war, for James to cope; until, he meets a divorcee named Nola, who suggests his elegant manner perfectly suits him to be a head-waiter. Meanwhile, the landlady, Maudie, has her eyes set on Herbert. For James and Herbert, a cup of tea is all they ask. Maudie and Nola, on the other hand, have other, more carnal, desires. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25200) SHELL SHOCK. Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 4 m. Int. In this brief drama, set in the grill of the Harvard Club, we learn the true story of "heroic" Jack Arnold, who saved Roylston during a battle in World War I not out of bravery, but because he thought Roylston was dead out in No Man's Land and has a pack of cigarettes on his body. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol 1, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#21616) THE BACKGROUND. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 3 m., I f. 1 set. Art enthusiast Archie decides to have a European master painter do a painting using his back as a canvas. The Fall of Icarus is beautifully etched into his skin by an aging Italian painter. Pretentious Archie doesn't realize an art work done by an Italian master can't be taken out of Italy. He's given the choice to sit in a museum 8 hours a day, excluding weekends and holidays, or else go to prison. Pleading his case in court, he presents evidence he's no longer a work of art by revealing he's had The Fall of Icarus covered over by the British Flag. So he winds up in prison for defacing a famous Italian painting! In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when per(#22133) formed with the other plays in the collection.) THE HEN. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 2 m., 2 f. I set. The Songrails, Robert and Edwina, have a house guest, Jane. A messenger arrives and informs the Songrails that Dora, Jane's bitterest enemy, is about to arrive for a visit. How do they avoid a war between the two in their quiet little home? Robert devises a way to get Jane to want to leave of her own accord by pretending that their butler, Sturridge, is deranged and bent on killing her. At the end, Sturridge has done the job, but is completely unaware of how valuable a butler he really is. In Tales by Saki, $6.50. (Royalty, $25$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#22133) THE ROAD TO RUIN. Comedy. Richard Dresser. 3 m., 1 f. Int. Cliff and his wife Connie are in trouble: their car has broken down. They don't know what trouble is, though-until they try and get it fixed at Jimbo's Garage. In Splits ville: Three OneAct Plays, $5.00. Also in 25 Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when produced with the other plays in Splitsville.) Slightly Restricted. (#20654) STRA WBERRY PRESERVES. Comic drama. Le Wilhelm. 3 m., 1 f. lnt. Lyman, Badge and Trevor, partners in a successful landscaping company, are having a few beers on a rainy day, served by a laconic waitress named Molly, who is engaged to be married for the fifth time and has heard, and seen, it all. Lyman, the brains of the operation, has unwelcome news for his two buddies: He is quitting. Badge and Trevor are at a loss to understand Lyman's decision, which has a lot to do with a man who is asking himself the Big Questions and a little to do with strawberry preserves. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25$20.) (#21770) RECKLESSNESS. Drama. Eugene 0' Neill. 2 m .. 2 f. Int. When Arthur Baldwin learns that his wife Mildred has been having an affair with the chauffeur, he sets about to exact his revenge. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. 1, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#20655) INTERIOR DESIGNS. Comedy. Jimmie Chinn. 1m., 3 f. Bare stage. Him, a brash, arrogant odd-job man, is offering his "services" to three women: Holly, a successful TV-am news-reader; Irene, a solitary school-teacher; and Amy, a frustrated housewife. Although of very different backgrounds, the three women share a common fate of loneliness and frustration. Interior Designs follows their yearning to fill the emptiness of their lives and their various attempts to trap the eligible Him. For his part, Him wriggles out of it and, putting his coat on, silently goes out of their

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lives leaving a surrealistic abyss of desperation. Please note: This play is suitable for advanced groups only. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#11652) WHERE SHE WENT, WHAT SHE DII>. Comedy. Laura Cunningham. 3 m., I f. Comb. int. Daniel Doleman has no idea what his wife Celia does during the day while he is at work. Lately, though, she has been acting very strangely, putting hundreds of miles on the car, running up credit charges and generally acting, as far as Doleman is concerned, like a woman having an affair. Doleman becomes obsessed with thoughts of his wife's sexual infidelity-so much so that he hires a private investigator to trail her, at a considerable cost. Turns out, Celia simply leads a very active life, and is not having an affair, according to the report turned in by the detective. By this time, though, Doleman is so far gone that he begins to suspect the investigator of duping him-and hires another private investigator to trail the first (#25096) one! In I Love You, Two, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE MAN AT THE DOOR. Comedy. Laura Cunninghanl. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Susan and Tod Simon have been more or less continuously battling the entire 13 years of their marriage. As the play begins, they are on a 3-minute break, when in walks Gabe Mottola of Mottola Bros.-a matrimonial repair service. He's gotten a distress call over his radio, and he's come to fix their marriage, at $55Ihour, service call applied to the total, free estimates, no marital crack-up too severe, intimacy guaranteed for one year. Gabe has trouble jump-starting the Simon's marriage, though: so he calls in some back-up help, which arrives in the form of a middle-aged yenta sex-pot named Muriel Ravitch, who belly-dances under the nanle "Salome." Eventually, Salome and Gabe are able to get the Simon marital wreck humming again, before going off to the next job, and the next, and the next. In I Love You, Two, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15943) OVERTONES. Drama. Alice Gerstenberg. 4 f. Int. This play shows two women as they appear to each other and their inner selves as they really are. Harriet and Margaret are refined ladies, but Hettie and Maggie are their thoughts and emotions come to life. As cool and serene as Harriet and Margaret appear, they are volatile, troubled and passionate. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#17912) AN INFINITE DEAL OF NOTHING. Comedy. Mary Fournier Bill. 4 f. About three eccentric, middle-aged sisters who spend their days working and saving. Felicity, the youngest, has begun to question the worth of their various projects. She has tired of saving string and she sees little value in having their own catalogue of all the books in the public library. A visit by their carefree friend, Amelia Hotchkiss, gives rise to an amusing situation in which the two older sisters' somber dedication to duty is undermined by Amelia's happy and uncomplicated view of life. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#576) A CANDLE ON THE TABLE. Drama. Patricia Clapp. 4 f. Int. Three elderly women meet at lunch on their first day in a home for senior citizens. A candle placed there by the matron awakens different memories in each. To the frivolous, friendly exactress, candles belong with champagne and flowers. To the a nurse-maid, they speak of childhood poverty when candles gave the only light. To Mrs. Bramson they mean the formal dinner parties which only emphasized the emptiness of her life. The conversation reveals some surprising aspects of the lives and personalities of the women, and culminates in a friendship and an affirmative decision. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#5610) WHEN ALTARS BURN. Drama. Kay Arthur. 4 f. Int. A study of four generations, marked by finely drawn characterizations. A child is caught in the conflict between her mother and grandmother, and the clisis is precipitated by her revelation of a long-concealed truth. As the beloved great-grandmother dies in a climax of deep emotional intensity, the whole meaning of her life is disclosed, contrasting strongly with that of the irresponsible grandmother. The effects of both good and evil actions, devolving from one generation to the next, are vividly dramatized. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25664) THE BAD PENNY. Drama. Rachel Field. 4 f. Int. Lil Penny, who left the home of her Puritan family to become an actress, became known as the "Bad Penny." When the play opens, we find her sisters apprehensive for fear that Lil may tum up and claim her share of what little remains of the family fortunes. Lil, like the proverbial bad penny, does return and in a very poignant scene tries to reestablish herself with her sisters. After she is gone it develops that The Bad Penny is a very rich woman, and the sisters are left to drink the dregs of disappointment. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#4603) DEA THW ATCH. Drama. Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 4 m. Int. In a prison there's a murderer awaiting execution, a petty criminal, and a younger criminal who serves as a whipping post. The prison world is cut off from the world with its own hierarchy. The petty thief tries to build up his importance. He is jeered by the third criminal, whom he then strangles. But he has achieved nothing, says the murderer; the stigma of criminal eminence is a "gift from God or the devil." In The Maids and Deathwatch, $13.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#357) THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT. Tragedy. Wolf Mankowitz. 4 m., Fender, an old Jewish nightwatchman, dies even while his friend is making him his first good overcoat. He has waited all his life for such a coat, but dies in grief beforehand. (#4627) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Not available in Canada.

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and unforgiving as the food, where the "chef' is probably a throwback to a iost jungle civilization and the only customer aside from you and your prospect is a Rambo-maniac with Section 8 fever. A fast-paced and extraordinary comedy! In Buck Fever and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9688) SUMMER ROMANCE. Comedy. Murray Schisgal. 1 m., 3 f., Ext. Int. Alan Cane is deeply infatuated with Gladys. Gladys is not Alan's wife. Lena is Alan's wife. Gladys is a talking gorilla. What to do, what to do? Will True Love win out? In Closet Madness & Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21397) THE DEVIL. Farce. Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Jules Tasca. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. One of the funniest of de Maupassant's farces. Honoree, a greedy Norman peasant, has a mother who is unfortunately dying on the very day that Honoree's wheat must be readied for market. A doctor insists that someone stay with the old woman. Honoree insists he can't. When the doctor promises not to treat any man who would buy wheat from such a greedy person, he gives in and agrees to pay Madame Rapet to watch over his mother. But Madame Rapet is even greedier than Honoree. The hilarious clash of these two avaricious characters shows how greed can turn us all into devils. In The Necklace and Other Stories, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15990) AT HER AGE. Drama. Eve Merriam. 3 f., 1 m., plus 1 m. or f. pianist. Int. At Her Age is a one-act play with music, but the performers need not be accomplished singers. Set in the' 'Feminine Futures Boutique", it takes an affectionate, humorous look at five of the most prevalent stereotypes about older women in our society, and offers some choices and ideas for changing our attitudes. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3674) VACANT POSSESSION. Drama. Don West. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Alice and Ben have been paid compensation to leave their flat-the last tenants blocking the sale' of the property. They leave, "nice and legal", but move back within forty-eight hours. Warren, the new landlord's representative tries to oust them, nicely at first, then under threat. But it appears they cannot leave because of the cellar. Warren goes to investigate and becomes one more reason why they cannot leave. After all, they can provide the correct image the landlord needs for his new "establishment." A subtly written play with twisting developments. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#24608) THE BOOR HUG (Les Paves de l'ours). Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Casimir is trying, subtly, to rid himself of his mistress, Mimi, so he can marry the young and wealthy Babette. His new domestic, Flugel-fresh from the country-romps like the proverbial bull in his master's amorous china shop, unwittingly offending Babette's grotesque mother and committing numerous other innocent faux pas in his effort to serve his master, who sees his life come crumbling down around him. "Feydeau is devilishly hard to translate and Shapiro has done a first-rate job."-Daniel Gerould. In Feydeau, First to Last, $16.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4667) LAST CALL FOR BREAKFAST. Richard Gaunt & Michael Langridge. See Index under the Coarse Acting Show 2. THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLOUDED CRYSTAL. Comedy-Drama. Tim Kelly. 2 m., 2 f. Simple set. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini are dear friends although the issue of spiritualism often causes them to argue. Doyle arranges a seance and Houdini plans to expose the medium as a fraud, but he doesn't count on the woman's cleverness. Eventually, they strike a deal: if Houdini behaves, she won't reveal his secret-he believes Sherlock Holmes is a real person. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3606) A MATTER OF WIFE AND DEATH. Farce. Eugene Labiche. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. In this salon-farce, eccentric American millionaire, Timothy Van Lust, plies a total stranger, Vivian, with offers of a wealthy marriage. And for a most unorthodox reason. But this respectable Parisian dame can't be bought. Besides, she's in love with her narcoleptic, grandiloquent cousin, Gaston. Van Lust's despair and attempts at comical self-destruction are short-lived for fate and an unexpected telegram from America resolve the unusual triangle to everyone's satisfaction. In A Slap in Ihe Farce and A Matter of Wife and Death, $7.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#14997) ANYONE FOR TENNIS? Farce. Gwyn Clark. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Amanda and George have an arrangement by which one alternative Wednesdays each leaves the other to indulge in his or her private dalliance. All goes will until an unfortunate circumstance upsets the timetable. As a result the Wednesdays clash. Henry and Jane, the other partners, arrive on the same day. Keeping them apart causes complications. When Henry is concussed in the bathroom and finds himself on the bed clad only in a towel and attended to by both ladies, a convenient lapse of memory seems providential in saving a situation rendered even more tricky by the revelation that Jane and Henry are married. Just how genuine the lapse is may be questioned, but everything is carried off with perfect aplomb. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3643) THE NIGHTINGALE AND NOT THE LARK. Drama. Jennifer Johnston. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The caretaker of a performing hall lives in its dusty attic and takes little care of the building and less of herself. She spends her money on whiskey and cigarettes. She hears Romeo and Juliet being performed and it brings back happy and sad memories. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16641)

IF MEN PLAYED CARDS AS WOMEN DO. Satirical comedy. George S. Kaufman. 4 m. Int. A brilliant satire for men, successfully played in Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue." The fun is derived from the fact that a group of men at the bridge table speak, behave, and think after the manner in which women are supposed to conduct their game. A good tournament play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#570) COWBOYS #2. Drama. Sam Shepard. 4 m. Int. A formal piece with the elements of a real play that in turn creates a form which is symmetrical-visually, audioly, and emotionally. In Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5721) THE ELEPHANT CALF. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. English translation by Eric Bentley. 4 m., extras. Brecht draws upon the modern resources of comedy, the style of the music hall, the technique of the film, and absurdity raised to an art-gives theatre its new Brechtian image and dimension that has loomed so large on the modern stage. In The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $25$25.) Slightly Restricted. (#7604) THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY. Tragedietta. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m. Ext. In Selected Short Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $15-$15.) (#9647) WHEN YOU'RE BY YOURSELF, YOU'RE ALONE. Satirical Comedy. Gene McKinney. 4 m. I set. William, an eccentric recluse, has a unique problem. The building he lives in is being torn down. The contract with the landlord states the tenants' lives must end with the building's destruction. All the tenants are old and must die of natural causes-or commit suicide. William isn't dead and cannot get anyone to end his life. Finally, William and another ancient tenant find a positive solution to the problem and joyously leave the crumbling building. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25668) DON'T BLAME IT ON THE BOOTS. Comedy. N.J. Warburton. 1m., 3 f. 2 sets. No one would have blamed it on the boots if only Kate had produced Macbeth instead of Hamlet or Ophelia hadn't been so attractive and naive or Eric had smaller feet and wasn't the drama group's prize flirt or Liz's father hadn't been an actor who once trod the boards at Stratford in those self-same boots. But Kate does produce Hamlet and Eric flirts outrageously with the impressionable Ophelia. Liz insists that the Ghost wear the boots. On the last night the boots are worn but not, as everyone thinks, by Eric. He is trapped in his dressing room. So who gave such an impressive performance as the Ghost? This witty comedy is simple to stage and offers excellent casting opportunities. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6713) BROTHERS. Drama. Jules Tasca. 3 m., I f. Int. A sensitive look at two brothers, one mentally ill, Benjamin; the other, Gene, normal. Benjamin refuses to go to his cousin's wedding because he claims he can't stand seeing his brother, Gene, carrying on an affair with Sosya, a married woman. Through his mental illness, Benjamin is actually hallucinating that Gene and Sosya are having an affair because Benjamin has strong feelings for Sosya himself. The ironic twist is that secretly Gene and Sosya are seeing each other. "Goes beneath the ordinary to uncover real human perplexities"-New Hope Gazette. In The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection,).Please state author when ordering. (#4162) FITS AND STARTS. Comedy. Grace McKeaney. 2 m., 2 f. 1 set. Babs Bowell has decided life has no discernable pattern or meaning only to find she has an audience watching her. For the next hour she "accounts" comically and feelingly for the amazing events in the life of an "ordinary American housewife. "Very funny ... an onslaught on 20th century pressures. . . . McKeaney writes with the ferocity of the true iconoclast."-Boston Globe. In Chicks and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8138) THE COMING OF MR. PINE. Comedy. Grace McKeaney. 1 m., 3 f. 1 set. In a parlor somewhere at twilight, three women await a visitor from the world of "deja vu". When Mr. Pine arrives, he brings with him mystery and innuendo. Is he the answer to their dreams, or another figment of yearning? An evening of satire in which words conjure, arouse, titillate and finally elude the demands of action. The sexual innuendo is all tongue-in-check. "Fascinating. . . hilarious. A deft satire of women's preoccupation with men."-Minneapolis Star & Tribune. In Chicks and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5210) BUCK FEVER. Comedy. Bill Bozzone. 3 m., 1 f. Int. A remarkable and hilarious play about two hunting buddies who, upon returning to their cabin in the woods, discover that their wives have become lovers in the husbands' absence and then absconded with the only car, leaving the miserable (and very confused) husbands stranded alone. Fully expecting the return of their wayward wives, the husbands decide to jump into bed together, so that upon their return, the wives, will see just how ridiculous homosexuality looks. What the husbands don't expect is their discovery in bed by another hunting buddy and his date. In Buck Fever and Other (#4697) Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) GOOD HONEST FOOD. Comedy. Bill Bozzone. 3 m., 1 f., 1 m. voice. Int. You're a young, ambitious executive salesman with a large photocopy machine company. This sales meeting you're about to have could mean the difference between being labeled a "wunderkind" or a failure. But then, your prospect wants to have the sales meeting over lunch, at this flea-bitten diner, where the waitress is almost as nasty

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THE WHITE CAT. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 2 f. Published in Races, $6.75. (Royalty, $10$10.) (#25245) GOOD HELP IS HARD TO FIND. Dark Comedy. Arthur Kopit. 1 m., 3 f., 1 ext., 2 ints. (very simply suggested). This unique piece, is about a wealthy elderly couple who can't seem to find good servants. Eventually, the agency sends them a servant who works for almost nothing. Unfortunately, she may also be the Ange[ of Death. This was a success at NYC's famed Ensemb[e Studio Theatre, perhaps the most noted producer of one-act plays in the U.S. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9081) MURDER PLAY. Thriller. Brian 1. Burton. 2 m., 2 f. Int. When Peter and Robyn wake up the morning after a dinner party at the home of their friends and employers David and Jane Valentine, they, are still shocked at having been sacked by David the night before. More shocks are to come for David appears to be dead, and Jane calmly announces she killed him. At first Peter and Robyn refuse to believe her, but as she explains the "how, when and why" of the murder, they are forced to accept she has committed the "perfect" crime and to avoid implicating themselves, they will have to help her to dispose of the body. Stunned and bitter, they [eave, but then it transpires that the "murder" is really an elaborate practical joke. Or is it? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15712) JOGGERS. Play. Geraldine Aron. 2 m., 2 f. 2 simple exts. Gus and Wally meet while jogging near their holiday hotel. Gus and his wife Sylvie are on a seven-day package deal, while Wally is honeymooning his second wife Norma. At first, Gus envies Wally's money, success, beautiful wife etc. While the men become acquainted while jogging, their wives exchange confidences while sunbathing. During the course of a week Gus changes. Subtly becoming top dog as he discovers Wally's weak points. By the time they meet for their final jogging session he realizes he'd rather be himself, "humdrum job, packaged holidays and al[". Wally is distressed and scared at the know [edge that Gus no longer envies him, but by making a supreme effort he (#12616) manages to maintain the facade. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) BLOODLINE or Hanged in Their Own Family Tree. Richard S. Dunlop. See Index , for description. MR. TUCKER'S TAXI. Leonard Melfi, 2 m., 2 f., Composite int.lext. Mr. Tucker drives his taxicabs allover Manhattan with his wife sitting next to him. He is dying of a terminal disease. A desperate young lady hails them down, wanting to be rushed to the nearest hospital. At a red light they are hijacked by a young man with a gun who has just robbed a bank. Mr. Tucker obeys the hijacker until, finally, everything is out of controL In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15705) TODDY'S TAXI. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., 2 f. Composite int.lext. Toddy likes to listen to "The Firebird Suite" in his taxi. On this day he picks up a drunken out-of-town businessman accompanied by two "ladies of the night", who are seeing him off at Kennedy Airport. You meet all kinds driving a taxi! In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22723) TRIPPER'S TAXI. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., 2 f. Compo int.lext. Tripper is always on drugs. His taxicab is a special world in itself. When a well-to-do older man, his wife and their teen-aged daughter start an incestuous affair in the back seat, Tripper needs a fast catalyst-a drug-induced suicide. In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#22764) THE TEASER'S TAXI. Leonard Melfi. 2 m., 2 f. Compo int.lext. Teaser the taxidriver is a total innocent who dreams of being a pop singer. On this rainy New York City day he picks up a contessa and her cat, a young male hustler and a wandering young woman with a suitcase. Teaser wants to protect them all from the rain, but, in the end, everything backfires on him. In Later Encounters, $7,50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#22620) THE HOLY GHOSTLY. Drama. Sam Shepard. 3 m., I f. Int. A symbolic representation of the gradual death of the human spirit at the mercy of society. It involves a confrontation between father and son, the father long dead yet living on mechanically, the no-longer-human end-product of his environment; the son frustrated and angry at his father's fate, frightened by his inner knowledge that this could easily be his fate as well. In The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#10655) DREAMS OF GLORY. A bitter-sweet comedy. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. Two late-forties couples are at the country club dance. George Brewster finally admits to his wife and the other couple that he has indeed gained the long-sought-after presidency of his company. And he also tells them of that time long ago at his school prom when he had briefly filled in as piano player in Tommy Dorsey's band. Dorsey had given George a card with what he said was his private number-and indicating George had promise. George has dreamed all these years of how exciting and satisfying his life might have been. Now, his career at its peak, he had called-and learned that "dreams of glory" are-just dreams. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6678) THE PRIVATE PROP. OF ROSCOE POINTER. Drama. Louis Damelio, 2 m., 2 f., 3 off-stage voices. Int. . Roscoe, retarded and in his fifties, has to move from the rooming house he's lived in for years. His brother, remembering the pledge he made to their mother, tries to get Roscoe to move in with his family. Roscoe refuses to give up his independence. His brother realizes for the first time that some mentally-

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS retarded people can make their own way in life with the help of kind and understanding people. Winner of the Gassner award. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18671) PASTICHE, Romantic Farce. Nick Hall. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Sir Peter has planned a dinner for two. His companion is Viola, a young chorus girL But he's forgotten it's his wedding anniversary-his wife, Lady A[exandra, comes home early and aided by the butler, Medford, turns Sir Peter's evening into a shambles. Medford interrupts the dinner disguised as a policeman-then Lady A[exandra appears in a Salvation Army uniform-then Medford in the guise of a gypsy violinist-and finally the two of them disguised as Sir Peter's parents. Viola-unlike Sir Peter-is unaware of their true identity and [eaves in a huff. Sir Peter and his wife make up and sit down to an anniversary supper. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18601) THA T TIME. Drama. Samuel Beckett. 1 non-speaking character, 3 m. voices. Bare stage, In Collected Shorter Plays: Beckett , $15.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted; write for details. (#22603) THE RETURN. Mystery-drama. Mario Fratti. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A man's mother, his exfiancee and his best friend, Maso are awaiting his "return" home. An "escort" appears bearing the man's ashes from a concentration camp. We learn the "escort" and Maso were in the same camp and Maso--thinking only of his own skin-had betrayed him. The escort has come for Maso to punish him for his crime. But the mother wants the ex-fiancee and Maso to stay--even though she knew Maso had betrayed her son-for they are the only two who can make her son still live in her eyes. The author has been called the Pirandello of our time and widely acclaimed in Europe and America. In Four by Fratti, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. (#20601) DATE. Comedy. Sam Smiley. 1 m., 3 f. Int. Brims with humor and pathos by showing how the touch of life connects the generations. As granddaughter Violet prepares for a significant date, Lily steals into the living room. Her cruel daughter, Laurel, catches her, but Violet prevents a row. Boyfriend Herbie arrives, and Laurel leaves. But when Violet and Herbie start out, Lily grasps Violet's wrist and refuses to let go. The key action-by turns hilarious and touching-shows the young couple trying to get grandmother Lily to turn loose. And she reveals why she won't. A surprising climax indicates the potentials of living relationships. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6605) THE DRUNKEN SISTERS. Comedy. Thornton Wilder. 1 m., 3 f. Ext. Wilder's conception of the satyr that followed Euripides' "Alcestis" in ancient Greek festivals. Apollo ventures into the [and of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man's life, and here in disguise he tricks the sisters into releasing their death-hold on the king, The trick: 3 flagons of wine which he declares to be Aphrodite's beauty-drink but which make the sisters drunk. Then he pulls a riddle on them, releasing the king from their snares-but only on the understanding that another is to die in his stead, who is his wife, Alcestis. $4.50. Also published with The Alcestiad, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$[5 or $50-$40 when performed with The Alcestiad.) (#6682) SHADOWS OF THE EVENING. Comedy. Noel Coward. 2 m., 2 f. $11.95. See Index for description (#21106). WHY HANNA'S SKIRT WON'T STAY DOWN. (I-act version.) Tom Eyen. See Index under Tom Eyen: Ten Plays. O'FLAHERTY V.C. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. Shaw has taken as time and place-1915 on the grounds of an Irish country house. What he has to say is nearly boundless. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95 (Royalty, $25-$15.) (#17607) WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? Comedy. Jim Lee. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A wild comedy with serious undertones. It involves Harold and Lucille, a bored, middle-aged couple; Florence, a spinster and neighbor; and Buckley, a confused policeman. Harold shoots himself and Lucille's upset over the scandal. Florence complains to Buckley about the noise. All four are in Harold and Lucille's living room when Harold suddenly jumps up (the suicide was faked) and threatens to blow up the building with a bomb (also a fake). From then on confusion and chaos reign. Thoroughly confused Florence and Buckley finally leave and Harold and Lucille resume their bored lives. $4.50, (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1198) MY NEXT HUSBAND WILL BE A BEAUTY. Comedy-tragedy. Tom Eyen. 2 m" 2 f. Int. Based on Kitty Genovese's murder witnessed by thirty neighbors unwilling to aid her. Set in the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court, Virginia comes to stay with her aunt and uncle. A strange man's been trailing her from Chicago. Her relatives are too busy talking to pay much attention to Virginia and a strange man rapes and murders her in front of them. He leaves and the relatives finally see what's happened. They try to exit quietly until the uncle notices the audience. Gui[t dawns on them, but the aunt implies the audience is just as guilty as they, too, had only watched. "A frightening play written with imagination, wit and feeling."-London Times. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays,.$7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15608) ACTION. Drama. Sam Shepard. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Four people are drinking coffee and a turkey is in the oven. The women do ordinary household tasks and appear to be normal beings, On the other hand, the men, with shaven heads, seem like stage

CHARACTERS humanoids. They are subject to fits and fears. The four seem lost in time and place--even as they act out strange roles while still doing ordinary things. It is at the same time a familiar yet frightening world, inhabited by seemingly familiar yet strange people. In Fool for Love & Other Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Please state author when ordering. (#3603)

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THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS. George Bernard Shaw. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. This is Shaw's contribution to his country's national theatre, an imaginary adventure between William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. Will goes to the palace to meet the Dark Lady to whom he addressed his sonnets of love, only to find instead the Queen herself taking a walk before retiring. He is so fascinated by her-keeps writing down her bon mots-that he does not notice the approach of the Dark Lady, who is furiously jealous and gives them both a drubbing in the dark. Both poet and prince meet in agreement that man does not live by bread alone. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#351) IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN. John M. Synge. 3 m., 1 f. Int. One evening in the fog and rain of an Irish glen there appears at Nora's cabin a wanderer in search of food and shelter. He is invited in, then startled to find the man of the house dead abed. His coming allows Nora to slip out and pass the word through the area. She is no sooner gone, than himself arises from the dead and asks for a nip. He resumes his "dead" position as Nora returns with the youth of the region, both of whom are later terrified when he again arises from his deathbed, and expels poor Nora from the house. The wanderer takes pity on her, walks out into the night with her and will hereafter serve as her shelter. In Complete Plays of Synge, $15.00. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#11646) COME INTO THE GARDEN MAUD. Comedy. Noel Coward. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Performed with Shadows of the Evening in London with Coward, Lilli Palmer and Irene Worth, this view of the haute monde is tempered by having the man and wife Americans this time. She is a social climber, while he is a rich cornhusker who couldn't care less about society. While the wife is entertaining a high and mighty prince downstairs, the husband is entertaining a threadbare princess upstairs. It doesn't take long for the husband to realize he has more in common with royalty than his wife does. "A drama of profound depth and significance." -London Daily Express. Produced in New York under the title Non Coward in Two Keys, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#5692) THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER. Comedy. Ray Bradbury. 3 m., 1 f. Compo int.lext. An excellent characterization of three old men who are rocking away their lives on the porch of an empty hotel, situated in a desert miles from nowhere. Today is the one day of the year on which it has always rained, so today is one of unusual expectation for them. But as evening descends, the rain has not materialized. One man goes in to lie down and die, an another prepares to pack up and leave. At this point they hear a puffing old car, which finally sighs and expires outside their door. From it emerges a dandy large woman and a harp. She not only revitalizes the old fellows; but when she plays the harp, the rain comes in earnest. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6610) ROUGH DRAFT. Comedy. Cliff Harville, Jr. 1 m., 3 f. Int. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20635) OVERRULED. George Bernard Shaw. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A middle-aged man and woman who have just ended a voyage are sitting in a hotel lobby declaring their platonic affection for one another-or demurring, as the game proceeds. Each is horrified to learn that the other is not widowed, but still married. Nevertheless, it can't be helped, so madly do they regard one another. Whereupon, enter their spouses, who have a similar regard for one another. What had been a game of singles, is now a game of doubles. The one woman likes to be loved, and the other is bored by love but amused by lovers. So the game will continue. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $25-$15.) (#17651) THE RATS. Melodrama. Agatha Christie. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A man arrives at a flat in answer to a message, and then a woman arrives by another invitation. They are lovers. In the midst of this perplexity there enters an odd fellow who had known the woman's first husband very well. After he leaves, they find themselves locked in. The fellow, who correctly guessed that the woman killed her first husband, has set the stage to trap them like rats. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20608) SOMEONE FROM ASSISI. Thornton Wilder. 1 m., 3 f. A symbolical play about a man named Francis who bears an unspeakable burden of sin and who is now plighted to Lady Poverty. A crazy woman who once knew a Francis and once was untrue to her husband bears the marks and symbols of lust. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) . (#21735) THREE ON A BENCH. Comedy. Doris Estrada. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. An appealing slant on an "in-the-park" situation. Mrs. Moore, a lonely widow, amuses herself by observing couples that come into the park and by helping them. Yes, one can see many things in a park in the spring. Officer Callahan has had a "marryin' eye" on Mrs. Moore for some time and says: "It's amazin' the way that woman can figure out human nature." $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#1074) THE SILK SHIRT. Drama. Tim Kelly. 1 m., 3 f. Int. An unemployed young actor and his wife live with his semi-invalid mother and shy older sister until something turns up. Their life style conflicts with the mother's. The climax occurs when the wife returns with an expensive silk shirt for a good friend, now blind. The mother's outraged at the wife's extravagance and conflict's renewed until the sister--understanding human motives-asserts herself. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21699) QUEENS OF FRANCE. Satiric comedy. Thornton Wilder. 1m., 3 f. 2 extras, Int. Set in New Orleans in 1869. Monsieur Cahusac, a greedy lawyer, carries on under

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION. Comedy. Robert Patrick. 2 m., 2 f. Suggested setting. A suite of three mini plays. Lights: An art-gallery opening brings a confrontation between an older woman and her gauche young protegee. (#14604) Camera Obscura: Computer-mated over long-distance television, a boy and girl encounter technological and temperamental contretemps. (#302) Action: An older and a younger writer write one another's lives, each unaware that they are living a cliche. (#3008) "Had to be written, must be seen."-Show Business. Ideal for contests and competitions. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 per (#14631) play or $30-$30 for the suite.) Please state author when ordering. THE ARNOLD BLISS SHOW. Farce. Robert Patrick. 3 m., 1 f. A daffy experiment-the story of an actor's rise to fame and madness through four independent sketches. The role of Arnold is a brilliant showcase for a young actor. "Tough and slickish New Yorkish humor beside which all other humor dies without laughing."-Scotsman. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 per sketch or $50-$35 for all four.) (#3655) THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD FINDS HAPPINESS. Verse Farce. Robert Patrick. 1 m., 3 f. Bare stage. Geraldine, the Richest Girl in the World, is being wooed by the Handsomest Movie Star. But she has been elected Miss America, and her maid, Madalayna, must find her with the news before she weds. The chase through the twelve-hundred room mansion is absurd and hilarious. The ending, of course, is happy as a lark should be. In Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20602) THE IMBECILE. Comedy. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray. 3 m., 1 f., 5 extras. Int. In provincial Italy, overbearing, politically ambitious newspaper editor Paroni condemns a dead colleague for not killing a rival before taking his own life. His sometime ally Luca, ill and himself contemplating suicide, decides to teach Paroni a lesson by threatening to shoot him. Parodi quails in terror, and Luca forces him to write an admission of cowardice that will end Paroni's political career. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#11602) MILL HILL. Comedy. John Mortimer. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The wife of a well-to-do dentist is on the verge of having an affair with Peter Trilby, also a dentist. They get a few hours to themselves just before her son comes home from school. But the husband comes home unexpectedly and them discovers in the bedroom. He is furious, and challenges Peter to a duel. Eventually, the wife is saved, and Peter, having bowed out, goes down to the school to pick up her son. In Come as You Are, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15665) BERMONDSEY. Drama. John Mortimer. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Takes place in the living room behind the Purvis' bar, on Christmas Eve, after closing time. Iris gains a helper in Rosemary and tries not to lose her husband because of it. In Come as You Are, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4626) THE VISE. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Translated by William Murray. GiuIia, wife of Andrea Fabri, is having an affair with Antonio, the lawyer, and the discovery of this by Andrea leads to her stunning and naturalistic suicide, as the men confront one another. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#24601) 'TWAS BRILLIG. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 2 m., 2 f. Int. A writer's bungalow at a major film studio in Hollywood is the setting. Bob is new in the office and Edna is his secretary that sets him straight. She does her crossword puzzles, unless needed, and Mr. Vogel, an eccentric old man, and the boss drive Bob into a game of nonsense, demanding to know from him what the capital of the United States is. In Present Tense, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Not available NYC. (#22781) SHUT UP, MARTHA! Comedy. Cleve Haubold. 3 m., 1 f. Int. On a stormy night, a mysterious cloaked figure appears in Benjamin Franklin's print shop to insist Ben print a letter "to save the country." The fun and confusion build until the visitor produces a basket of chocolates and casts off her disguise to reveal herself as Martha Washington. Wild-eyed Martha plies the wary Ben with promises and peanut-brittle to persuade him to publish her note in which she sees a Tory behind every tree. Ben tries to calm Martha, but she becomes a whirlwind of confusion, when George Washington himself angrily arrives to drag Martha back to Mount Vernon. A mad historical romp which shows how history can repeat itself. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#21696) THE BANKER'S DILEMMA. Farce. Cleve Haubold. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Banker Van Bludgeon roars into Widder Twilly's store to collect the money owed him, or bounce her and her son, Norman, out into the street. The stagecoach from Ponca City deposits a veiled and hysterical young maiden-Dorothea-into the Twilly store. Norman sets out to raise money by peddling his stock of crocheted doorstops, but rapidly gets tangled up in a hilarious plot which involves the entire cast. When the dust settles, the Banker and the Widder are making eyes at each other, Norman and Dorothea are holding hands, the store is saved. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#253)

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the cover of his profession a clever hoax in which he extorts money from credulous women by convincing them they are the rightful heirs to the throne of France (#886) through relationship to the lost Dauphin. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) STILL STANDS THE HOUSE. Drama. Gwen Pharis Ringwood. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Bruce finally agrees to give up his house for his wife's sake when a city man makes him an offer, although it means admitting defeat. But his sister refuses to move from the house with its hallowed memories. And as a result she knowingly sends Bruce and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21338) THE TWELVE POUND LOOK. Play. J. M. Barrie. 2 m., 2 f. Int. On the eve of his knighthood, Harry Simms is full of the great things he considers he has achieved. A typist has been hired to answer the messages of congratulation. She turns out to be his former wife, Kate, who was so oppressed by his hardness and petty-mindedness that she secretly learned to type and left him as soon as she had earned 12 pounds, the price of a typewriter. She is quite contented with her lot, and her fearlessness and humor contrast strongly with the cowed and joyless expression of the second Lady Simms who, when Kate has gone, asks the price of a typewriter. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1095) BROTHERS IN ARMS. Comedy drama. Merrill Denison. 3 m., 1 f. Int. Satirizes the romantic notion of the great out-of-doors. Major Brown is much too valuable to fight. His wife, Dorothea, and Syd, a native, frustrate every move Brown strives to make. Both men have been in the army but see it through different spectacles. When Brown has been worn to a bundle of frayed nerves, a simple solution is reached. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4686) AFTERWARDS. Drama. Geraldine McGaughan. 3 m., 1 f. Ext. The Boy and Girl discover themselves in a meadow late at night. She and the Boy are dead. But the faces have changed almost beyond recognition. That is because each has tried to make himself the sort of person he mistakenly supposed the other wanted him to be. Not until after death has either realized how much happier he would have been as his natural self. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#210) POOR AUBREY. Comedy. George Kelly. 1 m., 3 f. Int. The one-act from which developed the Broadway success The Show-Off. When Amy Piper receives a visit from an old girl friend her husband, Aubrey, tries desperately to impress the visitor. This is his usual way. He is flattered by her compliments on his masculine beauty, but not until she has gone does he realize that he has lost his toupee in the course of the conversation. He tells impressive tales of his wealth, his home, his car--{)nly to have his mother-in-law burst his balloon in comic fashion. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#18654) FUMED OAK. Comedy. Noel Coward. 1m., 3 f. Int. One of the Tonight At 8:30 series, produced in London and New York. In the middle-class drawing room of amiable and hard-working Henry Gow passes most of the family life surrounding his harridan-wife Doris, his brat-daughter Elise, and his complaining mother-in-law Mrs. Rockett. But Henry is a turned worm when he comes home with a couple of drinks under his belt and a new courage. So he reveals his plans for escape, his longtime saving which now makes it possible for him to leave. He vows never to see his family again, jauntily leaves, and saucily slams the door. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)
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out, has investigated the mysterious death of her fust husband. She manages to poison Clarence's drink, then calmly awaits the arrival of the next detective. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10638) DAFT DANNY. Comedy. Luke Stewart. 3 m., I f. Int. Danny returns to patch up a quarrel with Molly and finds she's made another date. He insists she break it, but she refuses. As she prepares for her date, Danny pretends he's Molly's simpleminded brother. The ruse works and his rival flees. Molly's furious when she discovers his trick. The rival returns, learns he's been duped, and assumes they're both in on the hoax. Finally, Molly decides to forgive and forget. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)
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WHA T SHALL WE TELL CAROLINE? Comedy. John Mortimer. 2 m., 2 f. Int. On Caroline's 18th birthday her parents realize they must tell her something: but what? They themselves know very little about life. Father is the headmaster of a small boys' school who treats mother like a good chap. Mother for her part responds good-naturedly to the harmless advances of the assistant headmaster, who is himself well over the hill. Caroline is a strange and silent girl, but has been secretly growing up. Before they can tell her anything, she tells them she is leaving to enter her own life. "A brilliant comic playwright."-London Express. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 or $50-$35 when performed with Dock Brief) (#25658) THE BOY UPSTAIRS. Comedy. Lucile Vaughan Payne. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Joanna March, a high school sophomore, is facing her first formal date in a state bordering on hysteria. However, she learns boys are just as nervous and her friend, Brandon, gives her some advice about what parents expect from their offspring regarding behavior. Joanna's date with Jack Bayfield, a senior, precipitates a crisis in her life and Brandon's. But instinct takes care of everything as her mother had assured (#4663) Joanna it would-but in a surprising way. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) FIRST DATE. Comedy. 1. T. Elias. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Peter Gillespie, surprised that his daughter is now a young woman, suddenly begins worrying about the kind of boy dating her. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8621) SPARKlN'. Comedy. E. P. Conkle. 1m., 3 f. This is a delightful little comedy of small-town Nebraska people and has to do with a timid young man who goes courting, but is unable to corne to the point until Granny teaches him how to become (#990) a man. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. Comedy-fantasy. Douglas Parkhirst. 2 m., 2 f. Int. First produced on NBC Television starring Burgess Meredith. Into the holiday-scented kitchen of lovely old Gram Wilson a mysterious gentleman appears. His intentions become comically alarming as he awkwardly attempts to do away with the old lady. After a fumbling and hilarious wrestle with his conscience, he admits he is from heaven and that he has come to take Gram back up there to cook for his section to earn his wings. However, a surprise ending sends him scooting back where he came from. Recommended for schools, churches and amateur groups. $4.50. (Royalty, (#1073) $20-$15.) RIDERS TO THE SEA. Drama. 1. M. Synge,. 1 m., 3 f. (extras). Int. The most impressive of the Synge one-acts has to do with the mother of a fisherman who buries her last son, drowned at sea. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#920) THE NO 'COUNT BOY. White version. Paul Green. 2 m., 2 f. Ext. About a boy who has dreams and who persuades Pheelie to leave her fiance and wander with him over the face of the earth. The boy's mother at the last moment intervenes and he is driven off to his home. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16628) LOVE AND HOW TO CURE IT. Thornton Wilder. 2 m., 2 f. Int. Some English players have a late supper on the stage of a cold empty theatre. The young dancer's rejected lover is prevented from a firing a shot by the persuasion of an old comedian. In Collected Short Plays: Wilder, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#14657) A SUNNY MORNING. Comedy. Serafin and Joaquin Alverez Quintero, trans. by Lucretia Xavier Floyd. 2 m., 2 f. Ext: This play is a great favorite with amateurs since it requires the simplest sets and no accessories. It has to do with an aged couple who years before had been in love. A delightful mixture of sentiment and wit. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1012)

THE FIRST DRESS SUIT. Comedy. Russell Medcraft. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The trials and tribulations of a young boy on the occasion of ordering and wearing his first dress suit. The play is ~ delightful comedy about young Americans. Around a very simple episode the author has grouped a number of genuine Americans, eager and excited and full of that optimism of youth which is contagious. The play has been produced in every part of the country, and excellent for play tournaments. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8624) THE FORM. Comedy. N. F. Simpson. 2 m., 2 f. Int. The story of a willowy little man who comes to an office for an interview. He has a long wait, and to kill time he shows the receptionist his photographic collection. Finally, the important man arrives and the little man is given his forms to fill out. Don't bother too much with the answers to the questions, he is told; just concentrate on the replies. The little man leaves, but returns shortly a changed man, and forthwith begins interviewing and lecturing the important man himself. A thought-provoking, topsy-turvy comedy. (#8639) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) PURGATORY. Melodrama. W. B. Yeats. 3 m., 1 f. Ext. Yeats tells in verse the story of a troubled father and his son who return to the barren site of the father's youth. In Eleven Plays by W. B. Yeats, $22.50. Also in The Modern Theatre, Vol. 2, $23.00. (Royalty. $20-$15.) (#18674) THE NEW TENANT. Farce. Eugene lonesco. Trans. by Donald Watson. 3 m., I f. Int. A new tenant moves into his house, and as in "The Chairs," so does the furniture. More and more furniture comes in. And still more. Finally there is a complete wall of furniture around the tenant, and when the last piece is crammed in, he is happily alone in his new room, and from the depths asks someone to turn out the lights. In Three Plays by Ionesco. $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16617) HE'S DEAD ALL RIGHT. Play. John Gainfort. 3 m., I f. Int. A zany comedymystery. Barbara shoots her husband Joe, who just has time to call the cops before he expires. Barbara contrives to be left alone with detective Clarence who, it turns

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*THE KING AND THE CONDEMNED. Farce. Larry Brenner. 4 m, 1 f. Int. Comedy ensues when a troop of actors refuse to perfornl their poorly-written. low budget play. Instead, they hold the audience captive. When one patron attempts to leave, he is forced on stage and into a world where he must contend with a lustful princess, a brutish guard, an obnoxious clown and an egotistical king. If he can defeat them, he will go free; if he fails, he will remain on stage with them forever. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, #29, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#12993) ALONG FOR THE RIDE. Comedy. Jay Hanagan. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. Kerrie and Karl both race for the same cab and agree to share. Their subconscious selves ride along, so the audience hears what they say to each other and what they are actually thinking throughout this charming comedy about love at first sight that just takes a

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SOMEPLACE WARM. Drama. Peter Macklin. 3 m., 2 f. . Ints. A rape survivor who finds she is pregnant must decide if she wants to raise the child with help from her best friends, a gay couple who long for a child of their own. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#21464) TERMINAL TERROR. Comedy. Kitty Burns. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Interplay between an airline agent and four passengers reveals that two are deadly afraid of flying. Their fear is eased once they are in the air-until their destination is reveled. Published with On Hold at 30,000 Feet and Identity Crisis in If God Wanted Us to Fly, He Would Have Given Us Wings, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $60-$40 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#21993) A WELL TAUGHT LESSON. Comedy. Annie G. 5 f. Unit set. With a respectful nod to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair, this lesson in standing up for yourself and not letting others take advantage of you is ideal for high schools. Becky arrives from Indonesia to spend her junior year with her popular cousin Gwen, who will get the BMW of her dreams only if she makes sure Becky feels included. Gwen reluctantly educates Becky about current popularity prerequisites and she succeeds all too well. Published with It's Only a Test, $6.50. (Royalty $30-$30.) (#25641) AS ANGELS WATCH. Drama. Jim MacNerland. 2 m., 3 f. Int. An out-of-place couple await the arrival of a well-to-do couple in an elite restaurant. The wealthy couple have paid the other for a surrogate conception and tests now show that the fetus is afflicted with Downs' syndrome. The well-to-do couple want to pay to have the baby aborted. The surrogate couple adamantly refuse. "What will we do now?" , asks the well-to-do woman. Well, there are courts of law, and so forth. "No, she says; I mean about our baby?" Absolutely rivetting play. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, ~25-$20.) (#3154) BAIT AND SWITCH. Comedy. Richard Dresser. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Doug and Gary own a restaurant on the boardwalk which is fast going under because stinging jellyfish are keeping customers away from the beach and because the brothers are less than adept businessmen. Gary isn't aware that his brother is skimming profits. Their only hope is Kenny, a slick wiseguy with possible Mob connections. This incisive comic look at the American entrepreneurial mentality is by the author of The Downside, Better Days and Alone at the Beach. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted NY, LA and London. (#3948) DAMSEL OF THE DESERT or A Villain Foiled by Virtue. Melodrama. Fred Carmichael. 2 m., 3 f. Int. After Melody's parents are taken by the angels, her grandmother mistakenly throws out her pitiful inheritance: a small pot of gold dust. Melody is pursued by an amnesiac villain, saved by the dauntless hero and enriched by the dirty water in the well (oil) in a riotous tale of loves lost and found. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#6199) GHOST OF A CHANCE. Drama. Brian 1. Burton. 5 f. Int. When Mrs. Dean discovers that one of her ancestors is supposed to haunt an old deserted house, she arranges with the caretaker to spend thirty minutes in the house alone at night. As she watches in silence, dramatic events of two days in 1860 are re-enacted by the former inhabit~ts of the house. She leaves, having found out the true reason for the reputed haunting-or does she? $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9697) HEY, CUT OUT THE PARADING AROUND STARK NAKED! Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Albert Bermel. 4 m., 1 f. Int. As two politicians from opposing parties attempt to make a deal, they are distracted by the pretty wife flitting around in flimsy garments. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9973) IF YER TAKE A SHORT CUT, YER MIGHT LOSE THE WAY. Comedy. David Henry Wilson. 4 m., 1 f. Int. Written in a wonderful Cockney accent, the absurdist comedy takes place in the Truthseekers' home where precious few signs are provided on the road to finding truth in the modern world. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#11621) IN WITH ALMA. Drama. Steven Packard. 4 m., 1 f. Ext. Folks in the small midwestern town of Buntville attend church regularly, work hard and sleep well. Each tends his business and takes care of his problems. Carl and Herbert have been friends since childhood. Both sing bass in the choir and both serve on the cemetery maintenance committee. Herbert's wife makes the best pies in town and his sister, a waitress at the diner, is married to Carl. Everyone knows Carl is sterile, but few realize his wife is pregnant-and Carl has a plot to keep the secret buried. Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 21st Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11131) INSIDE AL. Drama. David S. Baker. 3 m., 2 f. Bare Stage. This 1987 winner of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Young Playwrights Award is perfect for high school production. It is a contemporary play about high school kids who are urged to take on an outside project to help someone in the community. They decide to help AI, a 39-year-old cerebral palsy victim. There are actually two Als in this play: the stricken Al the world sees and the title character who is perceptive, blunt, and sometimes bitter and who comments on AI's life and on the efforts of the kids to help him. Inside Al feels isolated in his body and is always struggling to get out. Inside Al is a dancer. In High School Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#11645)

while to blossom. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Series 28, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#3837) BORN TO BE BLUE. Comedy. Mark Bellusci. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This hilarious comedy turns parental guidance on its head. Ron's parents want him to succeed . . . at uuderachieving. They do everything in their power to keep him away from libraries, books and intelligent, motivated young women, and they encourage him to spend his time at monster truck rallies, reading girlie magazines and applying to technical college. Unfortunately, Harvard-bound Ron is a born overachiever. Published in OffOff Broadway Festival Plays, 27th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#4738) THE BOUNDARY. Comedy. Tom Stoppard and Clive Exton. 4 m., I f. Int. Arriving at the library to continue work on his dictionary, Johnson is horrified to discover that the place has been ransacked. Paper is everywhere, so much that the body of his wife, Brenda, is hidden from view. Johnson and his collaborator conclude that the vandalism is the work of Brenda, who was scorned for her lack of talent as a lexicographer. The true explanation is outside the window and beyond, when the significance of the cricketer becomes clear. Originally produced for television, this one-act play combines wit, wordplay and a touch of comic absurdity. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4191) CENTRAL PARK WEST. Comedy. Woody Allen. 2 m., 3 f. See Index under Death Defying Acts. A CLOSER LOOK. Drama. Arlene Hutton. 5 f. Int. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the host and crew of a daytime television talk show as they spar for position during a break between taping segments. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival (#5316) Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY. Drama. Frank D. Gilroy. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. Two men who witnessed the first concentration camp overrun by the Allies in April, 1945, meet by chance at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. What they remember differs. What they discover explodes. "Packs a wallop that implicates us all." -N. Y. Daily News. "An affecting new play."-N.Y. Times. Published with Getting In, $6.50. (Royalty, $40-$25, or $60-$40 when performed with Getting In.) Slightly Restricted. (#5307) THE CURSE OF RA VENSDURN. Comedy. Nick Hall. 4 m., I f. Int. See the description for the collection entitled The Curse of Ravensdum for description. (#5323) THE GREAT GROMBOOLIAN PLAIN. Comedy. Don Nigro. 2 m., 3 f. 2 benches. This long one-act by the author of many popular plays is a love story that takes place on the grounds of a mental institution. A young girl who believes she can time travel meets a man who is not what he seems. Institutionalized by her sister to coerce her into revealing the location of their father's last poems, Dinah is protecting a deep secret. Magellan's attempts to understand her send him back to the turn of the last century, back to a place where a young man is forever asking a pretty nurse to dance to the carousel music. In The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9948) HOTLINE. Comedy. Elaine May. 4 m., I f. See Index under Death Defying Acts. INDIFFERENT WAVE LENGTHS. Drama. Sally-Anne Milgrim. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Annie is tired of being put down and ignored at home. Her mother talks to her grandmother all day long. Her father never talks to anyone but watches TV incessantly. Annie decides to run away and asks her girlfriend to go with her. In Plays to Play with Everywhere, $11.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11110) JURIS PRUDENCE. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Originally commissioned by Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, this courtroom farce premiered in an actual county courthouse. A gullible young woman has been bamboozled by a shifty attorney into pressing a suit for restitution against the National Weather Service. The claim? She has been disabled by an unpredicted weather phenomenon: a bathroom tornado. In a pretrial meeting, wacky witnesses chip away at the injured party's promised windfall. Published in Here, There and Everywhere, $8.95. (Royalty, $25$25 or $60-$60 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#12661) LADIES IN WAITING. Comedy. Michele Palermo. 1 m., 4 f. Int. In a room at All Saints Church fifty minutes before her wedding, Julie and her bridesmaids are together for the first time in over a year. As they get dressed, makeup and do their hair, they talk about marriage, careers, dating and even death. Comical and thoughtprovoking, Ladies in Waiting can be done with a simple set and is ideal for an ensemble production. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#13870) NIGHT CAPS. Comedy. Nick Hall. 3 m., 2 f. Int. See The Curse of Ravensdum for description. (#16906) ON HOLD AT 30,000 FEET. Comedy. Kitty Burns. 2 m., 2 f., 1 voice-over. Int. One of two airline passengers seated together plans to read while the other hopes to lure him into babysitting a bumbling bundle of psychotic neurosis who, during the short flight, alienates the crew, the passengers and life itself. Published with Terminal Terror and Identity Crisis in If God Wanted Us to Fly, He Would Have Given Us Wings, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $60-$40 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#16974)

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The most enthusiastic participant in this rite is Alan, a 16-year-old bully, until he transgresses and the family votes on his punishment. Very cleverly, very deviously, Alan swings the vote in his favor and takes over the family! "A dark little comedy with deepening layers . . . [that] provides a metaphor, both telling and chilling, of the ease with which a really determined, clever leader can and does use democracy to overthrow democracy . . . . Polak combines grim Kafkaesque elements with a natural American ebullience."-Drama-Logue. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21342) YOUR LIFE IS A FEATURE FILM. Comedy. Alan Minieri. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Mother and son are having a scene. Suddenly a voice shouts, "Cut!" and the director runs down the aisle onto the stage. It is only a film. For twenty-one years they have been filming this boy's life. The last scene will be his death. In Off Off Broadway Festival (#27039) Plays, 17th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) THE CURE. Farce. Michael Hardstark, based on A Cure for Drinking by Anton Chekhov. 4 m., I f. Int. Set in a theatre dressing room in turn-of-the-century Cleveland, this frenetic farce is about the efforts of a troupe of Yiddish actors to sober up Yossel Terrifimenschsky, a great star and a hopeless drunk. A young actor claims he knows a sure-fire cure for drunkenness. He will help them out if they will present his realist drama The Kesslers of Hester Street. "Delightfully frenetic bon-bon." -N. Y. Times. "Extremely funny."-N.Y. Daily News. Published with in the Cemetery in The Last Laugh, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#5796) WAY DEEP. Drama. Katherine Burger. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This play is destined shortly to become a very hot property on the high school circuit. It is a full-family play about a teenage romance. Discouraged by parents, the young lovers run away. We see the distraught parents, and we see the youngsters trying to cope, to get jobs, to live in a world beyond their means and experience. And final capitulation in the recognition scene. So real it makes you shiver. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 16th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25021) GREEN MAN. Drama. Don Nigro. 2 m., 3 f. Five wooden chairs. In a frigid Christmas landscape in a Civil War year, a young Union soldier goes after a horse thief, is shot in a mysterious chapel in the Maryland woods, and wakes to an eerie delirium involving an innocent young girl, her seductive and dangerous mother, a cackling, half-mad crone and a bloody hunter sharpening an ax. An American retelling of an ironic medieval masterpiece, this haunted Gothic play of desire, past betrayal and murder is an intriguing addition to the Pendragon series. In Green Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#9609) HIERONYMUS BOSCH. Dark Comedy. Don Nigro. 3 m., 2 f. Int. The great painter Hieronymus Bosch and his wife Aleyt confront their younger selves, and a filthy bagpiper in this terminally weird play that brings to life the texture and madness of Bosch's exceedingly bizarre paintings. Loony, grotesque, erotic and sad, wildly bitter farce and out of tune love story, this is Bosch in a Beckett world by way of Finnegans Wake. This play will probably not be a favorite of your old Aunt Bessie, unless she likes to spend time naked in the bread box. In Green Man and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#10654) GUESS WHO'S COMING TO LUNCH? (or JUST DESSERTS) Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 5 f. Int. For her debut as program chairperson Molly has hired the multi-personality author of The Many Faces of Catherine only to have her plane grounded. Molly's visiting friend, Frances, is persuaded to become a fictitious author to fool outgoing and conceited chairperson Sylvia Axley. Like everyone, rather than appear ill-read, Sylvia falls for the scheme till the just-arrived cook turns out to be the real author using one of her many faces. The program is saved but Sylvia still believes in Frances and interviews her for the local paper so everyone gets her just desserts. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9698) FOILED AGAIN! Three mini-melodramas. Brian J. Burton. Want to have fun with a meller-drammer but only have about ten minutes? Surely, one of these delightful little playlets is perfect for your needs. All three require extremely minimal settings. Double Dealing or A Little Horse Play: 2 m., 3 f. (#6727) Sold to the Gypsies or The Wicked Stepmother: 2 m., 6 f. (#21729) A Trouble Shared or Two to the Rescue: 4 m., 2 f. (#22769) $10.00. (Royalty $20-$15 per play or $35-$25 for all three when performed together.) Write for details about music for the song in Sold to the Gypsies. Please state author when ordering. (#8128) SPIT IN YAZOO CITY. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 4 m., I f. Int. In Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1945, Army Recruiting Officer William Blane's dull routine of lousy dart-throwing is interrupted by a handful of unexpected black visitors, one of which is a ten-year-old boy named Spit who rushes in looking for his missing brother

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Buck, who's gone off to the war. Blane discovers that Spit is an only child and has created this story to run away from home. The two form a friendship in which Blane steps forward as a role model for the young boy and Spit teaches Blane, among other things, how to hit a bull's eye. In Southern Exposures: Five Plays About Life in the South, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#21761) WILLY WALLACE CHATS .. WITH THE KIDS. Drama. Jason Milligan. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. Willy Wallace is a kindly, middle-aged gentleman who spends his time on the porch of his small home in rural Mississippi carving wooden birds. One afternoon, three college kids wander up. They are conducting a survey on race relations in the Southern school system. Willy claims that he has nothing to say, but the truth slowly comes out: years ago Willy was a violent Ku Klux Klan member. His activities brought disaster to one of the student's family and he is seeking revenge. Willy attempts to teach a lesson he painfully learned: violence and hate do good to no man. In Southern Exposures: Five Plays About Life in the South, $6.50 . (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#25674) UNDER THE TWELFTH SIGN. Comic Melodrama. Enid Coles. 1m., 4 f. Int. Mary is left alone for much of the day in her isolated house, high among the farming hills. A constant stream of visitors calls to relieve her loneliness, but there is something odd about their visits. Whenever Mary leaves the room the visitors "freeze" into whichever action they are performing! Mary believes her mother has passed on to her an extraordinary gift-that of being able to imagine something and persuading someone else it was true. However, at the end of this amusing and intri,guing play we find it is not Mary, but sister Marjorie who has the "gift" and she is using it for very philanthropic purposes indeed! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#23607) BUMS. Comic Monologues. Robert Shaftron. 4 m., I f. Ext. A series of portraits of contemporary nomads, the street people of our world. Broadway Vis is a panhandler who shuffles all around. He says people ask him how come he don't get himself a job; and he replies, Now, I ask you, ifI come into your office and ask you for a job, you gonna give me one? Mary, on the other hand, is a bag lady, jealous of the secrets she hides in her bags, secrets she is certain everyone is trying to steal from her. There is also a male hustler, and others, all pungent characterizations, on the mark and deeply moving. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 14th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4704) AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD. Drama. Alan Bennett. 4 m., I f. Int. Based upon the true story of a meeting in Moscow between noted English actress Coral Browne and notorious spy Guy Burgess, this is a touching portrait of a lonely man tom between his Marxist principals and his ironic longing for contact with the upper class in Britain from whom he sprung. A success at The National Theatre of Great Britain, where it was paired with A Question of Attribution as Single Spies-which subsequently proved equally successful in the West End. "Exquisite . . . dazzling."-Guardian. "Inexhaustibly rich . , . the West End's premiere event."-City Limits. Published with A Question of Attribution in Single Spies, $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $60-$40 when performed with A Question of Attribu(#7080) tion.) Restricted. HALFTIME AT HALCYON DAYS. Comedy. Carol K. Mack. 5 f. I set. An hilarious comedy about four New Jersey neighbors on a discount spree at a health spa called Halcyon Days where things have gone awry. Strange announcements come over the P.A. system to their exercise room where they await their missing instructor, Miss Lucy, and discuss thermal wraps, color-coded vitamins, spa advice, and their problems back home. A "color-therapist" joins them and it turns out she's not who she seems. The women exercise continuously at the mirror and the barre; and while they work on losing inches and changing their image, they confide their dreams and share a deepening bond of friendship. In Postcards and Other Short Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with other plays in the collection.) (#10073) MRS. MEADOWSWEET. Drama. David Campton. 5 f. Int. This bewitching little play centers on the animosity between two siblings and Mrs. Meadowsweet's solution to their constant quarrelling and bickering. Mrs. Meadowsweet and her homely guest house, Respite, seem to mellow garrulous Alice, much to sister Fleur's suspicion. All of the guests seem particularly amiable and pleasant-in fact, without a care in the world. Fleur's suspicions are further aroused by their inability to remember even the slightest occurrence from their pasts. Alice also forgets her grievance against Fleur for stealing, marrying and divorcing Alice's only beau. What is the power that Mrs. Meadowsweet has for enveloping other people's problems? And more importantly, should she be allowed to use it? $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#15945) BEACHED. Comedy. Bernie Deleo. 2 m., 3 f. Ext. Two cute girls are at the beach, sunning themselves and discussing their various sexual exploits. They appear to be fast friends until one lets herself be picked up by the other's hunky new boyfriend. She goes off with him to a rock concert and dinner, leaving her friend with nerdy Harvey who finally gets up the nerve to tell Laurie off for being callous and rude and self-absorbed. Both Harvey and Laurie achieve an emotional breakthrough of sorts. Talk about coastal disturbances! Published in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4659)

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EARLY FROST. Drama. Douglas Parkhirst. 5 f. Int. This gripping story was first presented on NBC-TV. Sisters, Hannah and Louise, live in an old house. Hannah has been considered peculiar since childhood, when a playmate disappeared. When Alice, their niece, comes to live with them, she nearly uncovers Hannah's longguarded secret, so Hannah tries to silence her. A tense cat-and-mouse game between the two brings the play to a startling climax and affords the actors an opportunity for skillful playing, while holding the audience spellbound. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#391) . NASTY THINGS, MURDERS. Drama. Arthur Lovegrove. 5 f. Int. The four ladies in the Home for Retired Gentlewomen are upset when their TV breaks down at the climax of a real-life murder drama. They talk about the murder. To the horror of three of them, it appears that the fourth, gentle Mary, may have been the murderess. When Mary leaves the room, the others consult the Matron as to what steps should be taken; however, on Mary's return a most unexpected telephone conversation sets their fears at rest and leaves them feeling rather foolish. But after they have gone and Mary is left alone, her behavior is strange, to say the least. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#16601) P IS FOR PERFECT. Farce. Fred Carmichael. 5 f. Int. or drapes. To relieve the boredom of their "perfect" lives as executive wives Mary, Millicent, and Violet invent a game. They prepare "surprises" for each other. Today it's Mary's turn and with the aid of Cora and Ms. Pex, two "ladies" from the top secret department of her husband's firm, she materializes the ultimate surprise. The strange and fascinating Ms. Pex is a robot-a perfect woman. Or is she? Her honesty shows up the girls and makes them laugh, cry, get furious, start fights and threaten to leave their husbands. The ungues sable final plot twist will leave the audience laughing. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18141) THE TANGLED SNARL. Comedy. John Rustan and Frank Semerano. 2 m., 2 f, 1 boy. Int. To Private Detective Spuds Idaho, life in L.A. is a 24-hour race around a track made of quicksand. When the dying Legs Flamingo leaves him a package to deliver, Spuds gets curious. Why is Leslie Detweiler more interested in the package than in the death of her husband. With the aid of his secretary and a wise-cracking kid, it all gets untangled. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22616) THE IMP OR IMPS. Farce with songs. Albert Bermel. 3 m., 2 f. A satirical look at three medical practitioners (and their willing victims): The rapacious G.P. whose patients "throw out money on food and clothes, then make a stink when it comes to important items like doctor payments"; the surgeon who puts his faith in "brutal guesswork"; and a mysterious medieval figure who snatches sick people's imps. During a contest over which of them can most effectively trim down an overweight woman, an invisible imp is unleashed and causes havoc. Simple set. In Six One-Act (#11631) Farces, $16.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) NOW THERE'S JUST THE THREE OF US. Comedy. Michael Weller. 4 m., 1 f. Int. Perry and Frank are roommates. Perry greatly envies Frank's expertise with the ladies, which he knows all about because Frank has told him. Well: enter one Deke. Neither Perry nor Frank knows Deke; but he convinces each that he is a good friend of the other and proceeds to move in. Deke is a real ladies' man. He brings his girlfriend in, too; and they move into the bedroom, displacing Frank. When a mysterious man from "the agency" comes looking for Deke, he splits, leaving his girlfriend behind with Frank and Perry. She announces that she has decided to devote herself to sex, and Frank and Perry's eyes get bigger than saucers as they realize now, there's just the three of them! Premiered in London and has had many productions worldwide. An excellent choice for colleges. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16638) THE CATS AWAY. Comedy. Cleve Haubold. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Another play woven around another set of daft characters from San Francisco's Union Street. Crusty but confused Estelle Bentwood insists her cat, Miss Pearl, has been writing naughty seafaring novels on her Underwood. Her niece, Mary, and Horace, the long-suffering waiter, almost talk her out of the notion-when an excitable publisher shows up with a manuscript, a contract, certified check and a passion for Miss Pearl! There's laughable confusion to comic chaos as everyone tries to close the deal in a different way. In the unexpected climax. Miss Pearl herself appears-and her unlikely visit is a shock to everyone. Lovable off-beat characters and an ingenious plot full of surprises makes this play an audience-pleaser. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5607) BLACK & WHITE. Drama. Gary Apple. 5 m., or 2 m., 3 others m., or f. 1 set. A man dressed in white sits in an all white room reading a white newspaper. Without warning, four men dressed in black enter carrying cans of black paint, and brushes. Though their intent is obvious, the man in white refuses to acknowledge them. The leader of the men in black, sensing resistance, has the others wait outside while he deals with the Man in White. With this ultimate conflict as the foundation, the play progresses into a fascinating theatrical work that is visually pleasing and intellectually satisfying. In Plays for an Undressed Stage, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4649) IT. Serious Comedy. Gary Apple. 4 m., 1 f., extras. Empty stage. Unique and thoughtprovoking with an ideal mixture of comedy and absurdist theatre. It begins with a solitary man standing in the center. He is tagged and proclaimed' 'it" by a younger man who darts onto the stage. The Man then sets out to either discover what' 'it" is or, if nothing else, to pass "it" off on someone else. The audience shares the

MOVIEMAN. Comedy. Eugene O'Neill. 4 m., 1 f. Int. Two Hollywood movie men have signed an agreement with Pancho Gomez, leader of a revolution in Mexico, for exclusive rights to film all his battles. In return, the moguls will keep the revolutionaries supplied with munitions and supplies. Because the head movie man desires a Mexican woman named Anita, he agrees to help her negotiate with Gomez to free her father, due to be executed by the revolutionary. This is a satire not only on the movieland-mentality, but also on American interventionism in the "Third World." In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. 1, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#15944) PIZZAZZ. Drama. Hugh Leonard. 2 m., 3 f. Simple setting. Whilst waiting to hire out cabin cruisers on the River Shannon, two apparent strangers play an elaborate game, which involves re-enacting a marriage on the rocks, with the other people in the reception area as supporting cast. But this is a Chinese Box of a play, and all is not what it seems. In Pizzazz, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#18935) THE WALKING DEAD! Thriller. Michael Lambe. 2 m., 3 f. Int. A remote cottage in the woods for a weekend of peace and quiet is just what Geoffrey and his vivacious wife need to get away from London's hectic life. But a chain of eerie events soon turns the long-awaited holiday into a nightmare! The car stops altogether; the water pipes act up; the telephone is dead and so is the radio. And the eccentric neighbor Miss Marsh is not much help! Surrounded by esoteric flowers and mysterious rituals, our heroes find themselves in the middle of macabre rites. Mark, a walking corpse, is claiming his yearly share of love, but the object of his desire is now no longer his shabby sister. Will Geoffrey succeed in protecting Joanna against Mark's other-worldly lure? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#25608) THE BRANNOCK DEVICE. Comedy. Rick Balian. 4 m., 1 f. Simply suggested sets. What is the mysterious "Brannock Device"-and what does possessing it mean for He Who Possesses It? This is what two CIA gumshoes are trying to find out. Turns out, the Brannock Device is not a top secret bit of Super Science. This is a hilarious satire of spy movies and CIA bungling. In Off Off Broadway Festival (#4695) Plays, 12th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) AUGUSTUS. Comedy. Jean Anouilh and Jean Aurenche. Translated by George Hauger. 3 m., 2 f., extras. Var. simple sets. This thoroughly delightful and charmingly stylized fable revolves around a young nobleman who is unable to speak more than one word a day. He falls in love with young Helene and finally masters a declaration of love consisting of just thirty words. One day Helene asks him for directions and he uses up twenty-seven words in his answer. The last three words he finally manages to blurt out are "I love you." Alas, Helene is hard of hearing! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3897) PILGRIMS. Drama. Stephen Metcalfe. 3 m., 2 f:lnt. This play is, like its companion pieces in Sorrows and Sons, about loss; but also about renewal. It is set in a coffee shop/pizza joint run by a middle-aged man who has not quite faced up yet to the grim fact that his son was killed in Vietnam. Helping him deal with his loss is a quirky teenaged girl who works as a waitress in the shop, a would-be actress who is just starting to come out of her own emotional shell. Published with Pilgrims and Sorrows and Sons, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#18632) OLD QUEBEC. Drama. William Norfolk. 2 m., 3 f. lnt. Mild, myopic Mr. Robinson (nicknamed Old Quebec for his habit of talking about Canada) on holiday in a Brussels hotel with his "son". Madame Lapin, the hotel owner, is suspicious of the son's gender. M. Lapin, reading of a murder in England, finds convincing similarities to her guests. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17661) BUSINESSMAN'S LUNCH. Comedy. Michael Quinn. 4 m., 1 f. Int. Originally produced by the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville, this marked the debut of a wonderful new comic playwriting voice. Weare in one of those quiche-and-salad restaurants, where three high-powered young executives of a nearby candy company are having lunch as they discuss company politics and various marketing and advertising strategies. They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd-until, that is, they learn that he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter. "Cleverly skewers corporate stereotypes." -N. Y, Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4712) RECEPTION. Marsha Sheiness. 2 m., 3 f., plus 1 m. & 1 f. for various offstage voices. Int. This play by the acclaimed author of The Spelling Bee takes place in the offices of Serendipity Publications. Because of the absence of the Director of Personnel, Deborah Silver, receptionist, has to deal with two candidates for a job vacancy-both men, one black and one white-all the while coping with the various calls which come in. How Deborah handles this difficult job forms the core of this true-to-life play about the business world. A perfect play for schools! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#20641) DREAMJOBS. Comedy. Graham Jones. 5 f. Bare stage. Five teenage girls waiting for interviews with an employment service dream of the romantic, exciting jobs they would like-derived from television series and films. The dreams are enacted by all the girls together. In each case there is a rude awakening. Finally, Beverly, the clearest-sighted, brings them down to earth, forcing them to realize that their characters and abilities will fit them for only the drabbest of occupations. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6679)

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Compo int. An overly protective mother and an overly protected father fear their daughter has the croup. The father has the last laugh when the doctor finds nothing wrong. In Five One-Act Plays by Mark Twain, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15612) ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS. Comedy. 4 m., I f. Int. George Bernard Shaw. Shaw's somewhat allegorical view of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Selected Short Plays. $11.95 (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3639) AN INSPECTOR ANSWERS. MysterylParody. Norman Phillip Hart. 3 m., 2 f. Int. The play opens with the seemingly innocent disappearance of Lady Fitzbuttress whose husband, Sir Reginald, is tricked into confessing to her murder by the implacable Inspector from Scotland Yard. From then on. the plot twists and turns as Reginald plans to take his wife's fortune and run off with his mistress. The Inspector, who of course "knows too much," is duly shot. But bodies fall and come to life again as intrigue upon intrigue is revealed. Lady Fitzbuttress reappears. Reginald's mistress turns out to be his wife's cousin after the family inheritance, and the play ends with a "police bust" by one other than the fellow who master-minded the whole "fiendishly clever" plot in the first place. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#578) FOURTEEN HUNDRED THOUSAND. Drama. Sam Shepard. 3 m., 2 f. Int. A monstrous bookcase is the focus of the various characters' strange dreams and disappointments. In The Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#8643) ICARUS'S MOTHER. Drama. Sam Shepard. 3 m., 2 f. Ext. The lazy picnic taking place slowly becomes an electric vision of apocalyptic menace. Inin The Unseen (#11620) Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) TEMPTATION SORDID or Virtue Rewarded. Melodrama. Winifred Phelps. 2 m., 3 f. 2 Int., I ext. Sir Jasper. of the black heart, is out to win Lady Lucre's fortune by marrying lovely Arabella. Clarence, of the pure heart, is out to thwart him and also win Arabella. Through valleys of iniquity they all travel, the journey being enlivened by the wiles of the voluptuous Fanny. who of course aids and abets Sir Jasper. Virtue is triumphant at the last and Clarence and Arabella are united over the dead bodies of their enemies. $4.50. {Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22636) TRANSCEIVER. Drama. Jerome McDonough. 2 m., 3 f. and voices. Area staging. The Withers family takes the two-way Citizen's Band Radio transmitter-receiver somewhat for granted until it becomes their central link with survival. A past danger, a present storm, and a profound sense of responsibility drive the characters toward the saving of three lives-and the loss of one. When the need to communicate is strong enough, they discover, the limits of nature may be overcome. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22747) THE THREE MILLION DOLLAR LUNCH. Farce. Fred Carmichael, 5 f. Int. or drapes. In the future, when pills have replaced inflationary-priced food, four women attend their weekly meeting to read recipes for forbidden desserts and discuss how to get impossible delicacies like one asparagus stalk. The local 'pusher" arrives with a small, locked box containing a sixteen million dollar cherry tomato. As the nervous and new young member cons her out of it to the delight of the older girls, every possible present-day situation is satirized and the laughs come one after another in this fast-paced play perfect for Women's Clubs. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#22687) $15.) THE TRIAL. Melodrama. Anthony Booth. 5 f. Int. Three women are waiting in a cellar. One is a captain in an organization pledged to bring freedom to the city which is in the throes of a struggle for power; another is a witness; the third is an informer in the coming trial. A frightened girl is brought in and severely questioned regarding her alleged betrayal to the authorities of hidden stocks of ammunition. She is acquitted of betrayal but led away to be punished for fraternization. The proceedings have, however, uncovered the guilt of another woman present-the informer herself. (#22760) $4.50. (Royalty. $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. THE HEBREW LESSON. Wolf Mankowitz. 4 m., 1 f. Int. A young man with a gun dashes into a room where an old Jew is studying. The sanctuary turns out to be a synagogue, and the Jew a member of a race that has long been hunted and on the run. So the Old Jew can sympathize with the youth. They exchange some Gaelic

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS phrases, and then share a little Hebrew together. And this is what saves the youth when the black and tans storm and search the synagogue. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10627) GAMES. James Saunders. m., f. Any number of players. A play about Vietnam. And here are displayed, with great irony and vivacity, all the right liberal attitudes, and yet mockingly, perhaps very truthfully observed. Rather like After Liverpool", by the same author. this seems to be more relevant to America than England. particularly the concept of war as a spectator sport, a game to be watched and to have attitudes (#9604) about. Published with After Liverpool. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) AFTER LIVERPOOL. James Saunders. m., f. Any number of characters. A series of sketches and vignettes. They are brief, witty and pointed. They are love encounters-the games people play. Here is the idiot way quarrels start up, or the way people meet and fence with one another. "After Liverpool" is not a play, but a suite of pieces. . Hits a jackpot of truth with a resounding thwack." -N. Y. Times. Published with Games, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#3611) FUNERAL GAMES. Joe Orton. 4 m., 1 f. A play more outrageous, if possible, than Loot and as cracklingly witty. "One imagines Orton, although dealing with bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar, had, like Wilde, only gaiety as a motive . . . Orton could turn the audience's gasp into a laugh, translating horror into humor, and leaving the viewers curiously aware of the simultaneous reaction. This is no mean talent."-Guardian. In The Complete Plays of Joe Orton, $14.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8658) AT THE EXIT. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. 3 m., 2 f., 2 C. Int-Ext. The play embodies the living idea of the arrival of death and what comes after. In Pirandello's One-Act (#3661) Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) SICILIAN LIMES. Drama. Lugi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray, 2 m., 3 f. (extras) Int. Miccucio, a band musician, returns home to confront Sina, a singer, but departs only having seen her briefly, while Marta, her mother, grows into his (#21609) ally. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) AFTER MAGRITTE. Farce. Tom Stoppard. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Harris, his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable-which is strange, notes the wife, for she had ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a parked car, a bunch of .22-calibre shells in the waste basket, and a robbery of the box office of a minstrel show. But Harris has an explanation: he had parked near an art gallery to let his mother see some paintings by Magritte in which her obsessional instrument, the tuba, figured grandly. But then it develops that there was no minstrel show at all, and the plot goes haywire. Performed in New York with The Real (#208) Inspector Hound. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) A SLAP IN THE FARCE. Farce. Eugene Labiche and Edouard Martin. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 2 m., 3 f. 1 set. An accidental grope in a darkened omnibus earns for the painter Antoine a resounding slap from the outraged Madame Lecouque. The misunderstanding threatens to involve the innocent artist and Madame's none-too-heroic milliner husband in one of the more bizarre duels of the theatrical repertory. That is, until the couple, through yet another misunderstanding, see in the young man the perfect suitor for their very marriage~bk and romantic daughter Celine. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#21712) THE UNSEEN HAND. Drama. 5 m. Ext. Sam Shepard. A haunting protest against the dehumanizing tendencies of modem societies and a powerful affirmation of the human spirit, the play moves after the "revolution" in a surrealistic and Kafkaesque world. Nogoland is the area ruled absolutely in which three brothers, old-style "desperadoes" from the Wild West have been summoned out of the 19th century by the single individual who is trying to throw off the yoke of his inhuman oppressors. In The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#23612) THE GIFT AND THE GIVING. Drama. Tim Kelly. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Four young people take shelter in a church en route to the state capitol where they hope to dramatize their plea for social change. They'd vowed to fast-but now thoughts of food and comfort possess them. Belief in their goal's success is further weakened as unforseen circumstances and the threat of physical harm work to defeat them. Only one's likely to complete the march-but he tells the others one committed man can sometimes work small miracles. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9638) COP-OUT. Farce. John Guare. Two imaginative plays titled Home Fires (3 m., 2 f.) and Cop-Out (1 m., 1 0. Cop-Out is a satire about an anti-commie cop and a picketing girl who he comes to like only to kill her in the end. "Full of laughs with black but not savage humor . . . crisp zaniness and a gentle smile-provoking wit."-N.Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$15 per play or $50-$35 when performed together.) (#5152) FRENZY FOR TWO, OR MORE. Comedy. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald (#8645) Watson. 3 m., 2 f. Int. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) MORNING. Farce. Israel Horovitz. See Index under Morning, Noon, and Night. NOON. Farce. Terrence McNally. See Index under Morning, Noon, and Night.

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INFANCY. Thornton Wilder. 3 m., 2 f. Takes place in a park with two women pushing baby-buggies, and demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the nature and needs of baby human beings. "It is wonderful to have an original, ever youthful and increasingly wise writer like Thornton Wilder back in the theatre."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#575) HIGH WINDOW. Melodrama. Verne Powers. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Less than a year ago, Walter Hodge was independent, debonair, fun-loving. Now merely a pale and timid shell, he is cruelly taunted by Aunt Emily about his weakness and an awful secret they seem to share-a secret linked in some terribly fascinating way to the imposing window overlooking the street below. "High Window" has firmly established for itself a distinguished place among America's notable one-act plays. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10644) THE INCOME TAX. Comedy. Peg Lynch. 3 m., 2 f. Int. An Ethel and Albert comedy. Anyone who has even felt the hot breath of the income tax inspector will know how Ethel and Albert feel when they get a notice that the Government wants to check their last year's tax return. Wondering if they have put down too much for charity and business expense, they await his arrival with visions of prison dancing in their heads. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11650) THE DAY AFfER FOREVER. Comedy. Charles Emery. 1 m., 4 f. Int. An excellent play, a sure-fire contest winner. Julie Preston has completed a twenty-year sentence for embezzlement. Prior to the sentence, Julie's baby daughter, Diane, was handed over to Verna Clayton to be brought up as Verna's own child. The one promise made by Verna was that Julie would be permitted to see Diane on her wedding day. UnknOW!1 to the girl as her mother, Julie arrives as a "Mrs. Vale" to help with the wedding, whereby she meets and talks with the girl she surrendered years ago. A tender and deeply perceptive play about a secret that was kept forever. $4.50. (#6609) (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE HUNGERERS. Play. William Saroyan. 3 m., 2 f. Simple int. The Hungerers is an American fable. The hunger of these hungerers is not a hunger for bread alone, although that hunger is beautiful enough. It is a hunger for immortality. The simple immortality which comes about when human beings rid themselves of all worldimposed absurdities and know the foolishness of pride. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#548) FOREVER JUDY. Comedy. Henry C. Lindsey. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Judy Jackson, sixteen and having reached maturity, is madly in love with Sandy Sanders-and being engaged he's taken a movie usher job to save money for marriage. Her parents hit the ceiling when she breaks the news. They have to put up with other manifestations of puppy love and then Judy has the lead role in a melodrama in the High School and when the maid walks in during the climactic love scene rehearsal and notifies her parents-the fireworks start. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8637) THE DUELLING OAKES. Comedy. Bruce Kimes. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Concerns a preposterous and manifestly outrageous duel to be fought by the newlyweds, Bill and Sally Oakes in their living room. A childish but nevertheless serious argument is started and it snowballs into a tempestuous challenge-a challenge to a duel with pistols. Plans are made, seconds are chosen and the duel, after false starts and interruptions gets under way. The duel solves the problem for the Oaks. A delightfully different play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6690) THE DARKEST HOUR. Drama. Charles George. 3 m., 2 f. Int. This is one of the most powerful stories ever condensed into a one-act play. It tells the story of young John Madison, within four hours of his execution for murder, having been found guilty on circumstantial evidence. He is innocent, but has no way of proving it, as appearances have been too strongly against him. His sorrowing mother comes to pay her last visit before the State exacts its toll. He reiterates his innocence and relates the entire circumstances to her. It is a heart-breaking tale. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#352) THE CLOD. Drama. Lewis Beach. 4 m., I f. Int. One evening in 1863 in the kitchen of a farmhouse on the border between the Northern and Southern states, Mary is confronted with the greatest experience of her life. A Northern soldier, hunted by two Southern soldiers, seeks refuge in her household. The two Southern officers insult Mary to the point of murder. She endures many moments of horror and then turns on the two men. She takes the old gun from the wall and kills them both. An exciting play with well-defined characters. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5671) COURAGE, MR. GREENE. Farce-comedy. James P. Ferguson. 3 m., 2 f. Int. A gentleman burglar robs Greene in his home, then when confronted with Greene's browbeating wife, pretends to be Greene's employer discussing a much-wanted promotion. $4.50. (RQyalty, $20-$15.) (#5716) THE FLATTERING WORD. Comedy. George Kelly. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Mary is married to a rather pompous pastor. Tesh would like to have Mary see his perfonnance in the play that evening, but Mary is convinced the Paster will never consent to take her. Tesh knows that if you tell any adult or child he should be on the stage, you will melt his prejudices with ease. Tesh succeeds, but he is forced to sit through an excruciating perfonnance by one of the local hopefuls. The power of flattery on a narrow and prejudiced mind offers this author wide possibilities for his particular gifts of comedy. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#442)

NIGHT. Drama. Leonard Melfi. See Index under Morning, Noon and Night. HOME FIRES. Farce. John Guare. 3 m., 2 f. Takes place in an American funeral parlor and introduces us to 3 ex-Gennans of World War II conscience, a man and his daughter and his son. They are trying to live down their past of gUilt. Others who enter the dark humor are a name-dropping maid and a theatrical agent who represents the horses in "Ben Hur." In Cop-Out, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$15 or $50-$35 (#10657) when presented with Cop-Out.) THE IMAGE. Drama. John Kirkpatrick. 2 m., 3 f. Int. In this poignant drama, we meet the important women in a man's life: his wife, his daughter and his mother, and witness their reactions as they face a crisis. The man, heretofore an upright citizen, has accepted a political appointment and is now accused of bribery in connection with his high office. The mother has unshakable faith in her son's integrity; the idealistic daughter is outraged by her father's dishonesty; but it is the wife who must bear the brunt of the situation. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11627) CHILDHOOD. Fantasy. Thornton Wilder. 2 m., 3 f. A particularly harrowing play about the way children look at the world. They are so misunderstood by their parents that in their games they play that the parents are "-away," and that they are orphans. "Wilder has a great fit for comic fantasy. 'Childhood' is Wilder at his best."-N.Y. Daily News. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#314) NOBODY SLEEPS. Comedy. Guernsey Le Pelley. 1 m., 4 f. Int. Daisy, 16, comes upon Spike, a burglar, rifling a desk drawer. "You'll never find anything in that desk. We never can." Spike could have been a weekend guest. It's that kind of family. Daisy would just as soon Spike would take her sister's money. She's saving for a guitar, and the family dreads the result. Ada says: "You ought to meet Mom. She's writing a mystery and wants to meet a good burglar." There's another sister, and Mother-and they're all full of criticisms. "Why aren't you wearing gloves? What would you give for an alibi?" Spike is left broken up, and the audience broken down-laughing. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#774) BRIDGES . ARE WHEN YOU CROSS THEM. Comedy. Melvin B. Shaffer. 3m., 2 f. Int. A comic satire on the cubicled mind of the organized man. A family on a sightseeing tour are in San Francisco. Father's got it all planned so they can cover the city in a day. He does his sightseeing by telescope from the hotel, but the rest of the family is required to render reports to be shared with the others. But the daughter's a wayward, imaginative girl and spends the day at the ocean, even seeing the Golden Gate Bridge which can't be seen from there. The unimaginative family members can't see it and declare it doesn't exist. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#283) SUNDAY COSTS FIVE PESOS. Comedy. Josephina Niggli. 1 m., 4 f. Ext. A comedy of Mexican village life. A young girl, through jealousy, breaks off with her fiance, then tries to win him back with the aid of well meaning friends who only manage to involve her in further difficulties. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1010) WHEN THE FIRE DIES. Morality. Romona Maher. 1 m., 4 f. Int. A winner of the National Collegiate Playwriting Contest. A thoughtful, expressive scene of the southwest Indian, in which an "Americanized" Indian girl goes back to her family abode during school vacation. She looks contemptuously on the old Indian customs and taboos, and refuses to accompany her parents to a death-bed ceremony for a tribal elder. An ancient Indian woman, also going to the ceremony, passes by. She tells the girl that Indians of her education are necessary to lead the race out of ignorance. She makes her point beautifully, and leaves the young Indian girl in deep thought. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25667) SUGAR AND SPICE. Comedy. Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. 2 m., 3 f. Int. Jane Jones, almost sixteen, is visited by a young friend who has just returned from Paris with a boy complex and some acquired mannerisms which infuriate Jane. When the friend takes Jane's boyfriend, Chump Edwards, right out from under her nose, Jane is roused to a realization of Chump's worth and takes him back again. She also learns a great truth-that more boys are caught with sugar than with vinegar $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21800) HELLO, OUT THERE. Drama. William Saroyan. 3 m., 2 f. Int. (prison). "Hello, Out There" reveals the adventure of Photo Finish, an itinerant gambler, who is arrested and jailed in a small Texas town and charged with rape. The charge is a lie, but the only one who hears Photo's call for justice and understanding is Ethel, a young girl who cooks for the prisoners. Photo gives all his money to Ethel before a mob breaks into the jail and the lying woman's husband shoots him. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#533) SPECIAL GUEST. Drama. Donald Elser. 3 m., 2 f. Int. Years of hardship and poverty have embittered Nora to the point of desperation. Directing her hate against a young defective who killed her son in self-defense, Nora invites him to her home, toys with him, and then attempts murder. But her plan is thwarted by the dead son himself, who returns in time to prevent tragedy. Acting as narrator, and unseen by those on stage, he explains the motives of his mother, the shiftlessness of his father, the justice of the detective's act. At the end, a mother weeps over her dead son's photo. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21748)

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MEDEA. Drama. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Luce and Arthur Klein. 3 m., 2 f. (extras). One of the most admired of Anouilh's plays. In The Modem Theatre, Vol. 5, $23.00. (Royalty, $30-$30.) Please specify translator when ordering,. (#15654) ARIA DA CAPO. Poetic fantasy. Edna St. Vincent Millay. 4 m., 1 f. Int. Under the prompting of Cothurnus, a masque of tragedy, two shepherds interrupt a harlequinade, innocently kill each other, and are again superseded by the harlequinade. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#232) FORENSIC AND THE NA VIGA TORS. Drama. Sam Shepard. 5 m., Int. Two men attempt to liberate the inmates of a concentration camp. The free, flexible minds of the two revolutionaries are contrasted with the unthinking, easily manipulated, totally programmed minds of the "establishment's" victims-represented by the exterminators of the camp. In The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#8634) THE FUNNY OLD MAN. Drama. Tadeusz Rozewicz. Translated by Adam Czerniawski. 5 m., extras. Int. A Chaplinesque blend of pathos and humor. An old schoolmaster is on trial for the sexual molestation of a little girl. As his testimony progresses, we realize he feels life has passed him by. In The Witnesses and Other (#8659) Plays, $12.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE CONDEMNED MAN'S BICYCLE. Drama. Fernando Arrabal. 5 m., Int. A man plays a piano scale, then continues to the chagrin of his mates, and winds up in a coffin for his efforts in this bizarre one-act play by the Spanish master of perverse (#5703) surrealism. In Arrabal: Plays Vol. 2, $11.25. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SUNDANCE. Comedy. Meir Z. Ribalow. 5 m. Simple int. In a a metaphysical wild west saloon, Hickock, Jesse and the Kid cross paths. Hickock kills to uphold the law. Jesse kills for pleasure. The Kid kills to bring down The Establishment. What if, wonders the Barkeep, they met up with the Ultimate Killer-a man who kills simply because that's what he does? Enter Sundance. This co-winner of the 1981 NYC Metropolitan Short Play Festival has been a success in 6 countries. "Witty, (#21815) precise and well-written."-Guardian .. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) WHEN MEN REDUCE AS WOMEN DO. Modern comedy. Otto Kicks. 5 m. Int. Just imagine what happens when men gather and talk like women about their efforts to lose weight. Cecil is engaged to Natalie who abhors stout men, so she insists on placing Cecil on a rigid diet. After several months of this he resembles a bean pole. Before the wedding is to take place Cecil invites "a few of the boys" to his house for the evening, and when they assemble and start discussing their reducing in the manner of women it results in a riot of laughter! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25666) THE STILL ALARM. Satirical comedy. George S. Kaufman. 5 m. Int. Set in the bedroom of a hotel which is on fIre. The fun lies in the manner in which it is put out. In the face of most exciting danger, the characters play in the well-bred manner of English drawing-room actors. All amenities are preserved, even when two fIremen come in. One of these might be called a practicing professional, but the other is an amateur musician. Although the fIre under them becomes hotter every moment, he begins to tune his fIddle. Against a background of flames seen outside, he advances to the center of the stage and begins to play "Keep the Home Fires Burning." $4.50. (#1001) (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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AMBER WAVES. Drama. James Still. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Winner of AATE's Distinguished Play Award and originally produced at The Kennedy Center, Amber Waves focuses children in a family struggling to hold on to their farm and each other. "A play of compassion, tragedy and humor."-Kansas City Star. "No other play or movie has zeroed in so well on the effects these problems have had on the children of farm families while. . . making the case for the special place of farming in our nation's well-being. Its themes could be just as applicable to the youngsters of stockbrokers, store owners or any other occupations that suffer drastic downturns."-Washington Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Also available in a two-act version; see Index. Slightly Restricted. (#195) THE BEQUEST. Comic drama. Dale Wasserman. 3 m., 3 f. Ints. Eyebrows rise in a small town in Wisconsin when a notorious playboy dies leaving a large bequest to a local resident, the lovely and beloved wife of a local newspaper reporter. She refuses to explain why this windfall has come her way. "A polished miniature from a playwright better known for his blockbusters . . . a wicked, witty look at such piquant matters as male-female politics, the secret nature of women, and that little green demon known as retroactive jealousy. In the bargain, it's a sexy sort of whodunnit which will go on teasing your mind well after the curtain's down."-What's On. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#4267) BRIGHTON BEACH SCUMBAGS. Drama. Steven Berkoff. 4 m., 2 f. Simple set. Two couples at England's Brighton Beach find their dreams of the past competing with the reality of the present. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $28.95. (Royalty, $35$35.) (#4748) COME BACK FOR LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AFTER THE SERVICE. Comic drama. Julie Day. 1 m., 5 f. Int., ext w. inset. Beth is preparing food for her father's wake-real sandwiches, cakes, etc. that will be served to the audience as they become the mourners visiting after the funeral. Beth, who nursed her Alzheimer's stricken father for fIve years, plans to sell the house and go back-packing, despite other's disapproval. This play about relationships and understanding garnered rave reviews and a Fringe Award for excellence at the Edinburgh Festival. "Delightfully touching. . . . Full of gentle humor and a charmingly observed study of three generations of women." -The Stage. $4.50. (Royalty, #35-$25.) (#5275) THE FIFTEEN MINUTE HAMLET. Comedy. Tom Stoppard. 4 m., 2 f. Open stage. Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are Dead, the author continues his association with Hamlet by taking the most famous and bestloved lines from Shakespeare's play and condensing them into a hilarious thirteenminute version. This miraculous feat is followed by an encore-a two-minute version! The multitude of characters is played by six actors with hectic doubling, and the action takes place at an abridged Elsinore Castle. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8102) HEART'S DESIRE. Comedy. Caryl Churchill. 2 m., 4 f. Int. An elderly couple and aunt are waiting for a daughter to arrive home after years in Australia, but she is taking her time and the waiting is difficult. Dialogue is repeated over and over, each repetition sending the story veering in lurid and comical directions. "Intriguing. . . . Though it feels like the Marx Brothers had a hand in it, Heart's Desire really owes more to the bleak landscape of Beckett."-N.Y. Daily News. "Fresh and surprising . . . . The funniest show in town."-N.Y. Post. "Achingly, aggressively funny . . . . Blue Heart plants seeds that keep germinating in your mind long after the plays are over."-N.Y. Times. Published with Blue Kettle in Blue Heart, $10.95. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $60-$40 when performed with Blue Kettle.) (#10575) I READ THE NEWS TODAY. Drama. Willy Russell 6 m. 2 ints. (simply suggested). Written for BBC School Radio by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, this telling play visits a local radio station when its late-night broadcast is interrupted by a gun-toting escapee from police custody. The vandalism for which he was convicted was in reality a one-man stand against the lies told by advertisers and DJs to sell products and promote a dream world. The criminal is ultimately led away for psychiatric tests, but is it he or the dream-merchants who are disturbed? $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#11106) IDENTITY CRISIS. Comedy. Kitty Burns. 3 m., 3 f. Int. An overzealous paparazzi stages the most elaborate hoax in the history of journalism-the discovery of Amelia Earhart's luggage. Her plan to get the scoop of the century backfIres when airline baggage claim employees unravel the mystery. Published with Terminal Terror and On Hold at 30,000 Feet in If God Wanted Us to Fly, He Would Have Given Us Wings, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $60-$40 if performed with other plays in the collection.) (#10996) LOVESICK. Drama. Caryl Churchill. 4 m" 2 f. Unit set. Originally written for radio, this incisive piece about love-as-sickness is effective when staged with minimal scenery. A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives. While treating Ellen for loving a homosexual man, the therapist tumbles in love with her. His treatments achieve unexpected results: the gay man falls for him and kills himself while Ellen realizes she has lesbian inclinations. In Churchill: Shorts, $22.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#14928) A MOTHER'S LOVE. Drama. Israel Horovitz. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Palestinian parents lovingly prepare their son for martyrdom. 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*BOY ON BLACKTOP ROAD. Drama. Dale Wasserman. 4 m., 2 f. Int. An investigator grills four respectable citizens after receiving an anonymous letter describing the disappearance of a mysterious Boy. A startling story emerges as, one by one, the four break down and confess their relationships with the Boy. A shameful crime has been committed, though no one knows precisely what it is nor what the penalty may be. This startling play by the acclaimed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and An Enchanted Land is ideal for production with The Stallion Howl; there is a nearly complete cast overlap. Published with The Stallion Howl in Open Secrets, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$35 or $60-$60 when performed with The Stallion Howl.) (#4754) *THE STALLION HOWL. Comedy. Dale Wasserman. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. The subject is retroactive jealousy, specifIcally sexual jealousy. A seemingly happy couple is subjected to severe strain when the wife inherits a large gift of money from notorious womanizer with whom, presumably, she once had a relationship. Will the happy marriage shatter? Surprises occur, and the play makes a brave (but possibly reckless) attempt to answer Dr. Freud's famous question: "What do women want?" This enlightening comedy by the acclaimed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and An Enchanted Land is ideal for production with Boyan Blacktop Road; there is a nearly complete cast overlap. Published with Boyan Blacktop Road in Open Secrets, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$35 or $60-$60 when performed with Boyan Blacktop Road.) ( #21966) ACTOR. Dark comedy. Steven Berkoff. 1 m. Simple set. Fourteen telephone conversations reveal the life of an actor. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 1, $24.95. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#3552)

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ASYLUM. Drama. Alex Baron. 3 m., 3 f. Int. In this compelling, thought-provoking play about the continuing effects of the Second World War, Dr. Kirshner, head of a sanatorium in Germany, has to make a decision on whether or not Bauermann can be released into society after spending a year in her care. As she begins to probe into his life, she discovers his pronounced obsessional paranoia results from of the way in which his wife and son were killed in an air-raid and his daughter was sent to live in England. Following an emotional climax in which he is unexpectedly reunited with his daughter, Bauermann viciously attacks Dr. Kirshner and the question of his sanity becomes acute. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3712) THE DAY I MET WILLIAM INGE. Drama. Ernest Joselovitz. 5 m., 1 f. Unit set. Professor Neuwald, faced with a roomful of college freshmen, shares the experiences of his first year of college. Lured by a gorgeous blonde stage manager from his mother's "you'll-be-a-doctor" education into the beatnik world of college theatre in 1960, he experienced the big city and rebellion, fleeting infatuation and lasting friendships. And, in a moment that stretches across twenty years, he had a one-minute meeting with his idol: the playwright of small town dreams and rebellion, William Inge. In Four One-Act Plays by Ernest Joselovitz, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6733) FALSE PROPHETS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 5 m., 1 f. Bare stage. Brighella, the intriguer, desires the sexual favors of lawyer Robb's wife. He and his partner in crime, Arlecchino, attempt to dupe the lawyer into believing that Brighella is Pastor Evan Gellico of the Church of G's (Goodness, Gladness and Gold) and that he can raise the dead. In a bawdy comic finale, Brighella and his accomplice are unmasked and punished. $6.45. In Commedia Americana, $6.45. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#7996) THE LINE THAT'S PICKED UP 1000 BABES (And How It Can Work for You!) Comedy. Eric Berlin. See Index under Babes and Brides. (#13876) MARIA. Drama. Jules Tasca. See Index under Spirit of Hispania. THE MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT WEDDING CHAPEL. Comedy. Eric Berlin. See Index under Babes and Brides. (#15253) PEEPING PUNCH. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 4 m., 2 f. Bare stage. Pulcinella is caught spying on the alluring Sylvia by her guardian, Dr. Gordo. To avoid being arrested as a peeping Tom, he swears he is love with Sylvia. The doctor agrees not to press charges if Punch marries Sylvia, but Sylvia loves Flavio and plots with Columbine to pretend she is going into a convent. Columbine bets the doctor that Punch can't go two minutes without committing a carnal act. To test Punch's moral character, they hide and observe as the rowdy Punch makes love to an autlience member. He is unmasked and Sylvia is allowed to marry Flavio. In Commedia Americana, $6.45. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#17965) REPAYING GOOD WITH EVIL. Jules Tasca. See Index under Spirit of Hispania. SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK. Farce. Annie G. 4 m., 2 f. A rollicking farce, this is a rehearsal of the original Hamlet in Shakespeare's time but with many anachronisms. The ghost is here and Hamlet is in drag. The story unfolds with hyperbole upon hyperbole and with gargantuan gestures of every sort. It ends with everybody in a kind of square dance tossing candy kisses to the audience, leaving them smiling from ear to ear. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21311) A SEPARATE PEACE. Tom Stoppard. See Index for description. MILK. Drama. Diana Amsterdam. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. Ryan and Jill once lived by, and for, philosophy and poetry. Now, Ryan is an advertising copywriter and Jill is a nursing mother. Between bouts with the cretins for whom he is writing brochure copy, Ryan dreams of the carefree days when he and Jill used to live only for the joy of the moment. Now, there are bills to be paid, deadlines to be met, and a baby to be nursed. The shades of their former selves interact with their present realities, in this poignant play about what happens when dreams fade and realities are changed forever, by the necessities of milk. In Sex and Death: Four One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $60-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collec(#15948) tion.) Restricted NYC. A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION. Drama. Alan Bennett. 5 m., 1 f. Int. "A true work of art . . . a theatrical metaphor turned into a play, a disruptive meditation upon our quest for certainty and identification. Anthony Blunt discovers, through research and X-rays, what hidden faces are concealed beneath a painting's surface. It is a process which resembles the exposure of the postwar network of spies within England. The gulf between appearance and reality. . . reverberates with resonance in the discussion between the Queen and Sir Anthony. It is as if both were agreeing that it is more politic to accept a painting which is a forgery (a spy) than to expose it."-Guardian. Published in Single Spies, $8.95. (Royalty $35-$25 or $60-$40 when performed with An Englishman Abroad under the title Single Spies.) Restricted. (#19013) OF POEMS, YOUTH, AND SPRING. Comedy. John Logan. 1 m., 1 f. (3 voices; 4 chorus members). Concerns the first romance of a boy and a girl in high school. The play's four scenes correspond to the seasons of the year; and each season represents

THE QUALITY OF BOILED WATER. Comedy. Jason Milligan. 4 m., 2 f.Int.In this wild farce, a Wall Street wizard wakes up with a strange woman in a strange bed in a very strange house. The inhabitants have not been out since 1969 when Dad, a former NASA employee, shut his door in reaction to the Vietnam War and other disturbing events. He is raising his kids in the safety of his living room. They live on Tang and Space Food Sticks and consider Walden their bible. Greg is very ready to leave when he is to be Terri-Anne's groom-like it or not. In Cross Country: Seven More One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#19009) A TABLE FOR A KING. Drama. Martin Sherman. 4 m., 2 f. See Index under A Madhouse in Goa for description. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22596) BRIDAL TERRORISM. Comedy. Billy Rosenfield. 3 m., 3 f. Simple ext. Lionel anticipates a quiet afternoon in the park. Just as he settles on a bench with a book, an armed woman in a wedding gown approaches with her bridal retinue. May has booked the church and the reception hall. All she needs is a groom and Lionel looks like a good prospect. He is not keen on the idea but May and her wedding party are persistent. Lionel eventually gives in, but May has second thoughts when he discloses that he lives in an institution and has only been allowed out for the afternoon. The wedding party huddles and the bride's mother proposes they head for the reservoir to find a better groom. Lionel, happy his ruse was effective, picks up his book. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4716) COMINGS AND GOINGS. Megan Terry. 3 m., 3 f. Bare stage. In this nonliteral series of exercises for actors, performers enter every ninety seconds or so to substitute (as in a basketball game). The enjoyment is in technique-pure virtuosity is required. Vignettes include a husband and wife eating breakfast and in bed, a female bank robber and a woman who plays the God of Abraham. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) Sheet Music, $4.50. (Music Royalty, $5 per performance.) (#5698) DARLING, YOU WERE WONDERFUL! Comedy. Derek Lomas. 6 f. Int. The ambitious, untalented Amazon Theatre Group is about to perform an obscure seventeenth-century Spanish drama in a festival. Tensions mount. Eve and Liz arrive flushed from motorway escapades. Judy nervously cleans the dressing room. Irene, the producer, accuses her star Vanessa of having an affair with her husband. Lesley staggers in paralytically drunk and dressed in motorcycle gear. Amidst frantic efforts to sober her up, Judy delivers a final blow by innocently quoting from that' 'Scottish Play." The company does triumph: the adjudicator is impressed with their seething passion and smoldering hate and pronounces the motorcycle regalia a stroke of genius! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5946) DEUS X. Black comedy. Jules Tasca. 4 m., 2 f. 1 set. A scientist discovers a gland in the brain that determines whether one is religious or not. He invents a medication, Deus X, that shrinks this Deus gland. He administers it to all who dare to 'scoff at him. His estranged brother, a televangelist, agrees to take Deus X on national television with hilarious results. This play was a hit at the East Stroundsburg University Theatre Festival. In Outrageous! and Other Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35$25.) (#6204) FOR TIGER LILIES OUT OF SEASON. Drama. Andrea Green. 1 m., 5 f. An intimate, affirmative account of a battle to live fully beyond physical survival, this poetic piece, half-dream and half-reality, follows one woman's rite of passage through the experience of breast cancer. Justine Danieu, a divorced, educated and talented photographer, is on the brink of professional success when a routine mammography reveals a malignancy. As she interacts with doctors, family and support group members, she questions the certitudes of her existence. Her courage in facing a difficult decision about treatment is a metaphor for her coming of age. Humor and pathos are interwoven in this story of human potential in adversity. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8186) THE MISTAKE. Tragicomedy. Vaclav Havel. Translated by George Theiner. 5 m. Int. Xiboj, the newest inmate of the prison cell, smokes a cigarette on waking up. He has been told that smoking before breakfast is against the rules. Order, cleanliness and obedience are required. Xiboj simply shrugs his shoulders, but the threat cannot be ignored. In The Garden Party and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15525) WHITE ROOM OF MY REMEMBERING. Drama. Jean Lenox Toddie. 2 m., 4 f. Int. This poignant play by the author of Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song; A Little Something for the Ducks; A Scent of Honeysuckle and A Bag of Green Apples is the story of two women, Margaret and Jessie, who have come to Jessie's childhood home to put it up for sale. While Margaret goes to find a real estate agent, Jessie has conversations with herself as a girl and with her dead father and her mother. "A warmly human play. One is left with a sense that although choices made in life are not made without loss, that which is lost can in some ways be recaptured."-Pentagram. "Delightful."-The Review. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#25681) ARE YOU NORMAL, MR. NORMAN? Black comedy. David Henry Wilson. 4 m., 2 f. Int. In this bizarre comedy, a man goes to dentist's office with a toothache and finds himself in a Twilight Zone-like nightmare. In Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Plays, $8.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#3671)

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a stage in the couple's romance, spring being when they meet and winter when they part. Each season is introduced by two small choruses which, in a mood of light humor and fantasy, tease and scold and provide contrast to the light drama of the romance. They also act incidental roles in the story and perform stagehand duties. This play won first place in the finals of The Texas Interscholastic League Contest. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#800) ARTHUR MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Comedy. Kathy Friederici. 3 m., 3 f. Bare stage. Commissioned by the Insurance Corporation of British Columnbia as part of their acclaimed CounterAttack program, this easy-to-produce, fun-to-do little play also carries with it a potent message. Arthur, a high-school boy, is subject-like all high school kids-to intense peer pressures, mostly to do things which are not, shall we say, healthy. But, unlike so many kids nowadays, who so easily succumb, Arthur is not afraid to take a stand. He says NO to smoking, NO to partying, NO to drinking. He won't let any friend drive home drunk. He works to educate people about the importance of using seat-belts. And, he starts a CounterAttack club in his high school. Amusingly, without being at all heavy-handed in its proselytizing, Arthur Makes A Difference effectively dramatizes how kids can take control of their moral lives-if they just say "NO". $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#3689) SIS BOOM BAA. Comedy. Sybil Rosen. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Football widows of America: This Is Your Life! Pam, Cheryl, Linda and Mary are best friends. They do everything together-because their husbands spend most of their time watching football on TV. Mary, the new-comer to the group, has recently married Joey, and his obsession is really getting to her. While the women cook New Year's Day dinner in Cheryl's kitchen, they coach Mary on technique-on how to get Joey's attention away from the game. Joey comes into the kitchen for something to eat and Mary tries what she has learned on him, to no avail-so she tackles him! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21681) AT HOME. Comedy. Richard Dresser. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Dick and Janet live in a condo complex where every unit looks alike. They come home one night from a party and begin a very humorous sexual game when Ted and his wife Jackie enter in their pajamas from the bedroom. Oops! Dick and Janet are in the wrong condo! Or are they! The laughs are fast and furious in this slightly surreal satire of contemporary marriage. In Splitsville. Three One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection. Please state author when (#3684) ordering. Slightly Restricted. SPLITSVILLE. Comedy. Richard Dresser. 3 m., 3 f. Int. This black comedy is about a man who is in training to achieve his life's ambition (becoming a bouncer), and his wife who hopes to land an exciting career in customer relations. The couple sees the answer to their dreams in a theme park called "Splitsville" being built nearby. Will Roy and Wendy stay together? Will they land the jobs of their dreams? This "nightmarish satire of American junk culture . . . finds plenty of grim laughter in the wreckage. Its characters are all victims of extreme cultural malnourishment." -N. Y. Times. In Splitsville: Three One-Act Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) Slightly Restricted.

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS but could it be that they were given each other's baby all those years ago? The courses of the girls lives, and their inherited traits, are gradually revealed to us in moments both amusing and dramatic, with the lively Winnie peppering the action with her comments. With well-drawn characters, it is an ideal choice for high school drama contests and one-act festivals. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17906) THE ESTABLISHMENT AT ARLES. Comedy. Barry L. Hillman. 6 f. Int. Based on characters created by Guy de Maupassant, this play gives a vibrant glimpse of life in a French "establishment" in 1888. Candice comes to rescue Yvette from Tellier's den of iniquity, only to have her prim sensibilities revolted by Madame's defense of her brothel and Yvette's refusal to leave her life of comfort. As Madame and her girls celebrate Yvette's birthday with wine and a spirited version of the cancan, Van Gogh sends Yvette a present-- his ear. This bizarre gesture has a compelling attraction for Candice who determines to stay-but only as a wine-waitress! Recommended for competitions and drama clubs. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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THE AUDITION IS OVER. Drama. John Kirkpatrick. 6 f. On the bare stage of a summer theatre Emily Haven, this week's visiting star, is about to audition the protegee of an old friend, now a professor and dramatic coach at a nearby college. The actress learns that the teacher and the hopeful young woman's mother have fought over the girl's career and that the audition is to determine her future. Emily resents this high-handed arrangement and exposes the selfishness of the women who (#3662) want to live their lives over again in the girl. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) WHEN MEN ARE SCARCE. Comedy. John Kirkpatrick. 6 f. Three career girls who share an apartment make an agreement that one night a week two must clear out leaving the third one free to cook dinner for her boy friend. Maudie doesn't have a boy friend but pride prompts her to invent one. She borrows clothes from the male tenant upstairs to provide circumstantial evidence. The evidence proves too circumstantial for comfort and the arrival of the wife from upstairs precipitates a crisis. (#25665) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THEY'RE NONE OF THEM PERFECT. Comedy. Sophie Kerr. 6 f., I extra. Int. A successful business woman announces her forthcoming marriage to her married women friends, who think she's crazy to give up a career and independence to be bothered by a husband. She maintains her fiance is perfe,:t; but her friends find he's not such a paragon. $4.50. (Royalty, $20.. $15.) (#22662) NO MORE WARS BUT THE MOON. Comedy. E.P. Conkle. 6 f. Int. The women's club finds a solution for settling wars. The women are making a quilt for the marriage of one of them with a young man. Mrs. Tansey comes in with her unique plan for world peace and eventually gets the quilt and the young man. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16629) DELTA TRIANGLE. Comedy. Steven Schwab. 2 m., 4 f. 2 ints.lext. (simply suggested). This delightful festival winner is actually three short playlets. In the first, "Solstice," a young teenage boy and girl sit on a back yard fence with a pair of binoculars, watching the drive-in movie nearby. Next comes "Clarinet in the Rain", wherein a high school boy tries valiantly to interest his 35 year-old female clarinet teacher in something other than music lessons. The final playlet, "Something Blue", is an amusing glimpse of a young bride as she prepares to walk down the aisle, with the help of her very pregnant Matron of Honor. In Off Off Broadway Festival Plays. 10th Series, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6687) DOSTOEVSKY. Drama. Keith Miles. 3 m., 3 f. (doubling possible.) Simple. int. The play is set in 1866 when Dostoevsky is under enormous pressure to complete a novel. He employs a young stenographer, Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, and describes the major events of his life to her in the intervals between dictation. These events are reenacted with Anna taking on the roles of the other two key women in the writer's life-Maria Dimitrievna Isaev and the vivacious Polina. The friendship between writer and stenographer slowly deepens 'as they share his past experiences and they decide that they wish to share their futures together. In Russian Masters, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when done with Chekhov.) (#20092) DREAMBOATS. Comedy. Avery Hart. 5 m., If. Int. Susan Matthews comes to the big city to marry her hometown boyfriend Roger, and receives a rude shock: Roger is leaving to pursue a career as a rock star in Anchorage. So, Susan sets out to meet some of the city's available men. These include Fred, a programmer who speaks in Basic Boring: Jim, a maniacal corporate lawyer who's certain every single girl wants to marry him; and Neil, the "perfect man" (but, alas married . .. ). By the time John shows up, Susan has learned all the wrong lessons from this motley collection of dreamboats-and she almost loses her chance with the one who just might be the answer to her dreams. In 01.( Off Broadway Festival Plays, 8th Series, (#6674) $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THAT PIG, MORIN. Comedy. Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Jules Tasca. 4 m., 2 f. Bare Stage. In a comedy that is funny and thought-provoking, a homely man gets an urge while riding on a train to kiss a young girl. He does and is arrested. To prevent the girl from taking the matter to court, he sends his best friend to see the girl to dissuade her from pressing the matter. Because the friend is handsome, he can take every liberty he pleases with the girl and she loves it. The wry conclusion illustrates how physical attractiveness is rewarded and unattractiveness punished. In The Necklace and Other Stories, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) When all five plays are (#15990) done together. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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BILL AND LAURA. Comedy. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Bill and Laura have recently separated. They show up at the same dinner party with dates and come face-to-face in the bedroom where the coats are being stored. They immediately begin fighting. They go out to the party, but soon return looking for their coats, which are now buried. The fight gets heated as they criticize each other's dates and lives as single people. The more they fight the more they realize that their lives apart are been miserable. In each other's arms, they lock the door and throw the coats off the bed. In Bedrooms, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$40 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#244) THE RETURN. Drama. Tony Edwards. 4 m., 2 f., Int. Newlyweds Penny and Tom Gilbert are entertaining Tom's colleague James and his wife Alice to dinner, when they are unexpectedly interrupted by Harry Barton, a character from Tom's past. Harry has come to offer Tom a job; not so surprising perhaps, as Tom is known to be a high flyer in his work with computers. But why should Tom be so alarmed at Harry's offer? What gives Harry the power to threaten Tom if he refuses? And what exactly is the "past" which Tom tries desperately to evade? This tense drama builds to an unusual-and unguessable-twist in the tail! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering. (#20648) ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS. Drama. Bruce Bonafede. 5 m., I f. (interracial). Int. A sensation at Actors The'atre of Louisville, this ingenious play is about black South African actors in America to perform Waiting for Godot. The anti-apartheid movement wants the performance canceled as a political gesture and has even threatened the actors' fanulies to achieve its aim. The predicament of Didi and Godo in Waiting for Godot is cleverly juxtaposed with that of the two actors. "Blazing with emotional force and moral complexities. . . . A taut, searing inquiry into the inequities perpetrated in the name of political justice."-Louisville Courier-Journal. "States the problem with heart-breaking c1arity."-Time Magazine. $4.50. (Royalty, $35$25.) Please state one-act version when ordering. (#3027) ONCE AND FOR ALL. Drama. Enid Coles, 6 f. (I non-speaking). 2 ints. (one suggested). A gentle, subtle play about two contrasting mothers and daughterscommon, garrulous Mrs. Painter and Patsy, genteel but poor Mrs Burnett and Charlotte. The mothers met over 30 years ago in hospital at the birth of their daughters-

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tion. Only the girl protests-and they set on her and kill her. But the Calm Woman then informs them she has not after all offered them any guarantee of safety. In a wild fury they set on her also, and her prophecy is fulfilled, she will not hang. A great success in England. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3609) MURDER WELL REHEARSED. A Who-Dunnit. John R. Carroll. Bare stage. 3 m., 3 f. A group of performers prepare for a rehearsal only to discover a slain body center stage. Amidst sharp accusations, careless amateur attempts at crime solving and tense hysterics, intercedes an overconfident Police Inspector. Suddenly, the stage is in blackout and the body mysteriously disappears. In addition, all the doors to the auditorium are barred and the over-wrought group is forced to realize they might be held captive by a crazed killer. Subsequent blackouts, disruption of telephones, an abrupt closing of the stage curtain and eerily pre-recorded threatening messages whip this easily staged one act into a play of enormous excitement and genuine suspense. A unique surprise ending. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

THE SEIZURE. Farce-fantasy. Albert Bermel. 4 m., 2 f. Open stage, a few props. A group of zany castaways are founding a new society in an isolated spot. Their leader hopes to establish connections with the outside world (if there is one). An old scholar studies the flora, the fauna, trying all the time to keep tabs on his beautiful, promiscuous daughter. A lovesick poet courts the daughter and communes with his dead mother. But while they get caught up in their pursuits, their other companion, a single-minded go-getter, makes preparations to take over everything and everybody. Performed at the Public Theatre in New York and elsewhere. In Six One-Act Farces, (#21650) $16.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) IL FORNICAZIONE. (Tbe Adulterer.) Michael Green. 3 m., 3 f., extras. See Index under Four Plays for Coarse Actors. MIXED DOUBLES. Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 3 m.,3 f. Int. Two womanizers are taking advantage of their respective lady friends' absence to entertain their new conquests in a fashionable Parisian restaurant, only to find that each has brought the other's mistress. Confusion is compounded when both cocottes turn out to.be the ex-wives of the chagrined maitre d'hotel, who finds that he has less explaining to do to his new wife than he had imagined. "Feydeau is devilishly hard to translate and Shapiro has done a first-rate job." -Daniel Gerould. In Feydeau, First to Last, $16.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#15681) CAUGHT WITH HIS TRANCE DOWN. Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Justin, an unscrupulous domestic, has been using his hypnotic talents to make his master, Boriquet, unwittingly do all the housework. His sinecure is about to end, however, when Boriquet, an aging bachelor, decides to take a wife. Justin's attempts to hypnotize his way out of the impending disaster create scenes of blatant farce, involving Boriquet and his spinster sister. He runs afoul, however, when the bride-to-be's father, a celebrated student of Freud, discovers his ruse and bests him in a hypnotic duel, turning him into a model servant. "Feydeau is devilishly hard to translate and Shapiro has done a first-rate job."Daniel Gerould. In Feydeau, First to Last, $16.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5048) THE BIRDS STOPPED SINGING. Play. Lawrence Barker. 3 m., 3 f. Int. It is 1930 and in a roadside inn outside Berlin Pavel Alexandrovich sits reading-keeping very much to himself. A salesman, Liszt, arrives in search of lodgings. He engages Pavel in conversation about the war period. Reluctant at first, Pavel eventually recounts how he assisted in the execution of Tsar Nicholas. It has haunted him ever since. His story leads to the perennial mystery of Anastasia's fate. Surprisingly, Pavel suspects that a prostitute at the inn could be the Russian princess. The denouement is even more surprising-but by then Pavel is too sunk in alcoholic oblivion to realize it. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4630) DIALOGUE WITH A NEGRO. Mario Fratti. 5 m., 1 f. Published in Races,$6.50. (Royalty, $ lO-$lO.) (#6218) THE VALIANT. Drama. Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass. 5 m., I f. Int. Produced with wide acclaim on Broadway and made into a movie. A number of leading actors have appeared in this deeply moving drama: Paul Muni, Lloyd Nolan, John Garfield, Franchot Tone, Walter Huston, Robert Taylor, Humphrey Bogart and Dorothy McGuire. It's about a man waiting in a prison for his execution. Nothing is known about him except he has killed a man. On his execution day, a girl comes to see him thinking he may be her long-lost brother. The prisoner recognizes her, but the sister is not sure of him. He sends her back to their mother happy in the belief her brother died a War hero. Then, head up, he walks to the execution chamber. Winner of hundreds of competitions. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#24605) THE DAY THE WHORES CAME OUT TO PLAY TENNIS. Comedy. Arthur Kopit. 6 m. Int. Despite the title, it has intense meaning for these times. The scene is a room in a wealthy country club, to which the men's committee is hastily summoned early one morning after a carousing dance. Problem: what to do about the 16 luscious but low-life females who drove up in a Rolls Royces and then proceeded to the tennis courts, where they are now disporting. While the committee huddles, we learn that they are the vulgar, crass people. They are good for nothing but blustering and simpering. It is the attendant, far more refined than they, who is invited out to play with the bevy of beauties, just before the final assault and the collapse of their cardboard world. In The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays, (#375) $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) IT'S ALL IN THE GAME. Satire. Valerie Maskell. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Nat's family are preparing for the solemn ritual of watching The Game on T.V. A Governmentsponsored super-football, it's much more than a spectator sport. A win, for instance, can increase production, lessen vandalism, reduce suicides. They're horrified when their son (a state employee who's been allowed into the stadium) says the whole thing is a gigantic con-there's no game, it's all a computerized fraud designed to keep the people happy and quiet. Nat's shattered, but his wife says it's faith that matters: if you believe in The Game, it exists. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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TAFFY'S TAXI. Leonard Melfi. 4 f. 2 m. Composite int.lext. Taffy is a lesbian New York cab driver. Some of her fares on this particular day include two small-townhoneymooners who become entranced with her life-style, a city couple ready for a sexual threesome and a fellow-lesbian who makes a romantic proposition despite Taffy's open confession of loyalty to her somewhat sadistic lover. It is all up to Taffy. In Later Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22612) FOILED BY AN INNOCENT MAID. Meller-Drammer. Fred Carmichael. 2 m., 4 f. Int. or drapes. Played with the asides and intensity inherent to the genre. A riotous evening for actors and audience. There's gloom in the Follansbee mansion since Rachel's grandchild disappeared. She's inconsolable. Then Faith Hopewell staggers in-babe in arms-and stays on as a maid. Rachel doesn't want to see another baby-so Faith hides the child. Jimmy, the delivery boy, falls in love with Faith and Longfellow, the villain, tries kidnapping the child. He's foiled by Faith-Jimmy's revealed as the missing son-in-law-the baby to be the family heir-and the villain gets amnesia and is sent to the Salvation Army to do good works. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95.

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PROFESSOR GEORGE. Drama. Marsha Sheiness. 3 m. 3 f. or 4 m., 2 f. Int. What seems to be an ordinary situation is turned inside-out to provide a fascinating, nearbizarre experience. Five college students are confronted with "unheard-of' demands and challenges from Professor George who'll try almost anything to free students from habits limiting a person's potential. The professor shows a twig to them and says. "There's someone in the twig waiting for us to find him or her." Later, it's understood the search for the twig's symbolic person is really the search for the unique in each individual. "Forceful and funny . . . full of tensions and troubling questions, not least about the professor's uses of power."-Encore Maga(#18606) zine. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) DON'T LOOK DOWN. Comedy. Jay Folb. 4 m., 2 f. Ext. A gust of wind changes Paul Kramer's life when it sweeps his money from a hotel window onto the ledge below. Emboldened by greed and whiskey, he steps out to retrieve it, but can't make it back as vertigo roots him to the spot he stands on. The important people in his life alternately appear at the window. Separately, they assume guilt for driving him to "suicide." As they reveal their reasons for the assumption, he's given motivation after motivation to jump. Wanting to die, his fear of height changes to indifference. It changes back to fear when the need to live returns. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6660) MELODRAMA PLAY. Drama. Sam Shepard. 5 m., I f. Int. The haunted rock star in this play is another of Shepard's favorite figures, the artist entangled in the terrifying web of fantasy and deception. In Fool For Love & Other Plays, $15.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#15655) AREATHA IN THE ICE PALACE. Tragedy. Tom Eyen. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Santa Claus is building a doll to be the perfect sexual companion and the play is a commentary on our times' sexual mores. This ribald fantasy is actually a scarifying attack on our own brutalized values. Santa's Areatha can't escape-and when he turns her into a thing-and it still resists him-he kills even that. "Beneath all the tinsel . . . a brilliant and deadly serious play." -Show Business. In Tom Eyen: Ten Plays, $7.50. (#3653) (Royalty, $20-$15.) THREE MORE MELODRAMAS. Edited by Michael Kilgarriff. Set a Thief to Catch a Thief Peter Ventham and Michael Kilgariff. 5 m., I f. In Upstanding young man's gambling leads to crime; but loyal wife waits, and all ends well. The Bells. Richard Dennis and Michael Kilgarriff. 3 m., I f. Int. About an ample-sized girl, her shortsighted fiance, and her crazed father. Black-Eye'd Susan. Michael Kilgarriff. 4 m., I f. Int. Scoundrelly captain aided by villainous uncle plan unsuccessfully to win Susan from her husband. Excellent pieces for broad and imaginative acting. $8.95. (#22685) (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) THE LEGACY. Drama. Pa'ul Elliott. 3 m., 3 f. Int. If all of the worst predictions of the future of civilization came true, what horrors would our children's children face? Step into this future nightmare with William and Marion as they face a world where one's survival depends on the slaughter of others, where your every move is watched, where the only war left to fight is with your sanity and death is your only

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AFTER MIDNIGHT-BEFORE DAWN. Play. David Campton. 2 m., 4 or 6 f. The characters await death, having been sentenced for witchcraft. It is the late 1600s or early 1700s. Only the Calm Woman remains unmoved. On being questioned, she replies she will not hang. The Devil will look after his own. The others conclude she is indeed a witch-and beg her to tell them how they too may gain Satan's protec-

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'Beast people" --creatures carved and shaped out of living animals, made to resemble and behave like human beings. They populate Moreau's secluded island, worshipping Moreau as their Creator God and obeying his Laws. The appearance of another "real" human being causes confusion, fear and suspicion amongst them, and they soon revert to their original animal traits and instincts! "Brings the original H.G. Well's story to life more succinctly and literately than Paramount.'-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#10664) LUX IN TENEBRIS. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Ernest Borneman. 4 m., 2 f. Int.lext. In the red light district, Paduk is sitting with his cash register and people are buying tickets. "Soft chancre; one mark. Gonnorhea: one-sixty. Syphillis: twofifty," Paduk advertises. The placard on the tent reads Let There Be Light. In Brecht: Collected Plays, $16.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#14677) BELLAVITA. Drama. Luigi PirandeIIo. Translated by William Murray. 5 m., I f. extras. Int. Concern over a young boy and his education, splits into arguments. Pirandello's message denounces the bearer of false gifts. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#4625) HURRAH FOR THE BRIDGE. Paul Foster. 5 m., 1 f. About one man's world of an old junk cart. His obsessive drive to get across a raging river safely with the mysterious contents of the cart causes his destruction. Along the way he is beset by four monstrous characters who devour each other in their violence. Tension builds to the conclusion. "I would not have left before the last line even if my seat caught fire"-Vil/age Voice. In Balls and Other Plays, $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10675) PRESS CUTTINGS. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 3 m., 3 f. Int. In this hilarious comedy Shaw is at his best in the argument over whether or not the ladies should get the vote, and the army its civil rights. Published with Getting Married, $7.95. (Royalty, $25-$15.) (#18666) NELLIE MCNAB. Farce-comedy. Lois Reynolds. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Helen Stratford and her debutante daughter write to a heart-throb columnist. Nellie McNabb. Helen has secretly married John Appleford. When everything is finally straightened away all are amazed at the discovery that John Appleford is Nellie. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#16606) $15.) PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Drama. Fernando Arrabal, translated by Barbara Wright. 5 m., 1 f. Ext. In the war zone a solitary soldier's scared stiff. His parents come in to share a picnic basket with him. A frightened enemy soldier is captured though no one knows what to do with him. There's an air raid-while the parents continue talking. They then devise a way for ending the war-telling the ruling powers the ranks don't like to play at war anymore. It's a marvelously simple solution and would work-except a machine gun suddenly silences them and their (#846) idea. In Guemica and Other Plays, $17.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE LABYRINTH. Drama. Fernando Arrabal, translated by Barbara Wright. 5 m., 1 f. lnt.lext. A man and his daughter have created a vast maze of blankets in a park. Into this labyrinth comes a manacled prisoner whose efforts to escape are constantly frustrated by the logic of the people who have created it. In Guemica and Other (#14607) Plays, $17.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. Drama. Joe Orton. 3 m., 3 f. A savage study of the disintegration of an old man when he retires after fifty sterile years in the service of a factory. More badgered than solaced by the attentions of the personnel officer and the works club for retired employees, George Buchanan's belated search for happiness lurches breathtakingly from moments of hilarity to moments of extreme pathos. In The Complete Plays of Joe Orton, $15.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9660) WHO'S OUT THERE! Drama. Jack Krentzlin. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A successful New York Play director has undergone an emotional and personal crisis. He is trying to get back on his feet and his friends are reaching out to try to help him. Unfortunately, people have never devised a system of really communicating with each other and, as he talks to first the janitor, then the young girl who rescued him from alcoholism, then the woman he is in love with, then the producer and friend who is putting on his come-back play, and finally his son. He, and they, fail to really understand the other's need. They even fail to understand their own needs. This failure is played out at all levels. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25119)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS THE INCA OF PERUSALEM. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 2 f. Int. Shaw's somewhat allegorical view of the German Kaiser. In Selected Shon Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11649) THE LEADER. Morality. Eugene lonesco. Translated by Derek Prouse. 4 m., 2 f. Ext. A satire on mass adulation of political leaders. We open with an announcer proclaiming the arrival of the leader, while the crowd cheers. Finally, the leader arrives, and all are startled to see that he had no head beneath his hat. But "what's he need a head for when he's got genius!" In Rhinoceros and Other Plays. $13.00. (#14626) (Royalty, $20-$15.) Restricted in the NYC area. THE HAPPY JOURNEY TO TRENTON FROM CAMDEN. Comedy. Thornton Wilder 3 m., 3 f. Four chairs and a cot. Imaginary props. The' character representing the author leans against the proscenium and reads the lines for a number of minor characters who never appear. In the simple story Pa and Ma and two children journey from Newark in their Chevrolet to visit their daughter in Camden. The mother stands out as a brilliant piece of portraiture representing the backbone of the nation. Revised acting edition with full stage directions. Recootly performed in New York with The wng Christmas Dinner and Pullman Car Hiawatha. "Like a surprise holiday gift. . [these plays] shine like gems."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#70) GOODBYE TO THE CLOWN. Comedy. Ernest Kinoy, 3 m., 3 f. 2 ints. Scenery optional. Peggy, a nine year old, is in trouble at school because she seems unable to distinguish between her imagination and reality, and blames her difficult behavior on a "Clown," an imaginary playmate. At home, her mother becomes very upset at Peggy's insistence on the reality of the Clown, which the audience sees also. The real emotional meaning of the Clown becomes clear as Peggy slowly realizes that her Father is dead. . . and that the Clown has been a substitute for him in her mind. With this realization the Clown is no longer needed, and he says good-bye, never to (#66) be real to her again. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE DAVID SHOW. Comedy. A. R. Gurney, Jr. 5 m., 1 f. Int. The story of David, Bathsheba, et al. of Old Testament fame-but the time's the present and the place is a TV studio where David's about to be crowned. Saul doesn't like giving up the crown; David balks at wedding Bathsheba before a video audience and David's got to prove himself against a giant-and one named Goliath is produced to do the trick in this comic twist on history. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6607) CUPID IS A BUM IS A BUM IS A BUM. A Modern Fantasy. John Kirkpatrick. 3 m., 3 f. Int. The new electronics machine at the University can do anything--correct examination papers, write the president's speeches, arrange marriages. But when it starts quoting love poems when it should be doing geology, the young professor in charge decides something is wrong. It is only after Elsie's matrimonial plans have been wrecked and the professor beaten up by her irate boy friend that the secret comes out. The computer has fallen in love with the electric typewriter! It has to marry off the professor to his secretary to get rid of them and be alone with Corona Smith. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5740) THE BALD SOPRANO. Comedy. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald M. Allen. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A hilarious, and certainly a unique, satire on the drabness of the English middle class, in which people talk to each other at cross purposes, failing to understand, getting nowhere at all in the matter of communication. Produced in New (#38) York. In Four Plays by Eugene lonesco, $13.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) ANTIC SPRING. Comedy. Robert Nail. 3 m., 3 f. Placing emphasis on pantomine and character portrayal, the play needs only six chairs to represent an open touring car in which an six very different teenagers are riding to go on a picnic. Trials and tribulations result in merriment and in flippant dialogue. This comedy is fast-paced (#36) and rich in performance possibilities. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SHE WAS A LAZY WITCH. Fantasy. John Kirkpatrick. 2 m., 4 f. Int. The "Weird Sisters" of Shakespeare's tragedy forsake Scotland, mount their broomsticks and are transported to a plush apartment in modern-day New York. Here they pursue their fortune telling with predictions about the stock market and horse races. The youngest, now a seductive blonde, meets Mr. Beth and persuades him to murder his wife. The consequences are dire. As their broomsticks have been destroyed, the girls try to escape by climbing aboard a vacuum cleaner. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21678) COLUMBINE CUM LAUDE. Comedy. Lyda Nagel. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. Columbine awakes to find a thought in her head. This leads the pretty flirt, who has been pursuing Harlequin for five hundred years, into the arms of a stodgy professor, who whisks her away for a "mortarboard" marriage. Harlequin, always so concerned with himself, discovers he has a broken heart. With the aid of Pierrot, Harlequin recaptures for an instant what he loves; but has he truly learned that, when we change what we most desire, we destroy it? Only Columbine knows and she will nevertell. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5683) SAFE HARBOR. Fantasy. Douglass Parkhirst. 3m., 3 f. lnt. When a sea-captain's beautiful daughter, Carrie, learns her father's ship has gone down, she refuses to believe her beloved Michael, the handsome seaman to whom she is betrothed, will not come back to make her his bride. The years slip by and Carrie's faith becomes an obsession until, one day, Michael does return--carrying her off to a safe harbor. (#21618) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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face the bitter realities of life. A serious play, for advanced groups. $4.50. (Royalty, (#484) $20-$15.) A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY. Comedy. Hilda Manning. 3 m., 3 f. Int. Donnie Hoofle, high school junior, is going to have his first big date for the college Freshman Hop. He's invited Bertitia Butt who he says has a beauty of spirit though not of face. JooJoo Miller, fifteen, has a crush on him, but he tells her he can't take a mere child to such an event. But Donnie discovers Bertitia is the college's perennial wallflower and agreed to go with him as a last resort. But tragedy for a sixteen-year-old like Donnie can't last and a natural way out is suggested to him. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#27609) $15.) IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE. Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley. 5 m., 1 f. Int. We are in Nazi Germany where all justice was relative. The judge is first coached, rather than briefed, by the inspector, then by the prosecutor regarding the case of a Jew who was roughed up and whose store was robbed by the SS men. There is a conflict between what the neighbors want and what the Nazi bureaucracy want. The judge gingerly asks the advice of another judge, only to be told to look out for his own interests first. He collects his papers and proceeds to packed chambers in a great sweat. Whatever happens, truth and justice will have little play. In The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#11640)

AN OVERPRAISED SEASON. A Play of Ideas. Richard S. Dunlop. 4 m., 2 f. No set. This powerful story won six out of nine possible awards at the one-act contest in which it premiered. Numerous problems facing today's intelligent and sensitive adolescents are treated in the 40 minute play, which, in episode form, concerns two boys and a girl; a domineering, religiously fanatic mother; and a selfish, egocentric father. A narrator, somewhat like the Stage Manager of "Our Town," propounds the philosophy of the play. A quality play designed for advanced student performers. (#89) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) VICTIMS OF DUTY. Farce. Eugene Ionesco. Trans. by Donald Watson. 4 m., 2 f. Int. The inspector comes to the flat to find out what happened to the previous tenant. Was he killed? The present tenant doesn't know. Being of no help, he is kept silent by stuffing his mouth while the inspector engages a playwright in an argument about the theatre. No one makes more than jibberish out of the subject. In Three Plays by Ionesco, $12.00. (Royalty, $15.) (#24603) THE BATHROOM DOOR. Comedy. Gertrude Jennings. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A prima donna, a young man, an old man, an old lady, and a young lady are all trying to get into a bathroom in a. hotel. The door will not open, and at last the prima donna declares that her husband with whom she has had a quarrel must have locked himself in the bathroom and done away with himself. Enter then a servant who discloses fact that the door is not locked at all, and the bathroom is empty. $4.50. (#256) (Royalty, $20-$15.) NOW THAT APRIL'S HERE. Comedy. James Reach. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Justine Harris is having her first romance with Craig Porter, who she met at the prom. They'd seen each other only that once, but it was love at first sight. Now, it's Easter vacation and he's going to take her to the hotel dance. But her romance is threatened-by measles! Which will prove stronger-his undying love or his fear of the rash? A witty play with shrewd characterization, sparkling dialogue and situations. $4.50. (Royal(#776) ty, $20-$15.) THE UNDERCURRENT. Drama. Fay Ehlert. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Played allover this country and Canada. It has to do with Annie Fishyer, whose tyrannical father comes near to wrecking her life and happiness. A tense and dramatic story reveals the very human characteristics of Ma and Pa Fishyer, their son and daughter, a meddlesome neighbor, and Miss Page, an investigator for the Morals Court. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#23601) $15.) THE ELEVATOR. Play. Herbert Gardner. 5 m., 1 f. Int. A sinister figure cuts a wire in an elevator which is about to descend. On the way down the elevator stops, and there is no escape. Then a taunting voice calls out; and we learn that the man above nearly went to the chair for a crime he didn't commit because one of the elevator occupants would not speak in his behalf (bad publicity). The selfishness of the occupants is exposed as the laughing man cuts the cables, stroke by stroke. The final stroke-and the doors open! The teaser had lowered them while taunting them! (#7605) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) TWO CROOKS AND A LADY. Drama. Eugene Pillot. 3 m., 3 f. Int. One of the most popular one-act plays. For some years it has been one of the standbys of Little Theaters, schools and colleges. It is exceptionally clever and not at all difficult to act (#1098) or produced. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE DEAR DEPARTED. Satirical comedy. Stanley Houghton. 3 m., 3 f. Int. A clever dramatization of a famous De Maupassant story about a man who pretended he was dead in order to see what his family thought about him. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15; No Royalty in Canada.) (#354) THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS. Play. J. M. Barrie. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Mrs. Dowey is entertaining three other charwomen at tea; they are all proud of their sons in the army (1914-1918). The curate arrives with Kenneth Dowey of the Black Watch in tow. Mrs. Dowey has no son; she only pretends after seeing Kenneth's name in a newspaper. He has no family, so he agrees to spend his leave with her and Mrs. Dowey has the long-wished-for experience of mothering a boy. When he does not return, the old lady puts away his effects and bravely sets out to work. $4.50. (#803) (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state non-musical version when ordering. THE MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT. Comedy. A. A. Milne. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A terribly exciting little affair happens in the humdrum life of John and Mary, a tempest in a teapot, but while it lasts-well, it's high comedy, at least for the audience. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15626) THE RED PEPPERS. Comedy with music. Noel Coward. 4 m., 2 f. Int. One of the "Tonight At 8:30" series produced in London and New York. George Pepper and his wife are doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre. They have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co-workers. When the musical director comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. The house manager comes to defend him and is insulted. Revenge is exacted at the next show when the accompaniment is so fast the Peppers must dance frantically. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) Sheet Music (2 songs), $1.25 each. (#912) GLORIA MUNDI. Fantastic drama. Patricia Brown. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Winner of a Samuel French Prize, Little Theatre Tournament. A masterpiece of grim irony. A sort of parable of life, laid in an insane asylum, showing the courage necessary to

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*MURDER ME ONCE. Mystery. John Rustan and Frank Semerano. 4 m., 3 f.lnts. A slime-ball named Coins Fontaine has cashed in. When his account is closed, there's evidence of foul play. Who would want to kill Coins? Everybody! The fingers of suspicion point to his young widow, a woman with a shape that makes two great first impressions. Then there are his two beautiful daughters, one with a Girl Scout fixation and the other with a head for figures, perched atop a pretty good figure of her own. Watch out, Spuds, danger is everywhere! This affectionate homage to hard-boiled private dicks who could handle guns and bodacious babes with equal aplomb is an ideal companion piece to The Tangled Snarl. $4.50. (Royalty, (#15750) $35-$35.) THE CLAIMANT. Comedy. Nick Hall. 4 m., 3 f. Int. See The Curse of Ravensdum for description. (#5844) DEFLORES. Comedy. Don Nigro. 4 m., 3 f. Ext. The DeFlores run a bizarre ragtag traveling carnival that includes Uncle Robespierre, who makes pigs disappear and likes dressing rats in doll cloths, Belladonna, who reads fortunes and dreams of yodeling men in short pants, and King George, who believes the rooks are out to kill him for eating their sister. When the cow dies during a sawing-in-half trick gone awry, young Bartolomeo borrows a bucket of milk and falls in love with a young lady who just wants her bucket back. Demands for blood vengeance follow in this long one-act addition to the Pendragon plays that is ideal for presentation with Green Man. Published in DeFlores and Other Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$25.)

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Pardue calls to confess that prenuptial nerves sent him dashing to the men's room to be sick, but now the wedding can go on. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#9988) LAST REQUESTS. Comic drama. Diane Shaffer. See Index under Solace at Twilight. MEETING AT THE METS; or Sometimes When You Lose You Win. Comedy. Sally-Anne Milgrim. 4 m., 3 f., plus voices. Ext. A young girl and her cousin who is visiting New York from St. Louis go to a Mets/Cardinals baseball game. The cousin wants to meet a guy, but she is very likely the only Cards fan amongst the 42,000 fans in Shea Stadium. In Plays to Play with Everywhere, $11.00. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#15225) OLD SA YBROOK. Woody Allen. 4 m., 3 f. See Writer's Block.

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS CROSSWAYS. Drama. Jane Parry-Davies. 7 f. Int. Elizabeth, who is rebuilding her life after the death of her husband, moves into an ancient, thatched-roof cottage called Crossways in the village where her parents and closest school friend live. While alive to its picturesque charm, Elizabeth is drawn to Crossways by a psychic feeling that she knows the cottage intimately. When a psychiatrist with a special interest in regression arrives in the village, a chilling, sixteenth-century witch hunt is set in motion with Elizabeth as the victim. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5783) CUP FINAL. Dramatic comedy. Charles Mander. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The Polden Players have jUl>t left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster and there is plenty of wit and repartee as sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance. It is apparent that each is using the theatre to escape from a humdrum life. When the Adjudicator arrives, they are surprised to get their just desserts. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5741) DEFINITELY ERIC GEDDIS. Satire. Michael Snelgrove. 4 m., 3 f., 28 extras. Simple sets. A mundane factory worker who is bored with his life persuades an ambitious advertising executive to market him as a superstar in this witty glimpse of the crazy, superficial world of finance and promotion. Eric, his family and the ad agency all fall victim to the public's fickle nature and he realizes he was happier as an ordinary, anonymous man. Secretly, he plans the collapse of the Eric Geddis myth. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6637) THE DEMON. Thriller. Martin Downing. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Escaping torrential rain, six friends flee to a high-rise apartment and hear a terrifying announcement: one of them may be a serial killer possessed by the Devil. Then one meets a hideous death. The survivors embark on a desperate quest to find and destroy the fiend in their midst before more blood is spilled. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#6581) DOPE! Drama. Maryat Lee. 4 m., 3 f. Extras. Ext. . Louie takes drugs and his friend Porse has begun to give them to his sister. The threat to her jars Louie from indifference to dismay. In a nightmare he sees what is required of him. Struggling against an agonizing need for dope, he confronts Porse. She ridicules him and tempts him with more dope. They fight. and Louie is knifed fatally. As he falls, a revelation comes to him and he cries out that he has won. Optional music and dancing. "Broad and forceful."-New Yorker. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#6666) DOUBLE DATE. Comedy. Aorence Ryerson. 3 m., 4 f. lnt. The girls plan to outsmart the boys, but Uncle Clay and the boys learn what they are up to and give them a run for their money. The girls, who are from south of the Mason-Dixon line, are not used to such discipline. A human and amusing play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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RA VENSDURN REMAINS. Comedy. Nick Hall. 5 m., 2 f. Int. See The Curse of Ravensdurn for description. (#11942) SLAVERY. Historical drama. Jonathan Payne. 3 m., 4 f. Unit set. In the 1030's, the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration, under the order of President Roosevelt, devoted itself to interviewing former slaves who were then in their eighties, nineties and even older. Here are some of these first-hand narratives. They vividly describe the painful but sometimes humorous lives of men and women who endured slavery. The stories, together with a selection of traditional Negro spirituals, arouse pathos and admiration for these brave souls. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#21521) THREE TABLES. Comic drama. Dan Remmes. 3 m., 3 f., 1 extra. Int. Three couples at various stages of their relationships are dining at a restaurant. By the end of the evening, all three relationships have altered. Published in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 26th Series, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#22300) ABROAD. Comedy. Michael Weller. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. This is the second act of Split, but it works wonderfully as a self-contained one-act play. See Index under Split for description. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21754) THE ASTONISHED HEART. Play. Noel Coward. 4 m., 3 f. lot. One of the Tonight at 8:30 series produced in London and New York. In psychiatrist Christian Faber's drawing room sits his weeping wife and his sad assistants, waiting for the siren Leonora. In four flashbacks the story emerges: Leonora, a girlhood chum, visited Christian's wife and was introduced to him. She set out to capture her friend's husband but was captured herself. She threw him over because of his jealousy. He jumped out of the window. Leonora has come because Christian calls for her on his death bed. She returns slowly from his room to announce he has died and that his last words were tender ones to his wife, for whom he mistook Leonora. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3660) AT HOME. Michael Weller. See Index under Split for description. BACK BOG BEAST BAIT. Drama. Sam Shepard. 5 m., 2 f. Int. This powerful play examines the dangers of ignorance, the power of superstition, and the tendency of the educated to exploit the uneducated. In The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4005) BEDTIME STORY. Drama. Sean O'Casey. 4 m., 3 f. In a Dublin bachelor flat an "almost" totally respectable young man is led astray or leads astray a girl. The play centers around his sense of guilt which is partly religious and partly a social statement of his own hypocrisy after the act. But worse awaits him-they are not only found out but the girl makes off with his wallet and umbrella. In One Act: Eleven (#4623) Short Plays of the Modem Theatre, $14.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO. Comedy. Dennis Snee. 4 m., 3 f. Open stage. Jonathan and Margaret have enjoyed/endured a marriage of fifty years when we join them for a confrontation over past battles and future prospects. Bob and Doris, in their 30's, have been more or less "going steady" when Bob announces a job transfer to Arizona. Marshall and Carolyn are teenagers who have been "steadies" for three months. Marshall's delusions of male grandeur give rise to humorous but unwarranted reservations about breaking Carolyn's heart by asking for his ring back. The narrator blends these vignettes and spews homey wisdom in this funny and believable play about human folly and love. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#4768) THE BROWNING VERSION. Drama. Terence Rattigan. 5 m., 2 f. Int. III health is forcing Andrew to retire from teaching. His wife despises him for his failures and finds consolation with Frank, a younger teacher. She openly taunts Andrew while Frank watches with disgust and shame. The wife knows she has lost Frank-but even more bitter is the realization he's now Andrew's fast friend. Produced in New York with A Harlequinade. "A masterpiece."-N.Y. Journal-American. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $35-$35 when performed with A Harlequinade.) (#4687) CHICAGO. Drama. Sam Shepard. 4 m., 3 f. Int. The Beckettian dilemma of Stu, puppet and demiurge ensconced in his bathtub, moves from his particular problem (his lover is leaving him) to the threat posed to the human spirit by its own increasingly dangerous civilization. In The Unseen Hand & Other Plays, $14.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5086)

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DRIVING OUT A DEVIL. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Richard Gruberger. 5 m., 2 f., extras. Ext. Here is a comical look at problems that arise between a father and daughter when she meets a young man. $11.00. Also available in A Respectable Wedding and Other One-Act Plays, $16.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Slightly Restricted.

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THE FLYING DOCTOR. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 5 m., 2 f. or 4 m., 3 f. Ext. A valet serving his master attempts to steal the daughter of the house by pretending to be a doctor in this crazy romp that leaves spectators breathless with laughter. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8629) FORBIDDEN COPY. Comedy. Percy Gnmger. 3 m., 4 f. Int. (or bare stage). A bored office worker xeroxes her posterior. She sees this gesture as a blow against repressive constraints in the office. Her co-workers applaud her gesture-but her employers are not amused. She is fired. "An arresting and provocative piece."-The Hartford Courant. Published with Working Her Way Down and Leavin' Cheyenne, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted (#8662) GOING TO POT. Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 3 m., 3 f., 1 child. Int. A porcelain manufacturer and his wife engage in endless squabbles. He's expecting a man from the War Ministry who's to decide whether or not the army is to have individual chamber pots. The outcome could make them, but the wife is only concerned with their child's constipation. Hilarious, farcical situations revolve around these two "issues." It's also rumored the wife is two-timing her husband. All this leads to a mad Feydeau ending. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25) (#9663) HER FIRST PARTY DRESS. Comedy. Hilda Manning. 3 m., 4 f. Int. This charming study of a fifteen-year-old girl about to enjoy her first formal captures the shy boyfriend, the panic when the dress doesn't arrive as expected, the anguish of a broken date (miraculously mended) and the meanness of an older brother who (#10631) almost wrecks everything. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) HISS THE VILLAIN! or Foiled and Counterfoiled. Melodrama. Adapted from "The Poor of New York" by A. R. Taylor and W. Ernest Cossons. 5 m., 2 f. Ext., ints. The infamous banker Silas Snaker and his clerk Bowlerhave contrived to rob old Captain Noble out of his savings. The Captain expires from the shock, leaving the lovely Miss Lucy in dire straights. When Bowler sees her plight, he repents and compels the villain to pay back all of the money. This delightful melodrama must be played in the grand manner. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Songs of the Gay Nineties

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selves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#772) ONLY A GAME. Drama. Edward Pomerantz. Sm., 2 f. Int. Here is a pathetically true account of a man who believes that the way to popUlarity and success is to keep smiling and cracking jokes. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#17632) OPEN SECRET. Drama. Robert Adler, George Bellak and Louis N. Ridenour. 7 m. Int. A nuclear physicist has the duty of sending up atomic bombs in the stratosphere. A photograph indicates an excess of hovering bombs; apparently other countries have been launching bombs too and there is danger of a collision in space. Suddenly, San Francisco has been destroyed. The Secretary of War jumps to the conclusion that Russia did it, so he pulls a switch and destroys Moscow. The race is on. Cities are systematically demolished. Sacramento calls, saying San Francisco was wiped (#17638) out by an earthquake. But it is too late. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) OUTRAGEOUS! Comedy. Jules Tasca. 7 m., 1 f. 1 set. Harry panics when a black family moves in next door. He and some friends engage in every provocation to force them to move. When he enlists some unsavory characters to burn down their house, they torch the wrong place-Harry's. The arsonists are caught and Harry is implicated. He ends up in prison with a black cellmate. In Outrageous! and Other Plays, $6.S0. (Royalty, $3S-$2S.) (#17687) PARADISE GARDENS EAST. Drama. Frank Gagliano. Sm., 2 f., 3 voices. Sis arrives in the big city and her brother sets out to protect her from prowlers, rapists and other horrors. While he is out on a violence-repelling errand, a nut appears on her window ledge protesting air pollution. The crowd below thinks he is suicidal. The frantic brother returns and a furious encounter leads to an unexpected ending. In The City Scene, $6.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#18612) THE PATCHWORK QUILT. Fantasy. Rachel Field. 2 m., 4 f., 1 child. Int. The old woman loves her patchwork quilt. Every square holds a memory. Through them we glimpse her youthful courtship and marriage. This touching play offers outstanding roles for a fine character actress anda clever child. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#18620) PERSPECTIVE. Drama. Paul Elliott. 2 m., 4 f., I teen-age girl. Simple int. Perspective attacks slowly, turning your loved ones into deformed images of themselves. Shocking, horrifying, yet at times humorous, it forces you to view life through the eyes of a schizophrenic. Needing few props and offering a chance for imaginative makeup, it is a must for advanced acting groups. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#18603) A PRIVATE AFFAIR. Comedy. Charles Emery. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Poor Jefferson! He's only looking for a quiet place to make lamps from empty liquor bottles. Through an oversight, the two women-one a psychiatrist-haven't checked out of the hotel suite assigned to him. The psychiatrist, seeing the bottles and mistaking him for a man who's phoned seeking help for the DTs, attempts to give him "the cure."Then a temperance lady shows up-and it's a riotous finale! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#18670) THE SLAVE WITH TWO FACES. Fantasy. Mary Carolyn Davies. 3 m., 4 f. Ext. This poignant piece of allegory is set in a wood. On either side of a path through the wood stand two Girls expecting to meet Life. The First Girl says that Life has two faces. He can be beautiful or ugly. As long as the Girls are the Masters of Life, Life will be beautiful. As soon as Life is the Master, it will be ugly. Only one of the Girls (#21715) becomes the Master of Life. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) STOLEN IDENTITY. Comedy-drama. Charles Emery. 2 m., Sf. Int. A young man without roots arrives at the McKee home pretending to be the son they have not seen for fifteen years. He isn't out to do any harm; he only wants a home and real folks. Complications arise when he falls for the girl who believes she is his sister and an old flame of the real son shows up. This warm and human play is spiced with sparkling humor andfine dramatic moments. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#21776) SO NICE NOT TO SEE YOU. Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 7 f. lnt. or drapes. Perfect for women's clubs, this comedy solves the perennial problem of what to do when uninvited guest show up at your wacation home. An author and her secretary are trying to get some work finished in their Bahamas retreat when two "friends of friends" descend on them. They put on an act that sends the visitors off to the nearest hotel. Hilarious situations and sparkling dialogue. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#987) SUMMER. Drama. Jane Martin. 4 m., 3 f. lnts.lexts. or bare stage. Sixteen-year-old Jennifer, undergoing what her mother calls a period of adjustment, is sent to spend the summer of 1949 with relatives on a Montana ranch. Here she encounters, for the first time, the strange and violent world of men and begins the delicate transition from girlhood to womanhood, from innocence to experience. In What Mama Don't Know, $6.S0. (Royalty, $SO-$3S.) Please state author when ordering. Restricted NYC. (#21811)

HOLD ON HORTENSE. Farce. Courteline. Translated by Albert Bennel. 6 m., 1 f. Int. This vaudevillian treatment of an old story adds songs and several new wrinkles. A couple is about to be evict by a heartless landlord. The landlord has come for his money or their furniture or else. This time the victims have a surprise: a loophole in the law actually benefits the poor against the rich. Broad, stylized staging suits this work. "So amusing and so economical in characters and settings that it should be a welcome fmd for amateur companies."-Punch. In The Plays of Courteline, $12.00. (#10651) (Royalty, $20-$IS.) THE HOLE. Comedy. N. F. Simpson. Sm., 2 f. Ext. The hole is in the road. In the depths of it workmen areworking. At the top, a man, with a camp-stool, vacuum flask, haversack, and other necessities for a long vigil is fonning the nucleus of a queue. From time to time curious folk gather round and wonder what is going on below. Each gazes into the hole and sees a different significance to the events down there. Their theories are ingenious but contradictory. With the fanaticism of the scientist, the politician and the preacher, each tries to convince the others. Produced in London with great success. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#10652) INCIDENT AT SAN BAJO. Drama. Brad Korbesmeyer. 3 m., 4 f. Bare stage. The residents of a trailer camp have quite a story to tell. A stranger tried to sell each of them a mysterious elixir which he claimed would make them live longer. Most, of course, did not buy the elixir-and they are now dead, the water supply having been poisoned by the stranger. Only seven are left to tell the tale-the seven who drank the elixir which, it turned out, was an antidote! Each of their stories is told in a series of interlocking monologues directed at an unseen interviewer. The effect is somewhat like a "60 Minutes" segment. Winner of Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heidemann Award. $4.S0. (Royalty, $2S-$2S.) (#11654) INSIDE. Comedy. Nonnan Beim. 3 m., 4 f. Int. In this unique comedy, the dialogue conveys the characters' thoughts while their "words" are in pantomime. A crusty but tenderhearted librarian presides over a charming suburban library where a young poet is searching for something, two high school girls are fascinated by him, a young boy roams the shelves looking for "dirty parts," and a soldier on leave wanders in. "Very successful at the Provincetown Playhouse. . . . Had the audience in an uproar."-Vil/ager. "Nonnan Beim is that 'rara avis', a professional playwright. He is what the theatre needs."-Tony Randall. Winner, New England Theatre Conference. In Six Award Winning Plays, $17.9S. (Royalty, $IS-$IS.) (#11117) THE LICENSE. Comedy. Luigi Pirandello. Translation by William Murray. 6 m., 1 f. Int. This ironic comedy states when spiritual power is combined with deception it is mightier than the highest mortal power joined with deception-and is also more lucrative. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.S0. (Royalty, $2S-$2S.) (#14602) LOVE BITE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. Sm., 2 f. Bare stage. Pedrolino will do anything to make love to his wife but she is only interested in her lovers. He consults a fortune teller who sells him magical mosquitoes. Those they bite fall in love with the first person they see. When Pedrolino turns one loose in the presence of his wife, it bites him. He looks in a mirror to examine the bite and hilariously falls in love with himself! In Commedia Americana, $6.4S. (Royalty, $2S-$20 or $7S-$60 when per(#14936) fonned with the other plays in the collection.) MAN WHO STAYED BY HIS NEGATIVE. Comedy-Drama. Peter Dee. Sm., 2 f. Ext. Here is a study of stubbornness, faith or love held beyond a nonnal point. A man standing sentry by a mailbox can't be persuaded to leave. He refuses to answer questions as to why he stands there from morning through cold winter night. Nothing save a possible ghost and two funny young toughs cause him to move. And when he drags himself back to the box, he outwardly ignores an old woman's words and declines to take a fast look at reality. What is the "nonnal point" and whose (#15630) reality do you accept? $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) THE MARRIAGE OF DON JUAN. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 3 m., 4 f. Bare stage. Four armed men stonn Dr. Catarac's drug store. Each has a sister who has been deflowered by a store employee. They are greeted by gay Zerbinato. The vengeful brothers become angrier and accuse the old doctor, who declares that four women in four nights is beyond his wherewithal. When the truth is revealed-Zerbinato is really the doctor's guilty son and the intruders are the .wronged females in disguise-the culprit is forced to marry an obese cousin with missing teeth and wire coils for hair. The moral: All life comes down to paying for one's kicks. In Commedia Americana, $6.4S. (Royalty, $2S-$20 or $7S-$60 when perfonned with the other plays in the collection.) (#14955) MR. SNOOP IS MURDERED. Mystery. James Reach. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Oliver Sax, famous gossip columnist, is about to go on the air. In his office with him are four people: his secretary, his bodyguard, the radio announcer and a young woman who has come to beg him not to make public a certain incident. As the broadcast starts, Oliver keels over-poisoned! Who killed him? Using no tricks; the crime is solved in a logical yet surprising way in this ingenious and entertaining play. $4.S0. (Royalty, $20-$IS.) (#708) NO WHY. Drama. John Whiting. 4 m., 3 f., 2 extras. 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TICKET TO THE CITY. Drama. Donald Elser. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Among the strangers waiting for a late train to the city are a young girl and young man. She is full of fantasies about making a place for herself in a world of brave but hopeless dreams. He has no illusions about the grim and mortal destination. A stranger from the girl's past arrives and it becomes apparent that her history is illusory. Others are drawn into the vortex of her future, but it is the young man who, being most willing to help, finds his own future reoriented. At last, the philosophical ticket agent announces the arrival of the train. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22699) TIMES SQUARE. Drama. Leonard Melfi. 3 m., 4 f. Area staging. This romantic, surrealistic, modem fantasy takes place during a twenty-four hour period on New York's Forty-second Street. Seven lovable misfits encounter a modem version of Snow White when she descends from a golden ladder. She saves them; she is destroyed senselessly and they are destroyed automatically; she is brought back to life and they are all saved. In Encounters, $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22608) THE TRAVELING SISTERS. Comedy. John Kirkpatrick. 3 m., 4 f. Int. At the travel bureau the two old ladies were considered a bit eccentric. Twice a year they came to plan an extended summer vacation or an elaborate winter cruise. They could not afford to go anywhere, so they journeyed vicariously with timetables, sailing schedules and brochures featuring expensive hotels. They always had a wonderful time and were sure that some day they'd sail on their dream cruise. Suddenly their knowledge of foreign countries pays when they catch two bank robbers and a grateful bank sends the old gals off to Rio. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22750) THE TRYSTING PLACE. Comedy. Booth Tarkington. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This is the most popular of all the one-act Tarkington comedies. Its popularity is due to brightness of dialogue and the skill with which real young American boys and girls are portrayed. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22774) TWO FOR THE ROAD. Drama. Carla Schlarb. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Mrs. Harris' class starts as usual when a boy and a girl enter late. They are ignored, so they begin talking about their date. the night before. The boy does not remember how it ended because he was drinking heavily; but she is finally able to make him see the awful truth: they died in a car crash and have returned to their high school as ghosts-two more statistics in the rising death toll caused by teenage alcoholism. This deeply moving play is contemporary, hip, and about something that matters. In High School Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#22789) THE UGLY DUCKLING. Comedy. A. A. Milne. 4 m., 3 f. Arrangements have been made for Prince Simon to marry Princess Camilla. The King and Queen are nervous because-let's face it-Camilla is plain! It is decided that a beautiful maid will impersonate Camilla until the wedding. The Prince hears of Camilla's beauty and, considering himself rather plain, has his extremely handsome man Carlo impersonate him. Simon and Camilla meet by chance and fall in love. Each is beautiful to the other and they live happily ever after. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#129) WARNINGS. Drama. Eugene O'Neill, 5 m., 2 f. 2 ints. This realistic play concerns a wireless operator aboard the S.S. Empress who discovers that he is going deaf and the effect this has on his family. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vall, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#25612) WORKING HER WAY DOWN. Comedy. Percy Granger. 5 m., 2 f. plus voices. Int. Set in a small town in the wild West, this delightful comedy is about a prostitutetrainee in a whorehouse whose first customer is an outlaw hiding from the girl's fiancee-the sheriff. "High com and devastating satire."-Daily Oklahoman. Published with Leavin' Cheyenne and Forbidden Copy, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. (#25735)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS to showcase zany, hyper personalties. Published in Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays, $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10902) SITTING DUCK, or All In A Night's Work. Comedy. Sally-Anne Milgrim. 6 m., 2 f. or 5., 3 f. Int. This is a comic rendition of a babysitter's nightmare. A 16-year-old is asked to sit for an infant. Eight locks on the door do not keep her boyfriend or a thief out. The police and fire department also get in on the act. In Plays to Play with Everywhere, $11.00. (Royalty $20-$15.) (#21162) THE ACADEMY. Comedy. Mario Fratti. 7 m., I f. Int. A Venetian professor who believes Fascist Italy was unjustly defeated by the Americans exacts an unusual revenge by organizing a school for gigolos catering to American female tourists. "A delightful satire."-N.Y. Morning Telegraph. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3601) BALCONY SCENE. Drama. Donald Elser. 4 m., 4 f. Int. This moving fantasy takes its mood from thoughts and words at the funeral of a ne'er-do-well. The deceased defends his life and flails out at those he can no longer reach while the mourners' thoughts-brave, pathetic and petty, but honest-flow. The play unfolds in a blend of pathos, philosophy, and ironic humor. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#252) THE CHERRY SISTERS. Michael Green et al. See Index under The Coarse Acting Show 2. CUPIDOSIS. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 6 m., 2 f. Bare stage. Capitanos Middlefinger and Dodiddle vie for the hand of Isabella, who is in love with the penniless Lelio. The madcap misadventures culminate in an electrifying finish. In Commedia Americana, $6.45. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#5792) THE CREEPING CRUD. Comedy. Stuart B. MacMillan. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Intrepid high school reporters decide to do something about the raw sewage and medical waste that is floating up on local beaches. Their investigation reveals the culprits-local businessmen, including the president of the school board. They go to press without faculty advisor review and are in hot water until the truth of their allegations becomes apparent. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5789) THE DOCTOR'S DUTY. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray. 5 m., 3 f. Int. In this typically uncomfortable Pirandellian masque, it is the doctor's duty to let the patient die. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#6651) THE DOLPHIN POSITION. Comedy. Percy Granger. 5 m., 3 f. Simple sets. Jerry Tremendous, advertising wunderkind and ladies' man extraordinaire, awakes to find a stranger his apartment. She wears a wedding ring and the drawers are full of her clothes, but Jerry is positive he's not married. He leaves for the office to find the truth, but truth in advertising is an elusivt~ thing and the more he digs for a straight answer the worse things become. A man shorn of certitude returns home to find another surprise. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Slightly Restricted. (#6668) THE FESTIVAL OF OUR LORD OF THE SHIP. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray. 7 m., 1 f., 2 c. extras. Ext. At a country church everyone, including the audience, is invited to have their say. As the festivities grow less solemn and the people become more like animals, a thunderous bell is heard. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#8612) FIT TO BE TRIED. Farce. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 6 m., 2 f. int. A tempestuous Parisian stage star is having an affair under the very nose of her husband. When a fatuous professor on a spree in Paris arrives, she and her lover confuse him with a vicious murderer on the loose. Nearly everyone is arrested by the deputized grocer who clearly cannot forget his past military glories. "Feydeau is devilishly hard to translate and Shapiro has done a first-rate job." -Daniel Gerould. In Feydeau, First to Last, $16.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) . (#8663) FIVE FOR BAD LUCK. Comedy. Wm. G. B. Carson. 4 m., 4 f. Int. A class dance is planned and the boys have chipped in to compensate the unlucky one who must take Effie, a girl more distinguished for scholarship than beauty or charm. Her name is drawn by a spoiled socialite who pockets the money, anticipates a deadly evening and doesn't intend to conceal his boredom. Effie conceals her hurt and humiliation, determined to make her unwilling escort earn that money. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#8627) FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO. Drama. Adrienne Kennedy. 3 m., 5 f. Drop & wing. A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Vict.oria, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father who gave her a jungle strain and then sold out to white harlotry, dreams of returning to Africa to save the continent, and hangs herself amid swirling conflicts and desires, a victim of a nightmare world. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8660) GAMBLERS. Comedy. Nikolai Gogol. English version by Eric Bentley. 8 m. Int. Russia, 1840. A wealthy gambler who victimizes everyone with marked cards comes to a town where other sharks are operating. They join forces to take a youth entering the hussars for all he's got, but other schemes are in motion. In Inspector (#9602) and Other Plays, $14.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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when their leader makes several passes at the married male pianist who is traveling with his mistress. In despair, the mistress commits suicide. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#17642) PARCEL. Play. David Campton 5 m., 3 f. or 3 m., 5 f. with extras. Int. The "parcel" is old, silent, almost immobile Grandma who is passed from one relative to another. They "care for her" from "pure charity." Her house is gone, her beloved piano destroyed. While being passed along, the old woman asserts her rights as an individual and disappears. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18613) THE POLICE CHIEF'S AN EASYGOING GUY. Farce. Georges Courteline and Jules Levy. Translated by Albert Bermel. 7 m., I f. Int. Here is a revised translation of The Commissioner Has a Big Heart, a farce about a sadistic police chief who pries into the affairs of innocent people seeking his help. He does his upmost to make them feel like criminals until one of his visitors gives him his comeuppance. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18983) SALZBURG DANCE OF DEATH. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Eric Bentley. 7 m., 1 f. Stage. Death makes his rounds while three carpenters build their bridge in this ballet of words. In The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Slightly restricted. (#21631) THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE FUTURE. ComedylDrama. James Still. 5 m,. 3 f. (minimum). Unit set. Originally produced at The Kennedy Center, this humorous journey into history sends three modern teens to 15th Century Spain. They befriend the heir to the throne, Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci, confront the Inquisition and turn history on its ear. This ninety-minute play has been successfully cast with both teens and adults and is popular with school and family audiences. . 'Shows a past which contains the future, and offers all the characters a wider, deeper world view."-USA Today. $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#20964) THE SIX OF CALAIS. Play. George Bernard Shaw. 5 m., 2 f., 1 boy, extras. Ext. Hostages from capitulated Calais are due to be hanged by a wrathful Edward III, but he has not taken into account his Queen's influence. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21707) SLEEPING BEAUTY or COMA. Farce. Charles Busch. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This offbeat curtain raiser to Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a fairy tale treatment of "mod" London. "A compendium of every movie made in the 60's . . . . Captures their spirit, mood and style with delicious humor."-N.Y. Nightlife. Published with Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, $6.50: (Royalty, $35-$25 or $50-$40 when performed (#24006) with Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.) THE SNIPER. Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 3 m., 5 m. extra. Int. This youthful antiwar play is one of two that O'Neill wrote as a student in George Pierce Baker's famed English 47 course at Harvard. The main characters are a soldier whose son has been killed, the German captain who killed him and a priest who has no answers. In Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays, Vol. /, $40.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#21617) SOAP OPERA. Farce. John Kirkpatrick. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Ed dislikes soap operas and is infuriated by his wife and friends who sympathize with the problems of a "soap" heroine. Suddenly an excited cabbie, a mysterious woman in black pursued by the police and a villainous family lawyer appear to ensnare Ed in a complicated scenario. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21727) SPARKS IN THE PARK. Farce. Noble Mason Smith. 5 m., 3 f. Area staging. Winner of the Young Playwrights Festival sponsored by the Dramatists Guild. A young playwright likes to write because it gives him control: he invents characters, concocts their fates and, should they turn against him, tears them up. Unfortunately real life-his best friend, girlfriend, and mother-'Continually interrupt his fun. When literature and life crisscross, the entertainment is hilarious. 'Outlandishly funny"-N.Y.Magazine. "A delight from beginning. "-New Yorker. "An imaginative picaresque adventure." -N. Y. Times. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#21758) THATAWAY JACK. Farce. John Rustan and Frank Semerano. 6 m., 2 f. 1 int.ll ext. (simply suggested). The authors of The Tangled Snarl and The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater turn their manic imaginations loose in the Wild West in this hilarious spoof about a banker who fears losing his mail-order bride to a desperado so he impersonates the outlaw. Things really get rolling when the rhyming cowboy and his faithful friend Talking Boar arrive to capture the badman. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#22051) WE WERE DANCING. Comedy. Noel Coward. 5 m., 3 f. (2 or 3 extras). I set. One of the "Tonight At 8:30" series produced in London and New York. Single Karl and married Louise grow sentimental while waltzing and fall desperately in love. When Louise's stodgy husband finds them kissing, she must ask her new lover his name in order to introduce him to her socially impeccable husband. After a night of discussion, frequently interrupted by sandwiches and drinks, Louise wins her freedom but finds, in the light of dawn, that she doesn't want it. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) Sheet music (one song), $1.25. (#25627) WILL THE LADIES PLEASE COME TO ORDER. Comedy. Martha Norwood Gibson. 8 f. Int. At the Ladies' Cultural League meeting the four officers' inner thoughts clash in very unlady-like ways. All of the mental undercurrents are brought out into the open for the audience to enjoy. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25693)

GREAT CATHERINE. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 4 f., extras. 3 int., 1 ext. A stuffy English officer's encounter with the imperious Catherine the Great and her boisterous courtiers provokes a Shavian romp with substantial roles. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#9673) THE GREAT CHOICE. Peace play for the Atomic Age. Fred Eastman. 4 m., 4 f. Int. Modeled after Sophocles' Antigone, this powerful dramatization of an incident in the next war juxtaposes nationalism and individual conscience. It has enjoyed over a thousand productions. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9672) THE ISLE OF DOGS. Comedy. Larry Larsen, Edward Lee and Rebecca WackIer. 4 m., 4 f. Bare stage. Commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville, this is a wild play about a regional theater'.s woes set in England in the 1580's. The troupe is determined to raise money so they can take their play to London. At the backer's audition, the Queen's representative patiently explains that their play lacks relevancy-while the plague rages, how can her Majesty fund them when there are no "health-disadvantaged characters" in the play? They desperately rewrite to satisfy the money people, driving the poor playwright to hang himself. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#598) THE JAR. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray. 8 m. (3 extras) Int.lext. A triumphant struggle of the masses (in this case some olive pickers and farmers of Sicily) is staged in the naturalistic vein typical of PirandelloZima, the tinker, and the olive shakers and pickers outwit their boss. In Pirandello's One-Act Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#12601) THE JEALOUS HUSBAND. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 6 m., 2 f. or 5 m., 3 f. Ext. A senior citizen marries a teenager who attracts handsome young men. He is not strong enough to fight them off nor bold enough to chase them away. (#12607) In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) LA LLORONA. Jules Tasca. See Index under Spirit of Hispania. THE LAST STRAW. Comedy. Paul Bauer. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Henpecked Arnold's wife discovers he has lost his job. Laying down the law, she says she will become the breadwinner-and he will be the "housewife." Their daughter proposes a solution that restores family harmony. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#14037) MOBY DICK. Michael Green and Michael Langridge. 7 m., 1 f., extras. See Index under The Coarse Acting Show 2. THE MOUNTAIN CHORUS. Farce. Albert Bermel. 5 m., 3 f. Simple setting. A middle-aged couple trying to recapture the bliss of their early years camp on a mountain top, having brought their television, stereo and two backpacks full of home comforts. A teen gang disrupts their privacy. The gang leader presides over a raucous court to find out who betrayed them during a recent rumble. The couple is drawn into the trial with strange consequences. Orignialy published in Best One-Act Plays and performed widely. In Six-One Act Farces, $16.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15713) THE NEIGHBORS. Comedy. Zona Gale. 2 m., 6 f. Int. Ina delightful and touching comedy with bold characters taken from small-town life, a friendless child falls into - the care of the neighbors. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#16605) NERO FIDDLES. Comedy. John Healy. 2 m., 6 f. Nero plans to burn Rome and has been practicing with his lyre for weeks, preparing for the great occasion. Nobody is supposed to know, but it seems that everyone does. Their petty demands interfere until Nero screams in frustration and insists he will do just as he likes. In the end his plans go up in smoke. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16610) NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW. Comedy. Peter Dee. 3 m., 5 f. Int. The premise of this bizarre comedy is that the world doesn't care about your troubles. Tell people you're dying and they'll invite you to see the Wizard of Oz. Tell them you're not dying and they'll insist you are. They'll photograph you, interview you, bring you beer; do anything but look at what is happening. In the midst of this insanity Edie and Joe prove that love is the medicine of the moment. Excellent roles for all. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#769) ONE UP. Comedy. Alice Orndorff. 3 m., 4 f., 1 child, 2 voices. Int. The political science class from Wichita Falls is in Washington to observe the wheels of government. The "buddy" system that dictates hotel roommates finds Sally and Joy, an illmatched pair, sharing a room. Their personal conflicts fade when they stumble into the hideout of a kidnapper and his victim. The girls become friends as they struggle to free the child. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17604) OPEN TWENTYFOUR HOURS. Drama. Roger Cornish. 6 m., 2 f., Int. Late at night in a laundromat, a middle class white liberal is confronted by a brilliant black radical. America's race problem is played out-mounting through realistic humor to a peak of ritualistic terror. A Samuel French Award winner. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#17639) THE ORCHESTRA. Jean Anouilh. Translated by Miriam John. 2 m., 6 f., 2 m. walkon. Platform stage. An all-girl orchestra is the focus and their private lives the subject. Several have children, some have husbands, some have had husbands and several have lovers. As the orchestra plays, conversations intertwine. Conflict erupts

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THE WISHIN' TREE. Comedy. Cleve Haubold. 8 f. Int. 01' Granny Creep gives Mattie Sparks a tree that can make wishes come true. Mattie and Gramma Twiggins share the surprises as its magic stirs up hilarity. The action is fast and furious, building to a climax that reveals ture worth of the wishin' tree. Featured are clearcut comedy roles, an imaginative plot and sure-fire farce situations. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#25708)

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mean. After some wine, Lavinia reveals that she and old Burrows burned the final will (which left nothing to the children) minutes after the old man died. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Sheet Music for four songs, $2.25. (#432) FRANKENSTEIN'S GUESTS. Comedy. Martin Downing . 5 m., 4 f. Int. This finely tuned parody of Frankenstein movies, a short version of The House of Frankenstein!, is fun for actors and audiences.The Baron tries to counsel and cure a motley crew of monsters he has invited to his castle. The Baroness hits the bottle, his guests reveal their true colors and chaos erupts. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#8956) THE FUTURE IS IN EGGS. Farce. Eugene lonesco. Translated by Derek Prouse. 4 m., 5 f. Int. lonescoplayfully circles young lovers with their zany families. The lovers are smooching happily but the families interfere, demanding that the couple keep the race alive by constant production of eggs destined to become intellectuals, Marxists, drunkards, Catholics, Protestants, Israelites, anarchists and omelettes. In Rhinoceros and Other Plays, $13.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Restricted NYC metropolitan area. (#8661) HANDS ACROSS THE SEA, Comedy. Noel Coward. 6 m., 3 f. Int. One of the "Tonight At 8:30" series produced in London and New York. Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly tilled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#523) HIDDEN MEANINGS. Comedy. Michael Snelgrove. 4 m., 5 f. (optional chorus.) Int. Rodney and George are to provide a dramatic interlude at the Sherlock Holmes Society'S annual congress. Events tum truly dramatic when George discovers the body of Rodney's financial director, dressed a~ Moriarty, in Rodney's cupboard. Proudly acknowledging he's the murderer, Rodney is piqued when others make the same claim. All arethwarted when the body staggers from the cupboard and passes a suicide note to inspector Jobling-all to the accompaniment of The Pirates of Penzance! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15). (#10643) JACK, or THE SUBMISSION. Comedy. Eugene Ionesco. Translated by Donald M. Allen. 4 m., 5 f. Int. Probing some of life's familiar absurdities, this play deals with a sulky young man who disappoints his family by refusing to marry the girl of their choice. It provides ample opportunity for imaginative staging. Produced in New York at the Sullivan Street Theatre. In Four Plays by Eugene lonesco, $13.00. (Royalty. $20-$15.) Slightly Restricted. (#601) THE LEDGE. Comedy. Stephanie S. Tolan. 7 m., 2 f. Reginald Peabody, CPA, is tired of routine and conformity, tired of feeling unnecessary and unwanted. He is on a window ledge twenty floors above the street and is going to jump as soon as he has finished his lunch. His mother, coworkers, a policeman, a priest and a window washer try to dissuade him. They use up his lunch hour, so he has to wait until his coffee break to avoid jumping on company time. While he waits a final character (#14627) brings him a reason to live. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE. Satire. Jules Tasca, adapted from Mark Twain's short stories. 6 m., 3 f. Bare stage. A Lord conceals his daughter's birth only to have his brother's daughter fall in love with her while she is disguised as a Duke. In Five One-Act Plays by Mark .Twain, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#15611) THE OTHER OTHER WOMAN. Farce. John Kirkpatrick. 2 m., 7 f. Int. When Norman trips over a vacuum cleaner and threatens his wife with divorce, the neighbor is sure another woman is involved. She narrows the suspects down to two friends. To divert suspicion from themselves, they hire a private detective to pose as "the other woman." Before she arrives, two other "other women" appear. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17647) OUT FOR THE COUNT or How Would You Like Your Stake? Comedy. Martin Downing. 5 m., 4 f. Int. The Count, newly arrived from Transylvania at Dr. Sewer's asylum. is hungry for more than Bridget's fruit cup or Constance's bloody Mary! Thwarted by a cross-shaped birthmark and hounded by the Professor, the Count enlists obnoxious Rennet to help and nearly defeats the Professor and young Jonathan. But all have reckoned without Bridget's escargots. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17662) THE PATIENT. Melodrama. Agatha Christie. 5 m., 4 f. Int. A woman is lying in a hospital completely paralyzed following a fall from a balcony. Did she faint or was she pushed? The inspector, who realizes that the patient is not physically but psychically tramatized, cleverly determines that murder was intended and uses a devious ruse to trap the guilty party. Produced in London with The Rats and Afternoon at the (#18621) Seaside. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) REMEMBER ME ALWAYS. ComedylDrama. Michael Oakes and Jennifer Wells. 4 m., 5 f. Int. The chairperson of the Senior-So-Long Dance enlists eight students to decorate. As they transform the gym (stage) with streamers, stars and balloons, they learn about each other and themselves. Day turns to night, the dance begins and they pledge to remember all they've been through. Developed with teenagers in the

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AND NONE FOR THE ROAD. Drama. Sally-Anne Milgrim. 5 m., 4 f. Int. In this play based on a true story, a 17-year-old boy parties with friends who are drinking heavily. He decides to walk home. They catch up with him four blocks from his house and insist on giving him a lift. Drinking while driving have their inevitable effect. The tragedy is related by a narrator, his mother. In Plays to Play with (#3883) Everywhere, $11.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.)
CELEBRATIO~.

Comedy. Harold Pinter. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Diners and the staff at an elegant restaurant treat audiences to some unusually entertaining fare in this recent London hit by one of the major voices of modem theatre. "In Pinter's plays, words are probes launched into the world, variously, to mask, to mystify, to mock or to murder. He sets out his entire smorgasbord of gorgeous verbal moves in Celebration."-New Yorker. "Hugely entertaining. The riotous one-liners fall far faster and funnier than ever." -Mail on Sunday. "One of the finest comic writers in the language. "-umdon Sunday Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $50-$50.) SlightlyRestricted. (#5870)

HOLD FAST TO DREAMS. Drama. Sally-Anne Milgrim. 4 m., 5 f. Int. An English teacher is reading Jabberwocky, a poem about overcoming dragons, to her class. The scene flashes back to her youthful struggle to conquer stuttering so that she could pursue her dream of becoming a teacher. In Plays to Play with Everywhere, $11.00.
(Royalty, $20-$15.)
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LAST RESPECTS. Comic drama. Diane Shaffer. See Index under Solace at Twilight.

AFTERHOURS. Comedy. Richard Brownell. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Waiting for Lenora and contemplating how to keep a recent infidelity from destroying their relationship, Dave is startled by a call girl who triggers a madcap series of hilarious events. $4.50. ($35-$25.) (#3851) AtL'S WELL THAT ENDS AS YOU LIKE IT. Michael Green. See Index under
Four Plays for Coarse Actors.

BALLS. Drama. Paul Foster. 6 m., 3 f. Cyc. Two ping-pong balls, the only things seen, swing back and forth as voices off recount the days of old. They are the voices of the dead at a seaside cemetery. A commodore gives commands aboard ship. A man has sniggering thoughts of a babe. Others reminisce. Lovers stroll by, read the inscriptions and make love. Death. not life, goes on. In Balls & Other Plays, $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4604) CAVELLERIA RUSTICANA. Melodrama. Giovanni Verga. Translated by Eric Bentley. 4 m., 5 f. Ext. In this tumultuous Sicilian melodrama Turiddu, a regimental gay blade, begets a child by one neighbor and carelessly drops her for another neighbor's wife. In The Modem Theatre, Vol.1, $23.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#70112) A COLLIER'S TUESDAY TEA. Michael Green. See Index under Four Plays for
Coarse Actors.

CONERICO WAS HERE TO STAY. Drama. Frank Gagliano. 6 m., 3 f. A young man with amnesia sees that his hat has fallen on the subway tracks. He is not sure what do to about the hat, but is firm in his refusal to get involved with the violence and pathos around him. An engaging young Puerto Rican offers to retrieve the hat. His offergives the young man the courage to face reality. In The City Scene, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5704) THE DO-IT-YOURSELF FRANKENSTEIN OUTFIT. Comedy. David Campton. 9 m. and f. Bare stage. This almost Pirandellian comedy by England's master of one-acts is about a Demonstrator showing off his newest product, the ultimate do-it(#6656) yourself robot. Is he himselfa robot? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE ERPINGHAM CAMP. Joe Orton. 6 m., 3 f. Int. At a camp for grown-ups we encounter a woman-of-all work who plays a concertina, an activities director who is a frustrated master of ceremonies, a padre who doesn't know what day it is and an expectant couple. During a free-for-all that breaks out, the headmaster falls through the floor onto dancers below, killing several of them. Produced at the Royal Court Theatre. In The Complete Plays of Joe Orton, $15.00. (Royalty. $25-$20.) (#7636) FAMILY ALBUM. Comedy. Noel Coward. 5 m., 4 f. Int. One of the Tonight At 8:30 series. Just back from their father's funeral, the Featherway children cannot pull long faces nor feign regret. The last one to break into laughter is pious Lavinia, father's companion until his death. Even she must admit that he was lecherous and

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THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF PEGGY SWEETWATER. Farce. John Rustan and Frank Semarano. 7 m., 4 f., Int. 1930's. In this light-hearted tale of attempted murder on a banana plantation in South America. in the British potboiler-a-la-Monte Python style, three bumbling upper-class twits attempt to solve a gaggle of murder attempts. "Illegitimate triplets, poisoned crumpets, unregistered Liberian freighters and ancient Siamese bone china all work themselves into the silliest of funny plots." -Pacesetter/Highlander. A double-barreled blast of pure nonsensical comedy."-L.A. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3669) CHAMBER MUSIC. Drama. Arthur Kopit. 2 m., 8 f. Int. This strange meeting features The Woman in the Safari Outfit, the Woman in Armor (she has barracks language down pat, wears rusty armor, is called Joan of Arc and carries a big crucifix), the Woman with the Gavel, and others. The business at hand is how to attack the men's ward before they attack the women and devour them like cannibals? A ruse is needed so they kill the Aviatrix named Amelia Earhart. This exercise causes them to lose the strand of their thought and forget why they did it. In The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

Drama Workshop of the Greenwich Village Youth Council in New York, Remember Me Always captures the voice of today's youth. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.)

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A RESPECTABLE WEDDING. Comedy. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Jean Benedetti. 5 m., 4 f. Int. Dwing a wedding reception, the family gets out of hand while the bride and groom wait patiently for everyone to leave so they can begin their wedding night. This is a brilliantly incisive satire. In Brecht: Collected Plays I, $16.00. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restricted. (#20115) THE SEDUCTIVE COUNTESS. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 4 m., 5 f. or 5 m., 4 f. Int. A countess who believes she is irresistible because a tax collector and a town councilman are courting her pursues a young nobleman who visits often. She doesn't realize he has fallen for her young protegee. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21643) SGNARELLE , or The Imaginary Cuckold. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 6 m., 3 f., extras. Int. A man tries to force his daughter to break her engagement so she can marry a rich man. This farce is translated in rhyming verse. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21672) SHADOW PLAY. Fantasy. Noel Coward. 5 m., 4 f. Suggested sets. One of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Victoria has just returned from the theatre where she saw a romantic musical. She quells a headache with three Any tal tablets just before her husband enters and announces divorce plans. Victoria, head buzzing, attempts to understand his reasons. She slips into a fantastic dream that reviews their meeting, courtship and marriage. Coming to, she clings to her husband and he reconsiders. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Sheet Music (3 songs), $1.25. each. (#21668) TOOTH AND CONSEQUENCES. Comedy. Georges Feydeau. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. 5 m., 4 f. Int. The irascible Marcelle, shrewish wife of dentist Follbraquet, is-with her customary lack of tact-using his office to prosecute a bizarre dispute with the maid, who is simple and straightforward but clever enough to wheedle the hapless dentist to her side. Tension mounts as Follbraguet tries to treat his patients in the midst of conjugal chaos. He is finally driven by Marcelle's excesses to leave his wife, home and practice in a rage that one can guess is not likely to abate. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Please state author and translator when ordering. (#22729) TWO PRECIOUS MAIDENS RIDICULED. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 6 m., 3 f., extras. Int. Here is devastating satire on people who try to look trendy and smarter than they are. The extravagant scenes provide a foolproof showcase for amateurs and professionals. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22792) UNDERTOW. Drama. Anne Weatherly. 9 f. Int. Warm, happy Rosalie has a bitter and jealous sister, Abby, who masks her vicious and calculating mind with airs of nobility and self-sacrificing. Abby hints to the ladies' club that her sister is mentally unbalanced. This lie, built on half-truths and veiled suggestions, is the most evil of monsters to combat, but Rosalie is championed by a woman wise enough to see the truth. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15). (#23606) WAYS AND MEANS. Comedy. Noel Coward .. 5 m., 4 f. Int. One of the ''Tonight at 8:30" series produced in London and New York. In a bedroom in Mrs. LloydRansome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1181)

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CLARA'S ON THE CURTAINS! Comedy. Arthur Lovegrove. 10 f. Int. The curtain is about to go up on the Women's Guild variety and dramatic show when one. of the leads loses her voice. This is the start of a series of calamities, not lessened by wellmeant but embarrassing offers of help. At the last moment all is well, and Clara even learns how to work the curtains. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5660) COMMEDIA AMERICANA. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 6 m., 4 f. (doubling possible) Bare stage. Six lusty commedia dell'art plays bring traditional characters like Harlequin, Pantalone and Punch into modem times. The seven deadly sins come to life with loads of laughs and audience participation. "Women gasped. Men guffawed. Children squealed and pointed. It was great!"-Valley Review. See Index under individual titles for descriptions: Love Bite, Cupidosis, False Prophets, Peeping Punch, The Marriage of Don Juan and Pantalone's Dream. $6.45. (Royalty, $25$20 or $75-$60 when presented with other plays in the collection.) (#5918) THE GHOST STORY. Comedy. Booth Tarkington. 5 m., 5 f. Int. This comedy about youth employs the dramatic device of the ghost story to present a sympathetic portrait of young Americans. Their breeziness dominates a light and amusing plot. A good play for tournament use. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9633) THE GLOAMING, OH MY DARLING. Megan Terry. 4 m., 6 f. Int. Two old crones in a sanitarium fill their day with fantasies. The dead husband of one is nearby and the other proclaims her marriage to him. After visits by vapid children with grandchildren, after the bland services of the nurse and further sexual fantasies, the two decide to share the husband. This is enough to raise him from the dead and induce him to reminisce about the wild West. At last night comes. $4.50. (Royalty, $20(#9650) $15.) ITALIAN RUM CAKE. Comedy. Jules Tasca. 7 m., 3 f. I set. The wives of rival mob bosses enter their rum cakes in a baking contest. The judge, a local politician, is in hot water. Threatened by both sides, he decides to award the prize to a marble cake. The mob families unite to hunt him down. In Outrageous! and Other Comedies, $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#20703) NEGLECTED HUSBANDS SEWING CLUB. Comedy. Peg Lynch. 5 m., 5 f. Int. An Ethel and Albert play. When a wife is too busy with bridge clubs and bazaars to sew buttons and mend rips, a man feels neglected. Albert forms a sewing club with other husbands-and they think they are pretty funny discussing hairdo's and calories while they thread needles and darn socks. The joke backfires when the women overhear and prove that two can play at this game. Five husbands and five wives meet on the battlefield of home repairs. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16604) ONCE UPON A PLAYGROUND. Comedy. Jack Frakes. 2 m. 8 f. After tomboys on a playground cruelly reject a girl with a funny nose because she is different, each expresses her inner fear of being different. The girl with the funny nose discovers a boy like herself. He offers friendship, hope and illusion. This comedy portrays the cruelty of youth as a total theatre experience, blending realism with such theatrical devices like stylized movement, choral chants and expressionism. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#87) OSCAR. Drama. Brian Nissen. 6 m., 4 f. Int. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival's One-Act Play Award, this incisive drama concerns an elderly German immigrant whose daughter has discovered that his brother was a Nazi. The frail old man struggles to defend his family's actions during a morally complex time. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Note: A cassette of the song "I Can't Forget" (to be used in all productions) is available to groups which have paid royalty fees in full. Please submit a written request for a copy of this tape. (#17665) THE OWL ANSWERS. Drama. Adrienne Kennedy. 7 m., 3 f. Int. A black girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral. The chorus enters. Ann Boleyn, Shakespeare and William the Conqueror scorn her: whoever heard of a black with such a heritage? Her father was white, she protests, and her mother was his family's cook. As a child she had to enter through the back door when she wanted to visit him. In Adriene Kennedy in One Act, $18.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#17655)

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IT'S ONLY A TEST. Comedy. Annie G. 2 m., 8 f. Unit set. What constitutes a real test in life? Jessica is fully prepped for her SATs and is on her way to take them when she encounters one stranger after another who needs help: a blind man trying to find the subway, a fashionable woman frantically looking for her "baby" (a poodle in pink bows) and a young boy afraid his grandmother is going to die. Jessica obliges all and realizes dejectedly that she will be late for the test, but she learns that by helping others she has helped herself. Published with A Well Taught Lesson, $6.50. (Royalty $30-$30.) (#11699) REFUGEES. Comic drama. Stephanie Satie. See Index for description. CINDY ELLA'S GOING TO THE BALL, BABY! Comedy. Billy St. John. 4 m., 7 f. plus extras. Ints. This hilarious takeoff on Cinderella is set in a contemporary high school at prom time. Cindy Ella's stepsisters, Prissy and Missy, are hoping that Joe Prince will dance with them, while her stepmother hopes to fmd husband number three among the teachers chaperoning. Big Mama arrives in a puff of smoke to make sure that Cindy gets to the prom and hooks up with dreamboat Joe Prince. But is he really her Prince Charming? This comedy by the author of Reunion, Is There a Comic in the House and Abduction is perfect for teen and family audiences. $4.50. (#4961) (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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THE SHINING MOUNTAINS. Comedy-Drama. Dale Wassennan. 8 m., 1 f., 1 boy. Compo int/ext. At a deserted mountain cabin, a wandering minstrel sings a ballad that evokes events 15 years past. The three fur trappers who lived there adopted a boy, the sole survivor of a wagon train attacked by Indians. A missionary couple claim the boy. who is finally won over by the motherly woman. The trappers decided to make the trek west-to protect them. Finally the balladeer's identity is revealed. "Funny, touching, delightful. ... An original play with knife-edged characterizations." -N. Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#21605) STREUTH. Michael Green. See Index under Four Plays for Coarse Actors. THE WELCOMING. Comedy. Mary Fournier Bill. 10 f Bartl stage. The specter of "open housing" dominates this satire about the neighborhood apprehension that arises when a house is put up for sale. The action moves quickly from house to house and finally to a welcoming tea for a most unwelcome new neighbor. The posturing, the rationalizing and the tortuous reasoning that leads to the defeat of logic are soundly ridiculed. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1183) WHEN ESTHER SAW THE LIGHT. Dark comedy. Michael Sargent. 5 m., 5 f Unit set. This winner of the American College Theatre Festival Award is a nightmarish and surreal black comedy about child abuse and the horrors of suburban living. Esther has a husband who can't stand her, a baby she can't relate to and a sister in prison. She reacts to the bleakness of her life by cruising the grocery store to pick up women. Esther's descent into comic madness is chronicled in fourteen fragmented scenes in which nothing is sacred. "Often gaspingly funny." -Washington Post. In Award-Winning Plays, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#25617)

ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS

THE EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE. Comedy. Dan Totheroh. 9 m., 3 f., extras. Bare stage. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. The Chinese Emperor acquires a nightingale and places it in a golden cage. Then he receives a mechanical nightingale and it replaces the live one in his affection. When the Emperor falls deathly ill, the mechanical bird breaks down. The real bird appears at his window and sings so sweetly that Death is vanquished. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#7611) THE EXPRESS LINE. Comedy. Tom Fitzpatrick III. 9 m., 2 f., Extras. Int. A supennarket customer in the express line has two more items than allowed. Despite his pleas, the checker adamantly refuses to serve him. The insistent customer ignores his embarrassed wife and the growing anger of a laborer behind him. When the manager fails to back the checker, other employees threaten to walk out. The situation is finally resolved by a policeman with common sense. "The ordinary Joe can find much to identify with and laugh at."-S.F. Progress. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#7655) THE FORCED MARRIAGE. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bennel. 7 m., 4 f or 6 m., 5 f Int. An old bachelor engaged to a young woman realizes he has made a mistake, but his fiancee's father will not let him back out. Nor will her brother, who is an expert swordsman. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) . (#8644) KISS ME QUICK-I'M DOUBLE PARKED. Farce. John Kirkpatrick. 5 m., 7 f Int. Things are hectic at the young dentist's office. He is on his way to get married, but his bride is trapped in an elevator be~ause of a strike and his secretary is not sympathetic. Demonstrations, Con Edison people digging up the sidewalk, a masked bandit and a broken gas main ensue. Is it any wonder that he almost elopes with the wrong woman? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#623) THE OTHER SON. Drama. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by William Murray. 5 m., 6 f. Ext. An explosive confrontation between a mother an her son results from her refusal to acknowledge a second son who she refers to as a betrayal of her blood. In Pirandello's OneAct Plays, $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#17603) PLA Y THE GAME. Drama with music. Bill Tordoff Music by Paul Woodhouse. 11 m. and f Unit set. This starkly realistic play for young adults addresses the issue of youth unemployment. Unemployed youths are encouraged to enter a competition and win 100,000 with which they can escape from a life of no hope. They discover that they have been exploited in a callous and elaborate hoax designed to amuse the rich. Here is a stimulating play with dark, comic overtones and flexible casting. Music for the two songs is contained in the book. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18190) SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LENTILS BOIL. Fantasy. Stuart Walker. 9 m., 2 f. Int. While the Boy watches boiling lentils for his mother, six people pass: the condemned Queen (who he promises to hide), the Mime (who tempts him abandon his duty), the Milkmaid (who tells him about the reward offered for the Queen), the Blindman (who shows him why it is best to keep a promise), the Ballad-Singer (who would wander all his life rather than break a promise) and the dreadful Hangman (who is outwitted by the boy). Her majesty gratefully knights David Little Boy (who has done his duty and kept his promise). $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21708) STILL LIFE. Play. Noel Coward. 6 m., 5 f. Int. One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect life. At their last meeting, a chattering friend swoops down and there is no chance for a final goodbye. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1002) URBAN CYCLES. Drama. Michael Snelgrove. 6 m., 5 f. In this brilliantly drawn and succinct play with amusing, real characters, Robin is organizing the Muncaster Philanthropists' exercise-bicycle ride in the shopping piazza. The members are gathered in the early hours, ostensibly to support each other, but feelings get out of hand. Robin argues with Wolf, slaps down deserted, dog-tired Derek and blackmails Gerard into taking his turn. Meanwhile the security guard reports evil doings in the car-park, a no-go area after dark. The event falls apart after Clooney's dog attacks the do-gooders and only lumpen Krystel is left in the glow with shadowy figures surrounding her. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#23616)

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*THE HOTEL INSPECTORS. An Episode of FawIty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 7 m.,4 f Ints. When Sybil's friend hears that three hotel inspectors are in the area, Basil immediately mistakes some guests for them. One man is behaving strangely and making excessive demands that Basil tries to fulfill until he learns the man is merely a spoon salesman. Basil exacts a messy revenge involving pies and pints of cream, all witnessed by three arriving guests. Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#10946) AFTERNOON AT THE SEASIDE. Melodrama. Agatha Christie. 7 m., 5 f. Ext. The scene is a seashore resort. Among the characters: a siren in a bikini, ogling men and envious women. The undercurrents are perfect for theft. At the very end the wanton siren emerges as a policewoman who solves the otherwise perfect crime. Produced in London with The Patient and The Rats. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3612) ALL GOOD MINDS. Robert Wells. 10 m., 2 f. Int. Newspaper editor Desmoulins, once Robespierre's staunch ally, is awaiting the guillotine. Events leading to his imprisonment-supper with his wife, an argument with Robespierre and his inquisition---culminate in degradation for this hero of the Republic. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#3622) THE APOLLO OF BELLAC. Comedy. Maurice Valency, adapted from the French of Jean Giraudoux. 9 m., 3 f Int. Here is the quintessence of Giraudoux's extraordinary imagination and style. A shy girl applying for a job at the Office of Inventions learns from a nondescript man that she can have her way with any man if she declares that he is as handsome as the nonexistent statue of the Apollo of Bellac. The play is alive with wry and trenchant observations on the comical attitudes and truths that man assumes in life. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#230) BABY. Comedy. Conrad E. Davidson. 4 m., 4 f, 4 m. or f Simple set. In this fastpaced play Baby completely forgets his (or her) pre-baby training and is completely overwhelmed by adults from birth to the first birthday. Bad breath in the face, being tossed high into the air, and unwanted vocabulary lessons assail the infant before Baby is coached to employ tricks that drive adults to distraction. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#4612) CANNffiALISM IN THE CARS. Comedy. Jules Tasca, adapted from Mark Twain's short stories. 11 m. Int. Eight congressmen are trapped in a train. When they run out of food, they fonn a committee to decide who should be eaten first. In Five One-Act Plays by Mark Twain, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 or $50-$35 when perfonned with the other plays in the collection.) (#5604) THE CATCH. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett. 10 m., 2 f Int.ln a fishennan's shack at night, the sleeping Wife is awakened by knocking. Her husband and two Fishennen-all drunk--enter and the fable unwinds as discontent and frustration emerge. In A Respectable Wedding and Other One-Act Plays, $16.00. (Royalty, $35-$25:) Slightly Restricted. (#5753) CYMBELINE REFINISHED. Comedy. George Bernard Shaw. ext. 10 m. 1 f. Here Shaw supplies a "better"ending for Cymbeline. Shakespeare's melodramatic devices-Posthumous' dream, the Queen's death and Cymbeline's identification of Guiderius by a birthmark-are eliminated. Instead, Imogen chides Posthumous for trying to have her killed and neither of the long-lost sons wants to be King. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5744)

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*DEAR OLD GOLDEN RULE DAYS. (AU Groups.) Comedy. William Francis. 7 m., 5 f. Simple set. This comedic sketch of continuous laughs can be perfonned by a cast that does not have to memorize lines. The perfonners are all men and women impersonating school children. They savage every subject in the curriculum such as: history: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands; music: Brahms was a half-breed-half Gennan, half Swedish, and half Canadian; anatomy: the alimentary canal is located in southwest Wisconsin; drama: Shakespeare lived with his merry wives writing tragedies, comedies and errors; health: you should apply respiration until the person is dead. With play books lying

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feels her brainchild is being ruined and the director is distraught. The stepsisters miss cues, sound-effects are played at the wrong speed, the messenger crashes her bicycle and the fairy godmother can't find her wand. Final Dress Rehearsal is among the most popular plays for high school production according to the International Thespian Society. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#64) ICE CREAM. Caryl Churchill. See Index for description.

amid others on the desks, performers can practically read their lines. A snap to produce and full of hilarity end to end. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.). (#6541) PANTALONE'S DREAM. Comedy. Jules Tasca 8 m., 4 f. (doubling possible) Bare stage. The old miser Pantalone wants to marry young Lucinda and threatens to foreclose on her mother's house if she does not consent. He falls asleep and dreams that he buys a drug to augment his prowess on his wedding night at the Medical Malpractice Center. The doctor warns that this could damage other organs. In a surreal dreamscape, Pantalone finds himself being operated on and the nightmare convinces him to marry Lucinda's mother instead. In Commedia Americana, $6.45. (Royalty, $25-$20 or $75-$60 if performed with the other plays in the collection.) (#17960) THE REHEARSAL AT VERSAILLES. Farce. Moliere. Translated by Albert Bermel. 6 m., 6 f. Int. Moliere's theatre company is to perform for the King, but they are not ready. He keeps doing farcical imitations of his rivals instead of concentrating on the play. There are double roles for the entire cast. In One-Act Comedies of Moliere, $12.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20618)

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THE MEASURES TAKEN. Drama. Bertolt Brecht. Available in 2 translations: by Eric Bentley and by Carl Mueller. 13 m., chorus. Area staging. Four revolutionaries come to a Chinese city to incite revolution. They find it necessary to kill a dedicated young communist who has pity and concern for the poor. The Bentley version is in The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays, $9.95. The Mueller version is in The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke, $12.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Both Slightly Restricted. Please specify translator when ordering. Bentley translation (#15652) Mueller translation (#14981) SALLY AND SAM. Comedy. Jack Frakes. 5 m., 8 f. Int. From morning to late the same night Sally and Sam are seen at home with parents, in class, after school with fellow students, and finally with each other at the football game and in Sam's car. Inner thoughts, hopes, fears and rebellions are humorously expressed by their Psyches. Realism is blended with theatrical devices such as area lighting and staging, choral chants and optional use of projected slide images. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21627)

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*THE BUILDERS CLASS. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 9 m.,4 f. Ints. Sybil and Basil go away for the weekend, leaving Polly in charge of the workmen who are to install a new door and block up an existing one. Unbeknownst to Sybil, Basil has changed from Stubbs' to a cheaper contractor. Polly decides to rest and asks Manuel to call her when the workman arrive, but he lets her sleep on and superintends the works himself, with disastrous results. Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#4756) * A TOUCH OF CLASS. An Episode of FawIty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 9 m.,4 f., extras. Ints. Hoping to attract a better class of guest, Basil advertises Fawlty Towers in Country life. After Lord and Lady Morris book a room, a seedy Cockney and Lord Melbury arrive. Basil fawns all over his lordship, cashes a cheque for him and allows him to go off with a priceless coin collection while driving away the real aristocrats. Published in'Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#22943) *THE WEDDING PARTY. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 6 m., 7 f. Int. . Basil is shocked when an unmarried couple requests a double room and puts outlandish obstacles in their path. Sybil is more obliging. When the girl's parents (who are Polly's friends) arrive and Basil is found in several innocent but seemingly compromising positions, the day is set for hilarious misunderstandings. A delicious French lady with designs on Basil is no help at (#24969) all! Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) AUDIENCE. Comedy. Michael Frayn. 6 m., 7 f. Int. This amusing satire about audiences by the author of Noises Off, Copenhagen and other acclaimed plays takes place in the stalls (orchestra) of a West End theatre. The cast includes an usherette, audience members and a playwright in agony over crinkling candy wrappers, talking (#3699) out loud, and inattention to his play. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) HOT FUDGE. Comic drama. Caryl Churchill. 5 m., 5 f. (doubling possible). 4 ints. (simply suggested). In these vignettes, Sonia and Matt are making a killing defrauding banks. They are probably doing better than Ruby who claims to run a thriving travel agency; better than Jerry, a global manager, and better than Hugh, an estate agent. This is an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth. Published with Ice Cream, $6.50. Also in Churchill: Shorts, $22.95. (Royalty, $25$20 or $60-$40 when presented with Ice Cream.) (#10173) CLIPPINGS. Drama. Deni Fuson. 1 adult m. or f., 4 teen m., 4 teen f., 4 mimes. Int. Eight high school students share stories from newspaper articles they were assigned to clip. Memories are triggered and personal values and biases as well as intensely private issues (sexual harassment, parental abuse, abortion, teen pregnancy, suicide, homosexuality, drugs, sibling relationships and guilt) surface. Mimes dramatize the dilemmas teenagers face as they struggle with the voices of their hearts, minds and souls. Love, acceptance and forgiveness are offered as values that make life worth (#5264) living. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE. Morality. Bertolt Brecht. Available in 2 translations: by Eric Bentley and by Ralph Manheim. 12 m., I f. 5 ext., lint., fragmentary scenes. A ruthless entrepreneur drives his guide and a coolie across the desert with wares to beat the competition. When the coolie is murdered, the judge rules in favor of the entrepreneur in defiance of evidence to the contrary. The Bentley version is in The Jewish Wife and Other Plays, $9.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) The Manheim version is in The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke, $12.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Both Slightly Restricted. Please specify translator when ordering. Bentley translation (#7653) Manheim translation (#7657) FINAL DRESS REHEARSAL. Farce. Jack Frakes. 13 f. Bare stage. An amateur theatrical group's final dress rehearsal of Cinderellais a disaster: Cinderella is late, the prompter wants to play all the parts, the sassy stage crew is noisy, the author

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*BASIL THE RAT. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 8 m., 6 f. Ints. Basil finds a stranger peering into the hotel fridge and makes disparaging remarks. Mr. Carnegie is from Public Health and, dissatisfied with what he sees, threatens closure. A long list of requirements has to be met by the next day. Going to enlist Manuel's help, Basil finds his "hamster"- a rat called Basil. Ordered to get rid of Basil, Manuel hides the rat. It escapes and is spottedin the bar. Some veal is laced with rat poison and the infected piece gets mixed up with other meat. Mr. Carnegie certifies the kitchen and decides to order lunch the veal! Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#4260) *COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS. An Episode of FawIty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 9 m., 5 f. Ints. A difficult guestfinds fault with everything. Her hearing aid is not working, which adds to the confusion. Basil has a hot tip on a horse but Sybil has banned betting. He manages to place the bet and wins, but has trouble hiding the proceeds. Manuel proudly announces "I know nothing. "The guest loses some money so Basil is forced to relinquish his gains in the cause of good relations! Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35$35.) (#5335) *THE PSYCHIATRIST. An Episode of FawIty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 6 m., 8 f. Int. Basil cannot stand the loud, flashy gentleman staying at the hotel who smuggles a girl into his room while awaiting his elderly mother. Basil fawns allover a well-bred couple, but fears the husband, a psychiatrist, is observing him. Then a pretty Australian girl arrives and Basil cannot take his eyes, or his hands, off her. There is much running in and out of rooms and hilarious mistaken identities. Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#18706) A HARLEQUINADE. Farce. Terence Rattigan. 9 m., 5 f. Ext. One of two Shakespearean ham actors touring the provinces has a dubious and shady past. Presented on Broadway with The Browning Version. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $35-$35 when performed with The Browning Version.) (#10610) HENRY THE TENTH (PART SEVEN). Michael Green. See Index under The Coarse Acting Show 2 for description. THE TIGER AND THE PUSSYCAT. Fan~sy. Bill Majeski 9 m., 5 f. Area staging. The Lady or the Tiger is a classic story by Frank Stanton about the fate of the knight smitten with the king's daughter. Did she indicate the door that would lead him into the tiger's lair and death? This play follows the knight into the arena on that fateful day and tells the real story-was it the lady or the tiger? $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22607) MURDER IS FUN! Comedy. Catherine Blankership. 7 m., 7 f. Captain Brown of the Homicide Squad asks the audience to solve a murder for him in this mystery satire. A composer has died under mysterious circumstances. His son, daughter, fiancee, servant and a lawyer re-enact incidents leading to his demise. Unable to deduce the guilty person, characters in the audience quarrel until the doctor breaks the case with a surprising statement. Originally produced at the Yale Experimental Theatre. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#714)

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*THE ANNIVERSARY. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 7 m., 8 f. Ints. Sybil thinks Basil has forgotten their wedding anniver-

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ONE-AcT ROYALTY PLAYS and philosophical questions, the play skids along farcically until the actor and writer conclude that it lacks a beginning as well as an end. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Restricted within 50 miles of NYC. (#61) ALBERT'S BRIDGE. Tom Stoppard. See Index for description. THE CITY SCENE. Frank Gagliano. See Index under Paradise Gardens East and Conerico Was Here to Stay for descriptions. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15, each play.)

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*THE GERMANS. An Episode of FawJty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 8 m., 8 f Ints. Sybil is in hospital for an operation on hertoenail and Basil is in charge. Germans are expected so Polly is brushing up on the language while Basil hangs a moose head in reception. A fire drill is planned but the burglar alarm goes off instead. Sybil keeps telephoning with fresh instructions, Manuel sets the kitchen alight, Basil is concussed with a fire extinguisher and comes to in the hospital bed next to Sybil. He returns to the hotel in a confused state and launches into an impersonation of Hitler. He goosesteps round and warns everyone, including the Gernlans, "don't mention the war. "Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#9590) *GOURMET NIGHT. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 9 m.. 7 f. Ints. The Fawltys are so pleased with their new chef, they plan weekly "gourmet" evenings. Despite a "no riff-raW' note on their advertising, bookings are received. The new chef, who has fallen in love with Manuel, gets drunk in the wine cellar so Basil races off to Andre's for a replacement meal. His car breaks down and, despite hilarious efforts to restart it. the food is very late arriving. Accidents involving a duck and a substitute trifle are also hard to swallow. Pub(#9715) lished in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) *THE KIPPER AND THE CORPSE. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. Ilm.,7 f. Ints. Mrs. Chase is fussing over her lap dog when some Americans come through the lobby. One gentleman is not feeling well so he retires after requesting breakfast in bed. The next morning, the dog enjoys sausages with frequent nips at people's fingers. Basil delivers breakfast to the ill guest and becomes incensed when the man won't speak. It seems he is dead and Basil fears some out-of-date kippers are responsible. He hides the evidence, the body ends up in the laundry basket, the dog chokes on stolen sausages and Basil needs to escape from Sybil's wrath. Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) ( #12994) *WALDORF SALAD. An Episode of Fawlty Towers. Comedy. John Cleese and Connie Booth. 7 m., 9 f Int. There is mayhem in a full dining room when Manuel can't remember who ordered what, sugar is in the salt cellar, and the prawns are off A tired American couple arrives after the kitchen closes and insists on being fed. Terry refuses to stay so Basil must cook. He does not understand the order for a screwdriver and a Waldorf salad and goes to extraordinary lengths to explain why they do not have the ingredients. As the steaks bum, Basil carries on a make-believe conversation with the "chef' that doesn't fool anyone. Published in Fawlty Towers, $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35.) (#24964) COMPETITION PIECE. Comedy. John Wells. 10-21 m. and f Bare stage. This clever comedy is an ideal high school competition play. Three groups of students are preparing for a drama competition. One has lots of rehearsal time and chooses a romance. The meatheads decide to do a typical teen problem play. The arty clique wants to do a one-act version of King Lear as a Japanese Noh drama. Winner of several competitions, this play is certain to delight your students, your audience and (#5919) those hard-to-please judges. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) DAHLING YOU WERE MARVELLOUS. Comedy. Steven Berkoff. 15 m., 9 f., 10 m. or f. (doubling possible). Int. In this parody of theater people written as a television play, the camera moves from table to table in a restaurant to eavesdrop (#6549) here and there. In Steven Berkoff: Plays 2, $18.95. (Royalty, $35-$35.) DEATH. Comedy. Woody Allen. 18 m., 2 f (doubling possible). Bare stage, simple props. A maniacal killer is at large and Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him. Kleinman, a logical man in a mad world, is indecisive and insecure; he doesn't want to get involved but everyone is after him to make a choice. He is even accused of being the culprit. When Kleinman confronts the maniac (who looks no different from anyone else), he is stabbed. Everyone rushes off to pursue the still elusive killer. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) Restricted within 50 miles of NYC. (#52) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS or Do You Know Where Your Chitlins Are Tonight? Comedy. Billy St. John. 8 m., 8 f. Curtains and doors. Nursery Land characters, both human and animal, coexist in this goofy 1940s spoof of classic film noir detective stories for grown-up kids. When her triplets disappear, Mrs. Pig hires detective Jack B. Nimble. Jack and his klutzy secretary Miss Muffet suspect B. B. Wolf. Characters from Humpty Dumpty and Henny Penny to Jack and Mrs. Sprat become involved in the investigation before Jack finds the missing boys and earns a dubious award-a kiss from a pig. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6233) GOD. Comedy. Woody Allen. 20 m., 8 f (doubling possible), chorus. Set in an empty Greek amphitheater, this mad play within a play switches back and forth between ancient Athens and modern Broadway. A Greek actor and a writer are discussing how to end a play. Actors, including Doris Levine from Great Neck, Blanche DuBois, and Groucho Marx, pop out of the audience. Peppered with metaphysical

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THE CRAZY LOCOMOTIVE. Drama. Stainislaw Witkiewicz. Translated by Daniel C. Gerould and C. S. Durer. 12 m .. 6 f, extras. A self-destructing machine is placed on the stage in this super parody on the worship of machines, technology, (#5723) cinema and futurism. $10.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. Arkady Leokum. See Index under Friends and Enemies for descriptions. THE HESSIAN CORPORAL. Drama. Paul Foster. 6 m., 9 f. Area staging. A young soldier, alone and afraid on Christmas even, faces his first battle. He contemplates certain death and the ironic fact that he has no idea of what he is dying for. In Balls & Other Plays, $12.00. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10640) PROFESSOR TARANNE. Tragifarce. Arthur Adamov. Translated by Albert Bermel. 9 m., 5 or 6 f. Int A prim college professor accused of an embarrassing act refutes the accusation, but slowly reveals other defects in his character and career. His breakdown is a compassionate, funny and absurd comic nightmare. In A Dozen French Farces, $18.95. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18984) PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA. Comedy. Thornton Wilder. 15 m., 18 f This novel play without scenery shows a Pullman car in every possible light. Towns it passes through are personified as well as the eight passengers whose partial life stories are shown within the car. The weather, the hours of the night, the planets are likewise speaking parts. Recently performed in New York with The Long Christmas Dinner and The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden. "Like a surprise holiday gift. . . [these plays] shine like gems." -N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#860) RABBITT. Drama. David Foxton. 15 m. and f I set. This perceptive play for young adults, set ten years after the bomb, portrays with frightening clarity the destruction of human character as social standards are lost in a struggle for power and survival. In the ruins of an abandoned building fifteen teenage survivors struggle to make sense of the desolation. Ironically, they begin to repeat their parents' mistakes. The play ends with a thought-provoking clash of personalities. $4.50. (Royalty, $25$20.) (#20660) SPOOFYDOOFS' FUNNYBONE. Comedy. Jack Frakes. 7 m., 9 f The spoofydoofs live peacefully under a tree-their only worry is the Hurry-Scurries. Gigles finds a funnybone that makes everyone laugh. His search party i~ chased by Polly and her dog-and by gloomy-faced Aunt Nettie, a Hurry-Scurry. The spoofydoofs catch her and hand her the funnybone. She happily returns to Hurry-Scurry land to spread laughter. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) , (#994) A STORY OF CHELM. Comedy. Linda Gaye Shapiro. 11 m., 5 f. Simple ext. When some heavenly machinery malfunctions, half a bag of foolish souls is dropped in the town of Chelm. They come to life and become obsessed with raising money to build a bathhouse for their shadows, who stubbornly lie in the dust all day long. After a number of moneymaking schemes are bungled, Heaven is forced to intervene in this (#21783) comedy based on a Yiddish folktale. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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CAS CANDO AND OTHER SHORT DRAMA TIC PIECES. Samuel Beckett. Cascando is a radio play for 2 voices in elusive and suggestive rather than literal poetic on struggling and groping for life. Words and Music is for two voices dancing around the pinpoint of pedantry and repetition. Play is Beckett's arch account of the two women, wife and mistress, in the life of an adulterer. Each recapitulates a part from the frozen stance of an urn for the dead. Come and Go is a little interlude of separation and rendezvous for three persons. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) Slightly Restricted and restricted as to mlmner of production. Words and Music (#25733) Play (#849) Come and Go (#5684) Cascando (#5612) HYMN TO THE RISING SUN. Drama. Paul Green. 9 m. (speaking parts), 17 extra m. (Various black and white characters.) Int. This tragic satire on human liberty is about a chain gang camp celebrating the Declaration of Independence. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10170) INTERLUDES. Miguel de Cervantes translated by Edwin Honig. These beguiling short plays with colorful characters concern the contemporary underworld and middle and low-brow society in towns and cities. The Caves of Salamanca. (#5049) 5 m., 2 f. The Hawk Eyed Sentinel (#10681) 7 m., 2 f, extras. Choosing a Councilman

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THE PRINCESS AND THE VAGABOND. Laura Olsher. Int. The play form of a tale on which The Taming of the Shrew was based. A king's daughter has a temper that drives all suitors away. The king gives her to a wandering minstrel who is actually one of the noble suitors disguised. Her temper induces him to apprentice her to a cook in his palace where she learns humility and wishes she'd appreciated her "vagabond" spouse. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18668) THE PUBLIC. Drama. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by Carlos Bauer. Various sets. What if Romeo was a man of thirty and Juliet a boy of fifteen? Would their passion be any less authentic? Surrealism, folk theatre, poetry, vivid costumes, black humor-everything is as timely now as it was taboo when Lorca penned it. Published with Play Without a Title, $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18927) SUBWAY CIRCUS. Fantasy. William Saroyan. Flexible cast. Simple sets. Mr. Saroy an has shown with considerable beauty, humor, and dramatic effect the dreams of some of the people who ride in a metropolitan subway. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21794) ENDS OF THE WORLD AND OTHER PLAYS. Satire. Edwin Honig. Various characters. (two through 20.) These thirteen vivid vaudevilles mix word-play with satire on contemporary addictions and events. Includes: Three Monkeys at a Water Gate, Ends of the World, A Silence of Voices, The Widow, Another Election, An Undiscovered Lorca, Rehearsing Emily Dickinson's Puppies, Man with a Load, Mr. Picasso, Are You a Communist?, The Arrest of the Poet, Van or the Puncture, Flies and Fleas, A Birth's a Rebirth. $5.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) (#7044) THE ZEN SUBSTITUTE. Farce. Adapted by James R. Brandon and Tamako Niwa. Various characters. A Kabuki farce. Lord Ukyo wishes to see his girlfriend so he persuades his wife to let him perform Zen meditation under a robe in the garden. He has his servant take his place while he slips off. Lady Tamanoi discovers her husband's trick and she takes the servant's place under the robe. Imagine what happens when Lord Ukyo comes home tipsy and tells his faithful servant about his amorous adventures. The play is full of stylized comic action. In Kabuki Plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Sound Effects cassette, $32.50. (#28610)

in Daganzo (#5743) 10 m., var. m & f extras. The Divorce Court Judge (#6703) 9 m., 3 f. Trampagos, The Pimp Who Lost His Moll (#22794) 8 m., 3 f. The Basque Imposter (#4651) 6 m., 2 f. The Wonder Show (#25729) 9 m., 3 f., extras. The Jealous Old Husband (#12606) 6 m., 2 f., extras. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play or $50-$35 when all plays are performed under the title Interludes.) (#11088)

KABUKI PLAYS. James R. Brandon and Tamako Niwa. Genuine classical Japanese drama, both farcical and melodramatic, are offered respectively in The Zen Substitute and Kanjincho (see below for individual descriptions). Liberal staging and acting instructions, details on makeup and costumes, a glossary and suggestions for adapting to American theatres are offered. What debts western drama owes to oriental theatre shinethrough with pristine clarity in these excellent renditions. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) Sound Effects cassette, $32.50. Kabuki Plays (#13003) The Zen Substitute (#28610) Kanjincho (#13601) KANJINCHO. Drama. Adapted by James Brandon and Tamako Niwa. A classic of Kabuki theatre, this is the tensely dramatic story of Benkei, devoted retainer of Yoshitsune, the hero. Benkei uses all means to overcome the barrier set up by Yoshitsune's treacherous brother, Japan's ruler. The barrier guard sees through the ruse; but deeply impressed, he allows the group to pass. A superbly theatrical piece with contrasts between vigorous, stylized action and moments of delicate sadness. In Kabuki Plays. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Sound Effects cassette, $32.50. (#13601) PLAY WITHOUT A TITLE. Drama. Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by Carlos Bauer. Bare stage. This fierce, stark playlet with its cast of Author, Prompter, Stagehands and Hecklers in the Gallery heralds the theatricality of the modem avant garde while it reflects the violence of the times in which it was written. It is a meditation on the role of the artist in society, on theatre and its relation to what is happening in life, and what theatre should be: the school of the people. Published with The Public, $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18926)

A SELECTION OF TELEVISION PLAYS FROM "ALL IN THE FAMILY," "MAUDE," "SANFORD AND SON" and "GOOD TIMES"
FLORIDA'S AFFAIR, (From "Maude.") Alan 1. Levitt. 4 m., 5 f. Compo int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8630) THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND? (From "Sanford and Son.") Gene Farmer. 4 m. Compo int.lext. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22606) SUPERFLYER. (From "Sanford and Son.") Teleplay by Charles]. Williams and Ilunga Adell. Story by Charles T. Williams. 5 m., 4 f. Var. sets. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#21614) THE ENGAGEMENT. (From "Sanford and Son.") James R. Stein & Robert Illes. (#7622) 5 m., 4 f. Int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) TOOTH OR CONSEQUENCES. (From "Sanford and Son.") Adell Stevenson. 7 m., I f. 2 int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) State T.V. play when ordering. (#22609) A HOUSE IS NOT A POOLROOM. (From "Sanford and Son.") Winston Moss. 7 m., I f. Compo int.lext. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#10669) THE VISITOR. (From "Good Times.") Teleplay by Jack Elinson and Norman Paul. Story by Allessandro R. Veith, Bob Wolterstorff, Thad Mumford. 4 m., 3 f. Int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#24602) JUNIOR THE SENIOR. (From "Good Times.") Teleplay by Lou Derman, Bill Davenport, Lloyd Garver, and Ken Hecht. Story by Lloyd Garver and Ken Hecht. 4 m., 3 f. Int. W. insert. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#12602) MICHAEL GETS SUSPENDED. (From "Good Times."). Eric Monte. 3 m., 3 f. Int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15605) GETTING UP THE RENT. (From "Good Times.") Eric Monte. 7 m., 3 f., extras. Compo int. W. drop. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9625)

ARCHIE IN THE HOSPITAL. (From "All In The Family.") Teleplay by Don Nicholl. Story by Stanley Ralph Ross and Martin Cohan. 5 m., 4 f. 2 ints. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3652) GLORIA POSES IN THE NUDE. (From "All In The Family.") Michael Ross, Bernie West and Norman Lear. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9652) MIKE'S APPENDIX. (From "All In The Family.") Michael Ross and Bernie West. 4 m., 2 f. 2 sets. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15606) ARCHIE AND THE EDITORIAL. (From "All In The Family.") Teleplay by George Bloom and Don Nicholl. Story by George Bloom. 7 m., 4 f. Var. sets. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3651) ARCHIE AND THE COMPUTER. (From "All In The Family.") Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell, Don Nicholl. m., 2 f. Int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#3650) LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER. (From "Maude.") Susan Harris. 4 m., 2 f. Compo int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#14605) THE CONVENTION. (From "Maude.") Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf. I m., I f. Int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5706) THE WILL. (From "Maude.") Teleplay by Albert E. Lewin. Story by Leonard B. Kaufman and Jim Simmons. 5 m., 4 f. Compo int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) State T.V. play when ordering. (#25605) MAUDE'S REUNION. (From "Maude.") Teleplay by Budd Grossman, Alan 1. Levitt and Leo Rifkin. Story by Leo Rifkin. 2 m., 4 f. Compo int. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15603)

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Plays designated Budget Play may be produced by amateur groups with maximum seating capacities of 400 for one performance only without paying a royalty, provided the producer purchases as many copies as there are speaking parts in the cast. (If there are more than twelve characters, the producer is only required to purchase twelve copies). The royalty for each additional performance is $10, payable one week prior to the production. The right of performance is not transferable and is strictly forbidden in cases where copies are loaned, hired or purchased second-hand from a third party. Plays designated No Royaity may be produced without paying a royalty in the United States only by amateurs with maximum seating capacities of 400. Special arrangements must be made in all cases for productions by professional groups, by amateurs with seating capacities over 400, and for television and radio broadcasting. Please see page 5 for more information about restrictions, rights, royalties and ordering.

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MADAME PRESIDENT. Comedy. Wallace Acton. I m., I f. lnt. An amusing domestic episode. Novelist Spangler would like to read his paper, but wife Victoria (a comic without knowing it) interrupts with a cross-word puzzle, her women's clubs, a retelling of "Hamlet"-until poor hubby is nearly crazy. $4.50. (Budget Play. First (#15903) performance free; Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) A PAIR OF LUNATICS. Sketch. W.R. Walkes. I m., I f. lnt. The two characters mistake one another for lunatics and the fun that ensues is immense. $4.50. (No (#18930) Royalty.)

story revolves around three such anxious women: Mrs. Murray, a first-timer who is constantly at the point of hysteria; Mrs. Foster, who is having her seventh and is outwardly very calm; and Mrs. Groton, already a mother but now determined to become the parent of a girl. As they sit, many differences are brought out to show what would happen if men had babies. How each of the ladies take the news of their new children and the reaction that follows make this an ideal show. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.)

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THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. Pantomine burlesque. Muriel and Richard Eldridge. 3 m., 2 f. lnt. The daughter has a villainous suitor who revengefully plots to gain her father's money and then to slay him. He accomplishes his purpose and escapes. The attempted murder is discovered by his wife in time for the young heroine to bring aid in the person of the handsome doctor, who saves the keeper's life and wins the daughter's hand. $4.50. (No Royalty.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Others Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agi!:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#14916) THE MONKEY'S PAW. Thriller. W. W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker. 4 m., 1 f. lnt. Major Morris mentions a monkey's paw. The superstition is that its possessor may have three wishes. Mr. White listens to the old soldier's warning that the paw has hitherto brought only disaster. The Whites are given the gruesome thing, and Mr. White wishes for $200. A Mr. Sampson appears with the news that their son has been killed at work, and that the firm, as a mark of sympathy is sending $2oo! The second wish is that the son may be restored to life. There is a knock. The distraught mother tries to open the door. While doing so the old man utters his third wish-that his son may return to his grave. The door is opened. No one is there! $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#702)

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THE TERRIBLE MEEK. Drama. Charles Rann Kennedy. 2 m., I f. Play is acted in darkness. Theme: the revelation in dramatic form of the effect of the Crucifixion on a Roman captain, a soldier, and an Unknown Woman. Since the darkness lifts for an instant at the end (appropriate costumes required). A standard religious play of the highest order. Particularly effective for churches and similar organizations. Poetic and dramatic at the same time. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#22645) THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. Farce. Anton Chekhov. Translated by H. Clark. 2 m., I f. lnt. Mod. or Russian cost. This little farce is very popular and one of the funniest ever written. The story tells of the efforts of a nervous and excitable man who starts to propose to an attractive young woman, but who gets into a tremendous quarrel over a boundary line. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#15935) BOX AND COX. Farce. J. M. Morton. 2 m., 1 f. lnt. The plot of this famous farce hinges on the fact that Mrs. Bouncer has rented the same room to two men, one to use it by night, the other by day. Her efforts to keep them apart and the resulting (#4672) tangle are the very quintessence of the ludicrous, $4.50. (No Royalty.) THE BOOR. Farce. Anton Chekhov. Translated by Hilmar Baukhage. 2 m., I f. lnt. It is concerned with Russian characters, and portrays with masterly skill the comic side (#4111) of country life. A classic from a master. $4.50. (No Royalty.)

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PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION. George Bernard Shaw. 4 m., 2 f. Int. This is a wildly insane play, and untypically Shavian. Lady Magnesia is preparing for bed when her husband tries to come in and kill her. But in the psychedelic light her lover appears and is promptly poisoned by her husband. The antidote is lime, so he starts eating the ceiling's plaster and turns into a statue. The normality of the cuckoo clock returns after lightning kills the interloping doctor, policeman and landlord. In Selected Short Plays, $11.95. (No Royalty in U.S.A.; $15-$15 in Canada.) (#18618) CHILD WONDER. Farce. Pete Williams. 2 m., 4 f. lnt. Eloise Harvey, child movie star, is at home a little pain in the neck. Her father lives for the day when he can give her the spanking she deserves. He provides a fan magazine writer with material for a sensational scoop, and the studio breaks Eloise's contract. Now that she is no longer the wage-earner of the family, Mr. Harvey rolls up his sleeves and goes to work. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#5909) HE DONE HER WRONG: or WEDDED BUT NO WIFE! Old-fashioned melodrama. Anita Bell. 2 m., 4 f. The uproruious saga of our pure but persecuted heroine, Hyacinth Haven. She falls into the clutches of Fleetwood Dashaway (what a cur!), and is rescued in the nick of time by the manly hero Fitzjohn Oliphant, who falls in love with Hyacinth not knowing she had married the rogue, who left her to perish in the storm. Hyacinth is wedded but no wife! How can Hyacinth prevent the foul Dashaway from marrying Mr. Moneycracker's daughter and getting his hands on the immense fortune? The plot thickens until the boiling point. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free. Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Ba,.s of 'Agit:' Incidental (#10907) Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. THE RED LAMP. Comedy. Hilliard Booth. 3 m., 3 f. lnt. A hungry tramp breaks into a house for food and recognizes a lamp which supposedly brings good luck when lighted. The son befriends the tramp, who leaves on the approach of the head of the house-a strict maiden lady, the boy's aunt. The boy agrees to light the lamp after his aunt has gone, as a signal for the tramp to return. The daughter also agrees to use the same signal to let her lover know her aunt-who disapproves of the match-has left the house. The aunt herself lights the lamp as a signal to a neighbor to have tea

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IF WOMEN WORKED AS MEN DO. Comedy. Ellen Goodfellow. 4 f. lnt. Mrs. Carew and Mrs. Dowling are business partners. Miss Arnold is their stenographer and Miss Smith her substitute. On this morning little work is done but considerable conversation indulged in. The skit is a satire on the business man's excuse. "A hard day at the office:' showing it's not always as hard as it might be, or as their wives think it is. A companion piece to "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.)

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LADIES OF THE MOP. In Rhyme and Rhythm. Aurand Harris. 4 f. Bare stage, piano and two chairs. Annie is a faded woman who has not lost her dream of the stage; Mattie, an unimaginative soul; Hallie, loud, energetic; and Bessie, tall and dignified. Annie proposes they entertain themselves while they eat and rest from their scrubbing on the stage. So Bessie sings, Hallie dances, Mattie plays a piano number and Annie gives a melodramatic reading. When, after a disagreement, all four perform simultaneously ... it's hilarious. $3.50. (Budget Play: No Royalty.)

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THE LAZIEST MAN IN THE WORLD. Comedy. Carl Webster Pierce. 4 m. lnt. This little comedy shows how two burglars are cleverly outwitted by the laziest man in the world. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#14915)

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HE'S HAVING A BABY. Comedy. Fred Carmichael. 5 f. lnt. What would happen if men had babies ,md women paced the floor of the maternity waiting room? The

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CHARACTERS ready. Ensuing complications are fast, furious, and unexpected. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#20905)

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her poet-lover, Filbert Fearless, over the objections of her hard-hearted father. Though the cast forgets its lines, and the sound effects go wrong, the scene wherein Filbert, single-handed, captures that villainous jail breaker, Two-gun Percy, is beyond words! $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#9921) FEUDING. Hillbilly comedy. Wilbur Braun. 3 m., 4 f. When you hear what started the feud between the Tabots and the Bascoms, you'll howl with glee! Matt Bascom, a handsome mountain youth, finds his dreams haunted by a beautiful girl. So Matt starts out to find the girl of his dreams. Months later, while roaming through the Ozarks, he comes face to face with his ideal. She is pretty June Talbot, the daughter of a sheriff who shoots Bascoms on sight. Matt realizes he has to work fast to get rid of her present suitor and bring the feud to an end. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#8909)

THE ROMANCERS. Romantic comedy. Edmond Rostand. English version by Barrett H. Clark. 5 m., I f. Ext. The story of two youngsters whose parents wish them to marry. The young people are determined to take matters in their own hands and refuse to fall in with their parents' plans. The fathers then pretend to a mortal enmity, which brings the young people together, but only after the boy and girl have run away from home and returned disillusioned. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#20914)

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CURSE YOU, JACK DALTON. Old-fashioned melodrama. Wilbur Braun. 3 m., 4 f. lnt. And the villain still pursues her! Not only pursues her but threatens to have her committed to an asylum if she does not renounce our manly hero, Jack Dalton! You've never encountered such a villain as Egbert Van Hom. Or a heroine with such flawless qualities as Bertha Blair's. When Jack's aristocratic mother discovers her illustrious son loves the maid, she orders Bertha from the house and threatens to disown Jack for life if he takes his place at Bertha's side. Just when you are certain that the unscrupulous villain is going to triumph, Fate steps in. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites,$7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#5943) HE AIN'T DONE RIGHT BY NELL. Melodrama. Wilbur Braun. 3 m., 4 f. lnt. A gay nineties comedy. When Hilton Hays learns that Nell is a foundling and has no right to the Perkins name, he threatens to tell because Nell will not respond to his advances. Nell is too honest to marry the manly hero, Jack Logan, under the circumstances, so she dons her cape and prepares to roam the cruel world seeking a refuge for her broken heart. But wealthy Burkett Carleton has Hays arrested for stealing, and he discovers Nell is his long-lost granddaughter. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#10906) THE WHITE PHANTOM. Mystery Play. Wilbur Braun. 3 m., 4 f. Platform with a black cyclorama or drapes. Mrs. Blake rents an old-fashioned residence. While she is waiting for her colored maid to arrive, the lights go out, pistol shots are heard, and all sorts of weird happenings occur. Officer Jerry Nolan attributes the strange happenings to "The White Phantom," a notorious criminal terrorizing the neighborhood. When the maid arrives, she is confronted with "The White Phantom" himself! All clues lead to Curt Frazier, who is in love with Mrs. Blake's daughter, Marion. The suspense is tense and there are more thrills. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#25905) DORA, THE BEAUTIFUL DISHWASHER or THE HEROINE WHO CLEANED UP! Melodrama. Ned Albert. 3 m., 4 f. lnt. Our down-trodden heroine is employed in the home of the socially prominent Hyacinths. Hector Hyacinth, the hero, is engaged to be married to vain Andrea Morgan. He falls deeply in love with Dora. Andrea schemes to bring disgrace on Dora. Master villain Lorin Chillingsworth, is out to get her fortune for himself. But Chillingsworth, too, falls victim to Dora's charms. Just before the end of the play Dora discovers that she is an heiress and becomes engaged to Hector. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Musicfor Victorian and Edwardi(#6939) an Melodrama, $12.95. EGAD, WHAT A CAD! or VIRTUE TRIUMPHS OVER VILLAINY. Comedy melodrama. Anita Bell. 3 m., 4 f. Simple int. Laughs and applause! For a time it looks as though Constant Hope, our beautiful young heroine who is haunted by a tragic past, is about to fall into the clutches of black-hearted cad, Bertram Oleander. But by a strange coincidence(?), Manly Rash, our noble hero arrives in the nick of time to save Constant from a fate worse than death! Gadzooks, what a time the audience has hissing the villain, and applauding the hero and heroine! A constant riot of explosive laughter and great fun for cast and audience alike. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#7912) SHOTGUN WEDDING. Hillbilly comedy. Ned Albert. 3 m., 4 f. Int. A wholesome, rip-roaring comedy of life in the Ozarks. Jeb Larkin, "Jestise of the Peace", is a lazy, shiftless mountaineer. Enoch Taylor, a mountain boy, is determined to marry Judy, the Larkins' pretty daughter, because he needs somebody to cook and keep his cabin clean. But every time the folks get all set for "the splicin' ," Jeb wanders away from the cabin and finds an isolated spot where he can sleep without being disturbed. In sheer desperation, Mirandy forces Jeb to do the "hitchin' " at the point of shotgun. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#21910) THE GREAT WESTERN MELODRAMA. Melodrama. florence Huntington Morris. 5 m., 2 f. (Optionally, all m. or all f.) Int. The original cast has been quarantined and the stage hands, promptress, et al., have stepped into the roles so that the play might go on-horribly miscast and unrehearsed. It is the story of how Daisy wins

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THE WINDOW. Drama. Robert W. Masters. 8 m. Int. About lonely and unwanted men in a mental hospital. Looking out the window, they express their yearnings to be wanted, their desire to re-establish contact with the world that has forgotten them. One patient on being discharged leaves determined to urge outside people to visit the inside ones. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each (#25916) additional performance.) Please state author's name when ordering. WHO MURDERED WHO? Mystery-comedy. Millard Crosby. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Laughs, thrills, suspense and excitement! Gould Trevor, who has recently served on a jury which convicted a man, receives threatening notes. Whipped into a frenzy by a frivolous neighbor, Jennie Trevor's housekeeper who has overheard Trevor talking of murder over the telephone, gets it into her head that Trevor plans to murder her. Jennie flees, and a strange young woman, who calls herself Mary Jones, takes over the position of housekeeper for Trevor. The excitement increases as mysterious happenings take place and everyone is suspected of murder. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#25909) FIREMAN, SAVE MY CIDLD! Old-fashioned melodrama. Ned Albert. 3 m., 5 f. Int. The villain, Archibald Quingle, hypnotizes his victims into a state where they agree to do his bidding. And the innocent heroine, little Daisy, is the special target of Archibald's machinations. When the arch fiend proposes to the proud heroine she rejects him. He discovers that she is in love with noble Chester and decides to do a little extra dirty work involving the theft of the papers, and he also tries to fasten his crimes on poor Chettie. Splendid parts for everyone, most of them comedy. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' (#8917) Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. SHE WAS ONLY A FARMER'S DAUGHTER. Old-fashioned melodrama. Millard Crosby. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Born a farmer's daughter, Millie has longed for an education. So she goes to the city where she becomes a victim of deep-eyed villain, Mulberry Foxhill. In a weak moment Millie consents to become his wife. It is thel'! that she encounters a strange woman who tells Millie that Mulberry is already married, and he is merely laying a trap for her. Millie, realizing the peril of her position, returns to the farm. But alas, Mulberry appears on the scene suddenly, and he proceeds to make life intolerable for the farmer's daughter. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for (#21907) Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. HER FATAL BEAUTY, or A SHOP GIRL'S HONOR. Comedy-melodrama. Wilbur Braun. 3 m., 5 f. Int. Handsome Noble Humdinger longs to marry the radiant Milly Blossom, but he reckons without that fiend, Courtenay Kenilworth. Courtenay plans to drug Milly and shanghai her onto a boat sailing for South America. Will Noble Humdinger foil the scoundrel? $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and (#10909) Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. COMIN' 'ROUND THE MOUNTAIN. Hillbilly comedy. Ned Albert. 3 m., 5 f. Int. The action takes place in Judkins' cabin in the Ozarks. Two screamingly funny parts (Daisy and Zeke) and a hilarious scene in which one of Zeke's friends stands behind a sofa and blows a hom in Daisy's ear to keep her awake while Zeke proposes will long be remembered by those who witness it. Fine parts for the entire cast and real fun in rehearsing $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#5925) ADA GIVES FIRST AID. Comedy. Eunice Merrifield. 2 m., 6 f. Scatterbrained Ada organizes a class in first-aid, even though Ada doesn't know the difference between a break and a sprain! But the "victim" is taken sick and cannot appear for the demonstration. Then a strange man has an accident in Ada's garden. Fate has handed a victim to the first-aid class! And what "the girls" do to him is a caution! Then they discover that he is a doctor who has moved next door. He goes home, groaning and complaining. The girls are crestfallen until they get another victim-

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~d this results in a riot of howls that brings down the house. $4.50. (Budget Play, FITst perfonnance free, Royalty, $10 each additional perfonnance.) (#3902)

ONE-AcT NON-ROYALTY AND BUDGET PLAYS

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Oscar Wilde. Adapted and abridged b~ J:larold G. Sliker. 5 m., 4 f. A skillfully condensed two-scene adaptation of the ongmal play. All the setting for Scene 2, the garden trees, is in place before the ~rfonnance. Therefore only the folding-screen backing and the furniture (a very httle) of Scene I need be removed for the action to continue. Line drawings and stage plans facilitate the staging. $3.50. (Budget Play: No Royalty.) Please specify one-act version when ordering. (#11913) THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF IDMSELF. Comedy. Moliere. Translated by Barrett H. Clark. 6 m., 3 f. Int., ext. In this famous farce, Sganarelle has to be beaten before he will acknowledge that he is a doctor, which he is not. He then works apparently miraculous cures. The play is a satire on the medical profession. $4.50. (No Royalty.) Please state one-act version when ordering. (#6654) THE AFFECTED YOUNG LADIES. Satirical comedy. Moliere. 6 m., 3 f. Int. $2.00. (No Royalty.) (#3892) AN A~PLE F?~ TEACHER. Comedy. Percy Forst. 5 m., 9 f. Int. Alicia Peabody, the nchest girl 10 school, makes the fatal mistake of tattling on Swat Simmonds, the toughest boy 10 school. Swat vows to have vengeance. The harassed young teacher and the handsome young principal announce their intention of getting married. The School Board appoints a new teacher, who comes well prepared for her new assignment. Very easy to present and rehearse. For the most part the pupils sit at their desks during the action of the play. $4.50. (Budget Play. First perfonnance free, Royalty, $10 each additional perfonnance.) (#3923)

WHY TEACHERS GO NUTS. Burlesque. Preston Powell. 8 m., 7 f. An insane discussion of the age-old problem: "are teachers driven nuts or are teachers nuts to begin with?" Moving, unperturbed, in a veritable bedlam of a classroom, and accepting the most insane answers as logical and academically correct, Miss Abigail fails to so much as notice the frantic efforts of her pupils to reduce the classroom to shambles. A godsend to the director who has neither time nor talent at his disposal. All parts, except that of the teacher, are short and ea~ily memorized. $4.50. (Budget Play. First perfonnance free, Royalty, $10 each additional perfonnance.) (#25913) THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE. Comedy. Millard Crosby. 6 m., 9 f. Int. May be perfonned on a platfonn with drapes. You'll meet tough boy Butch who delights in picking on sweet Mayberry, the stuck-up daughter of the head of the School Board; the teacher's pet; the simpering flirt; the dumb Dutch girl; the lazy boy who sleeps most of the time; the poor teacher who is nearly driven out of her wits-to mention only a few. Wisecracks are hurled across the room as often as blackboard erasers. If desired, the parts of the school children may be played by adults since it produces uproarious results to see them dressed as youngsters. But either way this play will have everyone laughing. $4.50. (Budget Play. First perfonnance free, Royalty, $10 each additional perfonnance.) (#14908) READIN', 'RITIN', AND 'RITHMETIC. Comedy. Millard Crosby. 5 m., 6 f. Simple int. Merry shenanigans in the schoolroom. You'll meet Tubby the fat boy, Liz who is on the dumb side, pretty Brenda, the young teacher, Norine, the richest girl in town, Slugger, a hard-boiled character, Rusty, who cries all the time without provocation, Narcissus, the "sweetest" boy in any school and a host of others. Don't miss the scene where Rusty unconsciously cries his way into a fortune. You'll be weak from laughing. It may be done in drapes in lieu of scenery and only a few rehearsals are required because the stage directions in the manuscript are so clear and easy to follow. $4.50. (Budget Play. First perfonnance free, Royalty, $10 each additional perfonnance.) (#2909)

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Royalties quoted are for live stage productions by amateur groups with maximum seating capacities of 400. Special arrangements must be made in all cases for productions by professional groups, by amateurs with seating capacities over 400, and for television and radio broadcasting. Please see page 5 for more information about restrictions, rights, royalties and ordering.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTY PLAYS

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*CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD. Musical. Book by Stuart Hample. Music by David Evans. Lyrics by Douglas 1. Cohen. Based on the book by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall. See Index for description. THE GARBAGE CANTATA. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Additional material by Jon Lonoff. See Index for description. PLAY TO WIN. Musical. Book by Carles Cleveland and James de Jongh. Lyrics by Carles Cleveland, James De Jongh and Jimi Foster. Music by Foster. 4 m., 1 f. Simple unit set. This is a bright, snappy one-hour musical about the man who broke the color barrier in professional baseball. Although it is aimed at young audiences, all ages will enjoy this portrayal of Jackie Robinson's detennination to be the best despite seemingly insurmountable racism. Characters include Rachel, the girl Jackie met in college and later married; Branch Rickey, the owner of the Dodgers who dared to sign Robinson; and Satchel Paige, the great black pitcher who acts as narrator and plays various other roles throughout the play. *"A ball for kids!. .. [The] music is upbeat, bouncy and memorable."-N.Y. Post. $7.00. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#18181) CLOWN FACE. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. 3 m., 2 f. Int. A marvelous fairy tale where the curious girl Yvette wears the face of a witch with a cast of laughable and lovable friends like Bunky the Clown and Stanley the Magician. It takes place in a toy repair shop. Slowly, 'as if by magic, the toy shop and its toys come to life-as the dream of Bunky comes true on a very special day. Children will delight at the bouncy music and lyrics, and will marvel at the wonderful story. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#5673) EARTHLINGS! Ecologic musical. Dave Barton and Matt Bond. 3 m., 2 f. Bare stage w. set pieces. An assembly-length musical using story-theatre techniques to entertain kindergarten through 9th grade youngsters while stimulating concern for the environment. It's essentially a revue with a brisk series of funny. songs and sketches emphasizing the threats to our ecology. Music published in script. $4.50. (Royalty, $30-$30.) (#7004) HEADS AND TALES. Adventure. Carol Lauck. 5 m. & f. Int. A whimsical and energetic Professor and his assistants guide lO-year-old T.J. through adventures to free his imagination. "Do you know there are people who never use imagination?" asks the Professor. "Sad, but true," he laments. "Almost as sad as people not using smiles." At the conclusion, T.J. has measured up well, and earns his storytelling porn-porn. The play offers flexibility in casting, since the characters could be of either sex with just a small name adjustment. $3.75. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10048) THE SPIDER AND THE BEE. Play. Stephen Press. 5 m. & f. Bare stage. This delightful play for a wide age group is based on Jonathan Swift's story "Battle of the Books". It won the National Children's Theatre Playwrighting Competition, and has had many successful productions nationwide. The story is about a "battle" between a spider, who believes "we were born to think and the sciences and math are what inake us think," and a bee, who has "soared toward the sun, sung with the meadowlark and heard the thousand tongues of man and insects.'. The bee believes only in the glory, and power, of poetry. Other characters include a Tennite, a Butterfly and a Ladybug. A "trial" is held, during which the spider and the bee argue their points of view-and the other characters must decide who is the "winner" of this debate. The play is loaded with broad humor and fun, as well as food for thought. ,$4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21286) THE WILLIE TREE. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. 4 m., I f., extras. Pastoral set. Music by Alec Wilder. The adventures of a girl, a boy, and his friend, and a Willie Tree which is alive and inhabited by a character who invites us to join him. This requires us to involve ourselves completely with a song that Johnny sings to us, "Imagination's The Product I'm Selling". Received rave critical reviews in its London and Off-Broadway productions. Done by many major stock & school groups. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See p. 231.) (#25144)

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THE GINGERBREAD MAN. Play with music. David Wood. 4 m., 2 f. Int. While the Big Ones sleep, plenty of activity is taking place in the kitchen. The cuckooclock has lost his voice and might end up in the trash if he doesn't recover it. The salt shaker and the pepper mill try to help but run afoul of the Old Tea Bag. Danger also comes from a voracious mouse and the poison set out by the Big Ones to destroy the vennin. All is resolved by morning and the unobservant Big Ones are none the wiser. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#9640) THE IDEAL GNOME EXPEDITION. Play with music. David Wood. 6 m. and f. Ext. Two garden gnomes venture into the big, wide world to find a holiday islandone like the Big Ones go to. Unused to the hazzards of town, they have some near catastrophic experiences and, even though nothing turns out as expected, they agree that it was the best of holidays. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#10980) JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. Roald Dahl. Adapted by David Wood. 4 m., 2 f. plus optional children's chorus. Various sets. Wizzpopping wonder and fruit-filled fun abound in this stage adaption of Roald Dahl's greatest adventure story. James is a lonely young boy who is forced to work like a slave for the most revolting aunts in England. One day a mystical old man gives him a bag of magic. When he accidently spills it near the old peach tree, the most incredible things happen! "Pure fun for the whole family. A remarkable theatrical feat!" -Northampton Chronicle. "Move heaven and earth to see this wonderful adaptation!"-Sunday Mercury. "A first class show. If I were a child I'd scream for a ticket."-Birmingham Post. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#12907) AMBER WAVES. Drama. James Still. 3 m., 3 f. Unit set. See Index for description. THE INVENTION. Participation play. Brad Gromelski. 6 characters, extras. Ext. The play involves the efforts of the Narrator and three Fun Merchants to assemble a toy machine they have invented. Conflict arises when Kalibad, a toy spy, arrives and attempts to sabotage the invention. The main character in the show is The Audience, whose vocal and physical participation is necessary for the play to exist. The children of the audience shout warnings of Kalibad's arrival, carry and actually assemble the invention on stage, put together a cage and trap Kalibad inside of it, and cooperate in other tasks. If the children are successful in their efforts, they receive a surprise souvenir of their adventure. Playing time is forty-five minutes to one hour, depending upon the amount of participation desired. No stage is necessary. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#580) THE LAST CARNIVAL. (Little Theatre.) Ecological comedy with music. Stephen M. Press. 6 or more actors to play over 15 characters. Unit set. Everything at carnival Earth is run by Carny who only cares about fun and a good show. Performers include Paul Bunyan, Buffalo Bill, John Henry, Robert Fulton and Faustus who will sell you anything-from the Big Bomb to a cure for dandruff! Endangered species are mowed down at The Shooting Gallery and the Redwood Forests can be lost at the Wheel of Fortune. Other characters include the speedway Devil Driver, the Rotten Roll Band, Filthy Rora whose ectocyst act will surprise you, and the one who knows all-Miriam the Mentalist. All perform and pollute the earth, but it's done with crazy comedy and famous music. Who cares about tomorrow!? Ask the kid who comes to the carnival. "Haunting, magical, timeless and entertaining. . . . As you enter the strange world of this play, be prepared to be hustled, amused, shocked and enlightened."-Taconic Newspapers. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#14600) THE MAGIC DEVIL LION. Oriental adventure. Cleve Haubold. Music by James Hilt. 6 characters and chorus. Ext. In the empire of P'ing, during the P'ong dynasty, a young man is granted the chance to make unlimited wishes. Unfortunately, the young man begins to wish he had never wanted to wish. $5.00. (Royalty, $25-$25.) Music available. $6.50. (#15609) NOBODY LOVES A DRAGON. Musical. Music and lyrics by David Vos and Robert Gerlach. See Index for description. THE RED SHOES. Fantasy. Robin Short. Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen. 3 m., 3 f., extras. 2 exts. A magic pair of red shoes, which cause anyone who puts them on to dance incessantly, have fallen into the hands of Snogg, a gypsy mountebank. Accompanied by his little mute, Jemmo (a clown-mine, Snogg arrives in a

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Danish village where he meets Karen, a pretty orphan girl wearing clumsy wooden shoes. The gypsy tries to abduct her for his traveling show by enticing her with the pretty red shoes. As soon as she tries them on, her feet dance away with her and she is whisked out of town. Desperately, Karen tries to remove them; but they can only be unfastened by Snogg's magic buttonhook. The poor girl is forced to dance beyond all endurance for the crowd in the streets-while the gypsy pockets the profits. Finally, touched by Karen's sad plight, Jemmo betrays his wicked master and brings Karen's friend Nels, the cobbler's apprentice, to the rescue. After a dramatic chase, "the fox's tail is caught in his own trap." $4.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#105) SCHOOL INVADERS. Science fiction fantasy. John and Maureen Cieslinski, 4 m., 2 f., I m. voice. Int. While left behind to finish a science assignment, flighty Angelina Dorf encounters two little spacemen who've accidentally landed in the schoolyard. They're on their way to warn their planet of its demise and are being pursued by evil beings. Eventually several other interplanetary characters appear. Angelina, whose credibility is already low due to a wild imagination, gets involved in the escapade. Thus her work is neglected; but her teacher hardly notices as he becomes preoccupied with mysterious happenings around the school. Angelina helps to bring about inter-planetary justice (although no one knows it) and is rewarded by an instantly finished assignment. In fact, it's so well done, the teacher promises her another one for the next day! $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) . (#5665) TOM SAWYER. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Austin O'Toole. 4 m., 2 f., voice. Int.lExt. A literate adaption of the Mark Twain classic. Tom and his friend Huck witness a murder in a graveyard while trying to cure warts and adventure ensues. An exciting 'hide and seek' with a musical score that is' extremely well written and easy to perform. This version has carefully considered the young audience with a constant underscoring of musical themes that are original. yet 'familiar', helping the focus of the play. There are six songs in all. In manuscript. (Terms quoted on application, Music available on rental. See. p. 231.) Please state author when ordering. (#22142)

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Fantasy. Nicholas Stuart Gray. 7 characters. Simple sets. The classic story of a repulsive Beast who inhabits a strange and magical castle, and of the beautiful girl who is caught in the castle whose innocence and sympathetic affection for the Beast breaks a wicked spell and releases a handsome prince. "A delightfully fresh and simplified version."-London Daily Telegraph. $6.50. (Roy(#258) alty, $20-$20.) Please state author when ordering. ESCAPE TO FREEDOM. Play. Ossie Davis. 3 Black m., I Black f., 2 White m., I White f. Various sets. Escape to Freedom is very useful in an educational context for both Black and White children as a tool 10 teach them about slavery-and also about the importance of education. The story focuses on the boyhood of Frederick Douglass, born a slave and in later life an abolitionist and orator. Much of the plot centers on Fred's struggle to learn to read, the surest way to freedom. Eventually he attains his freedom and runs off disguised as a free sailor. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7056) THE ISLAND OF ANYPLACE. Play with music. Charles Marz. 4 m., 3 f. (to play 14 characters). Unit set. Since its first performance in 1990 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, thousands have been enthralled by this fantasy that introduces children to the magic of live theatre with a yarn about a fantastic journey and mythical creatures.Running time: one hour. "Any kid would be delighted to travel to The Island of Anyplace. "-Boston Globe. "The perfect antidote for too much TV." -Peggy Charren, Founder of Action for Children's Television. "The most engaging and amusing introduction to theatre that I know. Wonderful for children (and their parents!) of all ages."-Robert Brustein, A.R.T. Artistic Director. Sheet music included in the book; optional music cassette available. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Cassette, $32.50. (Music royalty, $10.00 per performance. (#11113) MARMALADE GUMDROPS. Fantasy. Carol Lauck. 3 m., 4 f. Int. Explores the imaginative world of 10 year old Walter K. Hampton. The play is simply set with actors as furniture in Wally's bedroom, yet moves swiftly through delightful experiences with wind-up dolls, and old fashioned melodrama, a circus, story-telling, and even a time machine. Led through fun filled antics by Governor Winthrop, his gumdrop popping desk, Libby Bibliophile, his instructive bookcase, Clair Beam, his not too bright lamp, Bedelia Cotter, his yawning bed, and Windsor, his stuffy chair, Wally concludes that, "Imagination is like a marmalade gumdrop; once you've' tasted it, you'll never settle for just plain." $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#685) NO MORE SECRETS: THE MUSICAL. Musical. Geraldine Ann Snyder and Paul Lenzi. 3 adults, 4 children (doubling possible). Compo int.!ext. An arresting play for children about child abuse. On the night that her mother has night duty at the hospital, Jenny brings a friend home to spend the night. Mother has asked a neighbor to keep an eye on the girls, but Jenny does not like the neighbor or the hugs, kisses, touches and the secrets the neighbor makes Jenny keep. We see the deviousness of child abusers and how easily children can be shamed into keeping hideous secrets. This spellbinding musical with a jolting conclusion toured two years before publica(#16064) tion. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) CIRCUS IN THE WIND. Comedy. Aurand Harris. 5 m., 2 f. Circus tent. Like every boy who can hear the circus in the wind, Johnnie is overjoyed when he's accidentally carried away in a clown's box. Grandpa comes after him, then he also hears the call of the circus. And the fun mounts when Grandma arrives looking for them. The plot incorporates audience participation and provides an active dramatic experience for the audience, as well as the actors. As a result, every child's wish comes true when for one happy hour he feels he is in the center ring performing with all the people of the big top! A tested and proven hit with children. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#5110) WISE MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. Play. Cleve Haubold. 7 m., extras. Five foolish members of the Elephant Scholars of the World heatedly argue the nature of the elephant, which they have never seen. In a hilarious scramble they head for India to prove their arguments. At an ancient temple where, helped by a mischievous parrot, a kindly native peddler and his son, they go from bewilderment and befuddlement to a chaotic comic climax which puts a delightful new ending to a favorite old legend. A musical score by James Hitt includes an opportunity for dances by the jungle animals. Simple staging. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#25159)

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*SPOT'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. Comedy. Based on the book by Eric Hill. Adapted by David Wood. 5 m., 2 f. Unit set. This inventive stage version of the popular Spot books provides an exciting introduction to theatre for small children. Within the simple plot of a birthday party with an entertainer present to delight the guests, a puppy and his animal friends teach and reflect on children's early experiences. Guests arrive, presents are given, games are played and thank-yous accompany goodbyes. The children in the audience are treated like party guests and they are encouraged to participate. There is abundant fun for actors, too, with singing, creative movement and optional acrobatics. Winner of the 2003 AATE Distinguished Play Award. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#21492) FANTASTIC MR. FOX. Roald Dahl. Adapted by David Wood. 5 m., 2 f. plus children's chorus. Various sets. A hilarious tale of ingenuity and trickery, this story by a leading children's author will have delighted audiences gripping their seats. Three farmers, just about the meanest men you will ever encounter, are determined to get rid of Mr. Fox. They are ready to shoot him, starve him or dig him out, but clever Mr. Fox has other plans. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#7967) INVISIBLE FRIENDS. Children's play. Alan Ayckbourn. 4 m., 3 f. Int. This delight by England's most successful comic dramatist is about an ordinary teenager named Lucy. Often ignored by her family, she invents a fantasy friend, Zara, and invites her to tea. Zara arrives with her idealized father and brother and explains how Lucy can make her real family disappear. Life becomes a wonderful fantasy until Lucy's dream family turns out to be a nightmare. "An extremely funny and deeply serious play which appeals to the irrepressible child in every adult and to the insufferable adult in every child."-London Sunday Times. "Ingenious and involving; '--Daily (#11120) Telegraph. $16.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) THE MEG AND MOG SHOW. Play with music. David Wood. Base? on the Meg and Mog books by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. Minimum of 7 m. and f. to play 15 characters; optional extras. Simple sets. Stories from five of the popular books are ingeniously combined in an exciting adventure tale. Meg, Mog and Owl set off to find the ingredients for a getting- rid-of-Steggy spell. Their path leads to a castle, a zoo and to the moon. Lively songs and plenty of audience participation ensure enchantment for all ages. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#14814) NUTCRACKER SWEET. Play with music. David Wood. 3 m., 3 f., I extra. Ext. The Nuts, led by the imposing Kernel Walnut, decide to show that Nuts are not "nutty." Unfortunately, William the Conker seems to demonstrate the opposite. He falls under the spell of wicked Professor Jelly, who nearly succeeds in glazing all of the Nuts before he is subdued in a large chocolate. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16115) THE SELFISH SHELLFISH. Play with music. David Wood. 7 characters. Ext. The ecological effects of pollution are seen from the perspective of shellfish in this delightfully told saga. Urchin, Mussel, Starfish, Seagull and the shellfish H.C. fight to survive an oil spill resulting from the collision of ships at sea. The audience is

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*JEREMY AND THE THINKING MACHINE. Musical. Janet Neipris and Barbara Greenberg. 3 m., 2 f., 3 m. or f., plus chorus (can be performed by children or young adults). Unit set. Here is a lively and charming story about Jeremy, the only son of the King and Queen of a mythical kingdom. Everyone in the kingdom thinks Jeremy is not too smart, including his parents. Jeremy has no confidence in himself. Everything he does seems to tum out badly-until F.G., his fairy godmother, gives him a thinking machine for his birthday. Overnight he turns into a kind of genius and everything changes. There is opportunity for dancing, gymnastics, and great fun if children build the thinking machine as part of the set. The audience leaves singing and humming the songs. Jeremey and the Thinking Machine was originally pro-

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begins a journey which is indeed enchanted, for in the midst of danger he finds unexpected friendship and laughter. Before he reaches Lira, Gustav meets two witches, whose charm makes them unlike any ever encountered, and befriends a coward named Alakazam who travels with him to the dark garden of Gothar the Giant. The journey ends when the surprising and secret ambition of Gothar is learned, and Alakazam achieves his deepest wish through an act of courage. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#7041) GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Adventure. Nicholas Stuart Gray. 5 m., 3 f. 4 int.ll ext. The prince is poor-in fact, his brother has to pretend to be his squire-but nonetheless proud. So that when a giant of a green knight enters and causes the king's sword to disappear from the wall, Gawain gamely chops off the knight's head. The knight does not take kindly to this, and requires that Gawain meet him in one year for a return match. Things are never quite what they seem along Gawain's quest, for the green knight takes all sorts of magical forms, including that of his brother. In the end all curses are removed and virtues triumph. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#9005) GO JUMP IN THE LAKE. Children's play. Elaine Berman. 5 m., 3 f. to play several characters. I set. Ferdinand is a boy who when he is mad can't talk-he fights instead. His mother suggests using his head and words to defend himself against teasing. But it doesn't work and he runs away after kicking a teacher. On the road he meets a skunk who can't produce a skunk smell and a nice girl dragon who can't breathe fire. The three see they have the same problem-difficulty with selfdefense. Two knights looking for dragons to slay-Ferdinand had met them previously-find him, the skunk and the girl dragon. The three are forced to learn to defend themselves. They succeed and Ferdinand saves the day by controlling his impulse to fight. A good lesson play for children. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#9062) THE HUNTERS AND THE HENWIFE. Fantasy. Nicholas Stuart Gray. 6 m., 2 f. Ints.!exts. or unit set. This fantasy takes place in the magical forest around mysterious Unicorn Mountain, where strange things happen-particularly, if you make the mistake of venturing into the woods after dark! There are spooky special effects, as well as loads of comic relief! And let us not forget Hemlock, the sorcerer. $7.95. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#10674) OLD KING COLE. Play. Ken Campbell. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. This.irreverent, knockabout farce has enjoyed enormous success in England, where children have screamed with laughter and excitement at the efforts of Faz and Twoo, a couple of likable rogues, as they strive to wreck the wedding of Princess Daphne Cole (daughter of that old king) to Cyril, sportiest of the king's fiddlers three. In this they are aided and abetted by an audience whose vociferous participation is vital to the machinations of the plot. Will the courageous Cyril defeat Baron Wadd (the weediest man who ever lived) and his minions Faz and Twoo, to win the hand of Princess Daphne? Of course he will! Note: English slang may be easily adapted to American slang. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#16986) THE OVERCOAT. Play. Nikolai Gogo!. Adapted by Tom Lanter and Frank S. Torok. 5 m., 3 f., minimum. Minimal scenery. Gogol himself is a principal character. He creates Akaky Akakievich-a poor clerk who wants a new overcoat-and then Gogol becomes the Chief Clerk, Akaky's boss, Petrovich, the tailor, and then the Very Important Person who refuses to help shivering Akaky when the precious garment is stolen. Fun, mime, fantasy, and the soaring' music of Tchaikovsky combine to create a superbly funny yet moving theatre piece. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#814) PRiMULA THE NONSHEEPDOG AND THE GREAT GREY WOLF. Play. Graham Holliday. 8 characters. Bare stage. Primula is quite definitely a non-sheepdog and frightened by everything she meets. This is unfortunate because she had been bought by a strict, demanding farmer to guard three very naughty sheep. How she succeeds and saves them from the clutches of the great grey wolf is the subject of this fast-paced, entertaining play for adults to perform to children. $4.50. (Royalty $35-$25) (#18207) THE PRINCE WHO WOULDN'T TALK. Comedy. James Brock. Aexible casting, 2 m., 6 f. Bare stage w. set pieces. An amusing and thought-provoking play and a lesson for adults. The King and Queen discover their son, the Prince, doesn't talk. They haven't realized they've never given him the chance. The pretty young maiden points this out, but they don't heed her. And so they have the Prince tested by three wizards. Of course, there's nothing wrong with him, but by now he's lost his confidence and is afraid to speak. When it seems all efforts have failed, the young maiden finds a way to make him speak. Announcing she's leaving the kingdom forever, the prince speaks out to stop her and all ends well. $5.25. (Royalty, $35$2~.) (#865) THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE FUTURE. ComedylDrama. James Still. See Index for description. SHERLOCK'S SECRET LIFE. Ed Lange. Music by Will Severin. (See Index for description.)

duced by the National Theatre, London, 2004. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4290) CALLISTO 5. Play. Alan Ayckbourn. 8 characters (some live, some on audio, some on video) Int. For eight years, young Jem has sat in space station Callisto 5, patiently awaiting the return of his parents. Eight years . . . with only Damaris the robot nanny and the disembodied voice of Iris the computer for company. Eight years of macaroni and cheese for breakfast, lunch and supper ... It's enough to drive a boy crazy-until a new, unexpected, and rather dangerous creature arrives on Callisto 5. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#4984) CROW & WEASEL. (All Groups.) Musical. Adapted by Jim Leonard, Jr. from the novel by Barry Lopez. Incidental music by John Luther Adams. 5-6 m., 3-4 f. Unit set. Crow and Weasel premiered at the Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis. Set in a mythical time when the world was new, it tells of two Animal People who travel to the Land Where Dreaming Begins. A coming-of-age story rich with implications for the way we live, it is a show for the whole family. "A rare work: simple yet complex, familiar yet different, entertaining yet instructional. . . . An entrancing piece of theatre, rich with message, color and universality."-Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Utterly captivating."-Skyway News. "If I were a kid today, I suspect Crow and Weasel . .. would be on my list of favorite [stories]."-Minnesota Public Radio. $6.50. Note: Producers must use the music written for the play; write for information. Optional CD with fly and music cues, $150. (#5903) DREAMS OF ANNE FRANK. Play. Bernard Kops. Music by David Burman. 4 m., 4 f. Winner of the Time Out award for best children's production during its London premiere, this imaginative play with music de-mystifies and humanizes Anne Frank's story of tremendous bravery. "A dramatic masterpiece for children."-Time Out. "Celebrates Anne Frank's vitality, while at the same time reminding us of the evils . . . that led to her death and that of millions like her."-What's On. "Marvelous. "-Guardian. "Kops is an eloquent and uninhibited writer with a versatile yet distinctive voice."-City Limits. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) Vocal Score available on rental: $15 per performance plus a $25.00 deposit. (#6752) EVERYONE IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING. Musical. Script and lyrics by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. Music by Victoria Bond. See Index for dexcription. THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS. Musical. David Paterson and Steve Liebman. Based on the book by Katherine Paterson. See Index for description. MR. A'S AMAZING MAZE PLAYS. Play. Alan Ayckbourn. 8 characters. Unit set. Fans of his Ernie's Incredible Illucinations are sure to enjoy this story about Suzy who lives in a cottage with her mother and her dog Neville. Suave but sinister Mr. Accousticus moves into the big house across the street and Neville suddenly loses his bark. Suzy is certain the new neighbor is responsible -so she and Neville search his house. What happens next is up to the audience. "Contains mystery, suspense and imagination." -Guardian. "Kept a young audience spell-bound for 90 minutes with dazzling display of imaginative and technical virtuosity. On one level [it] is a charming children's story, [but there are] traces of the master's pungent humor.-Yorkshire Evening Press. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15233) SAVE THE HUMAN. Play with Music. Based on the story by Tony Husband and David Wood. Book and Lyrics by David Wood. 'Music by Peter Pontzen and David Wood. Lyrics for "Rock 'n' Roar" by Tony Husband. Large, flexible cast; minimum of 8 m. and f. Various simple sets. Long, long ago humans ruled the world, but they made a terrible mess of it. Wars and pollution nearly destroyed all of them. Now the animals are in charge and they have started a worldwide campaign to save humans from extinction. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#20945) THE TALE OF THE MANDARIN DUCKS. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Katherine Paterson and Stephanie Tolan. Music and Lyrics by Steve Liebman. Based on the book by Katherine Paterson. See Index for description. ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP. Fantasy. Elizabeth B. Dooley. Dramatized from "The Thousand and One Nights." 8 characters, 8 extras. Scenes: a street, a cave, a palace. A magician attempts to deceive Aladdin with a magical lamp from which a genie materializes upon command. But Aladdin outwits him, and employs the genie to turn him into a prince and gain the princess for his wife. The magician recovers the lamp, but Aladdin rescues his princess. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$15.) (#211) THE ADVENTURES OF A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON. Play. Adapted by Alfred Bradley from the stories by Michael Bond. 5 m., 3 f. plus 6 m., 3 f. extras (doubling possible). Anyone familiar with Paddington, who was found in Paddington Station by the Browns and adopted by them, will welcome this play. These stories have been favorites with children for years and this series of playlets has been woven together to make a play that will delight young (and not-so-young) audiences everywhere. Some of his notorious adventures are dramatized here-with plenty of scope for audience participation in the action and the singing. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Music available, $7.95. (#3019) THE ENCHANTED JOURNEY. Fantasy. Cristina L. White, 4 m., 4 f. A prediction warning Prince Gustav of giants, witches, and danger does not prevent him from traveling to the faraway Kingdom of Lira whet} he learns his help is needed. He

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*ANATOMY OF GRAY. Jim Leonard, Jr. See Index for description. BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA. (All Groups.) Children's play with music. Katherine Paterson and Stephanie S. Tolan. Music by Steve Liebman. 3 m., 6 f., extras. Unit set. This powerful adaptation, supported by a lyrical score, focuses the humor, warmth and emotional intensity of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Award-winning novel. Jesse, alienated from the pragmatism of his family and rural Virginia culture, draws and dreams of becoming something special. Leslie, the new girl from the city and the ultimate outsider, opens a world of imagination, art and literature for him. Together they create Terabithia, a fantasy kingdom where they are safe from those who don't understand them. Their friendship grows as Jesse's world expands. When tragedy strikes, the strength gained in Terabithia takes Jesse forward on his own and lets him share the magic of his dreams. $7.00. (Royalty, $75-$50.) See script for details about music. (#4200) NATURE'S HOUSE. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Donal Davoren. Music by Frank Nelson. 2 m., 7 f. or 4 m., 5 f. Unit set or bare stage. Original songs add fun and impact to a story about an imaginative girl's visit to a sorcerer's unusual abode where she discovers important things about our planet's ecosystem. The play may be performed with adults and young people or entirely by children with imaginative costumes and hand props if desired. Running time: 45 - 55 minutes. An audio tape is available with all lyrics on one side as an aid to learning the songs, and background music on the other side for the performance if a musician isn't available. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Music tape: $32.50. Sheet Music, $10.00. (Music Royalty, $15 per performance.) (#15974) THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER. Fantasy. Rob Dearborn. 9 characters. The classic tale updated with contemporary language and themes. A super-industrious ant has opened a branch ant hole when a "hippy-type" grasshopper moves in next door. Ant resists grasshopper's offers to join him and his friends. For his diligence Ant is promoted. With his two assistants Ant prepares for winter. Grasshopper, naturally, doesn't believe in winter or the warnings of Ant and even the attack of hungry Spider fails to daunt his optimism. But winter comes; and Grasshopper, who has no food or shelter and Ant, who has no friends and never had any fun, discover there is more to life than they thought. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#228) DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Julie Mandel. See Index for description. THE LAST OF THE LEPRECHAUNS. Comedy with music. Sister Marcella Marie Holloway. Music by Sister De La Salle McKeon. 5 m., 4 f., chorus. 2 simple sets. The Leprechauns prophesied Princess Cathy and Prince Michael of Ireland would marry. But Lady Grabitall schemes to have her daughter marry him and drives infant Cathy and her nurse, Nora, into hiding after Cathy's mother's death. Witzy, Leprechaun leader, plans to set things right and does. Cathy and Michael marry and as a reward the King gives the Royal Forest to the Leprechauns as a place to live. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14036) THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER. Fantasy. Dorothy Holloway. Dramatized from the story by Hans Christian Andersen. 9 characters, 6 to 24 extras. A playroom. A broken tin soldier promises the paper doll that he will not let her be thrown away. He is ambushed but comes back to free the paper doll from the clutches of the jackin-the-box, steadfast to the end. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#21772)

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and many other gifts are given her by the Beast. But it is her final, fearless expression of affection for the Beast that breaks the spell and returns him to the form of the handsome Prince. A very picturesque and moving version of the famous tale. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Please state author when ordering. (#4021) THE GOLDEN GROTTO. Play. Cleve Haubold. Music James Hilt. 4 m., 6 f. Int. A classic legend is turned upside-down. Through the spell of a bumbling magician, a happy frog is transformed into a shy prince with a head-cold. Princess Blanda and her hand-maidens lose a golden ball in the grotto. This infuriates her father, King Ludwig, and involves everyone in a riotous series of misadventures as they attempt to retrieve the ball, calm the king and correct the wizard's increasingly confused conjuring. The witless wizard, a worried nurse-maid, a kindly-uncle sort of dragon and a Valkyrie join in the adventure, which ends with a surprising series of magical transformations and a joyous finale. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#62) GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS. Comedy. John Morley. 10 principals, dancers, chorus. Simple sets. The well-known fairy tale has been expanded into a more elaborate adventure story. Goldilocks is the daughter of a vibrant and often hilariously outrageous circus owner. But the circus is doing badly; they are plagued by a rival troupe run by villainous Benjamin Black. They need a really original animal act. A good fairy disguised as a bareback rider saves the day when Goldilocks encounters the three Bears and they become circus stars. Black plans to seize the Bears and many adventures ensue. The audience is encouraged to help as the story rolls along to a happy ending. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please sta.te author when ordering. (#9145) THE LION WHO WOULDN'T. Book and lyrics by Gifford W. Wingate. Music by Allan J. Friedman. 6 m., 4 f., optional extras. Ext. A bookish lion, bored with circus life, refuses to renew his contract. His packing is interrupted by children who offer to help him rehearse his secret ambitions. Using his boxes for sets, the children set the stage for the lion's dreams-heroic self-portraits as baseball pitcher, teacher, sea-captain, detective, and film-star. When each dream dissolves in failure, the lion is persuaded to return to the role he plays best-circus star. $4.50. (Royalty, $20$20.) (#14090) THE PLOTTERS OF CABBAGE PATCH CORNER. Audience participation musical. David Wood. 6 m., 4 f. I set. The insects live in a busy world in the garden. Their existence, however, is always overshadowed by humans. Infuriated by constant "spraying", Slug Greenily and Maggot call for rebellion, strikes, and ruination of the garden. The others oppose this and war i5. declared. Fortune swings back and forth in a series of bitter campaigns. The garden goes to ruin, and the humans decide to build a garage on it. This brings the insects to their senses. They combine to restore the garden to its original beauty and thus preserve their home. $8.95. PianoNocal score, $15.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#18012) RICHARD HARDING BUSH, OR THE ROCOCO COCO BEAN. Fantasy. Cleve Haubold. 7 m., 3 f., extras. The King is knitting a zebra, a rococo coco bean plays music, and an extraordinarily talented bush plots the downfall of diabolical Inigo Snurl, the most ineffective villain since Captain Hook. The Royal Gardens are the setting for this imaginative play in which King Trembley and Richard Harding Bush, a remarkable inhabitant of the gardens, outwit conniving Prime Minister Snurl. Queen Rotunda, her dour handmaiden Persimmia, the pompous Doctor Lipfondly, and a pair of would-be revolutionaries add to the fun, which is climaxed by a royal masquerade party. $4.50. Music, $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20; Music Royalty, $5.00.) (#20031) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CURIOUS ADVENTURE OF THE CLOCKWORK PRINCE. Cleve Haubold. Music by James Alfred Hitt. See Index for description. SIR SLOB AND THE PRINCESS. Play. George Garrett. 6 m., 4 f., extras. Int. d About how a kitchen scullion wins the beautiful Princess Rosebud. The King has decided it is time for his daughter to marry. After setting a test himself, which all the prospective suitors easily pass, he puts the problem in the hands of the Magician. The test is so difficult that nobody wants to try it. Nobody except Slob who goes off into the woods with his talking horse. There he encounters many dangers. Through ignorance and luck, and an honest nature, he pratfalls past dangers and stumbles over all obstacles to win the hand of the Princess. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#982)

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SAMMY'S MAGIC GARDEN. Musical. Kjartan Poskitt. See Index for description. (#21628) ALADDIN. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. Mixed cast of ten, children's and adult choruses. Simple sets. This delightful version of Aladdin and his Magic Lamp is told in time-honored pantomine fashion with all the well-loved characters and Aladdin himself and, of course, the well-hated character of Abanazar, the evil magician, who provides plenty of opportunity for boos and hisses from the audience! Easily staged settings are alternated with front-curtain scenes allowing the production to be as elaborate or simple as facilities permit. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#3896) THE ALCHEMIST'S BOOK. Play. Kathy Hurley. 7 m., 3 f. Compo int.lext. In this prize-winning play two gypsy villains plot to steal an alchemy book from an alchemist. Their plan is to use the book to work evil magic. Their plot is foiled-for luckily for the alchemist, he has hired two rascal cats as apprentices. These two thwart the villain's plan. All ends well and the gypsy king allows his daughter to marry Robin, the young apprentice. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#212) BAD DA Y AT BLACK FROG CREEK. Musical. Book and lyrics by John Gardiner and Fiz Coleman. Music by Andrew Parr. See Index for description. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Fantasy. Jesse Beers, Jr. 10 characters. Beauty is enamored with a handsome prince whom she saw in an apparition. Her love draws her to the castle of the unspeakable Beast, which she enters unafraid. A magic mirror

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THIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN. Play. Alan Ayckbourn. "7 m., 4 f. I set. Fred is waiting for the show to start. The Players arrive: Nell, Bethany, Talitha, Jenkin, Albert and a strange mechanized creature, Kevin on Keyboards. They tell Fred that they are slaves of the Storytellers who control their every move. Once they had a champion, Flavius, who nearly managed to wrest storytelling control back into their hands where it belongs. The Storytellers arrive: Great Aunt Repetitus, Uncle Erraticus and Uncle Oblivious. The Players react fearfully and the stories begin. First an inaccurate version of Hansel and Gretel is told by Erraticus. An equally eccentric rendering of The Frog Prince by Oblivious follows. During this, Fred is identified as the long lost Flavius. In the third tale, Repetitus tries to deslToy Flavius and nearly

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CINDERELLA. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Edna Kuder. Music and Lyrics by Peter Larson. See Index for description. MOTHER GOOSE'S GOLDEN CHRISTMAS. Play with music. David Wood. 6 m., 6 f. (with doubling). Various sets. Comedy, adventure and lively original songs combine to make this wonderful stage adaptation of classic fairy tales a delight for (#15722) young audiences. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) OLD FATHER TIME. Play with mll'lic. David Wood. Minimum of 12 m. and f. to play 30 characters. Simple sets. Old Father Time lives in Big Ben and makes sure things happen on time. One day the inconceivable happens: Big Ben stops! The action chases near and far through the centuries until a wicked sorceress helps restart the magnificent clock. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#16992) ROCKASOCKA. Musical. Book and Lyrics by John Gardiner. Music by Andrew Parr. See Index for description. BLUNDER, BLUEBELL, BABY AND BIRDIE. Drama. Gosta Bredefelt, Lars Hansson, Lise-Lotte Nilsson, Suzanne Osten and Lena Soderblom. Translated by Catherine Enge and Peter Book. 6 m., 6 f. (doubling possible). Simple compo int.lext. The most successful children's play in Scandinavia concerns four typical children in a technological society who are painfully vulnerable to pressures from their environment. The parents are even more trapped by social games and roles than their children. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Music composed by Gunnar Edander can be supplied upon receipt of a music rental fee of $10 per performance. Plea~e advise us of number of performances and exact dates. (#4039) CINDERELLA. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 12 characters and chorus. Simple sets. Follows the famous story in a straightforward version: though the traditional pantomine additions are introduced, the narrative line remains the salient feature: the arrival of the stepmother and her two horrific daughters; Cinderella's maltreatment in the kitchen; the faithful Buttons; Cinderella's kindness to the old woman who turns out to be the fairy godmother; the handsome Prince and the Ball and all the rest of the famous story. May be staged very simply if necessary. The position and style of the songs are indicated in the text, but the choice is left to the director. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#341) THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES. Comedy. Charlotte Chorpenning. 8 m., 4 f. or 12 f. Int.lext. The Emperor of China cares for nothing but clothes. The minister of the robes plays on this weakness to rob the royal weavers and persecute the Empress. Two rogues convince the Emperor they can weave a cloth which cannot be seen by anyone unfit for the position he holds. Everyone is afraid to confess that he cannot see the new clothes the Emperor orders. The resulting comic situations enable the rogues to save the Empress and the weavers and expose the villainy of the minister. The Emperor proudly walks in procession clad in nothing but a straight little shirt to show his people the glory' of his new clothes. $4.50. (Royalty, $25$25.) Music $4.50. (Music Royalty, $4.50.) (#397) HIJACK OVER HYGENIA. Play with music. David Wood. 8 m., 4 f., (with doubling). 3 int.lext. A delightful play with simple sets. Hygenia is the cleanest kingdom in the world. Disease is unknown. But one day a villainous measle enters illegally and starts bringing out the inhabitants in spots. It is all the plot of Doctor Spicknspan who----owing to the pervading healthiness-is always out of work. Things look serious but the plot is foiled by the gallantry of the Royal staff. Peace, health and cleanliness are restored. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) PianoNocal Score,

succeeds, but Flavius vanquishes the Storytellers forever. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

HIAWATHA. Adapted by Michael Bogdanov from "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Index for description. THE MARVELOUS STORY OF PUSS IN BOOTS. Fantasy. NicholasStudart Gray. Illustrated dramatization of the fairy tale. 11 characters. Var. sets. In this version Puss' boots were fashioned by a cobbler for the princess' doll before the princess was enchanted by the ogre. And the ogre is an amiable wanderer in the play until his dander is roused in the last act. But Puss outwits him and saves the royal entourage, the princess, and his master. In Manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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THE MAGIC APPLE. Adventure with music. Glenn Hughes. Dramatized from one of the Grimms' fairy tales. 11 characters, extras. 2 scenes. Three soldiers sleeping in a woods are presented with magic gifts: a cloak, a purse, a hom. The haughty princess takes them from the soldiers. Her meanness and another event cause her nose to grow and grow and grow. She learns humility and a strong moral before things are righted. $3.75. Complete vocal and piano score published separately, $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#15031) NEW LAMPS FOR OLD. Play. Nicholas Stuart Gray. 11 characters. Var. sets. In Baghdad long ago lived a widowed laundress and her idle, verse-making son. The Caliph's Grand Vizier importunes the boy to enter a cave and rescue a lamp with a genie inside. But forewarned, the boy does not tum the lamp over to the evil Vizier, but instead uses it to provide the three impossible wishes of the princess and thus win her hand. The princess married is more unhappy than unmarried. So she knowingly gives away the old lamp for a new on~ to a peddlar-the Vizier in disguiseto make the dreamer boy prove his mettle without magic. And this he does by rescuing the princess and proving that love lends courage to conquer all. $16.00. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#16609) THE POET AND THE RENT. Play. David Mamet. 8 m., 3 f., extras (doubling possible). Simple set-pieces. David, a young poet behind in his rent and about to be evicted, improvises poems for money in the park. He is scorned by the public and he falls in love with a young woman who will have nothing to do with him. He becomes a nightwatchman and is robbed by thieves talk him into joining them. Apprehended by the police and jailed, he is visited by a man who heard his poemsan ad executive who offers David a job writing ad copy for Wacko, noxious gook for cars. Faced with his first existential choice, he decides to languish in jail rather than promote Wacko. The young woman pays his bail and rent. She still finds him socially undesirable, but feels all good citizens should support the arts. A better man, David returns to his pen and paper. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18650) THE TREASURE MAKERS. Audience participation play with music. Book by Patricia Sternberg, Lyrics and Music by Matthew Granovetter. 2 m., 3 f. plus 2 to 6 m. or f. Simple set. At his recycling center Sailor Mike shows ~veryone how to use "The Muscle", his term for imagination. Mrs. Zee's art committee descend on the center, calling it a junk yard that should be condemned for a parking lot. But her daughter is fascinated by the place and the creative things people make there. A series of misunderstandings land Mike in jail ,and the center is scheduled to close. The trash-pickers come up with a unique idea to save Mike: they will show Mrs. Zee that there is treasure in trash if you only know where to look. The audience is invited to participate in a trash sculpture contest. Finally, the sculpture is proclaimed pop art, an old secret comes out, a family is reunited-and Mike and the trash-pickers regain their recycling center. Music anQ lyrics published in the script. $4.50. (Royal-

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THE WONDERFUL STORY OF MOTHER GOOSE. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 11 principals, extras and chorus. Simple sets. Combines the traditional tale of Mother Goose with spirited songs and dances (to be chosen by the director). Plenty of opportunity for audience participation, led by irascible Billy, Mother Goose's son. Fun-packed action centers on the wicked squire'S bailiffs and Priscilla, the Magical Goose, instantly endears herself to all. And Fairy Harmony succeeds in helping good overcome evil and happiness prevails once more. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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HOW THE CHICKEN HAWK WON THE WEST. Play. Gifford W. Wingate, music by Mitch Kendrick. 7 m., 5 f. Ext. or unit set. A chicken hawk, unhappy that he is seldom visited at his home in a zoo, attempts to improve his image. Chief among the devices he uses to lure visitors to his compound is a dramatic rendering of "The Winning of the West," in which he features himself in scenes as "King Chicken Hawk," builder of the nation's first railroad; as "William Allen Chicken Hawk," editor of the first frontier newspaper; and as "Judge Roy Bird-Law West of the Pecos." A group of children and the adults who brought them are induced to play the supporting parts. History takes a beating, but so does the ego of the Chicken Hawk, who accepts at the end and identity closer to reality. $4.50. Music is published in the script. (Royalty, $20-$20.)' (#547) LET'S GO TO THE MOON. Fantasy. Conrad Seiler. 7 m., 5 f. (children or adults). Int.lext. A boy named Bill loves outer space stories and hates fairy tales. Then one day Captain Extraordinary, owner of a space ship, appears. He takes Bill on a trip to . the moon. The Captain goes off on other business, leaving Bill alone. He meets various fairy-tale characters who live on the moon because earth people don't believe in them any more. Then, the awful Man in the Moon appears. The fairy-tale characters disperse in fright. Bill tries to run away too-and then wakes up. It is his birthday and there is a surprise party and all the guests are dressed just like the fairytale people in his dream! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#14067) ON THE TIP OF -MY TONGUE. Mystery-Fantasy. Austin O'Toole. 4 m., 8 f., voices. Ext. Two boys, harassed by summer chores, decide to run away from home. They stop to rest at a clearing in the woods. The boys are awakened by hand-puppet characters who issue mysterious warnings of trouble ahead. Soon the boys are surrounded by easily-recognizable villains, heroes and heroines from children's literature, who mistake them for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Unable to

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ALVIN FERNALD, MAYOR FOR A DAY. Comedy-adventure for high school or middle school actors. Clifford B. Hicks. 8 m., 4 f. 1 set. "A vote for Alvin is a vote for action!" That was Alvin Fernald's campaign slogan. And action is exactly what Riverton gets when Alvin takes over as Mayor for a day. This funny, fast-paced twoact play gives each actor at least one starring scene. Most important, it offers pointed insights into human behavior-juvenile and adult. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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BABES IN THE MAGIC WOOD. Play with music. David Wood. 12 m. and f. Various sets. The British master of children's theatre has adapted this enchanting fairy tale into a lively stage adventure with charming, original songs. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#4280)

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escape, they undergo a farcical trial in which they fail to prove they aren't Tom and Huck. Longing for home, they accept their fates, but are saved in a challenge which proves their true identities. And, they are discovered to be the heroes of a brand new story being written at this very moment! $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#17631) THE PAPERTOWN PAPERCHASE. Musical. Book, lyrics and music by David Wood. 12 characters (doubling possible), extr<\s. The Salamander, a sort of dragon, is in trouble with the Fireflies because he is unable to create a fire. To redeem himself he is sent on a mission to burn down Papertown. The townspeople gather their resources to meet the threat: even the two petty criminals. Blotch and Carbon, are released to join the forces. In the end Salamander, who has fallen for timid little Tishoo, joins the inhabitants in thwarting the Fireflies, and Papertown is saved from destruction. S8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) PianoNocal Score $7.50. (#18003) PUSS IN BOOTS. Fantasy. Rowena Bennett. 12 characters. Simple sets. A most excellent dramatization of the old fairy tale. Puss acquires the magical boots of the ogre, and with them cleverly plots to bring about a meeting between his master and a beautiful princess who is traveling through the land. He outwits the fiendish ogre, breaks the spell upon the castle and those within, delivers the palace to his master, and prepares for the royal wedding. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Please state author (#864) when ordering.

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HANSEL AND GRETEL. Fantasy. Lillian and Robert Masters. 13 characters. Various sets. With a bare cupboard and no food, the stepmother contrives to leave Hansel and Gretel deep in the woods, to shift for themselves. Their playmates set off in search of them, but are captured by Witch Wicked and turned into a gingerbread fence. Hansel and Gretel are also caught, but outwit the witch and break her spell. The stepmother arrives remorseful, and all go home laden with baskets of jewels. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#525) THE IMPERIAL NIGHTINGALE. Comedy. Nicholas Stuart Gray. Adapted from the story by Hans Christian Andersen. 9 m., 4 f., extras. 2 Int.l2 Ext. Played with great success in England. This is a delightfully different version of the tale about the magical nightingale upon whose song or lack of song depended the Emperor's life (#11630) or death. $7.85. (Royalty, $20-$20.) ONCE UPON A CLOTHESLINE. Aurand Harris. Cast: Pinno and Pinette, two clothes-pins; Two Birds; Black Spider; Mrs. Ant and her little son, Junior; Mr. Cricket; Dr. BettIe; Mr. Grasshopper; and his Three Little Grasshoppers. Unit set. This play must be read to be appreciated. It's humor is contagious. The preparations for Pinette's rescue from the Black Spider are hilarious, and the actual accomplishment of the rescue is a superb bit of high showmanship ..$4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#17624) PINOCCHIO AND THE INDIANS. Fantasy. Aurand Harris. Dramatized from "Pinocchio in Africa" by Cherubini, translated by Angelo Patri. 13 characters, extras. Var. sets. Resolving to make his fortune in America, Pinocchio swims the Atlantic and lands among the Indians. He soon discovers that a buffalo hunt, an Indian war, and a test by fue are worse than going to school, and yearns to return home. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#18075) RUMPELSTILTZKlN. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 9 or 10 m, 2 or 3 f., extras. Simple sets. In this adaptation of the Grimms' story, children are discovered playing 'Ladder-words', changing one world to another, a letter at a time, retaining an actual word during each change. Grettle says she can change 'Hax' into 'gold'. Unfortunately, the King, whose gold has been mysteriously disappearing, hears this and mistakes it for an actual boast. He orders Grettle to work the change, or she will lose her head, despite the Prince's protests who's in love with her. She's shut in the Tower to perform her task, and Rumpelstiltzkin, the gnome, offers to help her-at a price. The play then follows the gnome's defeat by the guessing of his secret name and, despite other complications from the wicked Baron and his henchmen, all ends happily. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#20116)

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CINDERELLA: THE TRUE STORY. Musical. Book by Henry Fonte and Victoria Holloway. Music by Lee Ahlin. See Index for description. JACK THE LAD. Play with music. David Wood, Dave Arthur and Toni Arthur. Music by Dave Arthur and Toni Arthur. 6 m., 4 f., 3 children, I dog. Ext. To celebrate the eightieth birthday of Jack the Lad, the senior gypsy in the encampment, "Jack" songs and tales (like Little Jack Homer and Jack and the Beanstalk) are enacted with singing, dancing, a muriuning play, a shadow-mime and puppetry. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#12589) PIPPI LONGSTOCKING: The Family Musical. Based on the novel by Astrid Lindgren. Music and Lyrics by Sebastian. Stage adaptation by Staffan Go testem. (See Index for description.) THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Adventure. Wilbur Braun. 13 characters. Int. His adventures ranging from the white-washing scene through the murder, the discovery of hidden treasure, the rescue of Becky Thatcher, and the demise of Injun Joe. The dialogue is the most apt of any version of the classic story. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#205) DADDY LONG LEGS. Comedy. Jean Webster. See Index for description. DAYS ON END. Play for young people. Mark Bucci and Donna Jones. 7 m., 4 f., 2 m. or f. This delightful 45-minute play takes us back to the time just before the Earth is c;eated, when Day and Night appear with their seven children (the days of the week) to behold the wonders of creation. The unexpected entrance of an eighth day and of the menacing, villainous No-Thing bring the action to a peak of breathtaking suspense, climaxed by the startling revelation of who the eighth day really is. When we learn his identity, we immediately know that he is the day we all have waited for. The enchanting play's laughter, poignancy and charm will completely captivate any audience. In manuscript, $25.00. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6620) DICK WHITTINGTON. Pantomime. Norman Robbins. 12 m. and f., chorus. Simple sets. This version features more female roles than usual. In addition to the fairy, Alice and sometimes the title role, the Sultan is a Sultana and there is a female slave instead of a vizier. This bright and bouncy pantomime should create no presentation problems for average drama groups as the scenes alternate between full sets and lane scenes, allowing ample time for scene and costume changes. It is custom-made for production in average halls, but can be spread out to fill the largest theatres. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#6699) THE GHOST OF THE CHINESE ELM. Fantasy. Adele Gordon. 1m., 3 f. and 9 pixies m. or f. About Jennifer, her dog, Roger and a group of pixies, particularly one named Twink who steals Roger's name, refusing to return it. Jennifer invokes the Ghost's help, and the contest for the name is on. If Jennifer finds the name by cockcrow, Twink loses his identity as a pixie and must go back with Jennifer; if the pixies prevent her from finding it, the dog loses his name and must remain with the pixies. (The dog finds his name just in time.) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#9632) THE GRAND OLD DUKE OF YORK. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 8 m., 5 f., chorus. Simple ints.lexts. Set on conventional lines with a bad-tempered fairy, a good witch, knockabout scenes, but based on a less usual subject. The wicked Baron Snatcher and his henchmen overthrow the benign Grand Old Duke with the help of the wicked fairy Maleficent. But the Gypsy boy aided by good witch Old Mother Shipton thwart the Baron's plans and all ends happily. The Duke discovers his longlost son in Colin who, in tum, gets the girl, Melody. Even Maleficent turns over a new leaf. Easily staged sets with front-curtain scenes give the producer scope to be as elaborate or simple as facilities permit. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#9156)

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AND NOW MIGUEL. Children's musical. Book and Lyrics by Jim Hughes. Music by Will Graveman. 9 m., 5 f. (minimum). See Index for description.

ORPHAN TRAIN. Musical. Susan Nanus and Barbara Anselmi. See Index for description. (#17688) THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Valerie Smith. Music by Diane King. See Index for description. (#21736) DONALD AND THE DRAGON. Adventure. Dorothy Carr. 7 m., 7 f., extras. 3 int., 2 ext. (can be simplified). A fierce but misunderstood Dragon learns about friendship when the crabby old Prime Minister sends Donald to kill him, or be killed. The lovely young Princess escapes the confmement of palace life and joins in the adventure too-with the help of mischievous Terry. Children and adults will warm to the host of engaging characters who fill this story with laughter and excitement. $8.95. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#6170) HUMPTY DUMPTY. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 9 m., 5 f. Simple sets. Mother Goose has insured the smooth running of Nursery-rhyme land for years. The king's on his throne, everyone's happy and Humpty Dumpty is still in his egg on the palace wall. Then he has a great fall and mayhem is unleashed. Grimm, repulsive henchman to a wicked sorcerer, is sent in search of victims for his master's transformation machine and Florimund's right-hand men are no match for him. Lovable, naive humpty loses his magic at the critical time and unwittingly brings about the collapse of Nursery-rhyme Land. But all is not lost: the evil ones get their come-uppance and the good their partners-and Humpty has his magical powers restored. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#10683) JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. Pantomine. John Morley. 14 principals, extras, singers, dancers. Simple sets. The folk tale is embellished with fresh touches as the legend of the Sword in the Stone is reflected in Jack's methods, the Dame has a tremendous fight with the Giant's evil henchman and the original Vegetable Fairy displays her usual Power for Good (she is frequently overly optimistic and bungles her efforts). The climatic contest between Jack and the Giant is described in detail and special interpolations include an updated version of a famous Grimaldi comedy 'baby-bathing' scene. The pantomine offers opportunities for elaborate staging, but can be produced quite simply. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#12008)

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help of Vasaleno's gypsies. In true pantomime tradition, Jack manages to prove his innocence, the badies are out-witted and all ends happily. This pantomime offers opportunities for elaborate staging or it can be produced simply. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#14686) MING LEE AND THE MAGIC TREE. Aurand Harris. 9 m., 6 f., extras. Bare stage. Performed in traditional Chinese style with a Chorus. Property Man and honorable actors. Tells the story of a Prince who, if he can find a happy man, can marry the Princess of the Stars. In his search he gives Ming Lee, a stonecutter, a circle of wishes, each of which Ming Lee thinks will make him happy, but he discovers fine hats do not make a fine head. A flexible cast, colorful characters, humor and action make this imaginative and poetic playa treat for audience and actors. $4.50. (Royal(#15105) ty, $20-$20.) ONLY A GAME. Fantasy. Carol Younghusband. 6 m., 2 f. (principals), 12 other roles (doubling possible). Bare stage. Ben, Toby and Jonathan are playing a board game. When Ben cheats he is transported to the Land of the Dotties. Sad and alone, he befriends Rock and his nephew Chip. They discover that Ben can return home only if he lights up the Five Magic Stones. The Rhythmic Dice, the Joker, the Master Crossword and Jig-saw each present Ben with a puzzling test which he must solve within a time limit set by the King. Opposed by master cheats F1im-F1am and Hokum, Ben lights four of the stones and then learns that Rock is in trouble. If he helps Rock he may run out of time in the final test and may never get home-unless the spirit of the Games is heard. This exciting and funny play with a moral delights (#16957) children aged 4 to 9. $8.95. (Royalty $60-$40.) THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. Fantasy. Bette Butterworth. Adapted from Robert Browning's classic tale. 15 characters, optional extras. The miserly town council refuses to pay the piper for having rid the town of rats by his enticing music. So the Piper plays, and leads the children of the town off into the mountains. The mayor's remorse is finally demonstrated by his beneficence to a crippled orphan, and the Piper returns with the children, to the joy of all. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, (#18069) $20-$20.) TOM SAWYER'S TREASURE HUNT. Adventure. Charlotte B. Chorpenning. 15 characters, optional extras. Ext. This version of the classic story begins near the secret cave. Here Tom and Huck come in search of treasure; here they witness the murder by Injun Joe; and here, after a perilous time, Tom and Becky are rescued from the cave; Injun Joe is unmasked, and the treasure is discovered. $4.50. (Royal(#1085) ty, $20-$20.)

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE. Musical. Sheila Ruskin and David Wood. 9 m., 5 f., extras. 1 set. Based on Lear's Owl and the Pussycat who went to sea. Fashioned to form a single tale with songs and mimed interludes. The Owl and the Pussycat sail to the land where the Bong Tree grows, where, after many adventures, the Plum Pudding Flea is foiled and the two protagonists are married by the Turkey and live happily ever after. "The jolliest, prettiest, funniest and cleverest concoction for children to hit London for many a long Christmas." -London Evening News. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) Piano and Vocal Score. $12.50. (#815) PINOCCHIO Family entertainment. John Morley. 14 principals (doubling possible), children's and adult chorus. Simple sets. This delightful dramatization of Pinocchio's transformation from puppet to real boy has all the charm and delightful characters of the original tale. It is easy to stage with any size company; many music and production suggestions are included for Christmas and year-round presentations. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18151) NEW CLOTHES FOR THE EMPEROR. Comedy. Nicholas Stuart Gray. 11 m., 3 f. Ints.lexts. (may be simply suggested). a version of the famous story-actually, more of a free adaptation. The essential plot has been retained; but the author has moved the locale from China to an unspecified place. This clever version will delight young and old. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royal,ty, $20-$20.) (#16045) WIZARD OF OZ. Fantasy. Elizabeth Fuller Chapman Dramatized from the story of L. Frank Baum. The only authorized dramatic version. 14 characters, extras. Var. sets. Dorothy finds herself in the land of the Munchkins, and must journey to see the Wizard of Oz. Her path takes her past fantastic places, and endears her to the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion along the way. Each receives his dearest wish after the long journey. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#1203)

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THE MAGIC PEBBLE. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Nancy Kierspe Carlson. Music by Nancy Kierspe Carlson and Betsy Chapman. 11 m., 4 f., optional extras. Unit set. Four bored youths discover a magic pebble and hang on for dear life as it takes them to a pirate ship crewed by the irascible Captain Crimson and his sidekick Seaweed. They inadvertently bring Crimson and Seaweed back to the present where they have amusing confrontations with the miraculous creatures vacuum sweeper and radio and with the concept of a round world. From the opening song to the closing duet, there is plenty of adventure and exciting fun for children and adults. $6.50. (Royalty, (#15557) , $60-$40. Music Royalty, $20-$20 plus a $25.00 refundable deposit.) THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH. Fantas~. Susan Nanus, based, on the book by Norton Juster. Approx. 15 m. and f. Simple set. Here are Milo's adventures in the Land of Wisdom where he's forced to think about many new things. Milo learns of the argument between King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician whose disagreement over words and numbers has led to the banishment of Princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason. Milo is dispatched to rescue the Princesses from the Land of Ignorance. The knowledge and skills Milo picks up on his journey help him to save the Princesses. When he must return home, Milo's sorry to leave his friendsbut enriched by his experience, he realizes his attitude towards learning will never be the same. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#18004) ANOTHER TORTOISE, ANOTHER HARE. Musical fable. Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard Felnagle and John Mucci. 7 m., 7 f., 1 c., optional chorus. Aesop the Owl narrates and then continues the story of the famous race. The original tortoise and hare have children. Tommy Tortoise grows up as the child of a celebrity, and Harriet Hare grows up the child of an outcast, and strangely, these children are united in friendship by the way fate has shaped their lives. But other forest creatures are not happy with the outcome of the famous race. Tommy and Harriet are eventually turned against each other and coerced into running their parents' old race over again, encountering a highway full of singing automobiles, a flood and worst of all: two human children. Songs include "Take It Slow," "Do It Now," "Winners and Losers," and "The Raspberry Song." $6.50. (Terms quoted on application. Music available on rental. See p. 220) (#3694) FLIBBERTY AND THE PENGUIN. Audience participation musical. David Wood. 11 m., 4 f. Drops and wings. A young penguin has come from Iceland to find his parents. This must be done before the spring weather becomes too warm. He falls in with F1ibberty, a genial goblin, who helps him in his search. They incur the wrath of Krafty Kingfisher, who accuses the Penguin of stealing a fish from him. They meet on their journey, among others, two Silly Cuckoos practicing their spring song, a helpful Bus Driver/Conductor, and famous Mr. Maestro who has come to town to conduct a concert. Eventually the parent penguins are discovered in the zoo. Flibberty and young Penguin manage to set them free, and to put Kingfisher in his place. All ends well, even for Kingfisher, as all the characters gather in the Concert Hall to join (with the audience) in a song to spring. $7.95. PianoNocai score, (#8049) $15.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) LITTLE JACK HORNER. Pantomime. Paul Reakes. 8 m., 7 f., chorus. Var. sets (may be simply suggested). When Jack, the naughtiest boy in Dame Dimwit's school, puts his thumb in a pie and pulls out the prize jewel in the royal treasure, everyone assumes he has stolen it. Only Jack knows that the real thief is the wicked Lord Chamberlain, Graball, who is planning to steal the rest of the treasure'with the

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THE SEESAW TREE. Play with music. David Wood. 16 characters (doubling possible). Various simple sets. An ancient oak stands on property earmarked for development into a children's playground. A public meeting is held to discuss cutting down the three-hundred-year-old tree. Members of the council are then seen inside the tree in their equivalent animal forms to show how this will affect the inhabitants of the tree. In the end, the audience is asked to vote on the fate of the (#21069) ancient oak. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) ROBINSON CRUSOE. Children's play. John Morley. 16 principals and chorus. Simple sets. This exciting, adventure-packed pantomime traces Robinson Crusoe's voyage to Tobago where he hopes to locate the hidden treasure shown on the map given to him by Old Jim. Blackpatch, the Pirate, stows away on board, and later enlists the help of Jack boot and his band of bloodthirsty Pirates in an attempt to steal the treasure. Unfortunately Crusoe reckoned without Demon Oylslick, whose threat to pollute the High Seas is later repelled by Fairy Detergent. Crusoe encounters Man Friday and some hungry Cannibals, led by Queen Wotta Woppa, on the Island after his amazing shipwreck. However, the treasure is found, and all ends happily, despite the Grunting Gorillas, after some marvelous comedy moments from Mrs. Crusoe, Bill and Ben, and a lot of joyous audience participation. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#20107) THE SNOW QUEEN. A Musical adapted from Han Christian Andersen. Book and Lyrics by Adrian Mitchell. Composed by Richard Peaslee. (See Index for description.)

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DICK WHITTINGTON. Play. John Morley. 12 principals, 5 small parts, chorus, dancers. Juveniles. Simple sets. This sparkling and fun-filled version of the traditional tale of Dick Whittington is delightfully brought to life by the pantomine specialist John Morley. All the favorite characters are here-Tommy the Cat, Alice Fitzwarren, Sarah the Cook, King Rat, the Fairy of the Bells, and of course, Dick Whittington himself. The pantomime offers scope for lavish production but, if required, the staging can be very simple without in any way spoiling either the comedy routines or the telling of the famous story. Reviews from the San Francisco bay area said: "played to sellout crowds . . . I encourage you to take the entire family to this show . . . a madcap blend of song dance, stand-up comedy and vaudeville . . . skillfully designed to appeal to adults as well as children . . . the

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script is adapted to the place where it is being done. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$50.) (#6162) Please state author when ordering. THE LITTLE JUGGLER. Miracle play with music. Sister Marcella M. Holloway. 9 m., 3 f., 5 c. Based on a medieval legend. Poor and hungry Barnaby is taken in by the monks and at the fair the Man with the Blue Garter befriends him. He's treated kindly at the monastery, except for three pompous monks who want to get rid of him. On our Lady's feast all the lad has to offer is his juggling which scandalizes the three monks until they see her statue smile and come alive. The Lady kisses the exhausted boy. Barnaby is released from the monastery and goes back to the road with the Man with the Blue Garter and the donkey-and people now accept him because of the miracle. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) Piano score available on rental.

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TREASURE ISLAND: THE PANTO. Pantomime. Richard Lloyd. 13 m., 6 f. plus assorted pirates. Int., ext. This swashbuckling tale of skullduggery upon the high seas, treasure on a desert island, a Guatemalan parakeet named Cap'n Haddock, Dame Ladd's fisherman's pies and death by chocolate combines the pastiche of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic with all the essential elements of pantomime, including romantic interludes and knockabout fun. The swiftly moving scenes are easily interchangeable and allow for simple or sophisticated staging. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#22213)

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BABE, THE SHEEP-PIG. David Wood. Based on the book by Dick King-Smith. 10 adults (with doubling), 10 or more children, optional extras. Exts. The tale of high adventure in the farmyard that became the hit movie Babe is a captivating play for children young and old. A leading writer of children's plays brings the heartwarming story of the piglet who rises to fame at the Grand Challenge Sheep Dog Trials to the stage in a dramatization that allows for flexible casting. $8.95. (Royalty, $60$40.) (#4908) THE CURIOUS QUEST FOR THE SANDMAN'S SAND. (Musical.) Book and Lyrics Jenifer Toksvig. Music by David Perkins. (See Index for description.) DINOSAURS AND ALL THAT RUBBISH. (Little Theatre.) Children's musical. David Wood and Peter Pontzen. Based on the book by Michael Fo~eman. Var. roles. Unit set. Here is a topical musical for young people based on the best-selling book. Man destroys his world through misuse and disrespect, only to search for a replacement in the stars. In his absence dinosaurs and animals restore Earth's former beauty. When men return to claim the phmet, they are reminded that it is the same decaying Earth they abandoned. The final note of this appealing and lively play for children is that Earth belongs to everyone and should be respected. The play was originally written for a large cast, choir and small orchestra, ideally to be performed by young people. There are many small parts to enable players of little experience to (#6735) take part. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Vocal Score, $18.00. HOW TO EAT LIKE A CHILD (and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Up). Musical revue. See Index for description. MY VERY OWN STORY. Play. Alan Ayckboum. 9 m., 8 f., one keyboard player (doubling possible). 1 set. Due to an unfortunate triple booking, three storytellers, Peter, Paul and Percy, arrive simultaneously each to tell his own story. After some acrimony, Percy wins out and is soon telling his story-a Victorian yarn featuring, to his dismay, 'Paul who has hijacked the leading role. Soon Peter in tum is continuing Percy's unresolved fable only to find Percy appearing in this. In due course, Peter appears in Paul's gothic story (an extension of Peter's forties tales) and together they reach a surprisingly happy conclusion. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.)

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SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 9 m., 8 f., extras. Simple sets. "The audience loves it . . . Everything about it."-Des Moines Register. The play is a pantomine on conventional lines with a dame, wicked witch, good fairy, haunted bedroom, and knock-about scenes, contemporary songs to choice, references to local names, etc., but based on the less usual story of the four-andtwenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the King's magic crown is stolen, his kingdom is reduced to destitution, and it looks as if evil has conquered good. But handsome Prince Valentine is finally triumphant. Easily staged settings are alternated with front-cloth scenes, may be as elaborate or as simple. $8.95. (Royalty, $50$35.) (#21181) TOM, THE PIPER'S SON. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 17' principals, extras, chorus. Simple sets. This is a lively Nursery-rhyme Land play of adventure, comedy and magic with all the traditional favorites: the good Fairy Harmony, Georgie Porgie, old King Cole and scatty Queen Mattiwilda, Dame Sprightly and her son Tom, who rescues the Princess from the naughty Knave of Hearts and his not-sonaughty villains. The action alternates between the sets and front-cloth scenes. The (#22132) text includes helpful production notes. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.)

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HICKORY DICKORY DOCK. Pantomine. Norman Robbins. 10 m., 8 f. (some interchangeable), extras. Simple sets on open stage. Penniless Dame Foxtrot doesn't know her old Grandfather Clock is a magical possession. Years ago the Fairy Queen locked into it the wicked Black Imp who menaced Fairyland. If the clock ever struck One the Imp would be freed, to the Queen took away the key. But the wicked Wizard steals the key, frees the Imp, and seeks to destroy Fairyland by using him to get the magic Jewel of Miracles. All is set for a terrific battle between the 'goodies' and the 'bad dies'. But after riotous adventures, good triumphs, and everyone lives (#10649) happily ever after. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) VASILISA, THE FAIR (THE FROG PRINCESS). Play with music. Created by the New York State Theatre Institute. 11 m., 7 f. Unit set. He shot an arrow in the air. It fell to earth he didn't care where. He didn't want to do it but his father made him. When the Tsar of all Russia tells you to shoot an arrow and marry the closest young thing to wherever it lands, that's what you do. Even if it lands in a swamp by a frog. So Prince Ivan agrees to marry his green quarry who is actually a charmed princess. Wonderful Russian folk characters, including a fire-breathing bear, a wicked wizard and the witch Baba Yaga enrich this wonderful tale for children of all ages. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "Billed as a play for youngsters, adults have much to enjoy."-Times Union. "A delightful confection."-Daily Gazette. "Kick back and let its subtle charms work their magic on you." -Daily Mail. "An extravagant accomplishment th'at constantly amuses and transorts."-Metroland. "Magical."-Spotlight. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Piano/Conductor's Score (dance and underscoring music) available on rental. Rental fee, $10 per performance plus a $25 refundable deposit. (#23997)

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PETER PAN. Fantasy. J.M. Barrie. 25 characters. Scenes: the nursery, Never Land (in-three: land, sea, house beneath), deck of a ship. The everlasting classic account of a boy and a girl who follow Peter Pan and the invisible fairy, Tinker Bell, into Never Land, where children never grow old and where Captain Hook and his pirates are outwitted. Performed by Maude Adams, Jean Arthur, Mary Martin. "The magic is as great as ever."-N.Y. Daily News. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Slightly Restrict(#95) ed. Please state #95 when ordering. THE SECRET GARDEN. (Little Theater.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman. Music by Lucy Simon. Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. See Index for description THE SELFISH GIANT. Children's musical. Based on the short story by Oscar Wilde. Music, Lyrics and Adaptation by David Perkins. Additional lyrics by Caroline Dooley. See Index for description. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Comedy. Alan Bennett. Adapted from the book by Kenneth Grahame. Over 25 characters (doubling possible}. Unit set. This ingenious adaptation of the classic children's novel created a sensation at the National Theatre of Great Britain. Here are Badger, Rat, Mole and Toad of Toad Hall in the familiar tale with a contemporary slant. "I am almost as enthusiastic about Alan Bennett's adaptation . . . as Ratty is about his river."-Time Out. "This has to be the most dazzling and enjoyable show in the West End. I hope it wins heaps of awards."-Daily Express. "Bennett has played fair with [the] original story while adding to it his own brand of astringent nostalgia and cryptic wit." -Guardian. "A brilliantly theatrical piece of storytelling entertainment."--Financial Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Write for details about music. Slightly Restricted. (#25225) THE WITCHES. Roald Dahl. Adapted by David Wood. 21 characters (4 m., 6 f. plus 15 extras with doubling). This popular children's book has been magically adapted into a play that toured extensively before its successful West End production at the Duke of York Theatre. "While the kids will be thrilled by the dazzling illusions and the complex puppetry, their parents will be no less engaged by the sly humor that lurks within this ostensibly frivolous confection."-Whar's On. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$60.) (#25211)

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ALADDIN. Play. John Morley. 19 principals, chorus, extras. Var. front-cloth and fullstage sets. The pantomime follows the outline of the well-known story, and includes a trip to Egypt, adventures with a sinister Mummy and a Ghost, a haughty Fairy and a hint of Ali Baba-as well as set pieces such as a magic show and a 'slosh-hurling' episode. lt offers opportunities for elaborate and imaginative staging, but can be produced quite simply if facilities are limited. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering. (#3117) SINBAD THE SAILOR. Play. John Morley. 11 principals, 8 small parts, chorus . . Simple exts. In this colorful and exciting pantomime, Sinbad sets sail for the island of Nirvana in search of the Princess Pearl who was stolen on her wedding day by a wicked Sorcerer. He meets his love and has to overcome evil magic, the cruelty of the Old Man of the Sea and the threat of man-eating plants before his quest is over. His crew assist him while providing comic relief. This lively tale can be set lavishly or simply; the script includes detailed production notes on settings, costumes and choice of music. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Please state author when ordering.

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SHORT PLAYS THE CLOWN PRINCE OF WANDERLUST. Fantasy. Douglass Parkhirst. 13 m., 12 f., extras. Simple ext. In the kingdom of Wanderlust there's a terrible crisis. The Princess has not been able to laugh for fifteen years and unless some one can break this spell of sadness her bumbling father, King Absolute, will be forced to give her in marriage to the evil Grand Bunkleman. The frantic antics of her subjects make everyone (including the audience) laugh, except the poor Princess. Helped by Nurse Funjollity, two scamps Perk and Smack almost-but-not-quite succeed and all seems lost. A handsome youth appears, a commoner, but uncommon is his trick of turning tears to laughter to the Princess he loves at first sight. "A Children's Playas Children's Plays should be written. " -Mario Siletti, Director, "The Merry Mimes," N.Y.C. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#317) THE EVIL EYE OF GONDOR. Adventure. Bryan Owen. Var. characters. Sets simply suggested. An exciting adventure story for performance by, or to, children revolving round the age-old battle of good verse evil, but with many inventive twists. The Valley has been dominated by the Guardians of the Castle of Gondor, whose power comes from the Eye, since Ancient Times. All but a few Outlaws are broken by years of subservience and cruelty. One day a stranger gives them the will and strength to throw off their chains of oppression. Plenty of scope is given for chilling sound and lighting effects and full introduction and production notes give ideas for an evening's entertainment. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#7652) A LITTLE PRINCESS. Play with music. Adapted by John Vreeke from the storyl by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Music and underscoring by Will Severin and George David Weiss. 5 m., 5 f., 12 c., 4 puppets (with doubling). Unit set. When her mother dies, Sara Crewe is sent from India, where she was born, to a private school in London. She is banished to the garret when news arrives of her father's loss of fortune and his disappearance. With a creative imagination anq spirited optimism, Sara survives to become an inspiration for girls and boys everywhere. Featuring musical underscoring and two songs, this is a perfect show for the entire family. It is ideal for holiday presentations. Originally p~oduced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "Fine underscoring and songs including the lovely 'December.'" -Albany Times Union. "The play has contemporary relevance."-Daily Gazette. "Those ten and older will find a lot of magic in it. "-NewsDay. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Musical underscoring and accompaniment (2 CDs) and sheet music for songs "Indian Lullaby" and "December" available on rental. Rental fee, $10 per performance plus a $50 refundable deposit. Royalty for use of songs, $10 per performance. Audio Book (2 tapes), $16.95, available from NYSTI, 37 First St., Troy, NY 12180.

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RUMPELSTIL TSKIN. Musical. Music and Lyrics by Peter Larson. Book by Peter Larson and Edna Kuder. See Index for description. SNOW WIDTE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. Fantasy. Jessie Braham White. 24 characters. Var. Sets. The handsome version of the famous fairy tale as presented in New York. Supposedly disposed of by the wicked queen, Snow White finds her way to a happy glen and the home of seven friendly dwarfs. A deadly apple casts her into a deep sleep, from which she is revived in time by her devoted prince. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#986) A TALE OF CINDERELLA. Musical. Book by W.A. Frankonis. Music by Will Severin and George David Weiss. Lyrics by George David Weiss.(See Index for description.) THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN Musical. David Wood. 4 m., 2 f. plus approx 30. local children. Though Mother Shipton's shoe is crowded to its laces, she lives there happily with her brood of children, among them Jack and Jill. Unfortunately, however, the shoe is actually the property of a Giant who lost it, and has been looking for it-with one bare foot-ever since. The Great Boon, a genial but not very efficient magician, tries to save Mother Shipton and family from the Giant by magically reducing the Giant to human size without also reducing the shoe, but he fails. But, after much muddled magic and fun adventures, the story does end happily-with a circus in which all the children participate! $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Vocal Score, $15. (#22056) THE THWARTING OF BARON BOLLIGREW. Comedy. Robert Bolt. See Index for description. TOAD OF TOAD HALL. Fantasy. A.A. Milne. >From Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. 19 m. 8 f., extras. 6 ints.!4 exts. This play is constantly in demand for groups anxious to produce the better type of imaginative plays for young people. The play expresses perfectly the mood of the Grahame book, which is a combination of poetry, fantasy and exquisite comedy. "The play expresses in terms of real imagination the entire romance of early childhood. Full stage directions, notes on scenery, illustrations of sets, costume, property and light(#22134) ing plots. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) TREASURE ISLAND. Adventure. Jules Eckert Goodman. Dramatized from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. 25 characters. Var. sets. A superlative dramatization, with worlds of excitement. The action stems from the Admiral Benbow Inn, where the old captain is given the death-mark by the pirates. Young Jim Hawkins falls heir to the treasure map, and soon sails with his masters to the treasure island. The ship is manned, though they know it not, by a crew comprised mostly of pirates. A mutiny arises, and a fight on the island ensues, with Jim proving his mettle. A (#22195) truly exciting play. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Not available in Canada. THE WIZARD OF WOBBLING ROCK. Play for children with music. Book and Lyrics by Patricia Wood. Music by Christopher Lurnrnis. 37 characters. Ints'!exts. In this delightful play the Wicked Wizard of Wobbling Rock has taken over the Isle of Dippy, forcing the Islanders to emigrate to Forgetful Island, which begins to sink due to an excess of Dippies. King Amnesia his Queen and their daughter Princess Poppy are forced to. move to the Isle of Dot. On the way however, Poppy is kidnapped by two Warlocks and chained up in the Wizard's cave with Duke Devastating, deposed ruler of the Isle of Dippy. But, of course all ends happily with the help of the Bookworms, three lesser-spotted Ding-Dings and some of the Wizard's Shrinking Spray! Simple settings and charming songs combine to give an evening of enchantment for all. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) Vocal Score, $7.50. (Music Royalty, (#25167) $10.00 each performance.)

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OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. Musical. David Wood. About 20 characters. Var. sets. It is Christmas Eve and a lonely dog arrives at Old Mother Hubbard's Home for Lost Children. But alas, her cupboard is bare! Worse still-together with her brood of nursery-rhyme children-she is turned out by the bailiff and the rent collector. They make their way to a forest where they encounter a magician on his way to a circus. By a fortunate mistake, the magician casts a spell which enlarges the bailiffs boot to a size which is big enough for Mother Hubbard to take temporary residence in it. But her troubles are far from over, and they all undergo many adventures-not least with a sinister cat, before all turns out well-and they are able to take part in a (#17005) Grand Circus. $8.95. Vocal Score, $15. (Royalty, $35-$25.) ROCCO, THE ROLLING STONE. Allen Davis III. About 30 characters. Bare stage. Rocco decides to see the world after years of sleeping. As he rolls away Mrs. Filbert, the black widow spider, vows revenge on Rocco for destroying her home. He meets a goat who butts him over the mountain, and narrowly misses squashing a frightened sunflower. Hotly pursued by Mrs. Filbert, Rocco is carted away by a gravel company. Just as he is about to be ground to sand Mrs. Twiftwillider picks him out for her rock garden. As Mrs. Filbert confronts Rocco Mr. Filbert appears. She begs Mr. Filbert to take her back and promised never to bother Rocco again. Rocco, now in his glory, brags of his adventures to the gullible flowers. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.)

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2-5 CHARACTERS
THE FROG PRINCE. David Mamet. See Index for description THE KUKKURRIK FABLES. Oscar Mandel See Index for description. PINOCCHIO. Blanche Marvin. 3 m., 1 f. Based on Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, this version of Pinocchio has a group of actors appear and cast the play in front of the audience. Costume decorations transform them into different characters before the children's eyes. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9,00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18203) MR. EASTER BUNNY. Blanche Marvin. 3 m., 2 f. This comedy for children is based on the play Harvey. Two children uncover the pagan basis of Easter and convert THE RED DRAGON. Blanche Marvin. 2 m., 3 f. This contemporary Christmas drama tells of a credible miracle for a one-parent family and a handicapped boy. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Ro~alty, $25-$20.) (#20139) their parents with the help of Mr. Easter Bunny. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#15270)

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE. AdventureiFantasy. Ruth Newton. 2 m., 3 f. dancers, extras. Unit set. Young audiences are invited to take an active role and their reactions become an important element in the development of the play-an adaptation of the much-loved Grimm tale. A lively "country hoe-down" and a fantastic, stately court dance enhance the tale of a magic fish with the power to grant any wish to the old fisherman and his wife. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#8918)

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THE FISHERMAN AND THE FLOUNDER. Children's play. Richard Slocum. I m., 2 f., I m., or f. (stage manager). I set w. screens and backdrop. This story of the magic flounder, the happy fisherman and the unhappy wife is based on the original Japanese version and it uses elements from Kabuki and Japanese puppet theatre. The wife learns that she must give as much as she takes so as not to upset the balance, but not before she endangers the entire world with her wish to be Lord of the Universe. In The Gemshield Sleeper and Other Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#8136) THE GEMSHIELD SLEEPER. Play. Richard Slocum. I m., I f., 2 m. or f. I set. The Baroness No-Ra and her teacher have teleported to the planet Aixes to study its sun. They discover a prince locked inside a gemshield. If he is not freed, he will be destroyed when the planet's sun goes supernova. The Baroness must overcome her own fears before she can free him. It's Sleeping Beauty with a futuristic twist. In The Gemshield Sleeper and Other Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#9612) THE LOVE SONG OF A. NELLIE GOODROCK. Play. Richard Slocum. 2 m., 2 f., I imaginary dog. 2 simple sets. Little A. Nellie Goodrock works for wicked Simon Lecher to support herself and her dear grandmama. By cheating at poker, Simon Lecher has won the entire Goodrock fortune. . . everything except Goodrock Park and the monument to the family's good name. Those belong to dear, sweet Nellie. But Simon Lecher must have everything, including Nellie as his bride, or he will send Grandmama and her dog to the boobyhatch. Will Nellie be forced to marrying Lecher or will she be free to follow her heart's desire and marry Danny Dogood? In The Gemshield Sleeper and Other Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, (#14671) $20-$20.) PATCHWORK. Comedy. Carol Lauck. 2 m., 2 f. (minimum). Flexible staging. A cleverly designed ensemble of old fashioned fables and contemporary foibles, Patchwork is stitched together with wit and wisdom. Fast paced, funny and thoughtprovoking, each scene is visually and mentallystimulating. Promising at the start to " ... wiggle your giggle and tickle your noodle", the actors play 41 roles in 14 scenes. Each scene is introduced by a patch ready to be sewn, with the completed qUilt presented at the conclusion. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#18623)

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THE PIED PIPER. Blanche Marvin. 2 m., 4 f. Unit set. Two strolling players come to Hamelin, a town cursed with an infestation of rats. One of them is there to avenge his father's death. This new version of the favorite tale is based on the Orestes myth. It has tragedy and comedy, dance and music that appeals to children and adults. In Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18196) CLEO'S CAFE. Children'S play. Carol Lauck. 2 m., 4 f. Int. Cleo's Cafe fascinates the very young with puppetry and robots while delighting older children and adults with a comical, intelligent, contemporary plot. When Cleo wants to buy and manage the cafe where she works and tries to convince Pierre to be her partner, an excitable chef who flies into tantrums over lost recipes and gives musical French lessons, Pierre reluctantly agrees with one condition--Cleo must regain the customers lost by the former manager. A puppeteer offers some unusual help and chaos ensues when.his robot goes berserk. A zany canary puppet and a bewildered customer add to the hilarity. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#5666) THE CLOCK SHOP. Fantasy. John Golden. 7 characters, optional extras. Int. 3 original songs. One of the 20th century's foremost Broadway producers uses rhyme and wining songs to tell the love story of two Dutch clocks and the efforts of a "False Alarm" clock to intervene. Produced at the Palace Theatre in New York. (#5670) $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) THE DRAGON WHO GIGGLED. Fantasy. Elizabeth McCormick. 7 characters (adults or children over 10). Simple ext. What happens to a small paper boy and his little lame playmate when St. George's Dragon, shrunken with the years, with monocle and an Oxford accent, still laughing at how he outwitted the English Knight and highly amused at modem civilization, saunters into their drab street and lends (#368) them a helping claw. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) TICKLE. Comedy. David Wood. 6 m. & f. to play several parts. Bare stage. A workman in a cafe is served too much pepper. He complains of a tickle in his nose and sneezes violently. The "tickle" is ejected-and arrives on the stage. looking for a home and a friend. Sadly, nobody wants a Tickle. He becomes involved with three wicked Germs and causes chaos everywhere. Finally, he finds a home-with a (#22099) laughing hyena! $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) Music, $4.50.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Blanche Marvin. 3 m., 3 f. The well-known characters move, dance and sing their way through Wonderland in the fashion of Italian street players from the commedia dell'arte. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, (#3706) $25-$20.) ARABIAN NIGHTS. Blanche Marvin. 4 m., 3 f. The story of Scheherazade is retold here in Kabuki style. Animals and birds are interchanged with humans. Symbolic use of scenery and dance movements defines the style. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#3707) THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA. Blanche Marvin. 4 m., 2 f. Unit set. This unusual piece unfolds in classical Spanish style as two royal brothers contest the kingship. Cruelty kills the queen, breaks the king's heart, makes a queen of the cold and calculating Infanta, and destroys the dwarf who loves her. In Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4320) CINDERELLA. Blanche Marvin. 2 m., 5 f. Cinderella ris~s from rags to riches in this comedy of manners a la Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The ugly sisters are played by men and the Fairy Godmother is Britannia. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5255) THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES. Blanche Marvin. 4 m., 2 f. A parody of medieval morality plays, this delightful version of the classic tale incorporates comedy traditions from Moliere to Griaudoux. In Plays for Children, Vol. Il. $9,00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#7086) THE FIREBIRD. Blanche Marvin. 4 m., 3 f. Unit set. The frrebird is an enchanted bird who, if captured, will die. The youngest of three princes captures her, but then releases her as a gift of love. This enchanting tale is done in Japanese Noh theatre style with sword fights, fan dancing, and songs. In Plays for Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#8170) THE KUKKURRIK FABLES. Oscar Mandel See Index for description. THE LlTILEST TAILOR. Blanche Marvin. 4 m., 2 f. Set in the post-Civil War period and written in the comic minstrel style, this unusual version of the tale of the little tailor who leads the conquest of giants incorporates shuffle and soft-shoe dances. Fun lies in the identity of the giants. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#14694) PETER AND THE WOLF. Blanche Marvin. 5 m., 2 f. This version is a parody of Chekhov's Cherry Orchardthat shows a child's confusion when faced with the adult world. Adults become animals with colors and dispositions matched from human to animal. The Prokofiev score is incorporated in its entirely throughout the second act. In Plays for Children, Vol. II, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#18189)

8-10 CHARACTERS
CROWNING GLORY. Play. Blanche Marvin. 5 m., 3 f. A classical Biblical story, Crowning Glory tells the story of Esther and how she became Queen of Persia. Her courage saved the life of her uncle Mordecai and all the Jews of Persia, an event remembered in the celebration of Purim. In Plays for Children, Vol. 1/., $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5812) THE KUKKURRIK FABLES. Oscar Mandel See Index for description. JACK AND THE GIANT. Adventure. Ruth Newton. 10 characters, extras. Int.lext. or unit set. In this comic version of a classic story, a very human and stagestruck cow, Drusilla, wouldn't mind being sold by the poverty-stricken Jack if her new owner would place her in a show . Youngsters in the audience take part in the playas the actors draw them in and encourage them to express their opinions about the story and characters. The plot follows the story of Jack selling Drusilla for a bag of beans. His mother throws them out the window, where they shoot to the sky and the giant's castle. In Jack's escape from the Giant, Drusilla saves the day by coming back in time to chew the vine down and destroy the Giant. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)
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PERKIN AND THE PASTRY COOK. Comedy. 8 m., 2 f., extras. 2 simple sets. This delightful comedy of errors follows the fortunes of Perkin and Wat. Perkin is royal odd-job man to the Court of Emperor Sigismund the fourteenth (of "The Emperor's New Clothes"). His friend, Wat, has recently been demoted from court pastry cook following a disastrous batch of cakes (Wat swears he was framed by the head cook). Wat is the comic focus, meaning well, but repeatedly foiled by the two protagonists of the Emperor's new clothes, who also contrive much mischief for the hopeless Emperor and his bungling courtiers. Our heroes tJiumph at the last, Wat regaining his status and Perkin winning the heart of Princess Sophie. $4.50. (Royal(#18669) ty, $25-$20.)

11-12 CHARACTERS
THE CACTUS WILDCAT. Comedy. James S. Wallerstein. 8 m., 4 f. Int. "If you pretend too hard, everything you pretend will come true." But Nancy and Ronnie don't heed the warning. So she becomes a gypsy Princess who sings and dances in the Gopher Hole Saloon while bold men fight to gain her love. He becomes the boldest of them all, the Cactus Wildcat. On his stalwart hobby horse, he out-rides the Sheriff s posse and turns the tables on his enemies to win the Princess in an action-packed finish. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5602) CINDERELLA. Fantasy. Ruth Newton. 12 characters, extras. Unit set. This version emphasizes audience participation. The Fairy Godmother needs help from the audience because she is out of practice and not at all certain her magic is going to work properly. Cinderella's slipper is tried on youngsters in the audience, who are con-

SHORT PLAYS suIted as to whether the wicked stepmother and stepsisters should be turned into happy people. Cinderella is a natural, joyous girl with a bubbling sense of humor and great honesty. Of course, she and the Prince live happily ever after. There is ample opportunity for optional ballet court dances. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author when ordering (#48) THE EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE. Comedy. Dan Totheroh. Dramatized from the story of Hans Christian Andersen. See Index for description. THE LOST PRINCESS. Adventure. Dan Totheroh, 12 characters, extras. Curtain and Chinese screens. The sequel to "The Stolen Prince" centers on his twin sister who was stolen away by a nurse at birth and who grew up as the foster daughter of a mountain robber. She reforms the robber and saves his life when she is recognized as the princess in the end. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#657) PETER COTTONTAIL. Fantasy. William Francis. Dramatized from the famous children's song. Title song interpolated throughout. 11 characters. Scene: a yard with side of a house. A little boy and girl awaken Easter Eve to see Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail. They beg him to tell the fabulous story of how he lost his tail. The re-enactment reaches peaks of hilarity before the children awaken in (#18636) wide-eyed wonder the next morning. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. (AU Groups.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Elsa Rael. Music by Michael Valenti. See Index for description. TOM SAWYER'S MORNING. Comedy. Regina Brown. 8 m., 3 f. Ext. Tom induces others to paint the fence in a play full of action and bright dialogue. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#1084)

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to life one day, and of his funny escapades with a bustling, nearsighted policeman (#8654) before he melts away. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) HEIDI. Fantasy. Ethel H. Freeman. 13 characters. Var. sets. The favorite story about the little girl who loves the hills, but who is sent away to a big, distant city house. She has to study under a stuffy tutor, and becomes very homesick. Finally, she returns, excited and happy, to her hills and the flocks she loves so well. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Please state author's name when ordering. (#10057)

15 CHARACTERS AND OVER

THE LEGEND OF SCARFACE AND BLUEWATER. Children's play. Blanche Marvin. Large cast of m. and f. Unit set. This is an Indian legend which tells how the fIrst medicine man came to be. It incorporates much audience participation, and (#13856) is perfect for schools. In Plays/or Children, $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) SLEEPING BEAUTY. Children's play. Blanche Marvin. 7 m., 9 f. Modeled on Restoration comedies, this play features a shy and absent-minded Prince who is browbeaten into marrying the Sleeping Beauty who is 100 years his senior. The children in the audience lend him a hand while good and bad fairies deal with the politics of the day and the gossips of the court vie with each other telling scandlil. In Plays/or Children, Vol. ll, $9.00. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#21624) AMERICA'S HERITAGE. Short living newspaper. Freyda Nacque. Flexible cast of school children. Simple sets. From the Preface-"We teachers are being bombarded by one group after another with demands that Democracy be more vital to our youth . . . This play was a humble attempt to meet this need in my own work with children. The enthusiasm with which it was received by both child and adult audiences, the new horizons which the play opened up resulted in many requests for the (#3907) play from teachers and settlement workers." $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) ERNIE'S INCREDIBLE ILLUCINATIONS. Comedy. Alan Ayckbourn. 22 characters (doubling possible). Bare stage. This is a bright comedy by the famous English comic playwright about the extraordinary powers of Ernie Fraser, a dreamer with a difference. Ernie has a vivid imagination; and his thoughts have the disconcerting habit of turning into reality. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#7638) PERCIVAL THE PERFORMING PIG. Children's play. Dilys Owen. 21 characters, extras (doubling possible). Bare stage. On Old MacDonald's farm there lived a pig with a wonderful voice. Animals came from miles around just to hear Percival sing; and so did Hiram 1. Potter who bought him and took him to London for a career in Grand Opera. But Percival wasn't keen on London so he devised a scheme to get home to the farm. This play offers parts not only for the farm animals, but the scenery ordered by the stage manager has unaccountably failed to turn up, so some actors have to represent a house, trees and so on! $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#18039)

13-14 CHARACTERS
BEANIE AND THE BAMBOOZLING BOOK MACHINE. Fantasy. Bob May, Christopher Tibbetts and Roy C. Booth. Based on an original story by Bob May. 13 m. & f. Simple unit set. Beanie Boren, a science wiz who is not keen on reading, has designed a book-reading machine for the science fair. It combines a computer, a mini-video cam and a contraption of his own design to enable one to read three books at once. Unfortunately, the machine is neither user-friendly nor bug-free. When Beanie turns it on, lights flash, thunder booms and out pop the witches from Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and the The Wizard o/Oz, each set to wreak havoc! Beanie must get them back into the books with help from the good guys in the same stories. Afterward, he is eager to read about his new friends-the old-fashioned way. $4.50. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#4707) FROSTY THE SNOW MAN. Fantasy. William Francis. 14 characters, optional extras. A street scene. Title song interpolated throughout. A dramatization of one of the all-time hit songs for children. It tells the tale of a rascally snow man who comes

RELIGIOUS PLAYS
Royalties quoted are for live stage productions by amateur groups with maximum seating capacities of 400. Special arrangements must be made in all cases for productions by professional groups, by amateurs with seating capacities over 400, and for television and radio broadcasting. Please see page 5 for more information about restrictions, rights, royalties and ordering.

FULL-LENGTH ROYALTV PLAYS

5 - 8 CHARACTERS
KING OF THE ISRAELITES. Drama. Norman Beim. 6 m., 2 f. Unit set. In this tale of love and vengeance, Saul, the first king of the Israelites, suffers from depression which is alleviated by the songs of the young shepherd David. When David becomes a hero after slaying Goliath, Saul's jealousy threatens to destroy his son Jonathan, David and his kingdom. "Exciting, topical and relevant. Use of modem vernacular is a shrewd choice and very effective."-Portland Stage Company. (Royalty, $60$40.) Published in Giants of the Old Testament, $18.95. (#13056) LOOKING AT THE STARS. Tragedy. Norman Beim. 5 m., 2 f. 2 Ints. The story of David and Bathsheba, a classic tragedy of illicit love, murder and vengeance, is dramatized here using contemporary dialogue set in a sophisticated ambiance. "I admire the rapid pace and the focus on character psychology and political concerns. The language seems modem yet without inappropriate colloquialisms."-Actors Theatre of Lousiville. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Published in Giants of the Old Testament, $18.95. (#13797) THE PRINCE WHO ATE IN THE MORNING. Drama. Norman Beim. 5 m., 3 f. 2 Ints. Using contemporary, down-to-earth dialogue, this play dramatizes the story of Moses as a young man tom between his loyalty to Egypt and his desire to help those he has just learned are his people. His brother refuses to allow him to help because his wife is not a Hebrew. In a rage, Moses kills an Egyptian overseer and flees, promising to return and free his people. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Published in Giants of the Old Testament, $18.95. (#17847) QUEEN OF PERSIA. Comedy/drama. Norman Beim. 6 m., 1 f. Unit set. The story of Esther and her struggle to save the Jews of Persia from extinction is dramatized in this provocative and thought-provoking comedy/drama. "Wonderfully written and probably the best version of this wonderful tale I have ever come across."-American Jewish Theatre. "Refreshing and well written. I enjoyed the feminist approach."-Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Published in Giants of the (#19023) Old Testament, $18.95. THE JEWELER'S SHOP. Pope John Paul II, translated by Boleslaw Taborski. Original songs by Paul Cassanova. See Index for description. THE SIXTH STATION. Drama. Katherine m. Cariman. 1 m., 4 f. When Veronica, a Roman matron, wipes Jesus's brow during his walk to Calvary, his face imprints on the veil. Gilla retrieves this miraculous cloth when Veronica drops it in horror. Between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Gilla struggles to understand Jesus and his loving call in a dynamic story of love, denial and acceptance of the will of God. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#21482) balance of foreign politics. Amidst the intrigue of betrayal, ambition and deadly spies at court, the faith of one slave is about to impact the future of the ruling Roman Praetorium forever. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$35.) (#18696) BETWEEN TWO THIEVES. Warner LeRoy, adapted from Diego Fabbri's Processo a Gesu. See Index for description. THE CRADLE SONG. G. Martinez-Sierra. English version by John Garrett Underhill. See Index for description. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. (All Groups). Musical. Carol Hall. See Index for description.

20 CHARACTERS AND OVER'

THE MYSTERIES: CREATION. Drama. Adapted by Bernard Sahlins from the medieval mystery play. Unit set. The mystery plays of the late middle ages are wonderful stories of families at work and play in relationship to a God who is not walled up in a church. This combination of unquestioning belief with scenes from ordinary life gives audiences a new perspective on the myths in Genesis. Noah, his wife and other Biblical personalities are endowed with humor and an earthy but not irreverent reality. This adaptation preserves the verse of the original plays in all its alliterative beauty while making the language accessible to modem audiences. The result is a joyous, suspenseful and satisfying drama for people of all ages. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15251) THE MYSTERIES: THE PASSION. Drama. Adapted by Bernard Sahlins from the medieval mystery plays. Unit set. This adaptation of plays about the passion of Christ which date from the Middle ages preserves the poetic beauty of the original sources while making the language accessible to modem audiences. $7.95. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#15254) JOSEPH. (All Groups.) Religious musical. Book by Earl Reimer. Music and Lyrics by Marshall Lawrence. See Index for description. SON OF MAN. Religious Play. Dennis Potter. 27 m., 3 f. (doubling possible.) Simple sets. The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest, trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man. He is portrayed as a man agonized by the feeling of divinity within him, and with all a man's capacity for suffering and pain. "Father, let me be just a man, " he cries; and, to his disciples. "He (Son of Man) cannot be other than a man, or else God has cheated-and so my Father in Heaven will abandon me to myself." The play also strongly reflects the historical and political situation in which the events occur-and examines in a new light the character and (#21266) motives of Judas Iscariot. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) TWO FROM GALILEE. Religious Drama. George Herman. Adapted from the novel by Marjorie Holmes. 11 m., 9 f. (with doubling). Cyc/., platforms, set pieces. In Nazareth, Mary marries Joseph over her mother's objections and with her father's approval. Then, old testament prophecies are fulfilled-the virgin Mary conceives the child destined to be the Messiah. This immaculate conception is disbelieved by all and Mary's sent to her sister in Jerusalem who becomes convinced Mary's story is true. Meanwhile, God's messenger visits Joseph confmning Mary's story. She returns to Bethlehem where Mary and Joseph set up housekeeping. When Joseph goes to Bethlehem for the census, Mary insists going with him. There, Mary gives birth in the stable. Miraculous sights and sounds take place. And the three Magiwhile presenting gifts-warn Joseph to go to Egypt until the danger is past. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40.) (#22005) FAMILY PORTRAIT. Play. Lenore Coffee. and William Joyce Cowen. See Index for description. CROSSES ON THE HILL. Morality. Eula A. Lamphere. 15 m., 6 f., 2 c., extras. (#5183) Available from the Archives, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) THE LADIES OF SOISSONS. Emmett Lavery, from the novel by Sidney Cunliffe(#14021) Owen. Available from the Archives, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-S25.) THE VIGIL. Biblical. Ladislas Fodor. 18 m., 6 f. See Index for description. THE MYSTERIES. Trilogy of religious plays. Tony Hanison. Large casts. Bare stage. Includes Doomsday, The Nativity and The Passioll. Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison has taken the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles of the Mystery plays and woven them into separate and infinitely varied forms of story-telling. In sequence, the trilogy tells the Bible story from the Creation to the Last Judgement, retaining the alliteration and verse-form of the originals. "Mr. Harrison ... uses words as if they were physical objects, sometimes of metal, sometimes of earth

10 CHARACTERS
A SERPENT'S TOOTH. (All Groups.) Biblical drama. Norman Beim. 8 m., 2 f. (doubling possible.) Unit sets. Intrigue and violence mark this tale of King David, his sons Absalom and Solomon, and his dream to build a glorious temple. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Published in Giants of the Old Testament, $18.95. (#21535) UP FROM PARADISE. (Little Theatre.) Musical. Book and Lyrics by Arthur Miller. Music by Stanley Silverman. See Index for description. AND ON THE SIXTH DAY . . . Musical drama. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Dave Reiser. See Index for description. THE VELVET GLOVE. Comedy. Rosemary Casey. 5 m., 5 f. Int. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#24020)

11-12 CHARACTERS
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. Channing Pollock. 7 m., 4 f. In manuscript, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#10143) A SMELL OF CINNAMON. (All Groups.) Drama. George Herman. 4 m., 8 f. Int. (#21230) Available from the Archives, $25.00. (Royalty, $35-$25.)

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THE PRAETORIUM. Drama. Lorrisa Julianus. 9 m., 3 f. The winds of change and the growing spread of Christianity in first century Jerusalem threaten the precarious

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RELIGIOUS PLAYS or of water, sometimes of stone, sometimes of cloth. Rarely, even with Shakespeare, have I felt language in the theatre so to consume the bowels, excite the senses and stimulate the imagination." -Punch. Rich in alliteration. . . . Such bold rhythm and liturgical cadence as to life the soul. . . . It is an enchanting and moving experience."-Time Out. Available from the Archives. (Royalty, $50-$40 per play.) Please state author when ordering.

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Doomsday (#6161) The Nativity (#15979) The Passion (#17093)

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TO SEARCH AND TO LOVE. Frederick L. Sauro 1 m., 1 f. Bare stage. As Adam grieves for Abel and his murderer Cain, an angel leads him toward hope for the future and trust in a loving God. Ideal for study and discussion of forgiveness, love, understanding and grief. Published in Do Not Fear the Harvest and Other Plays, $5.25. (Royalty, $10-$10.) (#22942) people, typical of the parish population, the Passion of Christ. The actors play both the historical characters in the Bible story, and the characters from their own lives, passing freely in and out of both. $5.25. (Royalty, $25-$20.) (#5633) EL CRISTO, Drama. Margaret Larkin. 4 m., 2 f. Int. A colorful drama about the universal human struggle. The scene is laid on the Mexican border and has to do with the strange and interesting customs ,of a secret religious sect. For advanced amateurs. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#7603)

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THE PEOPLE VS. CHRIST. Drama. Albert Johnson. 2 m., I f. No scenery, virtually no props. Deals with the passion of Christ in an original way. As star witness for the defense a girl named Mary demands' of the judge, "How can you try a man who's been dead two thousand years"? To which the prosecuting attorney shouts "Ask the people" and proceeds to probe the subconscious mind of the defiant girl, who has confessed to having a recurrent dream, believed to be relevant to the case. Performed in many cities and on TV, it has been widely acclaimed. $3.50. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#840)

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DO NOT FEAR THE HARVEST. Frederick L. Sauro 2 m., 5 f. A Roman matron traveling the New Testament world in search of spiritual answers finds peace while visiting an inn in Bethlehem on the night a child is born in the stable. Published in Do Not Fear the Harvest and Other Plays, $5.25. (Royalty, $20-$20.) (#6944)

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AN ACT OF WORSHIP. Frederick L. Sauro 4 m. and f. Bare stage. Based on a postulate by Kierkegaard that suggests God is the audience and we are the actors, this play about four improvising actors who must pick a play and decide how and' why they will perform is ideal for study, discussion and sermons on the relationship of God to humanity. Published in Do Not Fear the Harvest and Other Plays, $5.25. (Royalty, $10-$10.) (#3554) TURNABOUT. (All Groups.) One Act Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Ken Easton. See Index for description.

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THE ROCK. Mary P. Hamlin. 8 m., 3 f. 2 exts. The message is so genuinely spiritual that many have testified to having their lives entirely changed by taking part in the play. "Yet though it is primarily a religious play, it is one that is upheld by the technique of an experienced playwright and his actual dramatic power. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#20624)

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THE ALABASTER JAR. Frederick L. Sauro 1 m., 4 f. Int. When Jesus visits Simon the Pharisee, he brings in his wake forgiveness for Simon's daughter Miriam who has been banned from her father's house for adultery. Published in Do Not Fear the (#3839) Harvest and Other Plays, $5.25. (Royalty, $20-$20.) LOST IN MIDIAN. Norman Beim. 4 m.,1 f. Int. This play uses down-to-earth language to reveal Moses as an all too human hero with an unhappy wife and a concerned father-in-law. Moses confides the story of his flight from Egypt, his pledge to free his Hebrew brethren and his encounter with the burning bush. His wife is reconciled and prepared to support him as they pack to return to Egypt. (Royalty, $20-$15.) Published in Giants of the Old Testament, $18.95. (#13795) PUSHOVER. (All Groups.) Choral play in one act. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jack Sharkey and Ken Easton. See Index for description.

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EYES UPON THE CROSS. Playlets for Lent. Don A. Mueller. There are eight plays in the cycle-all for production in the chancel. The cycle tries to say that the people on the hill during the crucifixion, and in the homes during and after it, were not so different from the people in the audience, but had the same strengths and weaknesses, pecUliarities and problems that people have today. Thus the playlets, and the occasional probing questions of the narrator, try to make the viewer ask, "What would I do in this situation?" Or perhaps, "What will I do-with this same Christ?" $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40; individual scenes $10 each.) (#7656) WERE YOU THERE? (Reader's Theatre.) Dramatic choralogue of the Crucifixion. Harold H. Lytle. Cast: Interrogator, Reader, 6 Witnesses, Speech Choir of 12 to 50 Voices and Singing Chorus. The Interrogator questions an array of witnesses who were closely involved with Christ's death revealing their motivations, aspirations, prejudices and' mistakes. The Reader sets up each scene or situation by citing relevant passages from the Scriptures. $3.50. (Budget Play: No Royalty.)

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CHRIST IN THE CONCRETE CITY. 4 m., 2 f. Bare stage with a stepped rostrum. Written by a young Anglican priest in an industrial parish. It sets before a group of

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EVERYMAN. The old English morality play, without intermis!iion. Anonymous. 11 m., 6 f., but these may be taken by all male or female cast. The most beautiful of all the old English religious plays. Especially recommended to churches and (#7643) schools. $4.50. (No Royalty.) THE TERRIBLE MEEK. Drama. Charles Rann Kennedy. 2 m., 1 f. See Index for description. THE RESURRECTION. Drama. Rosamund Kimball. This Easter Service is composed entirely of Bible selections, arranged in dramatic form on the plan of a mystery play, picturing the incidents of the Gospel story of the Resurrection, and accompanied by selections from Bach's Passion Music and Easter Carols, adapted to easy production by young people. It is so arranged that it can be given within the (#20906) churcl1"itself. $4.50. (No Royalty.)

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Royalties quoted are for live stage productions by amateur groups with maximum seating capacities of 400. Special arrangements must be made in all cases for productions by professional groups, by amateurs with seating capacities over 400, and for television and radio broadcasting. Please see page 5 for more information about restrictions, rights, royalties and ordering.

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THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES. Comedy. Jeff Goode. 1m., l.f. (or I 8 m. and/or f.) Are you looking for something different for adult audiences at Christmas this year? Treat them to Santa's reindeer dishing out the real stuff about 01' St. Nick. Want to know the truth about him and the elves? About Rudolph's little secret? About Vixen's story that was leaked to the press? The reindeer finally speak, and they do not hold back! "Wickedly topical." -N Y. Times. "Arrestingly funny." -Village ~oice. "Delightful." -Chicago Sun-Times. "Brilliant." -L.A. Weekly. "Wickedly funny."-L.A. Times. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40.) (#7910) A TUNA CHRISTMAS. (Little Theatre.) Comedy. Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams. 2 m. (to play 22 m. and f roles). Ints., exts. In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Aries Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of A Chri&tmas Carol is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmasis a total delight for all seasons, whether performed by two quick-changing comedians as on Broadway or by twenty or more. Production requirements are minimal, making the play suitable for school and community producers as well as large venues. Audiences who have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy this laugh-filled evening. "A hoot."-NY. Times. "So funny it could make a racoon laugh affectionately at Davy Crockett. . . . It's far too good for just Christmas."-NY. Post. "The hilarity. . never lets up."-Vil/age Voice. $6.50. (Royalty, $75-$50.) Restricted .. Posters (#22264) SORRY! WRONG CHIMNEY! Farce. Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears. See index for description.

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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. Frederick Stroppel. See Index for description. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. (All Groups.) Play. Adapted by Michael Paller from the story by Charles Dickens. 5 m., 2 f, 3 c. Composite set. This fresh approach to the classic tale faithfully conveys the magic of Dickens. On Christmas Eve in 1843 friends and family gathered at Dickens' home ask him to lell a story, but he refuses to work on Christmas Eve. If there is going to be a story, each must take a part in its telling. And so the story unfolds with the cast of 10 playing over 40 parts. "Done with respect and ingenuity. Deserves to be seen."-Cleveland Free Press.-"A treat ... for the whole family to enjoy." Cleveland Sunday Press. $6.50. (Royalty, (#5100) $50-$35.) Please state adaptor when ordering.

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INSPECTING CAROL. Comedy. Daniel Sullivan. See Index for description. MERRY CHRISTMAS MISS VICKERS. (All Groups.) Comedy. Stephen Levi. 3 m., 9 f. or 6 m., 6 f Unit set. Ghosts, mystery, time travel;md the teacher from your worst nightmare return in this exciting sequel to the popular Good Morning Miss Vickers. Five teens are whisked back to 1910 where tile ghostly Miss Vickers intends to give her twelve-year-old self a Christmas present against the wishes of her demonic father, Black Angus (the last pirate). And after Christmas, Miss Vickers intends to keep her five captive students forever. "Audiences who had not seen last year's production of Good Morning Miss Vickers reacted very positively to the new play, and those familiar with Miss Vickers enjoyed this expansion of her character."-Craig Barrows, Headmaster, Berkeley Hall School. "It's a winner. . . . Fills the bill perfectly ... for student performances."-NBC News. (Also see Good Morning Miss Vickers and Hearts 'n Kisses 'n Miss Vickers.) $6.50. (Royalty, $60(#15556) $40.) MOTHER GOOSE'S GOLDEN CHRISTMAS. Children's play with music. David Wood. See Index for description.

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THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD DRAMA TIC SOCIETY'S PRODUCTION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL. (Little Theatre.) Comedy with music. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. 4 f., I m. Simple set. In a festive mood, the ladies mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and- a real Farndale first-rap their vocal cords and feet around two original, show-stopping songs. "Another classic dramatic massacre that enthralls." -Independent. "Not since the Monty Python mob dressed up as The Batley Townswomen's Guild and re-enacted the Battle of Pearl Harbor with their handbags have I tittered so much."-Daily Express. "Hilarious."-Guardian. $8.95. (Royalty, $50-$35.) (#7994) GREETINGS. Comedy. Tom Dudzick. See Index for description.

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PAPA'S ANGELS. A Christmas Story. (All Groups.) Play with music. Collin Wilcox Paxton, in collaboration with Charles Jones. Music by John Roman with arrangements by Phyllis Dunne. 6 m., 2 f, '7 children.(doubling possible) plus extras. Set inl935 high in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, this dynamic and easyto-produce family show for the holiday season is one audiences flock to see year after year. Papa Jenkins, known throughout the hills as "Grins," is a man whose guitar-playing and singing is known far and wide. When heartbreak devastates his family, his five irrepressible children prepare Christmas morning surprises that rescue their beloved Papa from the depths of despair. It is a magical tale of family love that is as heartwarming as it is funny. A musical score or cue-to-cue tape is available on receipt of a $25.00 refundable deposit, a $10.00 rental fee and a music royalty of $15-$10. "Like childhood Christmas mornings, the first taste of ice cream, family photo albums, or the sound of somebody saying 'I love you,' Papa's Angels is one of the rare things in life with the warming ability to find its way into human hearts of all ages and stay there." -Rex Reed. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40. Music Royalty, ($15-$10.) (#17821)

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*WISE WOMEN. Ron Osborne. See Index for description. A DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts. (All Groups.) Comedy. Mark Landon Smith. 4 m., 3 f Simple sets. From the author of Faith County and Faith County II comes the funniest Christmas Carol ever. The Styckes-Upon-Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over-the-hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong. $5.25. tRoyalty , $60-$50.) '" (#6932) A CHRISTMAS CACTUS. Comedy. Eliot Byerrum. See Index for description.

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THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER. (All Groups.) Comedy. Barbara Robinson. 4 m., 6 f, plus 8 boys and 9 girls. In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-and the fun-when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas

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delight. . . . The play bustles from scene to scene with holiday good cheer." -Me troland. "A Christmas gift." -Albany Times Union. "Gives kids something to cheer about."-Daily Gazette. $6.50. (Royalty, $60-$40.) Musical underscoring and accompaniment (2 CDs) and sheet music for songs "Christmas Lives Inside the Heart" available on rental. Rental fee, $10 per performance plus a $50 refundable deposit. Royalty for use of song, $10 per performance. Audio Book (2 tapes), $16.95, available from NYSTI, 37 First St., Troy, NY 12180. (#16120) A CHRISTMAS CAROL (All Groups.) Play. Adapted by John Mortimer from the story by Charles Dickens. Large cast. Simple sets. Dramatized with flair and wit in a version first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this adaptation of the ageless story captures Dickens' ironic point of view while it creates a panoramic view of Victorian London. All of the much-loved characters are in place. Cast and staging requirements are extremely flexible; there is ample opportunity for creative doubling. $8.95. (Royalty, $60-$40.) (#4977)

story head-on! "An American classic."-McCall's Magazine. "One of the best Christmas stories ever-and certainly one of the funniest."-Seattle Times. This delightful comedy is adapted from the best-selling book and the only story ever to run twice in McCall's Magazine. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$40 or 10% of the gross box (#248) office receipts, whichever is greater.) Slightly Restricted. Posters MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. (AU Groups.) Comedy with music. Adapted by Will Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke from the novel by Valentine Davies. Music by Will Severin. 10 m., 10 f., 10 c. (with doubling). Kris Kringle is the personification of good will and holiday spirit. As Macy's holiday Santa, he enchants children and shoppers so completely that he is deemed dangerous by fellow employees who question his competency and plot to ruin him. A small girl's belief in Santa and the magic of the holiday is at stake in a climactic courtroom decision. This hilarious, tender and charming show for the entire family is a Christmas classic. Originally produced by the New York State Theatre Institute. "A

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*UNDER THE BRIDGE. Book and Music by Kathie Gifford. Music by David Pomeranz. See Index for description. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Book by Christopher Bedloe. Adaptation and Lyrics by James Wood. Music by Malcolm Shapcott. See Index for description. CHRISTMAS IS COMIN' UPTOWN. Music by Garry Sherman, Book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell. Lyrics by Peter Udell. Based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. See Index for description A CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE. Revue. Conceived and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick. Musical arrangements by John Glaudin. See Index for description. THE DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merrill. Book by Robert Emmett. See Index for description. THE GIFT OF THE MAGI. Musical. Peter Ekstrom. See Index under An O. Henry Christmas. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Thomas M. Sharkey. Based on the Frank Capra film and the "Original story by Philip Van Doren Stem. See Inaex for description. THE LAST LEAF. Musical. Peter Ekstrom. See Index under An O. Henry Christmas. AN

o. HENRY CHRISTMAS. Peter Ekstrom. See Index for description.

THE SALVATION OF IGGY SCROOGE. Book by Larry Larsen and Levi Lee. Music by Edd Key. See Index for description A SANDERS FAMILY CHRISTMAS. Written by Connie Ray. Conceived by Alan Bailey. See Index for description. SCROOGE! Book, Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. See Index for description. SING A CHRISTMAS SONG. Musical. Book and Lyrics by Peter Udell. Music by Garry Sherman. See Index for description.

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CHRISTMAS: 1933. Play. Larry King. 2 m., I f. I set. At Christmas, a middle-aged man and his aged parents reflect back on the terrible Christmas Eve in 1933 when a father got lost in a blizzard with toys bought on credit so a five-year-old boy would find the magic of tMe season under his Christmas tree. The child's holiday excitement is set against the troubling realities of the Depression in a story that stresses the hardy values of a rural family and the ultimate warmth of that Christmas morning. "A wonderful script by a master storyteller." -Memphis Commercial Appeal. $4.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#5207) THE ROAD TO NINEVEH. Comedy. Le Wilhelm. See Index for description. JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR CHRISTMAS. Comedy. Peg Lynch. 2 m., I f. (Also 2 canaries and I small dog.) Int. Every Christmas we all have friends who insist on not exchanging. Then they surprise you by phoning at the last minute to say they're stopping by with "just a little something." After Ethel and Albert frantically wrap up a gift intended for somebody else, they discover the "just a little something" for them is even more of a surprise. In "Ethel and Albert Comedies. " $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#12622) THE CHRISTMAS STRANGER. Play. Charles Emery. 1 m., 3 f. Int. A charming play which captures the true meaning, and warmth of the Christmas spirit. It has had many productions and is a perennial favorite. Because a stranger passes their way, the lives of a small New England family are completely ch.anged on a Christmas. afternoon, each finding a happiness that has heretofore been elusive. Who was the Stranger? We can only guess-but, with the ending, we are more than certain that our guess is correct. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5644)

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THE RED DRAGON. Children's play. Blanch Marvin. See Index for description

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YOU BETTER WATCH OUT. Play. Don Hodgins. 4 m., 2 f., I extra. Int. It's Christmas eve at the Willow Inn and a storm is raging outside. Hosts Jenny and Tom are entertaining Jenny's grieving father at the bed and breakfast for the first time. Three travelers are forced to take refuge at the inn, including a Mr. Smith. At first, only the handyman recognizes him as the spirit of Christmas. $5.25. (Royalty, $40$40.) (#27051) A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE. Comedy. Lowell Swortzell. 3 m., 3 f. Extras. Constructed around the gifts of the twelve days of Christmas described in the wellknown medieval carol. It is the story of how Tib, a young lady, finally ends up marrying Simon, the bird seller, in the right way instead of the way her scheming, domineering mother had planned it. The popular carol is sung throughout the play. No scenery is required and needs only three benches. It has no religious connotations and can be performed by all kinds of groups. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#18615)

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DUST OF T.HE ROAD. Drama. Kenneth Sawyer Goodman. 3 m., 1 f. Int. Peter and Prudence are surprised by the entrance of a tramp who reveals himself as a wandering Judas. Peter has had entrusted to him thirty-one hundred dollars which he is tempted to keep. But the sound of thirty pieces of money tinkling in Judas' pocket convinces him of his wrong. On the dawn of Christmas day, Peter and Prudence rejoice in a new happiness that comes of honesty. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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MRS. CONEY: A TALE AT CHRISTMAS. Play with music. Belinda Bremner. 4 m., 3 f. plus musicians. Unit set. In this heart-warming and humorous memory play with music (traditional hymns and carols) set at Christmas, a writer recalls his boyhood and the Oklahoma homestead his family lost to the dust bowl. They spent the hard-scrabble winter of 1934 in Kentucky with an elderly aunt and uncle. The boy Jamie (who appears with the adult writer James) looks for Christmas in the woods and finds a wounded rabbit and a mysterious old woman. He responds to her bitterness with kindness and they exchange the real gifts of Christmas. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#15274) CHRISTMAS AT HOME. Comedy. Joseph Hayes. 3 m., 4 f. Int. The day before Christmas finds the Burgess family busy with preparations and poignantly aware that this is the first year the members of the family will not be together; son Johnny is in Chicago, and Grandpa had died last summer. But the Burgesses do not feel sorry for themselves; they realize how happy and well off they are. In humorous and touching scenes, we see sixteen-year-old Julie falling in love for the first time; eighteen-year-old Emily receiving a proposal of marriage; twelve-year-old Janet learning the real meaning of Christmas. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#5636) THE LOST CHRISTMAS. Play. Bruce Kimes. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Miss Harriet Russell, blind, embittered and lonely, conducts a personal campaign against Christmas. She tries to force her negative viewpoints upon the life and romance of her young niece. Then on Christmas Eve, a strange little man bears a gift from the ghost of Christmas Past. In a tender scene filled with mingled laughter and tears, Miss Harriet comes to know the true meaning of The Lost Christmas. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#14650) THIS WAY TO CHRISTMAS. Play. Leota Summerhays. 5 m., 2 f. Int. This is a whimsical story of how the first Christmas tree might have been bwught to the children. It is based on the troubles of a naughty elf and the efforts of the "Good Nicholas" to help him. Through doing for others joyfully, the elf, guided by the kindly Nicholas, finds the "Way to Christmas." $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22673)

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schools or churches. A humorous little play, it is yet sincerely spiritual. The production, while not difficult, gives an opportunity for original effects. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22770)

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THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER. Comedy. Thornton Wilder. 5 m., 7 f. Int. The action of this play traverses ninety years emd represents in accelerated motion ninety Christmas dinners in the Bayard home. The development of the countryside, the changes in customs and manners during this period of time as well as the growth of the Bayard family and their accumulation of property sums up vividly a wide aspect of American life. It is a serious play lightened with humor of character; it has a human, tender, moving quality both appealing and forceful. For advanced amateurs. In a revised acting version prepared by Alexander Dean. Performed in New York with Pullman Car Hiawatha and The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden. "Like a surprise holiday gift. . [these plays) shine like gems."-N.Y. Times. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#654)

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A WONDERFUL WORLDFUL OF CHRISTMAS. Play with music. Book by James Brochu. Music and Lyrics by Steven M. Schalchlin and James Brochu. 10 m., 4 f. (some children), extras. 3 simple sets. This classic for children of all ages is the story of Janie, a little-girl Scrooge, and her brother Billy. When it looks like Billy's letter to Santa won't get to him on time, the Postmaster General of the North Pole magically appears and invites the kids to join him as he picks up last minute letters from allover the world. Climaxing with a surprise appearance by Santa, this show combines an original score with several traditional sing-along favorites in a funny fantasy tour on Christmas eve. It is perfect for schools emd large or small groups. (Running time: One hour.) Music published in script. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25.) (#25193)

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GLORIA. Choral drama. Katharine Kester. II m., 4 f., extras. Int., ext. The story of a shepherd who stays behind to tend a wounded lamb; of a frightened mother (Elizabeth) fleeing Herod's wrath; and a Wise Man who saves a baby (John the Baptist). Their loving sacrifice is rewarded by a vision of the manager of the Holy Family, of the worshippers bearing gifts. A beautiful and moving play. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#9651) TIDINGS OF JOY. Drama. Elizabeth McFadden. 10 boys, 6 girls, extras, Int. A young couple, faced with eviction from their home on Christmas Eve, are befriended by a group of boys and girls from the neighboring church. A plea for charity at the Christmas season, and a reminder that any home that shelters a baby shares the august beauty of the Nativity story. A beautiful Christmas story and it combines so charmingly the modem characters with the Bible. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#22703) NO ROOM AT THE INN. Drama. Dorothy Yost. 17 m., 5 f. (choir). Int. The inn is overflowing with people who have come to pay their taxes according to Herod's edict. So the strange woman and her husband are forced to take shelter in the stable where her Child is born. Other travelers come, guided by the Star, including the Shepherds and the Magi and in the end all join worshipping the Christ Child. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.) (#16630)

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THE BALLAD OF KING WINDOWGLASS. Comedy with music. Jack Kurtz. Flexible cast. The carol "Good King Wencesias" is the basis for this lively 45minute farce. The good king endeavors to present a gift to a peasant, but encounters unanticipated difficulties regarding political correctness. Much fun is derived from the "thither and yon" of OIde English. This play is ideal for Christian and secular groups of all ages. $3.50. (Royalty, $35-$25.) (#4302) STAR SONG. Play. Florence Ryerson. 4 m., 5 f. Int. The scene is an inn on the way to Bethlehem on the night of Christ's birth. The inn's occupants are too busy with their squabbles and personal worries to sense the great, qoly event occurring in a stable nearby. Only a slave and a little lame girl are prepared for this momentous occasion. It is a very dramatic, touching play. A good opportunity for singing clubs or choirs, (#21769) but the music may be minimal if desired. $4.50. (Royalty, $20-$15.)

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THE TROUBLE WITH THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Comedy. Mary P. Hamlin. 10 m. or f. Adapted for just-before Christmas entertainments by colleges, high-

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EASY CHRISTMAS GRAB BAG. Edited by Edna M. Cahill. An excellent book of material for Christmas programs. It's a collection that will find welcome among teachers, pastors, and superintendents because the editor knows how to assemble just the right proportions of fun, beauty, old-fashioned charm and up-to-the-minute smartness. A large portion is humorous, all of it is simple to prepare, and the programs are for all ages. $5.50. (No Royalty.) (#77610) THE JUMBO CHRISTMAS BOOK. Edited by Edna M. Cahill. A jumbo collection of light and serious entertainment, religious and modem plays, plays for large and small cast for churches, schools or clubs. $5.50. (No Royalty.) (#77627) AMONG THOSE PRESENTS. Comedy. Peggy Femway. 7 f. Int. It is Christmas Eve and Mother Scott and her daughters are planning their Christmas. But because of what's happened to them, daughters Wilma and Arline believe it will be an unmerry Christmas. The Scotts befriend poor Marlyn Morris who can't pay her rent. Just when things look darkest, they receive the happiest surprise they have ever experienced and a glad Christmas spirit prevails. $4.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#3919) THE NATIVITY. Festival. Rosamund Kimball. 11 m., I f. and extras. Composed entirely of selections from the Bible story of the Nativity, arranged as a mystery play. It is accompanied by carols, and is adapted for easy production by children or young people. $4.50. (No Royalty.) (#16910) A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Play. Adapted by Cora Wilson Greenwood. from the Dickens' story. 8 m., 6 f. (1 extra). 9 informal scenes, with the voices of a commentator connecting the episodes. As miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge falls asleep in his dingy quarters on Christmas Eve, three ghosts appear, each revealing to Scrooge the wrong-doings of his life and what will happen if he continues in his evil ways. He is racked with fear and remorse and sets out on Christmas Day to bless with his newfound generosity all those whom he has neglected and abused. $4.50. Please state adaptor when ordering. (No Royalty.) (#5906) THE EMPTY ROOM. Drama. Dorothy Clarke Wilson. 4 m., 3 f. Int. Because he believed a prince was coming that night, the ambitious innkeeper kept one room empty. Blinded by his love of gold, he lost an opportunity for service and came to recognize the carpenter's son the promised "Prince of Peace." A Christmas message of strong spiritual appeal. Available from the Archives. (No royalty.) (#7612)

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*BANANA MAN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Narragansett. Balloon Rat. Wild Turkey. Mooncalf. The Tale of the Johnson Boys. Banana Man. Ida Lupino in the Dark. Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight. Great Slave Lake. (#4252) $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play.) See individual titles for descriptions. *THE BLONDE AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS. David Paterson. These awardwinning one-acts are ideal for scene studies, two-person auditions, scene nights and showcases. CONTENTS: The Blonde. Thanksgetting. Final Approach. Closure. One Last Time. The Gate. "Paterson creates stories bristling with character, texture and wit."-Village Voice. "Intelligent, funny."-Time Out NY. "Rewards in abundance."-N.Y. Times. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 if perfonned together.) See individual titles for descriptions. (#4898) *FAWLTY TOWERS. John Cleese and Connie Booth. Ints. All 12 complete and unexpurgated scripts of the celebrated television sit-com are collected in this volume.Fawlty Towers is the best-loved bad hotel in the world and here we meet the manic snob Basil; his over-coiffured and domineering wife Sybil, the hopeless but ever-hopeful waiter Manuel, the calm and capable Polly, and the steady stream of abused guests. CONTENTS: A Touch of Class, The Builders Class, The Wedding Party, The Hotel Inspectors, Gourmet Night, The Germans, Communication Problems, The Psychiatrist, Waldorf Salad, The Kipper and the Corpse, The Anniversary and Basil the Rat. See individual titles for descriptions. (Please note that these scripts have not been specifically adapted for the stage.) $18.00. (Royalty, $35-$35 (#71125) per episode.) *MISTER PARADISE AND OTHER PLAYS. Tennessee Williams. Edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis with a foreword by Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. Plays in this collection where chosen from over seventy previously unpublished one-acts and short works. $15.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play.) ,(#73767) MISTER PARADISE. I m., I f. (#14840) ADAM AND EVE ON A FERRY. 1m., 2 f. (#3506) THANK YOU KIND SPIRIT. 4 m., 8 f. plus extras. (#22584) ESCAPE. 3 m. ( #7105) SUMMER AT THE LAKE. 1m., 2 f. (#20895) AND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF QUEENS. 3 m., I f. THE GREAT GROMBOOLIAN PLAIN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: The Great Gromboolian Plain. The Sin-Eater. Ballerinas. The Lost Girl. The Babel of Circular Labyrinths. Seance. The Dead Wife. Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties.

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ISRAEL HOROVITZ: 5 SHORT PLAYS. CONTENTS: Free Gift. Speaking Well of the Dead. Three Weeks After Paradise. Security. A Mother's Love . . See Index under individual titles for descriptions. $8.95. (Royalty, $35-$25 per play or $75$75 if perfonned together.) (#21973) JUDGEMENT CALL AND OTHER PLAYS. Frederick Stroppel. A collection of darkly comic plays by the author of Single and Proud and Other Plays. CONTENTS: Judgment Call. Soulmates. Chain Mail. Perfect Pitch. Coelacanth. . See Index under individual titles for descriptions. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play or $60-$60 if perfonned together.) (#12658) THE KUKKURRIK FABLES. (All Groups.) Comedy. Oscar Mandel. Forty-two playlets for two to ten perfonners can be perfonned with or without sets, with or without script in hand. Select a couple for an audition or show filler or present a full evening of tales. "Delightful.... Best described as modem Aesop fables."-Hollywood Reporter. ;'Combines both hippie and established wisdom into whimsy."-Variety. "Full of unexpected points and deep lessons, biting jest and good-natured humor. . . . The effect. . . is at once rollickingly funny and impressively serious. . . . Truly a banquet." -Der Bund, Bern. "Drool and charming."-L'Express, Paris. "Among the season's happy surprises."-International Herald Tribune. $6.50. (Royalty, $15-$15 per playlet or $60-$60 perfonned together.) (#13060) The Sociable Swallow (#21471) The Perfidious Spider (#17833) The Cock Who Made the Sun Rise (#5835) The Fox and the Crow (#8206) Conversation Between a Bulldozer and a Mouse (#5840) How God Bested the Devil (#10951) The Pony Who Came to a Stream (#17854) The Stork Who Praised Long Necks (#21477) The Termite and the Ant (#22282) The Tycoon and the Architect (#22311) The Three Revolting Animals (#22299) The Moth who Disguised Himself as a Dragon (#15731) A Flea Protests (#7977) Landscape with Cloud and Dunes (#13827) Hank the Salesman (#10564) The Flattered Hippopotamus (#7976) The Crow and the Beggar (#5839) Agamemnon's Cupbearer (#3558) Banquet in Venice (#4278) A Bone of Contention (#4727) The Lunatic Pigeon (#13805) The Innovation (#10985) The Spinster, the Canary and the Cat (#21474) The Tiger Who Became Humane (#22287)

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The Two Mice (#22305) The Lucky Pebble (#13803) The Rock and the Sea (#20155) The Faithful Gardener (#7965) The Sparrow and the Executive (#21468) The Caterpillar and the Leaf (#5864) The Parliament of Animals (#17827) The Rich Ibis and the Pauper Thrush (#19951) The Dragon of Helgoland (#6228) The Conceited Minnow (#5837) The Queen and the Poodle (#19027) A Conference of Kings (#5838) How God Learned What Measure Is (#10952) The Eagle on the Mountain (#6962) The Squirrel Who Was Caught in a War (#21475) The Belly of the Whale (#10984) The Journey of a Cow (#12655) Aesop's Apology (#3557) LOVE ALLWAYS. Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. These short plays, most no more than ten minutes, are by the authors of Lovers and Other Strangers, Bedrooms and It Had to Be You. About the foibles and follies of love and lovers, some are excellent for college and high-school performers and others are suited to older actors. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play or $60-$40 when the plays in each group are performed together.) (#14693) ACTS OF LOVE AND OTHER COMEDIES (#7580) Gina's Birthday The Love of Susan's Life Maureen's Gift Eleanor's One Magical Moment Stefanie's Arena Barbara's First PARADISE FOLLIES (#17962) Marilyn and David Biff, Dickie, Carmel and Roberta Tony and Madelaine Pete, Nick and Family Barry, Betty and Bill LOVE ALLWAYS (#14692) Steven and the Achiever Benny and the Woman Mario and Yvette You Waste Your Life You Know Who and What's His Name MANHATTAN LOVE SONGS-BRONX CHEERS (#15580) Tony and Ruth Jack, Sharon and Russell Jimmy and Evelyn Herb, Erica, Stuart and Joanne OFFOFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL PLAYS. The best plays entered in the annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival as judged by New York theatre professionals. See Index for individual descriptions. 4th Series: An Empty Space. Nothing Immediate. Open Admission. $6.50. (#17921) 5th Series: Batbrains. Me Too, Then! "Hello, Ma!" $6.50. (#17922) 6th Series: A Bench at the Edge. Seduction Duet. $6.50. (#17923) 7th Series: MD 20/20. Passing Fancy. $6.50. (#17924) 8th Series: Dreamboats. A Change from Routine. Auto-Erotic Misadventure. $6.50. (#17925) 9th Series: Now Departing. Something to Eat. The Enchanted Mesa. The Dicks. Piece for an Audition. $6.50. (#17926) 10th Series: Delta Triangle. Dispatches from Hell. Molly and James. Senior Prom. 12:21 p.m. $6.50. (#17927) 11th Series: Daddy's Home. Ghost Stories. Recensio. The Ties That Bind. $6.50. (#17928) 12th Series: The Brannock Device. The Prettiest Girl in Lafayette County. Slivovitz. Two and Twenty. $6.50. (#17930) 13th Series: Beached. A Grave Encounter. No Problem. Reservations for Two. Strawberry Preserves. What's a Girl to Do. $6.50. (#17932) 14th Series: A Blind Date with Mary. Bums. Civilization and Its Malcontents. Do Over. Tradition JA. $6.50. (#17933) 15th Series: The Adventures of Captain Neato-Man. A Chance Meeting. Chateau Rene. Does This Woman Have a Name? For Anne. The Heartbreak Tour. The Pledge. $6.50. (#17935) 16th Series: As Angeles Watch. Autumn Leaves. Goods. King of the Pekinese Yellowtail. Uranium. Way Deep. The Whole Truth. The Winning Number. $6.50. (#17941) 17th Series: Correct Address. Cowboys, Indians and Waitresses. Homebound. The Road to Nineveh. Your Life Is a Feature Film. $6.50. (#17951) 18th Series: How Many to Tango? Just Thinking. Last Exit Before Toll. Pasquini the Magnificent. Peace in Our Time. The Power and the Glory. Something Rotten in Denmark. Visiting Oliver. $8.95. (#17952) 19th Series: Awkward Silence. Cherry Blend with Vanilla. Family Names. Highwire. Nothing in Common. Pizza: A Love Story. The Spelling Bee. $8.95. (#17957) 20th Series: A Winter Reunion. The Appointment. The Art of Dating. Snow Stars.

ANTHOLOGIES AND PLAYS IN COLLECTIONS Life Comes to the Old Maid. Pavane. $8.95. (#17685) 21st Series: Whoppers. Dolorosa Sanchez. At Land's End. In with Alma. With or Without You. Murmurs. Ballycastle. $8.95. (#17694) 22nd Series: Brothers. This Is How It Is. Because I Wanted to Say. Tremulous. The Last Dance. For Tiger Lilies Out of Season. The Most Perfect Day. $8.95. (#17695) 23rd Series: The Way to Miami. Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist. Meridian, Mississippi Redux. Studio Portrait. It's Okay, Honey. Francis Brick Needs No Introduction. $8.95. (#17700) 24th Series: The Last Cigarette. Flight of Fancy. Physical Therapy. Nothing in the World Like It. The Price You Pay. Pearls. Ophelia. A Significant Betrayal. $8.95. (#17701) 25th Series: Strawberry Fields. Six Inch Adjustable. Evening Education. Hot Rod. A Pink Cadillac Nightmare. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. $8.95. (#17703) 26th Series: Tickets, Please! Someplace Warm. The Test. A Closer Look. A Piece Replaced. Three Tables. $8.95. (#17705) 27th Series: Born to Be Blue. The Parrot. Flights. A Doctor's Visit. Three Questions. The Devil's Parole. $8.95. (#17706) 28th Series: Leaving Tangier. Blueberry Waltz. Along for the Ride. A Low-lying Fog. Quick and Dirty. $8.95. (#17707) 29th Series: Feet of Clay. All in Little Pieces. The King and the Condemned. Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. The Casseroles of Far Rockaway. My Wife's Coat. $8.95. (#17708) PALESTRINA AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Palestrina. Demonology. MacNaughton's Dowry. Netherlands. The Bohemian Seacoast. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#17819) PENDRAGON PLAYS. Don Nigro. This complex series of full-length and oneact plays follows the fates of the many Pendragon family members whose origin is Armitage, Ohio. See Chronicles, The Circus Animals' Desertion, Deflores, Dramatis Personea, Fisher King, Horrid Massacre in Boston, Laestrygonians, November, Palestrina, Pendragon, Sorceress, The Reeves Tale, Things that Go Bump in the Night, Tristan and Uncle Clete's Toad. For a complete list of Pendragon plays, see The Basic Catalogue of Plays and Musicals. PLA YS BY AUGUST WILSON. This renowned cycle of plays traces the black experience in American decade by decade. Two have won Pultizer Prizes. See Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1911), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1927), The Piano Lesson (1936) , Seven Guitars (1948), Two Trains Running (196Os) Jitney (1970) , King Hedley II (1980s). Also See Fences in the Basic Catalogue of Plays and Musicals. PLAYS FOR CHILDREN: Two Volumes. Blanche Marvin. Written in different styles of theatre, this is a rich and varied collection for children of all ages that is ideal for school and professional productions. Audience participation is encouraged in the unique versions of fairy tales and holiday stories. See Index for descriptions and royalties. CONTENTS (Volume I): Birthday of the Infanta. The Firebird. The Legend of Scarface a.nd Bluewater. The Pied Piper. $6.50. (#77455) CONTENTS (Volume II): The Emperor's New Clothes. Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella. The Littlest Tailor. Arabian Nights. Peter and the Wolf. Alice in Wonderland. Pinocchio. The Red Dragon. Mr. Easter Bunny. Crowning Glory. $9.00. (#17938) PLAYS TO PLAY WITH EVERYWHERE. Dramas. Sally-Anne Milgrim. One-act plays about young people at odds with the adult world. The audience is asked to suggest solutions before the play's conclusion is presented, Questions and activities follow under the headings of "Can We Talk?", "You Are the PlaywrightlWriter," and "Spotlight on You, the Performer." CONTENTS: And None for the Road. Meeting at the Mets. Do You Know Where Your Pare1lts Are? "Hold Fast to Dreams-". Indifferent Wave Lengths. Sitting Ducks. $11.00. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#18960) SINGLE AND PROUD AND OTHER PLAYS. Frederick Stroppel. CONTENTS: Single and Proud. Mamet Women. Package Deal. Domestic Violence. Morning Coffee. $6.50. (Royalty, $35-$25 per play.) See Index for descriptions. (#21156) TALES FROM THE RED ROSE INN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CON TENTS: Tales from the Red Rose Inn. Chi/de Rowland to the Dark Tower Came. Lucy and the Mystery of the Vine-Encrusted Mansion. Darkness Like a Dream. Joan of Arc in the Autumn. Warburton's Cook. Higgs Field. Things that Go Bump in the Night. Uncle Clete's Toad. Malefactor's Bloody Register. Capone. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#22595) 25 TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE. Forward by Jon lory. Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned these lO-minute pieces by outstanding playwrights for instructional and performance use by their Apprentice Company. All are perfect for actors in their teens and early twenties. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) (#22260) SPADES. Jim Beaver. 3 m. (#21657) BREAD. Andy Backer. 2 m., 2 f. (#4658) ATTACK OF THE MORAL FUZZIES. Nancy Beverly. 4 m., 5 f. (#3678) EATING OUT. Marcia Dixcy. 3 f. (#7625) APm OPERA. Michael Bigelow Dixon & Valerie Smith. 2 m., 2 f. (#3683) THE ROAD TO RUIN. Richard Dresser. 3 m., I f. (#20654) THE DRUMMER. Athol Fugard. I m. (#6719)

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HELEN AT RISK. Dana Yeaton. 2 m., I f. (#10694) YOUR OBITUARY IS A DANCE. Bernard Cummings. I m, I f. (#27054) TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, VOL UME 4. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. Foreword by Jon Jory. Here are more short plays that are ideal for classes and showcases. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) (#22272) KEEPER. Frederick Bailey. 2 m., I f. (#13604) MISREADINGS. Neena Beber. 2 f. (#15553) UNDER LUBIANKA SQUARE. Constance Congdon. 1m., 2 f. (#23037) HEAD ON. Elizabeth Dewberry. 2 f. (#10572) COURTING PROMETHUS. Charles Forbes. I m., I f. (#5305) A NEW LIFE. Corinne Jacker. 2 m. (#16908) OFF THE RACK. Robert D. Kemnitz & Jennifer McMaster. 2 f. (#16962) REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION. Tony Kushner. 4 m., 2 f. (#20123) W ATERBABIES. Adam LeFevre. 2 f. (#25624) JUST ONE NIGHT. Kim Levin. 1m., 2 f. (#12917) COMPATIBLE. Anna Li. 1 m., If. (#5300) STARS. Romulus Linney. 12 m., 1 f. (#21419) WHAT I MEANT WAS. Craig Lucas. 2 m., 2 f. (#25904) MAKING THE CALL. Jane Martin. 1 m., I f. (#23040) THESINEATER. Don Nigro. 1 m., 2 f. (#21151) AUGUST AFTERNOON. Rich Orloff. I m., I f. (#3159) 187. Jose Rivera. 1 m., I f. (#16968) IF SUSAN SMITH COULD TALK. Elaine Romero. 4 f. or 1m., 3 f. (#11126) GAVE HER THE EYE. John Sheehy. 1m., 2 f. (*8998) AT SEA. Mayo Simon. I m., If. (#3716) THE LEAGUE OF SEMISUPERHEROES. Val Smith & Michael Dixon. 4 m., 2 f. (variable) (#13842) THE UNINTENDED VIDEO. Dale Griffiths Stamos. I m., I f. (#23035) MEDIAN. John Stinson. 1 f., 2 m. (#15551) THE GUEST OF HONOR. Richard Strand. 2 m., 1 f. (#9204) TOKEN TO THE MOON. Brian Christopher Williams. I m., I f. (#22193) CONTRACT WITH JACKIE. Jimmy Breslin. I m., I f. (#5302) TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, VOL UME 5. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. Foreword by Jon Jory. Here is another collection for short plays in this popular series for classes and showcases. $8.95. (Royalty, $20$15 per play.) (#1,2275) SLOP CULTURE. Robb Badlam. 2 m., 2 f (#21424) WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Richard Dresser. I m., If. (#25235) LA WYERS, GUNS & MONEY. Thad Davis. 2 m., I f. (#13835) PRECIPICE William Mastrosimone. 1 m., I f. (#18979) ACORN. David Graziano. 1m., 1 f. (#3841) MEOW. Val Smith. 3 f. (#15520) LET THE BIG DOG EAT. Elizabeth Wong. 4 m. (#13838) SEEING THE LIGHT. Robert McKay. 3 m. (#20958) DRIVE ANGRY. Matt Pelfrey. 2 m. (#6229) MPLS, ST. PAUL. Julia Jordan. 1m. I f. (#15529) FORTY MINUTE FINISH. Jerome Hairston. 2 m. (#8685) JUST BE FRANK. Caroline Williams. 1m., 4 f. (#12649) THE BLUE ROOM. Courtney Baron. I m., If. (#4270) LABOR DAY. Sheri Wilner. 3 m., 3 f. (#13828) DANCING WITH A DEVIL. Brooke Berman. 1m., 2 f. (#6573) THE PRICE Shem Bitterman. I m., I f. (#18982) ROADTRIP. Victoria Norman Brown. 1 m., 1 f. (#20667) AFTER. Carol K. Mack. 2 f. (#2997) SINGLETON, THE WINNER. Thomas Babe. 3 m. (#21549) PROCESSIONAL. Jennifer McMaster & Robert Kemnitz. 3 m., 2 f. (#18981) LONELY. Ann Marie Healy. 1 m., 2 f. (#13793) LUNCHTIME. Rob W. Marcato. 1 m., 2 f. (#13806) TATTOO. Jane Martin. 3 f. (#22598) DAMAGES TO TONY. Matthew Southworth. 1 m., 1 f. (#6211) INTERVENTION. Anne Washburn. 3 m., 3 f. (#11927) TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, VOL UME 6. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. This addition to the popular series of short plays that are ideal for classes and showcases contains 25 works.$8.95.(Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) (#22278) GUILT. Billy Aronson 2 m., 2 f. (#9717) GUYS. Robb Badlam. 2 m. (#9718) CREEP SQUARE. James Christy. 1 m., 1 f. (#5853) KUWAIT. Vincent Delaney. 2 m., I f. (#13628) TRASH ANTHEM. Dan Dietz. I m. or f., I f. (#22945) NIGHT VISITS. Simon Fill. 1 m., 2 f. (#16111) FIDDLE AND FADDLE. Tom Gilatto. 2 f. (#8595) FIT FOR FEET Jordan Harrison. 1m., 3 f. (#7966) THE OFFICE. Kate Hoffower. 3 f. (#16940) THE DIVINE FALLACY. Tina Howe. I m., If. (#6232) SWAN LAKE CALHOUN. Yehuda Hyman. 2 m., If. (#21964) NIGHTSWIM. Julia Jordan. 2 f. (#16117) HOUSE OF CARDS. Richard Keller. 2 m., 2 f. (#10181) SALESGIRL. Stephen Levi. I m., I f. (#21503) BETWEEN TWO FRIENDS. Stephen McFeely. 2 m. or f. (#4885)

PERFECT. Mary Gallagher. 1 m., 2 f. (#18660) LOYALTIES. Murphy Guyer. 2 m., 2 f. (#14674) "THE ASSHOLE MURDER CASE". Stuart Hample. 3 m., 1 f. (#3681) DOWNTOWN. Jeffrey Hatcher. 2 m., I f. (#6716) ELECTRIC ROSES. David Howard. 2 m., 1 f. (#7626) 4 A.M. Bob Krakower. 3 m., 1 f. (#8674) AMERICAN SAINT. Adam LeFevre. 3 m., I f. (#3682) WATERMELON BOATS. Wendy MacLaughlin. 2 f. (#25611) INTERMISSION. Daniel Meltzer. 2 m., 4 f. (#11642) LOVE AND PEACE, MARY JO. James Nicholson. 1 m., I f. (#14675) MARRED BLISS. Mark O'Donnell. 2 m., 2 f. (#15957) SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES AGAIN. Dennis Reardon. 3 m., 2 f. (#21805) THE FIELD. Robert Spera. 2 m. (#8907) COVER. Jeffrey Sweet, with Stephen Johnson & Sandra Hastie. 2 m., I f. (#5767) THE DUCK POND. Ara Watson. 2 m., I f. (#6717) LOOKING GOOD. John W. Williams. 2 m. (#14676) COLD WATER. Lee Blessing. 2 m., I f. (#5765) CAMERAS. Jon Jory. 6 m & f. (#5774) MORE TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE. This sequel to the best-selling anthology contains contemporary plays by some of the world's most important writers. All are perfect for classes and showcases. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$15 per play.) (#22270) LYNETTE AT 3:00. Jane Anderson. 2 m., I f. (#14940) OUT THE WINDOW. Neal Bell. 1 m., 1 f. (#17670) CONFESSION. Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. 2 m., 1 f. (#5810) ARIZONA ANNIVERSARIES. John Bishop. 1m., 2 f. (#3705) MENTAL RESERVATIONS. Roger Cornish. 1 m., If. (#14966) AFTER YOU. Steven Dietz. I m., I f. (#3886) PYRAMID EFFECT. Marcia Dixcy. 3 m., 3 f. (#18210) BED AND BREAKFAST. Richard Dresser. 2 m., 3 f. (#3949) VISITING DAD. Judith Fein. 2 m., 1 f. (#24056) AMERICAN WELCOME. Brian Friel. 1 m. (#3702) WHAT SHE FOUND THERE. John Glore. 1 m., 1 f. (#25220) EYE TO EYE. Chris Graybill. 2 m., I f. (#7130) THE INTERROGATION. Murphy Guyer. 1 m., If. (#11667) SCRUPLES. Jon Jory. 1 m., 4 f. (#21092) THE MAN WHO COULDN'T DANCE. Jason Katims. I m., I f. (#14950) MIXED EMOTIONS. Rob Krakower. 3 m., 3 f. (#14977) SUNDAY GO TO MEETIN'. Shirley Lauro. 4 f. (#21945) GOING NOWHERE APACE. Glen Merzer. 1m., 3 f. (#9170) PROCEDURE. Joyce Carol Oates. 2 f. (#18205) GOBLINS PLOT TO MURDER GOD. Mark O'Donnell. 2-6 m. or f. (#9930) PILLOWTALK. John Pielmeier. 2 m., 2 f. (#18194) PROBLEMSOLVER. Michael Bigelow Dixon & Valerie Smith. 3 m., 2 f. (#18204) LAST DAY OF CAMP. Jeffrey Sweet. 2 m., I f. (#13852) EUKIAH. Lanford Wilson. 2 m. (#7090) THE GOLDEN ACCORD. Wole Soyinka. 2 m., I f. (#9931) THE VISIT. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, trans. by Steve Jones. I m., I f. (#24057) TENMINUTE PLAYS FROM ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, VOL UME 3. Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky. Foreword by Jon Jory. The third in this popular series of short plays by prominent writers is, like the preceding volumes, perfect for classes and actors' showcases. $8.95. (Royalty, $20$15 per play.) (#21994) QUIET TORRENTIAL SOUND. Joan Ackermann. 1m., 2 f. (#19019) THAT ALL OF US SHOULD BE FED. Eliza Anderson. 2 f. (#21996) THE LAST TIME WE SAW HER. Jane Anderson. I m., I f. (#13857) LYNETTE HAS BEAUTIFUL SKIN. Jane Anderson. 2 m., I f. (#14938) DRIVE. Neal Bell. I m., I f. (#6195) EXECUTIVE DANCE. Joe DiPietro. 2 m. (#7095) BREAKING THE CHAIN. Michael Bigelow Dixon & Val Smith. 1m., 2 f. (#4742) HARDBOILED. Deborah Lynn Frokt. 3 m. (#9999) GO LOOK. Christopher Graybill. 1 m., 1 f. (#9705) A PRIVATE MOMENT. Stephen Gregg. 2 m., 2 f. (#18221) ONE HUNDRED WOMEN. Kristina Halvorson. 1m., 2 f. (#17673) POISON. Elliott Hayes. 1 m., 1 f. (#18217) TWOPART INVENTION. Michael Hollinger. 2 m. (#22266) WHAT WE DO WITH IT. Bruce MacDonald. 1 m., I f. (#24992) BROKEN HEARTS. Kevin R. McLeod. 3 f. (#4225) WHAT WASN'T SAID, WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. Bob Manning. 2 m., I f. (#25217) POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. Jane Martin. 2 m. (#18218) STONES AND BONES. Marion Isaac McClinton. 2 m., 2 f. (#21347) TAPE. Jose Rivera. 1m., 1 m. or f. (#21988) LOVE POEM #98. Regina Taylor. 1m., 2 f. (#14201) THE APPEASEMENT. Holger Teschke, trans. by Phil McKnight. 2 m. or f. (#3936) OUTLAWS. E.H. Wasserman. 5 f. (#17675) SO TELL ME ABOUT THIS GUY. Dolores Whiskeyman. 2 f. (#21349)

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COMMODITY. Steve Moulds. 2 m. (#5319) BODY TALK. Tanya Palmer. 3 f. (#4237) JERRY SPRINGER IS GOD. Matt Pelfrey. 3 m., 3 f. (#12596) PAPER THIN. Lindsay Price. 1 m., I f. (#17802) DAY OF OUR DEAD. Elaine Romero. 2 f. (#6540) SCHEHERAZADE. Emily Roderer. 1 m., I f. (#21507) GAME THEORY. Peter Sagal. 2 m. (#9591) TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE. Mary Michael. I m., I f. (#22307) FOUL TERRITORY. Craig Wright. I m., I f. (#8686) THE INDIVIDUALITY OF STREETLAMPS. Anna Gorish. I m., I f.

ANTHOLOGIES AND PLAYS IN COLLECTIONS THE GYPSY WOMAN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Binnorie. The Death of Von Horvath. Ragnarok. Ringrose the Pirate. The Gypsy Woman. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#9180) "HELLO, MAl" AND OTHER PLAYS. Trude Stone. Four one-act plays examine life from a mature point of view. CONTENTS: "Hello, Ma!" One Question. She Needs Me. Whatever You Say. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties.

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A WAY WITH WORDS. Frank D. Gilroy. CONTENTS: A Way with Words. Fore. Match Point. Real to Reel. Give the Bishop My Faint Regards. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#25033) WASP AND OTHER PLAYS. Steve Martin .. CONTENTS: Zig Zag Woman. Patter for a Floating Lady. Wasp. Guillotine. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#25623) ARE YOU NORMAL, MR. NORMAN? AND OTHER SHORT PLAYS. David Henry Wilson. This is a brilliant collection of one-acts by the British master of the absurd. "Has a freshness and individuality of its own. He clearly has an instinct for what 'comes off on the stage'." -Financial Times. CONTENTS: Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? The Escapologist. The Death Artist. The Wall. The Fourth Prisoner. Wendlebury Day. If Yer Take a Short Cut, Yer Might Lose the Way. $8.95. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play.) See Index for descriptions. (#3671) ETHEL AND ALBERT COMEDIES. Peg Lynch. CONTENTS: Dutch Treat. Fishing Hat. What's That Tune. To Open Pry Cover. Just a Little Something for Christmas. Ideal for churches, schools and little theatre productions. $6.50. See Index for individual descriptions. (#7645) THE DAY THE WHORES CAME OUT TO PLAY TENNIS AND OTHER PLA YS. Arthur Kopit. CONTENTS: Chamber Music. The Questioning of Nick. Sing to Me Through Open Windows. The Hero. The Conquest of Everest. The Day the Whores Came out to Play Tennis. See Index for royalties and descriptions. $6.50. (#386) THE BRUTE AND OTHER FARCES. Anton Chekhov. Translated by Eric Bentley and by Theodore Hoffman. All the farces of the great dramatist in sprightly translations. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$15 each play.) (#4112) THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO (#10612) SWAN SONG (#21823) THE BRUTE (#4688) MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (#15635) SUMMER IN THE COUNTRY (#21390) WEDDING (#25637) THE CELEBRATION (#5616). ENCOUNTERS. Leonard Melfi. Six one-act plays about up-tight people looking for fulfilling styles of love. CONTENTS: Birdbath. Lunchtime. Halloween. Ferryboat. The Shirt. Times Square. $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per play.) See Index for descrip(#7618) tions. AN EVENING OF ONE-ACT STAGERS FOR GOLDEN AGERS. Albert M. Brown (member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers). These short, easy-tostage plays that do not require a great deal of action can even be used as readings if some elderly people have difficulty memorizing lines. $6.50. (Royalty, $25-$25 or $20-$15 per play.) (#7647) FIVE ONE ACT PLAYS BY MARK TWAIN. Jules Tasca, adapted from Mark Twain's short stories. CONTENTS: Cannibalism in the Cars. A Medieval Romance. Membranous Croup. Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning. Support Your Local Police. $6.50. (Royalty, $50-$35 or $20-$15 per play.) (#8047) GENESIS AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Animal Salvation. Boneyard. The Dark. Diogenes the Dog. Frankenstein. Genesis. Haunted. Horse Farce. Madrigals. $8.95. See index for descriptions and royalties. THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES: Five Monologue Plays. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Dead Men's Fingers. Axis Sally. How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth? Notesfrom the Moated Grange. Full Fathom Five. Published in Cincinnati and Other Plays, $8.95. (#9696) GLAMORGAN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Glamorgan, The Weird Sisters, Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer, Within the Ghostly Mansion's Labyrinth, Give Us a Kiss and Show Us Your Knickers, Necropolis, Squirrels, and Major Weir. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#9190) GREEN MAN AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Specter. The Daughters of Edward D. Boit. The Woodman and the Goblins. Green Man. Hierony(#9161) mus Bosch. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties.

INFAMOUS PEOPLE. Norman Beim. Included are seven powerful plays about wellknown, scandalous figures. CONTENTS: A Fool of Passion. Chessman. Cock of the Walk, Vampires in L.A. Lonely Places. On Edge. If Love Were All. $18.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#11137) LATER ENCOUNTERS. Leonard Melfi. Contains the Taxi Tales collection produced on Broadway and Rusty and Rico and Lena and Louie, a success Off-Off Broadway. CONTENTS: Taffy's Taxi. Tripper's Taxi. Toddy's Taxi. The Teaser's Taxi. Mr. Trucker's Taxi. Rusty and Rico. Lena and Louie. $7.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#14914) MY FAMILY, THE JEWISH IMMIGRANTS. Norman Beim. Love Story. A Walk Among the Flowers. By the Waters of Babylon. A Rose of Sharon. My Dinner with (#15288) Mark. Ziegelbaum's Journey. $18.95. THE NECKLACE AND OTHER STORIES. Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Jules Tasca. CONTENTS: Father and Son. Forbidden Fruit. The Necklace. The Devil. The Establishment at Aries. That Pig, Morin. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and (#15990) royalties. OUTRAGEOUSl AND OTHER COMEDIES. Jules Tasca. CONTENTS: Outrageous. Make-Up. A Modern Proposal. Italian Rum Cake. Extraction. Gums. Deus X. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#17686) PlRANDELLO'S ONE-ACT PLAYS. Translated by Willianl Murray. CONTENTS: The Vise. Sicilian Limes. The Doctor's Duty. The License. Chee-Chee. At the Exit. The Imbecile. The Man with the Flower in His Mouth. The Other Son. The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship. Bellavita. I'm Dreaming, But Am I? $7.50. (Royalty, $25$25 per play.) See Index for descriptions. (#18905) RACES. Mario Fratti. Seven one-act plays on life in New York. "Engrossing, literate and sophisticated. I recommend these plays for those with a penchant for murder mysteries mixed with social significance."-Alice Barnet-Stage. CONTENTS: Fire. The Refusal. Rapes. The Other One. The Bridge. White Cat. Dialogue with a (#76229) Negro. $6.75. ROBERT PATRICK'S CHEEP THEATRICKS. Plays, monologues and sketches by a leading Off-Off Broadway playwright. CONTENTS: I Came to New York to Write. The Haunted Host. Joyce Dynel. The Arnold Bliss Show. Help I Am. Lights. Camera Obscura. Action. One Person. Preggin and Liss. The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness. Cornered. Still-Love. $7.50. See Index for descriptions and (#20921) royalties. SIX AWARD WINNING PLAYS. Norman Beim. CONTENTS: On a Darkling Plain. Shakespeare Revisited. Dreams. Inside. Jewel Thieves! The Deserter. See Index for descriptions and royalties. $17.95. (#76066) SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Something in the Basement. Lurker. Bible. The Devil. Scarecrow. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. SOUTHERN EXPOSURES: Five Plays About Life in the South. Jason Milligan. CONTENTS: Instincts. Lullaby. Can't Buy Me Love. Spit in Yazoo City. Willy Wallace Chats . .. With the Kids. $6.50. See Index for descriptions and royalties.

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WINCHELSEA DROUND AND OTHER PLAYS. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Autumn Leaves. Border Minstrelsy. Golgotha. The King of the Cats. Madeline Nude in the Rain Perhaps. Mink Ties. Picasso. Sudden Acceleration. Winchelsea Dround. $8.95. See Index for descriptions and royalties. (#25227) PLAYS BY CHEKHOV. Translated by Tyrone Guthrie-Claude Kipnis. Available from the Archives, $25.00 each. Please state translator when ordering. Royalty CHERRY ORCHARD (#5084) $50-$35 THREE SISTERS (#22084) $50-$35 UNCLE VANY A (#23011) $50-$35 PLAYS OF STRINDBERG. Translated by Evert Sprinchorn. These accurate translations by the leading authority on Stringberg are brilliant and widely accepted throughout the world. Each play is meant to take but about ninety minutes in performance. Available from the Archives, $25 each. Please state translator when ordering. Royalty A DREAM PLAY (#6120) $50-$35 CRIME AND CRIME (#5730) $50-$35 TO DAMASCUS, PART I (#22717) $50-$35 THE GHOST SONATA. (#9031) $50-$35 THE PELICAN (#18625) $50-$35 PLAYS FOR READERS' THEATRE. A collection of six popular classics. Macbeth, Tartuffe, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Importance of Being Earnest, Lysistrata. By Albert and Bertha Johnson. $6.75. No Royalty for classroom or study purposes. Royalty when performed before an audience, $20-$20 per play.) (When (#18932) ordering state titles for production.)

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BURLESQUE HUMOR REVISITED. Burlesque revue. Dick Poston. 2 m., I f. Bare stage. Three burlesque-type performers (a straight man, a comic and a talking lady) "demonstrate" newly adapted versions of 12 classic burlesque standards. Compiled from authentic skits, the sketches have been edited and updated by Joey Faye's former straight man to retain the flavor of burlesque while catering to today's tastes and values. Individual sketches can be incorporated into vaudeville or musical variety shows or the entire collection can provide an evening's hilarious entertain(#4710) ment. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per skit.) FIVE AND TEN. Sketches. Tom Taggart. This is a collection of seventeen short sketches and blackouts designed for simple production in an amusing manner. $6.50. (#8911) (No Royalty.) FOR WOMEN ONLY. Tom Taggart. Designed for occasions when women take over the entertainment, these fifteen humorous skits range from five-minute blackouts with two characters to hilarious fifteen-minute burlesques. They are all clean, may be done with only one or two rehearsals, and will prove especially popular with girls' schools, camps, clubs, etc. They may be performed singly or together with (#8912) musical numbers to provide a full-length revue. $6.50. (No Royalty.) FOUR BARS OF 'AGIT': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama. David Mayer and Matthew Scott. Preface by Sir Peter Hall. This unique collection of supplemental music for melodramas features songs from the folio of Alfred Edward Cooper, found by chance and purchased by the London Theatre Museum. An introduction by David Mayer sets the scene for the fifty-nine original melos. Matthew Scott has faithfully reproduced the music, adding his own transposition into a minor key for several pieces. With notes on the use and meaning of the melos, this book offers wonderful insights into theatrical heritage-a working book for today that comes straight from the pages of history. $12.95. (#51112) GASLIGHT GAIETIES. Variety show. Tom Taggart. This authentic gay nineties show contains farces, afterpieces, burlesques, monologues, melodramas, novelties, recitations, first parts and olios edited for modern production. Full directions are given for staging a variety show with all the nostalgia and fun of the Gaslight Eraand so simple to produce that a full evening's entertainment of skits, interspersed with song and dances, may be assembled with a minimum of rehearsal. $6.50. (Performance license granted with the purchase of six copies.) Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50. Four Bars of 'Agit': Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95. (#9919) THE GAY NINETIES SCRAPBOOK. Edited by John G. Fuller. Blackouts, sketches, readings, songs, old-fashioned meller-drammers, minstrels and other materials offer a complete revue with a gay nineties flavor. There are short, burlesque melodramas of East Lynne, Ten Nights in a Barroom and Uncle's Tom's Cabin as well as famous old readings and ballads. $5.50. (No Royalty.) (#9610) THE LAFF REVUE. Vaudeville show. Lansing Corbert. This lively, fast-paced variety show is ideal for any number of people. Most of the action takes place in the olio in front of a simple drop and when the show does move to full stage, drapes may be used in lieu of scenery. It may be used as a one-act or a full evening's entertainment by adding more specialties, places for which are spotted throughout. Characters include a master of ceremonies, a comedian who is a show in himself, a host of pretty girls and as many specialty artists who can sing, dance or recite. $6.50. (Budget Play. First performance free, Royalty, $10 each additional performance.) (#14904) LISTEN TO THIS. Sketches and monologues. Michael Frayn. See Index for description. NOTHING BUT NONSENSE. Revue. Ward Bremer. This complete comedy revue, professional in type but designed for amateurs to do with minimal expense, parodies familiar television programs. There are ten skits of varying lengths and for various, sized casts interspersed with musical specialties. No special sets are required and only a piano is needed for the musical accompaniment. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#16913) QUICK TRICKS. Sketches. James Reach. Contains sixteen short, amusing sketches: It's a Small World, The Spirit Is Willing, What Are You Selling, Slightly Exaggerated, Help the Blind, No More Murders, The Villain Still Pursued Her, P.S. He Got the Job, At the Zoo, A Perfect Gentleman, Congratulations My Dear, The Whole Truth, A Vel}' Good Reason, The First Biscuit, The Initiation, The Philosopher. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#19605) THE ROARING TWENTIES SCRAPBOOK. Edited by John C. Fuller. This companion to the Gay Nineties Scrapbook provides complete material for your own roaring twenties revue: blackouts, sketches, monologues, suggested staging, patter, opening and closing numbers--all in the nostalgic fllOod of the decade. For a carefree evening, your group can bring back the memories of the Charleston, Black Bottom, tasseled skirts, raccoon coats, and striped blazers. Simple production, stag(#20917) ing minimal. $5.85. (No Royalty.) SHORT AND SWEET. Tom Taggart. Monologues, sketches, blackouts and burlesques can be presented separately or interspersed with musical numbers for a fullevening's variety show or an hour revue. The skits run from five minutes to half an hour and require, at the most, six players. All are clean and may be done with a minimum of rehearsal and production facilities. They should prove popular with clubs, lodges, camps, and summer hotels. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#21906) SONGS OF THE GAY NINETIES AND OTHER OLD l'A VORITES. Compiled by Bill Hardey. Edited by Hugo Frey. Here is a lively collection of period music that is an ideal source of songs to use when producing melodramas. $7.50. (#21301) THE STILL ALARM. Satirical Comedy. George Kaufman. (See index for description.) STUNT PLAYS. (Clubs). Owen Kelly. Fifteen bright, short dramatic sketches for your club night include Nine and Twenty Candles, Doctor!. To Meet the Duke, The Scandal, Mlle. Tania, It Happens Every Day, A Maiden in Distress, Bless Our Home. A la Carte, The Interview, His First Case, An Evening of Bridge, The 13th Trump, The Proposal and First of May. $6.50. (No Royalty.) (#21928)

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ACTORS WRITE FOR ACTORS. Deborah Cowles Scott, Jason Milligan and Robert Spera. Most of these audition monologues were written for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Apprentice Company. This book is ~ must for every actor's library. $5.95. No Royalty for audition purposes only. (Royalty, $20-$20 per monologue.) (#2992) ALL NEW SCENES FOR ACTORS. Jill Donnellan. These 22 scenes are geared to those over 15 who are looking for something different, something a little disconcerting and perhaps a little shocking. $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 per scene.) (#3942) ALL NEW SCENES FOR THE YOUNG ACTOR. Jill Donnellan. This collection of 14 scenes about contemporary topics appeals to actors and actresses from 6 to 15. Issues range from baby-sitting and violin lessons to drugs and stolen money. $7.50. (Royalty, $25-$20 per scene.) (#3943) BETH HENLEY: MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN. Beth Henley. These monologues are wrought with insightful and sensitive speeches that sparkle with originality and the gift of the poet. Selections are from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart, The Wake of Jamey Foster, Abundance, The Lucky Spot, The Miss Firecracker Contest, and other works. $9.95. (#79222) BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY. Jason Milligan. One hundred monologues (50 for men and 50 for women) are arranged in pairs of contrasting characters who express differing views on wide-ranging topics, a scheme that helps performers of all ages gain valuable insights that enhance their ability to showcase acting skills. There is something for everyone in this sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic, always compelling book of audition materials. $8.95. (#4936) CITY WOMEN. Cynthia Smith. Twenty-one powerful, contemporary monologues get to the heart and soul of urban women. They are gritty, honest, no-holds-barred audition pieces. $9.95. (#79218) CLASS ACTION. Brad Slaight. See Index for description. CLASS ACTS. Classical Monologues wr the Contemporary Actress. Collected, edited and introduced by Rick DesRochers. Focus is on helping actresses create audition pieces from classical drama that are alive with concern and emotion. Vivid translations, historical backgrounds and tips on finding what is contemporary and important about each piece accompany the speeches of the finest female characters from Greek, Jacobean, Elizabethan, Renaissance, Restoration and eighteenth-century drama. $8.95. (#78130) CLASSIC MOUTH. Lydia Cosentino. For boys and girls, here is a collection of speeches taken from children's literature: Little Women, Tom Sawyer, The Wind in the Willows, Heidi, Robinson Crusoe and Anne of Green Gables, among others. $8.95. (#77041) A Collection of DRAMA TIC SKETCHES AND MONOLOGUES. David Mamet. Short dramatic pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre and other classics are exceptional scene and monologue pieces as well as entertaining reading. $7.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per
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GOING SOLO. Jason Milligan. This collection is jam-packed with wonderful audition monologues: 50 for men and 50 for women. Whether you are auditioning for agents, casting directors, producers, acting teachers or directors, this collection by a co-author of the successful Actors Write for Actors and Encore! will provide exactly what you need. $6.50. No Royalty for audition purposes only. (Performance royalty on application.) royalty quotation. (#9171) IDS AND HERS. Jason Milligan. Here are 150 original monologues by the author of the popular collections Actors Write for Actors, Encore! and Going Solo. Each features sharply defined characters with clear-cut objectives designed to showcase individual talents. $8.95. No royalty for audition purposes only. (Royalty, $15-$15 per monologue.) (#10905) KID'S STUFF. Ruth Mae Roddy., The 30 speeches in this collection are written generically to be used by girls or boys. Each is short, presented in large-type format and accompanied by a lined worksheet. $9.95. (#72222) KNAVES, KNIGHTS AND KINGS. Selected, compiled and edited by Dick Dotterer. Speeches for men from the works of Shakespeare that focus on contrasts and emotional ranges are enhanced with notes on the speaker, setting and intent of the piece. Introductions give acting tips including ways to pull the audience into the performance. $8.95. (#72223) LISTEN TO THIS. Michael Frayn. This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of Noises Off, Benefactors and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. (see list below). $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per sketch.) (#14189) Value for Money (Monologue) At the Sign of the Rupture Belt Do You Think Your Are? ( 1 2 m . , 1 f.) m., 1 f) Confession (Monologue) Through the Wilderness (3 m., 1 f.) Glycerine (1 m., 1 f.) An Occasion of this Nature Heaven (1 m., 1 f.) Blots (Monologue) (Monologue) Listen to This (1 m., 1 f.) Sons and Customers (3 m., 1 f.) Head to Head (Monologue) Never Mind the Weather (Monologue) The Property Speculators (3 The Messenger's Assistant (2 m., 1 f.) m., 1 f) Pleasure Shared (Monologue) A Little Peace and Quiet (1 m., 1 f.) LOVE AND STUFF. Susan Pomerance. Contemporary monologues for teenage girls embrace subjects germane to their lives. All are ideal for auditions, workshops and class work. $9.95. (#71276) MINUTE MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS. Ruth Mae Roddy. Here are some short, contemporary scene-study pieces for boys and girls aged 7 to 11. $9.95. (#70419) MONOLOGUES FOR TEENAGE GIRLS. Susan Pomerance. Here is a scene-study book every teenage actress will find necessary for her dramatic studies. The subject matter is modern, hip, and cuts to the quick of contemporary issues. $9.95. (#77742) MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN. Susan Pomerance. This collection offers some fresh scene-study pieces for actresses. $9.95. (#79227) MONOLOGUES FROM MOLIERE. Edited by Dick Dotterer. This definitive collection of Moliere's speeches in English includes a comprehensive introduction by the editor, an authority on Moliere. $9.95. (#15234) MORE MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS. Ruth Mae Roddy. Comedic and dramatic speeches feature contemporary approaches to subjects close to today's young people. Each of the 28 pieces is presented in a large-type format accompanied by a lined work-sheet. $9.95. (#15243) MORE MONOLOGUES FOR TEENAGE GIRLS. Susan Pomerance. Excellent (#71575) speeches deal with issues relevant to today's young women. $9.95. MORE MONOLOGUES FOR TEENAGERS. Roger Karshner. Contemporary speeches that are adult in approach pull no punches in addressing modern issues with frankness and candor. $9.95. (#71557) NEIL SIMON MONOLOGUES: Speeches from the Works of America's Foremost Playwright. Edited by Roger Karshner. Speeches from Broadway hits from Come Blow Your Hom through Jake's Women are compiled in an invaluable scenestudy book. A play synopsis and exposition of setting and intent precede each (#73331) delightful monologue. Introduction by Jack Lemmon. $15.95. NEIL SIMON SCENES. Edited by Roger Karshner. Here is a wide-ranging selection of scenes from the works of one of America's most renowned playwrights. $14.95. (#72461)

Two Conversations (#22773) Film Crew (#8916) Four A.M. (#8665) Food (#8919) Deer Dogs (#6685) Two Scenes (#22251) Yes (#27603) Dowsing (#6696) In the Mall (#11644) Yes But So What (#27604) Cross Patch (#5735)

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ENCORE! Jason Milligan, Deborah Cowles-Scott and Robert Spera. This collection of original audition monologues for a broad spectrum of ages and types is by the authors of the popular Actors Write for Actors. $6.50. (Performance royalty on application.) (#7077) FITTING IN. Raf Mauro. Speeches for boys and girls reflect the importance of belonging. Mr. Mauro's Magic Mirror Theater plays to thousands of children throughout Southern California. $8.95. (#76135) FOR WOMEN: POCKET MONOLOGUES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Dick Dotterer. Included are fifty-six monologues form Shakespeare's greatest female characters, captured in a pocket-size volume. $9.95. (#78302) FUNNYLOGUES FOR WOMEN. The Best of Dramaline Comedy. Mort Kaufman, Roger Karshner and Zelda Abel. Comedy monologues for men and women treat familiar topics and situations with comedic incisiveness. A brief exposition precedes each selection. $9.95. (#71268)

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MONOLOGUES, READINGS, SCENES AND DIALECT TAPES character with a known play was very freeing. I have had more positive feedback and compliments with Sackett's monologue than with any other piece I have used in auditions."-Barbara Courtney. "Pamela's monologues . . . always make people sit up and listen." -David Silverman. $8.95. (No royalty for audition purposes only. (#22932) For public performance, apply for royalty quotation.) TWO MINUTES TO SHINE, BOOK IV. Pamela Sackett. Here are more original. contemporary monologues for auditioning men and women. This addition to the popular series contains the broadest spectrum of monologues yet, inspired by actors and actresses of diverse backgrounds and styles. $8.95. (No royalty for audition (#22798) purposes only. For public performance, apply for royalty quotation.) VITAL SIGNS. Jane Martin. A sensation at the Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, this monologue play by the author of Talking with and What Mama Don't Know contains over 30 brief (audition-length) monologues. See Index for description. $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per monologue or $60-$40 when presented as a collection.) (#24019) WHEN KIDS ACHIEVE. Raf Mauro. These scene-study pieces for preteen boys and girls celebrate achievement and promote self-esteem. Each speech makes an uplift(#77043) ing, positive statement. $8.95. WINNING MONOLOGUES FROM THE BEGINNINGS WORKSHOP. Peter Sklar and Mark Weston. The founder of the famous Beginnings Workshop and a veteran playwright have teamed up to produce this collection of stage-tested monologues for actors aged 5 to 18. These monologues stress self-esteem as well as creative potential. Several have been used to land parts on Broadway. "Peter Sklar's work with children.. . . reflects a rare sensitivity toward the needs of young professionals and a thorough knowledge of the business." --Richard Reed. $8.95. (#70201) WOMEN'S SCENES AND MONOLOGUES: An Annotated Bibliography. Joyce Devlin. Here is an exhaustive survey of scenes and monologues that lists sources and offers notes on the plays and individual scenes. An ideal reference for teachers and students, it is a must for the serious actress. $9.95. (#25902) WORDS OF WOMEN. Dianne Luby. Helpful Notes on Performing the Monologue is a priceless preface to this peerless collection of nineteen monologues for women in dramatic, comedic and fantasy roles. Advice from a professional on delivery, auditioning and being successful is interspersed throughout. $6.50. (No royalty for audition purposes; $25-$25 per monologue for performances.) (#24998) VOICES. Edited by Lydia Cosentino. Taken from famous writings, these powerful pieces represent a wonderful collection of readily usable speeches for actresses. Notes identifying the speaker and establishing setting and intent enhance each selection. $12.95. (#74230) AMERICANA. Virginia Sale. Monologues for women from the renowned repertoire of Virginia Sale, and all acted by her with great success in transcontinental tours. Included are The Life of the Party, Movie Mama, The P.1:A. Meets in Our Town, Bicycling on Cape Cod, The Boy Friend and Successful Business Woman. $6.50. (#3906) ANYBODY WE KNOW? Clay Franklin. Here is a collection of thirty modem life studies for men and women that are sure to delight an audience. From the foreword by Imogene Coca: "( laughed out loud when I read these monologues. .. I strongly recommend them just for reading--certainly for performing." $6.50. (#3909) AUDITION PIECES AND CLASSROOM EXERCISES. Jack Sharkey. One of America's favorite playwrights of hilarious farce suitable for the whole family has selected scenes and monologues from some of his most successful plays, including Here Lies Jeremy Troy and Saving Grace. Styles from comic to serio-comic are included. $7.50. (#3939) BEATRICE HERFORD'S MONOLOGUES. Beatrice Herford. Here are seventeen monologues by the originator of this form, including those that are favorites with her audiences and that have made her renown as an author of ullusually brilliant satirical ability. $6.50. (#4920) CINCINNATI AND OTHER PLAYS: Monologues for the Theatre. Don Nigro. CONTENTS: Captain Cook. Nightmare with Clocks. Cincinnati. $8.95. See Index (#5773) for descriptions and royalties. CONTEMPORARY SCENES FOR CONTEMPORARY KIDS. Kat SawyerYoung. Original scenes for actors aged ten through seventeen using contemporary dialogue are ideal for auditions, professional showcases, or classroom exercises. The author, a professional children's acting teacher, had her students play these twelve scenes to agents in Los Angeles to great success. There are six scenes for two girls, four for two boys and two for a boy and girl. $5.85. (#5748) DAUGHTERS: A Series of Monologues for Young Women Designed for a Full Evening Production. Maya Levy. This award-winning writer offers nine monologues for teen actresses, each dealing with loneliness and search. Some are funny, some serious; all are filled with compassion. rich language and theatricality. $5.25. (Royalty, $40-$40 or $10 per monologue.) Please specify ,author when ordering. (#6905)

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DIALECT PLAY READINGS. Compiled by Louise M. Frankenstein. Here is a broad collection of dialect readings, including Italian, German, Cockney, Irish, Scotch, Spanish, Black American and others. Particular care has been exercised to reprint selections which have the actual dialectic peculiarities spelled out to indicate proper pronunciation. $6.50. (#6910) FIRST PERSON SINGULAR. Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Sharp, crisp sketches done in the first person singular are ideal for use in programs, for reading aloud and to enjoy reading to oneself. $6.50. (#8913) FOR WOMEN: MONOLOGUES THEY HAVEN'T HEARD. Susan Pomerance. This fresh collection of modem speeches written from a woman's point of view addresses paramount issues confronting contemporary women: rape, equal rights, sex, etc. Both comedic and dramatic, thc;!se timely speeches are noteworthy for their insights and originality. $9.95. (#8931) FOR WOMEN: MORE MONOLOGUES THEY HAVEN'T HEARD. Susan Pomerance. This new collection of contemporary scene-study pieces is an ideal companion book to the popular For Women: Monologues They Haven't Heard. $9.95. (#8931) THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES: Five Monologue Plays. Don Nigro. See Index for description. HIGH SCHOOL MONOLOGUES THEY HAVEN'T HEARD. Roger Karshner. The author of the successful Monologues for teenagers and Scenes for Teenagers offers a collection of comedic and dramatic speeches dealing with subjects relevant to today's youth: home, friendship, school, sex, AIDS, drugs, abortion, and the realities of modem society. Many contain bold and uncompromising language. $9.95. (#10918) JUNIOR PLAYREADINGS. Volume. Edited by Louise M. Frankenstein. The success of Play-Readings prompted the editor to undertake a collection of readin~s from modem plays for grade school and junior high students. $6.50. (#12914) LITERATURE ON STAGE. Readers Theatre Anthology. Adapted and edited by Dr. James W. Carlsen and Dr. Melvin R. White. Contains five tested, actable plays for platform reading. The Beggar and the Wallet. From Leo Rosten. 3 f.: I narrator. A parable about a beggar, a rich man and a wise man. (#4629). Hard Travelin'. A tribute to Woody Guthrie adapted by James L. Johnson. 12 roles, 5 readers. Powerfully uses the sung and spoken word to depict the people and country Guthrie loved and scorned. (#10609). From the Insane Asylum. A compiled script of poems selected from a group in the collection of the same name by Joseph Kaufer. 6 or more readers. Takes place in a waiting room of a mental institution in which the readers portray inmates of various ages and with different problems. (#8651). Life With Daughter. Based on a column by Al Martinez. 1m., 2 f. A hilarious farce concerning a high school actress, her mother, and her explosive newspaper columnist father. (#14080). The Last Summer. Based on a story by George P. McCallum. 9 m., 6 f. A nostalgic, autobiographical journey back to depression days. (#14617). $6.50. (Royalty, $20-$20 per piece.) (#662) MIXED COMPANY. Clay Franklin. Whether you read them aloud for your own amusement, use them for classroom projects and auditions or enact them on a stage before an audience, you will find these monologues highly diverting. From the foreword by Greer Garson: "A kindly sense of humor and acute observation illumine his gallery of recognizable contemporary portraits." $6.50. (#15929) MODERN SCENES FOR WOMEN. Susan Pomerance. Superb, contemporary duets deal with issues relevant to women. These authentic, original, incisive scenes are a must for modem actresses. $8.95 (#78895) MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS. Ruth Mae Roddy. Twenty fresh, contemporary speeches address subjects close to kid's hearts: school, pets, parents, friends, etc. Speeches are an ideal length, are written as children speak and are presented in a large-type format, making them perfect for classes, workshops and auditions. $9.95. (#71549) MONOLOGUES FOR MEN. Richard Corson. These monologues have been applauded from coast to coast as the author-well known in the professional theatrehas toured with them. His characters are varied and he moves easily from comedy to satire, showing penetrating insight into people around us. $5.50. (#15938) MONOLOGUES FOR TEENAGERS. Roger Karshner. Thirty original speeches use grit and candor to address drugs, acne, alcoholism, work, cars, sex, music, dating, death of a parent, divorce, movies, pregnancy, loneliness, suicide and other provocative slices of the real world of teenagers. Wonderful for auditions, classes and workshops, all of these comedic and dramatic monologues are written in straightahead language. $9.95. (#75937) MONOLOGUES FROM CHEKHOV. Edited by Mason Cartwright. Translated from Chekhov's major plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard-these monologues provide an invaluable collection of monologues from the important works ofthe Russian master. $8.95. (#78593) MONOLOGUES FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. Edited by Ian Michaels. This compilation of speeches from Candida, You Never Can Tell, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, The Philanderer and others contains the pith of

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gold mine of contemporary materials for amateurs and professionals to use in auditions, workshops and special readings. $6.50. (#22921) 30 MODERN SCENES. Roger Karshner. Contemporary scenes for man/man, woman/woman, and man/woman pairs are written in language that lives, making them ideal for workshops, auditions and special readings. $8.95. (#22922) THUS PLAY IN ONE PERSON MANY PEOPLE. Matjorie Moffett. These twelve monologues are among the sketches that won the author recognition on Broadway, on radio and in her platform appearances. Foreword by Daniel Frohman. In manuscript, $25.00. (#22909) VEST POCKET THEATRE. Alan Armer and Walter E. Grauman. Twenty television playlets~hoice selections from the NBC talent program Lights, Camera, Action are augmented with prefatory notes on TV acting. Most of the ten melodramas, five

MONOLOGUES, READINGS, SCENES AND DIALECT TAPES

comedies, three dramas and two farces are for one young actor and one young actress. Excellent for study, audition and presentation, they may be used as complete playlets or as scenes. (No Royalty for amateur stage presentation, closed circuit TV or auditions. For all other uses, apply for a royalty quotation.) $6.50. (#24023) WOMAN: Ten One-Act Scenes. Susan Pomerance. These contemporary, relevant scenes for actresses may be delivered singly or together as a complete theatre piece. Topics include a woman's job hunting anxieties, a sister confronting the reality of AIDS, and the ruminations of a small-town girl regarding life and love after one of her frequent assignations. Rich with humor to pathos, the selections all deal with situations germane to today's woman. $8.95. (#25722) A WOMAN SPEAKS. Edited by Lydia Cosentino. Here is a bountiful source of material for actresses from the writings of the courageous women who laid the groundwork for liberating women. $12.95. (77880)

DIALECT TAPES AND CDS

DIALECT ACCENTS. David Alan Stern. Prepared by a speech and dialect coach to the stars who has taught at several universities and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, these programs are used in over 750 university theatre departments and more than 1,000 high schools. Each packet contains a manual and an hour-long instructional cassette or CD. Manual and Cassette, $16.95. Manual and CD, $21.95. Please specify the dialect you are ordering and the format (tape or CD). dialects: Texan, Irish, British, French, New York City, Boston, Mountain Southern, Chicago, German, Yiddish, Span\sh, Cockney, and Italian. Each is applied in a contemporary speech. Book and Cassette, $19.95.Boork and CD, $24.95 Casst~tte and Book (#56908) DIALECT MONOLOGUES, VOLUME I-CD VERSION. Roger Karshner and David Alan Stern. Listen to the CD while following the text to learn the speeches and the thirteen dialects (Texas, Irish, British, French, New York City, Boston, Mountain Southern, Chicago, German, Yiddish, Spanish, Cockney and Italian). Book and CD in a durable 5 112 x 8 112 plastic binder, $22.95. (#54454) DIALECT MONOLOGUES, VOLUME II. Roger Karshner and David Stern. This cassette and corresponding book of monologues covers 14 additional dialects: Black African, Northern Irish, English South African, Welsh, Cajun, Canadian, Dutch South African, LiverpUdlian, Asia Indian, Hebrew, New England, Australian, Russian and Scottish. Book and Cassette, $19.95. (#59277) DIALECT MONOLOGUES, VOLUME II-CD VERSION. Roger Karshner and David Alan Stern. Covers Black African, Northern Irish, English South African, Welsh, Cajun, Canadian, Afrikaans, Liverpudlian, Asian Indian, Hebrew, Down East New England, Australian, Russian and Scottish dialects in the same format as Volume I (see above). Book and CD are packaged in a durable 5 112 x 8 112 plastic (#54455) binder. $24.95. ACCENTS FOR ACTORS. Gillian Lane-Plescia. The author is a professional dialect consultant who works extensively in the American theatre from Broadway to the West Coast. She has prepared dialect tapes that provide authentic listening material featuring native male and female speakers. Each cassette or CD is accompanied by an easy-to-follow manual that includes a special section on intonation and uses the International Phonetic Symbol notation system. Accents for Actors is widely used by professional performers throughout the world. Cassette and Manual, $14.95. CD and Manual. $19.95. Please specify the dialect your are ordering. Black African, West Indies, Carribean, Australian Aboriginal & African-American (90 minutes): CD (#52142) Black South African. British South African & Afrikaaner (70 min.): CD (#73891) Australian and New Zealand (60 min.): Tape (#50665) Standard British (75 min.): Tape (#56993) CD (#56994) Cockney-Street London (60 min.): CD (#50474) British North Country: Generic, Tyneside, Liverpool, Midland (75 min.): Tape (#50435) CD (#50436) Scots (75 min.): Tape (#53988) CD (#56685) German & Dutch (70 min): CD (#56685) Irish: Dublin and Northern Ireland (65 min.): Tape (#51212) CD (#50476) Irish: Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Kerry,. Cork & Dublin (60 min.): Tape (#51213) CD (#50477) Welsh (60 min.): Tape (#75912) CD (#778992) American South: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee & Southern Mississippi (90 min.): Tape (#50992) CD (#50470) American South: Arkansas, New Orleans, Northern Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina & Virginia (90 min.): Tape (#50993) CD (#50471) Italian (75 min.): CD (#54489) Russian & Slavic (60 min.): CD (#50472) Spanish (60 Min.): CS (#79175)

Acting with an Accent Chicago: Tape (#50427) CD (#60427) Boston: Tape (#50422) CD (#60422) New York: Tape (#50403) CD (#60403) Down East New England Tape (#50425) CD (#60425) Farm & Ranch: Tape: (#50428) CD (#60422) Southern America: CD (#60404) Texas: Tape (#50413) CD (#604i3) Upper Class New England: Tape (#50426) CD (#60425) British: CD (#60401) British North: CD (#79140) Cockney: Tape (#50402) CD (#60474) Arabic: Tape (#50430) CD (#60430) Australian: Tape (#50423) CD (#60423) French: CD (#60409) German: CD (#60410) Italian: Tape (#50408) CD (#60408) Irish: Tape (#50405) CD (#60405) Norwegian & Swedish: Tape (#50432) CD (#60432) Persian (Farsi): Tape (#50431) CD (#60431) Russian: Tape (#50411) CD (#60411) Scottish: Tape (#50406) CD (#60406) Spanish: Tape (#50407) CD (#60407) Polish: Tape (#50429) CD (#60429) West Indian & Black African: Tape (#50424) CD (#60424) Yiddish: Tape (#50412) CD (#60412) Speaking Without an Accent for Native Speakers of English
Choose the dialect closest to your own or use #58396 for a generic accent. Elevated & Classic American: Tape (#58396) New York & New Jersey: Tape (#50414) Chicago: Tape (#50445) Southern & Texas: Tape (#50415) Black Dialects: Tape (#50419) Pennsylvania, Delaware & Baltimore: Tape (#50444) Mid-West Farm: Tape (#50446) Boston & New England: Tape (#50417) England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa: Tape (#50448)

Acting with an Accent Sound and Style of American English: Accent Reduction for Speakers of English as a Second Language 3 Cassettes with Manuel, $29.95.(#50447)
DIALECT MONOLOGUES. Roger Karshner and David Alan Stern. This cassette or CD with a corresponding book of monologues offers instruction in thirteen essential

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ACTING
ACTING IN FILM. Michael Caine. $16.95. (#71246) Video, $29.95. (#51246) ACTING IN RESTORATION COMEDY. Simon Callow. $14.95. (#73119) ACTING: THE FIRST SIX LESSONS. Richard Boleslavsky. $20.95. (#70070) ACTING LESSONS WITH ALVINA KRAUSE. DVD, $20.00. (#76734) AN ACTOR PREPARES. Constantin Stanislavski. $21.95. (#79837) AN ACTOR'S HANDBOOK. Constantin Stanislavski. $19.95. (#77997) ALL ABOUT METHOD ACTING. Nick Manderino. $20.95. (#79434) ART OF COARSE ACTING. Michael Green. $8.95. (#71113) AUDITION. Michael Shurtleff. $7.99. (#72950) AUDITION FOR THE MUSICAL THEATRE. Fred Silver. $12.95. (#74922) BUILDING A CHARACTER. Constantin Stanislavski. $18.95. (#79829) CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR. Uta Hagen. $26.00. (#70400) COLD READING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT. Basil Hoffman. $12.95. (#77451) CREATING A ROLE. Constantin Stanislavski. $21.95. (#79810) DIRECTORY OF THEATRE TRAINING PROGRAMS, 9TH EDITION. Jill Charles, Editor. $39.50. (#79190) HENDERSON'S MAJOR MAILING LABELS OF NYC CASTING DIRECTORS. $19.00. (#79998) HOW TO SELL YOURSELF AS AN ACTOR. K. Callan. $18.95. (#73675) ON METHOD ACTING. Edward Dwight Easty. $6.99. (#75227) ON THE TECHNIQUE OF ACTING. Michael Chekov. $15.00. (#70371) A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR. Melissa Bruder et. al. $9.95. (#74128) REGIONAL THEATRE DIRECTORY, CURRENT EDITION. Jill Charles. . $29.50. (#79247) RESPECT FOR ACTING. Uta Hagen. $19.95. (#73905) SANFORD MEISNER ON ACTING. Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwella. $13.'95. (#70594) SPEECH FOR THE STAGE. Evangeline Machlin. $22.95. (#70155) STANDARD BRITISH FOR ACTORS. Gillian Lane-Plescia. Cassette and Booklet, $14.95. Please state author when ordering. (#56993) STRASBERG'S METHOD. S. Loraine Hull. $27.95. (#74390) TRUE & FALSE. David Mamet 11.00. (#76717) GREAT MONOLOGUES FROM THE HUMANA FESTIVAL. Eric Kraus, Editor. $7.95. (#79008) GREAT MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG ACTORS. Craig Slaight and Jack Sharrar, Editors. $11.95. (#73377) MONOLOGUES FROM LITERATURE. A Sourcebook for Actors. Marisa Smith and Kristin Graham, Editors. $12.95. (#75357) MOVING PARTS: MONOLOGUES FROM CONTEMPORARY PLAYS. Nina Shengold and Eric Lane, Editors. $15.00. (#79923) 100 MONOLOGUES: AN AUDITION SOURCE BOOK FROM NEW DRAMATISTS. Laura Harrington, Editor. $6.99. (#76885) SCENES AND MONOLOGUES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE. Frank Pike and Thomas G. Dunn, Editors. $6.99. (#75471) SCENES FOR STUDENT ACTORS. Frances Cosgrove. $6.75 per volume. Volume I (#21911). Volume 2 (#21912) Volume 3 (#21913) Volume 4 (#21914) Volume 5 (#21915) Volume 6 (#21916) SOLO: BEST MONOLOGUES OF THE SO'S FOR MEN. Michael Early and Phillip Kell, Editors. $6.95. (#79651) SOLO: BEST MONOLOGUES OF THE 80'S FOR WOMEN. Michael Early and Phillip Kell, Editors. $6.95. (#70966) THE ULTIMATE SCENE AND MONOLOGUE SOURCEBOOK. Ed Hooks. $18.95. (#78415) WINNING MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG ACTORS. Peg Kehret. $15.95. (#78155) YOUNG ACTORS WORKBOOK. A Collection of Specially Chosen Scenes and Monologues with Directions for the Actors. Judith Roberts Seto. $13.00. (#71029)

FOR DIRECTORS
CREATIVE PLAY DIRECTION. Robert Cohen and John Harrop. $106.00. (#79266) DIRECTING YOUR DIRECTING CAREER. K. Callan. $18.95. (#72982) THE DIRECTOR'S VOICE. Arthur Bartow. 16.95. (#70747) LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL. Peter Filichia. $14.95. (#79473) ON DIRECTING. Harold Clunnan. $15.00. (#73503) A SENSE OF DIRECTION. William Ball. $19.95. (#70820) THEATRE GAMES FOR REHEARSAL: A DIRECTOR'S HANDBOOK. Viola Spolin. $19.95. (#75544)

SCENES AND MONOLOGUES

ACTING NATURAL. Monologues, Dialogues & Playlets for Teens. Peg Kehret, Editor. $15.95. (#70844) ACTOR'S BOOK OF CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES. Stefan Rudnicki, Editor. $14.00. (#76766) ACTOR'S BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY STAGE MONOLOGUES. Nina Shengold, Editor. $15.00. (#76493) ACTOR'S BOOK OF MOVIE MONOLOGUES. Marisa Smith and Amy Schewel, Editors. $14.00. (#79134) ACTOR'S BOOK OF SCENES FROM NEW PLAYS. Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, Editors. $15.00. (#74879) ACTOR'S SCENE BOOK: VOLUME 1. Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler, Editors. $7.~9. (#73668) CONTEMPORARY SCENES FOR STUDENT ACTORS. Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler, Editors. $13.95. (#71532) ENCORE! MORE WINNING MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG ACTORS. Peg Kehret. $15.95. (#70542) GREAT SCENES AND MONOLOGUES FOR CHILDREN, AGES 7 -14. Craig Siaight and Jack Sharrar, Editors. $11.95. (#72264)

FOR PLAYWRIGHTS
DRAMATISTS SOURCEBOOK. $21.95. (#70577) IN THEIR OWN WORDS: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS. David Savran. $18.95. (#72704)

FOR DESIGNERS AND TECHNICIANS

BACKSTAGE HANDBOOK. An D1ustrated Almanac of Technical Information. Paul Carter. $18.95. (#74848) STAGE LIGHTING HANDBOOK. Francis Reid. $24.95. (#70139) STAGE MANAGEMENT. Laurence Stem. $56.00. (#74662)

FOR COMMUNITY THEATRES

THEATRE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION IN AMERICA. Producing for the Commercial, Stock, Resident, College and Community Theatre. Stephen Langley. $37.50. (#71150)

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ACTOR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PAUL MUNI. Jerome Lawrence. "I was enthralled. Congratulations on a beautiful story of life and art and a consummate artist." -Greer Garson. "Rich, full, entertaining and deeply researched. " -Variety. Paul Muni was one of the greatest performers of our time, but Actor is more than the story of one man's on-and off-stage life-for Muni was many men. This book is the saga of every actor who strives for perfection, who hides in public. Laced with humor, rich in anecdotes, it is both an affectionate and analytical study of a talented and tortured man. Jerome Lawrence has traveled a long journey of search and research to probe the mystery of this amazing man. There are intimate revelations here from many conversations with Muni and friends, relatives, and peers of films and the theater who touched his life. Muni was even a mystery to himself. The incredible Bella Finkel Muni is a vital part of this book. Theirs was one of the most unusual husband-and-wife relationships in theater and film history. Bette Davis has painted a word portrait, climaxing the book with an exclusive and perceptive interview. Contains almost 100 carefully chosen photographs and drawings. $11.00. (#3904) AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: Theatre for Young People. Brian Way. Practical approaches to audience participation in open stage and proscenium theatres, breakdown of age groups and size of audience, economics and participatory theatre, integration with other arts and media, the actor in children's theatre. Much more. "Rich in detail . . . the text we've been waiting for and it doesn't disappoint us."Nellie McCaslin. Past President, CTA. $12.95. (#72291) THE AMERICAN THEATRE: A SUM OF ITS PARTS. This volume contains the addresses prepared expressly for the first American College Theatre Festival by the most eminent theatre people of the nation. Subjects range from the beginnings of the American theatre in 1700, black drama from 1700 to 1970, acting, directing, producing, architecture, university theatre, musical theatre and dramatic criticism. $12.50. (#3629) HERE'S HOW. Basic Stagecraft. Thoroughly revised and enlarged. Herbert V. Hake. Prepared in such a way that for every topic there is a facing page of illustrations (original drawings and photographs). Because of the large type, the large size of the pages (9"12"), and the flexible metal binding, Here's How will lie flat on a workbench. "I want you to know that I think Here's How (Revised) is the most useful, practical, sensible, all-inclusive basic treatise in stagecraft published to date."-Dr. Melvin R. White, Managing Editor, Educational Theatre Journal. $9.00. (#10081) HOME-BUILT LIGHTING EQUIPMENT FOR THE SMALL STAGE. Theodore Fuchs. Presents fourteen simplified designs for building various types of stage lighting and control equipment, with but one purpose in mind-to enable the amateur producer to acquire a complete set of stage lighting equipment at the lowest possible cost. 8 112" x II" in size, with heavy paper and spiral binding-features which make it well suited to practical workshop use. $9.00. (#10925) HANDBOOK FOR THEATRICAL APPRENTICES. Dorothy Lee Tompkins. Fittingly subtitled. "A Practical Guide in All Phases of Theatre." All the jobs of the theatre are categorized, from the star on down. Each job is defined, and its basic responsibilities given in detail. An invaluable manual for every theatre group in explaining to novices the duties of apprenticeship, and in reassessing its own organizational structure and functions. $6.25. (#10921) MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS AT WORK. 1. William Miller. A concentration upon the lives, works, and dramatic methods of modem playwrights, from Ibsen to mid20th-century contemporaries. All the giants are given definitive studies: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, Galsworthy, O'Neill, Williams. The author's method is, first, to let each playwright speak for himself through his life and his plays; and, next, to extract from the dramatic method of each those techniques characteristic of him and those of most durable value. Invaluable to playwrighting (#15931) instructors and students of the craft. $12.50. METHOD-OR MADNESS? Acting Techniques. Robert Lewis. A dynamic, inventive and articulate stage director explores in practical, down-to-cases language' 'The Method": what it is and is not; the nonsense, the misconceptions, the myths that have sprung up and flourished around it; its development as a workable theory of stage technique and its application to all types of theatrical productions. "A most illuminating, amusing, and common sensical book. I enjoy(~d it tremendously."Helen Hayes. $7.95. (#15927) MAKE-UP. Completely Revised Edition. John F. Baird. Illustrated by Lee Mitchell. The book complete a make-up course can be used both as a text for student and as a (#15926) reference for the instructor. $6.25. THE BUSY SPEAKER'S POCKET PRACTICE BOOK. Belle Cumming Kennedy and Patricia Challgren. This concise manual of tested exercises for voice and speech improvement prepared for public speakers, actors, clergymen, and teachers provides material for at least the first year of practice. Written with verve and enthusiasm, it keeps alive the willing student's interest. The striking results which have been achieved by students attest to the success of the author's methods. Seldom has a book more practical, more immediately useful, and more intelligently devised been offered to the general public. $7.50. (#4713) HISTORIC COSTUME FOR THE STAGE. Lucy Barton. Illustrated by David Sarvis. Designed primarily to be of assistance to those who costume plays. It is also valuable to students of fashion design, stylists, and modistes generally, even to saleswomen who wish to deal intelligently with their clients. The heritage of European and European-American dress is traced from Egypt, through the lands mentioned in the Bible, to Greece, Rome, Byzantium, then to Europe proper and finally to the New Wor1d. The last chapter is devoted to the problem of the workshop. More than 600 pages, 100 plates, representing about 600 separate sketches. $35.95. (#73195) PERIOD PATTERNS. Doris Edson. with text by Lucy Barton. A supplement to Miss Barton's book, Historic Costume For The Stage. These charts, intelligently used, with appropriate fabrics, colors and decorations, produce costumes which will bring back the flavor of an historic moment as truly as the originals and at the same time can be comfortably worn by the actor of today. A beautiful volume. $11.95. (#18931) DRAMATIC HERITAGE. Paul Green. A collection of essays and papers on life and the theatre. The author discusses in imaginative terms a variety of subjects drawn from many years of experience as a teacher and playwright in the Broadway and American people's theatre. And whether he deals with the folk arts, symphonic drama, motion pictures, the dark theory of tragedy, mysticism of George Bernard Shaw, the dark religious intuition of Paul Claudel, or the Japanese Kabuki theatrethere runs a steady continuity of theme and purpose throughout the volume. $7.50. (#6914) PROBLEM-PROJECTS IN ACTING. By Katharine Kester. The problem-project is a simple dramatic unit which places emphasis on one important problem, and at the same time interrelates the various factors involved in acting. There are here presented thirty scenes, varying from two to twelve minutes in lengtll. The attempt has been made to arrange each scene as a complete unit, and to eliminate the impression that it is merely an excerpt from a longer work. The student thus views the problemproject as an integrated whole, simple though it is. $7.50. (#18924)

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MAKING A GOOD SCRIPT GREAT. Second Edition. Linda Seger. With over 100,000 copies in print, this top selling guide for writers focuses on rewriting-how to solve the script's problems and still preserve the original creativity. "Quite simply, the most brilliant and useful book on screenwriting that I have ever read. Whether you are a working writer or aspiring to be one, this book is, and will continue to be, indispensable."-William Kelley, Academy Award-winning writer of Witness. "Rx for ailing screenwriters: Read this tonight and call me in the morning. " -Tony Bill. "There have been many books on writing but none, in my opinion, that have the depth and accessibility of Linda Seger's. It's a marvelous book for producers and executives as well as writers."-Renee Valente, producer, Blind Ambition. $12.95. (#76901) BEHIND THE SCENES: The Making of The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, profession. A must read for novices and working professionals alike. $13.95.

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COMEDY WRITING STEP BY STEP: How to Write and SeD Your Sense of Humor. Gene Perret. "Perret is a born teacher who enjoys helping others to achieve their goals through humor." -Bob Hope. Three time Emmy-winner Perret offers guidelines covering a broad range of comedy writing situations. In his knowledgeable, anecdotal fashion Perret moves from the basics of comedy writing as a craft (disciplining one's wit, discovering what works, visualization, avoiding the obvious) on through finding a topic, construction of monologues and sketches, writing to your audience, writing for sitcoms and, finally, to comedy writing as a career (overcoming writer's block, marketing one's material). Gene Perret is Bob Hope's head comedy writer. He has also written for Carol Burnett, Phyllis Diller, Bill Cosby, and many others. $11.95. (#76056) FROM AGENT TO ACTOR: An Unsentimental Education or What the Other Half Knows. -Edgar Small. A veteran Hollywood agent draws on his many years of experience to address important actor-agent issues. In an entertaining, anecdotal fashion, the actor is advised on how careers are established and endure through selfknowledge and ambition. Advice about earning a living, choosing teachers, and getting to, signing with, keeping and leaving an agent all share an equal stage with amusing stories of some great coups agents have engineered for their clients. Edgar Small began his career in the 1940s as an actor. By the end of that decade he was a producer at Paramount, Columbia, and MGM. In the 1950s he became an agent, and was instrumental in launching the careers of many performers who would become major stars-Anthony Geary, Demi Moore, Suzanne Somers, Lynda Carter, etc. In the 80s, he gave up his agency and returned to acting. $14.95. (#76144) IMPROV COMEDY. Andy Goldberg. "Finally, the book on improvisational comedy. Andy's really captured what it's all about ... and for less than the price of a haircut!" -Garry Shandling. "Improvisation is an essential tool for all actors and I was fortunate to pick up that tool working with Andy." -Corbin Bernsen, Star of L.A. Law. "Nobody in the world knows more about improvisational comedy than Andy."-Bob Rosenfarb, Supervising Producer, Who's the Boss. A lively and definitive course in the practice of this popular theatre genre by the director of L.A.'s acclaimed Off The Wall comedy troupe. Goldberg presents the building blocks of improv comedy--characterization, plot, and environment-an ~xtensive series of progressive scene set-ups and exercises, and practical advice on forming and running an improv comedy troupe. Essential reading for performers, as well as a valuable text for writers wishing fo study the basics of controlled spontaneity as a path to believable humor. $13.95. (#76080) ON THE WATERFRONT: The Final Shooting Script. Original Story & Screenplay by Budd Schulberg. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Afterword by Mr. Schulberg. This is the complete screenplay for one of the greatest and most honored American films ever made. Directed by Elia Kazan and greatly responsible for elevating Marlon Brando to the status of "superstar," it swept the 1954 Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars-including Best Story and Screenplay for Schulberg's script, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Brando). $12.95. (#70696) FILM PRODUCING: Low Budget Films That SeD. Renee Harmon. A comprehensive overview of the ins and outs of successful low-budget film production, designed for the neophyte producer. Covers financing; development; distribution; literary materials; the creative team; casting; scheduling; equipment; crew; postproduction. "In Film Producing, Renee Harmon sells good, plain common sense."-Ralph Singleton. $22.95. (#76994) I REMEMBER IT WELL. Vincente Minneli, with Hector Arce. One of America's premier directors (Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Lust for Life, Gigi, The Sandpiper and others) traces his life in the entertainment world. $22.95. (#74995)

High Noon, Casablanca, Lost Horizon, The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, A Streetcar Named Desire and Eight Other Films. Rudy Behlmer. A rare behind-thescenes view of all the machinations, foibles, and happy accidents behind the making of some of America's greatest films-from nascent story ideas through studio politics, the screenplay, the shooting, the editing, the censors, and, finally, into the theatres. "I think Mr. Behlmer's chapter on All About Eve could not be better. Thank 'Gawd' Claudette Colbert hurt her back and in desperation they asked me to play Margo Channing." -Bette Davis. "I was fascinated by the depth of Behlmer's research."-Frank Capra. "Like munching popcorn. Once you start reading ... you won't be able to stop."-Philadelphia Inquirer. $14.95. (#76005) AN ACTOR BEHAVES: From Audition to Performance. Tom Markus. "A significant book for all actors." -Earle R. Gister, Associate Dean, Yale School of Drama. Talented, well-trained actors lose jobs or fail to get jobs because they lack an appropriately professional attitude or proper work habits. This witty guide offers the actor good, nuts-and-bolts advice on professional behavior--career etiquette-that will help actors look for, get, and keep jobs. Includes: looking for work; preparing for auditions; auditioning; salary negotiation; agents, rehearsal politics; understudying; daily work patterns; reviews; touring; training; and a wealth of other related topics gathered under the broad headings of Auditions, Rehearsals, Performances, and Between Engagements. Tom Markus is a Resident Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. He has taught at Yale School of Drama, University of California, City University of New York, and Temple University. (#75944) $14.95. AN ACTOR SUCCEEDS: Career Management for the Actor. Terrance Hines and Suzanne Vaughan. "This is the first book that tells an actor what a casting director goes through to find the right actor for a role."-Barbara Remsen, Barbara Remsen & Associates, Raleigh Studios. Through an extensive series of interviews with top film and televi~ion casting directors, the preferences and prejudices that will ultimately affect an actor's job opportunities are brought to light. Noteworthy are the discussions of what casting directors look for in a "cold reading" and a "call back." Advice on photos, resumes, and tapes is discussed and a short selection of interviews with members of the actor's support team-personal managers, agents, attorneys, and publicists are offered. A glossary of standard casting and entertainment business terms round out the volume. This unique book is a fascinating read (#70604) for any actor, the young hopeful and the seasoned pro. $15.95. SUCCESSFUL STAND-UP COMEDY (Advice from a Comedy Writer). Gene Perret. "If you're in the humor business and haven't read any books written by Gene Perret, I strongly urge you to buy them all. The man truly is the Yoda of comedy."-Hal Spear, head comedy writer, The Arsenio Hall Show. "Gene Perret has written for every major stand-up comic. He knows more about stand-up than Zsa Zsa knows about marriage. He's an analyst, a craftsman, a genius!"-PhylJis Diller. Comedy performers need experience to learn their craft, to study the audience, and to discover their own comedic identity and voice. Perret melds his thirty years of writing for and observing comedy performers-in nightclubs, on the concert stage, on TV, in audition-into a sourcebook of "tips" that will help the beginning performer learn what to look for in themselves, their material, and the comedy

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A SELECTED LIST OF SPECIAL PLAYS

(See Index for descriptions) PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS
All the Way Home Both Your Houses Craig's Wife A Delicate Balance Fences The Gin Game Glengarry Glen Ross Hell Bent for Heaven In Abraham's Bosom

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Look Homeward, Angel Lost in Yonkers Men In White No Place to Be Somebody Of Thee I Sing The Old Maid Our Town The Piano Lesson

The Shadow Box The Skin of Our Teeth A Soldier's Play Street Scene The Subject Was Roses They Knew What They Wanted The Time of Your Life

NOBEL PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS

Samuel Beckett Albert Camus T.S. Eliot William Faulkner Dario Fo John Galsworthy Andre Gide Francois Mauriac Sean O'Casey Eugene O'Neill Luigi Pirandello Jean-Paul Sartre George Bernard Shaw Derek Walcott W.B. Yeats

OLD MELODRAMAS
Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites (#21301) compiled by Bill Hardey and edited by Hugo Frey ($7.50) and Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama (#51112) by David Mayer and Matthew Scott ($12.95) are available to augment productions of the titles listed below. Bad Day at Gopher's Breath Caught in the Villain's Web The Curse of an Aching Heart (Swayne) Deadwood Dick Dirty Work at the Crossroads The Drunkard (Smith) East Lynne (Albert) A Fate Worse Than Death Fireman's Flame Foiled Again! (Braun) For Her Che-ild's Sake Lady Audley's Secret Lily, the Felon's Daughter The Murder of Maria Marten Short Bloodline or Hanged in Their Own Family Tree Cheers, Tears and Screamers!! Curse You, Jack Dalton Damsel of the Desert or A Villain Foiled by Virture Dora, the Beautiful Dishwasher Egad, What a Cad! Fireman Save My Child Foiled by an Innocent Maid Foiled Again! (Burton) Gaslight Gaieties (Variety Show) The Great Western Melodrama He Ain't Done Right by Nell He Done Her Wrong Her Fatal Beauty Hiss the Villain The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (pantomime) She Was Only a Farmer's Daughter On the Bridge at Midnight Pure As the Driven Snow The Streets of New York Sweeney Todd, the Barber Ten Nights in a Barroom Uncle Tom's Cabin Virtue Always Triumphs

PLAYS USING SIMPLE SPECIAL EFFECTS

For a COMPLETE SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY, see page 328. Accomplice Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine Blood Money Count Dracula Don't Be Afraid of the Dark The Enchanted Dracula Halloween Screams It's a Scream Middle-Aged White Guys The Mystery of Irma Veep Ondine The Passion of Dracula The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes Peter Pan (musical) Phantom (musical) Phantom of the Opera The Play Return to the Forbidden Planet (musical) Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show (musical) . Starrnites (musical) Trixie True, Teen Detective (musical) Weird Romance (musical) Zombie Prom

PLAYS SUITABLE FOR READER'S THEATRE

Animal Farm The Belle of Amherst The Best of Friends Clarence Darrow A Company of Wayward Saints Dear Liar Dear Love Dialogue for Lovers The Diaries of Adam and Eve Don Juan in Hell Dylan The Hollow Crown The Ides of March In White America Literature on Stage The Murder of Lidice Out of our Father's House Pictures in the Hallway Spoon River Anthology To Be Young, Gifted and Black Twain by the Tale U.S.A. Under Milkwood Voices Whisperings in the Grass The White House The World of Carl Sandburg

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ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR TOURNAMENTS AND FESTIVALS
Adam's Rib Hurts After the Fact The Adventure of the Clouded Crystal Afterwards A.I.D.S. Antic Spring The Apollo of Bellac The Appointment Approaching Lavendar Arthur Makes a Difference The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater Baby The Bald Soprano Bar and Ger The Barbarians Are Coming A Bench at the Edge The Big Black Box Birdbath Black & White The Boy U1istairs The Boy Who Ate the Moon Bridges-Are When You Cross Them Camera Obscura The Cat's Away The Chairs Chamber Music Childhood Chinamen Clippings The Clod Columbine Cum Laude Competition Piece The Creeping Crud Cupid Is a Bum Is a Bum Is a Bum Daddy's Home The Darkest Hour Date The Day After Forever Dawn Will Come The Dear Departed Definitely Eric Geddis Delta Triangle Diary The Dolphin Position Don't Look Down Dope Double Date The Doublers The Drunken Sisters Early Frost The Elevator The Emperor's Nightingale Endangered Species Enemies (Leokum) Escurial The Express Line Far Rockaway The Fifteen Minute Hamlet The Final Dress Rehearsal Finders' Keepers Five for Bad Luck The Flattering Word Forever Judy Friends (Leokum) The Frog Prince From Five to Five-Thirty Fumed Oak A Galway Girl Gloria Mundi Goodbye to the Clown Greenfield Blooms The Guns of Carrar Haiku The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden Heat LightIling Hello, Out There Here We Are Hooray for Adam Spelvin I Don't Know Where You're Coming From at All! Incident at San Bajo The Income Tax Infancy An Infinite Deal of Nothing The Informer Inside Al An Inspector Answers It Should Happen to a Dog The Jewish Wife King of the Castle Korczak and the Children Landscape with Waitress The Lesson Life in Excellence A Little Something for the Ducks Lost and Found The Lost Princess The Man in the Bowler Hat The Man Who Stayed by His Negative A Minuet Mongolian Idiot The Monkey's Paw Mrs. Ritter Appears The Murder of Lidice No' Count Boy No One Wants to Know No Snakes in This Grass No Why Not Enough Rope Now That April's Here Of Poems, Youth and Spring The Old Lady Shows Her Medals Once Upon a Playground Open Admissions An Overpraised Season Picnic on the Battlefield P is for Perfect Pigeons Poor Aubrey Porch A Portrait of Nelson Holiday, Jr. The Private Ear The Private Prop. of Roscoe Pointer The Public Eye The Purple Doorknob Rabbit Reception Recognition Scene from Anastasia Red Carnations The Red Key Remember Me Always Riders to the Sea Romance Sailing The Salvation of Lonny McCain A Scent of Honeysuckle Schubert's Last Serenade Senior Prom A Separate Peace Shall We Join the Ladies? She Was Lost, and Is Found The Sheriff The Shiny Red Ball The Shirkers The Sisters McIntosh Sittin' Sparkin' Sparks in the Park Standard Safety Steak Night Still Stands the House Stolen Identity A Storm Is Breaking A Story of Chelm Sugar and Spice Sundance Sunday Costs Five Pesos A Sunny Morning The Tangled Snarl Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song The Terrible Meek Thataway Jack This Way to Heaven The Three Million Dollar Lunch A Ticket to the City Tooth or Shave . Totally Cool The Twelve Pound Look Two Crooks and a Lady Two for the Road The Ugly Duckling Unseen Friends The Waiting Room The Welcoming When Altars Bum When God Comes for Breakfast, You Don't Bum the Toast When the Fire Dies Whence Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone? Who's Out There Wisp in the Wind

PLAYS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Admit One Aren't We All The Aspern Papers Autumn Elegy The Cat Connection The Cemetery Club Checking Out Elders' Statements An Evening of One Act Stagers for Golden Agers . Evening Star Foxfire George L. Smith The Gin Game Hand Me My Afghan The Kingfisher The Last Act Is a Solo A Month of Sundays Morning's at Seven My Old Friends (musical) The New Girl Painting Churches The Party Sara Hubbard Second Chance Second Summer Senior Follies A Silent Catastrophe The Second Time Around 70 Girls, 70 (musical) Taking My Tum (musical) Taking Stock

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MYSTERY PLAYS
The Abduction Accomplice Afraid of the Dark All the Better to Kill You With An Act of the Imagination Anatomy of a Murder Angel Street Anybody For Murder Any Number Can Die Appointment With Death The Aspern Papers Bad Bloods The Bat Bear Witness Better Half Dead Beyond Reasonable Doubt Black Coffee Black Deeds in Whitehorse Blood Money Bone-Chiller Boy on Blacktop Road Broadway Babylon The Burning Man The Busybody The Butler Did It But Why Bump Off Barnaby? Calculated Risk Cards on the Table The Case of the Curious Locks The Cat and the Canary Catch Me If You Can Checkmate Child's Play Children! Children! The Clock Struck Twelve The Clone People Corpse! Count Dracula Countess Dracula The Crucifer of Blood The Creature Creeps Danger-Girls Working! Dark Deeds at Swann's Place Dark Rituals Dead Easy Dead on Nine Dead Ringer Dead Wrong A Deadly Habit Deadly Nightcap Death and Deceit on the Nile Death Suite Dedicated to the End Design for Murder The Desperate Hours Ding Dong Dead Done to Death The Donovan Affair Don't Call Back Double Door Double Double Down an Alley Filled with Cats Dracula Driven to Murder Edwina Black The End of the Line Exit the Body Fatal Attraction Fatal Combination For the Defense Four More Sherlock Holmes Plays Freefall Gentle Hook Getting the Gold Ghost Train Go Back for Murder The Gorilla Guilty Conscience The Hangman's Noose The Haunted High School Heartland The Hollow Hostile Witness The Hound of the Baskervilles The House of Frankenstein The House on the Cliff In For The Kill In 25 Words or Death Invitation to a Murder I Shot My Rich Aunt Laburnum Grove The Lady Cries Murder Local Murder Lunatics at Large Making a Killing The Medieval Murders Monique Moose Murders The Mousetrap The Mumberley Inheritance Murder Among Friends Murder at Caf Noir Murder at Rutherford House Murder at the Prom Murder at the Vicarage Murder by Misadventure Murder by the Book Murder by Appointment Murder by Misadventure Murder for the Asking The Murder Game A Murder Has Been Arranged A Murder Is Announced Murder in a Nunnery Murder In Baker Street Murder in Company Murder Me Once The Murder of Maria Marten Murder on Arrival Murder on Reserve Murder on the Nile Murder on the Rerun The Murder Room Murder Takes the Stage Murder Under the Big Top Murderer Murdermind Mystery at Greenfingers New Style for Murder The Night is My Enemy Nightmare Noir Suspicions One Mad Night Out of Sight. . . Out of Murder Page Three Murder Party to Murder The Passion of Dracula The Pen Is Deadlier The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes Perfect Crime The Perfect Murder The Playroom Post Road The Potting Shed The Premature Corpse Postmortem Prescription: Murder Psycho Night atthe Paradise Lounge Ravenscroft Red in the Morning Rehearsal for Death Reserve Two for Murder Return of the Maniac Said the Spider to the Spy Seven Keys to Baldpate Sherlock Holmes Second Chance Slaughterhouse Sleuth Smoke & Mirrors Snake in the Grass A Soldier's Play Something's Afoot (musical) The Sound of Murder Speaking of Murder Spider Spider's Web Spider Island Spooks Stage Struck The Stanway Case Stallion Howl A Sting in the Tale Suddenly At Home Suicide in B-Flat Tainted Justice A Talent for Murder The Tavern Ten Little Indians There's Always a Murder The Thirteenth Chair Thriller of the Year A Tomb With a View A Touch of Danger The Transylvanian Clockworks Trick or Treat Tricks of the Trade Turnabout Veronica's Room The Victim Victoria's House The Unexpected Guest Verdict The Victim We Must Kill Toni Whodunnit Who Killed Aunt Caroline? Who Killed Santa Claus? Who Saw Him Die? Who Says Murder? Who Walks in the Dark Widow's Weeds Witness for the Prosecution The Woman in Black Women at Dead Oaks Women in White

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BLACK PLAYS
Advice to the Players (full length) The Amen Comer And I Ain't Finished Yet Between Now and Then Big Time Buck White Black Eagles The Black Girl in Search of God The Blacks The Blood Knot Blue Blues for Mr. Charlie Boesman and Lena The Brixton Recovery Bullins, Ed (Plays of) Ceremonies in Dark Old Men Colored People's Time Comin' Uptown (musical) Do Lord Remember Me Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (musical) Dream on Monkey Mountain Dutchman East Texas Hot Links Eden Everybody's Ruby Eyes of the American Fences The First (musical) The First Breeze of Summer Five on the Black Hand Side For Colored Girls Who Have Considered SuicidelWhen the Rainbow Is Enuf Freefall Further Mo' Golden Boy (musical) Ground People The Great White Hope Hunter! In Abraham's Bosom In the Midnight Hour In White America The Island It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues It's So Nice to Be Civilized (musical) Jitney Joe Turner's Come and Gone King Hedley II Lady Day at Emercon's Bar and Grill (musical) Langston Hughes's Little Ham (musical) Les Blancs (The Whites) A Lesson from Aloes Livin' Fat Long Time Since Yesterday Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Ma Rose Mahalia (musical) Master Harold . . . and the Boys Medal of Honor Rag Meetings Malcolm X: Message from the Grassroots Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Motherhouse My Children! My Africa! My Sister, My Sister My Sweet Charlie Native Son No Place to Be Somebody Ododo (musical) One Mo' Time (musical) Open Admissions The Owl and the Pussycat People Are Living There A Photograph: Lovers in Motion The Piano Lesson Play to Win (musical) Playland The Poison Tree The Prodigal Sister
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Purlie (musical) Purlie Victorious Raisin (musical) A Raisin in the Sun Rameau's Nephew The River Niger St. Lucy's Eyes Seven Guitars Shark Sizwe Banzi Is Dead The Slave Slavery A Soldier's Play Sorrows and Rejoicings Spell #7 Split Second A Star Ain't Nothin' But a Hole in Heaven Steal Away Stories About the Old Days Storyville Street Dreams (musical) The Sutherland Take a Giant Step Three Ways Home Ti-Jean and His Brothers To Be Young, Gifted and Black Two Trains Running Valley Song The Wedding Band Welfare What the Wine Sellers Buy White Chocolate Willie & Esther The Wiz (musical) Woman from the Town You Shouldn't Have Told Zooman and the Sign

Advice to the Players A Beast's Story Escape to Freedom From Okra to Greens Funnyhouse of a Negro Good Times Series

Harriet The Man Who Died at Twelve O'Clock The Oldest Trick in the World Open Admissions The Owl Answers Sanford & Son Series

Spelling Bee Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act Them Next Door

CATHOLIC PLAYS
Agnes of God Asmodee Becket Catholic School Girls Cradle Song The Devil's Advocate Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (musical) Edith Stein Haloes and Spotlights Highground The Jeweler's Shop The Living Room The Little Moon of Alban A Man for All Seasons Murder in a Nunnery Nunsense (musical) Once a Catholic
Short Everyman

The Potting Shed The Power and the Glory Sacrilege Song at the Scaffold The Strong Are Lonely Beata: The Pope's Daughter The Velvet Glove

CHINESE AND JAPANESE PLAYS

The Emperor's New Clothes Fanshen The Imperial Nightingale Lady Precious Stream Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on Greek Myth Shogun Macbeth
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Yellow Jacket

The Emperor's Nightingale Kabuki Plays

The Lost Princess Ming Lee and the Magic Tree

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IRISH PLAYS
Full Length

Aristocrats As the Beast Sleeps The Au Pair Man Away Alone Big Maggie Bold Girls Borstal Boy Catchpenny Twist Communication Cord The Crimson Thread Crystal and Fox Da Donnybrook! (musical) Faith Healer The Flight of the Earls Grandhild of Kings Hogan's Goat

The Hostage James Joyces' The Dead (musical) Juno (musical) Juno and the Paycock The Lepers of Baile Baiste A Life Living Quarters The Loves of Cass McGuire Maggie Flynn (musical) Making History Masters of the Sea The Mundy Scheme Never in My Lifetime Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme Paddywack The Patrick Pearse Motel
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Peg 0' My Heart Philadelphia, Here I Come The Playboy of the Western World The Plough and the Stars Remembrance The Righteous Are Bold Ring Round the Bathtub Same Old Moon Sea Mi:u-ks The Shadow of a Gunman Slice fo the Blarney Spokesong Summer Sword Against the Sea Translations Whistle in the Dark Wonderful Tennessee

The Late Arrival of Incoming Aircraft Molly and James

Riders to the Sea Spreading the News

The Workhouse Ward

JEWISH PLAYS AND PLAYS OF INTEREST TO JEWS

Abie 's Irish Rose Acts of Faith After Crystal Night All the Tricks but One Andorra Approaching Simone Beau Jest Bent The Birthday Party Bitter Friends Born Guilty Brecht on Brecht Brighton Beach Memoirs Broadway Bound Broken English By the Rivers of Babylon The Caine Mutiny Court Martial California Suite Cantorial Celebration (musical) The Cemetery Club Chaim's Love Song Chapter Two Checking Out Chicken Soup with Barley Cold Storage Come Blow Your Hom The Contest The Convertible Girl Crossing Delancey Crossing Jerusalem Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling The Deputy Dividends Edith Stein Enter Laughing Except for Susie Finkel A Far Country Fast Girls The Fifth Season The Flatted Fifth From Door to Door Fun City The God of Isaac God's Favorite Golda Golda' Balcony The Good German The Goodbye People The Grand Tour (musical) Grandma Silvia's Funeral Groucho Grownups The Haggadah Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (musical) I Love You, I Love You Not I'm Not Rappaport I'm Talking About Jerusalem Immigrant Inquest Jewish Girlz (musical) Knock Knock Kuni-Leml (musical) Lebensraum Life in Refusal Liliom Lost in Yonkers Lovers and Other Strangers A Majority of One The Man in the Glass Booth The Matchmaker The Merchant Messiah Middle of the Night Minnie's Boys (musical) My Dinner with Mark Noah The Old Neighborhood
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The Old Ones Only in America Petticoat Lane (musical) Pieces of the Sky The Prisoner of Second Avenue The Private Life of the Master Race The Puppetmaster of Lodz Remember My Name The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui The Rise of David Levinsky (musical) Roots Rose A Rose of Sharon Shmulnik's Waltz The Second Time Around Seesaw (musical) Seidman and Son Show Me Where the Good Times Are The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Sixteen Wounded Something Different The Substance of Fire The Sunshine Boys The Survivor Taking Stock Teibele and Her Demon The Tenth Man The Theatre of Peretz Two for the Seesaw The Twilight of the Golds Uncle Willie Unexpected Tenderness Up from Paradise (musical) A Walk Among the Flowers The Wall The Workroon Yentl The Zero Hour Zygielbaum's Journey

The Bespoke Overcoat Crowning Glory The Cure The Disappearance of the Jews Dispatches from Hell

Goldberg Street I Don't Know Where You're Coming From At All! In the Cemetery The Jewish Wife

The Luftmensch Nothing Immediate The Rabbi and the Toyota Dealer Waiting for To Go

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PLAYS FOR AN ALL-FEMALE CAST
A. . My Name Is Alice (musical) A. . My Name Is Still Alice (musical) A. . My Name Will Always Be Alice (musical) Agnes of God All She Cares About Is the Yankees The Alto Part The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women Around the Clock The Belle of Amherst Belles Bold Girls Bronte Bible Herstory Catholic School Girls Cincinnati A Coupla White Chicks . The Crimson Thread Crossways Cry Havoc Cut the Ribbons (musical) Danger-Girls Working Daughters (Evans) The Daughters of Edward D. Bait Daughters of the Lone-Star State The Dead Wife Dear Mrs. Martin Devil of the Second Stairs Do You See What I'm Saying The Early Girl Family The Farndale Ave. Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery From Door to Door Father's Prize Poland China Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain For Colored Girls . . . Gertrude Stein and a Companion Girl Talk The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines Grace and Glorie Gwen and Gwen Hillbilly Women Hot Flashes The House of Bernarda Alba I Stand Before You Naked I Love You, I Love You Not If We Are Women Inside Out (musical) Jewish Girlz (musical) The Killing of Sister George Ladies First Ladyhouse Blues The Last Flapper Letters Home Long Time Since Yesterday Look Away Love and Shrimp (musical) Lucifer's Child Lullaby The Maids Mama Drama Miss Margarida's Way Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer. Moving Mrs. Klein Music from Down the Hill My Mother Said I Never Should My Sister in this House Not So Grim Fairy Tales Pigeons Playhouse Creatures The Real Queen of Hearts Ain't Even Pretty Second Chance Sez She Shirley Valentine Slag Snow Leopards Soccer Moms Steal Away Steaming Swingtime Canteen (musical) Sunday on the Rocks Talking With Tongue of a Bird Top Girls Vanities Vita & Virginia Vital Signs Voices The Wisteria Bush Women in White The Women of Theta Kappa

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Ah, Togetherness! And Go to Innisfree A.K.A. Marlene Apple Pie Approaching Lavendar The Audition Is Over The Bad Penny The Ballerinas Batbrains A Bench at the Edge Binnorie Calm Down Mother A Candle on the Table Can't Buy Me Love Cast Off Five The Cat Connection Chicks Chimera Clara's on the Curtains Comanche Cafe Consolation Crossways Darling You Were Wonderful The Daughters of Edward D. Boit Deck Chairs The Donahue Sisters Dreamjobs Early Frost Enter a Queen The Establishment at ArIes Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills Family Names Final Dress Rehearsal Fine Line Flapper Girls Footfalls Freeze Tag From 5 to 5:30 Ghost of a Chance Ghost Stories Guess Who's Coming to, Lunch Haiku Halftime at Halcyon Days Hello, Ma! He's Having a Baby Here Come the Bride . . . And There Goes the Broom If Women Worked as Men Do I Don't Know Where You're Coming from at All! An Infinite Deal of Nothing John's Ring Just Women Ladies Alone Ladies'Man Ladies of the Mop Last Exit Before Toll Last Chance Texaco Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening Life Comes to the Old Maid Lookin' for a Better Berry Bush Lunch or Something The Mamet Women Medusa of 47th St. Mrs. Meadowsweet Mother's Day Murder at Mrs. Loring's Nasty Things, Murders Negative The New Girl No More Wars But the Moon Nothing Immediate Nothing in Common Once and For All Our Aunt from California Out of Our Father's House Overtones Package Deal Papa Never Done Nothing . . . . Much P Is for Perfect Postcards The Power and the Glory The Purple Doorknob Recluse Recognition Scene from Anastasia Rockaby Room for One Woman Rosemary for Remembrance Second Chance A Scent of Honeysuckle She Needs Me Smoke-Out Snake in the Grass So Nice Not To See You So Wonderful in White Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song The Temp Tremulous Thursday Is My Day for Cleaning The Tiger They're None of Them Perfect Those Singing Sunday Mornings The Three Million Dollar Lunch Tongue of a Bird The Trial Triplet Undertow The Way of All Fish A Well Taught Lesson When Altars Burn When Men Are Scarce The White Whore & the Bit Player The Welcoming Will the Ladies Please Come to Order The Wishin' Tree

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PLAYS FOR AN ALL-MALE CAST
Almost an Eagle American Buffalo Another Country The Architect & the Emperor of Assyria The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid Below the Belt Bent Beyond the Fringe Blood Knot The Boys in the Band Bravo, Caruso Bullpen Bully Caesar at the Rubicon The Caine Mutiny Court Martial Camping with Henry & Tom The Changing Room Child's Play Clarence Darrow Class Enemy Comedians Confessions of a Nightingale Creeps Democracy Down an Alley Filled with Cats Drinking in America Ears on a BeatIe The Emigrants Escurial Established Price The Failure To Zig-Zag For Reasons that Remain Unclear Fortune & Men's Eyes From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate Geography of a Horse Dreamer Glengarry Glen Ross Good Evening Greater Tuna Heartland Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo! (musical) Indians The Interview The Island Journey's End Kataki Krapp's Last Tape Lakeboat Lamppost Reunion The Lepers of Baile Baiste A Life in the Theatre The Man in 605 Master Harold . . . & The Boys Medal of Honor Rag The Men from the Boys Men in Suits. Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting Murmurs The Mystery of Irma Vep Nasty Little Secrets Not About Heroes A Number
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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards Somme Only Kidding Orphans Pantomime The Poison Tree The Potsdam Quartet A Prayer for my Daughter The Quare Fellow Ross Shades of Autumn Short Eyes Sizwe Banzi Is Dead Sleuth Soft Click of a Switch Soldiers A Soldier's Play Some Men Need Help Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Split Decision Staircase Streamers Taking Stock Total Abandon A Tuna Christmas 2lA What I Did in the Holidays Who Shall Be Happy . . . ? Wings Over Europe The Woman in Black

Act Without Words The Barbarians Are Coming The Beggar or the Dead Dog The Bespoke Overcoat A Bench at the Edge The Best Warm Beer In Brooklyn The Big Black Box The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute Blind Spot The Blue Carbuncle Box Office Breakdown The Bridge Cannibalism in the Cars A Change from Routine Chucky's Hunch Chutes Clevinger's Trial Closet Madness The Condemned Man's Bicycle Cowboys #2 Dansen Dawn Will Come The Day the Whores Came Out To Play Tennis The Death Artist Death Knocks Deathwatch The Deserter The Devil and Billy Markham The Dicks The Disappearance of the Jews Do The Dock Brief Dog Eat Dog The Duck Variations Dusk The Elephant Calf

Enemies Forensic & the Navigators The 4-H Club Four Men and a Monster The Fourth Prisoner Friends Francis Brick Needs No Introduction From a Madman's Diary The Funny Old Man Gamblers Hardstuff Help, I Am Hidden in This Picture Hot Air Hymn to the Rising Sun I Read the News Today If Men Played Cards As Women Do In a Music Shop Inflatable You Instincts Interview with God The Jar Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place Killer's Head The Laziest Man in the World Leavin' Cheyenne Lip Service The Luftmensch Manny and Jake The Measures Taken The Mistake Movie of the Month Mr. Happiness Napoleon's Dinner Nightmare with Clocks Nights in Hohokus Now Departing One Person

Open Secret Peace in Our Time The Pedestrian Penance A Personal Thing A Piece of Monologue Preggin & Liss The Questioning of Nick The Rabbi & the Toyota Dealer The Reigate Sisters Safe Sex Savage Love Schreber's Nervous Illness Shell Shock The Shiny Red Ball Shoscombe Old Place Sing To Me Through Open Windows Shoes Shore Leave Sorrows and Sons South of Tomorrow The Spelling Bee Spiuin' Image The Still Alarm Strip-Tease Submerged Sundance Support Your Local Police Tattoo Theatre I Tongues Tradition IA Unseen Friends The Unseen Hand The Vagabond Virtual Reality When You're By Yourself, You're Alone The Window

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Abba, Marta As You Desire Me (trans.) ..... .187 Diana and Tuda (trans.) ........ 152 No One Knows How (trans.) .... 54 To Find Oneself (trans.) ....... 158 Tonight We Improvise (trans.) ....................... 179 When One Is Somebody (trans.) ....................... 190 The Wives' Friend (trans:) ..... 184 Abbot, Rick Allocating Annie ................. 83 Beauty and the Beast. Really .. 200 The Bride of Brackenloch! ..... 140 But Why Bump Off Barnaby? ..................... 128 Class Musical! ................. 202 Dracula: the Musical? .......... 204 June Groom .................... 120 Play On! ....................... 129 Sing On! ....................... 139 A Turn for the Nurse .......... 136 Abbott, George Broadway ...................... 186 Flora, the Red Menace ......... 206 Love'em and Leave'em ........ 135 Abel, Lionel Absalom ................... : ... 152 Abel, Zelda Funnylogues for Women ....... 317 Abrashkin, Raymond Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine ..................... 203 Abrons, Richard Whose Family Values! ........... 95 Achard, Marcel A Shot In the Dark ............ 108 Ackermann, Joan Stanton's Garage ................. 98 Quiet Torrential Sound ........ 313 Zara Spook and Other Lures ..... 59 Ackerman, Robert ADan Ionescopade .................... 211 Ackerman, Joan Quiet Torrential Sounds ....... 313 Ackland, Rodney Crime and Punishment ......... 188 Dead Secret .................... 163 The Diary of A Scoundrel ..... 185 The Old Ladies .................. 74 Acton, Wallace Madame President ............. 292 Adamov, Arthur Professor Taranne .............. 290 Adams, Lee By Strouse ..................... 201 Golden Boy ................ , ... 206 Adams, Sheila K. Melancholy Baby .............. 104 Ade, George College Widow ................ 188 Adell, Dunga SuperfJyer ...................... 291 Adler, Maion Gunmetal Blues ................ 208 Adler, Robert Open Secret .................... 283 Aerenson, Benjie Paradise Island ................... 12 The Possum Play .............. 128 Affoumado, Ralph Ad Hock ....................... 199 Agee, James All the Way Home ............. 161 Ahearn, John Beauty and the Beast .......... 200 Ahlin, Lee Cinderella: the True Story ..... 202 Aidman, Charles Spoon River Anthology .......... 51 Aitmatov, Chingiz Ascent of Mount Fuji .......... 135 Akins, Zoe The Happy Days ................. 74 189 Mrs. January & Mr. Ex Albee, Edward All Over ....................... 135 A Delicate Balance .............. 72 Albert, Ned Cornin' 'Round the Mountain .. Dora, the Beautiful Dishwasher .................. Fireman, Save My Child! ...... Shotgun Wedding .............. 293 293 293 293 ADen, Woody Central Park West ............. 271 Death .......................... 311 Death Defying Acts ............. .41 Death Knocks .................. 238 Don't Drink the Water ......... 165 The Floating Light Bulb ......... 57 God .............................. 23 Old Saybrook .................. 282 Play It Again Sam ............. 140 Riverside Drive ................ 263 Writer's Block ................. 137 Alley, Fred The Spitfire Grill .............. 225 Allias The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother ..................... 21 Allison, John Stand By Your Beds, Boys ...... 89 Alper, Steven M. The Immigrant ................. 198 Alsberg, Henry The Dybbuk ................... 188 Amberly, Liz Blueberry Waltz ............... 238 Amsterdam, Diana The End of "I" ................ 256 Fast Girls ....................... .48 Lingerie ........................ 257 Milk .............................. 51 One Naked Woman and A FullyClothed Man ................. 247 Anastasi, John Pied a Terre ...................... 17 Andersen, Dennis R. Crazy and a Half ........... 29, 264 Funny Valentines ................ 51 I'll Take Manhattan ............ 245 Yes Sir, That's My Baby ...... 252 In Other Words ................ 245 Everywhere .................... 244 You Oughta Be in Pictures .... 252 They Can't Take That Away from Me ........................... 240 Anderson, Douglas The Beams Are Creaking ...... 130 Knucklebones .................... 35 Anderson, Eliza The Lower Rooms .............. .48 That All of Us Should Be Fed .......................... 313 Anderson, Jane The Baby Dance ................ .43 Defying Gravity .................. 75 Food and Shelter ................. 75 The Last Time We Saw Her ... 313 Lynette At 3:00 ................ 313 Lynette Has Beautiful Skin .... 313 Tough Choices for the New Century ...................... 254 Anderson, John The Inspector General (trans.) ....................... 170 Anderson, Leroy Goldilocks ..................... 207 Anderson, Maxwell Both Your Houses ............. 188 Elizabeth the Queen ........... 185 Mary of Scotland .............. 184 Anderson, Robert All Summer Long .............. 124 The Days Between ............... 74 The Last Act Is A Solo ........ 257 Silent Night, Lonely Night ....... 73 Tea and Sympathy ............. 144 Anderson, Roger Shine! .......................... 224 Andersson, Benny Chess .......................... 202 Andrews, Charlton Good Night Ladies ............. 161 Andreyev, Leonid He Who Gets Slapped ......... 188 Angelo, Judy Hart Preppies ........................ 220 Anouilh, Jean Antigone ....................... Ardele .......................... The Arrest ..................... Augustus ....................... Becket ......................... Catch As Catch Can ........... The Cavern .................... Dear Antoine .................. Dinner With the Family ....... The Ermine .................... The Fighting Cock ............. Mademoiselle Colombe ........ Medea .......................... The Orchestra .................. Point of Departure ............. Poor Bitos ..................... The Rehearsal ............. 106, Restless Heart .................. Thieves' Carnival .............. Time Remembered ............. Traveller Without Luggage .... The Waltz of the Toreadors .... 136 133 149 273 181 145 188 188 152 186 163 186 276 285 189 157 125 190 156 190 158 143

Albert, Sandra J. How Many To Tango .......... 245 Alberts, David Death By Arrangement ........ 141 Alden, Jerome Bully .............................. 8 Aldrich, David Alexander, Kevin Finnegan's Farewell ........... 165 Gorey Stories .................. 207 Alexander, Ronald Accidental Angel ................ 91 Alfieri, Richard Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks ......................... 10 Alford, Larry Jerry's Girls .................... 212 Alfred, William The Curse of an Aching Heart ............ : ............ 149 Hogan's Goat .................. 180 Allardice, James At War With the Army ........ 187 Allen, Donald M. The Bald Soprano (trans.) ..... 280 The Chairs (trans.) ............. 261 The Lesson (trans.) ............ 253 Allen, Frank The Deluge, .................... 135 ADen, Jay Forty Carats .................... 142 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ....................... 181 Allen, Jay Presson A Little Family Business ...... 131 Allen, Jennifer Serious Bizness ................ 223 Allen, Ralph G. Sugar Babies .................... 226 Tucaret ......................... 158

Anselmi, Barbara Orphan Train ............... :.. 218 Ansky, S. The Dybbuk (trans.) ........... 188 Anthony, Rock Jackknife ....................... 125 Antrobus, John When Did You Last See Your Trousers? .................... 139 Appel, Dori Girl Talk ......................... 11 Appel, Dori Hot Flashes ....................... 9 Appell, Don A Girl Could Get Lucky ......... 16 Hot Shot ....................... 105 Kindling ......................... 37 Apple, Gary Black & White ................. 273 Do ............................. 238 It ............................... 241 Plays for An Undressed Stage ... 52 When God Comes for Breakfast, You Don't Bum the Toast ... 259 Appleman, M.H. Seduction Duet ................. 250 Aranha, Ray My Sister, My Sister ............. 38 Arbuzov, Aleksei Do You Tum Somersaults? ...... 15 Archer, Jeffrey Beyond Reasonable Doubt ..... 159

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Archer, William Green Goddess ................. 125 Archibald, William The Cantilevered Terrace ........ 74 The Innocents .................... 72 Arden, John Live Like Pigs ................. 163 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance .... 190 Argall, Gregory A Year in the Death of Eddie Jester ........................... 78 Aristophanes The Acharnians ................ 178 The Birds ...................... 177 Clouds ........................... 50 Congresswomen ................ 188 The Frogs ...................... 178 Lysistrata ...................... 166 The Wasps ..................... 178 Women In Congress ........... 126 Arkin, Alan Power Plays ...................... 28 Virtual Reality ................. 240 Armstrong, Anthony Here We Come Gathering

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Mother's Day .................. 263

Athayde, Roberto Miss Margarida's Way ............ 8 Atkins, Eileen Vita & Virginia .................. 10 Atkins, Greg Rep ............................ 321 Atlas, Larry Total Abandon ................... 35 Atlas, Leopold But for the Grace of God ...... 188 Atwell, Lester Flora, the Red Menace ......... 206 Aurenche, Jean Augustus ....................... 273 Axelrod, George Goodbye Charlie ................. 91 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ...................... 108 Ayckbourn, Alan Absent Friends ................... 66 Absurd Person Singular .......... 71 Bedroom Farce ................. 105 Callisto 5 ...................... 297 A Chorus of Disapproval ...... 153 Comic Potential ................ 126 Communicating Doors ........... 56 Confusions ....................... 53 A Cut In the Rates ............. 255 Dreams From A Summer House ........................ 204 Ernie's Incredible Illucinations .................. 305 Family Values ................. 114 Henceforward .................... 79 It Could Be Any One of Us ..... 61 House & Garden ................ 158 How the Other Half Loves ....... 71 Intimate Exchanges .............. 13 Invisible Friends ............... 296 Joking Apart ................... 141 Just Between Ourselves .......... 52 Living Together .... " ............ 70 Man of the Moment ........... 137 Me, Myself and I .............. 215 Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays ......................... 297 My Very Own Story ........... 302 The Norman Conquests .......... 70 Relatively Speaking .............. 39 The Revengers' Comedies ..... 167 Round and Round the Garden ... 70 Season's Greetings ............. 119 Sisterly Feelings ............... 149 A Small Family Business ...... 148 Snake in the Grass ................ 9 Table Manners ................... 70 Taking Steps ..................... 58 Ten Times Table ............... 131 Things We Do for Love ......... 32 This Is Where We Came In .... 298 Time and Time Again ........... 54 Time of My Life ................. 81 Tons of Money ................ 129 Way Upstream ................... 86 Wildest Dreams .................. 99 Woman In Mind ................. 95 Ayer, Ethan Nobody's Earnest .............. 217 Ayme, Marcel Clerambard .................... 160 Ayvazian, Leslie Mama Drama ................... .46

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Babcock, David Serious Bizness ................ 223 Babe, Thomas A Prayer for My Daughter ....... 39 Singleton, the Winner .......... 313 Backer, Andy Bread .......................... 312 Badlam, Robb Guys ........................... 313 Slop Culture ................... 313 Bagdasian, Michael Love By the NUfllbers ......... 115 Bagneris, Vernel Further Mo' .................... 206 One Mo; Time ................. 218 Bagnold, Enid The Chalk Garden ............. 122 The Chinese Prime Minister '" 109 A Matter of Gravity ........... 106 Bailey, Alan Sanders Family Christmas ..... 222 Smoke On the Mountain ....... 224 Bailey, Brad The Real Queen of Hearts Ain't Even Pretty .................... 35 Bailey, Frederick Keeper ......................... 262 Baily, Norman Cap and Bells .................. 124 Baitz, Jon Robin The End of the Day .............. 57 The Film Society ................ 64 The Substance of Fire .......... .43 Three Hotels ..................... 10 Baker, David S. Inside Al ....................... 271 Balderston, John L. Berkeley Square ............... 181 Dracula ........................ 120 Baldwin, James The Amen Comer .......... . . .. 161 Blues for Mr. Charlie .......... 182 Balian, Rick The Brannock Device .......... 273 Ball, Leslie Painting It Red ................. 218 Ballard, Fred Ladies of the Jury .............. 184 320 College Avenue ........... 190 Bank, Diane Halfway Home ................... 96 Banks, Frances The Last Leaf .................. 125 Bannerman, Kay All for Mary ..................... 73 Barasch, Norman Beginner's Luck ................. 55 Daddy, Dear Daddy ............ 135 Make A Million ................ 189 Send Me No Flowers .......... 150 Standing By ...................... 12 Barbie, Richard A. Growing Up Naked ............ 208 Barer, Marshall The Mad Show ................ 214 Barker, Clive The Days of the Commune (trans.) ....................... 171 Barker, Edwin Albert Dirty Hands .................... 124 Barker, Howard Hated Nightfall ................ 165

Barker, Lawrence The Birds Stopped Singing .... 279 Barker, Wayne Clue: the Musical .............. 202 Barnes, Howard McKent Mother's Millions .............. 145 Barnes, Mary Mary Barnes

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Barnes, Peter Red Noses ..................... 187 The Ruling Class .............. 187 Baron, Alec Chimera ........................ 255 Baron. Alex Asylum ........................ 277 Baron, Courtney Ibe Blue Room ................ 313 Barrangon, Eloise Spring Dance .................. 158 Barrault, Jean-Louis The Trial ....................... 274 Barret, Earl Wife Begins At Forty ........ '" .59 Barret, James Lee Shenandoah .................... 223 Barrie, J. M. The Admirable Crichton ....... Alice Sit-By-The-Fire .......... Dear Miss Phoebe ............. Dear Brutus .................... A Kiss of Cinderella ........... The Old Lady Shows Her Medals ....................... Peter Pan .................. 219, Quality Street .................. The Twelve Pound Look ...... What Every Woman Knows ...

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Armstrong, Chari Ring Around Elizabeth ........ 151 Armstrong, David Hot 'n Cole .................... 209 Aron, Geraldine Bar and Ger .................... 241 The Donahue Sisters ........... 255 A Galway Girl ................. 244 Joggers ......................... 268 Same Old Moon ................. 98 Aronson, Billy Guilt ............................. 78 Arrabal, Fernando And They Put Handcuffs On the Flowers ...................... 107 The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ......................... 15 The Car Cemetery ............. 124 The Condemned Man's Bicycle ....................... 276 Fando and Lis .................... 55 Garden of Delights ............... 38 The Grand Ceremonial ........... 54 Guernica ....................... 245 The Labyrinth .................. 280 Picnic On the Battlefield ....... 280 The Tricycle ..................... 90 Arrick, Larry Unlikely Heroes Three Philip Roth Stories ....................... 121 Arrowsmith, William The Birds (trans.) .............. 177 Clouds (trans.) ................... 50 Arthur, Dave Jack the Lad ................... 300 Arthur, Kay When Altars Bum ............. 266 Arthur, Toni Jack the Lad ................... 300 Artificial Intelligence Tony N' Tina's Wedding ...... 170 Ashman, Howard Kurt Vonnegufs God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ............... 213 Smile ........................... 133 Ashton Jr., Herbert J. Brothers ........................ 201 Locked Room .................. 158 Aspengren, Kate Dear Mrs. Martin ................ 10 Flyer ........................... 110 House of Wonders ............... 97

187 123 204 134 189 281 302 182 270 143

Barry, Bob Murder Among Friends .......... 70 Barry, Lynda The Good Times Are Killing Me ........................... 169 Barry, PJ. After the Dancing At Jericho '" .63 And Fat Freddy's Blues ......... 29 Bad Axe ......................... 27 A Distance From Calcutta ...... .44 Down By the Ocean ............. 57 Getting the Gold ................ .49 Jump the Train at Riverpoint .... 97 The Octette Bridge Club ....... 118 Barry, Philip The Animal Kingdom .......... 124 Foolish Notion ................. 125 Happy New Year .............. 208 Here Comes the Clowns ....... 163 Holiday ....................... 157 Hotel Universe .. : .............. 122 In a Garden ...................... 74 Jade God ....................... 135 Liberty Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 189 Paris Bound .................... 136 The Philadelphia Story ......... 184 Spring Dance .................. 158 Tomorrow and Tomorrow ..... 145 You and I ...................... 126 The youngest .................. 126 Bart, Jean The Squall ..................... 152 Bart, Lionel Lock Up Your Daughters ...... 214 Bartel, Paul Eating Raoul ................... 204 Barton, Dave Earthlings! ..................... 295 Barton, John The Hollow Crown .............. 39

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Bartsch, Hans The Guardsman (trans.) ........ 125 Woman of Paris (trans.) ......... 55 Basham, Rebecca Lot's Daughters .................. 97 Basson, Lois Shapley The Month Before the Moon . .' .. 97 Batson, George A Broom for A Bride .......... 157 Design for Murder ............. l34 The Doctor Has A Daughter ... 152 Every Family Has One ........ 151 Hangman's Noose ............. l34 The House On the Cliff .......... 73 I Found April .................... 74 Murder On Arrival ............. 125 Rehearsal for Death ............ 144 Battlo, Jean The Little Theatre's Production of 'Hamlet' ....................... 97 Bauer, Carlos The Public (trans.) ............... 26 Bauer, P. Seth The Casseroles of Far Rockaway .................... 263 Bauer, Paul The Last Straw ................. 285 Baukhage, Hilmar The Boor (trans.) .............. 292 Baum, L. Frank The Wiz ....................... 229 Beach, Lewis The Clod ....................... 275 Goose Hangs High ............. 157 Beagle, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place ...... 205 Beane, Douglas Carter Advice From A Caterpillar ...... 32 Beatts, Anne Leader of the Pack ....... .. .... 214 Beaumarchais, Pierre de The Barber of Seville ...... 95, 113 Beaver, Jim Spades ......................... 312 Beber, Neena Jump/Cut ......................... 18 Misreadings .................... 313 Beckett, Samuel Act Without Words ............ 241 All That Fall ................... 233 Breath .......................... 176 Cascando ....................... 290 Catastrophe ...................... 27 Embers ........................... 55 Endgame ......................... 39 Footfalls ....................... 244 Happy Days ...................... 16 Krapp's Last Tape ................ 8 Ohio Impromptu ............... 247 A Piece of Monologue ......... 237 Rockaby ....................... 237 Rough for Radio I ............. 233 Rough for Radio II ............ 233 Rough for Theatre I ............ 249 Rough for Theatre II ........... 249 P1ay ............................ 321 That Time ...................... 268 What Where ..................... 29 Becque, Henry Woman of Paris .................. 55 Bedloe, Christopher A Christmas Carol ............. 202 Beers, Jesse Beery, Barbara The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Beeten, Mary The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Beevers, Geoffrey Silas Marner ................... 169 Behan, Brendan Borstal Boy .................... 180 The Hostage ................... 182 The Quare Fellow .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 186 Behlmer, Rudy Behind the Scenes ............. 324 Behrman, S. N. Biography ...................... 108 But for Whom Charlie ......... 135 The Grand Tour ................ 207 I Know My Love .............. 189 Jane ............................ 125 Lord Pengo .................... 145 Meteor ......................... 125 No Time for Comedy ............ 92 Rain From Heaven ............. 134 The Second Man ................. 39 Beim, Norman Archie's Comeback .............. 19 The Battle of Valor .............. 59 By the Rivers of Babylon ........ 44 Chessman ........................ 27 Cock of the Walk ................ 27 The Deserter ................... 255 Dreams ........................... 30 A Fool of Passion ................ 41 If Love Were All .............. 165 Inside .......................... 283 Jewel Thieves! ................... 31 King of the Israelites .......... 306 A Leg of the Journey ............ 46 Lonely Places .................. 137 Looking at the Stars ........... 306 Lost in Midian ................. 307 A Love Story .................. 246 A Marriage of Convenience ..... 46 My Dinner With Mark ........... 11 My Family, the Jewish Immigrants ................... 314 On A Darkling Plain ............. 31 On Edge ......................... 28 The Prince Who Ate in the Morning ..................... 306 Pygmalion and Galatea .......... 32 Queen of Persia ................ 306 A Rose of Sharon ................ 81 Serpent's Tooth ................ 306 Shakespeare Revisited ......... 250 Success .......................... 12 Vampires in LA .................. 43 A Walk Among the Flowers ..... 82 Zygielbaum's Journey ......... 139 Bein, Albert Heavenly Express .............. 188 Let Freedom Ring ............. 189 Beissel, Henry The Emigrants ................... 14 Belasco, David The Girl of the Golden West .. 188 Belghel, Larry Page Three Murder .............. 83 Belgrader, Andrei Rameau's Nephew (trans.) ....... 12 Belitt, Ben Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta (trans.) .............. 152 Belke, David Blackpool and Parrish .......... .41 That Darn Plot .................. .48 Bell, Anita Egad, What A Cad! ............ 293 He Done Her Wrong ......... " 292 Bell, James A. Prisoner ........................ 256 Bell, Jonathan Portraits .......................... 77 Bell, Neal Drive ........................... 237 Out the Window ............... 313 Bellak, George Open Secret .................... 283 Bellusci, Mark Born to Be Blue ............... 271 Benedetti, Jean The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ......................... 15 A Respectable Wedding (trans.) ....................... 287 The Grand Ceremonial ........... 54 Benedici, Stewart H. One Day In the Life of Ivy Dennison ..................... 257 Benfield, Derek Bedside Manners ................. 48 Beyond A Joke .................. 99 Flying Feathers ................ 114 In for the Kill ................... .48 Over My Dead Body ............ 55 Running Riot .................. 118 Second Time Around ............ 12 Touch and Go .................... 51 Bennett, Alan Bed Among the Lentils ........ 234 Beyond the Fringe .............. .40 A Chip In the Sugar ........... 234 A Cream Cracker Under the Settee ........................ 234 An Englishman Abroad ........ 272 Forty Years On ................ 178 Getting On ..................... 124 Green Forms ................... 253 Habeas Corpus ................. 141 Her Big Chance ................ 234 Kafka's Dick ..................... 86 The Lady in the Van ........... 159 A Lady of Letters .............. 235 The Madness of George III .... 166 Nights in the Garden of Spain ... 19 Office Suite ...................... 42 Playing Sandwiches .............. 19 A Question of Attribution ..... 277 Soldiering On .................. 235 Single Spies .................... 139 Talking Heads 1-2 ............... 19 A Visit from Miss Prothero .... 241 Waiting for the Telegram ........ 19 The Wind In the Willows ...... 302 Bennett, Dorothy Fly Away Home ............... 157 Sixteen In August .............. 152 Woman's A Fool .............. 126 Bennett, Mark The Hunchback of Notre Dame ........................ 210 When Lightning Strikes Twice .. 21 Bennett, Michael Seesaw ......................... 223 Bennett, Rowena Puss In Boots .................. 299 Bennett, Thom Dark Rituals ..................... 44 Benrimo The Yellow Jacket ............. 190 Benson, Sally Seventeen ...................... 223 The Young and the Beautiful .. 145 Bentham & Williams Janie ........................... 187 Bentley, Eric Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? ........................ 175 Baal (trans.) .................... 178 The Brute (trans.) ......... 262, 314

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The Brute and Other Farces (trans.) ....................... 314 Cavelleria Rusticana (trans.) ... 286 Celestina (trans.) ............... 163 Edward II (trans.) .............. 178 The Elephant Calf (trans.) ..... 267 The Exception and the Rule (trans.) ....................... 289 Fear and Misery In the Third Reich (trans.) ....................... 185 From A Madman's Diary (trans.) ....................... 236 From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate ........................ 130 The Gamblers (trans.) ............ 63 The Good Woman of Setzuan (trans.) ....................... 175 The Harmfulness of Tobacco (trans.) ....................... 314 In Search of Justice (trans.) .... 281 The Informer (trans.) ........... 261 Inspector (trans.) ............... 170 The Jewish Wife (trans.) ....... 245 La Ronde (trans.) .............. 134 Leonce and Lena (trans.) ...... 151 Lio1a (trans.) ................... 150 Lord Alfred's Lover ........... 174 The Mandrake (trans.) ......... 115 A Man's A Man (trans.) ....... 177 The Marriage (trans.) .......... 133 Mary Stuart (trans.) ............ 189 The Measures Taken (trans.) ... 289 Mother Courage and Her Children (trans.) ....................... 166 1913 (trans.) ................... 136 The Recantation of Gali1eo Galilei ....................... 175 Salzburg Dance of Death (trans.) ....................... 285 The Snob (trans.) .............. 126 Spring's Awakening (trans.) ... 184 Summer In the Country (trans.) ....................... 314 The Underpants (trans.) .......... 68 Wedding (trans.) ................. : 9 Woyzeck (trans.) ............ , .. 185
Berc, Shelley Rameau's Nephew (trans.) ....... 12 Berg, Barry Musical Chairs ................. 216 Berg, Neil The Prince and the Pauper ..... 220 Berg, Richard Honky-Tonk Highway ......... 209 Berghof, Herbert Poor Murderer (trans.) ......... 176 Bergman, Alan and Marilyn Ballroom ....................... 200 Bergman, Andrew Social Security ................... 66 Bergman, Linda Wanna Play?! .................. 228 Berke, Joseph Mary Barnes ................... 189 Berkey, Ralph Time Limit! .................... 182 Berkoff, Steven Acapulco ......................... 56 Actor ........................... 276 Agamemnon ................... 109 Brighton Beach Scumbags ..... 276 Dahling You Were Marvellous ................... 290 Decadence ........................ 9 Dog ............................ 242 East ............................. .41 The Fall of the House of Usher .. 17 Greek ............................ 27 Harry's Christmas .............. 234 In the Penal Colony .............. 27

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Kvetch .......................... .41 Lunch .......................... 273 Massage ........................ 239 The Messiah ................... 153 MetamOIphosis .................. .42 Oedipus ........................ 127 Ritual in Blood ................ 167 The Secret Love Life of Ophelia ........................ 10 Sink the Belgrano! ............. 112 The Trial ....................... 128
Berkow, Ja)' Jolson and Company ........... 212 Berlin, Eric Babes and Brides ................ 59 The Line That's Picked Up 1000 Babes ........................ 277 The Midnight Moonlight Wedding Chapel ....................... 277 Berman, Brooke Dancing With A Devil ......... 3 I 3 Berman, Norman L. Strider .......................... 226 Unsung Cole (And Classics Too) ......................... 228 Berman, M.D., Ronald FJR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 Bermel, Albert The Adjustment ................ 241 Afraid To Fight (trans.) ........ 241 Autumn Violins .................. 19 Badin the Bold (trans.) ......... 241 The Barber of Seville (trans.) .. 113 Boubouroche (trans.) ........... 119 The Bourgeois Gentleman (trans.)' ...................... 175 The Doctor In Spite of Himself (trans.) ....................... 141 Don Juan (trans.) .............. 188 The Flying Doctor (trans.) ..... 282 The Forced Marriage (trans.) .. 288 George Dandin (trans.) ......... 103 Hold On Hortense (trans.) ..... 283 Hey, Cut Out the Parading Around Stark Naked! (trans.) ........ 271 The Imp Or Imps .............. 273 The Jealous Husband (trans.) .. 285 The Love of Three Oranges (trans.) ....................... 169 The Miser (trans.) .............. 175 The Mountain Chorus .......... 285 The Piggy Bank (trans.) ....... 169 The Police Chief Is An Easygoing Guy (trans.) .................. 285 Professor Taranne (trans.) ...... 290 The Recovery .................. 260 The Rehearsal At Versailles (trans.) ....................... 289 Scapin (trans.) ................. 130 The Seductive Countess (trans.) ....................... 287 The Seizure .................... 279 Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed (trans.) ....................... 287 Ubu Cocu (trans.) .............. 154 The Washtub ................... 259 The Workout ................... 252 Berney, William Dark of the Moon .......... .... 172 Berns, Julie Uncle Willie ................... 162 Bernstein, Douglas Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! ...................... 208 Bernstein, Julianne Autumn Leaves ................ 241 Pizza: A Love Story ........... 272 Berrigan, Daniel The Trial of the Catonsville Nine ......................... 142 Besier, Rudolph Robert and Elizabeth ........... 221 Besoyan, Rick Little Mary Sunshine .......... 214 The Student Gypsy ............ 226 Bethell, Nicholas Ascent of Mount Fuji (trans.) " 135 Betti, Ugo Corruption In the Palace of Justice ....................... 145 The Queen and the Rebels ..... 145 Bevel, Charles It Ain't Nothin' buUhe Blues ........................ 211 Beverly, Nancy Attack of the Moral Fuzzies ... 312 Bicknell, Arthur Moose Murders ................ 119 Bigelow, Otis The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal ... 119 Bill, Mary Fournier The Welcoming ................ 288 Birney, David The Diaries of Adam and Eve ... II Bimonte, Richard Yankee Ingenuity .............. 229 Birney, David The Diaries of Adam and Eve ... 11 Bishop, Conrad Confession ..................... 313 Bishop, Helen Gary Garden of Delights (trans.) ...... 38 A Hell of A Mess (trans.) ..... 188 Killing Game (trans.) .......... 189 Bishop, John Arizona Anniversaries .......... 313 The Trip Back Down .......... 176 Bishop, Tom Garden of Delights (trans.) ...... 38 Bitterman, Shem The Job .......................... 45 The Price ...................... 313 Black, Ian Stuart We Must Kill Toni .............. 75 Black, Kitty Point of Departure (trans.) ..... 189 The Public Prosecutor (trans.) ....................... 125 The Rehearsal (trans.) .......... 106 Blackwell, Charles The Tap Dance Kid ............ 227 Blackwell, Vera The Garden Party (trans.) ...... 114 The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (trans.) .......... 97 The Memorandum (trans.) ..... 184 Private View (trans.) ........... 249 Protest (trans.) ................. 249 Blaikley, Alan The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ................. 174 Blake, Walter The Nutt Family ............... 193 Bland, Margaret A Pink Party Dress ............ 219 Blane, Ralph Three Wishes for Jamie ........ 227 Blankership, Catherine Murder Is Fun! ................. 289 Blankfort, Dorothy and Michael Monique ....................... 145 Blatt, Jerry Tricks .......................... 109 Blessing, Lee The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid ............................ 39 Cold Water .................... 313 Blizstein, Marc Juno ............................ 212 Bloch, Bertram Jewel Robbery ................. 158 Bloom, George Archie and the Editorial ....... 291 Blue, Dan Dumbbell People In A Barbell World ........................ 123 Blumsack, Amy Lord Grandma Sylvia's Funeral ..... 165 Blum, Galen Clue: the Musical .............. 202 Blumstein, Glenn Nijinsky: God's Mad Clown

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Vivat! Vivat Regina! ........... 179

Bolte, Jr., Carl Eugene Give ' em Hell, Harry! ......... 177 Bolton, Guy Anastasia .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 157 Polly With A Past ............. 152 The Recognition Scene From Anastasia .................... 249 Bonafede, Bruce Advice To the Players ..... 67, 278 Bonasorte, Gary The Aunts ........................ 32 Bond, C. G. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ............... 141 Bond, Linda Thorsen Swingtime Canteen ............ 226 Bond, Matt Earthlings! ..................... 295 Bond, Nelson Animal Farm ..................... 91 State of Mind .................. 158 Bond, Victoria Everyone Is Good for Something ................... 205 Book, Peter Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 .!looth, Anthony The Trial ....................... 274 Booth, Connie The Anniversary ............... Basil the Rat ................... The Builders Class ............. Communication Problems ...... Fawlty Towers ................. The Gennans .................. Gourmet Night ................. The Hotel Inspectors ........... The Kipper and the Corpse .... The Psychiatrist ................ A Touch of Class .............. Waldorf Salad .................. The Wedding Party ............

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Bobrick, Jeanne Weekend Comedy ............. ,.34' Bobrick, Sam Annoyance ....................... 17 Are You Sure? ................... 63 The Crazy Time ................ .41 Death In England ................ 96 Hamlet II ...................... 154 Murder At the Howard Johnson's ...................... 23 New York Water .................. 9 No Hard Feelings .............. 121 Nonnan, Is That You? .......... .47 The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon and Mrs. Levine ...... 10 Remember Me? .................. 32 The Stanway Case ............... 28 Wally's Cafe ..................... 24 Weekend Comedy ............... 34 Bock, Jerry The Body Beautiful ............ 201 Bogart, Joanne Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) .................... 198 Bogdanov, Michael Hiawatha ....................... 140 Bogosian, Eric Drinking In America .............. 8 Pounding Nails In the Floor With My Forehead ................... 8 Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll ......... 8 Talk Radio ..................... 116 Bohmler, Craig Gunmetal Blues ................ 208 Bolam, Ken The Frankenstein Monster Show ........................ 206 Boland, John Murder In Company ........... 106 Who Says Murder ............... 89 Bologna, Joseph Alan, Betty and Riva .......... 254 Bedrooms ........................ 13 Bill and Laura ................. 278 David and Nancy .............. 243 It Had To Be You ............... 13 Love Allways .................. 312 Lovers and Other Strangers .... 133 Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wexel .... 246 Nick and Wendy ............... 257 Bolt, Ranjit. The Sisterhood (trans.) ......... Il6 Bolt, Robert A Man for All Seasons ........ The Sisterhood ................. State of Revolution ............ The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew ....................

289 289 289 289 311 290 290 288 290 289 289 290 289

Booth, Hilliard The Red Lamp ................. 292 Booth, John Hunter Rolling Home .................. 163 Booth, Roy C. Beanie and thf~ Bamboozling Book Machine ..................... 305 Booty, Jill The Dog In the Manger (trans.) ....................... Fuente Ovejuna (trans.) ........ Justice Without Revenge (trans.) ....................... The Knight From Olmedo (trans.) ....................... Peribanez (trans.) ..............

188 157 163 158 158

Boretz, Allen Hot Comer ..................... 163 Borneman, Ernest Lux In Tenebris (trans.) ........ 280 Borrelli, James They'd Come To See Charlie .. 126 Boruff, John 'The Loud Red Patrick ......... 123 Bost, Pierre The Power and the Glory

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162 116 176 179

Boswell, William I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever ...................... 210 Boucicault The Streets of New york ...... 195, 226

INDEX OF AUTHORS Boughton, Walter Virtue Always Triumphs ....... 171 Bovasso, Julie Gloria and Esperanza .......... 152 The Moon Dreamers ........... 150 Schubert's Last Serenade ...... 280 Bowen, John After the Rain .................. 152 The Fall and Redemption of Man .......................... 154 Little Boxes .................... 121 Bowles, Paul No Exit (trans.) .................. 39 Boyd, Julianne A . . . My Name Is Alice ..... 199 A. . . My Name Is Still Alice ......................... 199 A . . . My Name Will Always Be Alice ......................... 199 Sweet and Hot: the Songs of Harold Arlen ......................... 226 Boylan, Mary Curley Mcdimple .............. 203 Up In the Air, Boys ............ 228 Boyle, Viki The Whole Truth .............. 252 Bozzone, BiU Breakdown ..................... 242 Buck Fever .................... 267 Good Honest Food ............. 267 House Arrest ..................... 84 Korea ............................ 63 Rose Cottages .................... 67 Bradbury, Ray The Day It Rained Forever .... 269 The Pedestrian ................. 248 Bray, Barbara Antigone (trans.) ............... 136 Bredefelt, Gosta Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Bradford, Benjamin Where Are You Going Hollis Jay? .......................... 252 Bradley, Alfred The Adventures of A Bear Called Paddington ................... 297 The Final Twist .................. 30 Brady, Leo Brother Orchid ................. 145 Bragg, Melvyn The Hired Man ................ 209 Braham, David Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Bramble, Mark The Grand Tour ................ 207 Brandon, Dorothy The Outsider ................... 136 Brandon, James R. Kabuki Plays ................... 291 Kanjincho ...................... 291 The Zen Substitute ............. 291 Braun, Wilbur The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ....................... Curse You, Jack Dalton! .. 203, Feuding ........................ Foiled Again! ............. 206, He Ain't Done Right By Nell ..................... 208, The White Phantom ............ Brecht On Brecht ................ 92 The Catch ...................... 288 The Caucasian Chalk Circle ... 170 Coriolanus ..................... 188 The Days of the Commune .... 171 Don Juan (trans.) .............. 188 Driving Out A Devil ........... 282 Drums In the Night ....... 170, 188 Edward II ...................... 178 The Elephant Calf ............. 267 The Exception and the Rule ... 289 Fear and Misery In the Third Reich ........................ 185 Galileo ......................... 174 The Good Woman of Setzuan (The Good Person of Setzuan) .... 175, 207 Happy End ..................... 208 In Search of Justice ............ 281 The Informer ................... 261 The Jewish Wife ............... 245 Jungle of Cities ................ 189 LUX In Tenebris ................ 280 A Man's A Man .......... 177, 189 The Measures Taken ........... 289 The Messingkauf Dialogues ..... 46 The Mother .................... 171 Mother Courage and Her Children ................ 166, 189 Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti ......................... 171 Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man .......................... 190 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ....................... 173, 190 A Respectable Wedding ....... 287 Saint Joan of the Stockyards ... 177 Salzburg Dance of Death ...... 285 Schweyk In the Second World War ..................... 173, 190 The Trial of Joan of Arc At Rouen, 1431 ......................... 190 Trumpets and Drums .......... 190 The Tutor ...................... 190 The Visions of Simone Machard ................ 173, 190 Breit, Harvey The Disenchanted .............. 163 Bremer, Ward Nothing But Nonsense ......... 316 Bremmer, Belinda Mrs. Coney: A Tale At Christmas .................... 310 Brenner, Larry The King and the Condemned .................. 270 Brennert, Alan Weird Romance ................ 228 Brent, Bomney Mad Hopes .................... 158 Brentano, LoweD The Spider ..................... 213 Brenton, Howard Bloody Poetry ................... 50 The Genius .................... 117 The Life of Galileo (trans.) .... 174, 189 Pravda ......................... 172 Breslin, Jimmy Contract With Jackie ........... 313 Brett, Michael The Full Treatment ............ 145 Brevoort, Deborah Baley Into the Fire ................... 128 Bricusse, Leslie Scrooge! ....................... 222 Sherlock Holmes: The Musical ...................... 223 Bridie, James Daphne Laureola ............... 188 Tobias and the Angel .......... 185 Briggs, John R. Shogun Macbeth ............... 171 Briggs, Raymond When the Wind Blows ........... 34 Brighouse, Harold Hobson's Choice ............... 150 Walking Happy ................ 228 Brinnin, John M. Dylan .......................... 181 Bristol, Stephen Crime Photographer ............ 157 Brittan, Robert Raisin .......................... 221 Brittney, Lynn Pickwick Papers ............... 167 Britton, K.P. Houseparty ..................... 189 Broad, Jay Conflict oflnterest ............. 177 The Killdeer ................... 121 Broadhurst, George What Happened To Jones? ..... 158 Brochu, James Cookin' With Gus ............... 35 Fat Chance ...................... .45 The Lady of the House ........ 170 The Last Session ............... 213 The Lucky O'learys .............. 84 A Wonderful Worldful of Christmas ..... ,.............. 310 Brock, James The Prince Who Wouldn't Talk .......................... 297 Brofsky, Kevin Strawberry Fields .............. 259 Brogger, Erik The Paranormal Review ......... 53 Bronson, James Graham Willie & Esther .................. 12 Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre ...................... 146 Brooks, Harold All for Mary ..................... 73 Brooks, Jeremy Barbarians (trans.) ............. 175 Enemies (trans.) ................ 188 Brown, Albert M. An Evening of One-Act Stagers for Golden Agers ................ 314 Brown, Bertha It's Okay, Honey .............. 245 Brown, Kenneth Nightlight ........................ 54 Brown, Lew Good News .................... 207 Brown, Nathan The Sentimental Scarecrow .... 223 Brown, Patricia Gloria Mundi .................. 281 Brown, Regina Tom Sawyer's Morning ........ 305 Brown, Sarah King of the Pekinese Yellowtail .................... 245 The Winning Number .......... 252 Brown, Steve The Contrast ................... Fashion ........................ Hijinks! ........................ Strider ......................... , 203 205 209 226

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Brown, Warner The Biograph Girl ............. 201 Brown, William F. The Girl In the Freudian Slip .... 72 A Single Thing In Common ..... 53 The Wiz ....................... 229 Browne, Maurice Wings Over Europe ............ 190 Browne, Porter Emerson Bad Man ....................... 187 Browne, Wynyard The Holly and the Ivy ......... 125 Brownell, John C. The Nut Farm .................. 136 BrowneD, Richard Afterhours ..................... 286 Bruce, Renaud C. Lorenzaccio (trans.) ............ 189 Brush, Bob The First ....................... 321 Brustein, Robert The Cherry Orchard (trans.) ... 158 Enrico IV (trans.) .............. 139 The Father (trans.) ............. 114 The Seagull (trans.) ............ 146 Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 178 When We Dead Awaken (trans.) ......................... 82 The Wild Duck (trans.) ........ 175 Bryan, Wayne Festival ........................ 205 Bryant, Neville J. Something for Charlie ........... 88 Bucci, Mark Days On End .................. 300 The Old Lady Shows Her Medals ....................... 281 A Pink Party Dress ............ 219 Buchner, Georg Woyzeck ....................... 185 Leonce and Lena ............... 151 Buchwald, Art Sheep On the Runway ......... 136 Buckley, Jr., WilHam F. Stained Glass .................. 148 Bumni, Moria Silence ......................... 254 Bulgakov, Mikhail Zoya's Apartment .............. 116 Bullins, Ed Black Commercial #2 .......... 315 Clara's Old Man ............... 315 The Comer ..................... 315 Death List .......... : ........... 315 Dialect Determinism ........... 315 The Duplex .................... 315 Fabulous Miss Marie .......... 315 The Electronic Nigger ......... 315 The Gentleman Caller ......... 315 Goin' a Buffalo ............ 74, 315 The Helper ..................... 315 How Do You Do .............. 315 In New England Winter ....... 315 In the Wine Time .............. 315 It Bees That Way .............. 315 The Man Who Dug Fish ....... 315 A Minor Scene ................. 315 Night of the Beast ............. 315 The Pig Pen .................... 315 The Play of the Play ........... 315 Short Play for a Small Theatre ....................... 315 Son Come Home ............... 315 Storyville ...................... 198 Street Sounds .................. 315 The Taking of Miss Janie ...... 116, 315

300 293 293 272 293 293

Braz-Valentine, Claire This One Thing I Do .......... 100 Brecht, Bertolt Baal ....................... 178, 187 The Beggar Or the Dead Dog .......................... 242

Brown, Victoria Norman Roadtrip ........................ 313

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The Theme Is Blackness ....... 315 You Gonna Let Me Take You Out Tonight, Baby? .............. 315

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Butler, Dan The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer ....................... 201 Butterfield, Catherine Chemistry ...................... 255 Life In the Trees ............... 128 The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs ........................ 264 No Problem .................... 257 Where the Truth Lies ............ 82 Butterworth, Bette The Pied Piper of Hamelin .... 301 Buttorff, Mel . . . and Then I Wrote . . . . ,. 102 Buttram, Jan Captive ........................... 21 The Parker Family Circus ....... 58 Totally Cool ................... 265 Byerrum, Eliot A Christmas Cactus .............. 60 Deja Rendez-vous .............. 264 Gumshoe Rendezvous ........... 30 Remedial Surveillance ......... 265. Byrne, John The Slab Boys ................. 104 Byrnes, Thomas All My Darlings ............... 187

Campbell, Norman Anne of Green Gables ......... 200 Campbell, Roy Fuente Ovejuna (trans.) ........ 183 Life Is A Dream (trans.) ......... 90 Love After Death (trans.) ...... 189 The Siege of Numantia (trans.) ....................... 180 The Trickster of Seville (trans.) ....................... 190 Campton, Ken After Midnight-Before Dawn ........................ 279 The Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit ........................ 286 Mrs. Meadowsweet ............ 272 Parcel .......................... 285 Camus, Albert Caligula ........................ 183 Cannan, Denis The Power and the Glory ...... 189 Cannon, Alice M. Great Day In the Morning
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Bullock, Michael Andorra (trans.) ................ 145 Biography, A Game ........... 188 Buloff, Joseph The Chekhov Sketchbook ...... In A Music Shop .............. The Vagabond ................. The Witch .....................
104 104 291 128

Buloff, Luba Kadison The Vagabond ................. 291 The Witch ..................... 128 Burger, Katherine Way Deep ..................... 272 Burgess, GranviUe Wyche The Freak ...................... 103 Burke, Edwin This Thing Called Love ....... 136 Burke, Gregory The Straits ....................... 26 Burke, Johnny Donnybrook! ................... 204 Burman, David Dreams of Anne Frank ........ 297 Burnham, Barbara Girls In Uniform (Children in Uniform) (trans.) ............. 188 Burnett, Matthew Theophilus North ................ 78 Burns, Kitty Identity Crisis .................. 276 Terminal Terror ................ 271 On Hold At 30,000 Feet ....... 271 Psycho Night At the Paradise Lounge ....................... 1-67 Slice of the Blarney .............. 77 Burr, Anne Huui Huui ..................... 151 Burrows, Abe Cactus Flower ................. 143 First Impressions ............... 206 Four On A Garden ............... 71 Three Wishes for Jamie ........ 227 Burstein, Lonnie Tricks .......................... 109 Burton, Brian J. Being of Sound Mind ........... .48 Cheers, Tears and Screamers!! .................. 264 The Drunkard .................. 180 East Lynne ..................... 122 Foiled Again! ............. 206, 272 Ghost of A Chance ............ 271 Lady Audley's Secret .......... 108 The Murder of Maria Marten .. 156 Murder Play ................... 268 Sweeney Todd the Barber ..... 182 Three Hisses for Villainy ...... 176 Burton, Wendell The Nearlyweds .................. 74 Busch, Charles Die! Mommy! Die! .............. 55 The Green Heart ............... 208 The Lady In Question ......... 115 Psycho Beach Party ............ 137 Queen Amarantha ................ 58 Red Scare On Sunset ............ 98 Shanghai Moon ................ 112 Sleeping Beauty ................ 305 Swingtime Canteen ............ 226 The Tale of the Allergist's Wife .......................... .43 Times Square Angel ........... 140 Vampire Lesbians of Sodom ..... 95 You Should Be So Lucky ........ 62

l\-fixed Doubles ................. 118 More Than Meets the Eye ..... 144 Murder-Go-Round ............... 94 Murder Is A Game ............... 98 Murder On the Rerun ............ 86 The Night Is My Enemy ....... 134 Out of Sight. . . Out of Murder ....................... 119 Over the Checkerboard .......... 98 P Is for Perfect ................. 273 The Pen Is Deadlier ............ 134 Petey's Choice ................. 125 The Robin Hood Caper ........ 133 Said the Spider To the Spy .... 117 So Nice Not To See You ...... 283 Surprise! ....................... 151 Ten Nights In A Bar-Room .. :. 227 The Three Million Dollar Lunch ........................ 274 The Trouble With Trent ......... 98 Victoria's House ............... 121 What If .......................... 99 Whatever Happened To Mrs. Kong? ....................... 106 Who Needs A Waltz ............. 89

Capek, Josef and Karel The World We Live In ........ 185 Capek, Karel R. U. R ........................ 185 Caplan, Paula J. The Test ....................... 240

Carmines, Al Peace ........................... 313 Promenade ..................... 220 Carnelia, Craig Is There Life After High School? ...................... 211 Sweet Smell of Success ........ 198 Carney, Frank Righteous Are Bold ............ 135 Carole, Joseph Separate Rooms ................ 125 Carr, Dorothy Donald and the Dragon ........ 300 Carr, Leon The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ......................... 222 Carriere, Jean-Claude The Little Black Book ........... 16 Carroll, John R. The Folks Next Door .......... 120 Murder Well Rehearsed ........ 279 Carroll, Paul Vincent White Steed .................... 158 Carroll, Robert F. Heat Lighting .................. 262 Carson, Wm. G.B. Five for Bad Luck ............. 284 Carter, Arthur P. Operation Mad Ball ............ 189 Carter, Randolph Wuthering Heights ............... 73 Carter, Vivienne A Tale of Two Cities: A Musical Play .......................... 227 Cartwright, Jim The Rise and Fall of Little Voice .......................... 81 Road ........................... 282 Two .............................. 44 Cary, Falkland Big Bad Mouse ................ 122 Madam Tic-Tac ................ 145 Sailor Beware! ................. 122 Casademont, Joan Maids of Honor .................. 80 Casey, Rosemary Late Love ...................... 125 Casey, Warren Grease ......................... 207 Casler, Lawrence A Night In the Theatre .......... 27

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Caddy, Leonard H. Jekyll and Hyde ................ 105 Cadman, Larry Peace in Our Time ............. 189 Cahan, Abraham The Rise of David Levinsky ... 221 CahiU, Edna M. Easy Christmas Grab Bag ..... 310 The Jumbo Christmas Book ... 310 Cahill, Sylvia Ballycastle ..................... 241 Cahn, Sammy Skyscraper ..................... 224 Walking Happy ................ 228
Cain, Bill Stand-Up Tragedy ............. 116

Cardinal, Vincent J. The Colorado Catechism ......... 10 Cargill, Patrick Don't Misunderstand Me ........ 44 Carlisle, Jeannette Anne of A vonlea ... .. .. .. .. .... 163 Carlman, Katherine M. The Sixth Station .............. 306 Carlson, Harry G. The Dance of Death (trans.) ..... 68 A Dream Play (trans.) ......... 183 The Father (trans.) ............. 101 The Ghost Sonata (trans.) ...... 183 Miss Julie (trans.) ................ 24 Carlson, Nancy Kierspe The Magic Pebble ............. 215 Carlton, Bob Return To the Forbidden Planet ........................ 221 Carlton, John Hoodwinked ................... 209 Carmichael, Fred All the Better To Kill You With ........................... 91 Any Number Can Die ......... 150 The Best Laid Plans ........... 133 Coming Apart .................... 29 Damsel of the Desert .......... 271 Decisions, Decisions ........... 264 Done to Death ................. 165 Don't Mention My Name ........ 96 Don't Step On My Footprint ..... 88 Double In Diamonds ........... 135 Dream World .................... 54 Exit the Body .................. 130 Exit Who? ..................... 103 Foiled by an Innocent Maid ... 279 Frankenstein 1930 ............. 154 Guess Who's Coming To Lunch? ....................... 272 He's Having A Baby .......... 292 Hey, Naked Lady ................ 71 Home Free ....................... 83 Hot Property ................... 101 I Bet Your Life .................. 97 Inside Lester ................... 125 Last of the Class ................. 70 Luxury Cruise ................. 122 Meet My Husbands ............ 115

Calder, John The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria (trans.) ................ 15 The Grand Ceremonial (trans.) .. 54 Calderon Love After Death .............. 189 Calhoun, Will The Balcony Scene .............. 19 Callan, Lyndall Homebound .................... 236 Cameron, susan Flights ......................... 239 Camoletti, Marc Boeing-Boeing ................... 72 Don't Dress for Dinner .......... 57 Happy Birthday .................. 52 Camp, Jennifer Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda .. 238 Camp III, T.J. Shark ............................. 75 Campanella, Phil James Joyce's Dublin .......... 138 Campbell, Ken Old King Cole ................. 297 Campbell, Lawton Solid South .................... 126

INDEX OF AUTlIORS Cassaro, Nancy Tony N' Tina's Wedding ...... 170 .Cassella, Alberto Death Takes A Holiday ........ 157 Cassidy, Mary Lou A Penny Friend ................ 219 Castle, Gerald V. Curse You, Jack Dalton! ....... 203 Foiled Again! .................. 206 He Ain't Done Right By Nell .......................... 208 Catanese, Charles Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 Catron, Louis F. Touch the Bluebird's Song .... 251 Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone? ........................ 252 Caudle, David Feet of Clay ................... 237 Cauley, Harry Any Eve for Adam .............. 74 Let Me Hear You Smile ......... 74 Next Time, for Real ............. 23 The Paisley Convertible ......... 54 Caveny, Leslie Love of A Pig ................. 100 Cecil, Henry Alibi for A Judge .............. 187 Ceraso, Chris Sittin' .......................... 260 Cervantes, Migel de Interludes ...................... 290 The Jealous Husband .......... 285 The Siege of Numantia ........ 180 Chadwicke, Alice Anne of Green Gables ......... Davy Crockett ................. Great Expectations ............. Pudd'nhead Wilson ............ Tish ............................ The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ...........................

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Shut Your Eyes and Think of England ...................... 120 There Goes the Bride .......... 106
Chappell, Eric It Can Damage Your Health .... .45 Haunted .......................... 60 Natural Causes .................. .47 Theft ............................. 48 Charell, Erik White Horse Inn ............... 229 Charlap, Mark . PeteI' Pan ....................... 302 Charles, Moie Murder At the Vicarage ....... 155 Charnin, Martin By Strouse ..................... 201 The First ....................... 321 Chase, Olive Driven To Murder ............. 120 Chayefsky, Paddy Middle of the Night ............ 143 The Passion of Josef D ......... 181 The Tenth Man ................ 156 Cheatle, Syd Straight Up ...................... 74 Chekhov, Anton The Boor ....................... 292 The Brute ................. 262, 314 Celebration ..................... 286 (The) Cherry Orchard .... 158, 185, 315 Country Scandal ..... ~ . . . . . . . .. 188 The Harmfulness of Tobacco .. 314 Ivanov .................... 136, 164 The Marriage Proposal ......... 292 The Seagull .................... 146 The Sea Gull .............. 154, 162 Summer In the Country ........ 314 Swan Song ....................... 83 (The) Three Sisters ....... 159, 315 Uncle Vanya .............. 123, 315 Wedding .......................... 9 Wild Honey .................... 172 Chepiga, Michael Getting and Spending ............ 76 Chernoff, Marvin Chaim's Love Song .............. 79 Cherry, Paul Park .............................. 66 Childress, Alice Wedding Band ................. 142 Chinn, Jimmie From Here to the Library ...... 256 Interior Designs ................ 266 Straight and Narrow ............. 82 Take Away the Lady ............ 86 Chiodo, Tom Broadway Babylon ............. Clue: the Musical .............. A Deadly Habit ................ The End of the Line ........... The Medieval Murders ......... Murder At Rutherford House .. Murder Under the Big Top ....

Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt .. 301

Christensen, Peter Ivanov (trans.) ................. 164 Christiansen, Arne The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil .................... 199 And Then There Were None ... 139 The High School That Dripped Gooseflesh ................... 209 The Butler Did It, Singing ..... 201 Christie, Agatha Afternoon At the Seaside ...... Appointment With Death ...... Black Coffee ................... Cards On the Table ............ Go Back for Murder ........... The Hollow .................... The Mousetrap ................. Murder At the Vicarage ....... Murder On the Nile ............ The Patient ..................... The Rats ....................... Spider's Web .................. The Unexpected Guest ......... Verdict ......................... Witness for the Prosecution ....

The Marriage Proposal (trans.) ....................... 292 The Romancers (trans.) ........ 293
Clark, Brian The Petition ...................... 12 Clark, Gwyn Anyone for Tennis? ............ 267 Clark, Kathleen Soccer Moms .................... 18 Clark, Patrick Sean Eleven-Zulu .................... 149 Clark, Ron A Bench in the Sun .............. 17 The Incomparable Loulou ....... 76 Murder At the Howard Johnson's ...................... 23 No Hard Feelings .............. 121 Pierre and Marie ................ .47 Norman, Is That You? .......... .47 Wally's Cafe ..................... 24 Claus, Hugo Friday ............................ 26 Clay, John Sherlock Holmes and the RedHeaded League .............. 223 Clayton, Stanley Driven To Murder ............. 120 Cleese, John The Anniversary ............... Basil the Rat ................... The Builders Class ............. Communication Problems ...... Fawlty Towers ................. The Germans .................. Gourmet Night ................. The Hotel Inspectors ........... The Kipper and the Corpse .... The Psychiatrist ................ A Touch of Class .............. Waldorf Salad .................. The Wedding Party ............

288 178 155 160 135 150 102 155 156 286 269 144 133 132 173

Christopher, Jay The Affair In 22 B ............... 13 Not With My Daughter .......... 70 Christy, James Creep Square .................. 313 Churchill, Caryl . Abortive ....................... 238 Blue Heart ..................... 110 Blue Kettle ..................... 284 Churchill: Shorts ............... 311 Cloud 9 .......................... 87 Far Away ........................ 27 Fen ............................. 121 Heart's Desire .................. 276 . Hot Fudge ..................... 289 Ice Cream ...................... 154 Light Shining In Buckinghamshire .............. 63 Lovesick ....................... 276 Mad Forest ..................... 137 Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen ...................... 253 A Number ....................... 28 Owners ........................... 84 Schreber's Nervous Illness ..... 254 Seagulls ........................ 254 Serious Money ................. 101 The Skriker .................... 167 Three More Sleepless Nights .. 264 Thyestes (trans.) ............... 137 Top Girls ........................ 81 Traps ............................. 66 Vinegar Tom ................... 118 Churchill, Donald The Decorator .................... 22 Mixed Feelings .................. 64 Moment of Weakness ............ 21 My Friend Miss Flint ............ 67 Cieslinski, John and Maureen School Invaders ................ 296 Cilento, Wayne Jerry's Girls .................... 212 Cizmar, Paula The Death of A Miner ......... 131 Claiborn, Ross The Last Leaf .................. 125 The Other Fellow's Oats ....... 104 Clapp, Patricia A Candle On the Table ........ 266 Clark, Barrett H. The Affected Young Ladies (trans.) ....................... 294 The Doctor In Spite of Himself (trans.) ....................... 294

163 163 185 158 132 163

289 289 289 289 311 290 290 288 290 289 289 290 289

Chaiken, Joseph Savage/love .................... 237 Tongues ........................ 237 Chais, Pamela The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Champagne, Michael Bittersuite: Songs of Experience ................... 201 Champagne, Susan Away From Me .: ................ 59 Honeymoon ...................... 50 Take A Picture ................... 34 Chandler, Charlotte Confessions of A Nightingale ..... 8 Chandler, Mark Doctor Death .................. 147 The Mummy's Claw! .......... 147 I Shot My Rich Aunt .......... 115 Chapman, Betsy The Magic Pebble ............. 215 Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller Wizard of Oz .................. 301 Chapman, John Holiday Snap .................. 100 It Happened In Harrods .......... 87 Keeping Down With the Joneses ....................... 118 Key for Two ..................... 86 Kindly Leave the Stage .......... 97 Late Flowering .................. .45 Look No Hans! .................. 66 Move Over, Mrs. Markham .... 117 My Giddy Aunt ................ 102

Clemens, Brian Anybody for Murder ............. 63 Shock! ........................... 87 A Sting In the Tale .............. 50 Will You Still Love Me In the Morning? ...................... 82 Clemens, LeRoy Alias the Deacon . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. 187 Clements, Colin The Divine Flora ............... Ever Since Eve ................ June Mad ...................... Oh! Susanna ................... Spring Green ................... Strange Bedfellows ............ Sugar and Spice ................

188 145 158 218 190 185 275

197 202 197 196 196 197 196

Clepper, P. M. Joseph Andrews ................ 176 Cleveland, Carles Play To Win ................... 295 Cleveland, Rick Jerry and Tom ................... 20 Clifton, John Man With A Load of Mischief ..................... 215 Climenhaga, Joel Marriage Wheel ................ 125 Clinton, Edward Benefit of A Doubt .............. 68 The Boogeyman .......... 128, 255 First of the Month ............. 256 The Lady Who Cried Fox!!! ..... 53 Small Claims .................. 265 You'll Love My Wife ........... 75 Clork, Harry Milky Way ..................... 125

. Chodorov, Edward Kind Lady ..................... 161 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! ........ 109 Chodorov, Jerome A Community of Two ......... 124 The Ponder Heart .............. 189 A Talent for Murder ............. 83 Three Bags Full ................ 142 Chodosh, Richard B. The Streets of New York ...... 226 Chorpenning, Charlotte The Emperor's New Clothes ... 299. 304

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Coburn, D.L. The Gin Game ................... 14 Cocteau, Jean The Eagle Has Two Heads ...... 74 Coffee, Lenore Family Portrait ................. 306 Cogo-Fawcett, Robert Court In the Act! (trans.) ...... 152 Cohan, George M. Broadway Jones ................ A Prince There Was ........... Seven Keys To Baldpate ....... The Tavern .................... Cone, Tom The Servant of Two Masters (trans.) ....................... 141 Congdon, Constance Dog Opera ....................... 79 Under Lubianka Square ........ 313 Conkle, E. P. No More Wars But the Moon ........................ 278 Papa Never Done Nothing. . . Much ........................ 248 Sparkin' ........................ 270 Conkling, Louise Let ' em Eat Steak ........ . . . . .. 135 Connelly, Joe Under Papa's Picture .......... 107 Connelly, Marc Beggar On Horseback ......... Duley .......................... Merton of the Movies .......... Wisdom Tooth .................

INDEX OF AUTHORS A Woman Speaks .............. 320 Voices ........................... 53

Cossons, W. Ernest Hiss the Villain! ............... 282 Costigan, James Baby Want A Kiss ............... 74 Little Moon of Alban .......... 181 Courteline, Georges Badin the Bold ................. 241 Boubouroche ............... 95, 119 Hold On Hortense ............. 283 The Police Chief s An Easygoing Guy .......................... 285 These Cornfields ................. 74 Courts, Randy Jack's Holiday ................. 211 SI. Hugo of Central Park 101 Coward, Noel After the Ball .................. 199 The Astonished Heart .......... 282 Blithe Spirit ...................... 85 Come Into the Garden Maud .. 269 Cowardy Custard .............. 203 Design for Living .............. 132 Easy Virtue .................... 171 Fallen Angels .................... 73 Family Album ................. 286 Fumed Oak .................... 270 Hands Across the Sea .......... 286 Hay Fever ...................... 122 I'll Leave It To you ........... 134 Long Island Sound ............. 166 Look After Lulu ............... 176 The Marquise .................. 123 Noel Coward In Two Keys ...... 37 Nude With Violin ............. '. 162 Pacific 1860 ................... 198 "Peace In Our Time" ......... 189 Present Laughter ............... 143 Private Lives .................... .42 Quadrille ....................... 190 The Red Peppers ............... 281 Relative Values ................ 133 Sail A way ...................... 222 Semi Monde ................... 167 Shadow Play ................... 287 Shadows of the Evening ....... 268 A Song At Twilight .............. 39 Star Quality .................... 109 Still Life ....................... 288 This Happy Breed ........ : .... 152 Tonight At 8:30 ................ 161 The Vortex ..................... 129 Waiting In the Wings .......... 182 Ways and Means ............... 287 We Were Dancing ............. 285 Young Idea .................... 164 Cowen, William .Joyce Family Portrait ................. 183 Cox, Constance Lord Arthur Savile's Crime .... 131 Miss Letitia .................... 125 The Murder Game ............... 36 Coyle, Bruce W. Hot 'n Cole .................... 209 Coyle, J.J. The Ninety-Day Mistress ........ 91 Coyne, Joseph Exploding Love .................. 96 Crabtree, Howard Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 When Pigs Fly ................. 210 Crabtree, Paul A Story for A Sunday Evening .. 55 A Trophy for Mr. Heartfelt .... 158 Crane, David Personals ....................... 219 Crane, Lor Whispers On the Wind ........ 229 Craven, Frank First Year ...................... 125 Craver, Mike Radio Gals ..................... 221 Smoke On the Mountain ....... 224 Craviotto, Darlene Pizza Man ....................... 23 Crawford, Eskel "No, No, A Million Times No!" ......................... 216 Pistol Packin' Sal .............. 220 Creatore, Luigi Maggie Flynn .................. 215 Cregeen, Noel The Rules of the Game (trans.) ....................... 132 Cremieux, H. Orpheus In the Underworld .... 218 Crisp, N.J. Dangerous Obsession ............ 22 Fighting Chance ............... 114 Cristofer, Michael Amazing Grace .................. 95 Breaking Up ..................... 10 The Shadow Box .............. 117 Crittenden, Jordan Thursday Is My Day for Cleaning ..................... 237 Unexpected Guests ............. 132 Crocker, John The Frankenstein Monster Show ........................ 206 Croft, David 'Allo ' Allo ..................... 164 Are You Being Served? ....... 146 Crommelynck, Fernand Magnificent Cuckold ........... 145 Cronyn, Hume Foxfire ........................... 66 Crosse, Jonathan Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens ....................... 198 Crosby, Millard The Little Red Schoolhouse ... Readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic .................... She Was Only A Farmer's Daughter ..................... Who Murdered Who? ..........

188 158 157 161

Cohan, Martin Archie In the Hospital ......... 291 Cohen, Douglas J. Children's Letters to God ...... 198 The Gig ........................ 206 No Way To Treat A Lady ..... 217 Coke, Peter Autumn Manoeuvres ........... Breath of Spring ............... Fool's Paradise ................. Midsummer Mink .............. Winter Glory ................... 70, Girls, 70 ...................

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Connors, Barry Applesauce ..................... 124 The Patsy ...................... 125 Cook, Peter Beyond the Fringe .............. .40 Good Evening ................... 15 Cooke, Brian Situation Comedy ................ 64 When the Cat's Away ........... 65 Cooney, Michael Cash On Delivery! ............. 126 Tom, Dick and Harry .......... 112 Cooney, Ray Caught in the Net ................ 75 Funny Money .................... 96 It Runs In the Family .......... 139 Move Over, Mrs. Markham .... 117 My Giddy Aunt ................ 102 One for the Pot ................ 118 Out of Order ................... 127 Run for Your Wife .............. 98 There Goes the Bride .......... 106 Tom, Dick and Harry .......... 112 Two Into One .................. 130 Wife Begins At Forty ............ 59 Cooper, Susan Foxfire ........................... 66 Cooperman, Alvin Thrall ............................ 10 Cooperman, Melvin I. Dispatches From Hell .......... 255 Copeau, Jacques Brothers Karamazov

Colbron, Grace I. The Guardsman (trans.) ........ 125 Colby, Michael Charlotte Sweet ................ 202 Cole, Keith R. Ulysses ......................... 228 Cole, Tom Medal of Honor Rag ............. 26 Coleman, Cy I Love My Wife ............... 210 On the Twentieth Century ..... 218 Seesaw ......................... 223 Coleman, Fiz Bad Day At Black Frog Creek ........................ 200 Coles, Enid Once and for All .............. 278 Under the Twelfth Sign ........ 272 Coley, Thomas The Happiest Years ............ 125 Colker, Jerry Mail ............................ 238 Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down ........................ 227 Colley, Peter I'll Be Back Before Midnight .... 34 Collier, Constance Peter Ibbetson .................. 189 Collins, A.M. Angry Housewi yes ............. 200 Collins, Kathleen In the Midnight Hour

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Copelin, David Ubu Rex (trans.) ............... 190 Coppel, Alec The Captain's Paradise ........ 157 I Killed the Count ............. 158 Corbet, Lansing The Laff Revue ................ 316 Cornish, Roger Mental Reservations ........... 313 Open Twenty-Four Hours ...... 285 Cornthwaite, Robert Enrico IV (trans.) .............. 139 Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 190 Corostiza, Carlos The Bridge ..................... 163 Corson, Richard The Sisters Mcintosh .......... 262 Corwin, Norman The World of Carl Sandburg .... 26 Cosentino, Lydia Classic Mouth ................. 317

Cross, Beverley Boeing-Boeing ................... 72 Happy Birthday .................. 52 The Scarlet Pimpernel ......... 172 Crothers, Rachel As Husbands Go ............... 152 Let Us Be Gay ................. 152 When Ladies Meet ............. 126 Croue, Jean Brothers Karamazov ........... 188 Crowe, Richard Cock and Bull Story ............. 74 Crowley, Mart The Boys in tht~ Band ......... 121 A Breeze from the Gulf ......... 25 For Reasons that Remain Unclear ........................ 17 The Men from the Boys ....... III Crutcher, Julie Beckett Approaching Lavendar ......... 254 Crutchfield, Floyd Pink Magic .................... 180 Uncertain Wings ............... 145

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Colodny, Lester Fun City ....................... 145 Colton, John Rain ............................ 152 Columbus, Curt The Cherry Orchard ........... 158 Uncle Vanya (trans.) ........... 123 Comden, Betty A Doll's Life .................. 204 On the Twentieth Century ..... 218 Peter Pan ....................... 219 Commire, Anne Put Them All Together ........ 104 Shay ........................... 105 Starting Monday ............... 100 Comstock, Howard Warren Stepping Sisters ................ 157

INDEX OF AUTHORS Cryer, Gretchen I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road ....... 211 The Last Sweet Days of Isaac ......................... 213 Now Is the Time for All Good Men .......................... 217 Shelter ........................... 75 Crystal, Raphael Kuni-Leml ..................... 213 Cummings, Bernard Your Obituary Is A Dance ..... 313 Cummins, Rick Sherlock Holmes and the RedHeaded League .............. 223 Cunningham, Derek Bullshot Crummond ............. 54 Cunningham, Laura I Love You, Two ................ 34 The Man At the Door .......... 266 Where She Went, What She Did .......................... 266 Curcio, Louis L. The Bridge ..................... 163 Curran, Colleen Maple Lodge .................... .46 Curran, Leigh Alterations ....................... 50 Lunch Girls .................... 130 Currens, Stephen Gorey Stories .................. 207 Curtin, Jane Pretzels ........................ 220 Curtis, David Ad Hock ....................... 199 Widow By Proxy .............. 126 Cushing, Catherine Chisholm Pollyanna ...................... 143 Cuthbert, Neil The Soft Touch ................ 107 Czerniawski, Adam Card Index (trans.) ............. 188 The Funny Old Man (trans.) ... 276 Gone Out (trans.) .............. 158 The Old Woman Broods (trans.) ....................... 150 The Witnesses (trans.) ........... 90

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Mystery-Bouffe (trans.) ........ 189 Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy (trans.) ....................... 158
Daniels, Sarah The Gut Girls .................... 93 Masterpieces ..................... 61 Darbon, Leslie Cards On the Table ............ 160 A Murder Is Announced ....... 149 Two and Two Make Sex ........ 38 Who Goes Bare? ............... 132 Darby, Roy The Beggar's Opera ........... 200 D'Arcy, H. Antoine The Face On the Barroom Floor ......................... 160 Davenport, Bill Junior the Senior ............... 291 Davenport, Gwen The Bachelor's Baby .......... 187 Davey, Shaun James Joyce's The Dead ....... 212 Belvedere ...................... 145 Davidson, Conrad E. Baby ........................... 288 Mosquito Dirigible Aerosol Deodorant .................... 263 Davidson, Ian Late Flowering .................. A5 Davies, Andrew Prin ............................ 187 Rose ........................... 124 Davies, Frederick Let's Get a Divorce (trans.) .... 158 Davies, Harry Parr Dear Miss Phoebe ............. 204 Davies, Mary Carolyn The Slave With Two Faces .... 283 Davies, Robertson Overlaid ........................ 260 Davis III, Allen Rocco, the RQlling Stone ...... 303 Davis, Bill C. Dancing In the End Zone ........ 74 Davis, Carlos Preppies ........................ 220 Davis, Dorranze Apron Strings .................. 124 Day, Barbara Tomorrow (trans.) ............. 103 Day, Barry After the Ball .................. 199 Aspects of Oscar ................. 59 Noel Coward's Long Island Sound ........................ 166 Pacific 1860 ................... 198 Day, Julie Come Back for Light Refreshments After the Service ............. 276 Day, Holman Along Came Ruth .............. 152 De Angelis, April Playhouse Creatures ............ A7 De Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin The Marriage of Figaro ........ 159 de Filippo, Eduardo Christmas in Naples ........... Filumena Filumena ............ Naples Gets Rich .............. Saturday, Sunday, Monday .... Those Damned Ghosts

Lost In A Mirror ............... 148 Peribanez ...................... 158

De Vries, Peter Spofford ....................... 171 The Tunnel of Love ............. 73 de Wet, Reza Crossing ....................... 264 Missing ........................ 125 On the Lake .. : ................. A2 Three Sisters Two ............. 112 Yelena .......................... A3 Deane, Hamilton Dracula ........................ 120 Dearborn, Rob The Ant and the Grasshopper .. 298 Deboy, David Doctor! Doctor! ................ 204 Dee, Peter . . . and Stuff. . . .. .......... 174 Daughter of A Traveling Lady ......................... 261 English Is A Foreign Language .................... 153 Man Who Stayed By His Negative ..................... 283 No One Wants To Know ...... 285 A Sea of White Horses .......... 37 Voices From the High School ....................... 172 Voices 2000 ................... 170 Deegan, Denise Daisy Pulls It Off .............. 169 Deer, Sandra ~o Long On Lonely Street ....... 66 Deffaa, Chip George M. Cohan: In His Own Words ........................ 206 Dekker, Thomas The Shoemaker's Holiday ..... 164 Del Grande, Louis 42 Seconds From Broadway ... 150 Del Valle, Peter Beauty and the Beast .......... 200 Delacour, A. Celimare ....................... 135 The Piggy Bank ................ 169 Delaney, Doug The Last Ten Miles of Avery J. Coping ....................... 115 Delaney, Vincent Kuwait ......................... 313 DeLeo, Bernie Beached ........................ 272 Delf, Harry The Family Upstairs ........... 125 Too Much Family .............. 152 Dell, Jeffrey Payment Deferred .............. 145 Delman, Howard A Lovely Afternoon ........... 260 Delmar, Vina Midsummer .................... 151 The Rich Full Life ............. 125 Warm Wednesday ............. 136 Dempsey, John Zombie Prom .................. 229 Denison, Merrill Brothers In Arms .............. 270 Denker, Henry A Case of Libel ................ 162 A Far Country ................. 150 Horowitz and Mrs. Washington .. 68 The Second Time Around ..... 105 Time Limit! .................... 182 Venus At Large ................ 126 What Did We Do Wrong? ..... 107

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De Forest, Marion Little Women .................. 150 De Ghelderode, Michel Death of Doctor Faust ......... 188 Escurial ......................... AO Miss Jairus ..................... 189 Pantagleize ..................... 189 Red Magic ....................... 74 De Hartog, Jan The Fourposter ................... 16 De Jongh, James Do Lord Remember Me ......... 52 Play To Win ................... 295 De la Barca, Calderon The Crown of Absalom ........ 147 Devotion To the Cross ......... 178 Life Is A Dream ................. 90 The Mayor of Zalamea ........ 157 The Phantom Lady ............. 125 Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult ........................ 132 De la Tour, Andy Viva! ........................... 100 De Marne, Denis Jack the Ripper ................ 211 De Maupassant, Guy The Devils ..................... Father and Son ................. Forbidden Fruit ................ The Necklace and Other Stories ....................... That Pig, Morin ................

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Dahdah, Robert Curley Mcdimple .............. 203 Up In the Air, Boys ............ 228 Daily, Bill Lover's Leap ..................... 67 Daley, Donna Mama Drama ................... A6 Dalzell, William Curtain Call for Clifford ....... 156 Father's Been To Mars ........ 144 In 25 Words-Or Death ....... 134 Damelio, Louis
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Davis, Hallie Flanagan E = Mc2 ....................... 125 Davis, Marty Welcome Home .................. 87 Davis, Ossie Escape To Freedom ............ 296 Purlie .......................... 220 Purlie Victorious ............... 123 Davis, Owen At 9:45 ......................... 187 Blow Your Own Hom ......... 157 Detour ......................... 124 Donovan Affair ................ 188 Easy Come, Easy Go .......... 188 Forever After .................. 152 The Haunted House ............ 145, Mr. & Mrs. North .............. 189 Ninth Guest .................... 136 The World We Live In ........ 185 Davis, Thad Lawyers, Guns & Money ...... 313 Davis, Thulani The Caucasian Chalk Circle (trans.) ....................... 170 Everybody's Ruby ............. 158 Davoren, Donal Nature's House ................ 298

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De Molina, Tirso Trickster of Seville ............ 190 De Musset, Alfred Fantasio ........................ 150 Lorenzaccio .................... 189 De Najac, Emile Let's Get A Divorce ...... 152, 158 De Regniers, Beatrice Schenck Everyone Is Good for Something ................... 205 De Rojas, Fernando Celestina ....................... 163 De Santa, Carol Thorn & Jerri .................... 74 De Santis, Eddie Recensio ....................... 249 De Vega, Lope The Dog In the Manger ........ Fuente Ovejuna ........... 157, Justice Without Revenge ....... The Knight From Olmedo .....

Pointer ....................... 268

Damico, James A Storm Is Breaking ........... 259 The Trial of A. Lincoln ........ 145 D'Andrea, Paul The Trouble With Europe ....... 69 Daniels, Barbara Batbrains ....................... 242 Daniels, Guy The Bathhouse (trans.) ......... 187 The Bedbug (trans.) ............ 187

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Dennen, Barry Wanna Play?! (trans.) .......... 228 Denny, Norman Clerambard .................... 160 Dent, Edward J. The Servant of Two Masters (trans.) ....................... 154 DePietro, Peter Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders ...................... Broadway Babylon ............. Clue: the Musical .............. Death and Deceit On the Nile .......................... Death Suite .................... Dedicated To the End .......... A Fatal Combination ........... The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre ..................... Murder At Rutherford House .. Murder At the Prom ........... Dinner, William The Late Edwina Black .......... 39 Dinroe, Dorothy A. Ododo .......................... 217 DiPietro, Joe Executive Dance ............... 313 Divine, Jerry The Amorous Flea ............. 199 Dix, Beulah Marie Road To Yesterday ............ 163 Dixcy, Marcia Eating Out ..................... 312 Pyramid Effect ................. 313 Dixon, Michael Bigelow Apres Opera ................... Breaking the Chain ............ The League of SemiSuperheroes .................. Problem-Solver ................ The Sorcerer's Apprentice ..... 312 313 313 313 225 Dreskin, William Personals ....................... 219 Dresser, Richard Alone At the Beach .............. 83 At Home ....................... 278 Bait and Switch ................ 271 Below the Belt ................... 19 Bed and Breakfast ............. 313 Better Days ...................... 59 The Downside ................. 100 The Road To Ruin ............. 266 Splits ville ...................... 278 What Are You Afraid Of? ..... 313 Drinkwater, John Bird In Hand ................... 124 Driver, Donald Oh, Brother! ................... 218 Driver, John Chekhov In Yalta .............. 140 Scrambled Feet ................ 222 Dryer, Charles Staircase ......................... 15 Du Brock, Neal Countess Dracula! ............. 124 Du Garde Peach, L. The White Sheep of the Family ....................... 123 Du Reis, Costa The King's Standards ............ 74 Duarte, Isabel Bingo Babes .................... .41 Duberman, Martin B. In White America ................ 72 Dubey, Matt Smith .......................... 171 Dubin, Al Sugar Babies ................... 226 Dudowicz, Edward Is Love Everything? ............. 53 Dudzick, Tom Greetings! ........................ 45 Me Too, Then! ................. 260 Duff, James A Quarrel of Sparrows ........... 62 Dulaney, Margaret The View From Here ............ 48 Dumaresq, William The Human Comedy ........... 210 Dumas fils, Alexandre Camille ........................ 173 Dumas pere, Alexandre The Great Lover ............... 125 Kean ........................... 189 Young King Louis ............. 190 Duncan, Jody A Warring Absence .............. 63 Duncan, Ronald The Catalyst ..................... 25 The Trojan Women ............ 136 Dunlop, Richard S. Bloodline ...................... 268 An Overpraised Season ........ 281 Dunn, Bernard Viva Mexico! .................. 228 Dunn, Mark Belles ............................ 59 Cabin Fever ...................... 79 Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain ........................... 45 Gendermat ..................... 264 Helen's Most Favorite Day ...... 55 Judge and Jury ................. 115 Minus Some Buttons ............. 80 Mrs. Townley Had a Pomeranian .................. 239 Sand Pies and Scissorlegs ....... 63

INDEX OF AUTHORS I>unn, Nell Steaming ......................... 64 I>unning, Philip Broadway ...................... 186 Page Miss Glory ............... 189 . If ............................... 322 I>urang, Christopher Beyond Therapy ................. 59 A History of the American Film ......................... 209 Durbridge, Francis Deadly Nightcap ............... The Gentle Hook .............. Suddenly At Home ............ A Touch of Danger ............ 130 106 121 129

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I>urer, C. S. The Crazy Locomotive ........ 290 The Madman and the Nun (trans.) ....................... 109 The Water Hen (trans.) 174 I>iirrenmatt, Friedrich The Physicists ................. 181 The Visit ....................... 182 D'Vsseau, Arnaud Ladies of the Corridor ......... 189 Tomorrow the World .......... 136 Duxbury, Andrew Whadda 'bout My Legal Rights? ....................... 229 Dvoracek, Delray The Maturing of Jonathan Pruneberg ...................... 70 Dwyer, Frank Zoya's Apartment (trans.) ...... 116 Dyer, Charles Rattle of A Simple Man ......... 25 Dzieduszycka. Teresa The Prophets (trans.) ........... 145 Tango (trans.) .................. 245

Derman, Lou Junior the Senior ............... 291 DesRochers, Rick Class Acts ..................... 317 Desvallieres, Maurice Hotel Paradiso ................. 182 A Little Hotel On the Side ..... 172 On the Marry-Go-Wrong ...... 145 DeSylva, B. G. Good News .................... 207 Deval, Jacques Tonight In Samarkand ......... 152 Tovarich ....................... 190 Devlin, Joyce Women's Scenes and Monologues .................. 318 Dewberry, Elizabeth Head On ....................... 313 Dewell, Michael Blood Wedding (trans.) ........ 188 The House of Bernarda Alba (trans.) ....................... 135 Yerma .......................... 190 Dey, James Paul Passacaglia ..................... 125 What Did You Say "What" For? .......................... 251 D'Harnoncourt, Everard The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ......................... 15 Di Benedetto, Patricia Miracle on 34th Street ......... 309 Dickens, C. Stafford Command Performance ........ 188 Diderot, Denis Rameau's Nephew ............... 12 Dietz, Howard The High Life .................. 209 Dietz, Steven After you ...................... 313 Fiction ........................... 17 Foolin' Around With Infinity .... 49 God's Country ................. 138 More Fun Than Bowling ........ 50 Painting It Red ................. 218 Ten November ................. 227 Trash Anthem .................. 313 Dighton, John The Happiest Days of Your Life .......................... 156 Man Alive ..................... 162 Dillard, Denise Kay Blue Collar Blues .............. 168 Dinehart, Alan Separate Rooms ................ 125

Djurdjevic, Bob The Professional (trans.) ......... 28 Dole, John Shock Tactics .................. 141 Top Gear ....................... 104 Donaghy, Tom Portfolio ....................... 258 Donnellan, Jill All New Scenes for Actors .... 317 All New Scenes for the Young Actor ......................... 317 Donnellian, Declan Vanity Fair ..................... 126 Donnelly, Ken Musical Chairs ................. 216 Donohue, Nancy Dooley, Caroline The Selfish Giant .............. 223 The Beach House ................ 22 Dooley, Elizabeth B. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ........................ 297 Dorfman, Ariel Death and the Maiden ........... 19 Dorfman, Nat M. Take My Tip ................... 158 Dos Passos, John U.S.A ............................ 73 Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment ......... 188 The Idiot ....................... 178 Dotterer, Dick For Wo~en: Pocket Monologues from Shakespeare ............ 317 When Kids Achieve ........... 318 Knaves, Knights and Kings .... 317 Shakespeare's Ladies .......... 318 Shakespeare's Monologues They Haven't Heard ............... 318 Douglas, Felicity Alibi for A Judge .............. 187 Downing, Martin The Demon .................... Frankenstein's Guests .......... The House of Dracula ......... The House of Frankenstein .... Out for the Count .............. 282 286 147 129 286

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Eager, Edward Adventures of Marco Polo ..... 199 Eastman, Fred The Great Choice .............. 285 Eastman, George The Snow Job .................. 161 Easton, Ken Pushover ....................... 220 Turnabout ...................... 228 Eaton, Nathaniel Dream At the End of the World ........................ 234 Ebb, Fred The Act ........................ Chicago ................ ~ .. .. ... Flora, the Red Menace ......... Kiss of the Spider Woman ..... The Rink ....................... 70, Girls, 70 ................... Steel Pier ...................... 2 By 5 ......................... Woman of the Year ............ Zorba .......................... 199 202 206 213 221 223 226 228 229 230

Downs, Stephen Festival ........................ 205 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes ............... 215 Drayton, Mary The Playroom .................. 143 Dreiser. Theodore An American Tragedy ......... 187

Eberhart, Mignon 320 College Avenue ........... 190 Edgar, David Mary Barnes ................... 189 Pentecost ....................... 167 The Prisoner's I>ilemma Edwards, Mark R. Wanted . . . Dead Or Alive ... 260

INDEX OF AUTHORS Edwards, Tony The Return ..................... 278 Egan, Robert Breakfast of Champions ....... 154 Ehlert, Fay The Undercurrent .............. 281 Einhorn, Abe Agatha Sue, I Love you ......... 54 An Eskimo Named Joe Siegelman .................... 106 Eisenberg, Deborah Pastorale ......................... 87 Eisenberg, Mike Hackers .......................... 35 Ekstrom, Peter Doctor! Doctor! ................ The Gift of the Magi .......... The Last Leaf .................. An O. Henry Christmas ........ 204 217 217 217 Engquist, Richard Kuni-Leml ..................... 213 Langston Hughes's Little Ham ......................... 213 Ephron, Delia How To Eat Like A Child ..... 210 Ephron, Nora Imaginary Friends .............. 211 Ephron, Phoebe Howie .......................... 189 Ephron, Phoebe & Henry My Daughter, Your Son ......... 90 Take Her, She's Mine ......... 181 Three's A Family .............. 190 Epstein, Julius J. But, Seriously .................. 157 Epstein, Julius J. and Philip G. Chicken Every Sunday ......... 183 Erdman, Nikolai The Suicide .................... 175 Ernst, Peter The Most Perfect Day ......... 264 Erskin, Chester He ................................ 78 Esler, Lemist The Grey Fox .................. 188 Esslin, Martin Baal (trans.) .................... 178 Eunson, Dale Guest In the House ............ 163 Euripides The Bacchae ..................... 95 Iphigenia Among the Taurians ... 61 Iphigenia In Aulis ................ 97 Medea ................. 50, 126, 127 Estrada, Doris Three On A Bench ............. 269 Evans, Albert Pageant ........................ 218 Evans, Annie Ghost Stories .................. 256 Evans, David Birds of Paradise ............... 201 Children's Letters to God ...... 198 Serious Bizness ................ 223 Evans, John Morgan Daughters ....................... .49 Evans, Will Tons of Money ........... 129, 136 Exton, Clive The Boundary .................. 271 Eyen, Tom Areatha In the Ice Palace ...... 279 Grand TenementINovember 22 ............................. 155 The Kama Sutra ............... 177 My Next Husband Will Be A Beauty ....................... 268 Sarah B. Divine! ............... 155 Tom Eyen: Ten Plays .......... 314 What Is Making Gilda So Gray ......................... 251 The White Whore and the Bit Player ........................ 252 Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down .......................... 38 Women Behind Bars ........... 142 Fabry, Joseph Schweyk In the Second World War .......................... 190 Fagan, James B. And So To Bed ................ 187 Fallon, Thomas F. Last Warning .................. 163 Farid, Zaid EIR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 Farkas, Karl You Never Know .............. 229 Farmer, Gene This Land Is Whose Lll11d? .... 291 Farrell, Christine Mama Drama .................... 46 FarreD, Joe An Ordinary Day .............. 257 Fast, Howard The Novelist ..................... 12 Faulkner, William Requiem for A Nun .............. 91 Fechter, Steven The Last Cigarette ............. 246 Feely, Terence Murder In Mind .................. 86 Who Killed Santa Claus? ...... 108 Feiffer, Jules Grown Ups ...................... 74 Knock Knock .................... 37 Little Murders ................. 107 The White House Murder Case ......................... 133 FeUbert, Ed Ding Dong Dead ................. 85 In One Bed. . . and Out the Other ........................... 88 Pajama Tops ..................... 91 13 Rue De L'amour (trans.) .. , 132 Feiler, Jules The Dicks ...................... 243 Fein, Judith Visiting Dad ................... 313 Feingold, Michael The Beaver Coat (trans.) ....... 157 Happy End (trans.) ............. 208 The Venetian Twins (trans.) .. , 139 Feinsod,. Arthur Sword Against the Sea ......... 127 Feist, Gene James Joyce's Dublin .......... 138 The Lady From Maxim's (trans.) ....................... 189 Felbabov, Vladislava A Roaring Tragedy (trans.) .... 112 Felder. Louis Flight of Fancy ................ 244 Felnagle, Richard Another Tortoise, Another Hare ......................... 301 Felt, Marilyn Acts of Faith ..................... 13 Fenwick, Jean-Noel Pierre and Marie ................. 47 Ferber, Edna Dinner At Eight ................ 169 Minick ......................... 189 The Royal Family .............. 184 Ferguson, James P. Courage, Mr. Greene .......... 275

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A Fine Monster You Are! ..... 103 Hamlet, Cha-Cha-Cha! ......... 208 Let's Murder Marsha ............ 86 Oh, Fudge! ....................... 83 This Must Be the Place ........ 118 Ferris, Waiter Death Takes A Holiday ........ 157 Ferzacca, John B. The Failure To Zig-Zag ........ 186 Fetter, Ted The Fireman's Flame .......... 205 Feuchtwanger, Leon The Visions of Simone Machard ................ 173, 190 Feuer, Jed The Big Bang .................. 201 Eating Raoul ................... 204 Feydeau, Georges An Absolute Turkey ........... 164 The Boor Hug ................. 267 Cat Among the Pigeons ........ 179 Caught with His Trance Down ........................ 279 Chemin De Fer ................ 178 Fit To Be Tried ................ 284 A Fitting Confusion ............ 135 A Flea in Her Ear ......... 160, 169 The French Have a Word for It ............................. 175 Going to Pot ................... 282 A Gown for His Mistress ...... 133 The Happy Hunter ............. 132 Hotel Paradiso ................. 182 Hey, Cut Out the Parading Around Stark Naked! ................. 271 Ladies' Man ................... 245 The Lady From Maxim's ...... 122, 189 A Little Hotel On the Side . . . .. 172 Look After Lulu ............... 176 My Dead Wife's Mother ....... 265 Mixed Doubles ................. 279 Night Errant ................... 265 Not By Bed Alone ............. 189 On the Marry-Go-Wrong ...... 145 Paradise Hotel ................. 182 The Pregnant Pause .... : ......... 67 Romance in a Flat ............. 260 Take Her, She's Yours! ........ 112 13 Rue de L'amour ............ 132 Tooth and Consequences ...... 287 Fidler, Michale Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens ....................... 198 Field, Rachel The Bad Penny ................ 266 The Patchwork Quilt ........... 283 The Sentimental Scarecrow .... 223 Field, Salisbury Twin Beds ..................... 126 Fielding, Henry Joseph Andrews ................ 176 Lock Up Your Daughters ...... 214 Fields, Dorothy Seesaw ......................... 223 Sugar Babies ............... : ... 226 Fields, John L. Cap and Bells .................. 124 Fields, Joseph The Ponder Heart .............. 189 The Tunnel of Love ............. 73 Fierstein, Harvey Fugue In A Nursery ............. 34 The International Stud ........... 23 La Cage Aux FolIes ........... 213 Manny and Jake ............... 246 On Tidy Endings ............... 264 Safe Sex ................... 62, 249 Torch Song Trilogy .............. 58

Elder III, Lonne Ceremonies In Dark Old Men ... 92 Eldridge, Muriel and Richard The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter ..................... 292 Elias, Isidore Goods .......................... 245 Elias, J. T. First Date ...................... 270 Elice, Eric Double Double ................... 13 Eliot, Dennis Now! ........................... 125 Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party ............. The Confidential Clerk ........ The Elder Statesman ........... The Family Reunion ........... Murder In the Cathedral ....... 123 124 108 144 186

Elison, Jack The Visitor ..................... 291 Elliot, Alistair Medea (trans.) ................. 127 Elliott, Paul The Legacy .................... 279 Perspective ..................... 283 EDman, Irving Uncle Willie ................... 162 Elser, Donald Balcony Scene ................... 19 Special Guest .................. 275 Ticket To the City ............. 284 Elton, Ben Gasping .......................... 57 Popcorn ........................ 112 Silly Cow ....................... .42 Elwell, Jeffery Scott The Art of Dating .............. 254 Evening Education ............. 244 Emery, Charles The Christmas Stranger ........ The Day After Forever ........ Portrait of Deborah ............ A Private Affair ................ The Red Key .................. Stolen Identity ................. 309 275 163 283 262 283

Emmett, Robert The Broom and the Groom .... 134 The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood ....... ."......... 203 Enge, Katherine Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 England, Barry Conduct Unbecoming .......... 179

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Fabbri, Diego Between Two Thieves ......... 156

Fernway, Peggy Among Those Presents ........ 310 Ferris, Monk Bone-Chiller! .................. 153 Don't Tell Mother ............. 103

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Widows and Children First! ..... 34 Fill, Simon Night Visits .................... 313 Fife, Stephen This Is Not What I Ordered ..... 92 Finch, Carl Evelyn and the Polka King .... 205 Finch, Robert Heroes Just Happen ............ 188 Finn, William Elegies: A Song Cycle ......... Falsettoland .................... Falsettos ....................... In Trousers ..................... A New Brain .................. March of the Falsettos ......... 205 205 205 211 216 215 Flynn, Louis Madness On Madrona Drive ... 149 Fo,Dario Abducting Diana ................. 78 About Face .................... 117 Archangels Don't Play Pinball ....................... 129 Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman ...................... 101 The Open Couple .............. 247 An Ordinary Day .............. 257 The Pope and the Witch ....... 128 We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! ............................ 51 Fodor, Ladislas Church Mouse ................. 124 The Vigil ...................... 183 Folb, Jay Don't Look Down ............. 279 Foley, John Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220 Fonte, Henry Cinderella: the True Story ..... 202 Foot, Alistair No Sex Please, We're British .. 132 Uproar In the House ........... 156 Forbes, Charles Courting Promethus ............ 313 Ford, Harriet Mr. Lazarus ...................... 74 Ford, Joan Goldilocks ..................... 207 Ford, Nancy Cut the Ribbons ................ 203 I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road ....... 211 The Last Sweet Days of Isaac ......................... 213 Now Is the Time for All Good Men .......................... 217 Shelter ........................... 75 Foreman, Michael Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish ...................... 302 Forester, C.S. Payment Deferred .............. 145 Fornes, Maria Irene Promenade ..................... 220 Forrest, Robin Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens ....................... 198 Forst, Perry An Apple for Teacher ......... 294 Forster, E. M. A Passage To India ............ 189 Forster, Joan A Perfect Match ............... 248 Forster, John How To Eat Like A Child ..... 210 Pretzels ........................ 220 Forsythe, Anthony No Mother To Guide Her ...... 156 Foster, Jimi Play To Win ................... 295 Foster, Kirk First Time ...................... 206 Foster, Paul Balls ........................... Elizabeth I ..................... !heimskringla! ................. The Hessian Corporal .......... Hurrah for the Bridge .......... Madonna In the Orchard ....... Marcus Brutus ................. The Recluse .................... Satyricon ....................... 286 145 152 290 280 177 155 249 177 Silver Queen Saloon ........... 152 Tom Paine ..................... 180 Foster, Rosemary Sight Unseen ................... 143 Foster, Stephen Oh! Susanna ................... 218 Fox, Terry Curtis Cops ........................... 120 Justice .......................... 145 Foxton, David Card Play ...................... 169 Rabbitt ......................... 290 Perkin and the Pastry Cook .... 304 Frakes, Jack Final Dress Rehearsal .......... Once Upon A Playground ..... Sally and Sam ................. Spoofydoofs' Funnybone ...... 289 287 289 290

INDEX OF AUTHORS Suicide Club ................... 252 The Third Daughter .............. 88 Three Beds ....................... 68 Two Centuries ................... 12 Victim ........................... 37 The White Cat ................. 268 The Young Wife! ................. 68 Frayn, Michael Alarms ........................... 26 Alarms and Excursions .......... 26 Alphabetical Order ............... 88 Audience ....................... 289 Balmoral ......................... 86 Benefactors ...................... 29 Black and Silver ............... 242 The Cherry Orchard (trans.) '" 158 Chinamen ...................... 242 Clouds ........................... 50 Copenhagen ...................... 17 Democracy ..................... 126 Donkeys' years ................ 118 Doubles .......................... 26 Glasnost .......................... 26 Heart to Heart .................... 26 Here ............................ 139 Imrnobiles ........................ 26 Leavings ......................... 26 Listen To This ................. 317 Look Away Now ................ 26 Make and Break ............... 155 Mr. Foot ....................... 246 The New Quixote .............. 247 Noises Off ..................... III Now You Know ................. 94 The Sea Gull (trans.) ........... 154 The Sneeze ..., ................... 65 (The) Three Sisters (trans.) .... 159 Toasters .......................... 26 The Two of Us .................. 16 Uncle Vanya (trans.) ........... 123 Wild Honey (trans.) ............ 172 Frechtman, Bernard The Balcony (trans.) ........... 156 The Blacks (trans.) ............. 161 Deathwatch (trans.) ............ 266 The Maids (trans.) ............... 26 The Screens (trans.) ............ 177 Freed, Donald Inquest ......................... 189 Freed, Amy The Beard of Avon ............ 110 Freeman, Dave A Bedfull of Foreigners ......... 88 Key for Two ..................... 86 Freeman, David Jesse and the Bandit Queen ...... 16 Freeman, David E. Creeps ......................... 148 Freeman, Ethel H. Heidi ........................... 208 Freeman, Stan Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen ................... 214 Frei, Nicki An Absolute Turkey (trans.) '" 164 Fremont, Rob Piano Bar ...................... 219 French, David Leaving Home ................... 89 Of the Fields, Lately ............. 74 Friebus,Florida Alice In Wonderland ........... 180 Friedberg, William Adventure~ of Marco Polo ..... 199 Heidi ........................... 208 Friederici, Kathy Arthur Makes A Difference .... 278 Friedman, Allan J. The Lion Who Wouldn't ...... 298

Fire, Richard EIR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 FischofT, George James A. Michener's Sayonara ..................... 212 Fisher, Bob The Impossible years .......... 161 Fisher, Robert Groucho: A Life In Revue ....... 22 Hello My Name Is ............. 102 Minnie's Boys ................. 215 My Daughter's Rated "X" ...... 71 Fisher, Steve Susan Slept Here ............ '" 108 Fitch, Clyde Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines ...................... Cowboy and the Lady ......... Girl With the Green Eyes ...... Hijinks! ........................

France, Anatole The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife .......................... 135 Francis, Matthew The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .......................... 168 Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey ........................ 154 Francis, William Frosty the Snow Man .......... 305 Peter Cottontail ................ 305 Portrait of A Queen ......... J . . 189 Francke, Caroline Exceeding Small ............... 188 The Fighting Littles ............ 182 Frandsen, Erik Song of Singapore ............. 225 Frank, Dimitri Frenkel Roger'S Last Stand ............... 52 Frank, Larry Frank Merriwell ................ 206 "'ranken, Rose Another Language ............. 145 Claudia ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 124 The Hallams ................... 145 Outrageous Fortune ............ 145 Soldier's Wife ................... 55 Franklin, J. E. The Prodigal Sister ............ 220 Frankonis, W.A. The Killings Tale .............. 166 Fratti, Mario The Academy .................. 284 AI.D.s ......................... 241 Beata: The Pope's Daughter ..... 75 Birthday .......................... 24 The Bridge ..................... 163 Brothel ......................... 255 The Cage ...................... 106 Candida and Her Friends ........ 17 Che Guevara ................... 169 Dialogue With A Negro ....... 279 Eleonora Duse ................. 141 Fire ............................ 123 Her Voice ...................... 245 I (Cristoforo Colombo) ........ 210 Lovers .......................... : 15 Mafia .......................... 154 Mothers and Daughters .......... 67 Nine ............................ 316 The Other One ................. 260 The Piggy Bank ................ 258 Races .......................... 314 Rapes .......................... 260 The Refrigerators ................ 89 The Refusal .................... 249 The Return ..................... 268 Six Passionate Women ........... 98 Porno .......................... 258 Sisters .......................... 284 The Suicide .................... 260

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Fitzgibbons, Mark A Tale of Two Cities .......... 173 Fitzhugh, Louise The Tap Dance Kid ............ 227 Fitzpatrick Ill, Tom The Express Line .............. 288 Fjelde, Rolf A Doll's House (trans.) ........ 124 An Enemy of the People (trans.) ....................... 311 Hedda Gabler (trans.) .......... 311 Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays (trans.) ................. 311 John Gabriel Borkman (trans.) ....................... 311 The Lady From the Sea (trans.) ....................... 311 Little Eyolf (trans.) ............ 311 The Master Builder (trans.) .... 311 Peer Gynt (trans.) .............. 175 Rosmersholm (trans.) .......... 311 When We Dead Awake (trans.) ....................... 311 The Wild Duck (trans.) ........ 311 Flaherty, Robert J. The Party ...................... 183 Flavin, Martin Amaco ......................... 187 Broken Dishes ................. 135 Children of the Moon .......... 124 Fleck, Michael The Tempest ................... 190 Fleming, John Dying for Laughs ................ 75 Fleming, Rudd Elektra (trans.) ................. 114 Floyd, John Wooden Kimono ............... 152 Floyd, Lucretia Xavier A Sunny Morning .............. 270

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Friedman, Bruce Jay Steambath ...................... 161 Friedman, Eve Teibele and Her Demon ......... 88 Friedman, Gary William Celebration ..................... 201 The Me Nobody Knows ....... 215 Taking My Turn ............... 226 Friedman, Joel Philip Personals ....................... 219 Friedman, Ken Claptrap .......................... 50 Friedman, Roy All for Art ..................... 254 The Temp ...................... 259 Friedman, Seth Personals ....................... 219 Friel, Brian American Welcome ............ 313 Aristocrats ..................... 113 Communication Cord .......... 102 Crystal and Fox ................ 132 Faith Healer ...................... 24 Fathers and Sons ............... 171 The Freedom of the City ...... 177 Living Quarters ................ 119 The Loves of Cass Mcguire ... 135 Making History .................. 61 The Mundy Scheme ........... 189 Philad,elphia, Here I Come! .... 156 Translations .................... 131 Wonderful Tennessee ............ 59 Friendly, Ed Rowan and Martin's LaughIn ............................ 178 Friml, Rudolph The Vagabond King ........... 228 Frings, Ketti Angel ............................ 91 Look Homeward, Angel ....... 173 Walking Happy ................ 228 Frisby, Terence Rough Justice .................... 95 There's A Girl In My Soup ...... 91 Frokt, Deborah Lynn Hard-Boiled .................... 313 Frow, Gerald Cowardy Custard .............. 203 Fry, Christopher Tiger At the Gates (trans.) ..... 183 Fry, Stephen Me and My Girl ............... 215 Fugard, Athol Blood Knot ...................... 15 Boesman and Lena ............... 25 The Captain's Tiger .............. 17 The Drummer .................. 312 Hello and Goodbye .............. 16 The Island ....................... 16 A Lesson From Aloes ........... 23 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys ........................... 18 My Children! My Africa! ........ 21 People Are Living There ........ 37 A Place with the Pigs .......... 240 Playland .......................... 12 The Road To Mecca ............. 21 Sizwe Banzi Is Dead ............. 15 Sorrows and Rejoicings .......... 28 Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act ............ 24 Valley Song ...................... 10 Fuller, Albert C. Remote Control ................ 190 Fuller, Charles A Soldier's Play ............... 154 Zooman and the Sign .......... 119 Fuller, Dean Smith .......................... 171 Fuller, Elizabeth Confession ..................... 313 Fuller, John G. The Gay Nineties Scrapbook .. 316 Furber, Douglas Me and My Girl ............... 215 Furth, George The Act ........................ 199 Precious Sons .................... 51 The Supporting Cast ............. 52 Twigs .......................... 107 Fuson, Deni All the King's Horses .......... 153 Clippings ....................... 289 Gardiner, John Bad Day At Black Frog Creek ........................ Dazzle ......................... The Dracula Spectacula ........ First Time ...................... Rockasocka ....................

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George, Madeleine The Zero Hour ................... 17 George, Phillip Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 Gerlach, Robert Ladies First .................... 116 Nobody Loves A Dragon ...... 217 Something'S Afoot ............. 225 Gerould, Daniel C. The Crazy Locomotive (trans.) ....................... 290 The Madman and the Nun (trans.) ....................... 109 The Water Hen (trans.) ........ 174 Gershe, Leonard Butterflies Are Free .............. 38 Miss Pell Is Missing ........... 125 Snacks ........................... 35 Gershwin, George Of Thee I Sing ................. 217 Gershwin, Ira Of Thee I Sing ................. 217 Gersten, Alexandra My Thing of Love ............... 31 Gersten-Vassilaros, Alexandra Omnium Gatherum .............. 94 Gesner, Clark A Town Called Shame ......... 148 The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall .......................... 228 Geyer, Siegfried Candlelight ..................... 252 You Never Know .............. 229 Giancoli. Eric The Devil's Parole ............. 238 Giardina, Anthony The Beach ....................... 83 Giarraputo, Warren The Parade ..................... 248 Gibert, Stuart The Flies (trans.) ............... 163 Gibney, Sheridan Merry Madness ................ 145 Gibson, Martha Norwood Will the Ladies Please Come T9 Order ........................ 285 Gibson, PJ. Long Time Since Yesterday ... 100 Gibson, William Golda .......................... 168 Golda's Balcony .................. 7 Golden Boy .................... 206 The Miracle Worker ........... 160 Seesaw ......................... 223 Two for the Seesaw .............. 16 Gide, Andre The Trial .............. , ........ 190 Gidney, James Knock (trans.) .................. 238 Gifford, Kathie Lee Under the Bridge .............. 198 Gilatto, Tom Fiddle and Faddle .............. 313 Gilbert, Edwin You Never Know .............. 229 Gilbert, Hy James A. Michener's Sayonara ..................... 212 Gilbert, Michael Clean Kill ...................... 124

Gardner, Herb Conversations With My Father ........................ 153 The Goodbye People ............. 69 I'm Not Rappaport ............... 85 A Thousand Clowns ............. 66 Gardner, Herbert The Elevator ................... 281 Gari, Brian A Hard Time To Be Single .... 208 Late Nite Comic ............... 214 Garin, Michael Song of Singapore ............. 225 Garonzik, Elan Scenes and Revelations .......... 85 Garrett, George Sir Slob and the Princess ...... 298 Garson, Barbara Macbird ........................ 189 Garver, Lloyd Junior the Senior ............... 291 Garzia, Bernie The Prince and the Pauper ..... 220 What's A Nice Country Like You . . . Doing In A State Like This? ......................... 229 Gates, Eleonor Poor Little Rich Girl ........... 189 Gates, Tudor Who Saw Him Die .............. 38 Gaubert, Helen A. The King's Standards (trans.) .... 74 Gaunt, Richard Last Call for Breakfast ......... 267 Gay, John The Beggar's Opera ........... 200 Gay, Noel Me and My Girl ............... 215 Gaynor, Charles Lend An Ear ................... 214 Gazzo, Michael V. A Hatful of Rain ............... 123 Gee, Shirley Never In My Lifetime ........... 57 Warrior ........................ 139 Gelbart, Larry Mastergate ..................... 146 Sly Fox ........................ 168 Geld, Gary Angel ............................ 91 Pudie .......................... 220 Shenandoah .................... 223 Gems, Pam Camille (trans.) ................ 173 Piaf ............................ 219 Genet, Jean The Balcony ................... 156 The Blacks ..................... 161 Deathwatch .................... 266 The Maids ....................... 26 The Screens .................... 177 Gentile, Jr., Vito A. Amidst the Gladiolas .......... 103 Geoghan, jim Light Sensitive ................... 18 Only Kidding ................... .47 George, Charles The Darkest Hour .............. 275

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G, Annie G-Force ......................... .40 Hermaphrodite ................. 252 It's Only a Test ................ 287 Open and Shut ................. 263 9.8 Meters Per Second ......... 263 Something Rotten in Denmark ..................... 277 A Well Taught Lesson ......... 271 Gadea, William Brothers ..... , .................. 201 Gage, Carolyn The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women ...................... 109 Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist ..................... 245 Gagliano, Frank The City Scene ................ 290 Paradise Gardens East ......... 283 Gainfort, John He's Dead All Right ........... 270 Gaithers, Lita It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues ........................ 211 Galantiere, Lewis Antigone (trans.) ............... 136 Gale, Zona The Neighbors ................. 285 Gallagher, Dick Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 When Pigs Fly ................. 210 Gallen, Eleanor Spring Dance .................. 158 Galsworthy, John Justice .......................... 145 Loyalties ....................... 189 The Skin Game ................ 190 Galton, Frances Nothing in the World Like It .. 257 Gaiton,Ray When Did You Last See Your Trousers? ..................... 139 Galvin, W. Randolph The Baby Sitter .................. 74 The Bachelor Pad! ............... 52 Centerfold ........................ 53 Country Club .................. 114 Gannon, Kim Seventeen ...................... 223 Ganz, Lowell Wrong Turn At Lungfish ........ 32 Garcia-Marruz, Sergio The English Only Restaurant .. 138

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Gilbert, W. S. The Mikado .................... 205 H.M.S. Pinafore ................ 209 Gilbert, Willie Catch Me If You Can ............ 85 Gilhooley, Jack The Brixton Recovery ........... 14 Gillette, William Held By the Enemy ............ 188 Sherlock Holmes ............... 215 Gilroy, Frank Any Given Day ................ 109 Getting In ...................... 281 Come Next Tuesday ........... 243 Contact with the Enemy ....... 271 Dreams of Glory ............... 268 Fore ...................... ; ..... 279 Give the Bishop My Faint Regards ...................... 253 Match Point .................... 253 The Next Contestant ........... 260 The Only Game In Town ........ 25 Present Tense .................. 248 Real To Reel ................... 240 So Please Be Kind ............. 261 The Subject Was Roses .......... 25 That Summer-That Fall ........ 74 'twas Brillig ................... 269 A Way With Words ...... 254, 314 Who'll Save the Plowboy? ....... 92 Gilstrap, Barbara The Alto Part .................... 64 Ginnes, Abram S. Drink To Me Only ............. 188 Giovanni, Paul The Crucifer of Blood ......... 149 Giraudoux, Jean The Apollo of Bellac .......... The Enchanted ................. Ondine ......................... Tiger At the Gates ............. 288 182 181 183 Godber, John Teechers ......................... 21 'Goff, Ivan Portrait In Black 125 Goodman, Lori Reservations for Two .......... 249 Goodsight, Larry Prom Queens Unchained ....... 220 Goodspeed, Elizabeth F. Wizard of Oz .................. 301 Gordon, Adelle The Ghost of the Chinese Elm .......................... 300 Gordon, Chuck Guarding the Bridge ........... 245 Gordon, Kurtz The Babbling Brooks .......... 162 The Broom and the Groom .... 134 Gordon, Richard The Bulldog and the Bear ....... 68 Doctor In the House ........... 123 Gordon, Ruth A Very Rich Woman .......... 190 Gordon, Steve Tough To Get Help ............ 152 Gordon, Stuart EIR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 Gordone, Charles No Place To Be Somebody .... 180 Gorey, Edward Gorey Stories .................. 207 Gorish, Anna The Individuality of Streetlamps .................. 314 Gorky, Maxim Barbarians ..................... 175 Enemies ........................ 188 The Lower Depths ............. 179 Gotestam, Staffan Pippi Longstocking: The Family Musical ...................... 219 Gottlieb, Alex Di vorce Me, Darling ............. 89 Separate Rooms ................ 125 Susan Slept Here . .. .. .. .. .. .... 108 Gould, Heywood Frank Merriwell ................ 206 Gow, James Tomorrow the World .......... 136 Gow, Ronald Love On the Dole .............. 189 Gozzi, Carlo The King Stag ................. 169 Graczyk, Ed Come Back To the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean . .. 117 A Murder of Crows .............. 65 A Penny Friend ................ 219 Grady, Michael Dancers .......................... 85 Grael, Barry A. The Streets of New York ...... 226 Graham, Boyd The Big Bang .................. 201 Eating Raoul ................... 204 Graham, Bruce Early One Evening At the Rainbow Bar and Grille ................. 82 Graham, Mona Spring Journey ................. 152 Grahame, Kenneth The Wind In the Willows ...... 171 Grainer, Ron Robert and Elizabeth ........... 221 Grandy, Fred Pretzels ........................ 220 Granfield, Suzanne A Tide of Voices ................ 53

INDEX OF AUTHORS Whisperings In the Grass ........ 69 Granger, Percy The Dolphin Position .......... 284 Eminent Domain ................ .44 Forbidden Copy ................ 282 Leavin' Cheyenne .............. 246 Vivien ......................... : 260 Working Her Way Down ...... 284 Granovertter, Matthew 'The Treasure Makers .......... 299 Grant, Bob Darling Mr. London ........... 114 Home Is Where Your Clothes Are .......................... 115 No Room for Love ............ 125 Grant, Micki Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope ........................ 204 It's So Nice To Be Civilized .. 211 The Prodigal Sister ............ 220 Grant, Suzanne Whadda 'bout My Legal Rights? ....................... 229 Grattan, Lawrence Gossipy Sex ................... 163 Graveman, Will And Now Miguel .............. 198 Graves, Warren The Hand That Cradles the Rock ........................... 52 The Mumberley Inheritance .... 105 Would You Like A Cup of Tea? ......................... 266 Yes Dear ....................... 261 Gray, Jack Love From Judy ............... 214 Gray, Nicholas Stuart Beauty and the Beast .......... Gawain and the Green Knight ............ : .......... The Hunters and the Henwife .. The Imperial Nightingale ...... The Marvelous Story of Puss In Boots ........................ New Clothes for the Emperor .. New Lamps for Old ........... 296 297 297 300 299 301 299

Goforth, Frances Ark of Safety .................. 177 Eve~ing Star ................... 149 Goggin, Dan Hark! ........................... 208 NunsenseINunsense A-Men! ... 217 Gogal, Nikolai From A Madman's Diary ...... 236 The Gamblers .................... 63 The Government Inspector ..... 170 Inspector ....................... 170 The Inspector General ......... 170 The Marriage .................. 133 The Overcoat .................. 297 Goldberg, Andy Improv Comedy ................ 324 Goldemberg, Rose Leiman Letters Home .................... 15 Golden, Harry Only In America ............... 183 Golden, John The Clock Shop ................ 304 Goldenberg, Bill Ballroom ....................... 200 Goldman, James The Lion In Winter .............. 91 Goldman, Robert First Impressions ............... 206 Goldoni, Carlo Getting Away .................. 138 Mirandolina .................. 74,97 The Servant of Two Masters ... 141, 145,154 The Venetian Twins ........... 139 Goldsby, Angela and Robert Let's Get a Divorce (trans.) .... 152 Goldschmidt, Lena An American Tragedy 187

Giron, Arthur Becoming Memories ........... 130 Flight ........................... .45 Edith Stein ..................... 138 Gladstone, Dana The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Play Memory .................. 140 To Grandmother's House We Go ............................. 99 Glass, Montague Potash & Perlmutter ........... 189 Glassman, Seth 2 By 5 ......................... 228 Glaudini, John A Christmas Survival Guide ... 202 The Prince and the Pauper ..... 220 Glazer, Tony Safe ............................ 177 Gleason, James Is Zat So ....................... 163 Shannons of Broadway 190 Glenville, Peter Hotel Paradiso (trans.) ......... 182 Glickman, Will The Body Beautiful ............ 201 Mrs. Gibbon's Boys ........... 145 Glickman, William Plain and Fancy ................ 220 Glore, John What She Found There ........ 313 Glowacki, Janusz Antigone In New York .......... 29 Cinders ......................... 174 The Fourth Sister .............. 153 Home Section .................. 256 Hunting Cockroaches .......... 1'15

Goldsmith, Gloria The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Goldsmith, Lee Shine! .......................... 224 Goldstein, Carrie Last Exit Before Toll .......... 236 Gombrowicz, Witold The Marriage (trans.) 135 Operetta (trans.) ................ 177 Gooch, Steve Female Transport .............. 129 The Mother (trans.) ............ 171 Goodall, Howard The Hired Man ................ 209 Goode, Jeff The Eight: Reindeer Monologues .................. 308 Goodfellow, Ellen If Women Worked As Men Do ........................... 292 Goodhart, William Generation ....................... 72 Gooding, David The Phantom of the Opera-The Play .......................... 219 Goodman, Arthur If Booth Had Missed .......... 189 Goodman, Jules Eckert Treasure Island ................. 303 Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer Dust of the Road ............... 309

Gray, Simon Butley ........................... 90 Dutch Uncle ..................... 71 Hidden Laughter ................. 96 The Holy Terror ................. 80 The Idiot ....................... 178 Molly ............................ 69 Otherwise Engaged .............. 89 Quartermaine's Terms ........... 86 The Rear Column .............. 125 Stage Struck ..................... 34 Wise Child ....................... 39 Graybill, Chris Go Look ....................... 313 Graziano, David Acorn .......................... 313 Green, Adolph A Doll's Life .................. 204 On the Twentieth Century ..... 218 Peter Pan ....................... 219 Green, Albert Ms. Frankenstein's Monster ... 176 Green, Andrea For Tiger Lilies Out of Season ....................... 277 Homeroom ..................... 209 Green, Benny Cole ............................ 203 Green, Carolyn Janus ............................. 55

INDEX OF AUTHORS Green, Dennis Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ............... 213 Green, Lily Ann Forward To the Right .......... 239 Green, Mawby Ding Dong Dead ................. 85 In One Bed. . . and Out the Other ........................... 88 Pajama Tops ..................... 91 13 Rue De L'amour (trans.) ... 132 Green, Michael All's Well That Ends As You Like It ............................. 286 The Cherry Sisters ............. 284 The Coarse Acting Show 2 .... 168 A Collier's Tuesday Tea ....... 286 Four Plays for Coarse Actors .. 168 Henry the Tenth (Part Seven) .. 289 II Fornicazione ................. 279 Moby Dick ..................... 285 Streuth ......................... 288 The Third Great Coarse Acting Show ........................ 168 Green, Paul The Common Glory ........... The Confederacy ............... Cross and Sword ............... Enchanted Maze .... : .......... Field God ...................... The Founders .................. The Highland Call ............. The Honeycomb ............... House of Connelly ............. Hymn To the Rising Sun ...... In Abraham's Bosom .......... Johnny Johnson ................ The Lone Star .................. The Lost Colony ............... The Man Who Died At Twelve O'clock ...................... Native Son ..................... The No 'count Boy ............ Peer Gynt (trans.) .............. Roll Sweet Chariot ............. The Stephen Foster Story ...... Texas .......................... Trumpet In the Land ........... Wilderness Road ............... 187 187 188 188 135 187 188 124 189 290 152 212 137 187 260 176 270 175 190 187 201 187 187 Grenzeback, Joe Old King Cole ................. 297 Gressieker, Hermann Royal Gambit .................... 91 Grew, William A. The Sap ........................ 125 Griffin, Susan Voices ........................... 53 Griffiths, Trevor Comedians ..................... 153 Piano ........................... 167 Who Shall Be Happy. . . ? ..... 12 Grimsey, John The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... 207 La Perichole ................... 213 Grodin, Charles One of the All-Time Greats .... 138 Price of Fame .................. 101 Gromelski, Brad The Invention .................. 295 Position Available ............. 258 Gropper, Milton Gypsy Jim ..................... 152 Gross, Alan The Man In 605 ................. 26 Grossman, Budd Maude's Reunion .............. 291 Grossman, Larry A Doll's Life .................. 204 Goodtime Charley ............. 207 Minnie's Boys ................. 215 Grossmann, Suzanne Chemin De Fer (trans.) ........ 178 Gruberger, Richard Driving Out A Devil ........... 282 Gruen, Peter For Anne ....................... 244 Grumberg, Jean-Claude The Workroom ................. 149 Guare, John Cop-Out ........................ Home Fires .................... The House of Blue Leaves ..... Sweet Smell of Success ........ 274 275 130 198

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Haagensen, Erik A Fine and Private Place ...... 205 Hackady, Hal Goodtime Charley ............. 207 Little By Little ................. 214 Minnie's Boys ................. 215 Hackett, Waiter Captain Applejack ............. 145 It Pays To Advertise ........... 152 Hackenbrook, William Conditions ............. .......... 93 Haddow, Jeffrey Chekhov In yalta .............. 140 Scrambled Feet ................ 222 Haenigsen, Harry Penny .......................... 266 Hagan, James One Sunday Afternoon ........ 185 Hagenbuckie, Jay The Fall of the House of Usher ........................ 114 Hague, Albert Plain and Fancy ................ 220 Haight, George Goodbye Again ................ 152 Hailey, Kendall The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Hailey, Oliver The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 I Won't Dance ................... 24 Haimsohn, George Dames At Sea .................. 203 Hairston, Jerome Forty Minute Finish ............ 313 Hale, Nathan and Ruth Melody Jones .................. 157 Hale, Ruth and Nathan Lilacs In the Rain .............. 145 Love Comes In Full Array ..... 145 The Runaway Heart ............ 152 Halevy, Ludovic The Brazilian .................... 51 The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... 207 La Perichole ................... 213 Mardi Gras ..................... 169 Orpheus In the Underworld .... 218 Signor Nicodemo ................ 81 Hall, Bob The Passion of Dracula ........ 120 Hall, Carol The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public ........................ 201 The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas ........................ 201 To Whom It May Concern ..... 227 Hall, Nick Accommodations ................. 38 Around the Clock ................ 56 Beside Yourself .................. 37 Broken Up ....................... 36 Caveat Emptor ................. 263 The Claimant .................. 281 The Curse of Ravensdurn ...... 271 Dead Wrong ..................... 35 Eat Your Heart Out .............. 54 Going Ape ....................... 53 Marriage Is Murder .............. 11 Night Caps ..................... 271 Padparadsha ...................... 75 Pastiche ........................ 268 Ravensdurn Remains ........... 282 Hall, Peter An Absolute Turkey (trans.) ... 164 Hall, Roger Conjugal Rites ................... 10 Middle-A"ge Spread .............. 68 Hall, Willis Billy Liar ...................... 108 Children's Day ................... 87 Filumena (trans.) ............... 141 Jane Eyre ...................... 146 Mansfield Park ................. 166 Saturday, Sunday, Monday (trans.) ....................... 171 Who's Who? ..................... 36 Halliwell, David Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs ........... 74 Hallman, Bill The Women of Theta Kappa ..... 99 Halvorson, Kristina One Hundred Women .......... 313 Hamberger, Mildred The Beggar Or the Dead Dog (trans.) ....................... 242 Hamilton, Kelly Trixie True, Teen Detective ... 228 Hamilton, Patrick Angel Street ..................... 55 Rope ........................... 101 Hamilton, William Save Grand Central .............. 69 White Chocolate ................. 56 Hamlin, Mary P. The Rock ........................ 52 The Trouble With the Christmas Presents ...................... 310 Hamlisch, Marvin Imaginary Friends .............. Smile ........................... Sweet Smell of Success ........ They're Playing Our Song ..... 211 133 198 227

Hammerstein II, Oscar Gypsy Jim ..................... 152 Hample, Stuart Children's Letters to God David Evans. Lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen ........................ 198 Hampton, Christopher A Doll's House (trans.) ........ 124 Don Juan (trans.) .............. 188 An Enemy of the People ....... 138 Ghosts (trans.) ................... 51 Hedda Gabler (trans.) ............ 92 Les Liaisons Dangereuses ..... 127 The Philanthropist ............... 90 Savages ........................ 142 Tales From Hollywood ........ 172 Tartuffe (trans.) ................ 154 Total Eclipse ................... 187 Treats ............................ 25 When Did You Last See My Mother? ........................ 55 The Wild Duck (trans.) ........ 175 Hampton, Stuart "The Asshole Murder Case" .. 313 Hampton, Tim The Frankenstein Monster Show ........................ 206 Hanagan, Jay Along for the Ride ............. 270 First Kisses ....................... 9 Handke, Peter The Ride Across Lake Constance .................... 125 Handy, Peter East of the Sun and West of the Moon ........................ 244 Haney, Frank Lust 'n' Rust ................... 214

Greenaway, Alfred Humphrey Pumphrey Had A Great Fall .......................... 265 Greenberg, Barbara Jeremy and the Thinking Machine ..................... 296 Greene, Graham The Complaisant Lover ........ 124 The Living Room .............. 125 The Potting Shed .............. 145 Greene, Patterson Papa Is All ....................... 73 Greene, Richard Painting Distant Men .......... 248 Greenfield, Ellen Little By Little ................. 214 Greenwich, Ellie Leader of the Pack: ............ 214 Greenwood, Cora Wilson A Christmas Carol ............. 309 Greenwood, Duncan Murder By the Book ............. 52 Greenwood, Walter Love On the Dole .......... .... 189 Gregg, Stephen A Private Moment ............. 313 Gregory, Lady Mirandolina (trans.) .............. 74

Guerdon, David The Laundry ..................... 74 Guerrieri, Gerardo Liola (trans.) ................... 150 Guiterman, Arthur The School for Husbands ...... 186 Gunderson, Steve Back To Bacharach and David ........................ 200 Gurney, A.R. The David Show ............... 280 The Golden Fleece ............. 244 The Love Course .............. 263 The Old One-Two ............. 261 The Open Meeting ............. 263 The Problem ................... 249 Public Affairs .................... 77 The Rape of Bunny Stuntz ..... 261 Scenes From American Life ... 108 Guthrie, Tyrone Cherry Orchard (trans.) ........ 315 Three Sisters (trans.) ........... 159 Uncle Vanya (trans.) ........... 315 Guyer, Murphy The Interrogation .............. 313 Loyalties ....................... 313 Gyorgyey, Clara Catsplay (trans.) ............... 120

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Hanes, Mary The Crimson Thread ............. 60 Doin' Time at the Alamo ........ 79 Hanmer, Ronald The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... La Perichole ................... Orpheus In the Underworld .... Viva Mexico! .................. Harper, Lisa An' Push Da Wind Down ....... 93 Harrigan, Edward Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Harris, Albert Stardust ........................ 225 Harris, Aurand And Never Been Kissed ....... Circus In the Wind ............ Ladies of the Mop ............. Ming Lee and the Magic Tree .......................... Once Upon A Clothesline ..... Pinocchio and the Indians ..... We Were Young That Year .... 151 296 292 301 300 300 186 Hatcher, Jeffrey Downtown ..................... 313 Hatton, Frederick & Fanny Lombardi Ltd .................. 189 Haubold, Cleve The Golden Grotto ............. The Shiny Red Ball ............ The Magic Devil Lion ......... The Mice Have Been Drinking Again ........................ Owl ............................ Richard Harding Bush, Or the Rococo Coco Bean .......... Sherlock Holmes and the. . . Clockwork Prince ............ The Shiny Red Ball ............ A Short Walk After Dinner .... Wise Men and the Elephant ... The Wishin' Tree .............. 298 250 295 265 234 298 131 250 261 296 286

INDEX OF AUTHORS Hayes, Marrijane and Joseph And Came the Spring .......... A Change of Heart ............. Come Over To Our House ..... Head In the Clouds ............ June Wedding .................. Life of the Party ............... Mister Peepers ................. Once In Every Family ......... Penny .......................... Quiet Summer ................. Tum Back the Clock ...........

207 213 218 228

Hannah, Link Sixteen In August .............. 152 Woman's A Fool .............. 126 Hannan, Stephen Mo Jolson and Company ........... 212 Hansberry, Lorraine Les Blancs ..................... 142 Raisin .......................... 221 A Raisin In the Sun ............ 137 The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window ...................... 122 To Be Young, Gifted and Black .......................... 70 Toussaint ....................... 259 Hansen Jim "What's A Girl To Do?!" ..... 259 Hansen, Shirley A Penny Friend ................ 219 Hanssen, Lars Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Hantrey, Charles Private Secretary ............... 158 Hardstark, Michael The Cure ....................... 272 In the Cemetery ................ 256 The Last Laugh ................. .45 Hardwick, Cheryl Cut the Ribbons ................ 203 Hardwick, Mark Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220 Radio Gals ..................... 221 Smoke On the Mountain ....... 224 Hare, David Amy's View ..................... 56 The Blue Room ................... 9 Fanshen ........................ 120 Ivanov (trans.) ................. 136 The Judas Kiss ................... 76 Knuckle .......................... 71 Life of Galileo (trans.) ......... 174 A Map of the World ........... 140 Mother Courage and Her Children (trans.) ....................... 189 Plenty .......................... 160 Pravda ......................... 172 Racing Demon ................. 137 The Secret Rapture .............. 62 Skylight ......................... 18 Slag .............................. 26 Stuff Happens . .. .. . .. .. .. .. .... 164 Via Dolorosa ...................... 7 Harelik, Mark The Immigrant ................. 198 Harger, Christine Red, White and Rosie .......... 221 Hargrave, Roy Houseparty ... ................. 189 Harman, Barry Olympus On My Mind ........ 218 Romance/romance ............. 221 Starblast ...... .. ............... 225 Harmon, Renee Film Producing ................ 324 Harnick, Sheldon The Body Beautiful ............ 201 Harper, Annette The Cookie Lady .............. 188

187 163 185 145 163 183 163 189 266 185 163

Hayman, Ronald Playing the Wife ................. 32 Hazleton, George C. The Yellow Jacket Hazzard, John E. Tum To the Right 190 163

Harris, Bill Stories About the Old Days ...... 13 Harris, Richard The Business of Murder ......... 23 Dead Guilty ...................... 30 The Maintenance Man ........... 22 Stepping Out ................... 154 Two and Two Make Sex ........ 38 Who Goes Bare? ............... 132 Harris, Susan Like Mother, Like Daughter ... 291 Harris, Timothy The Adventures of Captain NeatoMan .......................... 265 Harrison, Jordan Fit for Feet ..................... 313 Harrison, Tony Doomsday ..................... 172 The Misanthrope (trans.) ....... 142 The Nativity ................... 172 Passion ........................... 41 Phaedra Britannica ............. 115 Harron, Donald Anne of Green Gables ......... 200 Hart, Avery Dreamboats .................... 278 Hart, Moss Merrily We Roll Along ........ 189 Once In A Lifetime ............ 186 Hart, Norman Phillip An Inspector Anl>wers ......... 274 Hart, Stan The Mad Show ................ 214 Hart, Stanley Some of My Best Friends ...... 105 Harter, Charles The Seven ..................... 179 Hartland, F. J. Auto-Erotic Misadventure ..... 254 12:21 P.M. Comedy ........... 259 Harvey, Frank The Day After the Fair .......... 71 Harville, Cliff Hand Me My Afghan .......... 256 Rough Draft ................... 269 Sara Hubbard .................. 237 A Silent Catastrophe ........... 250 Sunsets ........................... 22 Harwood, Ronald Another Time .................. 113 The Dresser .................... 153 Interpreters ....................... 65 Quartet .......................... .49 Hassall, Christopher Dear Miss Phoebe ............. 204 King's Rhapsody ............... 213 Hastie, Sandra Cover ............................ 14 Hastings, Charlotte High Ground ................... 145 The Soft September Air ....... 131

Haufrecht, Marcia Welfare ........................ 175 Hauger, George Augustus ....................... Death of Doctor Faust (trans.) ....................... Miss Jairus (trans.) ............. Pantagleize (trans.) ............. 273 188 189 189

Healy, Ann Marie Lonely ......................... 313 Healy, John Nero Fiddles ................... 285 Healy, Mark The Collector ..................... 9 The Heather Brothers Blood Money ................... .41 Gratuitous Sex and Violence ... 207 Love Bites ..................... 214 Lust ............................ 303 A Slice of Saturday Night ..... 224 Hecht, Ben The Front Page ................ Ladies and Gentlemen ......... On the Twentieth Century ..... Twentieth Century ............. 179 189 218 218

Hauptman, William Domino Courts/Comanche Cafe ........................... 33 Gillette ......................... 138 Heat ............................ 322 Hauptmann, Gerhart The Beaver Coat (trans.) ....... 157 Hauser, Frank Turnabout (trans.) .............. 101 Havel, Vaclav Audience ....................... 241 The Beggar's Opera ........... 168 The Garden Party .............. 114 The Increased Difficulty of Concentration .................. 97 Largo Desolato ................. 146 The Memorandum ............. 184 The Mistake ................... 277 The Mountain Hotel ........... 154 Private View ................... 249 Protest ......................... 249 Redevelopment ................. 159 Temptation ..................... 148 Tomorrow! ..................... 170 Haverty, Doug In My Mind's Eye ............... 67 Inside Out ...................... 211 Hawdon, Robin Don't Dress for Dinner .......... 57 The Mating Game ............... 46 Perfect Wedding ................. 58 Shady Business .................. 77 Hawthorne, Ruth Mrs. Partridge Presents 152

Hecht, Ken Junior the Senior ............... 291 Heelan, Kevin Heartland ...................... 311 Split Decision .................... 49 Heifner, Jack Leader of the Pack ............. 214 Vanities .......................... 23 Heijermans, Herman 'The Good Hope ................ 188 Heijermans-Hollwink, Caroline The Good Hope (trans.) ........ 188 Heimel, Cynthill A Girl's Guide To Chaos ........ 33 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 ....................... 179 We Bombed In New Haven ... 179 Henderson, Nancy Medusa of Forty-Seventh Street ........................ 257 Henderson, Ray Good News ................... 207 Hendra, Tony Smith 171

Hay, Ian Bachelor Born ................. 187 The White Sheep of the Family ....................... 123 Hayes, Alfred The Girl On the Via Flaminia ..................... 144 Hayes, Elliott Poison .......................... 292 Hayes, Jennifer Fell Nothing In Common ...... 247

Hendryx, Shirl The Last of Jane Austen ....... 137 Heneker, David The Biograph Girl ............. 201 Henley, Beth Beth Henley: Monologues for Women ....................... 317 Hennequin, Maurice Court in the Act! ............... 152 Hennessey, Marcus A. Hazing the Monkey ............ 136 Henry, Chad Angry Housewives ............. 200 Hensley, Richard She Was Lost, and Is Found ... 260

Hayes, Joseph Calculated Risk ................ 163 Christmas At Home ............ 310 The Desperate Hours .......... 161 Impolite Comedy ................ 70

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Song of Singapore ............. 225
Hirson, Roger O. Walking Happy ................ 228 Hischak, Thomas Murder On Reserve ............ 111 A New Style for Murder ....... 138 Hitchcock, Jane Stanton Grace ............................ 95 Hitt, James The Magic Devil Lion ......... 295 Sherlock Holmes and the. . . Clockwork Prince ............ 131 Hochhuth, Rolf The Deputy .................... 188 Soldiers ........................ 152 Hochwalder, Fritz Lazaretti, Or the Saber-Toothed Tiger ......................... 125 The Public Prosecutor ......... 125 The Strong Are Lonely 190 Hodges, Horace Grumpy ........................ 152 Hodgins, Don You Better Watch Out ......... 309 Hoffman, Cary What's A Nice Country Like You . . . Doing In A State Like This? ......................... 229 Hoffman, Jeff Francis Brick Needs No Introduction .................. 264 Hoffman, Lynn and Theodore An Italian Straw Hat (trans.) ... 163 Hoffman, Theodore Celebration (trans.) ............ 286 The Marriage Proposal (trans.) ....................... 292 The Swan Song (trans.) .......... 83 Woyzeck (trans.) ............... 185 Hoffower, Kate The Office ..................... 313 Hofsiss, Jack Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Holden, Joan The Pope and the Witch ....... 128 Holliday, Graham Primula the Non-Sheepdog and the Great Grey Wolf ............. 297 The Scottish Play .............. 155 Hollinger, Michael Two-Part Invention ............ 313 Hollo, Anselm Jungle of Cities (trans.) ........ 189 Holloway, Jonathan Victor Hugo's Les Miserables ................... 116 Holloway, Sister Marcella Marie The Last of the Leprechauns '" 298 The Little Juggler .............. 302 Holloway, Victoria Cinderella: The True Story .... 202 Holmes, Rupert Accomplice ..................... .43 Holofcener, Lawrence Before You Go .................. 16 Holt, Will The Me Nobody Knows ....... 215 Over Hete! ..................... 218 Taking My Tum ............... 226 Holzman, Willy Bovver Boys ..................... 99 Holzman, Winnie Birds of Paradise ............... 201 Serious Bizness ................ 223 Home, William Douglas The Jockey Club Stakes ....... 155 The Kingfisher ................... 24 Lloyd George Knew My Father ........................ 107 The Reluctant Debutante ....... 108 Reluctant Peer ................. 125 The Secretary Bird ............... 54 Yes M'lord .................... 126 Honig, Edwin Devotion To the Cross (trans.) ....................... 178 Ends of the World and Other Plays ......................... 291 Interludes (trans.) .............. 290 Life Is A Dream (trans.) ......... 90 The Phantom Lady (trans.) .... 125 Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult (trans.) ....................... 132 Hood, Janet Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens .............. 205 Hood, Stuart The Open Couple .............. 247 Hooker, Brian The Vagabond King ........... 228 Hopkins, Arthur Burlesque ...................... 188 Hopkins, John Find Your Way Home ........... 38 Hoppe, Gip The Fall of the House of Usher ........................ 114 Jackie: An American Life ........ 94 Hopwood, Avery The Bat ........................ 132 Good Night Ladies ............. 161 Horitz, Tony You, Me and Mrs. Jones ....... 172 Horne Yes and No .................... 126 Horovitz, Israel Barking Sharks ................... 75 Free Gift ....................... 239 Israel Horovitz: 5 Short Plays ......................... 311 Lebensraum ...................... 18 A Mother's Love .............. 276 My Old Lady .................... 18 Man With Bags (trans.) ........ 163 Morning, Noon, and Night ....... 54 Park Your Car in Harvard yard ........................... 12 Security ........................ 263 Speaking Well of the Dead .... 254 Three Weeks After Paradise ... 235 Unexpected Tenderness .......... 78 Horowitz, Anthony Mindgame ....................... 20 Horrigan, Jack Children! Children! Howard, David Electric Roses .................. 313 Howard, Ed Greater Tuna ...................... 9 A Tuna Christmas ............. 308 Howard, Frederick Little Women .................. 214 Howard, Ken The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ................. 174 Howard, Leslie Murray Hill .................... 125 Howard, Sidney The Late Christopher Bean .... 123 Ned Mccob's Daughter ........ 135 They Knew What They Wanted ...................... 157 The Silver Cord .................. 73 Howarth, Donald Three Months Gone .............. 71 Howe, Tina Approaching Zanzibar ......... 110 The Art of Dining ............. 119 Birth and After Birth ............ 44 Coastal Disturbances ........... 110 The Divine Fallacy ............ 313 Museum ....... ( ................ 176 One Shoe Off .................... 42 Painting Churches ................ 23 Pride's Crossing ................. 77 Hsiung, S. I. Lady Precious Stream .......... 184 Hughes, Babette One Egg ....................... 262 Hughes, Douglas A Party To Murder .............. 62 Who's Under Where? ............ 78 Hughes, Glenn The Magic Apple .............. 299 Red Carnations ................. 262 Hughes, Hatcher Hell Bent for Heaven

Herbert, John Fortune and Men's Eyes ......... 74 Herlihy, James Leo Blue Denim ...................... 73 Herman, George The Company of Wayward Saints ........................ 121 Devil of the Second Stairs ..... 124 Herman, Jerry The Grand Tour ................ Jerry's Girls .................... La Cage Aux FolIes ........... Mack and Mabel ...............

207 212 213 214

Herne, James Sag Harbor ..................... 190 Herrick, Jack Kudzu: A Southern Musical ... 213 Herrera, Anthony Smoke & Mirrors ................ 47 Herrmann, Keith Prom Queens Unchained ....... 220 Romance/romance ............. 221 Hersey, John The Child Buyer ............... 188 Hesketh, Marianne and Barrie Ostrich ........................... 13 Hess, John D. A Perfect Frenzy ............... 158 Heyward, Dorothy Little Girl Blue ................ 125 Hicks, Clifford B. Alvin Fernald, Mayor for A Day .......................... 299 Higgins, Colin Harold and Maude ............. 174 Higgins, Joel Johnny Guitar .................. 212 Higgins, Robert Alice the Magnificent! ......... 199 Hill, Ken The Invisible Man ............. 169 Hill, Kay Three To Get Married ......... 136 Hill, Lucienne Ardele (trans.) ................. The Arrest (trans.) ............. Becket (trans.) ................. Catch As Catch Can (trans.) ... The Cavern (trans.) ............ Dear Antoine (trans.) .......... Poor Bitos (trans.) ............. Restless Heart (trans.) .......... Thieves' Carnival (trans.) ...... Traveller Without Luggage (trans.) ....................... The Waltz of the Toreadors (trans.) .......................

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Hughes, Jim And Now Miguel .............. 198 Humble, Christopher The Flight of the Earls ........... 86 Hume, Cyril Ransom ........................ 190 Hunt, Pamela Uranium ....................... 251 Hunter, Dan Un Tango en la Noche ......... 265 Hunter-Blair, Kitty Barbarians (trans.) ............. 175 Enemies (trans.) ................ 188 Hurley, Kathy The Alchemist's Book ......... 298 Husband, Tony Save the Human ............... 297 Hutchinson, Harold Out of the Night ............... 136 Hutton, Arlene A Closer Look ................. 271 The Price You Pay ............. 258 Studio Portrait ................. 250 Hutton, John Phillips Red, White and Rosie .......... 221 Huxley, Aldous The Devils ..................... 179 The Gioconda Smile ........... 133 Hyde, Derek Some Canterbury Tales ........ 225 Human, Yehuda Swan Lake Calhoun ........... 313

133 149 181 145 188 188 157 190 156 158 143

Hill, Robert Uncertain Wings ............... 145 Hill, Ryan The Ferry ...................... 239 Hilliard, Robert J. Three Goats and a Blanket ....... 90 Hillman, Barry L. The Establishment At Aries .... 278 Hilton, Tony One for the Pot ........ : ....... 118 Hines, Terrance An Actor Succeeds ............ 324 Hindman, James A Christmas Survival Guide ... 202 Hipkens, Robert Hirson, David Wrong Mountain ............... 147

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Horsier, Peter On the Verge .................. 136 Horwitt, Arnold B Plain and Fancy ................ 220 Hotchner, A. E. The White House .............. 133 Houghton, Stanley The Dear Departed ............. 281 House, Ron Bullshot Crumrnond ............. 54 El Grande De Coca-Cola ...... 204 Footlight Frenzy ................. 68 The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope ................. 81 Houston, Gary E/R (Emergency Room) ....... 174

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Hymes, John B. Alias the Deacon .............. , 187 Jacobs, W. W. The Monkey's Paw ............ 292 Jacobson, Kenneth Show Me Where the Good Times Are .......................... 224 Jampel, Carl Archie Andrews ................ 163 Jannuzzi, Luigi The Appointment .............. 264 The Barbarians Are Coming ... 241 A Bench At the Edge .......... 242 For the Love of Juliet ............ 27 Night of the Foolish Moon ...... 61 With Or Without You ......... 252 Jaos, Alaric Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? .......... 204 Jarrow, Kyle Gorilla Man .................... 198 Jarry, Alfred Ubu Cocu ...................... 154 Ubu Roi ........................ 177 Ubu Rex ....................... 190 Jeffers, Robinson The Cretan Woman ............ 145 Medea .......................... 127 Jeffreys, Stephen Hard Times ...................... 33 Valued Friends ................... 63 JelIicoe, Ann The Knack ....................... 39 The Sport of My Mad Mother ....................... 126 Jenkins, Ron About Face (trans.) ............ 117 Archangels Don't Play Pinball (trans.) ....................... 129 Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman (trans.) .............. 101 We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay (trans) .......................... 51 Jennings, Gertrude The Bathroom Door ........... 281 Jerome, Helen First Impressions ............... 206 Jane Eyre ...................... 146 Pride and Prejudice ............ 184 Jerome, Jerome K. The Passing of the Third Floor Back ......................... 152 Jiler, John A venue X ...................... 200 Job, Thomas Theresa ........................ 126 Uncle Harry .................... 186 John, Errol Moon On A Rainbow Shawl ... 161 John, Miriam The Ermine (trans.) ............ 186 The Orchestra (trans.) .......... 285 John Paul II (Pope) The Jeweler's Shop .............. 76 Johnson, Albert The People Vs. Christ ......... 307 Johnson, Charles R. All This and Moonlight .......... 64 Olly Oily Oxen Free ............. 50 Johnson, Karen I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever ...................... 210 Johnson, Kitty Mirror, Mirror ................. 257 Strawberry Envy ............... 259 Triplet .......................... 259 Johnson, Larry All That He Was ............... 199 Johnson, Laurie Johnson, Margaret Jabiru .......................... 253 Lock Up Your Daughters ...... 214 Johnson, Mike The Clone People .............. 120 The Perfect Murder .......... , ... 83 The Premature Corpse ........... 64 Return of the Maniac ............ 69 The Swan Song .................. 83 Johnson, Nora Henry, Sweet Henry ........... 209 Johnson, Nunnally Henry, Sweet Henry ........... 209 Johnson, Pamela H. The Rehearsal (trans.) .......... 106 Johnson, Randy The Wildest!!! ................. 198 Johnson, Richard T. All the Girls Came Out To Play .......................... 150 Johnson, Stephen Cover ............................ 14 Johnson, Terry The Graduate .................. 136 Johnston, David Leaving Tangier ............... 263 Johnston, Denis Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 190 Johnston, Gregory Curtain Going Up .............. 182 Johnston, Jennifer The Nightingale and Not the Lark ......................... 267 Jolles, Annette Little By Little ................. 214 Jones, Charles My Antonia .................... 166 Papa's Angels .................. 308 Jones, Charlotte Humble Boy ..................... 57 In Flame ......................... 60 Jones, Donna Days On End .................. 300 Jones, Elinor Box Office ..................... 235 What Would Jeanne Moreau Do? .......................... 260 Jones, Frank Drums In the Night (trans.) .... 170 Saint Joan of the Stockyards (trans.) ....................... 177 Jones, Glyn Red In the Morning .............. 84 Thriller of the Year .............. 54 Jones, Graham Dreamjobs ..................... 273 Jones, Ken Darkside ......................... 64 The Great Easter Egg Hunt .... 170 Jones, LeRoi Dutchman ........................ 25 The Slave .............. : ......... 25 Jones, Martin Snow Leopards .................. 12 Jones, Steve The Visit ....................... 313 Jones, Walton The 1940's Radio Hour ........ 216 Jordan, Julia MPLS, St. Paul ................ 313 Nightswim ..................... 313

INDEX OF AUTHORS Jory, Jon Cameras ........................ 313 Scruples ........................ 313 Tricks .......................... 109 Joselovitz, Ernest The Day I Met William Inge .. 277 Love By the Numbers ......... 115 Nicky and the Theatre for A New World ........................ 247 Romance ....................... 234 "There Is No John Garfield" .. 251 Vilna's Got a Golem ............. 99 Joseph, Edmund Separate Rooms ................ 125 Julianus, Lorrisa The Praetorium ................ 306

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Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House ................ 124 An Enemy of the People .. l38, 311 Ghosts ..................... 51, 311 Hedda Gabler .............. 92, 311 Ibsen: the Complete Major Prose Plays ......................... 311 John Gabriel Borkman ......... 311 The Lady From the Sea ........ 311 Little Eyolf .................... 311 The Master Builder ........ 80, 311 Peer Gynt ...................... 175 Rosmersholm .................. 311 When We Dead Awake .... 82, 311 The Wild Duck ........... 175, 311 Illes, Robert The Engagement ............... 291 Inge, William Come Back, Little Sheba ...... 143 Ingham, Robert Custer .......................... 104 Ingraffia, Sam Chateau Rene .................. 242 Pasquini the Magnificent ...... 257 Ionesco, Eugene Amedee ........................ 143 The Bald Soprano .............. 280 The Chairs .. .................. 261 Exit the King .................... 72 Frenzy for Two, Or More ...... 274 The Future Is In Eggs ......... 286 A Hell of A Mess .............. 188 Hunger and Thirst ............. 156 lonescopade .................... 211 Jack, Or the Submission ....... 286 The Killer ...................... 150 Killing Game .................. 189 The Leader .................... , 280 The Lesson .................... 253 Macbett ........................ 121 Man With Bags ................ 163 The New Tenant ............... 270 Rhinoceros ..................... 181 A Stroll In the Air ............. 190 Victims of Duty ............... , 281 Ionesco, Marie-France Man With Bags (trans.) ........ 163 Iribarne, Louis Operetta (trans.) ................ 177 Isen, Richard A Fine and Private Place ...... 205 Isham, Frederick Three Live Ghosts ............. l36

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Kadison, Luba The Chekhov Sketchbook ...... 104 In A Music Shop .............. 104 The Witch ...................... 128 Kahan, Judith How To Eat Like A Child ..... 210 Kahan, Judy Pretzels ........................ 220 Kahn, Kathy Hillbilly Women ................. 83 Kahn, Jr., E. .1. Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Kahn, Robert Amos Scrambled Eggs .................. 17 Kalcheim, Lee Defiled ........................... 27 Breakfast with Les and Bess ..... 68 Moving .......................... 11 Win With Wheeler ............. 131 Kalfin, Robert Hijinks! ........................ 209 Strider .......................... 226 Kalinoski, Richark Prank ........................... l38 Kallen, Lucille Maybe Tuesday ................ 152 Kalmar, Bert Animal Crackers ............... 200 Kander, John The Act ........................ Chicago ........................ Flora, the Red Menace ......... Kiss of the Spider Woman ..... The Rink ....................... 70, Girls, 70 ................... Steel Pier ...................... 2 By 5 ......................... Woman of the Year ............ Zorba ..........................

199 202 206 213 221 223 226 '228 229 230

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Jacker, Corinne A New Life .................... 313 Jackson, Fred A Full House .................. 163 Jackson, Frederick The Bishop Misbehaves ....... 133 Jackson, Nagle The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall .......................... 228 Jacobs, Jim Grease ......................... 207 Jacobs, Michael Cheaters .......................... 69

Kane, Arnold Marriage Can Be Hazardous to Your Health .................. .46 Kane, Kristi Perfect Timing ................. 10 I Kani, John The Island ....................... 16 Sizwe Banzi Is Dead ............. 15 Kanin, Fay Goodbye, My Fancy ........... 180 Kanin, Fay and Michael The High Life .................. 209 His and Hers ................... 163 Rashomon ...................... 123 Kanin, Garson A Gift of Time ................. l35

INDEX OF AUTHORS Peccadillo ........................ 63 Kanin, Michael Woman of the year ............ 229 Kantor, Leonard Dead Pigeon ..................... 74 Kareken, Jeremy Hot Rod ........................ 256 Karinthy, Ferenc Steinway Grand ................ 250 Karp, Marshall Squabbles (aJk/a Your House Or Mine) .......................... 85 Karshner, Roger Dialect Monologues ............ 320 Dialect Monologues II ......... 320 Funnylogues for Women ....... 317 More Monologues for Teenagers .................... 317 Neil Simon Scenes ............. 318 Pocket Monologues for Men ... 318 The Dream Crust ................ 87 Hot Turkey At Midnight ......... 38 Love On the Cusp ............... 69 The Man With the Plastic Sandwich ...................... 36 Monkey's Uncle ................. 71 Neil Simon Monologues ....... 317 Teenage Mouth ................ 318 Kasakoff, Ella Gerber A Thread of Scarlet ............ 149 Kash, Marcia A Party To Murder .............. 62 Who's Under Where? ............ 78 Kass, Jerome Ballroom ....................... 200 Kass, Sam Henry Lusting After Pipino's Wife ..... 31 Kastner, Rose and Martin Trumpets and Drums (trans.) .. 190 Kataev, Valentine Squaring the Circle (trans.) .... 151 Katims, Jason Driving Lessons .................. 20 The Man Who Couldn't Dance ........................ 313 Who Made Robert DeNiro King of America? .................... 254 Katsaros, Doug Just So ......................... 212 Katscher, Robert You Never Know .............. 229 Katz, Alan Song of Singapore ............. 225 Katz, Leon The Son of Arlecchino ........... 86 The Three Cuckolds ........... 126 Katz, Leon and Joseph The Trial (trans.) ............... 190 Katzin, Winifred The Dybbuk (trans.) ........... 188 Kauffman, Marta Personals ....................... 219 Kaufman, Esther A Worm In Horseradish ....... 136 Kaufman, George S. Animal Crackers ............... 200 Beggar On Horseback ......... 187 The Butter and Egg Man ...... 157 Dinner At Eight ................ 169 Duley .......................... 145 If Men Played Cards As Women Do ........................... 267 Merrily We Roll Along ........ 189 Merton of the Movies .......... 144 Minick ......................... 189 Of Thee I Sing ................. 217 Once In A Lifetime ............ 186 The Royal Family .............. 184 The Still Alarm ................ 276 Kaufman, Leonard B. The Will ............. : ........... 96 Kaufman. Mort Funnylogues for Women ....... 317 Kava, Caroline The Early Girl ................. 125 Kayden, Mildred Cut the Ribbons ................ Ionescopade .................... Oh! My Giddy Aunt ........... Storyville ...................... 203 211 218 198 The Face On the Barroom Floor ......................... 160 Frankenstein ................... 286 The Gift and the Giving ....... 274 Hide and Shriek ................ 159 The High School That Dripped Gooseflesh ................... 209 Hound of the Baskervilles ..... 132 It Was A Dark and Stormy Night ........................ 159 Life On the Bowery ........... 172 Money, Power, Murder, Lust, Revenge, and Marvelous Clothes ....................... 216 Murder In the Magnolias ...... 149 My Son Is Crazy - But Promising .................... 159 The Picture That Was Turned To the Wall ..................... 171 Say Uncle, Uncle Silas ........ 159 Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra ................... 223 The Silk Shirt .................. 269 The Soapy Murder Case ....... 131 That's the Spirit ................ 154 The 3 1/2 Musketeers .......... 227 Trick Or Treat ................. 148 The Trouble With Summer People ....................... 160 Varney the Vampire ........... 148 Who Walks In the Dark ....... 140 The Woman In White .......... 132 The Zombie .................... 103 Kemnitz, Robert D. Off the Rack ................... 313 Processional .................... 313 Kempinski, Tom Duet for One ..................... 14 Separation ........................ 13 Kendall, Elaine American Cantata .............. 199 Kendrick, Mitchel How the Chicken Hawk Won the West ........................ 299 Kenley, John The Phantom of the Opera-The Play .......................... 219 Kennedy, Adrienne Funnyhouse of A Negro ....... 284 The Owl Answers .............. 287 Kennedy, Aubrey Behold This Dreamer .......... 157 Kennedy, Charles Rann The Terrible Meek ............. 292 Kennedy, Harold J. Just for Tonight ................ 119 Kennedy, Jimmy Spokesong ..................... 225 Kennedy, Mary Mrs. Partridge Presents ........ 152 Kennedy, Nancy Becker The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Kent, WaIter Seventeen ...................... 223 Kenward, Allan R. Cry Havoc ..................... 157 Kenyatta, Kisha Harriet ......................... 234 Kerr, Jean Goldilocks ..................... 207 Lunch Hour ...................... 52 Poor Richard ..................... 55 Kerr, Sophia Big-Hearted Herbert ........... 157 They're None of Them Perfect ....................... 278 Kerr, Walter Goldilocks ..................... 207

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Sing Out Sweet Land .......... 224 Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .......................... 166 Kesler, Hal O'Neil Dream A Little Dream ......... 188 Kesselman, Wendy The Juniper Tree, A Tragic Household Tale ................ 24 I Love You, I Love You Not .... 15 Maggie Magalita ................. 35 My Sister In This House ......... 35 Kessler, Lyle Orphans .......................... 26 Robbers .......................... 81 The Watering Place .............. 38 Kester, Katharine Gloria .......................... 310 Kester, Paul Sweet Nell of Old Drury ...... 190 Tom Sawyer ................... 300 Key, Edd The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge ...................... 222 Keyes, Ralph Is There Life After High School? ...................... 211 Kicks, Otto When Men Reduce As Women Do ........................... 276 Keyes, Steven Moonlight Cocktail ............. .46 Kidd, Virginia Happily Ever Once Upon ...... 131 Kiefer, Nancy Gwen and Gwen ................. 31 Kilborne, Jr., William S. Head Over Heels ............... 208 Kilgariff, Michael Three More Melodramas ....... 279 Kilty, Jerome Dear Liar ........................ 16 Dear Love ....................... 16 The Ides of March ............. 189 The Little Black Book ........... 16 Look Away ...................... 15 Kimball, Carol Lust 'n' Rust ................... 214 Kimball, Rosamund The Nativity ................... 172 The Resurrection ............... 307 Kimberly, Michael Almost An Eagle ............... .49 Kimes, Bruce The Duelling Oaks ............. 275 The Lost Christmas ............ 310 Kindley, Jeffrey Is There Life After High School? ...................... 211 St. Hugo of Central Park ...... 101 King, Carole Really Rosie ................... 221 King, Denis Privates On Parade ............. 220 King, Diane The Sorcerer's. Apprentice ..... 225 King, Larry The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public ........................ 201 The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas ........................ 201 Christmas: 1933 ................ 309 The Night Hank Williams Died .. 61 King, Philip Big Bad Mouse ................ 122

Kaye, Benjamin The Curtain Rises ................ 92 On Stage ....................... 319 Kaye, Benjamin M. She Couldn't Say No .......... 145 Kazan, Nicholas Blood Moon ..................... 74 Kazantzakis, Nikos Zorba .......................... 230 Keane, John B. Big Maggie .................... 141 Keatley, Charlotte My Mother Said I Never Should ......................... 31 Keating, Barry The Garbage Cantata .......... 206 Starmites ....................... 226 Keeler, Dawn The House of Mirth ............ 126 Keller, Richard House of Cards Kellerman, Jesse Things Beyond Our Control ..... 95 Kelly, Anthony Paul Three Faces East ............... 190 Kelly, Frank Pageant ........................ 218 Kelly, George Behold the Bridegroom ........ 152 Craig's Wife ................... 143 Daisy Mayme .................. 108 The Fatal Weakness ............. 72 Finders-Keepers ................ 262 The Flattering Word ........... 275 Philip Goes Forth .............. 152 Poor Aubrey ................... 270 Reflected Glory ................ 152 The Show-Off .................. 122 The Torch-Bearers ............. 151 The Weak Spot ................ 262 Kelly, Owen Stunt Plays ..................... 316 Kelly, Ryan Was ............................ 199 Kelly, Terence The Masterminds .............. 104 Kelly, Tim The Adventure of the Clouded Crystal ....................... 267 The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil .................... 199 The Burning Man .............. 124 "The Butler Did It" ........... 129 The Butler Did It, Again! ...... 146 The Butler Did It, Singing ..... 201 Cinderella Meets the Wolfman! .................... 202 Dark Deeds At Swan's Place .. 160 Dog Eat Dog ................... 255 DQn't Be Afraid of the Dark ... 147 Egad, the Woman In White .... 132

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Go Bang Your Tambourine ...... 39 Here We Come Gathering ..... 125 I'll Get My Man ............... 121 Milk and Honey ................. 71 Murder In Company ........... 106 On Monday Next .............. 157 Pools Paradise ................... 92 Sailor Beware! ................. 122 See How They Run ............ 118 Who Says Murder ............... 89 King, Ramona Steal Away ........... ; .......... 64 King, Robert Murder By the Book ............. 52 King, Rufus Invitation To A Murder ........ 145 King, Stephen Misery ......................... 185 King-Hall, Stephen Middle Watch .................. 189 Kingsley, Sidney Darkness At Noon ............. 183 Men In White .................. 189 Kingsley-Smith, Terry The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Kingston, Jeremy Signs of the Times ............... 71 Kinoy, Ernest Golden Rainbow ............... 207 Good-Bye To the Clown ....... 280 Something About A Soldier ... 152 Kipnis, Claude Cherry Orchard (trans.) ........ 315 Three Sisters (trans.) ........... 315 Uncle Vanya (trans.) ........... 315 Kipphardt, Heinar In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ................ 163 Kirkham, Gary Queen Milli of Galt ............. .40 Kirkland, Jack Tobacco Road .................. 144 Kirkpatrick, John The Audition Is Over .......... 278 Cupid Is A Bum Is A Bum Is A Bum ......................... 280 A Home for Stray Cats ........ 145 The Image ..................... 275 Kiss Me Quick---I'm Double Parked ....................... 288 The Other Other Woman ...... 286 She Was A Lazy Witch ........ 280 Soap Opera .................... 285 The Traveling Sisters .......... 284 Vacancy In Paradise ........... 181 When Men Are Scarce ......... 278 The Woman At Dead Oaks 150 Kirkup, James The Physicists (trans.) 181 Kliewer, Warren How Can You Tell the Good Guys From the Bad Guys! ........... 89 A Lean and Hungry Priest ....... 74 Kling, Kevin Lloyd's Prayer ................... 33 21A ............................... 9 Kling, Woody Three Goats and A Blanket ...... 90 Kluger, Steve Bullpen .......................... 82 Pilots of the Purple Twilight ... 116 Knapp, Sarah The Immigrant ................. 198 Knee, Allan Late Nite Comic ............... 214 Shmulnik's Waltz ................ 62 Knight, Max Schweyk In the Second World War .......................... 190 Kobler, Flip Ghost of a Chance ............... 60 Wild Dust ...................... 116 Koch, Edward I. Mayor .......................... 299 Koefoed, Bjorn Ghosts (trans.) ................... 51 Koestler, Arthur Darkness At Noon ............. 183 Kohner, Frederick Bees and the Flowers .......... 145 Stalin Allee .................... 162 Kohout, Pavel Poor Murderer
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INDEX OF AUTHORS Only A Countess May Dance When She's Crazy .................. 237 When Lightning Strikes Twice .. 21 Kovacevic, Dusan The Gathering Place ........... 158 The Professional ................. 28 A Roaring Tragedy ........ ! . . . 112 Kraiem, Eliam Sixteen Wounded ................ 40 Krakower, Bob 4 A.M .......................... 313 Mixed Emotions ............... 313 Kramer, Jonathan Sarah B. Divine! ............... 155 Kramer, Larry The Destiny of Me ............... 79 Just Say No ...................... 97 The Normal Heart ............. 117 Krasna, Norman Bunny .......................... 124 Louder, Please ................. 189 Small Miracle .................. 190 Kraus, Joanna Halpert Remember My Name 129 The Wheelbarrow Closers 126

Labiche, Eugene Celimare ....................... 135 An Italian Straw Hat ........... 163 It's All Relative .................. 61 A Matter of Wife and Death ... 267 The Piggy Bank ........ .. .. .... 169 Trip Abroad .................... 152 LaFevre, Adam Waterbabies .................... 313 Laird, Marvin Ruthless! ....................... 222 Lambe, Michael The Gypsy's Revenge ......... 130 The Walking Dead! ............ 273 Lambert, Lucien Sunrise At Noon ................. 98 LampelI, Millard The Wall ....................... 171 Landau, David Murder at Cafe Noir ............. 80 Noir Suspicions .................. 77 Lane-Plescia Accents for Actors ............. 320 Lange, Ed Sherlock's Secret Life ........... 98 Langley, Noel Farm of Three Echoes ......... 125 The Walrus and the Carpenter .................... 145 Langner, Armina MarshaII The Pursuit of Happiness Langner, Lawrence The Pursuit of Happiness 'The School for Husbands 143 143 186

Krausz, Rob Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! ...................... 208 Kravitz, Alan H. Just Thinking .................. 257 Krebs, Eric Golf: The Musical ............. 207 Krentzlin, Jack Who's Out There! ............. 280 Kreutz, Gregg Academia Nuts ................... 29 Bottoms Up! ................... 114 Krieger, Henry Side Show ..................... 224 The Tap Dance Kid ............ 227 Kromer, Helen For Heaven's Sake! ............ 206 Kronenberger, Louis Mademoiselle Colombe (trans.) ....................... 186 Kuder, Edna Cinderella ...................... 202 Rumpelstiltskin ................ 222 Snow White .................... 224 Kuhn, Kevin Midsummer Nights ............ 215 Kummer, Clare Her Masters Voice ............. 125 Kuntz, John B. Whispers On the Wind ........ 229 Kurnitz, Harry A Shot In the Dark ............ 108 Kurtti, Casey Catholic School Girls ............ 35 Three Ways Home ............... 22 Kurtz, Jack King Windowglass ............. 310 Kushner, Tony The Good Person of Setzuan (trans.) ....................... 175 Reverse Transcription .......... 313

Kopit, Arthur BecauseHeCan .................. .41 Chamber Music ................ 287 The Conquest of Everest ....... 262 The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis .................. 279 The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays ......................... 314 End of the World With Symposium To Follow ..................... 84 Ghosts (trans.) ................... 51 Good Help Is Hard To Find ... 268 The Hero ....................... 293 Indians ......................... 262 Nine ............................ 316 Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. . ......... 73 Phantom ....................... 219 The Questioning of Nick ...... 258 Road To Nirvana ................ 32 Sing To Me Through Open Windows ..................... 258 Wings .......................... 145 Kops, Bernard Dreams of Anne Frank ........ 297 Korbesmeyer, Brad Incident At San Bajo ......... : 283 Korder, Howard Episode 26 ..................... 118 Lip Service .................... 246 The Middle Kingdom .......... 246 Kosicka, Jadwiga Hunting Cockroaches (trans.) .. 115 Kossez, Robes Original Monologues for Men .......................... 318 Original Monologues for Women ., .................... 318 Koutoukas, H.M. Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending To Be Hard At Work and Hope That They Will Go Away ......... 241

Langridge, Michael Last Call for Breakfast ......... 267 Moby Dick ..................... 285 Languirand, Jacques Autumn Violins .................. 19 Lanter, Tom 'The Overcoat .................. 297 Lapine, James Falsettoland .................... 205 Falsettos ....................... 205 A New Brain .................. 216 Table Settings .................... 78 Larbey, Bob A Month of Sundays ............. 66 Lardner, Jr., Ring Woman of the Year ............ 229 Larsen, Larry 'The Isle of Dogs ............... 285 'The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge ...................... 222 Larson, Peter Cinderella ...................... 202 Rumpelstiltskin ................ 222 Snow White .................... 224 La Russo II, Louis Sweatshop ..................... 148 Laszlo St. Lazare's Pharmacy ......... 158 Latham, Jean Lee The Nightmare ................... 74 Lattimore, Richmond 'The Frogs (trans.) .............. 178

Kirkwood, James Legends! ......................... 67 P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! .......... 37 Utbu ....................... 133 Kirle, Bruce The Kama Sutra ............... 177 Kittleson, Ole The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil .................... 199 The Butler Did It, Singing ..... 201 The High School That Dripped Gooseflesh ................... 209 Klein, Charles Music Master .................. 189 Klein, Jon Four Our Fathers ............... 114 Klein, Luce and Arthur Medea (trans.) ................. 276

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La Russo II, Louis Knockout ........................ 87 Lamppost Reunion .............. .49 Marlon Brando Sat Right Here ......................... 155

Lauck, Carol Cleo's Cafe .................... Heads and Tales ............... Marmalade Gumdrops ......... Patchwork ......................

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Laughton, Charles Galileo ......................... 174

INDEX OF AUTHORS Laurence, Charles About Alice ...................... 29 My Fat Friend ................... 37 The Ring Sisters ................. 81 Snap! ............................. 68 Laurence, Dan H. The Black Girl In Search of God .......................... 132 Laurents, Arthur The Radical Mystique .......... .42 Time of the Cuckoo 134 Lauro, Shirley The Contest .................... 109 I Don't Know Where You're Coming From At All! ....... 256 Nothing Immediate ............ 247 Open Admissions ......... 140, 247 A Piece of My Heart ............ 77 Sunday Go To Meetin' ........ 313 Lavery, Emmet Brother Petroc's Return ........ The First Legion ............... The Gentleman From Athens .. The Magnificent Yankee ....... Murder In A Nunnery ......... Song At the Scaffold .......... Yankee Doodles ............... 188 145 163 189 185 158 229 Lee, Levi The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge ...................... 222 Lee, Maryat Dope! .......................... 282 Four Men and A Monster ...... 256 Lee, Robert E. Checkmate ..................... First Monday In October ...... The Gang's All Here .......... Jabberwock .................... The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail ........................... Only In America ............... Sounding Brass ................ 182 176 173 172 187 183 141 Levi, Stephen Angel On My Shoulder .......... 24 Cherry and Little Banjo ........ 242 Cherry Soda Water .............. 60 Getting Mama Married .......... 74 Good Morning Miss Vickers ... 127 The Gulf of Crimson .......... 245 Hearts 'n Kisses 'n Miss Vickers ...................... 169 Merry Christmas Miss Vickers ...................... 308 The Ramplings ................... 28 Red Roses for My Lady ....... 249 Salesgirl ........................ 313 Levin, Ira Break A Leg ................... 149 Cantorial ......................... 65 Drat! the Cat! .................. 204 Veronica's Room ................ 38 Levin, Kim Just One Night ................. 313 Levine, Jonathan End of the Shifty .............. 256 Unpublished Letters ............ 251 Levine, Ross A Change From Routine ....... 242 Levinson, Richard Columbo ......................... 91 Guilty Conscience ............... 34 Levitt, Alan J. Florida's Affair ................ 291 Maude's Reunion .............. 291 Levy, Benn W. Art and Mrs. Bottle ............ 124 Mrs. Moonlight ................ 125 The Rape of the Belt 133 Springtime for Henry ............ 39 Levy, Jules The Police Chief s An Easygoing Guy .......................... 285 Lewin, Albert E. The Will ......................... 96 Lewine, Richard The Fireman's Flame .......... 205 Lewis, Carter W. Soft Click of a Switch ........... 12 Lewis, Ira The Sponsor ..................... 36 Lewis, Morgan One for the Money ............ 237 Leys, Bryan Hoodwinked ................... 209 Midsummer Nights : ........... 215 Li, Anna Compatible ..................... 313 Liebman, Max Heidi ........................... 208 Liebman, Steve Bridge To Terabithia ........... The Great Gilly Hopkins ...... The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks ........................ Hoodwinked ................... 298 207 226 209

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Link, William Columbo ......................... 91 Guilty Conscience ............... 34 Linney, Romulus Stars ........................... 306 Linstrum, John Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 178 Lipari, Marjorie Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Lipner, Nira Pearls .......................... 248 Litz, Robert Domino .......................... 84 Livingston, Arthur Each In His Own Way (trans.) ....................... 178 It Is So! If You Think So (trans.) ....................... 170 Livingston, Robert The Me Nobody Knows ....... 215 Livingston, Robert H. Taking My Tum ............... 226 Lizardi, Joseph Sea Waves Inn ................. 249 Lloyd, Jeremy 'Allo 'Allo ..................... 164 Are You Being Served? ....... 146 Keeping Down with the Joneses ....................... 118 Lloyd, Richard Treasure Island: The Panto .... 302 Lockheart, Paula Song of Singapore ............. 225 Lodato, Victor Motherhouse ..................... 26 Loewenstern, Mark A Doctor's Visit ............... 238 Logan, John Hauptmann ....................... 76 Never the Sinner ................. 80 Of Poems, Youth, and Spring .. 277 Logan, Nedda Harrigan Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Logue, Christopher Friday (trans.) .................... 26 Lomas, Derek Darling, You Were Wonderful! .................. 277 Lombardo, Mathew Tea at Five ........................ 7 London, Belle E. Room on Floor One ........... 274 Lonergan, Kenneth Waverly Gallery ................ .43 Long, Katharine Two Part Harmony ............ 251 Unseen Friends ................ 259 Long, Sumner Arthur Angela ........................... 74 Never Too Late ................ 118 Longbottom, Robert Pageant ........................ 218 LonotT, Jon The Garbage Cantata .......... 206 Lonsdale, Frederick Aren't We All ................. 149 On Approval ..................... 74 Loomis, Paul For Her C-H-E-lld's Sake ..... 151 Pure As the Driven Snow ...... 155 The Wild and Woolly West .... 151 Loos, Anita Gigi .............................. 91

LeFevre, Adam American Saint ................ 313 Le Gallienne, Eva Alice In Wonderland ........... 180 The Strong Are Lonely (trans.) ....................... 190 Lehar, Franz The Merry Widow ............. 215 Leigh, Mike Abigail's Party .................. .43 Ecstasy ........................... 60 Smelling A Rat ................. .42 Leigh, Rowland You Never Know .............. 229 Cole Porter's You Never Know ........................ 229 Leight, Warren Mayor .......................... 299 Lennon, Gary Blackout ....................... 113 Dates and Nuts .................. .44 Lenz, Jakob The Tutor ...................... 190 Lenzi, Paul No More Secrets ............... 216 Leokum, Arkady Enemies ........................ 244 The Friends .................... 125 Friends and Enemies ........... 290 Leonard, Hugh The Au Pair Man ................ 16 Da ................................ 38 A Life .......................... 176 Love in the Title ................. 20 The Mask of Moriarty ......... 166 The Patrick Pearse Motel ........ 90 Pizzazz ......................... 273 Roman Fever .................. 258 Summer ........................ 124 A View From the Obelisk ..... 259 Leonard, Jr., Jim Anatomy of Gray .............. Crow & Weasel ................ The Diviners ................... V and V Only .................. 109 297 137 116

Law, Warner Sight Unseen ................... 143 Lawler, Ray Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ............................ 92 Lawrence, Jerome Checkmate ..................... First Monday In October ...... The Gang's All Here .......... Jabberwock .................... The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail ........................... Only In America ............... 182 176 173 172 187 183

Lawrence, Marshall Joseph .......................... 212 Lawrence, Pat Cut the Ribbons ................ 203 Lawson, Steve A Distant Country Called Youth .. 7 Lazarus, Frank A Day In HollywoodJa Night In the Ukraine ...................... 203 Lazarus, Rowland Cole Porter's You Never Know ........................ 229 Leach, Karoline The Mysterious Mr. Love ........ II Lear, Norman Gloria Poses In the Nude ...... 291 Lee, Edward The Isle of Dogs ............... 285 Will Someone Please Tell Me What's Going On Here? ..... 268 Lee, Eugene East Texas Hot Links ............ 96 Lee, James Career .......................... 184 Lee, Jim Will Someone Please Tell Me What's Going On Here? ..... 268 Lee, Lance Time's Up ....................... 74 Lee, Leslie Between Now and Then ....... 103 Black Eagles ................... 153 Colored People's Time ........ 119 The First Breeze of Summer ... 161 The Rabbit Foot ................. 63

Leontovich, Eugenie Anna K ........................ 142 Le Pelley, Guernsry Nobody Sleeps ................. 275 LeRoy, Warner Between Two Thieves ......... 156 Lesage, Alain-Rene Tucaret ......................... 158 Leslee, Ray A venue X ...................... 200 Lester, Elliott Take My Advice ............... 126 Letts, Tracy Killer Joe ....................... .41 Lester, Gideon The Dispute (trans.) ............ 126

Lim, Stephen Conpersonas ..................... 53 Lima, Rafael El Salvador ...................... 84 Lind, Doug Red, White and Rosie .......... 221 Linderman, Ed Something's Afoot ............. 225 Lindsey, Henry C. Forever Judy ................... 275 Lineberger, James A Sometime Thing ............. 262

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Happy Birthday ................ 188
Lopez, Barry Crow & Weasel ................ 297 Lorca, Federico Garcia The Billy-Club Puppets ........ 182 Blood Wedding ........... 183, 188 The Butterfly's Evil Spell ..... 134 Dona Rosita, the Spinster ...... 186 The House of Bemarda Alba .. 135 The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa In the Garden ........... 91 Play Without A Title .......... 291 The Public ....................... 26 Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife ......................... 186 Yerma ..................... 186, 190 Lorick, Robert Hark! ........................... 208 The Tap Dance Kid ............ 227 Loughrey, Patricia The Inner Circle ............... 265 Louise, Dorothy Frankenstein ................... 286 The Servant of Two Masters (trans.) ....................... 145 Lovegrove, Arthur Clara's On the Curtains! ........ 287 Goodnight Mrs. Puffin ......... 133 Miss Adams Will Be Waiting ... 36 Nasty Things, Murders ......... 273 Lowe, Frank The 13 Clocks ................. 177 Lowe, Rupert Abducting Diana (trans.) ......... 78 Lowell, Robert Phaedra (trans.) ................ 115 Luby, Dianne Words of Women .............. 318 Lucas, Bob Evelyn and the Polka King .... 205 Lucas, Craig Blue Window .................... 86 The Dying Gaul .................. 27 God's Heart ...................... 93 Strangers ....................... 133 Small Tragedy ................... 42 What I Meant Was ............. 313 Lucas, Victor Laughter In the Dark .......... 138 Luce, William Barrymore ........................ 7 The Belle of Amherst ............. 8 Bravo, Caruso! ................... 10 Bronte ............................. 8 James A. Michener's Sayonara ..................... 212 The Last Flapper .................. 8 Lucifer's Child .................... 8 Luckinbill, Laurence Poor Murderer (trans.) ......... 176 Luckman, Claire Trafford Tanzi ................... 67 Ludlam, Charles The Artificial Jungle ............. 50 Big Hotel ...................... 187 Bluebeard ...................... 130 Camille ........................ 152 Caprice ......................... 145 A Christmas Carol ............. 188 Conquest of the Universe Or When Queens Collide .............. 188 Com ........................... 313 Der Ring Got Farblonjet ....... 188 The Enchanted Pig ............. 148 Eunuchs of the Forbidden City .......................... 188 Exquisite Torture ................ 74 Galas ........................... 157

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The Grand Tarot ............... 188 Hot Ice ......................... 188 How To Write A Play ......... 189 Isle of the Hermaphrodites Or the Murdered Minion ............ 152 Jack and the Beanstalk ......... 125 Love's Tangled Web ............. 65 Medea ............................ 50 The Mystery of Irma Vep ........ 11 Reverse Psychology .............. 33 Salarnmbo ...................... 125 Secret Lives of the Sexists ....... 74 Stage Blood ...................... 84 Turds In Hell .................. 190 Utopia .......................... 164 The Ventriloquist's Wife ........ 74
Ludwig, Ken Lend Me A Tenor ............. 100 Moon Over Buffalo .............. 94 Postmortem .................... 100 Shakespeare in Hollywood ..... 145 Sullivan & Gilbert ............. 226 Twentieth Century ............. 218 Luigs, Jim Das Barbecii ................... 203 Lujan, James Graham The Billy-Club Puppets (trans.) ....................... 182 Blood Wedding (trans.) ........ 183 The Butterfly's Evil Spell (trans.) ....................... 134 Dona Rosita, the Spinster (trans.) ....................... 186 The House of Bemarda Alba (trans.) ....................... 135 The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa In the Garden (trans.) ... 91 Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (trans.) ....................... 186 Yerma (trans.) ................. 186 Luke, Peter Bloomsbury .................... 188 Hadrian the Seventh ........... 179 Lummis, Christopher The Wizard of Wobbling Rock ......................... 303 Luscombe, Christopher Star Quality .................... 109 Lynch, Peg Ethel and Albert Comedies .... 314 Neglected Husbands Sewing Club ......................... 287 Lynden, Barre Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ...... 152 Lyons, Eugene Squaring the Circle (trans.) .... 151 Lysaght, Tom Nobody Don't Like yogi ......... 7

MacDonald, Bruce What We Do With It .......... 313 MacDonald, Robert David Soldiers (trans.) ................ 152 MacDonald, Sharman When I Was A Girl. I Used To Scream and Shout ........., .... 32 MacDonald, Stephen Not About Heroes ............... 14 MacDougall, Roger Escapade ....................... 163 To Dorothy, A Son ............ 126 Machado. Eduardo Broken Eggs ..................... 93 The Cook ....................... .41 Machiavelli The Mandrake ................. 1I5 MacIlwraith, Bill The Anniversary ................. 72 MacInnes, Helen Home Is the Hunter ............ 145 Mack, Carol K. After ........................... A.K.A. Marleen ................ Halftime At Halcyon Days ..... Postcards .......................

The Miser (trans.) .............. The Prodigious Snob (trans.) .. The School for Wives (trans.) ....................... Slave of Truth (trans.) ......... Tartuffe (trans.) ................

162 181 108 145 150

Maloney, Brian A Peace Replaced .............. 240 Maloney, Peter Last Chance Texaco ........... 257 Lost and Found ................ 246 Pastoral ........................ 248 Malvin, Arthur Sugar Babies ................... 226 Mamet, David American Buffalo ................ 23 Bobby Gould In Hell .......... 263 The Cherry Orchard (trans.) ... 158 A Collection of Dramatic Sketches and Monologues ............. 317 Dark Pony ..................... 243 Death Defying Acts ............. .41 The Disappearance of the Jews ......................... 243 The Duck Variations ........... 238 Edmond ........................ 131 The Frog Prince ................ 263 Glengarry Glen Ross ............. 76 Goldberg Street ................ 244 An Interview ................... 239 Lakeboat ....................... 10 I A Life In the Theatre ............ 23 The Luftmensch ................ 246 Mr. Happiness ................. 105 Oh, Hell! ........................ .48 The Old Neighborhood ......... .47 The Poet and the Rent ......... 299 Reunion ........................ 144 The Sanctity of Marriage ...... 249 Sexual Perversity In Chicago .... 37 The Shawl ..................... 258 Speed-The-Plow ................. 19 Squirrels ....................... 260 The Three Sisters (trans.) ...... 159 Uncle Vanya (trans.) ........... 123 The Water Engine ............. 105 The Woods ...................... 15 Manchester, Joe Except for Susie Finkel .......... 74 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ......................... 222 Manchester, Melissa I Sent a Letter to My Love .... 210 Mandel, Julie Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine ..................... 203 Mandel, Loring Advise and Consent ............ 164 Mandel, Mel My Old Friends ................ 216 Mandel, Oscar The Kukkurrik Fables .......... 311 Mander, Charles Cup Final ...................... 282 Manheim, Ralph Baal (trans.) ............ 187 The Caucasian Chalk Circle (trans.) ............. 170 Coriolanus (trans.) ............. 188 Don Juan (trans.) .............. 188 Drums In the Night (trans.) .... 188 The Exception and the Rule (trans.) ....................... 289 The Good Person of Setzuan (trans.) ....................... 188 Life of Edward the Second of England (trans.) .............. 189 Life of Galileo (trans.) ......... 189 Mother Courage and Her Children (trans.) ....................... 189

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Mackes, Steve Nymph Errant .................. 217 MacKey, W. Gayer Paddy the Next Best Thing .... 189 Macklin, Peter Someplace Warm .............. 271 MacLaughlin, Wendy Watermelon Boats ............. 313 MacLeish, Archibald The Great American Fourth of July Parade ....................... 163 J.B ............................. 180 MacMillan, Stuart B. The Creeping Crud ............ 284 MacNerland, Jim As Angels Watch .............. 271 Madden, Dano Drop ........................... 255 Madden, Harry Mrs. O'brien Entertains ........ 189 Maeterlink, Maurice The Blue Bird .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 Magee, Daniel Paddy wack ....................... 58 Magee, Rusty The Green Heart ............... 208 Magnuson, James No Snakes in This Grass ...... 261 Maguire, George The Enchanted Mesa ........... 244

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Maher, Romona When the Fire Dies ............ 275 Maibaum, Richard Birthright ...................... 188 Ransom ........................ 190 Majeski, Bill The Tiger and the Pussycat .... 289 Malamuth, Charles Squaring the Circle (trans.)

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Malango, Patricia The Boy Who Changed the World ........................ 162 Malatratt, Stephen The Woman In Black ............ 10 Malleson, Miles. The Imaginary Invalid (trans.) ....................... 147

MacDermot, Gait The Human Comedy ........... 210 The Karl Marx Play ........... 142

INDEX OF AUTHORS The Prophets (trans.) ........... 145 Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man (trans.) ....................... 190 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (trans.) ....................... 190 Tango (trans.) .................. 245 The Tutor (trans.) .............. 190 Visions of Simone Machard (trans.) ....................... 190 Manhoff, Bill The Owl and the Pussycat ....... 16 Mankowitz, Wolf The Bespoke Overcoat ......... 266 The Hebrew Lesson ............ 274 Manktelow, Bettine Proscenophobia .................. 58 Manley, Frank Errand of Mercy ............... 256 The Rain of Terror ............. 249 Mann, Abby Judgment at Nuremberg ....... 111 Mann, Charlotte Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens ....................... 198 Mann, Emily Execution of Justice 165 The Fine Art of Finesse ......... 93 The Triumph of Love ............ 82 Markham, Shelly Love and Shrimp .............. 212 Markoe, Gerald Jay Charlotte Sweet ................ 202 Marks, Walter Golden Rainbow ............... 207 Markus, Tom An Actor Behaves ............. 324 Marlette, Doug Kudzu: A Southern Musical ... 213 Marlow, Christopher D.octor Faustus ................. 171 Marmur, Mildred The Imaginary Invalid (trans.) ....................... 147 Marowitz, Charles And They Put Handcuffs On the Flowers (trans.) .............. 107 Bashville In Love .............. 200 Macbett (trans.) .............. ,. 121 Marquand, John P. Point of No Return ............ 183 Marriott, Anthony Darling Mr. London ........... Home Is Where Your Clothes Are .......................... No Room for Love ............ No Sex Please, We're British .. Shut Your Eyes and Think of England ...................... Uproar In the House ........... 114 115 125 132 120 156 What Mama Don't Know ...... 314 Martin, Maurice Three Questions ................ 240 Martin, Norman L. 70, Girls, 70 ................... 223 Martin, Randall Festival ........................ 205 Martin, Steve Guillotine ...................... 263 Patter for A Floating Lady ..... 253 Picasso At the Lapin Agile .... 111 The Underpants .................. 78 Wasp ........................... 264 Wasp and Other Plays ......... 314 Zig Zag Woman ............... 264 Martinez-Sierra, G. The Cradle Song ............... 162 Martinova, Jitka The Mountain Hotel (trans.) ... 154 Martucci, Vinnie Clue: The Musical ............. 202 Marvin, Blanche Alice in Wonderland ........... Arabian Nights ................. Birthday of the Infanta ......... Cinderella ...................... Crowning Glory ................ The Emperor's New Clothes ... The Firebird ................... The Legend of Scarface and Bluewater .................... The Littlest Tailor ............. Mr. Easter Bunny ......... : .... Peter and the Wolf ............. The Pied Piper ................. Pinocchio ...................... Plays for Children, Vol. 1 ..... Plays for Children, Vol. 2 ..... The Red Dragon ............... Sleeping Beauty ................ Marvin, Mel Back County Crimes ........... Gorky .......................... A History of the American Film ......................... Variety Obit ................... 304 304 304 304 304 304 304 305 304 303 304 304 303 312 312 303 305 135 207 209 228
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The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas ........................ 201 Mastrosimone, William Cat's Paw ........................ 34 Extremities ....................... 34 Nanawatai ...................... 140 Precipice ....................... 313 Shivaree .......................... 51 A Stone Carver .................. 22 A Tantalizing .................. 251 The Woolgatherer ................ 14 Mathes, C. Hodge Ark of Safety .................. 177 Matthews, Seymour Dead Man's Hand ............... 67 Matura, Mustapha Meetings ......................... 24 Maugham, W. Somerset The Circle ....................... 88 The Constant Wife ............. 122 Maurette, Marcelle Anastasia ....................... 157 Mauro, Raf Fitting In ....................... 317 Mawdsley, Simon Audacity ....... : ................ .40 May, Elaine Adult Entertainment ............. 56 Death Defying Acts ............. .41 Hotline ......................... 271 In and Out of the Light ........ 263 Not Enough Rope .............. 262 Power Plays ...................... 28 Taller Than a Dwarf ........... 127 The Way of All Fish ........... 241 May, Frederick Enrico IV (trans.) .............. 157 The Mandrake (trans.) ......... 115 Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 178 Mayakovsky, Vladimir The Bathhouse ................. The Bedbug .................... Mystery-Bouffe ................ Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy ...................... 187 187 189 158

Manners, J. Hartley Peg 0' My Heart .............. 125 Mannheimer, Albert Bees and the Flowers .......... 145 Stalin Allee .................... 162 Manning, Bob What Wasn't Said, What Didn't Happen ...................... 313 Manning, Hilda Her First Party Dress .......... 282 A Young Man's Fancy ........ 281 Manning, Jane The Sloth ........................ 65 Manno, Karen The Miracles of May ........... .46 Overeating, and the Disappearing Nanny Syndrome ............ 240 Service ......................... 276 The Spiritual Pursuit of Cosmetic Surgery ...................... 264 With a Side of Sabotage ....... 235 Mantegna, Joe Bleacher Bums ........ ~ . . . . . . .. 113 Manzi, Warren The Audition ................... 241 The Award ..................... 113 The Award and Other Plays ... 113 Moroccan Travel Guide ........ 257 One for the Money ............ 237 Perfect Crime ................... .42 The Queen of the Parting Shot .......................... 249 Marasco, Robert Child's Play .................... 179 Marcato, Robert W. Lunchtime ..................... 313 Marceau, Felicien Marchant, William The Desk Set .................. 180 Marcin, Max Three Live Ghosts ............. 136 Marc-Michael An Italian Straw Hat ........... 163 It's All Relative .................. 61 Marcus, Frank The Killing of Sister George ..... 36 Marcus, Cindy Ghost of a Chance ............... 60 Marivaux Changes of Heart ................ 79

Marsh, Edward Owen Dinner With the Family (trans.) ....................... 152 Marshall, Brian Blah, Blah, Blah ............... 168 Marshall, Garry Wrong Tum At Lungfish ........ 32 Marshall, Lauren Goldman Whadda 'bout My Legal Rights? ....................... 229 Martin, Allan Langdon Smilin' Through ............... 134 Martin, Bernice Eighteenth Summer ............ 152 Martin, Edouard A Slap In the Farce ............ 274 Trip Abroad .................... 152 Martin, Gilbert Now! ........................... 125 Martin, Hugh Love From Judy ............... 214 Martin, Jane Anton in Show Business ......... 56 The Boy Who Ate the Moon .. 242 Cementville .................... 159 Criminal Hearts .................. 27 Cul-De-Sac ..................... 235 Flags ............................. 92 Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage ........................... 57 Good Boys ...................... .41 Jack and Jill ...................... 9 Keely and Du ................... .45 Making the Call ................ 313 Middle-Aged White Guys ....... 80 Mr. Bundy ....................... 76 Pomp and Circumstance ....... 313 Sez She ......................... .40 Shasta Rue ..................... 237 Summer ........................ 124 Talking With. . . ............. 139 Tattoo .......................... 313 Travellin' Show ................ 237 Vital Signs ................. 99, 318

Marx, Arthur Groucho: A Life In Revue ....... 22 Hello My Name Is ............. 102 The Impossible years .......... 161 Minnie's Boys ................. 215 My Daughter's Rated "X" ...... 71 Marz, Charles The Island of Anyplace ........ 296 Maschwitz, Eric Love From Judy ............... 214 Maskell, Valerie It's All In the Game ........... 279 Maslen, Lawrence It's the Truth (If You Think It Is) (trans.) ....................... 170 Mason, A.E.W. Green Stockings ............... 152 Mason, Judi Ann Livin' Fat ........................ 69 A Star Ain't Nothin' But A Hole In Heaven ......................... 83 Masteroff, Joe The Warm Peninsula ........... 122 70, Girls, 70 ................... 223 Masters, Robert and Lillian Off A Pewter Platter ........... 189 Masters, Robert W. The Window ................... 313 Masterson, Peter The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public ........................ 201

Mayer, Edwin Justus Children of Darkness .......... 135 Fireband ....................... 152 Mayer, Jerry Almost Perfect ................... 65 Aspirin & Elephants ............. 59 Killjoy ........................... 61 A Love Affair ................... .45 Mayer, Paul Avila Six Characters In Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 190 Mayo, Margaret Twin Beds ..................... 126 Mayou, Margaret Cyprienne (Divorcons) ......... 145 Mazza, Rita Norton Parked ......................... 288 McArthur, Charles On the Twentieth Century ..... 218 McBride, Vaughn The New Girl .................. 247 McBrien, Richard Period .......................... 260 McCleery, William Careful Harry .................. A Case for Mason ............. The Family Man ............... Good Housekeeping ........... Good Morning, Miss Dove .... The Guest Cottage ............. Hardesty Park .................. 135 124 135 125 182 125 106

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The Lady Chooses ............. 145 Love Out of Town ............. 125 Parlor Story .................... 136 A Play for Mary ................. 74 McClinton, Marion Isaac Sticks and Bones ................. 90 McConnell, Jean Deck Chairs ...................... 1 I Deck Chairs 2 .................... 11 Deck Chairs III ................ 238 McCormick, Elizabeth The Dragon Who Giggled ..... 304 McCreary, Bill & Margie Three Needles In A Haystack .. 190 McCullers, Carson The Square Root of Wonderful .. 74 McDonald, Alice Black Deeds In Whitehorse .... 105 McDonald, Heather Dream of A Common Language ...................... 60 Faulkner's Bicycle ............... 30 The Rivers and Ravines ....... 159 McDonald, James Ladies First .................... 116 Something's Afoot ............. 225 McDonough, Jerome The Betrothed .................. 261 Transceiver .................... 274 McEnroe, Robert E. Donnybrook! ................... 204 McFadden, Elizabeth Double Door ................... 151 Tidings of Joy ................. 310 McFeely, Stephen Between Two Friends .......... 313 McGillion, Bart Murdermind ...................... 61 McGaughan, Geraldine Afterwards ..................... 270 McGillivray, David Chase Me Up Famdale Avenue, S'il Vous Plait! ..................... 44 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S. Murder Mystery ........................ 51 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of A Christmas Carol ........ 308 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of Macbeth .................. 127 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of the Mikado ............... 205 The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Nook at Famdale Castle .......................... 60 They Came From Mars and Landed Outside Famdale. . . . ....... .43 We Found Love and An Exquisite Set of Porcelain Aboard the S.S. Famdale ...................... .43 McGuinness, Frank Electra (trans.) ................. 128 Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme ......................... 94 Someone Who'll Watch Over Me ............................. 18 McGuire, William Anthony Divorce Question .............. 145 McHugh, Jimmy Sugar Babies ................... 226 Mcintosh, Charles E. The Carpenter .................. 121 Mcintyre, Claire Low Level Panic ................. 20 My Heart's A Suitcase ........... 57 Mcintyre, Dennis Established Price ................. 30 Modigliani ....................... 88 National Anthems ................ 21 Split Second ..................... 65 McKay, Gardner In Order of Appearance ........ 115 Masters of the Sea ............. 174 Me ............................. 199 Sea Marks ....................... 14 Toyer ............................ 13 'McKay, Robert Seeing the Light ............... 313 McKeaney, Grace Chicks ......................... 235 The Coming of Mr. Pine ....... 267 Fits and Starts .................. 267 McKeon, Sister De La Salle The Last of the Leprechauns ... 298 McKibbins, Paul The It Girl ..................... 211 McKinnel, Normal McKinney, Gene A Different Drummer .......... 163 The People In the Glass Paperweight .................. 262 When You're By Yourself, You're Alone ........................ 267 McKinney, John Hijinks! ........................ 209 McKnight, Phil The Appeasement .............. 313 McLaughlin, Ellen A Narrow Bed ................... 50 Tongue of a Bird ............... .48 McLeish, Kenneth Medea (trans.) ................. 127 McLellan, C. M. S. The Shirkers ................... 262 McLeon, Kevin R. Broken Hearts .................. 313 McMahon, Frank Borstal Boy .................... 180 McMaster, Jennifer Off the Rack ................... 313 Processional .................... 313 McNally, Terrence Kiss of the Spider Woman ..... 213 Morning, Noon, and Night ....... 54 Noon ........................... 288 The Rink ....................... 221 The Ritz ....................... 167 McNeal, Claude Courtship of Kevin and Roxanne ..................... 261 McNicholl, BT The It Girl ..................... 211 McNutt, Patterson Pigs ............................ 290 McOwens, Bernard Blue Ghost ..................... 124 Mearns, Robert Now Departing ................. 247 Senior Prom ................... 250 Medcraft, Russell G. Cradle Snatchers ............... 188 The First Dress Suit ........... 270 Medley, Casandra Ma Rose ........................ .46 Meilhac, Henri The Brazilian .................... 51 The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... 207 La Perichole ................... 213 Mardi Gras ..................... 169 Signor Nicodemo ................ 81 Melfi, Leonard Birdbath ........................ 242 Fantasies At the Frick ........... 36 Ferryboat ....................... 244 Halloween ..................... 245 I (cristoforo Colombo) ......... 210 Later Encounters ............... 314 Lena and Louie ................ 246 Lunchtime ..................... 246 Morning, Noon, and Night ....... 54 Mr. Tucker's Taxi ............. 268 Night ............... ; ........... 118 Porno Stars At Home ............ 53 Rusty and Rico ................ 249 The Shirt ....................... 261 Taffy's Taxi ................... 279 Taxi Tales ....................... 69 The Teaser's Taxi .............. 268 Times Square .................. 158 Toddy's Taxi .................. 268 Tripper's Taxi .................. 268 Mellison, Joseph Mary Stuart (trans.) ............ 189 Mellor,Kay A Passionate Woman ........... .47 Meltzer, Daniel The Battling Brinkrnires ....... 242 A Good Time for A Change ... 245 Intermission .................... 313 Movie of the Month ........... 247 The Square Root of Love ........ 15 Waiting for To Go ............. 251 Melville, Alan Dear Charles ................... 152 Melville, Herman Moby Dick-Rehearsed ......... 162 Menchell, Ivan The Cemetery Club .............. 60 Daddy's Home ................. 243 Menken, Alan Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ............... 213 Personals ....................... 219 Weird Romance ................ 228 Mercati, Cynthia Makin' It ....................... 171 Mercer, David After Haggerty ................. 161 Mergrue, Roy Cooper It Pays To Advertise ........... 152 Seven Chances ................. 190 Merriam, Eve And I Ain't Finished yet ........ 36 At Her Age .................... 267 The Club ....................... 202 Dialogue for Lovers ............. 15 Inner City ...................... 211 Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Street Dreams: the Inner City Musical ...................... 226 Merrill, Bob The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood ................. 203 Henry, Sweet Henry ........... 209 Merzer, Glen The Cashier ... :................ 174 Going Nowhere Apace ......... 313 Stopping th~ Desert .............. 84 Metcalf, Henriette Camille ........................ 173 Come Easy ..................... 135 Metcalfe, Stephen Emily .......................... 148 The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers ........................ 129 Pilgrims ........................ 273 Sorrows and Sons .............. 258 Spittin' Image .................. 250 Strange Snow .................... 23

INDEX OF AUTHORS Vikings .......................... 34 Meyers, Carolyn Hot Flashes ....................... 9 Michael, Mary Two Truths and a Lie .......... 314 Michaels, Ian Pocket Classics for Women .... 318 Michaels, Sidney Ben Franklin In Paris .......... 201 Dylan .......................... 181 Goodtime Charley ............. 207 Tchin-Tchin ...................... 74 Tricks of the Trade .............. 13 Miles, Bernard Lock Up Your Daughters ...... 214 Miles, Keith Chekhov ....................... 242 Dostoevsky .................... 278 Milgrin, Sally-Anne And None for the Road ........ 286 Do You Know Where Your Parents Are? ......................... 284 Hold Fast To Dreams .......... 286 [ndifferent Wave Lengths ...... 271 Meeting At the Mets ........... 282 Plays To Play With Everywhere .................. 312 Sitting Duck ................... 284 Millar, Ronald Abelard and Heloise ........... 178 Robert and Elizabeth ........... 221 Millay, Edna St. Vincent Aria Da Capo .................. 276 Miller, Alice D. G. Follow the Dream .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 Sky High ....................... 163 Little Scandal, ................. 151 Miller, Alice Duer The Charm School ............. 188 Miller, Allan The Fox ...... , ................... 74 Miller, Arthur Up From Paradise .............. 228 Miller, Helen Inner City ...................... 211 Street Dreams: the Inner City Musical ...................... 226 Miller, Hepry A Winter Reunion ............. 259 Miller, Jason Nobody Hears A Broken Drum ........................ 189 Miller, Jesse Onionheads ...................... 31 Miller, Jonathan Beyond the Fringe .............. .40 Miller, Robin Dames At Sea .................. 203 Milligan, Jason Actors Write for Actors ........ 317 . . . and the Rain Came To Mayfield ..................... 113 Any Friend of Percy D' Angelino Is A Friend of Mine .............. 19 The Best Waml Beer In Brooklyn ..................... 255 Both Sides of the Story ........ 317 Can't Buy Me Love ........... 255 Clara and the Gambler ......... 238 Class of '77 .................... 238 Cross Country ................. 311 Encore! ........................ 317 Family Values ................. 114 The Genuine Article ........... 239 Getting Even ................... 239 Exodus from McDonaldland ... ' 252 Going Solo ..................... 317

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Mitchel, Norma Post Road ...................... 185 Mitchell, Adrian Fuente Ovejuna (trans.) ........ 183 The Government Inspector (trans.) ....................... 170 Lost In A Mirror (trans.) ....... 148 Mirandolina (trans.) .............. 97 Mitchell, Dodson L. In Times Square ............... 158 Mitchell, Gary As the Beast Sleeps Force of Change ................. 75 Trust ............................. 78 Mitchell, Gordon Archie and the Computer ...... 291 Mitchell, Julian Another Country ............... 130 Henry IV (trans.) .............. 155 Mitchell, Norma Cradle Snatchers ............... 188 Mitzman, Newt Curtain Call for Clifford ....... 156 Father's Been To Mars ........ 144 In 25 Words-Or Death ....... 134 Moe, Elaine American Cantata .............. 199 Moliere The Affected Young Ladies ,... The Bourgeois Gentleman ..... The Doctor In Spite of Himself ................. 141, The Flying Doctor ............. The Forced Marriage .......... Don Juan ....................... George Dandin ................. The Imaginary Invalid ., .. 147, The Jealous Husband .......... The Learned Ladies ............ The Misanthrope ............... The Miser ................. 162, The Prodigious Snob ......... .. The Rehearsal At Versailles ... Scapin .......................... The School for Husbands ...... The School for Wives ......... The Seductive Countess ....... Sgnarelle ....................... The Sisterhood ................. Slave of Truth ................. Tartuffe ................... 150, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed .................... Moll, Elick Seidman and Son Moon, Gerald Corpse! .......................... 34 Moore, Carlyle Stop Thief ..................... 158 Moore, Carroll Beginner's Luck ................. 55 Daddy, Dear Daddy ............ 135 Make A Million ................ 189 Send Me No Flowers .......... 150 Moore, Dudley Beyond the Fringe .............. .40 Good Evening ................... 15 Moore, Edward J. The Sea Horse ................... 17 Moore, Simon Misery ......................... 185 More, Julian Songbook ...................... 225 Morgan, Al Minor Miracle ................. 125 Morgan, Cass Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220 Morgan, Charles Burning Glass .................. 124 Moritz, Albert Into the Fire ................... 211 Morley, John Aladdin ........................ Dick Whittington .............. Goldilocks and the Three Bears ......................... Jack and the Beanstalk ......... Pinocchio ...................... Robinson Crusoe ............... Sin bad the Sailor ............... The Wind In the Willows ...... Morley, Robert A Ghost On Tiptoe Mortimer, Johnnie Situation Comedy ................ 64 When the Cat's Away ........... 65 Morum, William The Late Edwina Black .......... 39 Mosel, Tad All the Way Home ............. 161 Moses, Bryan Patrick This Is How It Is .............. 265 Moss, Warwick Down An Alley Filled With Cats ............................ 14 Moss, Winston A House Is Not A Poolroom .. 291 Moulds, Steve Commodity .................... 314 Mowatt, Anna Cora Fashion ................... 195, 205 Yankee Ingenuity .............. 229 Moyes, Patricia Time Remembered (trans.) ..... 190 Mrozek, Slawomir The Emigrants ................... 14 The Prophets ................... 145 Repeat Performance .............. 74 Tango .......................... 245 Vatzlav ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 126 Mucci, John Another Tortoise, Another Hare ......................... 301 Mueller, Carl The Measures Taken ........... 289 Mueller, Lavonne Killings On the Last Line ...... 135 Mukhamedzhanov, Kaltai Ascent of Mount Fuji .......... 135 Mulcahy, Lance Park .............................. 66 Mullane, Michael A Tale of Two Cities: A Musical Play .......................... 227 Muller, Hans White Horse Inn ............... 229 Mulligan, Robert S. A Time for Madness ........... 155 Mumford, Thad The Visitor ..................... 291 Muro, Rona Bold Girls ........................ 29 Murdoch, Iris The Black Prince ................ 82 Murolo, Giuseppe I (cristoforo Colombo) ......... 210 Murphy, Jimmy Brothers of the Brush ............ 29 Murphy, Lee Catch A Falling Star ............. 60 Murphy, Rolf Sure Fire ....................... 158 Murray, Braham Court In the Act! (trans.) ...... 152 Murray, John The Monkey Walk ............... 16 Murray, William At the Exit (trans.) ............. Bellavita (trans.) ............. :. Chee Chee (trans.) ............. The Doctor's Duty (trans.) ..... The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship (trans.) .................. I'm Dreaming, But Am I? (trans.) ....................... The Imbecile (trans.) ........... The Jar (trans.) .................

Here, There and Everywhere .. 311 His and Hers ................... 317 Instincts ........................ 245 Juris Prudence ................. 271 John's Ring .................... 257 Less Said, the Better ........... 253 Life After tlvis ................ 263 Lullaby ......................... 246 Men In Suits ..................... 18 Money Talks ................... 253 New York Stories ................ 81 Next! ........................... 318 Next Tuesday .................. 243 Nights In Hohokus ............. 247 The Prettiest Girl In Lafayette County ....................... 248 The Quality of Boiled Water .. 277 Rivals .......................... 195 Road Trip ...................... 253 Shoes .......................... 204 Shore Leave ................... 264 Southern Exposures ............ 314 Spit In Yazoo City ............. 272 Strange as It May Seem. . . .. 254 Waiting for Ringo ............. 254 Walking On the Moon ......... 170 Willy Wallace Chats . . . With the Kids ......................... 272
Mills, Hugh Angels In Love ................ 124 Mills, Peter The Taxi Cabaret .............. 227 Milmore, Jane Bathroom Humor .............. 101 Confessions of a Dirty Blonde ... 93 Do Not Disturb .................. 74 Drop Dead! .................... 128 Having A Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her ................. 68 Infidelities! ..................... 115 Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect ........ 97 A Little Quickie ................. 67 Love, Sex and the I.R.S ......... 94 Playing Doctor ................. 103 The Senator Wore Pantyhose .. 129 Silent Laughter ................. 127 "Suitehearts" .................... 52 Till Death Do Us Part ......... 139 What the Bellhop Saw ......... 148 Milne,A. A. Belinda ........................... 74 Ivory Door ..................... 189 The Man In the Bowler Hat ... 281 Mr. Pim Passes By ............ 125 Perfect Alibi ................... 136 Romantic Age ................. 125 To Have the Honor ............ 145 Toad of Toad Hall ............. 303 Truth About Blayds ............ 126 The Ugly Duckling ............ 284 Milner, Ron What the Wine-Sellers Buy .... 177 Milton, Robert The Charm School ............. 188 Minghella, Anthony Made In Bangkok .............. 148 Minieri, Alan Your Life Is A Feature Film '" 272 Minjares, Joe King of the Kosher Grocers ..... 80 Minnelli, Vincent I Remember It Well ........... 324 Minoft', Lee Come Live With Me ............. 91 Mintz, Melanie Leader of the Pack ............. 214 Miranda, John Italian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions .................... 146

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Morrill, Katherine A Distant Bell ................. 157 Morris, Aldyth Carefree Tree .................. 188 Morris, Florence The Great Western Melodrama ................... 293 Morris, Lloyd The Damask Cheek ............ 124 Morris, Peter The Heartbreak Tour ........... 265 Pop Star ........................ 220 Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 Morrison, Anne Jonesy .......................... 158 Pigs ............................ 290 Wild Westcotts ................. 164 Morrit, Fred G. Robert and Elizabeth ........... 221 Morss, Ben Pop Star ........................ 220 Mortimer, John Bermondsey .................... 269 Cat Among the Pigeons (trans.) ....................... 179 A Christmas Carol ............. 309 Collaborators ..................... 38 The Dock Brief ................ 243 A Flea In Her Ear (trans.) ..... 160 The Lady From Maxim's (trans.) ....................... 189 A Little Hotel On the Side (trans.) ....................... 172 Lunch Hour .................... 262 Mill Hill ....................... 269 A Voyage Round My Father ... 178 What Shall We Tell Caroline? .................... 270

Molnar, Ferenc The Guardsman ................ 125 Liliom .......................... 183 The Play's the Thing .......... 124 Monk, Debra Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220 Monks, Chris Trafford Tanzi ................... 67 Monte, Eric Getting Up the Rent ........... 291 Michael Gets Suspended ....... 291 Montgomery, Bruce The Amorous Flea ............. 199 Montgomery, James Nothing But the Truth ......... 144 Montgomery, Robert Subject To Fits: A Response To 178 Dostoevski's the Idiot Montley, Patricia Bible Herstory ................. 184 Not So Grim Fairy Tales ...... 184

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The License (trans.) ............ 283 The Man With the Flower In His Mouth (trans.) ............... 261 The Other Son (trans.) ......... 288 The Rules of the Game (trans.) ....................... 136 Sicilian Limes (trans.) ......... 274 To Clothe the Naked (trans.) .. 126 The Vise (trans.) ............... 269
Murrell, John Waiting for the Parade .......... .49 Muschamp, Thomas The Beheading ................... 54 Myers, Carolyn Girl Talk ......................... 11 Myler, Randal It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues ........................ 211 Myroup, Ronald Death of A Don ................ 114 Neipris, Janet Jeremy and the Thinking Machine ..................... 296 Nelhaus, Gerhard Jungle of Cities (trans.) ........ 189 A Man's A Man (trans.) ....... 189 Nelson, Claris Passing Fancy .................. 248 Nelson, Frank Nature's House ................ 298 Nelson, Jack Remote Control ................ 190 Nelson, Richard Chess .......................... 202 The General from America .... 158 James Joyce's The Dead ....... 212 NemirofT, Robert Les Blancs ..................... 142 Raisin .......................... 221 Neruda, Pablo Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta ...................... 152 Neville-Andrews, John Bullshot Crummond ............. 54 EI Grande De Coca-Cola ...... 204 Nevius, Craig J. Class Dismissed ........ .. .. .... 172 New York State Theatre Institute Vasilisa the Fair ............... 302 Newbound, Chris Morning, Noon and Night ....... 17 The Fisherman and His Wife .. 303 Jack and the Giant ............. 304 Nicholl, Don Archie and the Computer ...... 291 Archie and the Editorial ....... 291 Archie In the Hospital ......... 291 Nichols, Anne Abie's Irish Rose .............. 124 Nichols, David Town Full of Heroes ............. 85 Nichols, Peter Born In the Gardens ............. 36 Chez Nous ....................... 89 Forget-Me-Not Lane ........... 124 Joe Egg .......................... 72 The National Health ........... 178 Passion .......................... .41 Privates On Parade ............. 220 Nichols, Robert Wings Over Europe ............ 190 Nicholson, James Love and Peace, Mary Jo ...... 313 Nicholson, Kenyon Barker .......................... 157 Nicholson, William Shadowlands ................... 116 NicolaefT, Ariadne Do You Tum Somersaults? (trans.) ......................... 15 Niggli, Josephina Sunday Costs Five Pesos ...... 275 Nightengale, Eric Man in the Flying Lawn Chair . .41 Nigro, Don Anima Mundi .................. Animal Salvation .............. Ardy Fafrrsin .................. Armitage ....................... Autumn Leaves ................ Axis Sally ...................... The Babel of Circular Labyrinths ................... The Ballerinas ................. Balloon Rat .................... Banana Man ...................

INDEX OF AUTHORS Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight .................. 252 Beast with Two Backs .......... .44 Bible ........................... 242 Binnorie ........................ 242 Boar's Head ................... 152 The Bohemian Seacoast ....... 238 Boneyard ....................... 235 Border Minstrelsy .............. 235 Broadway Macabre ............ 234 Captain Cook .................. 235 Capone ......................... 234 Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came ........................ 234 Chronicles ..................... 110 Cincinnati ......................... 8 Cinderella Waltz ............... 117 The Circus Animals' Desertion .. 75 Creatures Lurking in the Churchyard .................. 234 Crossing the Bar ............... 262 The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It ......................... 85 The Dark ....................... 193 The Dark Sonnets of the Lady ... 96 Darkness Like a Dream ........ 234 The Daughters of Edward D. Boit .......................... 265 Dead Men's Fingers ........... 236 The Dead Wife ................ 238 The Death of Von Horvath .... 243 Deflores ........................ 281 Deflores and Other Plays ...... 311 Demonology ................... 252 Diogenes the Dog .............. 236 Doctor Faustus ................. 263 Dramatis Personae ............. 136 Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer ..................... 244 Fisher King .................... 146 Frankenstein ................... 286 Full Fathom Five .............. 236 Genesis ........................ 236 The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines ................. 49, 314 Give Us A Kiss and Show Us Your Knickers ..................... 256 Glamorgan ....................... 45 God's Spies .................... 256 Gogol .......................... 253 Golgotha ....................... 236 The Great Gromboolian Plain .. 271 The Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays .................. 311 Great Slave Lake .............. 263 Green Man ..................... 272 Green Man and Other Plays ... 314 Grotesque Lovesongs ........... .45 The Gypsy Woman ............ 128 Haunted ........................ 236 Hieronymus Bosch ............. 272 Horrid Massacre in Boston ...... 93 Horse Farce .................... 236 How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth? .................... 236 Ida Lupino in the Dark ........ 252 The Irish Girl Kissed in the Rain ......................... 235 Joan of Arc in the Autumn .... 235 The King of the Cats .......... 236 Laestrygonians ................... 57 The Lost Girl .................. 253 Loves Labours Wonne ......... 159 Lucia Mad ....................... 61 Lucy and the Mystery of the VineEncrusted Mansion .......... 253 Lurker .......................... 246 MacNaughton's Dowry ........ 263 Madeline Nude In the Rain Perhaps ...................... 236 Madrigals ...................... 236 Major Weir .................... 236 Malefactor's Bloody Register .. 263 Mariner ........................ 171 Mink Ties ...................... 236 Monkey Soup .................... 92 Mooncalf ....................... 234 Narragansett ................... 234 Necropolis ..................... 247 Netherlands .................... 239 Nightmare With Clocks ........ 236 Notes From the Moated Grange ....................... 236 November ...................... 155 Palestrina ...................... 240 Palestrina and Other Plays ..... 312 Paganini ........................ 147 Pendragon ...................... 137 Pendragon Plays ............... 312 Picasso ......................... 237 Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly .... 18 Ragnarok .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 249 Ravenscroft ...................... 62 The Reeves Tale ................. 58 Ringrose the Pirate ............. 249 Robin Hood .................... 172 Seance ......................... 254 Scarecrow ...................... 258 Seascape With Sharks and Dancer ......................... 13 The Sin-Eater .................. 254 Something In the Basement .... 250 Sorceress ......................... 95 Specter ......................... 250 Squirrels ....................... 237 Sudden Acceleration ........... 237 Tainted Justice ................... 95 The Tale of the Johnson Boys ......................... 238 Tales from the Red Rose Inn .. 240 Tales from the Red Rose Inn and Other Plays .................. 312 Things that Go Bump in the Night ........................ 240 The Transylvanian Clockworks .. 82 Tristan ........................... 58 Uncle Clete's Toad ............ 235 Warburton's Cook. Higgs Field ......................... 254 The Weird Sisters .............. 237 Wild Turkeys .................. 234 Winchelsea Dround ............ 237 Within the Ghostly Mansion's Labyrinth . .. ................ 237 Wolfsbane ..................... 235 The Woodman and the Goblins ...................... 266 The Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed ..................... 241
Nilsen, Lise-Lotte Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Nissen, Brian Oscar ............................. 59 Niwa, Tamako Kabuki Plays ................... 291 Kanjincho ...................... 291 The Zen Substitute ............. 291 Nizer, Louis A Case of Libel ................ 162 Noble, Janet Away Alone ..................... 99 Noble, William Blue Denim' ...................... 73 Noll, Robert The Phantom of the Opera-The Play .......................... 219 Nolte, Charles M. Do Not Pass Go ................. 74 Noonan, John }'ord A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking ................ 15 Music from Down the Hill ....... 11 Some Men Need Help ........... 14 Talking Things Over With Chekhov ....................... 13

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Nachtmann, Rita Mama Drama .................... 46 Nacque. Freyda America's Heritage ............ 305 Nagel, Lyda Columbine Cum Laude ........ 280 Nagy, Phyllis The Scarlet Letter ................ 81 Nail, Robert Antic Spring ................... 280 Najimy, Kathy Back To Bacharach and David ........................ 200 Nanus, Susan Orphan Train .................. 218 The Phantom Tollbooth ........ 301 The Survivor ................... 147 Napolin, Leah Yentl ........................... 177 Nash, N. Richard Echoes ........................... 25 Girls of Summer ............... 125 The Rainmaker ................... 85 Nash, Ogden "Progress May Have Been All Right Once-But It Went.On Too Long ......................... 220 Nash, Roderick B. Slivovitz ....................... 250 Nass, Elyse Admit One ..................... 241 The Cat Connection ............ 242 Second Chance .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 250 Nasser, Mark The Mayor's Limo ............. 111 Nassif, Richard Lindsay Honky-Tonk Highway ......... 209 Opal ............................ 218 Nassivera, John Making A Killing ................ 34 The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes ............ 120 Naughton, Bill Alfie ..... : ..................... 180 All In Good Time .............. 143 Nave, Bill Necktie Breakfast .............. 166 Visiting Oliver ................. 265 Neary, Jack First Night ....................... 13

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O'Casey, Sean Bedtime Story ................. 282 Juno and the Paycock .......... 181 Pictures In the Hallway .......... 73 The Plough and the Stars ...... 186 O'Connell, Richard The Billy-Club Puppets (trans.) ....................... 182 Blood Wedding (trans.) ........ 183 The Butterfly's Evil Spell (trans.) ....................... l34 Dona Rosita, the Spinster (trans.) ....................... 186 The House of Bernarda Alba (trans.) ....................... l35 The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa In the Garden (trans.) ... 91 Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (trans.) ....................... 186 Yerma (trans.) ................. 186 O'Connor, Cindy All That He Was ............... 199 O'Connor, Sara All the Tricks But One (trans.) ....................... 109 The Puppetmaster of Lodz (trans.) ......................... 33 Odets, Clifford Golden Boy .................... 206 O'Donnell, John Haloes and Spotlights .......... 188 Rock A Bye Daddy .............. 90 O'Donnell, Mark Goblins Plot To Murder God .. 313 O'Donnell, Sean Because I Wanted To Say ..... 242 Ogilvy, Ian Slight Hangover .................. 58 O'Hara, Geoffrey Little Women .................. 214 Offenbach, Jacques The Grand Duchells of Gerolstein .................... La Perichole ................... Orpheus In the Underworld .... Tales of Hoffmann ............. O'Neal, Charles Three Wishes for Jamie ........ 227 O'Neil, Russell Don't Call Back ................. 89 O'Neill, Eugene Ah, Wilderness ................ 164 Bread and Butter ............... 159 Chris Christophersen ........... 171 Days Without End ............. 114 Dynamo ........................ 124 The First Man .................. 148 Fog ............................. 256 The Fountain ................... 171 A Moon for the Misbegotten .... 38 Movieman ..................... 273 Now I Ask you ................ 194 Recklessness ................... 266 Servitude ....................... 126 Shell Shock .................... 266 The Sniper ..................... 285 Thirst .......................... 156 Warnings ....................... 284 A Wife for A Life ............. 259 Ongley, Byron Brewster's Millions ............ 188 Ono, Yoko New York Rock ............... 216 Oppenheimer, George Here Today .................... 125 Orczy, Baroness The Scarlet Pimpernel ......... 172 Ord, Robert Bleacher Bums ................. 113 Paddy the Next Best Thing .... 189 Orkeny, Istvan Catsplay ........................ 120 Orloff, Rich August Afternoon .............. 313 Orndorff, Alice One Up ........................ 285 Orton, Joe Entertaining Mr. Sloane .......... 39 The Erpingham Camp ......... 286 Funeral Games ................. 274 The Good and Faithful Servant ....................... 280 Loot .............................. 72 The Ruffian On the Stair ...... 261 What the Butler Saw ............. 66 Osborn, Paul Morning's At Seven ........... 117 Point of No Return ............ 183 Tomorrow's Monday ............ 99 The Vinegar Tree .............. 126 Osborne, Ron Wise Women .................... 55 Osborne, John The Father (trans.) ............. 101 The Picture of Dorian Gray .... 169 Plays for England .............. 141 Osborne, Ron Seeing Stars in Dixie ........... .42 Osborne, Will Smoke & Mirrors ............... .47 Osgood, Lawrence Pigeons ........................ 179 Osment, Philip The Dearly Beloved ............. 30 Flesh and Blood ................. 30 What I Did In the Holidays ..... .48 Osten, Susan Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Osterman, Georg Brother Truckers ................ 114 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ....... 114 Ostrovsky, Alexander The Diary of A Scoundrel ..... 185 O'Toole, Austin Clown Face .................... On the Tip of My Tongue ..... Tom Sawyer ................... The Willie Tree ................

The Year Boston Won the Pennant ...................... 158

Noone, Ronan The Lepers of Baile Baiste ...... 94 Norfolk, William The Lights Are Warm and Coloured ..................... 104 Old Quebec .................... 273 Norman, Marsha Last Dance ....................... 27 The ~ecret Garden ............. 222 Trudy Blue ..................... l37 Loving Daniel Boone .......... III Norman, Monty Songbook ...................... 225 Norman, Victoria The Pledge ..................... 248 Norris, Pat Virtue Triumphant

295 299 300 295

Ouellette, Joey The Marriage Counselor ......... 80 Oursler, Fulton Behold This Dreamer .......... 157 The Spider ..................... 213 Overbey, Kellie My Wife's Coat ................ 237 Owen, Bryan The Evil Eye of Gondor ....... 303 Owen, DiJys Percival the Performing Pig .... 305 Owens, Dan Langston Hughes's Little Ham ......................... 213 Owens, Rochelle Belch ........................... Homo .......................... Istanbul ........................ The Karl Marx Play ........... String Game ...................

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North, Clyde In Times Square ............... 158 Remote Control ................ 190 Novak, Jan Audience (trans.) ............... 289 Private View (trans.) ........... 249 Novello, Ivor Fresh Fields .................... 125 King's Rhapsody ............... 213 Ntshona, Winston The Island ....................... 16 Sizwe Banzi Is Dead ............. 15 Nugent, Elliott The Male Animal .............. 154 Nugent, J. C. & Elliott Kempy ......................... 125 The Poor Nut .................. 182 Nusbaum, N. Richard Incognito ....................... 189

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Packard, Steven In With Alma .................. 271 Packard, William Phedre (trans.) ................. 115 Page, Elizabeth Spare Parts ...................... .48 Page, Louise Real Estate ....................... 33 Page, Mann House Afire .................... 145 Pabl, Mel Adventures of Marco Polo ..... 199 Palau, Silvio Martinez The English Only Restaurant .. 138 Palermo, Michele Labor Pains .................... 239 Ladies In Waiting .............. 271 A New York Minute ........... 239 The Other Half ................... 71 Paley, Joel Ruthless! ....................... 222 Pallor, Michael A Christmas Carol ............. 308 Palmer, Tanya Body Talk ..................... 314 Palminteri, Chazz Faithful .......................... 20 Panama, Norman A Talent for Murder ............. 83 Panetta, George Comic Strip .................... 188 Kiss Mama ..................... 125 Paramore, Jr., Edward E. Set A Thief .................... 158 Parente, Paul Two and Twenty ............... 251 Parish, Mitchell Stardust ........................ 225 Park, Phil The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... 207 La Perichole ................... 213 Orpheus In the Underworld .... 218

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Oakes, Michael Greenfield Blooms ............. 281 Remember Me Always ........ 286 Oates, Joyce Carol The Adoption .................. 238 Dr. Magic ...................... 253 Dr. Magic: Six One-Act Plays ......................... 311 The Eclipse .................... 264 Here She Is! ................... 284 Homesick ...................... 239 I Stand Before You N~ed ..... l38 Negative ....................... 283 Procedure ...................... 313 Toneclusters ................... 251 When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me ..... 235 O'Garden, Irene Women on Fire ................... 7 Obey, Andre Noah ........................... 122 Oboler, Arch Night of the Auk ................. 74 O'Brien. Dan The Last Supper Restoration .... .45 O'Brien, Justin Caligula (trans.) ................ 183 O'Brien, Liam The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker ................. 184 O'Brien, Richard Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show ................. 221

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O'Higgins, Harvey Mr. Lazarus ...................... 74 O'Horgan, Tom Inner City ...................... 211 Oldendick, Tom Knock 'em Dead ............... 196 Olive, John Careless Love .................... 13 Clara's Play ...................... 35 Evelyn and the Polka King .... 205 The Voice of the Prairie ......... 19 Oliver, Donald The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer ....................... 201 The Cookie Lady .............. 188 Oliver, Reggie Imaginary Lines .................. 50 Olsher, Laura The Princess and the Vagabond .................... 291 O'Malley, Glyn Concertina's Rainbow ........... 56 O'Malley, Mary Once A Catholic ............... 160 O'Malley, Mike Diverting Devotion .............. 79 Three Years From "Thirty" ..... 81 O'Morrison, Kevin Ladyhouse Blues ................ .49 The Morgan yard ................ 63 A Party for Lovers ............. 103

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Viva Mexico! .................. 228 Parker, Dorothy Ladies of the Corridor ......... 189 Parker, Douglass The Acharnians (trans.) ........ Congresswomen (trans.) ....... Lysistrata (trans.) .............. The Wasps (trans.) ............. 178 188 166 178 Lo and Behold! ................ 109 Love Nest for Three ............. 25 Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen ................... 214 Masquerade ...................... 24 Noah's Animals ................ 217 People! ........................... 24 Progession ....................... 25 Roman Conquest ............... 120 Strategy .......................... 25 That's Not My Father! ........... 24 Patrick, Robert The Arnold Bliss Show ........ 269 Camera Obscura ............... 242 Cornered ....................... 243 The Golden Circle ............. 152 The Haunted Host ............... 17 Help, I Am ..................... 236 I Came To New York To Write ........................... 53 Joyce Dynel .................... 212 Lights. Camera, Action ........ 269 Kennedy's Children .............. 71 One Man, One Woman ........ 247 Play-By-Play ..................... 70 Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks .................... 314 Patterson, Kevin A Most Secret War. . . . . . . . . . .. 10 I Pattinson, James The Other Fellow's Oats ....... 104 Patton, Frances G. Good Morning, Miss Dove .... 182 Paul, Bobby The Rise of David Levinsky ... 221 Paul, Christina Cinders (trans.) ................ 174 Paul, Norman The Visitor ..................... 291 Paxton, Collin Wilcox Papa's Angels .................. 308 Paxton, Glenn First Impressions ............... 206 Payne, Jonathan Slavery ......................... 282 Payne, Lucile Vaughan The Boy Upstairs .............. 270 Peaslee, Richard Cinders ......................... 174 Pelfrey, Matt Drive Angry ................... 313 Jerry Springer Is God .......... 314 Pelonero, Edna Family Names ................. 244 Peltoniemi, Eric Ten November ................. 227 Pember, Ron Jack the Ripper ................ 211 Pendleton, Austin Booth ............................ 93 Perderbach, Haakon Old King Cole ................. 297 Perelman, Sol. The Beauty Part ................ 181 Peretti, Hugo Maggie Flynn .................. 215 Perkins, David The Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand ............. 203 The Selfish Giant .............. 223 Shake, Ripple & Roll .......... 223 Perman, Don Serious Bizness ................ 223 Perret, Gene Comedy Writing Step By Step .......................... 324 Successful Stand-Up Comedy .. 324 Perry, Eleanor David and Lisa ................. 173 Perry, Jack The Indoor Sport ................. 70 The Snow Job .................. 161 The Whole Darn Shooting Match ........................ 181 Pertwee, Michael A Bit Between the Teeth ........ 51 Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! .................. 121 Holiday Snap .................. 100 Look No Hans! .................. 66 Sextet: Six of One ............... 87 Pertwee, Rowland Creaking Chair ................. 152 Pinkstring and Sealing Wax ... 124 Peters, Diane and Frederick Prince Friedrich of Homburg (trans.) ....................... 176 Peterson, Louis Take A Giant Step ............. 186 Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila The Visit ....................... 313 Petz, Chris Heir Today-Gone Tomorrow ................... 103 Peyankov, Yasen Ivanov (trans.) ................. 164 Phelps, Pauline Shavings ....................... 145 Phelps, Winifred Temptation Sordid ............. 274 Phillips, Ethan Penguin Blues ................. 248 Phil potts, Eden Farmer's Wife ................. 188 Picardi, John C. Seven Rabbits on a Pole ......... 58 Sweepers ........................ .43 Pickard, John Dagmar ........................ 188 Pickering, Kenneth Some Canterbury Tales ........ 225 Ulysses ......................... 228 Pielmeier, John Agnes of God .................... 23 Pillow-Talk .................... 313 Pierce, Carl Webster The Laziest Man In the World ........................ 292 Pilch, Michael Night Errant ................... 265 Pillot, Eugene Two Crooks and A Lady ...... 281 Pine, Robert Landscape With Waitress ...... 246 Pinero, Miguel Short Eyes ..................... 190 Pinner, David The Potsdam Quartet ............ 49 Pinter, Harold The Birthday Party ............... 72 Celebration ..................... 286 The Homecoming ........ : ....... 72 Landscape and Silence ........... 25 Night ........................... 118 Pippin, Don The Contrast ................... 203 Fashion ........................ 205 Pirandello, Luigi As You Desire Me ............. 187 At the Exit ..................... 274 Bellavita ....................... 280

INDEX OF AUTHORS Cap and Bells .................. 124 Chee Chee ..................... 261 Diana and Tuda ................ 152 The Doctor's Duty ............. 284 Each In His Own Way ......... 178 Emperor Henry IV ............. 155 Enrico IV ................. 139, 157 The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship ......................... 284 I'm Dreaming, But Am I? ..... 261 Henry IV ....................... 155 The Imbecile ................... 269 It Is So! If You Think So ...... 170 It's the Truth (If You Think It Is) ............................ 170 The Jar ......................... 285 The License .................... 283 Liola ........................... 150 The Man With the Flower In His Mouth ........................ 261 No One Knows How ............ 54 The Rules of the Game ... 132. 136 Six Characters In Search of An Author .................. 178, 190 To Clothe the Naked ........... 126 To Find Oneself ............... 158 Tonight We Improvise ......... 179 The Vise ....................... 269 When One Is Somebody ....... 190 The Wives' Friend ............. 184 Piscator, Erwin An American Tragedy ......... 187 Plautus The Braggart Soldier ..... . . . . .. 122 The Brothers Menaechmus ..... 135 The Haunted House ............ 152 Playfair, Nigel R. U. R ........................ 185 Poiret, Jean La Cage Aux Folies ........... 213 Polak, Richard Steak Night .................... 272 PoliakotT, Stephen American Days .................. 68 Breaking the Silence ............. 85 City Sugar ....................... 89 Hitting Town .................. 260 Pollock, Channing The Fool ....................... 188 Polner, Jerry Weatherman ..................... 67 Pomerance, Beruard . The Elephant Man ............. 102 Pomerance, Susan For Women: Monologues They Haven't Heard ............... 319 For Women: More Monologues They Haven't Heard ......... 319 Love and Stuff ................. 317 Modem Scenes for Women .... 319 Monologues for Teenage Girls ......................... 317 Monologues for Women ....... 317 More Monologues for Teenage Girls ......................... 317 Pocket Monologues for Women ...................... 318 Pocket Monologues: Working-Class Monologues for Women ..... 318 Teen Talk ...................... 320 Pomerantz, Edward Only A Game .................. 301 Pomeranz, David Under the Bridge .............. 198 Pontillo, Larry J. Musical Chairs ................. 216 Ponturo, Don Town Full of Heroes ............. 85

Parker, Ken There's Always A Murder ..... 133 Parker, Louis N. A Minuet ...................... 262 The Monkey'S Paw ............ 292 Parker, Michael The Amorous Ambassador ....... 95 Hotbed Hotel .................. 110 The Lone Star Love Potion ...... 80 The Sensuous Senator ......... 112 There's a Burglar in My Bed .... 78 Who's in Bed with the Butler ........................ 113 Whose Wives Are They Anyway? ....................... 99 Parker, Neil A Tale of Two Cities: A Musical Play .......................... 227 Parker, Stewart Catchpenny Twist ................ 88 Spokesong ..................... 225 Parkhirst, Douglass Early Frost ..................... Safe Harbor .................... Two's A Crowd ................ This Way To Heaven .......... Parnell, Peter Romance Language Sorrows of Stephen Parr, Andrew Bad Day At Black Frog Creek ........................ Dazzle ......................... The Dracula Spectacula ........ Rockasocka .................... 273 280 190 270 167 119

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Parry-Davis, Jane Crossways ..................... 282 Pascal, Julia Crossing Jerusalem .............. 55 Paterson, David L. The Blonde .................... 237 The Blonde and Other Distractions .................. 311 Closure ......................... 252 Final Approach ................ 237 The Gate ....................... 238 One Last Time ................. 237 Thanksgetting .................. 238 Chutes ......................... 238 Dungeons ........................ 19 Finger Painting In A Murphy Bed ............................ 20 The Great Gilly Hopkins ...... 207 The King's Horses ............. 153 Pieces of the Sky ............... .42 Shades of Autumn ............. 240 Stone the Crows ................. 19 Paterson, Katherine Bridge To Terabithia ........... 298 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks ........................ 226 Patrick, John Aptitude .......................... 24 Boredom ......................... 24 Christmas Spirit .................. 24 Co-Incidence ................... 260 Decisions ........................ 25 The Divorce ................... 260 Fettucine ......................... 24 The Gift ........................ 259 It's A Dog's Life ................ 26

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Protter, Nancy Follow the Gleam .............. 188 Prouse, Derek The Future Is In Eggs (trans.) ....................... The Leader (trans.) .... : ....... Rhinoceros (trans.) ............. Turnabout (trans.) .............. 6 Rms Riv Vu ................. 107 Randall, John Reserve Two for Murder ...... 193 RandlophWright, Charles Blue .............................. 29 Randolph, Clemence Rain ............................ 152 Rank, Hugh and Ellen The Visions of Simone Machard (trans.) ....................... 173 Raphael, Frederick Medea (trans.) ................. 127 Raphael, John B. Peter Ibbetson .................. 189 Raphaelson, Samson Accent On Youth .............. 124 The Jazz Singer ................ 189 Rath, Frederick First Night ..................... 188 Rattigan, Terence The Browning Version ......... 282 Cause Celebre .................. 176 French Without Tears .......... 135 A Harlequinade ................ 289 In Praise of Love ................ 38 Ross ........................ , ... 135 Separate Tables ................ 144 While the Sun Shines .......... 126 o Mistress Mine ............... 125 Rau, Santha Rama A Passage To India ............ 189 Raucher, Herman Harold ......................... 123 Ravold, John Little Women ............. 192, 214 Ray, Connie Sanders Family Christmas ..... 222 Smoke On the Mountain ....... 224 Rayburn, Joyce Cat In the Bag ................... 55 Out On A Limb .................. 53 Rayfield, Gordon Bitter Friends .................. 128 Reach, James Bear Witness ................... Danger-Girls Working! ....... David and Lisa . . . .. . . . . . . .. . ... Dear Phoebe ................... Dragnet ........................ For the Defense ................ Innocent One .................. Leading Lady .................. Mr. Snoop Is Murdered ........ Murder Over Miami ........... My Friend Irma ................ Now That April's Here ........ Patterns ........................ Quick Tricks ................... We're All Guilty ............... Why Not Join the Giraffes? .... Women In White .............. You, the Jury .................. 121 140 173 157 135 188 125 158 283 145 152 281 158 316 184 145 140 184 Spike Heels ...................... 32 Sunday on the Rocks ............ 32 View of the Dome ............... 78 Redgrave, Lynn Shakespeare for My Father ....... 7 Redgrave, Michael The Aspern Papers ............... 73 Redick, Charlene Autumn Elegy ................... 29 Rednour, Harold P. The Oblong Circle ............. 152 Redwine, Skip Frank Merriwell ..... , .......... 206 Reed, Henry The Queen and the Rebels ..... 145 Reed, Janet Making Book ................... .46 Reed, Mark Petticoat Fever ................. 136 Skyrocket ...................... 145 Yes, My Darling Daughter ..... 126 Reedy, M. Kilburg . Astronaut ...................... 234 Fairy Tale Romance ........... 234 Second Lady ...................... 7 Second Lady ahd Other Ladies ... 7 Spin ............................ 186 Rees, Roger Double Double ................... 13 Reeves, Theodore Wedding Breakfast ............... 75 Regan, Sylvia The Fifth Season ............... 157 Rego, Luis I Love My Wife ............... 210 Reich, John Enrico IV (trans.) .............. 157 Reichel, Cara The Taxi Cabaret .............. 227 Reid, Graham Remembrance .................... 62 Reimer, Earl Joseph .......................... 212 Reiner, Carl Something Different ........... 143 Reinfrank, Arno The Days of the Commune (trans.) ....................... 171 Reingold, Jacquelyn Freeze Tag ..................... 244 Reiser, Dave And On the Sixth Day . . ..... Coping ......................... Hope for the Best .............. Jekyll Hydes Again! ........... Love With A Twist ............ My Husband the Wife ......... "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!" .................... Operetta ........................ The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera ........................ Slow Down, Sweet Chariot .... What A Spot! .................. Woman Overboard .............
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Pontzon, Peter Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish ...................... 302 Save the Human ............... 297 Poore, Dennis American Cantata .............. 199 Popplewell, Jack Busybody ...................... 106 Porras, Thomas The Wildest!!! ................. 198 Porter, Cole Cole ............................ Cole Porter's You Never Know ........................ Hot 'n Cole .................... Nymph Errant .................. You Never Know .............. 203 229 209 217 229

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Provo, Frank Dagmar ........................ 188 Pulman, Jack The Happy Apple .............. 125 Pulver, John W. A Time for Madness ........... 155 Purdy, Richard A. Across the Street ............... 135 PurdyGordon, Carolyn EIR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 Purscell, Phyllis Separate Ceremonies ............. 74

Porter, H. T. Sap Runs High ................. 163 Portnoy, Gary Preppies ........................ 220 Prima, Luanne The Wildest!!! ................. 198 Prima, Toni Elizabeth The Wildest!!! ................. 198 Poskitt, Kjartan Nell's Belles ................... 216 Sammy's Magic Garden ....... 222 Post, W.H. The Vagabond King ........... 228 Potter, Dennis Blue Remembered Hills ......... 75 Brimstone and Treacle ........... 29 Poulton, Mike Uncle Vanya (trans.) 123

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Quinn, James Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? .......... 204 Quinn, Michael Businessman's Lunch .......... 273 Quintero, Joaquin Alvarez A Sunny Morning .............. 270 Women Have Their Way ...... 164 Quintero, Serafina A Sunny Morning .............. 270 Quinton, Everett The Hunchback of Notre Dame ........................ 210 A Tale of Two Cities ............. 8 William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream .. 170

Pound, Ezra Elektra (trans.) ...... , .......... 114 Povod, Reinaldo Cuba and His Teddy Bear ....... 82 La Puta Vida (this Bitch of A Life) ........................... 84 Nijinsky Choked His Chicken ...................... 247 Poppa Dio! ..................... 248 South of Tomorrow ............ 259 Powell, Preston Why Teachers Go Nuts ........ 294 Powers, John R. Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? .......... 204 Powers, Vern High Window .................. 275 Pratt, William W. Ten Nights In A Bar-Room .... 194 Press, Stephen M. The Last Carnival .............. 295 The Spider and the Bee ........ 295 Price, Lindsay Paper Thin ..................... 314 Price, Stanley Come Live With Me ............. 91 Why Me? ........................ 67 Priestley, J. B. Dangerous Comer .............. 135 I Have Been Here Before ........ 73 Laburnum Grove ............... 125 The Linden Tree ............... 135 Mystery At Greenfingers ...... 134 Time and the Conways 134 When We Are Married 162 Prince, Harold Grandchild of Kings ........... 165 Prokofiev, Sergei The Love of Three Oranges ... 169

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Rabe, David The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel ..................... 186 The Black Monk ............... 110 Goose and Tomtom ............ 117 Hurlyburly ....................... 80 In the Boom Boom Room ..... 107 The Orphan .................... 155 Sticks and Bones ................. 90 Streamers ...................... 140 Those the River Keeps ........... 28 Racina, Thorn Allison Wonderland ............ 199 The Marvelous Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes ............ 215 Racine, Jean Phaedra ........................ 115 Phedre ......................... 115 Rael, Elsa Beauty and the Beast .......... 200 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ....................... 225 Rafiel, David P.S. 193 .......................... 74 Rame, Franca The Open Couple .............. 247 An Ordinary Day .............. 257 Ramsey, Erik Acetylene ...................... 254 Randall, Bob David's Mother .................. 96

203 209 212 214 216

217 177

Reakes, Paul Little Jack Homer .............. 301 Reardon, Dennis J. The Happiness Cage ........... 158 Reardon, Dennis Subterranean Homesick Blues Again ........................ 313 Rebeck, Theresa Bad Dates ......................... 7 The Butterfly Collection ......... 56 Does This Woman Have a Name? ....................... 255 The Family of Mann ............. 79 Loose Knit ....................... 80 Omnium Gatherum .............. 94

219 224 229 229

Reiss, Jay Awkward Silence .............. 254 Remmes, Dan Three Tables ................... 282 Repicci, William Swingtime Canteen ............ 226 Resier, Dave The Picture of Dorian Gray .... 219 The Saloonkeeper's Daughter .. 222

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INDEX OF AUTHORS Rigby, Harry Sugar Babies ................... 226 Riggs, Lynn Big Lake ....................... Green Grow the Lilacs ......... Hang On To Love ............. Roadside ....................... Russet Mantle .................. Robinson, Giovanna Murder for Rent ................. 97 Robinson, Lennox The Far Off Hills .............. 134 Is Life Worth Living? ......... 158 Whiteheaded Boy .............. 152 Robinson, Noel Glasstown ........................ 89 Robinson, R. T. The Cover of Life ............... 79 Robison, David V. Promenade, All! ................. 38 Roche, Margaret Mama Drama ................... .46 Roche, Suzzy Mama Drama ................... .46 Roche, Terre Mama Drama ................... .46 Rockwell, Eric Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) .................... 198 Roddy, Ruth Mae Kid's Stuff ..................... Minute Monologues for Kids .. More Monologues for Kids .... Scenes for Kids ................ Rose, Philip Christmas Is Comin' Uptown .. 202 Purhe .......................... 220 Shenandoah .................... 223 Rosen, Lynn Nighthawks ...................... 94 Rosen, Sheldon Ned and Jack .................... 36 Rosen, Sybil Sis Boom Baa .................. 278 Rosenberg, Edgar Fun City ....................... 145 Rosenfeld, Seth Zvi The Flatted Fifth ................. 30 Servy -N- Bernice 4ever ......... 33 Rosenfield, BiDy Bridal Terrorism ............... 277 Rosenstock, Milton "Progress May Have Been All Right Once--But It Went On Too Long ......................... 220 Rosenthal, Amy Sitting Pretty ................... 127 Ross, Brad Little By Little ................. 214 Ross, Charles Dead Ringer ..................... 84 Ross, Dave A Tale of Two Cities: A Musical Play .......................... 227 Ross, George Calculated Risk ................ 163 Difference of Opinion ......... 188 Guilty Party .................... 152 Ross, Judith An Almost Perfect Person ....... 24 Ross, Michael Gloria Poses In the Nude ...... 291 Mike's Appendix .............. 291 Ross, Ralph Archie In the Hospital ......... 291 Ross, Stuart Radiant Baby Starmites ....................... 226 Rostand, Edmond Cyrano De Bergerac ........... 195 The Romancers ................ 293 Roth, Ari Born Guilty ...................... 78 Life in Refusal ................. III Oh, the Innocents ................ 81 Rothenberg, Jerome The Deputy .................... 188 Rotter, Fritz Letters To Lucerne ............. 158 Roussin, Andre Nina .............................. 74 Rouverol, Aurania Andy Hardy .................... Growing Pains ................. Skidding ....................... Young April ...................

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Reynaud-Fourton, Alain Turnabout ...................... 10 1 Reynolds, Jean Physical Therapy ............... 248 Reynolds, Jonathan Geniuses ......................... 67 Reynolds, Lois Nellie Mcnab .................. 280 Reynolds, Tim Peace ........................... 313 Rhodes, Jennifer The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Rhodes, Norman L. Something To Eat .............. 250 Riashentev, Uri Strider .......................... 226 Ribalow, Meir Z. Raindance ........................ 67 Shrunken Heads .................. 88 Sundance ....................... 276 Ribman, Ronald Cold Storage ..................... 24 Harry, Noon and Night ........ 125 The Journey of the Fifth Horse ........................ 179 The Poison Tree ............... 155 Rice, Elmer The Adding Machine .......... Counsellor-at-Law ............. The Left Bank ................. Not for Children ............... Skyscraper ..................... Street Scene .................... The Subway ...................

135 163 163 136 145

Riley, Lawrence Personal Appearance ........... 136 Rinehart, Mary Roberts The Bat ........................ 132 Ringwood, Gwen Pharis Still Stands the House ......... 270 Rintels, David W. Clarence Darrow .................. 8 Rivera, Jose The House of Ramon Iglesia .... 87 187 ............................. 282 Tape .............................. 8 Rivers, Joan Fun City ....................... 145 Rix, Brian A Bit Between the Teeth ........ 51 Rizzo, JetT Wanna Play?! .................. 228 Robbins, Norman Aladdin ........................ 298 Cinderella ...................... 299 Dick Whittington .............. 300 The Grand Old Duke of york ......................... 300 Hickory Dickory Dock ......... 302 Humpty Dumpty ............... 300 The Late Mrs. Early ........... 105 Nightmare ........................ 74 Rumpelstiltskin ................ 300 Slaughterhouse ................. 129 Sing A Song of Sixpence ...... 302 Tiptoe Through the Tombstones .................. 128 Tom, the Piper's Son .......... 302 A Tomb With A View ......... 131 Wedding of the Year .......... 131 The Wonderful Story of Mother Goose ........................ 299 Roberts, Ben Portrait In Black ............... 125 Roberts, Cyril Second Best Bed ............... 158 Roberts, Michael Golf: The Musical ............. 207 Roberts, Rhoda Show Me Where the Good Times Are .......................... 224 Roberts, Walter Charles Sergeant Was A Lady ......... 190 Robertson, H.W. Jr. Mina Tonight! ................. 111 Robertson, Lanie Back County Crimes ........... 135 The Insanity of Mary Girard ..... 76 Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill ......................... 213 Nasty Little Secrets .............. 35 Robertson, WiD Knock 'em Dead ............... 196 Robins, Herb The Treasure of the Sierra Madre .......................... 95 Robinson, Barbara The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ......................... 308 Robinson, Charles Knox Murder for Rent ................. 97

317 317 317 318

Roderer, Emily Scheherazade .................. 314 Roderick, Ray A Christmas Survival Guide ... 202 The Prince and the Pauper ..... 220 Rodgers, Mary The Mad Show ................ 214 Roerick, William The Happiest Years ............ 125 RotTey, Jack Hostile Witness ................ 188 Rogers, David By Strouse ... ; ................. 201 The Old Lady Shows Her Meda1s ....................... 281 A Pink Party Dress ............ 219 Roggenkamp, Karen No Time Like the Present ....... 63 RolotT, Michael The Ride Across Lake Constance (trans.) ....................... 125 Romains, Jules Knock .......................... 238 Roman, Lawrence Alone Together .................. 67 Alone Together Again .......... .40 Make Me a Match .............. .40 P.S., I Love you ............... 125 Romero, Elaine Day of Our Dead .............. 314 If Susan Smith Could Talk .... 313 Ronell, Ann Oh! Susanna ................... 218 Rooney, Tom Flaming Idiots ................... 93 Flip .............................. 96 Roos, Audrey and William Speaking of Murder . . . . . . . . . . .. 109 Roos, William Boy Wanted ................... 188 Roose-Evans, James 84 Charing Cross Road ........ 119 Root, Lynn Milky Way ..................... 125 Rose, Edward Cappy Ricks ................... 124 Rose, L. Arthur Me and My Girl ............... 215

186 188 189 152 224 186 136

Rice, Howard Tradition 1a .................... 237 Rice, Michael The Good Woman of Setzuan ...................... 207 Rice, Tim Chess .......................... 202 Richard, Mae Cut the Ribbons ................ 203 Richards, Gary Dividends ........................ 20 Scrambled Eggs .................. 17 Second Summer .................. 42 Richardson, Anna Steese Big-Hearted Herbert Richardson, Howard Ark of Safety .................. Dark of the Moon ........ . . . . .. Evening Star ................... A Thread of Scarlet ............

157 177 172 149 149

Riche, Robert Malcolm X: Message From the Grass Roots .................. 166 Message From the Grass Roots ........................ 166 Richmond, David The Passion of Dracula ........ 120 Richmond, Michael Open Secret .................... 283 Ridley, Arnold The Ghost Train ............... 144 Rietty, Robert The Rules of the Game (trans.) ....................... 132 Riewerts, J. P. Blue Ghost ..................... 124 Rifkin, Leo Maude's Reunion .............. 291

187 188 136 190

Rouverol, WiDiam Spence Young April ................... 190 Rowe, Dana P. Zombie Prom .................. 229 Rowlinson, William Schweyk In the Second World War (trans.) ....................... 173 Rozewicz, Tadeusz Card Index .................... The Funny Old Man ........... Gone Out ...................... The Old Woman Broods .......

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Ryerson, Florence The Divine Flora ............... Double Date ................... Ever Since Eve ................ Follow the Dream .. . . . . . . . . . . .. June Mad ...................... Little Scandal .................. Oh! Susanna ................... Sky High ....................... Spring Green ................... Star Song ...................... Strange Bedfellows ............ Sugar and Spice ................

The Witnesses ................... 90

Rozovsky, Mark Strider .......................... 226 Rubens, Bernice Hijack ............................ 45 Rubin, Daniel N. Riddle Me This ................ 163 Rubin, Ira and Brady My Husband the Wife ......... 216 Rubin, Theodore Isaac David and Lisa ................. 173 Ruby, Harry Animal Crackers ............... 200 Rudall, Nicholas Antigone (trans.) ............... 136 The Bacchae (trans.) ............. 95 Doctor Faustus (trans.) ......... 171 A Doll's House (trans) ......... 124 Electra (trans.) ................... 79 Ghosts (trans.) ................... 51 lphigenia Among the Taurians (trans.) ......................... 61 Iphigenia In Aulis (trans.) ....... 97 Lysistrata (trans.) .............. 166 The Master Builder (trans.) ...... 80 Medea (trans.) ................. 126 Oedipus at Colonus Oedipus the King .............. 136 Paradise Hotel (trans.) ......... 182 The Trojan Women .............. 95 Rudd, Enid Marriage Gambol ................ 74 Rudkin, David Ashes ............................ 37 Rue, Gary Painting It Red ................. 218 Ruffini, Gene A Grave Encounter ............ 245 Ruivivar, Anthony Safe ............................ 177 Runbeck, Margaret Lee Pink Magic .................... 180 Rupert, Michael Mail ............................ 238 Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down ........................ 227 Ruskin, Sheila The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See ........................... 301 Russ, Adryan Inside Out ...................... 211 Russell, Bill Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens .............. 205 Pageant ........................ 218 Russell, Charlie L. Five On the Black Hand Side .. 179 Russell, Willy Blood Brothers ................. 201 Breezeblock Park .............. 117 Educating Rita ................... 14 I Read the News Today ........ 276 One for the Road .............. 286 Shirley Valentine ................. 7 Stags and Hens ................ 139 Rustan, John The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater .................. 287 Murder Me Once .............. 281 The Tangled Snarl ............. 273 Thataway Jack ................. 285 Ryan, James Dennis ......................... 118 Not Showing ..................... 33 Ryan, Miriam All About Love .................. 74

188 282 145 188 158 151 218 163 190 310 185 275

For Love or Monkey ............ .45 Let's Get a Divorce .. ,. ',' .152, 158
Sargent, Michael When Esther Saw the Light .... 288 Saroyan, William The Beautiful People .......... 123 The Cave Dwellers ............ 162 Decent Birth, Happy Funereal ..................... 187 Don't Go Away Mad .......... 145 Get Away Old Man,." ...... 145 * Hello, Out There ............... 275 The Hungerers ................. 275 Jim Dandy ..................... 189 Love's Old Sweet Song ........ 189 My Heart's In the Highlands .. 189 Sam Ego's House .............. 190 Slaughter of the Innocents ..... 190 Subway Circus ................. 291 The Time of Your Life 173 Sartre, Jean-Paul The Trojan Women ............ 136 The Flies ....................... 163 No Exit ...... , .. , ...... , ......... 39 Satie, Stephanie Refugees ., ............ , ....... , 235 SatulotT, Bob Variety Obit ................... 228 Sauerlander, Wolfgang Life of Galileo (trans.) ......... 189 The Tutor (trans.) .............. 190 Saunders, James After Liverpool ................ 274 Games ........................... 91 Redevelopment (trans.) ........ 159 Saunders, Lilian The Good Hope (trans.) ........ 188 Saunders, Nicholas Zoya's Apartment (trans.) ...... 116 Saussy, Tupper The War Minister .............. 126 Savage, Tom Musical Chairs ................. 216 Savior, Alfred He ................................ 78 Sawyer, Ann V. Snow Stars ... ; ................. 250 Sawyer, Michael Best Friend ...................... 74 Naomi Court .............. , ..... .47 Scantlin, Ray Stand By Your Beds, Boys ...... 89 Schafer, Milton Drat! the Cat! .................. 204 Schalchlin, Steven The Last Session ............... 213 A Wonderful Worldful of Christmas .................... 310 Schapiro, Herb The Me Nobody Knows ....... 215 Schary, Dore The Devil's Advocate .......... 143 Schave, Ellsworth A Texas Romance ............... 21 Schenkar, Joan Burning Desires ................ 126 Cabin Fever ...................... 23 Fulfilling Koch's Postulate ...... 30 The Last of Hitler .............. 128 Signs of Life ................... 104 The Universal Wolf .............. 32 Schiller, Bob The Convention ................ 291 Schimmel, John Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220

Schisgal, Murray Closet Madness ................ 243 A Need for Brussels Sprouts ... 247 A Need for Less Expertise ..... 247 The Rabbi and the Toyota Dealer ....................... , 249 Summer Romance ............. 267 Twice Around the Park .......... 14 Schlarb, Carla Two for the Road .............. 284 Schlatter, George Rowan and Martin's LaughIn ............................ 178 Schlitt, Robert The Egg (trans.) ............... 188 Schmidt, Ed Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting ..... 61 Schmitt, James Lazaretti, Or the Saber-Toothed Tiger (trans.) ................. 125 Schneir, Walter and Miriam Inquest ......................... 189 Schnitzler, Arthur Dalliance ....................... 130 La Ronde ...................... 134 Undiscovered Country ......... 175 Schoolman, Susan The Stars Within ................. 32 Schottenfeld, Barbara I Can't Keep Running In Place ......................... 210 Schotter, Richard Taking Stock ..................... 22 Schrank, Joseph Page Miss Glory ............... 189 Schreiber, William Burgoo! ........................ 234 Schrier, Daniel Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Schulberg, Budd The Disenchanted .............. 163 On the Waterfront ............. 324 Schulman, Arnold Golden Rainbow ............... 207 A Hole In the Head ............ 158 Schwab, Laurence Good News .................... 207 Schwab, Steven Delta Triangle .................. 278 Schwartz, Arthur The High Life .................. 209 Schwartz, Lloyd J. The Nearlyweds .................. 74 Schwartz, Steven Personals ....................... 219 Scott, Allan Joy To the World .............. 189 Scott, Deborah Cowles Actors Write for Actors ........ 317 Encore! ........................ 317 Scott, Garet A Town Called Shame ......... 148 Scott, George Goodbye Again ................ 152 Scott, Les The Frankenstein Monster Show ........................ 206 Sears, Joe Eddie Lee, Eddie Lee .......... 256 Greater Tuna ...................... 9 A Tuna Christmas ............. 308 Sears, Leo W. Borderline Crazies ............... 56 Sorry! Wrong Chimney! ......... 83

Ryskind, Morrie Animal Crackers ............... 200 Of Thee I Sing ................. 217 Ryton, Royce The Anastasia File ............... 33 The Unvarnished Truth ........ 105

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Sabey, Paul First Time ...................... 206 Sachs, Norman My Old Friends ................ 216 Sackett, Pamela Two Minutes To Shine ........ Two Minutes To Shine, Book II ............................. Two Minutes To Shine, Book III ............................ Two Minutes To Shine, Book IV ............................

318 318 318 318

Sackler, Howard The Great White Hope ......... 142 Safirstsein, E.J. Waterworks .................... 265 Sagal, Peter Game Theory .................. 314 Sager, Carol Bayer They're Playing Our Song ..... 227 Sahlins, Bernard The Barber of Seville (trans.) .... 95 The Bourgeois Gentleman ..... 175 The Marriage of Figaro (trans.) ....................... 159 The Mysteries: Creation ....... 306 The Mysteries: the Passion .... 306 The Prince of Homburg (trans.) ....................... 176 The Shoemaker's Holiday (adapt.) ...................... 164 Sale, Virigina Americana ..................... 318 Life of the Party ............... 183 Sams, Jeremy Antigone (trans.) ............... 136 The Rehearsal (trans.) .......... 125 Sandler, Susan Crossing Delancey .............. .41 Sandrich, Jr., Mark Ben Franklin In Paris .......... 201 Sandrow, Nahma Kuni-Leml ..................... 213 Sands, Leslie Checkmate ...................... .48 'Sanford, John American Cantata .............. 199 Sanford, Karen Ophelia ........................ 248 Sapinsley, Alvin C1erambard (trans.) ............ 160 Sardou, Victorien Cyprienne (Divorcons) ......... 145

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Star On the Door ................ 62 Seaton, George But Not Goodbye .............. 135 Sebastian Pippi Longstocking ............ 219 Seeger, Ruth Crawford Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Seff, Richard Paris Is Out! ................... 107 Shine! .......................... 224 Segal, Erich The Braggart Soldier (trans.) .. 122 The Brothers Menaechmus (trans.) ....................... 135 The Haunted House (trans.) .... 152 Segal, Gilles All the Tricks But One ........ 109 The Puppetmaster of Lodz ....... 33 Seger, Linda Making A Good Script Great .. 324 Seghers, Anna The Trial of Joan of Ar~ At Rouen 1431 (trans.) ................. 190 Seiler, Conrad Let's Go To the Moon ......... 299 Selver, Paul R. U. R ........................ 185 Semarano, .'rank TIle Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater .................. 287 Murder Me Once .............. 281 The Tangled Snarl ............. 273 Thataway Jack ................. 285 Semple, Jr., Lorenzo Golden Fleecing ............... 156 Tonight In Samarkand ......... 152 Sendak, Maurice Really Rosie . . ................ 221 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Thyestes ....................... 137 Sergent, Shirley Father's Prize Poland China ..... 20 Serling, Rod Patterns ........................ 158 Requiem for A Heavyweight .. 160 Setzer, Johanna Faust (trans.) ................... Love and Intrigue (trans.) ...... Stella (trans.) ................... The Virgin of Orleans (trans.) ....................... 188 135 120 176 Equus .......................... 117 Five Finger Exercise ............. 54 The Gift of the Gorgon ........ 115 Lettice and Lovage .............. 46 The Private Ear ................ 261 The Public Eye .................. 26 The Royal Hunt of the Sun .... 180 White Liars .................... 259 Shaffner, Neil and Caroline Natalie Needs A Nightie ......... 91 Right Bed, Wrong Husband ..... 90 Shaffron, Robert Bums ........................... 113 Shakespeare, William Antony and Cleopatra .......... As You Like It ................. A Comedy of Errors ........... Hamlet ......................... Henry IV, Part I ............... Henry IV, Part II .... Henry VIII ..................... Julius Caeasar .................. King Lear ...................... Macbeth ........................ The Merchant of Venice ....... The Merry Wives of Windsor ...................... A Midsummer Night's Dream ....................... Much Ado About Nothing ..... Othello ......................... Richard II ...................... Richard III ............. Romeo and Juliet .............. The Taming of the Shrew ...... The Tempest ................... Twelfth Night .................. 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 191 190 191 Shapiro, Linda Gaye A Story of Chelm .............. 290 Sharkey, Jack And On the Sixth Day . . . . ... 200 . . . and Then I Wrote . . . . . . 102 Cinderella Meets the Wolfman! .................... 202 Coping ......................... 203 The Creature Creeps! .......... 148 Double Exposure ............... 124 Dream Lover ..................... 53 A Gentleman and A Scoundrel .. 25 Here Lies Jeremy Troy .......... 54 Honestly, Now! ................ 125 Hope for the Best .............. 209 How Green Was My Brownie ...................... 142 I Take This Man ................ .45 Jekyll Hydes Again! ........... 212 Just Say Yes! ................... .41 Kiss Or Make Up ................ 90 Love With A Twist ............ 214 M Is for the Million ........... 144 Meanwhile Back On the Couch ........................ 106 Missing Link ................... 131 Money, Power, Murder, Lust, Revenge, and Marvelous Clothes ....................... 216 The Murder Room ............... 70 My Husband the Wife ......... 216 My Son the Astronaut ......... 216 Nell of the Ozarks ............. 216 "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!" .................... 217 Once Is Enough .................. 37 One Toe In the Grave ........... 86 Operetta ........................ 177 Par for the Corpse ............. 136 The Picture of Dorian Gray .... 219 The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera ........................ 219 Pushover ....................... 220 Rich Is Better .................... 37 Roomies! ......................... 54 The Saloonkeeper's Daughter .. 222 Saving Grace .................... 53 The Second Lady ................ 87 Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra ................... 223 Slow Down, Sweet Chariot .... 224 Sorry! Wrong Chimney! ......... 83 Spinoff ........................... 71 Star On the Door ................ 62 Take A Number, Darling ........ 70 The 3 112 Musketeers .......... 227 Turkey In the Straw ........... 228 Turnabout ...................... 228 What A Spot! .................. 229 While the Lights Were Out .... 160 Who's On First? ................. 38 The Woman In White .......... 132 Woman Overboard ............. 229 Your Flake Or Mine? ............ 68 Sharkey, Thomas M. Amy's Wish ..................... 56 It's A Wonderful Life ......... 211 Just Say Yes! ................... .41 My Heart Reminds Me .......... 15 Sharma, Partad Touch of Brightness ........... 136 Shaughnessy, Darrin The Manager ..................... 31 Shaw, Barnett A Flea In Her Ear (trans.) ..... The French Have A Word for It (trans.) ....................... A Gown for His Mistress (trans.) ....................... The Great Lover (trans.) ....... The Happy Hunter (trans.) ..... Kean (trans.) ................... Young King Louis (trans.) ..... 160 175 133 125 132 189 190

INDEX OF AUTHORS Shaw, George Bernard The Admirable Bashville ...... 192 Androcles and the Lion ........ 180 Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress ...................... 274 The Apple Cart ................ 186 Arms and the Man ............. 192 Augustus Does His Bit ........ 260 Back To Methuselah ........... 180 'The Black Girl In Search of God .......................... 132 Buoyant Billions ............... 157 Caesar and Cleopatra .......... 193 Candida ........................ 192 Cymbeline Refinished ......... 288 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets ...................... 269 'The Devil's Dis.ciple ........... 193 'The Doctor's Dilemma ........ 193 Don Juan In Hell .............. 192 Fanny's First Play ............. 125 Geneva ......................... 178 Getting Married ................ 155 The Glimpse of Reality ........ 267 Great Catherine ................ 285 Heartbreak House .............. 134 How He Lied To Her Husband ..................... 260 In Good King Charles Golden Days ......................... 145 The Inca of Perusalem ......... 280 Jitta's Atonement .............. 125 John Bull's Other Island ....... 150 ........ 183 Major Barbara Man and Superman ............ 192 The Man of Destiny ........... 192 The Millionairess .............. 124 Misalliance .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 121 Mrs. Warren's Profession ...... 192 The Music-Cure: ............... 261 O'Haherty V.C ................. 268 On the Rocks ................... 180 Overruled .... . ................ 269 Passion, Poison and Petrifaction .................. 292 The Philanderer ................ 192 Press Cuttings .................. 280 Pygmalion ..................... 151 Saint Joan ...................... 180 The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles .......................... 177 The Six of Calais .............. 285 Too True To Be Good ......... 132 Village Wooing ................ 251 Widowers' Houses ............. 192 You Never Can Tell ........... 192 Shaw, Irwin Children From Their Games ..... 91 Shaw, Robert The Man In tht~ Glass Booth . .. 179 Shear, Claudia Blown Sideways Through Life ... 7 Dirty Blonde ..................... 93 Shearman, Alan Bullshot Crummond ............. 54 EI Grande De Coca-Cola ...... 204 Footlight Frenzy ................. 68 The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope ................. 81 Sheehy, John Gave Her the Eye .............. 313 Sheeler. Wade Vortex ......................... 129 Sheffer, Isaiah The Rise of David Levinsky ... 221 The Theatre of Peretz ............ 74 Sheiness, Marsha Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer ............................... 83 Professor George ............... 279 Reception ...................... 273 The Spelling Bee .............. 106

Shaner, John Herman After Crystal Night ............ 118 Shange, Ntozake For Colored Girls . . . . .......... 83 From Okra To Greens ......... 244 A Photograph: Lovers In Motion ......................... 52 Spell #7 ........................ 119 Shank, Adele The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria (trans.) ................ 15 Shapcott, Malcolm A Christmas Carol ............. 202 Shapiro, Norman R. Boubouroche (trans.) ............. 95 The Brazilian (trans.) ............ 51 The Castrata (trans.) ............. 59 Caught With His Trance Down (trans.) ....................... 279 A Flea in Her Rear (trans.) .... 169 Fit To Be Tried (trans.) ........ 284 A Fitting Confusion (trans.) ... 135 For Love or Monkey (trans.) .... 45 Going To Pot (trans.) .... ; ..... 282 It's All Relative (trans.) .......... 61 Ladies' Man (trans.) ........... 245 Mardi Gras (trans.) ............ 169 A Matter of Wife and Death (trans.) ....................... 267 Mixed Doubles (trans.) ........ 279 Not By Bed Alone (trans.) ..... 189 On the Marry-Go-Wrong (trans.) ....................... 145 The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother (trans.) ............. 21 The Pregnant Pause (trans.) ...... 67 Romance in a Flat (trans.) ..... 260 Signor Nicodemo (trans.) ........ 81 A Slap In the Farce (trans.) .... 274 Take Her, She's Yours! (Trans.) ...................... 112 Tooth and Consequences (trans.) ....................... 287

Severin, Will The Canterville Ghost ......... 136 Miracle on 34th Street ......... 309 Sherlock's Secret Life ........... 98 Sewell, Christopher The Stars Within ................. 32 Shadowbox Cabaret Shadowboxing ................. 147 ShatTer, Anthony Murderer ....................... 244 Sleuth ............................ 14 This Savage Parade ............ 101 Whodunnit ..................... 129 Widow's Weeds ................. 84 Shaffer, Diane Last Requests .................. Last Respects .................. Sacrilege ....................... Solace At Twilight ............. 282 286 112 168

ShatTer, Melvin B. Bridges . . . Are When You Cross Them ........................ 275 ShatTer, Peter Amadeus ....................... 164 Black Comedy ................... 95

INDEX OF AUTHORS Sheldon, Edward Romance ....................... 234 Shem, Samuel Bill W. and Dr. Bob ............. 64 Napoleon's Dinner ............. 257 Room for One Woman ........ 258 Shengold, Nina Homesteaders .................... 51 Shenk, Marcia Ann Diary ........................... 243 Shepard, Sam Action .......................... 268 Angel City ....................... 69 Back Bog Beast Bait ........... 282 Chicago ........................ 282 Cowboy Mouth .................. 26 Cowboys #2 ................... 267 Forensic and the Navigators ... 276 The 4-H Club .................. 256 Fourteen Hundred Thousand ... 274 The Holy Ghostly .............. 268 Geography of A Horse Dreamer ..................... 10 1 Icarus's Mother ................ 274 Killer's Head .................. 236 La Turista ........................ 90 Melodrama Play ............... 279 Operation Sidewinder .......... 175 Red Cross ...................... 260 Savage/love .................... 237 Suicide In B-Flat ................. 53 Tongues ........................ 237 The Tooth of Crime ........... 107 True West ........................ 28 The Unseen Hand .............. 274 Sheperd, Eric Murder In A Nunnery ......... 185 Sher, Jack The Perfect Setup ................ 25 Sherift', R.C. Journey's End .................. 130 Sherman, Allan Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! ...................... 208 Sherman, Garry Christmas Is Comin' Uptown .. 202 Sing A Christmas Song ........ 224 Sherman, Geraldine Broken English .................. 29 Sherman, James Beau Jest ......................... 59 From Door to Door .............. 17 The God of Isaac ................ 60 Magic Time .................... 103 Sherman, Martin Bent ....................... : .... 141 A Madhouse In Goa ............. 57 Rose ........................... 124 A Table for A King ............ 277 When She Danced ............. 100 Sherman, Richard M. Over Here! ..................... 218 Sherman, Robert B. Over Here! ..................... 218 Sherman, Robert J. Spooks ......................... 145 Sherrift', R. C. Shred of Evidence ............. 126 Shertzer, S. Charles The Sentimental Scarecrow .... 223 Sherwood, Robert Tovarich ....................... 190 Sherwood, Robert Emmet The Road To Rome ............ 190 Shevelove, Bert Happy New Year .............. 208 Shields, Brian Highwire ....................... 256 Shift'rin, A.B. I Like It Here ....... .' .......... 125 Shimko, Rob Specks ......................... 265 Shores, Del Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) .......................... 96 Daughters of the Lone Star State ........................ 137 Cheatin' .......................... 79 Sordid Lives ................... 147 Southern Baptist Sissies ....... 109 Short, Marion Shavings ....................... 145 Short, Robin The Red Shoes ................. 295 Showalter, Max Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Shuman, Earl The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ......................... 222 Shumlin, Herman Spofford ....................... 171 Shurtleft', Michael Sailing ......................... 249 Shurtz, Raymond King Cowboys, Indians and Waitresses ................... 262 Shyre, Paul The Child Buyer ............... 188 U.S.A ............................ 73 Sibbald, George The Dodge Boys ................. 53 Sickles, Scott C. Murmurs ....................... 239 Siegel, Joel The First ....................... 321 Siegel, Larry The Mad Show ................ 214 Sills, Paul More From Story Theatre ........ 68 Story Theatre .................... 68 Silver, Frederick For Heavel!'s Sake! ............ 206 Silver, Joan Micklin A . . . My Name Is Alice ..... 199 A. . . My Name Is Still Alice ......................... 199 A. . . My Name Will Always Be Alice ......................... 199 Silverman, Judd Correct Address ................ 243 Silverman, Stanley Up From Paradise .............. 228 Silverstein, Shel The Devil and Billy Markham .................... 234 Oh, Hell! ........................ .48 Silvestri, Martin Johnny Guitar .................. 212 Simmons, Jim The Will ......................... 96 Simon, Daniel The Convertible Girl ........... 124 Simon, Ellen Moonlight and Valentino ....... .42 Simon, Lucy The Secret Garden ............. 222 Simon, Mayo At Sea ......................... 313 Simon, Michael Murder At Minsing Manor: A Nancy Boys Mystery ........ 128 Simon, Neil Adventures of Marco Polo ..... 199 Barefoot In the Park ............. 66 Biloxi Blues ................... 102 Brighton Beach Memoirs ........ 85 Broadway Bound ................ 66 California Suite .................. 35 Chapter Two ..................... 36 Come Blow Your Hom .......... 91 The Dinner Party ................ 56 Fools ........................... 127 45 Seconds from Broadway .... 146 The Gingerbread Lady ........... 71 God's Favorite ................. 102 The Good Doctor ................ 51 Hotel Suite ....................... 57 I Ought To Be In Pictures ....... 23 Jake's Women ................... 94 Last of the Red Hot Lovers ...... 37 Laughter On the 23rd Floor. . .. 111 London Suite .................... 57 Lost in yonkers .................. 76 The Odd Couple .......... :.... 102 The Odd Couple (Female Version) ....................... 94 Oscar and Felix .................. 94 Plaza Suite ..................... 146 The Prisoner of Second Avenue ........................ 71 Proposals ....................... 112 Rose's Dilemma ........ ; ........ 28 Rumors ........................ 127 Sunshine Boys ................... 78 They're Playing Our Song ..... 227 Simon, Peter In Case of Accident .............. 74 Simon, Richard Murder At Minsing Manor: A Nancy Boys Mystery ........ 128 Simpson, Bland Diamond Studs ................. Hot Grog ....................... King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running ...................... Kudzu: A Southern Musical ... 204 210 213 213

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Slade, Bernard An Act of the Imagination ....... 84 Fatal Attraction .................. 67 Fling! ............................ 69 I Remember You ................ 27 Return Engagements ........... 100 Romantic Comedy ............... 68 Same Time, Another Year ........ 10 Same Time, Next Year .......... 10 Special Occasions ................ 14 Tribute ........................... 89 You Say Tomatoes ............... 29 Slade, Susan Ready When You Are, C.B.! .... 55 Siaight, Brad Class Action ................... 169 Slaughter, Frank The Doctor Takes A Life ...... 152 Sliker, Harold G. The Importance of Being Earnest ....................... 294 Sloan, Patty Gideon Beginnings ....................... 25 Man Enough ................... 102 Slocumb, Bud Footlight Frenzy ................. 68 Slocum, Richard The Fisherman and the Flounder ..................... 304 The Gemshield Sleeper ........ 304 The Love Song of A. Nellie Goodrock .................... 304 Slover, Tim Joyful Noise ..................... 97 Small, Edgar From Agent To Actor .......... 324 Small, Michael The It Girl ..................... 211 Smalls, Charlie The Wiz ....................... 229 Smiley, Sam Date ............................... 7 Smith, Barbara L. Butterscotch ..................... .44 Smith, Betty Heroes Just Happen ............ 188 Smith, Charles Freefall ........................... 30 The Sutherland ................... 98 Smith, Cynthia City Women ................... 317 Smith, Dennis Excursion Fare ................. 130 Smith, Dodie ~ Call It A Day .................. 188 Dear Octopus .................. 185 I Capture the Castle ............ 163 Smith, Leo Whence ........................ 251 Smith, Marc P. Retrofit ........................... 50 Smith, Mark Landon A Dickens' Christmas Carol ... 308 Faith County ..................... 96 An Evening of Culture: Faith County II ...................... 96 Smith, Michael Captain Jack's Revenge .......... 74 Smith, Noble Mason Sparks In the Park ............. 285 Smith, Patti Cowboy Mouth .................. 26 Smith, Steven Me Too, Then! ................. 260

Simpson, Ed The Battle of Shallowford ..... 113 The Comet of St. Loomis ........ 60 A Point of Order ................. 62 Simpson, N.F. The Form ...................... The Hole ...................... One Way Pendulum ........... A Resounding Tinkle .......... 270 283 161 262

Simpson, Tom Saturday, Sunday, Monday (trans.) ....................... 171 Simpson, Thomas Getting Away (trans.) .......... 138 Singer, Campbell Calculated Risk ................ 163 Difference of Opinion ......... 188 Guilty Party .................... 152 Singer, Isaac Bashevis Teibele and Her Demon ......... 88 Yentl ........................... 177 Sirasky, Fredric Mongolian Idiot ................ 247 Sisson, Rosemary Anne A Ghost On Tiptoe ............ 106 Sklar, Peter Winning Monologues From the Beginnings Workshop ....... 318 Skloft', Michael Personals ....................... 219

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Smith, Val Apres Opera ................... 312 Breaking the Chain ............ 313 The Gamblers .................... 63 The League of SemiSuperheroes .................. 313 Meow .......................... 313 The Sorcerer's Apprentice ..... 225 Problem-Solver ................ 313 Smith, William E. Baal (trans.) ................... 187 Drums In the Night (trans.) .... 188 Life of Edward the Second of England (trans.) .............. 189 Smith, Winchell Brewster's Millions ............ Lightnin' ....................... Tailor-Made Man .............. Turn To the Right ............. 188 189 190 163 Spera, Robert Actors Write for Actors ........ 317 .. 313 The Field .............. Spewack, Sam Poppa .......................... 189 Solitaire Man .................. 136 Spiegelberger, William B. The Caucasian Chalk Circle (trans.) ....................... 170 Spigelgass, Leonard Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling ... 150 A Majority of One ............. 162 Spitzer, Murray The Case of the Curious Locks ........................ 152 Dance Your Heart Out ......... 176 Spooner, Dennis A Sting In the Tale .............. 50 Will You Still Love Me In the Morning? ...................... 82 Sportiello, Anthony Tickets, Please! ................ 240 Sprinchorn, Evert M. Crime and Crime (trans.) ...... 315 A Dream Play (trans.) ..... : ... 315 The Ghost Sonata (trans.) ...... 315 Miss Julie (trans.) ................ 24 Sroka, Jerry Dying for Laughs ................ 75 St. Germain, Mark Camping With Henry and Tom .. 29 Ears on a Beatie .................. 9 Jack's Holiday ................. 211 Just So ......................... 212 Stand by Your Man ............ 225 St. John, Billy The Abduction ............. : ..... 78 Cindy Ella's Going to the Ball, Baby! ........................ 287 The Disappearance of the Three Little Pigs .................... 290 Here Comes the Bride. . . And There Goes the Groom ...... 281 Is There A Comic In the House? ....................... 169 The Plot, Like Gravy, Thickens ..................... 169 The Reunion ..................... 77 Senior Follies .................. 112 The Werewolfs Curse ......... 168 You Could Die Laughing ...... 168 Stamos, Griffiths The Unintended Video ......... 313 Stanley, Jeffrey Tesla's Letters ................... 32 Starling, Lynn Meet the Wife ................. 125 Starr, Ben The Button ....................... 74 The Family Way ............... 135 Steads Crossing (trans.) ............... 264 Stearns, Elizabeth Hillbilly Women ................. 83 Steele, Donald The Way To Miami ............ 251 Steele, Wilbur Daniel Post Road ...................... 185 Stein, Daniel A. The Workroom (trans.) ........ 149 Stein, David Dialect Monologues ............ 320 Stein, James R, The Engagement ............... 291 Stein, Joseph The Body Beautiful ............ 201 Enter Laughing ................ Juno ............................ Mrs. Gibbon's Boys ........... Plain and Fancy ................ Zorba .......................... 143 212 145 220 230

INDEX OF AUTHORS Killing Time ..................... 11 Stoeh, Dan It Is No Desert .................... 8 Stohl, Hank A Play On Letters ............... 81 Stokle, Norman Sunrise at Noon (trans.) .......... 98 Stoll, David Teller of Tales ................. 227 Stone, Gene Why Not Stay for Breakfast ..... 51 Stone, Joel Horrors of Doctor Moreau ..... 280 Stone, Merritt Pink Magic ............ :....... 180 Stone, Peter Skyscraper ..................... 224 Woman of the Year ............ 229 Stone, Trude "Hello, Ma!" .................. 239 One Question .................. 247 She Needs Me ................. 250 Stoner, Joyce I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever ..................... 210 Stoppard, Tom After Magritte .................. 274 Albert's Bridge ................ 290 Arcadia ........................ 145 Artist Descending A Staircase .. 83, 233 The Boundary .................. 271 Dalliance ....................... 130 Dirty Linen and New-FoundLand ......................... 132 Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth ..................... 141 Enter A Free Man ............. 108 The Fifteen Minute Hamlet .... 276 Hapgood ....................... 110 Henry IV (trans.) .............. 136 Indian Ink ...................... 165 The Invention of Love ......... 165 Jumpers ........................ 159 Largo Desolato (trans.) ........ 146 Night and Day ................. 104 On the Razzle .................. 174 The Real Inspector Hound ..... 116 The Real Thing .................. 77 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ......................... 173 Rough Crossing .................. 66 Salvage ........................ 167 'The Seagull (trans.) ............ 146 A Separate Peace .............. 233 Shipwreck ........ " ............ 167 Travesties ...................... 106 Undiscovered Country (trans.) ............ 175 The Voyage .. , ................. 168 Storer, Edward Emperor Henry IV (trans.) ..... 155 Six Characters [n Search of An Author (trans.) ............... 178 Storey, David The Changing Room ........... 186 The Contractor ................. 149 Early Days ..................... 125 The Farm ........................ 88 Home .......................... 161 Life Class ...................... 158 The March On Russia ........... 64 The Restoration of Arnold Middleton ...................... 72 Sisters .......................... 284 Stages ........................... .47 Storm, Lesley Roar Like A Dove ............. 145 Day's Mischief ................. 135

Stein, Julie The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon and Mrs. Levine ...... 10 Steinour, Marcus At Land's End ................. 241 Stephens, Cecil G. Once' In September ............ 125 Stern, Danial Barbra's Wedding ................. 9 Stern, David Alan Dialect Monologues ............ 320 Dialect Monologues, Volume II ............................. 320 Dialect Accents ................ 320 Stern, James and Tania The Caucasian Chalk Circle (trans.) ....................... 170 Stern, Nikki Murder at Cafe Noir ............. 80 Sternberg, Patricia The Treasure Makers .......... 299 Sterner, Jerry Be Happy for Me ................ 22 Other People's Money .......... .47 Sternheim, Carl The Snob (trans.) .............. 126 The Underpants (trans.) ...... 68, 78 1913 (trans.) ................... 136 Stevens, David The Sum of Us .................. 32 Stevens, Leslie Bullfight ....................... 124 Champagne Complex ............ 25 The Lovers ..................... 189 The Marriage-Go-Round ......... 39 Stevens, Thomas Wood Camille In Roaring Camp ..... 188 Globe Theatre One-Act Versions of Shakespeare .................. 191 Joan of Arc .................... 189 Stevenson, Adell Tooth Or Consequences ....... 291 Stewart, Charles Gasoline Gypsies Stewart, Gary Downwinder Dance 125 114

Snee, Dennis Breaking Up Is Hard To Do ... 282 Twain By the Tale ............... 53 Sneider, Vern J. Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen ................... 214 Snelgrove, Michael Bums On Seats ................ Definitely Eric Geddis ......... Hidden Meanings .............. Urban Cycles . . ............... 147 282 286 288

Snodgress, Katherine Haiku .......................... 253 Snyder, Geraldine Ann No More Secrets ............... 216 Socol, Gary The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Soderblom, Lena Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Soland, Lisa The Name Game ................. 21 Solley, Marvin Hark! ........................... 208 Solly, Bill The Great American Backstage ................ 207 Musical Sophocles Antigone ....................... 136 Electra ..................... 79, 128 Elektra ......................... 114 Sorensen, Kathy An Endangered Species: Waking Up ........................... 281 Sorgenfrei, Carol Mede~ A Noh Cycle ............ 74 Sorkin, Aaron A Few Good Men ............. 165 Hidden In This Picture ......... 265 Making Movies ................. .49 Southworth, Mathew Damages To Tony ............. 313 Soyinka, Wole The Golden Accord ............ 313 Spangenburg, Saul The English Only Restaurant .. 138 Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ....................... 181 Speirs, Ruth In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (trans.)

Stewart, Luke Daft Danny .................... 270 Stewart, Michael The Grand Tour " .............. Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. I Love My Wife ............... Mack and Mabel ............... 207 208 210 214

Stickney, Dorothy A Lovely Light ................... 8 Stilgoe, Richard Bodywork ...................... 201 Still, James Amber Waves .............. 56, 276 The Secret History of the Future ........................ 285 Stimac, Anthony The Contrast ................... 203 Fashion ........................ 205 Stinson, John Median ......................... 153 Stockenstrom, Truda Miss Julie (trans.) ................ 24 Stockwell, Richard Bad Blood ...................... .40

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Sully, Ruby Hot Comer ..................... 163 Sultan, Arne Wife Begins At Forty ............ 59 Summerhays, Leota This Way To Christmas ....... 310 Sundgaard, Arnold Nobody's Eamest .............. 217 SungurotT, Tamara Bering Strider .......................... 226 Surrey, Janet Bill W. and Dr. Bob ............. 64 Sutherland, Evelyn Greenleaf Road To Yesterday ............ 163 Svanoe, Bill The Black Duck ................. 99 Swados, Elizabeth Alice In Concert ............... Doonesbury .................... The Haggadah ................. Jewish Girlz ................... The Red Sneaks ................ Runaways ...................... Taggart, Tom Deadwood Dick ................ Dear Phoebe ................... Five and Ten ................... For Women Only .............. Gaslight Gaieties ............... Hans Brinker ................... Short and Sweet ...............

Strachan, Alan Cole ............................ 203 Cowardy Custard .............. 203 Strand, Richard The Guest of Honor ........... 313 Stratton, Allan Bingo! ........................... 50 Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii ..... 87 Papers ............................ 73 Stratton, Dave Lust 'n' Rust ................... 214 Strelich, Thomas BAFO (Best and Final Offer) .... 59 Dog Logic ....................... 30 Neon Psalms ..................... 34 Stricklyn, Ray Confessions of A Nightingale ..... 8 Strindberg, August The Dance of Death ............. 68 A Dream Play ............. 183, 315 Crime and Crime .............. 315 The Father ................ 101, 114 The Ghost Sonata ......... 183, 315 Miss Julie ........................ 24 Stone, Merritt Pink Magic .................... 180 Strong, Austin Three Wise Fools .............. 158 Stroppel, Frederick Actor! ........................... .40 Chain Mail ..................... 238 A Chance Meeting ............. 255 The Christmas Spirit ...... 110, 308 Crashing the Gate .............. 238 Coelacanth ..................... 238 Designated Driver .............. 237 Do Over ....................... 243 Domestic Violence ............. 238 Fortune's Fools .................. 30 Friendly Fire ................... 237 A Good Man ................... 110 Harvest Time .................. 253 Itch ............................. 271 Judgment Call and Other Plays ......................... 253 Judgment Call ................. 253 Kidney Stones ................. 311 Mamet Women ................ 239 Morning Coffee ................ 239 One Man's Vision ........ 237, 311 Package Deal .................. 240 Perfect Pitch ................... 240 Single and Proud ............... 264 Smoke-out ..................... 240 Soulmates ...................... 240 Tangled Web .................. 263 Twenty Years Ago ............. 252 Strouse, Charles By Strouse ..................... 201 Golden Boy .................... 206 Mayor .......................... 299 Stuart, Nuba-Harold Hunter ......................... 132 Sturges, Preston A Cup of Coffee .......... :.... 139 Strictly Dishonorable .......... 126 Sturiale, Grant Olympus On My Mind ........ 218 Starblast ........................ 225 Styne, Jule The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood ................. 203 Peter Pan ....................... 219 Sullivan, Arthur H.M.S. Pinafore ................ 209 The Mikado .................... 205 Sullivan, Daniel Inspecting Carol ............... 146

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TaiketT, Stanley Civilization and Its Malcontents .................. 242 Dolorosa Sanchez .............. 243 Talbot, Bill Dear Old Golden Rule Days ... 288 Tally, Ted Coming Attractions .............. 87 Tarkington, Booth The Fighting Littles ............ The Ghost Story ............... The Man From Home .......... Seventeen ...................... The Trysting Place .............

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Romance Ranch .................. 98 Italian Rum Cake .............. 287 Second Vows .................. 258 Secret Sin ...................... 258 A Side Trip To Dachau ........ 258 Snocky ......................... 250 The Spelling of Coynes ........ 259 Spirit of Hispania .............. 116 The Stop At the Palace ........ 259 Subject To Change ............... 71 Support Your Local Police ..... 260 Swiss Miss ..................... 251 Tales By Saki .................. 314 That Pig, Morin ................ 278 Theater Trip ..................... 22 The Tiger ...................... 251 Tour Di Europa ................ 116 The Twin Mendaccios ......... 251 The Unrest Cure ............... 259 Women In Congress (trans.) ... 126
Tattersall, Clare The Last Dance ................ 246 Taylor, A. R. Hiss the Villain! ............... 282 Taylor, Christopher The Wings of the Dove ........ 126 Taylor, David Preppies ........................ 220 Taylor, Edward Murder By Misadventure ........ 31 A Rise In the Market ............ 81 Taylor, Regina Love Poem #98 ................ 313 Taylor, Renee Alan, Betty and Riva .......... 254 Bedrooms ........................ 13 Bill and Laura ................. 278 David and Nancy .............. 243 It Had To Be You ............... 13 Love Allways .................. 312 Lovers and Other Strangers .... 133 Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wexel .... 246 Nick and Wendy ............... 257 Taylor, Ron It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues ........................ 211 Taylor, Samuel Perfect Pitch ................... 240 Tegel, Peter Baal (trans.) .................... 187 The Suicide (trans.) ............ 175 Teichmann, Howard The Girls In 509 ............... 151 A Rainy Day In Newark ....... 143 Tenney, Steven Piece for An Audition ......... 248 Tennille, Toni Mother Earth ................... 216 Terry, Megan Approaching Simone ........... 149 Calm Down Mother ............ 255 Comings and Goings ........... 277 Do You See What I'm Saying? .. 82 Ex-Miss Copper Queen On A Set of Pills .......................... 256 The Gloaming. Oh My Darling ....................... 287 Hothouse ....................... 106 Keep Tightly Closed In A Cool Dry Place ......................... 257 The People Vs. Ranchman ..... 179 The Tommy Allen Show ...... 190 Viet Rock ...................... 190 Tescheke, Holger The Appeasement .............. 313 Tesich, Steve Arts & Leisure .................. .40 Division Street ................. 104 Gorky .......................... 207

TarlotT First Fish ......................... 74 Tarver, Ben Man With A Load of Mischief ..................... 215 Tasca, Jules Angel On the Train ............ 241 The Background ............... 266 The Baker's Neighbor ......... 265 The Balkan Women ............. .40 The Best Souvenirs ............ 254 Between the Lines ............. 242 Blind Spot ..................... 242 Brothers ........................ 201 Cannibalism In the Cars ....... 288 Commedia Americana ......... 287 Cupidosis ....................... 284 The Dark ....................... 193 Data Entry ..................... 243 A Day In the Night of Rose Arden ........................ 243 Deus X ......................... 277 The Devil ...................... 267 Extraction ...................... 264 False Prophets ................. 277 The Fantasy Bond ............. 244 Father and Son ................. 244 Finding the Love of Your Life .......................... 256 Forbidden Fruit ................ 244 The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies .......................... 101 Going To the Catacombs ...... 256 Goodbye, Fay Wray ............. 74 Gums .......................... 245 Hardstuff ....................... 245 The Hen ....................... 266 Inflatable You ............ . . . . .. 245 Judah's Daughter .............. 111 La Uorona ..................... 285 Love Bite ...................... 283 Make-Up ....................... 257 The Man In Blue .............. 246 Maria ......................... 277 The Marriage of Don Juan ..... 283 A Medieval Romance .......... 286 Membranous Croup ............ 274 The Mind With the Dirty Man ... 89 A Modem Proposal ............ 236 The Necklace .................. 257 Outrageous! .................... 283 Pantalone's Dream ............. 289 Passion Comedy ............... 248 Peeping Punch ................. 277 Penance ........................ 248 The Rabbit Who Wanted To Be A Man .......................... 116 The Rape of Emma Bunche ... 249 Repaying Good With Evil ..... '277 The Reticence of Lady Anne .. 249

Swados, Robin A Quiet End .................... .47 Swann, Francis Into the Fire ................... 211 Keep Your Spirits Up ............ 87 151 Out of the Frying Pan Swartz, Don Halloween Screams ............ 138 Swayne, Herbert E. Caught In the Villain's Web ... 135 The Curse of An Aching Heart ......................... 144 Sweedler, D. F. A Hard Time To Be Single .... 208 Sweet, JetTrey After the Fact .................. 241 Bluff ............................. 27 Cover ............................ 14 I Sent a Letter to My Love .... 210 Last Day of Camp ............. 313 Porch ............................. 24 Swicord, Robin Criminal Minds .................. 26 Last Days At the Dixie Girl Cafe ........................... 52 Swift, Allen Checking Out .................. 105 Swindley, J. Ted Swortzell, Lowell A Partridge In A Pear Tree .... 309 Synge, J.M. In the Shadow of the Glen ..... 269 The Playboy of the Western World ........................ 195 Riders To the Sea .............. 270 Szogyi, Alex Country Scandal (trans.) ....... 188 The Fine Art of Finesse ......... 93 The Lower Depths (trans.) ..... 179

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Taber, Richard Is Zat So ....................... 163 Tabori, George Brecht On Brecht (trans.) ........ 92 The Emperor's Clothes ........ 188 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (trans.) ....................... 173 Taborski, Boleslaw The Jeweler's Shop (trans.) ...... 76

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Nourish the Beast .............. 121 On the Open Road ............... 61 Passing Game .................... 88 The Speed of Darkness ......... .47 Square One ...................... 13 Touching Bottom ................ 74 Thackery, William Vanity Fair ..................... 126 Thain, Paul Black Widow .................. 153 Thatcher, Kristine Niedecker ........................ 33 Theiner, George The Mistake (trans.) ........... 277 Thomas, Brandon Charley's Aunt ................. 130 Thomas, Buddy The Crumple Zone .............. .44 Physical .......................... 3 I Thomas, Caitlin Dylan .......................... 181 Thomas, Dylan Under Milk Wood ............. 182 Thomas, Freyda The Learned Ladies (trans.) .... 138 Tartuffe: Born Again .......... 139 Thomas, Jevan Brandon Vanity Fair ................ 126, 190 Thomas, Thorn The Interview .................... 26 Without Apologies ............... 62 Thompson, Brian Tishoo ........................... 52 Thompson, David Flora, the Red Menace ......... 206 70. Girls, 70 ................... 223 Steel Pier ...................... 226 Thompson, Jay The Bible Salesman ............ 201 Thomps\>n, Julian The Warrior's Husband ........ 190 Thompson, Selma A Modest Proposal ............ 246 Thompson-Scretching, Anne You Shouldn't Have Told .... 1 \3 Thronson, Ron Mother Earth ................... 216 Thuna, Leonora Let Me Hear You Smile ......... 74 The Natural Look .............. 125 Show Me Where the Good Times Are .......................... 224 Thurber, James The Male Animal .............. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ......................... The 13 Clocks ................. A Thurber Carnival ............ 154 222 177 117 Tobias, "'red By Strouse ..................... 201 Tobias, John Is the Real You Really You? .... 37 My Husband's Wild Desires Almost Drove Me Mad ................ 46 Todd, Paul Me, Myself and I .............. 215 Toddie, Jean Lenox And Go To Innisfree ........... 252 And Send Forth a Raven ....... .40 A Bag of Green Apples ........ 265 By the Name of Kensington ... 264 Is That the Bus To Pittsburgh? ................... 257 The Juice of Wild Strawberries ................. 239 Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening ............. 246 A Little Something for the Ducks ........................ 246 Lookin' for A Better Berry Bush ......................... 239 A Scent of Honeysuckle ....... 258 Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me A Song ......................... 251 Those Singing Sunday Mornings .................... 240 White Room of My Remembering ................ 277 Toksvig, Jenifer The Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand ............. 203 Shake, Ripple & Roll .......... 223 Tolan, Kathleen A Weekend Near Madison ....... 51 Tolan, Stephanie Bridge To Terabithia '" ........ 298 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks ........................ 226 The Ledge ..................... 286 Tolins, Jonathan If Memory Serves ................ 96 The Twilight of the Golds ...... .48 Tolins-Kaufman, Selma Homeroom ..................... 209 Tolkin, Mel Maybe Tuesday ................ 152 TolmasotT, T.H. V.I. Lenin Is Missing ............ 48 Tolstoy, Leo Strider .......................... 226 Tomalin, Claire The Winter Wife ................. 33 Tomkins, Bud "No, No, A Million Times No!" ......................... 216 Pistol Pac kin , Sal .............. 220 Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor Once There Was A Princess 185 Wild Birds ..................... 145 Tovatt, Patrick Husbandry ....................... 34 Towles, Tom EIR ............................. 174 Townsend, Sue The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ................. 174 Toy, Barbara Murder At the Vicarage ....... 155 Toye, Wendy Cowardy Custard .............. 203 Trahey, Jane Ring Round the Bathtub ....... 142 Traver, Robert Anatomy of A Murder ......... 181 Travers, Ben After You With the Milk ........ 51 Banana Ridge .................. 149 The Bed Before Yesterday ..... 120 A Bit of A Test ................ 174 Corker's End ................... 124 A Cuckoo In the Nest ......... 157 A Cup of Kindness ............ 157 Dirty Work .................... 174 A Night Like This ............. 189 Nun's Veiling .................. 158 Outrageous Fortune ............ 189 Plunder ......................... 189 Rookery Nook ................. 140 She Follows Me About ........ 174 Spotted Dick ................... 152 Thark .......................... 140 Thekla ......................... 174 Turkey Time ................... 152 Wild Horses ................... 158 Tricker, George Life Support ..................... 11 Trieschmann, Catherine The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock ........................... 75 Trifonov, Yuri Exchange ...................... 171 Tropf, Raphs Shadow Hour .................. 146 Trudeau, Garry Doonesbury .................... 204 Tucci, Maria Christmas in Naples (trans.) ... Filumena Filumena: Marriage Italian Style (trans.) .......... Naples Gets Rich (trans.) ...... Those Damned Ghosts (trans.) ....................... 158 146 166 159

INDEX OF AUTHORS The Lunatic From Number Seven ........................ 235 Search and Rescue ............. 249 Sing a Pretty Song ............. 237 Tyler, Royall The Contrast ................... 203

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Udell, Peter Angel ............................ 91 Christmas Is Conlin' Uptown .. 202 Purlie .......................... 220 Shenandoah .................... 223 Sing A Christmas Song ........ 224 UdolT, Yale M. A Gun Play .................... 163 Ullman, Vallie The Bar Off Mdrose .......... 172 Ulvaeus, Bjorn Chess .......................... 202 Underhill, John Garrett The Cradle Song (trans.) ....... 162 Underwood, Fr~mklin Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen ................... 214 Usigli, Rodolfo Another Springtime ............ 135 Ustinov, Peter Beethoven' s Te~nth ............. 113 Halfway Up the Tree .......... 121 The Unknown Soldier and His Wife ......................... 190

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Vago, Sandra Marie Connie & Sablina In Waiting .... 44 An Ordinary Woman Under Stress .......................... 58 Valcq, James The Spitfire Grill .............. 225 Valency, Maurice The Apollo of Bellac .......... The Enchanted ................. Ondine ......................... The Queen's Gambit ........... The Visit ....................... 288 182 181 125 182

Tugend, Harry The Wayward Stork ........... 126 Tuotti, Joseph Dolan Big Time Buck White ......... 124 Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons ............... 171 Fortune's Fools .................. 30 The Journey of the Fifth Horse ........................ 179 A Month In the Country ....... 161 Turlish, Susan Lafferty's Wake .................. 76 Turner, Daniel Frank Getting To Know the Natives .... 90 Turner, David The Beggar's Opera ........... 200 The Prodigal Daughter ........... 71 Turner, Lloyd Archie and the Computer ...... 291 Turtle, Richard Lunacy ........................... 31

Valenti, Michael Bashville In Love .............. 200 Beauty and the Beast .......... 200 Lovesong ....................... .45 Oh, Brother! ................... 218 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ....................... 225 Valentine Tons of Money ........... 129, 136 Van Antwerp, John The Fireman's Flame .......... 205 Van Druten, John The Damask Cheek ............ 124 The Distaff Side ............... 157 Old Acquaintance .............. 125 There's Alwa.ys Juliet ............ 74 Young Woodley ............... 126 Van Heusen, James Skyscraper ..................... 224 Walking Happy ......... 228 *u van Hoogstraten, Nicholas Johnny Guit2I .................. 212 Van Horne, Janice Fine Line ...................... 244

Tibbetts, Christopher Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine ..................... 305 Tibbles, George The Duchess of Pasadena ........ 74 The Latest Mrs. Adams .......... 88 Never Get Smart With An Angel .......................... 69 The Tum of the Worm ......... .48 Under Papa's Picture 107 Tiller, Ted Count Dracula ................. 120 Tight Spot ....................... 69 Tinberg, Nalsey The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Tinsley, Byron Alice the Magnificent! ......... 199

Tonkonogy, Gertrude Three Cornered Moon ......... 126 Toohey, John Peter Jonesy .......................... 158 Topor, Tom Nuts .............................. 29 Romance ....................... 234 TordotT, Bill Play the Game ................. 288 Torok, "'rank S. The Overcoat .................. 297 Torres, Joan Antigone In New York (trans.) .. 29 Better Half Dead ................ .44 Totheroh, Dan The Emperor's Nightingale .... 288 The Lost Princess .............. 305

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Van Zandt, Ronald Wilson In the Promised Land .. 142 Van Zandt, William (Billy) Bathroom Humor .............. 101 Confessions of a Dirty Blonde ... 93 Do Not Disturb .................. 74 Drop Dead! .................... 128 Having A Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her ................. 68 Infidelities! ..................... 115 Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect ........ 97 A Little Quickie ................. 67 Love, Sex and the I.R.S ......... 94 Playing Doctor ................. 103 The Senator Wore Pantyhose .. 129 Silent Laughter ................. 127 "Suitehearts" .................... 52 Till Death Do Us Part ......... 139 What the Bellhop Saw ......... 148 What the Rabbi Saw ........... 139 Vance, Charles Wuthering Heights ............. 129 Vander Voort, Jo The Wisteria Bush .............. .49 Vane, Sutton Outward Bound ................ 123 Vassallo, Phillip The Spelling Bee .............. 250 Vatsek, Joan Mark's Place ................... 105 Vaughan, Suzanne An Actor Succeeds ............ 324 Veber, Pierre Court In the Act! .............. 152 Vehr, Bill Turds In Hell .................. 190 Veiller, Bayard The Thirteenth Chair . . . . . . . . . .. 185 Trial of Mary Dugan ........... 190 Veith, Allessandro R. The Visitor ..................... 291 Velasco, Dorothy Miracle In Memphis ........... 215 Ver Schure, AI and Lee A Bad Day At Gopher's Breath ........................ 176 Verga, Giovanni Cavelleria Rusticana ........... 286 Verneuil, Louis Affairs of State .................. 74 Vesey Life of Galileo (trans.) ......... 189 Vetkin, S. Strider .......................... 226 Vickery, Frank Erogenous Zones ................. 44 Family Planning ................. 79 A Kiss On the Bottom ........... 80 Love Forty ....................... 31 A Night On the Tiles ............ 84 One O'clock From the House .. 160 Trivial Pursuits ................. 128 Vigilant, Michael C. Foiled Again! .................. 206 Vilanch, Bruce Festival ........................ 205 Villane, Ron An Empty Space ............... 244 Vinaver, Steven The Mad Show ................ 214 Vincent, Allen Letters To Lucerne ............. 158 Viola, Albert T. Head Over Heels ............... 208 Viorst, Judith Love and Shrimp .............. 212 Vogel, Paula Meg ............................ 296 Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Faust ........................... 188 Stella ........................... 120 Von Kleist, Heinrich Prince Friedrich of Homburg .. 176 The Prince of Homburg ........ 176 Von Ie Fort, Baroness Gertrud Song At the Scaffold .......... 158 Von Schiller, Friedrich Love and Intrigue .............. 135 Mary Stuart .................... 189 The Virgin of Orleans ......... 176 Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt Between Time and Timbuktu Or Promethus 5 ................. 187 Breakfast of Champions ....... 154 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater .................... 206 Happy Birthday, Wanda June .. 124 Vos, David Nobody Loves A Dragon ...... 217 Something's Afoot ............. 225 Vosburgh, Dick A Day In Hollywoodla Night In the Ukraine ...................... 203 Vosper, Frank Love From A Stranger ......... 125 Vreeke, John The Canterville Ghost ......... 136 A Little Princess ............... 303 Miracle on 34th Street ......... 309 Wallach, Ira Drink To Me Only ............. 188 Wallerstein, James S. The Cactus Wildcat ............ 304 Walpole, Hugh Kind Lady ..................... 161 Walsh, Maurice Donnybrook! ................... 204 Walsh, Sheila Molly and James ............... 246 Walter, Eugene Jealousy .......................... 74 Wann, Jim Diamond Studs ................. Hot Grog ....................... King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running ...................... Pump Boys and Dinettes .......

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Hunger and Thirst (trans.) ..... The Killer (trans.) .............. The New Tenant (trans.) ....... A Stroll In the Air (trans.) ..... Victims of Duty (trans.) ....... 156 150 270 190 281

Watters, George M. Burlesque ...................... 188 Weatherly, Anne Undertow ...................... 287 Weathers, Phillip Madam Tic-Tac ................ 145 Weaver, John V.A. Love'em and Leave'em ........ 135 Webb, Kenneth One of the Family ............. 136 Webster, Jean Daddy Long-Legs .............. 157 Love From Judy ............... 214 Wedekind, Frank Spring's Awakening ........... 184 Weed, Dunstan A Fate Worse Than Death ..... 151 Weill,Kurt Happy End ..................... 208 Johnny Johnson ................ 212 Wein, Glenn Grandma Sylvia's Funeral ..... 165 Weinstock, Jack Catch Me If You Can ............ 85 Weiss, Elliot Bittersuite: Songs of Experience ................... 201 Weiss, George The Canterville Ghost ......... 136 First Impressions ............... 206 Weiss, George D. Maggie Flynn .................. 215 Weiss, Karen The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Weitz, Paul All for One ..................... .43 Weitzman, Ken Arrangements .................... 92 . Welch, Sean Earl the Vampire ......... :. ... .. 165 Weller, Michael Abroad ......................... 282 At Home ....................... 241 The Ballad of Soapy Smith .... 171 Barbarians (trans.) ............. 175 Buying Time ................... 153 Fishing ........................... 89 Ghost on Fire .................. 146 The Heart of Art ................. 93 Lake No Bottom ................. 21 Loose Ends .................... 141 Moonchildren .................. 173 Now There's Just the Three of Us ........................... 273 Split .............................. 85 Spoils of War .................... 65 What the Night Is For ............ 9 Welles, Orson Moby Dick-Rehearsed ......... 162 Wells, Jennifer Greenfield Blooms ............. 281 Remember Me Always ........ 286 Wells, John Competition Piece ............. 290 The Ladykiller ................. 245 Wells, Robert All Good Minds ............... 288 Wells, Win Gertrude Stein and A Companion .................... 15

204 210 213 220

Warburton, NJ. Don't Blame It On the Boots .. 267 Ward, Donald The Great American Backstage Musical ...................... 207 Ward, Trisha Enrico IV ...................... 157 Ware, John Spring Journey ................. 152 Warmflash, Stuart . Six Inch Adjustable ............ 250 Warner, Criag Strangers on a Train ............. 77 Warner, Rose Lavender and Old Lace ........ 135 Warnick, Clay Adventures of Marco Polo ..... 199 Warnock, Kathleen To the Top ....................... 99 Warrender, Scott Das Barbecu ................... 203 Warwick, James Blind Alley .................... 144 Washburn, Anne Intervention .................... 313 Wasserman, Dale The Bequest ................... 276 Boy on Blacktop Road ......... 276 An Enchanted Land ............ 153 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .......................... 166 Open Road ....................... 61 The Shining Mountains ........ 288 The Stallion Howl ............. 276 Wasserman, E. H. Outlaws ........................ 313 Wasserstein, Wendy Old Money ....................... 77 Waterhouse, Keith Billy Liar ...................... 108 Children's Day ................... 87 Filumena (trans.) ............... 141 Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell ....... 48 Saturday, Sunday, Monday (trans.) ....................... 171 Who's Who? ..................... 36 Watkins, Maurine Dallas Chicago ........................ 202 Watkyn, Arthur Not In the Book ............... 125 Watson, Ara The Duck Pond ................ 313 Watson, Donald Amedee (trans.) ................ 143 Exit the King (trans.) ............ 72 Frenzy for Two, Or More (trans.) ....................... 274

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Wackier, Rebecca The Isle of Dogs ............... 285 Wadsworth, Stephen Changes of Heart (trans.) ........ 79 The Game of Love and Chance (trans.) ......................... 76 The Triumph of Love (trans.) .... 82 Wagner, Jane The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe ............ 8 Wagner, Paula Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Walcott, Derek Dream On Monkey Mountain .. 124 Pantomime ....................... 74 Remembrance .................. 125 Ti-Jean and His Brothers ...... 150 Walden, William Tomboy Wonder ................. 91 Waldrop, Mark Hot 'n Cole .................... 209 Howard Crabtree's Whoop-DeeDoo! ......................... 210 When Pigs Fly ................. 210 Walker, Brandy The Moons of Alnyron .......... 11 Walker, Joseph A. Ododo .......................... 217 The River Niger ............... 155 Walker, Peter Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Walker, Stuart Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil .......................... 288 Walkes, W. R. A Pair of Lunatics ............. 292

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Welty, Eudora The Ponder Heart .............. 189 Wentworth. Scott Gunmetal Blues ................ 208 Werlel, Franz The Grand Tour Wertenbaker, Timberlake Filumena Filumena (trans.)

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Nobody's Earnest .............. 217 The Picture of Dorian Gray .... 169, 219
Wilder, Alec Nobody's Earnest ........... 217 The Willie Tree ................ 229 Wilder, Thornton The Alcestiad Or A Life In the Sun ..................... 176 Childhood ...................... 275 The Drunken Sisters ........... 268 The Happy Journey to Trenton from Camden ...................... 280 The Ides of March ............. 189 Infancy ......................... 275 The Long Christmas Dinner ... 310 Love and How To Cure It ..... 270 The Matchmaker ............... 173 Our Town ...................... 167 Pullman Car Hiawatha ......... 290 Queens of France .............. 269 The Skin of Our Teeth ......... 170 Someone From Assisi .......... 269 Wildman, Carl The King Stag (trans.)

Williams, Caroline Just Be Frank .................. 313 Williams, Charles T. Superflyer ...................... 291 Williams, Emlyn A Month In the Country ....... 161 A Murder Has Been Arranged ..................... 122 Night Must Fall ................ 118 Williams, Frank Murder By Appointment ......... 66 Williams, Hugh and Margaret The Flip Side .................... 39 The Grass Is Greener ............ 74 The Irregular Verb To Love ... 122 Past Imperfect .............. ~ . .. 136 Williams, Jaston Greater Tuna ...................... 9 A Tuna Christmas ............. 308 Williams, Jay Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine ..................... 203 Williams, John W. Looking Good ................. 313 Williams, Marjorie Out of the Night ............... 136 Williams, Matt Between Daylight and Boonville .................... 103 Md 20/20 ...................... 246 Williams, Nigel Class Enemy ..................... 92 Williams, Pete Child Wonder .................. 292 Williams, Robert Puss'n Boots ................... 221 Williams, Samm-Art Eyes of the American ............ 26 Woman From the Town ......... 64 Williams, Simon Nobody's Perfect ............... .40 Williams, Tennessee Adam and Eve on a Ferry ..... 311 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens .................... 311 The Big Game ................. 311 Candles to the Sun ............. 164 Escape ......................... 311 The Fat Man's Wife ........... 311 Fugitive Kind .................. 164 Mister Paradise ................ 311 Mister Paradise and Other Plays ......................... 311 The Municipal Abattoir ........ 311 Not About Nightingales ........ 166 The Pink Bedroom ............. 311 The Palooka ................... 311 Spring Storm ................... 153 Stairs to the Roof .............. 164 Summer at the Lake ........... 311 Thank You Kind Spirit ........ 311 These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch ........................ 311 You Touched Me! ............... 92 Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily? ......................... 311 Williamson, David Emerald City ..................... 65 Willingham, Calder End As A Man ................ 145 Willis, Ted Doctor In the House

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Wilson, August Fences ........................... 82 Jitney .......................... III Joe Turner's Come and Gone .. 137 King Hedley II ................... 57 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom .... 127 The Piano Lesson ................ 94 Seven Guitars .................... 77 Two Trains Running ............. 78 Wilson, Harvey L. The Man From Home .......... 189 Wilson. David Henry Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? ..................... The Death Artist ............... The Escapologist ............... The Fourth Prisoner ............ The Wall ....................... Wendlebury Day ...............

Wesker, Arnold Chicken Soup With Barley 135 Chips With Everything ........ 188 The Four Seasons ................ 74 The Friends .................... 125 I'm Talking About Jerusalem .. 152 The Journalists ................. 189 The Kitchen .................... 189 Love Letters On Blue Paper ..... 74 The Old Ones .................. 158 Roots ........................... 166 Shylock ........................ 190 Their Very Own and Golden City ......................... 190 The Wedding Feast ............ 190 West, Morris L. Daughter of Silence ............ 184 Westheimer. David My Sweet Charlie ................ 72 Wexley, John They Shall Not Die ............ 190 Whaley, Michael Nymph Errant ................ 217 Whalley, Peter Local Murder .................... 34 Wheeler, Paul Deceptions ....................... 11 Wheetman, Dan It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues ........................ 211 White, Alfred H. Sap Runs High ................. 163 White, Diz Bullshot Crummond ............. 54 Footlight Frenzy ................. 68 White, George Royal Gambit (trans.) ............ 91 White, Irving Fly Away Home ............... 157 White, Theodore H. Caesar At the Rubicon ......... 130 Whitehead, Paxton Chemin De Fer (trans.) ........ 178 Whitemore, Hugh The Best of Friends .............. 19 Breaking the Code ............. 116 Pack of Lies ................... 102 Stevie ............................ 24 Whitfield, Alice Ad Hock ....................... 199 Whiting, John The Devils ..................... 179 Marching Song ................. 124 Whitmore, Ken The Final Twist .................. 30 Whyte, Ron Variety Obit ................... 228 Welcome To Andromeda ...... 251 Wiener, Sally Dixon Pavane ......................... 264 Telemachus. Friend ............ 227 Wilde, Hagar Guest In the House ............ 163 Made In Heaven ............... 152 Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest ............. 148, 194,294

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Wilson, Dorothy Clarke The Empty Room .............. 310 Wilson, Lanford Eukiah ......................... 313 Wilson, Paul The Beggar's Opera (trans.) ... 168 Wilson, Snoo The Soul of the White Ant ...... 68 Wiltse, David Doubles .......................... 66 The Good German ............... 27 Otis Proposes .................. 248 Suggs .......................... 107 Temporary Help ................. 28 To Wit and to Whom .......... 251 Triangles for Two .......... 12, 251 Wimberly, Bridgette A. Saint Lucy's Eyes ................ 28 Wincelberg, Shimon Kataki ............................ 74 Windham, Donald You Touched Me! ............... 92 Winer, Elihu Anatomy of A Murder ......... 181 Winer, Deborah Grace The Last Girl Singer ............. 20 Wingate, Gifford Farnily ........................... 36 How the Chicken Hawk Won the West ......................... 299 The Lion Who Wouldn't ...... 298 Winn, Marie Temptation (trans.) ............. 148 Winsloe, Christa Girls In Uniform (Children In Uniform) ..................... 188 Winters, Keith The Shining Hour ................ 74 Wise, Jim Dames At Sea .................. 203 Yankee Ingenuity .............. 229 Wishengrad, Morton The Rope Danc'ers ............. 123 Wiskopf, Bob The Convention ................ 291 Wisner, Jimmy Scrambled Feet ................ 222 Witkiewicz, Stanislaw The Crazy Locomotive ........ 290 The Madman and the Nun ..... 109 The Water Hen ................ 174 Witkin, Stephen Prom Queens Unchained ....... 220 Witten, Mathew The Ties That Bind ............ 259 Wodehouse, P.G. Candlelight ..................... 252

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Wilhelm, Le Blackberry Frost 113 Cherry Blend With Vanilla .... 255 Eight Plays from the Heartland .................... 311 Evelyn and the Environment ... 263 5:15 Greyhound ................ 253 Floating Island ................. 253 La Chienne in the Park ........ 253 Life Comes To the Old Maid .. 246 Meridan Mississippi, Redux ... 264 Mustard Seed .................. 239 An Old Beagle Called Amore .. , .................... 240 One-Eyed Venus and the Brothers .................. . .... 62 The Parrot ..................... 240 Pie Supper ....................... 98 Pink Cadillac Nightmare ....... 248 The Power and the Glory ...... 248 The Road To Nineveh ..... . .. 258 Strawberry Preserves ........... 266 A Significant Betrayal ......... 250 Tremulous ..................... 251 Whoppers ...................... 252 You Don't Have to Go to Kansas City to Meet the Devil ....... 241 The Voyeur and the Widow ... 241 Wilkinson, Matt Sun Is Shining ................... 10 Wilkes, Allene Tupper Creaking Chair ................. 152 Wilkie, Neil Teller of Tales ................. 227 Willard, John The Cat and the Canary ....... 134 Willens, Doris Piano Bar ...................... 219 Willett, John The Catch (trans.) .............. 288 Drums In the Night (trans.) .... 170 The Good Woman of Setzuan (trans.) ....................... 175 The Life of Galileo (trans.) .... 174 The Messingkauf Dialogues (trans.) ........................ .46 Mother Courage and Her Children (trans.) ....................... 166 Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti (trans.) ....................... 171 William, John The Lady Cries Murder .... , .

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Wilmurt, Arthur Noah ........................... 122 Wilner, Sheri Labor Day ..................... 313

Williams, Brian Christopher Token To the Moon ........... 313

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Save the Human ............... The See-Saw Tree ............. The Selfish Shellfish ........... Spot's Birthday Party .......... There Was an Old Woman .... Tickle .......................... the Witches .................... 297 301 296 296 303 304 302

The Play's the Thing .......... 124

Woldin, Judd King of Schnorrers ............. 213 Langston Hughes's Little Ham ......................... 213 Murder in Baker Street .......... 77 Petticoat Lane .................. 219 Raisin .......................... 221 Woles, Robert The Cell ....................... 157 Wolfe, Thomas Angel ............................ 91 Look Homeward, Angel ....... 173 Wolfe, Wayne Another Springtime ............ 135 Wolff, Ruth Rehrer The Golem ..................... 188 Wollner, Donald Badgers ........................ 103 Wong, Elizabeth Let the Big Dog Eat ........... 313 Wood, Cyrus Good Night Ladies ............. 161 Wood, David Babe, the Sheep-Pig ........... 302 Babes in the Magic Wood ..... 299 Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish ...................... 302 Fantastic Mr. Fox .............. 296 Flibberty and the Penguin ..... 301 The Gingerbread Man ......... 295 Hijack Over Hygenia .......... 299 The Ideal Gnome Expedition .. 295 Jack the Lad ................... 300 James and the Giant Peach .... 295 Mother Goose's Golden . Christmas .................... 299 Old Father Time ............... 299 Old Mother Hubbard ........... 303 Meg and Mog Show ........... 296 Nutcracker Sweet .............. 296 The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See ........................... 301 The Papertown Paperchase .... , 300 The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner ....................... 298

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Yankowitz, Susan Night Sky ........................ 61 Yearley, John All in Little Pieces ............. 237 A Low-Lying Fog ............. 239. Yeaton, Dana Helen At Risk .................. 313 Yeats, WiUiam Butler Purgatory ...................... 270 Sword Against the Sea ......... 127 YeJdham, Peter But She Won't Lie Down ........ 89 Lighting Up Time ................ 35 My Friend Miss Flint ............ 67 Yellen, Sherman Strangers ....................... 133 Nine ............................ 316 Phantom ....................... 219 Yost, Dorothy No Room At the Inn ........... 310 Young, Bruce A. EIR ............................. 174 Young, Bryan Wanna Play?! .................. 228 Young, Cy James Skipworth and the Catfish Colonel ........................ 22 "Jump, I'll Catch You!" ........ 11 The Sloth ........................ 65 Young, Howard Irving Not Herbert .................... 152 Young, Phil Crystal Clear ..................... 22 Young, Stark The Cherry Orchard (trans.) .,. The Sea Gull (trans.) ........... The Three Sisters (trans.) ...... Uncle Vanya (trans.) ...........

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Zajdlic, Richard Cock and Bull Story ............. 74 Dogs Barking ................... 30 Zaitz berg, Charlotte Raisin .......................... 221 Zapata, Carmen Blood Wedding (trans.) ........ 188 The House of Bernarda Alba (trans.) ....................... 135 Yerma (trans.) ................. 190 Zeman, Jack Past Tense ....................... 74 Zerlin Jnr., Waiter Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S'll Vous Plait! ..................... 44 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S. Murder Mystery ........................ 51 The FA.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of A Christmas Carol ........ 308 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of Macbeth .................. 127 The F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.'s Production of the Mikado ............... 205 The Haunted Through Lounge. . . at Farndale Castle .............. 60 They Came From Mars and Landed Outside Farndale . . . . ....... .43 We Found Love and . . . Aboard the S.S. Farndale .............. 43 Ziegler, Tom Grace and Glorie ................. 11 Home Games .................... 22 Weeds .......................... 136 Zippel, David Just So ......................... 212 Zittel, Greg Fighting Light ................... 65 Three Prayers .................. 112

Wood, James A Christmas Carol ............. 202 Wood, Patricia The Wizard of Wobbling Rock ......................... 303 Woodhouse, Paul Play the Game ................. 288 Woods, Don The Sleeper Murders ........... 100 Woodward, Greer Sherlock Holmes and the RedHeaded League .............. 223 WoolI, Edward Libel ........................... 162 Worth, Martin Lighting Up Time ................ 35 Wouk, Herman The Caine Mutiny CourtMartial ....................... 184 Nature's Way .................. 163 The Traitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 190 Wright, Barbara The Car Cemetery (trans.) ..... 124 The Tricycle (trans.) ............. 90 Vbu Roi (trans.) ............... 177 Wright, Craig Foul Territory .................. 314 Wright, Nicholas Mrs. Klein ....................... 20 Vincent in Brixton .............. .43 Wright, Richard Native Son ..................... 176 Wuolijoki, Hella Mr. Puntila and His Man, Matti ......................... 171 Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man .......................... 190

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Younghusband, Carol Only A Game .................. 301

INDEX OF TITLES Note: The titles with a "*" appear for the first time in this catalogue.
A. . My Name Is Alice 199 A . . My Name Is Still Alice................... 199 A . . . My Name Will Always Be Alil:e ......................... 199 Abducting Diana : ................ 78 The Abduction ................... 78 Abelard and Heloise ........... 178 Abie's Irish Rose .............. 124 Abigail's Party ................... 43 Abortive ....................... 238 About Alice ...................... 29 About Face .................... 117 Abraham Lincoln .............. 187 Abroad ......................... 282 Absalom ....................... 152 Absent Friends ................... 66 An Absolute Turkey ........... 164 Absurd Person Singular .......... 71 Academia Nuts ................... 29 The Academy ............... ' .. 284 Acapulco ......................... 56 Accent On Youth .............. 124 Accents for Actors ............. 320 Accidental Angel ................ 91 Accommodations ................. 38 Accomplice ...................... 43 Acetylene ...................... 254 The Acharnians ................ 178 Acorn .......................... 313 Across the Street ............... 135 The Act ........................ 199 An Act of the Imagination ....... 84 An Act of Worship ............ 307 Act Without Words ............ 241 Acting in Film ................. 321 Acting in Restoration Comedy ...................... 321 Acting Lessons With Alvina Krause ....................... 321 Acting Natural ................. 321 Acting: The First Six Lessons ...................... 321 Action .......................... 268 Actor! .......................... 40 Actor ........................... 276 An Actor Behaves ............. 323 An Actor Prepares ............. 321 An Actor Succeeds ............ 323 Actor: The Life and Times of Paul Muni ......................... 322 Actor's Book of Classical Monologues .................. 321 Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues ........... 321 Actor's Book of Movie Monologues .................. 321 Actor's Book of Scenes From New Plays ......................... 321 An Actor's Handbook ......... 321 Actor's Scene Book: 1 ......... 321 Actors Write for Actors ........ 317 Acts of Faith ..................... 13 Al:ts of Love and Other Comedies .................... 312 Ad Hock ....................... 199 Ada Gives First Aid ........... 293 Adam and Eve On A Ferry .... 311 The Adding Machine .......... ) 86 The Adjustment ................ 241 The Admirable Bashville ...... 192 The Admirable Crichton ....... 187 Admit One ..................... 241 The Adoption .................. 238 Adult Entertainment ............. 56 The Adventure of the Clouded Crystal ....................... 267 The Adventures of A Bear Called Paddington ................... 297 The Adventures of Captain Neatoman .......................... 265 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .......................... 168 Adventures of Marco Polo ..... 199 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ....................... 300 Advice From A Caterpillar ...... 32 Advice To The Players .......... 67 Advice To The Players (lAct) .......................... 278 Advise and Consent ............ 164 The Affair in 22 B ............... 13 Affairs of State .................. 74 The Affected Young Ladies ... 294 Afraid of the Dark ............. 193 Afraid To Fight ................ 241 After ........................... 313 After Crystal Night ............ 118 After Haggerty ................. 161 After Liverpool ................ 274 After Magritte .................. 274 After Midnight-before Dawn ........................ 279 After The Ball ................. 199 After The Dancing in Jericho .... 63 After The Fact ................. 241 After The Rain ................. 152 After you ...................... 313 After You With The Milk ....... 51 Afterhours ..................... 286 Afternoon At The Seaside ..... 288 Afterwards ..................... 270 Agamemnon ................... 109 Agatha Sue, I Love You ......... 54 Agnes of God .................... 23 Ah, Wilderness ................ 164 A.I.D.s ......................... 241 A.K.A. Marleen ................ 241 The Alabaster Jar .............. 307 Aladdin (Morley) .............. 302 Aladdin (Robbins) ............. 298 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ........................ 297 Alan, Betty and Riva .......... 254 Alarms and Excursions .......... 26 Albert's Bridge ....... : ........ 233 The Alcestiad Or A Life in the Sun .......................... 176 The Alchemist's Book ......... 298 Alfie ........................... 180 Alias The Deacon .............. 187 Alibi for A Judge .............. 187 Alice in Concert ............... 199 Alice in Wonderland (Le Gallienne & Friebus) ................... 180 Alice in Wonderland (Marvin) ..................... 304 Alice Sit-by-the-fire ............ 123 Alil:e The Magnificent! ........ 199 The Alien Corn .................. 65 All About Love .................. 74 All About Method Acting ..... 321 All for Art ..................... 254 All for Mary ..................... 73 All for One ...................... 43 All Good Minds ............... 288 All in Good Time .............. 143 * All in Little Pieces ............. 237 All My Darlings ............... 187 All New Scenes for Actors .... 317 All New Scenes for the Young Actor ......................... 317 All Over ....................... 135 All Summer Long ..... : ......... 124 All That Fall ................... 233 All That He Was ............... 199 All The Better To Kill You With ........................... 91 All The Girls Came Out To Play .......................... 150 All The King's Horses ......... 153 All The Tricks But One ....... 109 All The Way Home ............ 161 All This and Moonlight .......... 64 Allison Wonderland .. . . . . . . . . .. 199 'allo 'allo ...................... 164 Allocating Annie ................. 83 All's Well That Ends As You Like It ............................. 286 Almost an Eagle ................. 49 Almost Perfect ................... 65 An Almost Perfect Person ....... 24 Alone At The Beach ............. 83 Alone Together .................. 67 * Alone Together Again .......... .40 Along Came Ruth .............. 152 Along for the Ride ............. 270 Alphabetical Order ............... 88 Alterations ....................... 50 The Alto Part .................... 64 Alvin Fernald. Mayor for A Day .......................... 299 Amaco ......................... 187 Amadeus ....................... 164 The Amazing Adventures of Dan Daredevil .................... 199 Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ...... 152 Amazing Grace .................. 95 Amber Waves .................... 56 Amber Waves (I-Act) 276 Amedee ........................ 143 The Amen Corner .. .. . .. .. .. ... 161 American Buffalo ................ 23 American Cantata .............. 199 American Days .................. 68 American Saint ................ 313 The American Theatre ......... 322 An American Tragedy ......... 187 American Welcome ............ 313 Americana ..................... 318 America's Heritage ............ 305 Amidst The Gladiolas .......... 103 Among Those Presents ........ 310 The Amorous Ambassador ....... 95 The Amorous Flea ............. 199 Amy's View .................... :56 Amy's Wish ..................... 56 An' Push Da Wind Down ....... 93 Anastasia ....................... 157 The Anastasia File ............... 33 The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women ...................... 109 Anatomy of A Murder ......... 181 * Anatomy of Gray .............. 109 and Came The Spring .......... 187 . . . and Fat Freqdy's Blues ..... 29 And Go To Innisfree ........... 252 And I Ain't Finished yet ........ 36 And Never Been Kissed ....... 151 And None for the Road ........ 286 *And Now Miguel .............. 198 And On The Sixth Day. . .... 200 And Send Forth A Raven ........ 40 And So To Bed ................ 187 . . . and Stuff. ............... 174 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens .................... 311 .. and The Rain Came To Mayfield ..................... 113 . . and Then I Wrote. . . .. .. 102 And Then There Were None ... 139 And They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers ...................... 107 Andorra ........................ 145 Androcles and the Lion ........ 180 Andy Hardy .................... 187 Angel .......................... 200 Angel City ....................... 69 Angel On My Shoulder .......... 24 Angel On The Train ........... 241 Angel Street ..................... 55 Angela ........................... 74 Angels in Lovf~ ................ 124 Angry Housewives ............. 200 Anima Mundi .................. 153 Animal Crackers ............... 200 Animal Farm ..................... 91 The Animal Kingdom . .'.... . . .. 124 Animal Salvation .............. 235 Anna K ......................... 142 Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress ...................... 274 Anne of Avon lea . .. .. .. . .. . .... 163 Anne of Green Gables ......... 163 Anne of Green Gables (musical) ..................... 200 The Anniversary (Cleese & Booth) ....................... 289 The Anniversary (Macllwaith) ... 72 * Annoyance ....................... 17 Another Country ............... 130 Another Language ............. 145 Another Moon Called Earth ... 233 Another Springtime ............ 135 Another Time .................. 113 Another Tortoise, Another Hare ......................... 301 The Ant and the Grasshopper .. 298 Antic Spring ................... 280 Antigone ....................... 136 Antigone in New York .......... 29 Anton in Show Business ......... 56 Antony and Cleopatra ...... .... 191 Any Eve for Adam .............. 74 Any Friend of Percy D'angelino Is A Friend of Mine .............. 19 Any Given Day ................ 109 Any Number Can Die ......... 150 Anybody for Murder ............. 63 Anybody We Know? .......... 318 Anyone for Tennis? ............ 267 The Apollo of Bellac .......... 288 The Appeasement .............. 313 The Apple Cart ................ 186 An Apple for Teacher ......... 294 Applesauce ..................... 124 The Appointment .............. 264 Appointment With Death ...... 178 Approaching Lavendar ......... 254 Approaching Simone ........... 149 Approaching Zanzibar ......... 110 Apre s Ope ra .................. 312 Apron Strings .................. 124 Aptitude .......................... 24 Arabian Nights ................. 304 Arcadia ........................ 145 Archangels Don't Play Pinball ....................... 129

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Auto-erotic Misadventure ...... 254 Autumn Elegy ................... 29 Autumn Leaves (Bernstein) .... 241 Autumn Leaves (Nigro) ........ 235 Autumn Manoeuvres ........... 129 Autumn Violins .................. 19 A venue X ...................... 200 The A ward ..................... 235 The Award and Other Plays ... 113 A way Alone ..................... 99 Away From Me .................. 59 Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending To Be Hard At Work and Hope That They Will Go Away ......... 241 Awkward Silence .............. 254 Axis Sally ........................ 49
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Archie and the Computer ...... 291 Archie and the Editorial ....... 291 Archie Andrews ................ 163 Archie in the Hospital ......... 291 Archie's Comeback .............. 19 The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ......................... 15 Ardele .......................... 133 Ardy Fafirsin .................. 147 Are Teachers Human? ......... 193 Are You Being Served? ....... 146 Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? ..................... 277 Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? and Other Short Plays ............ 314 Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? ........................ 175 Are You Sure? ................... 63 Areatha in the Ice Palace ...... 279 Aren't We All ................. 149 Aria Da Capo .................. 276 Aristocrats ..................... 113 Arizona Anniversaries ......... 313 Ark of Safety .................. 177 Armitage ....................... 147 Arms and the Man ............. 192 The Arnold Bliss Show ........ 269 Around The Clock ............... 56 * Arrangements .................... 92 The Arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 149 Art and Mrs. Bottle ............ 124 Art of Coarse Acting .......... 321 The Art of Dating .............. 254 The Art of Dining ............. 119 Arthur Makes A Difference .... 278 The Artificial Jungle ............. 50 Artist Descending A Staircase ... 83 Artist Descending A Staircase (radio play) .................. 233 Arts & Leisure ................... 40 As Angels Watch .............. 271 As Husbands Go ............... 152 As The Beast Sleeps ............. 75 As You Desire Me ............. 187 As You Like It ................. 191 Ascent of Mount Fuji .......... 135 Ashes ............................ 37 Aspects of Oscar ................. 59 The Aspern Papers ............... 73 Aspirin & Elephants ............. 59 The Astonished Heart .......... 282 Astrakhan Coat ................ 124 Astronaut ...................... 234 Asylum ........................ 277 At 9:45 ......................... 187 At Her Age .................... 267 At Home (Dresser) ............. 278 At Home (Weller) ............. 241 At Land's End ................. 241 At Sea ......................... 313 At The Exit .................... 274 At War With The Army ....... 187 Attack of the Moral Fuzzies ... 312 The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater .................. 287 The Au Pair Man ................ 16 * Audacity ........................ .40 Audience (Frayn) .............. 289 Audience (Havel) .............. 241 Audience Participation ......... 322 The Audition ................... 241 Audition ....................... 321 The Award ..................... 113 Audition for the Musical Theatre ....................... 321 The Audition Is Over .......... 278 Audition Pieces and Classroom Exercises ......... . . . . . . . . . . .. 318 August Afternoon .............. 313 Augustus ....................... 273 Augustus Does His Bit ........ 260 Aunt Tillie Goes To Town ..... 194 The Aunts ........................ 32 The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid ............................ 39

Baal (Bentley & Esslin) ... 178 *sl *FCO Baal 187 The Babbling Brooks .......... 162 Babe, The Sheep-pig ........... 302 The Babel of Circular Labyrinths ................... 238 Babes and Brides ................ 59 Babes in the Magic Wood ..... 299 Baby ........................... 288 The Baby Dance ................ .43 The Baby Sitter .................. 74 Baby Want A Kiss ............... 74 The Bacchae ..................... 95 Bachelor Born ................. 187 The Bachelor Pad! ............... 52 The Bachelor's Baby .......... 187 Back Bog Beast Bait ........... 282 Back County Crimes ........... 135 Back To Bacharach and David ........................ 200 Back To Methuselah ........... 180 The BackgrouJld ............... 266 Backstage Handbook ........... 321 Bad Axe ......................... 27 *Bad Blood ....................... 40 Bad Dates ......................... 7 Bad Day At Black Frog Creek ........................ 200 A Bad Day At Gopher's Breath ........................ 176 Bad Man ....................... 187 The Bad Penny ................ 266 Badgers ........................ 103 Badin The Bold ................ 241 Bafo (Best and Final Offer) ...... 59 A Bag of Green Apples ........ 265 Bait and Switch ................ 271 The Baker's Neighbor ......... 265 The Balcony ................... 156 The Balcony Scene .............. 19 Balcony Scene ................. 284 The Bald Soprano .............. 280 The Balkan Women .............. 40 The Ballad of King Window glass ................ 310 The Ballad of Soapy Smith .... 171 The Ballerinas ................. 252 * Balloon Rat .................... 234 Ballroom ....................... 200 Balls ........................... 286 Ballycastle ..................... 241 Balmoral ......................... 86 * Banana Man ................... 252 * Banana Man and Other Plays .. 311 Banana Ridge .................. 149 Bank Street Breakfast .......... 247 The Banker's Dilemma ........ 269 Bar and Ger .................... 241 The Bar Off Melrose .......... 172 Barbara's First ................. 312 Barbarians ..................... 175 The Barbarians Are Coming ... 241 The Barber of Seville (Sahlins) .. 95 The Barber of Seville (Bermel) ..................... 113

Barbra's Wedding ................. 9 * Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight .................. 252 Barefoot in the Park ............. 66 Barker .......................... 157 Barking Sharks ................... 75 Barry, Betty and Bill ........... 312 Barrymore ........................ 7 Bashville in Love .............. 200 The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel ..................... 186 * Basil The Rat .................. 289 The Bat ........................ 132 Batbrains ....................... 242 The Bathhouse ................. 187 The Bathroom Door ........... 281 Bathroom Humor .............. 101 The Battle of Shallowford ..... 113 The Battle of Valor .............. 59 The Battling Brinkrnires ....... 242 Be Happy for Me ................ 22 The Beach ..................... 113 The Beach House ................ 22 Beached ........................ 272 The Beams Are Creaking ...... 130 Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine ..................... 305 The Bear ......................... 65 Bear Witness ................... 121 The Beard of Avon ............ 110 Beast of A Different Burden ... 260 Beast With Two Backs ......... .44 Beata: The Pope's Daughter ..... 75 Beatrice Herford's Monologues .................. 318 Beau Jest ......................... 59 The Beautiful People .......... 123 Beauty and the Beast (Beers) .. 298 Beauty and the Beast (Gray) ... 296 . Beauty and the Beast (musical) ..................... 200 Beauty and the Beast. Really .. 200 The Beauty Part ................ 181 The Beaver Coat ............... 157 Because I Wanted To Say ..... 242 Becausehecan ................... .41 Becket ......................... 181 Becoming Memories ........... 130 Bed Among The Lentils ....... 234 Bed and Breakfast ............. 313 The Bed Before yesterday ..... 120 The Bedbug .................... 187 A Bedfull of Foreigners ......... 88 Bedroom Farce ... .. .. .. .. .. .... 105 Bedrooms ........................ 13 Bedside Manners ................ .48 Bedtime Story ................. 282 Bees and the Flowers .......... 145 Beethoven's Tenth ............. 113 Before You Go .................. 16 Beggar On Horseback ......... 187 The Beggar Or The Dead Dog .......................... 242 The Beggar's Opera ........... 168 The Beggar's Opera (musical) .. 200 Beginner's Luck ................. 55 Beginnings ....................... 25 The Beheading ................... 54 Behind The Scenes ............ 323 Behold The Bridegroom ....... 152 Behold This Dreamer .......... 157 Being of Sound Mind ........... .48 Belch ........................... 163 Belinda ........................... 74 Bellavita ....................... 280 The Belle of Amherst ............. 8 Belles ............................ 59 Below The Belt .................. 19 Belvedere ...................... 145 Ben Franklin in Paris .......... 201 A Bench At The Edge ......... 242 A Bench in the Sun .............. 17 Benefactors ...................... 29 Benefit of A Doubt .............. 68 Benny and the Woman ........ 312

Bent ............................ 141 The Bequest ................... 276 Berkeley Square ............... 181 Bermondsey .................... 269 Bermuda Avenue Triangle ....... 56 Beside yourself .................. 37 The Bespoke Overcoat ......... 266 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ......................... 308 Best Friend ...................... 74 The Best Laid Plans ........... 133 The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public ........................ 201 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ........................ 201 The Best of Friends .............. 19 The Best Souvenirs ............ 254 The Best Warm Beer in Brooklyn ..................... 255 Beth Henley: Monologues for Women ...................... 317 The Betrothed .................. 261 Better Days ...................... 59 Better Half Dead ................. 44 Between Daylight and Boonville .................... 103 Between Now and Then ....... 103 Between The Lines ............ 242 Between Time and Timbuktu Or Promethus 5 ................. 187 Between Two Friends .......... 313 Between Two Thieves ......... 156 Beyond A Joke .................. 99 Beyond Reasonable Doubt ..... 159 Beyond The Fringe .............. 40 Beyond Therapy ................. 59 Bible ........................... 242 Bible Herstory ................. 184 The Bible Salesman ............ 201 Biff, Dickie, Carmel and Roberta ...................... 312 Big Bad Mouse ................ 122 The Big Bang .................. 201 The Big Black Box ............ 235 The Big Game ................. 311 Big Hotel ...................... 187 Big Lake ....................... 135 Big Maggie .................... 141 Big Time Buck White ......... 124 Big-hearted Herbert ............ 157 Bill and Laura ................. 278 Bill W. and Dr. Bob ............. 64 Billy Liar ...................... 108 The Billy-Club Puppets ........ 182 Biloxi Blues ................... 102 Bingo! ........................... 50 Bingo Babes .................... .41 Binnorie ........................ 242 The Biograph Girl ............. 201 Biography ...................... 108 Biography, A Game ........... 188 Bird in Hand ................... 124 Birdbath ........................ 242 The Birds ...................... 177 Birds of Paradise ............... 201 The Birds Stopped Singing .... 279 Birth and After Birth ............ 44 Birthday .......................... 24 The Birthday of the Infanta .... 304 The Birthday Party ............... 72 Birthright ...................... 188 The Bishop Misbehaves ....... 133 A Bit Between The Teeth ........ 51 A Bit of A Test ................ 174 Bitter Friends .................. 128 Bittersuite ...................... 201 Black & White ................. 273 Black and Silver ............... 242 Black Coffee ................... 155 Black Comedy ................... 95 Black Commercial #2 .......... 315 Black Deeds in Whitehorse .... 105 The Black Duck ................. 99 Black Eagles ................... 153

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The Black Girl in Search of God .......................... 132 The Black Monk ............... 110 The Black Prince ................ 82 Black Widow .................. 153 Blackberry Frost ............... 113 Blackout ....................... 113 Blackpool and Parrish ........... 41 The Blacks ..................... 161 Blah, Blah, Blah ............... 168 Bleacher Bums ................. 113 Blind Alley .................... 144 Blind Spot ..................... 242 Blithe Spirit ...................... 85 *The Blonde .................... 237 *The Blonde and Other Distractions .................. 311 Blood Brothers ................. 201 Blood Knot ...................... 15 Blood Money ................... .41 Blood Moon ..................... 74 Blood Wedding (Lujan & O'Connell) ................... 183 Blood Wedding (Dewwell & Zapata) ....................... 188 Bloodline ...................... 268 Bloodline Or Hanged in Their Own Family Tree .................... 36 Bloody Poetry ................... 50 Bloomsbury .................... 188 Blow Your Own Hom ......... 157 Blown Sideways Through Life ... 7 Blue .............................. 93 The Blue Bird .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 Blue Collar Blues .............. 168 Blue Denim ...................... 73 Blue Ghost ..................... 124 Blue Heart ..................... 110 Blue Kettle ..................... 284 Blue Remembered Hills ......... 75 The Blue Room (Baron) ....... 313 The Blue Room (Hare) ........... 9 Blue Window .................... 86 Bluebeard ...................... 130 Blueberry Waltz. . .............. 238 Blues for Mr. Charlie .......... 182 Bluff ............................. 27 Blunder, Bluebell, Baby and Birdie ........................ 299 Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders ...................... 196 *Boar's Head ................... 152 Bobby Gould in Hell .......... 263 The Body Beautiful ............ 201 Body Talk ..................... 314 Bodywork ...................... 201 Boeing-boeing ................... 72 Boesman and Lena ............... 25 The Bohemian Seacoast ....... 238 Bold Girls ........................ 29 Bone-chiller! ................... 153 Boneyard ....................... 235 The Boogeyman .......... 128, 255 The Boor ....................... 292 The Boor Hug ................. 267 Booth ............................ 93 Border Minstrelsy .............. 235 Borderline Crazies ............... 56 Boredom ......................... 24 Born Guilty ...................... 78 Born in the Gardens ............. 36 Born To Be Blue .............. 271 Borstal Boy .................... 180 Both Sides of the Story ........ 317 Both Your Houses ............. 188 Bottoms Up! ................... 114 Boubouroche (Shapiro) .......... 95 Boubouroche (Bermel) ...... 95 119 The Boundary .................. 271 The Bourgeois Gentleman ..... 175 Bovver Boys ..................... 99 Box and Cox ................... 292 Box Office ..................... 235 *Boy On Blacktop Road ........ 276 The Boy Upstairs .............. 270 Boy Wanted ................... 188 The Boy Who Ate the Moon .. 242 The Boy Who Changed The World ........................ 162 The Boys in the Band ......... 121 The Braggart Soldier ........... 122 The Brannock Device .......... 273 Bravo, Caruso! ................... 10 The Brazilian .................... 51 Bread .......................... 312 Bread and Butter ............... 159 Break A Leg ................... 149 Breakdown ..................... 242 Breakfast of Champions ....... 154 Breakfast with Les and Bess ..... 68 Breaking the Chain ............ 313 Breaking the Code ............. 116 Breaking the Silence ............. 85 Breaking Up ..................... 10 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do ... 282 Breath .......................... 235 Breath of Spring ............... 109 Brecht On Brecht ................ 92 A Breeze From the Gulf ......... 25 Breezeblock Park .............. 117 Brewster's Millions ............ 188 Bridal Terrorism ............... 277 The Bride of Brackenloch! ..... 140 The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock ........................... 75 The Bridge (Corostiza & Curcio) ....................... 163 The Bridge (Fratti) ............. 242 Bridge To Terabithia ........... 298 Bridges. . . Are When You Cross Them ........................ 275 Brighton Beach Memoirs ........ 85 Brighton Beach Scumbags ..... 276 Brimstone and Treacle ........... 29 The Brixton Recovery ........... 14 Broadway ...................... 186 . Broadway Babylon ............. 197 Broadway Bound ................ 66 Broadway Jones ................ 188 Broadway Macabre ............ 234 Broken Dishes ................. 135 Broken Eggs ..................... 93 Broken English .................. 29 Broken Hearts .................. 313 Broken Up ....................... 36 Bronte' ........................... 8 The Broom and the Groom .... 134 A Broom for A Bride .......... 157 Brothel ......................... 255 Brother Orchid ................. 145 Brother Petroc's Return ........ 188 Brother Truckers .. : ............ 114 Brothers (Ashton) .............. 188 Brothers (Gadea) ................ 255 Brothers (Tasca) ............... 267 Brothers in Arms .............. 270 Brothers Karamazov ........... 188 The Brothers Menaechmus . . . .. 135 Brothers of the Brush ............ 29 The Browning Version ......... 282 The Brute ...................... 262 The Brute and Other Farces ... 314 Buck Fever .................... 267 *The Builders Class ............. 289 Building A Character .......... 321 The Bulldog and the Bear ....... 68 Bullfight ....................... 124 Bullpen .......................... 82 Bullshot Crummond ............. 54 Bully .............................. 8 Bums ........................... 272 Bums On Seats ................ 147 Bunny .......................... 124 Buoyant Billions ............... 157 Burgoo! ........................ 234 Burlesque ...................... 188 Burlesque Humor Revisited .... 316 Burning Desires ................ 126 Burning Glass .................. 124 The Burning Man .............. 124 The Business of Murder ......... 23 Businessman's Lunch .......... 273 The Busy Speaker's Pocket Practice Book ......................... 322 Busybody ...................... 106 But for the Grace of God ...... 188 But for Whom Charlie ......... 135 But Not Goodbye .............. 135 But, Seriously .................. 157 But She Won't Lie Down ........ 89 But Why Bump Off Barnaby? ..................... 128 The Butler Did It, Again! ...... 146 The Butler Did It, Singing ..... 201 Butley ............................ 90 The Butter and Egg Man ...... 157 Butterflies Are Free .............. 38 The Butterfly Collection ......... 56 The Butterfly's Evil Spell ..... 134 Butterscotch ..................... .44 The Button ....................... 74 Buying Time ................... 153 By Strouse ..................... 201 By the Name of Kensington ... 264 By the Rivers of Babylon ........ 44

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Cabin Fever (Dunn) .............. 79 Cabin Fever (Schenkar) .......... 23 Cactus Flower ................. 143 The Cactus Wildcat ............ 304 Caesar and Cleopatra .......... 193 Caesar At the Rubicon ......... 130 The Cage ...................... 106 The Caine Mutiny Courtmartial ....................... 184 Calculated Risk ................ 163 California Suite .................. 35 Caligula ........................ 183 Call It A Day .................. 188 Callisto 5 ...................... 297 Calm Down Mother ............ 255 Camera Obscura ............... 242 Cameras ...................... .. 313 Camille (Ludlam) .............. 152 Camille (Duma) ................ 173 Camille in Roaring Camp ...... 188 Camping With Henry and Tom .. 29 Candida ........................ 192 *Candida and Her Friends ........ 17 A Candle On the Table ........ 266 Candlelight ..................... 124 *Candles to the Sun ............. 164 Cannibalism in the Cars ....... 288 Can't Buy Me Love ........... 255 The Canterville Ghost ......... 136 The Cantilevered Terrace ........ 74 Cantorial ......................... 65 Cap and Bells .................. 124 Capone ......................... 234 Cappy Ricks ................... 124 Caprice ......................... 145 Captain Applejack ............. 145 Captain Cook .................. 235 Captain Jack's Revenge .......... 74 Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines ...................... 187 The Captain's Paradise ........ 157 The Captain's Tiger .............. 17 Captive ........................... 21 The Car Cemetery ............. 124 Card Index ..................... 188 Card Play ...................... 169 Cards On the Table ............ 160 Career .......................... 184 Carefree Tree .................. 188 Careful Harry .................. 135 Careless Love .................... 13 The Carpenter .................. 121 Cascando ....................... 290 Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces ........................ 290 A Case for Mason ............. 124 A Case of Libel ................ 162

The Case of the Curious Locks ........................ 152 The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer ....................... 201 The Case of the Laughing Dwarf ........................ 193 Cash On Delivery! ............. 126 The Cashier .................... 174 *The Casseroles of Far Rockaway .................... 263 The Castrata ..................... 59 Cat Among the Pigeons ........ 179 The Cat and the Canary ....... 134 The Cat Connection ............ 242 Cat in the Bag ................... 55 The Catalyst ..................... 25 Catastrophe ...................... 27 The Catch ...................... 288 Catch A Falling Star ............. 60 Catch As Catch Can ........... 145 Catch Me If You Can ............ 85 Catch-22 ....................... 179 Catchpenny Twist ................ 88 Catholic School Girls ............ 35 The Cats Away ................ 273 Cat's Paw ........................ 34 Catsplay ........................ 120 The Caucasian Chalk Circle ... 170 Caudaules, Commissioner ........ 74 Caught in the Net ................ 75 Caught in the Villain's Web ... 135 Caught With His Trance Down ........................ 279 Cause Celebre .................. 176 The Cave Dwellers ............ 162 Caveat Emptor ................. 263 Cavelleria Rusticana ........... 286 The Cavern .................... 188 Celebration ..................... 286 Celebration (musical) .......... 201 The Celebration ................ 314 Celestina ....................... 163 Celimare ....................... 135' The Cell ....................... 157 Cementville .................... 159 The Cemetery Club .............. 60 Centerfold ........................ 53 Central Park West ............. 271 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men ... 92 Chaim's Love Song .............. 79 Chain Mail ..................... 238 The Chairs ..................... 261 The Chalk Garden ............. 122 Challenge for the Actor ........ 321 Chamber Music ................ 287 Champagne Complex ............ 25 A Chance Meeting ............. 255 A Change From Routine ....... 242 A Change of Heart ............. 163 Changes of Heart ................ 79 The Changing Room ........... 186 Chapter Two ..................... 36 The Charlatan .................... 99 Charley's Aunt ................. 130 Charlotte Sweet ................ 202 The Charm School ............. 188 Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S'il Vous Plait! ..................... 44 Chateau Rene .................. 242 Che Guevara ................... 169 Cheaters .......................... 69 Cheatin' .......................... 79 Checking Out .................. 105 Checkmate (Lawrence & Lee) .......................... 182 Checkmate (Sands) ............. .48 Chee Chee ..................... 261 Cheers, Tears and Screamers!! .................. 264 Cheesecake .................... 247 Chekhov ....................... 242 Chekhov in Yalta .............. 140 The Chekhov Sketchbook ...... 104 Chemin De Fer ................ 178 Chemistry ...................... 255

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Cherry and Little Banjo ........ 242 Cherry Blend With Vanilla .... 255 The Cherry Orchard ........... 158 The Cherry Orchard (Young) .. 185 Cherry Orchard ................ 315 The Cherry Sisters ............. 284 Cherry Soda Water .............. 60 Chess .......................... 202 Chessman ........................ 27 Chez Nous ....................... 89 Chicago ........................ 282 Chicago (musical) .............. 202 Chicken Every Sunday ......... 183 Chicken Soup With Barley .... 135 Chicks ......................... 235 The Child Buyer ............... 188 Child Wonder .................. 292 Childe Rowland To The Dark Tower Came ................. 234 Childhood ...................... 275 Children! Children! ............ 107 Children From Their Games ..... 91 Children of Darkness .......... 135 Children of the Moon .......... 124 Children's Day ................... 87 *Children's Letters To God ..... 198 Child's Play .................... 179 Chimera ........................ 255 Chinamen ...................... 242 The Chinese Prime Minister ... 109 A Chip in the Sugar ........... 234 Chips With Everything ........ 188 A Chorus of Disapproval ...... 153 Chris Christophersen ........... 171 Christ in the Concrete City .... 307 Christmas: 1933 ................ 309 Christmas At Home ............ 310 A Christmas Cactus .............. 60 A Christmas Carol (Greenwood) ................. 310 A Christmas Carol (Ludlam) ... 188 A Christmas Carol (Pallor) .... 308 A Christmas Carol ( musical) .. 202 Christmas in Naples ........... 158 Christmas Is Comin' Uptown .. 202 Christmas Spirit .................. 24 The Christmas Spirit ........... 110 The Christmas Stranger ........ 309 A Christmas Survival Guide ... 202 Chronicles ..................... 110 Church Mouse ................. 124 Churchill: Shorts ............... 311 Chutes ......................... 238 Cincinnati ......................... 8 Cincinnati and Other Plays .... 318 Cinderella ...................... 304 Cinderella (musical) ........... 202 Cinderella Meets the Wolfman! .................... 202 Cinderella: the True Story ..... 202 Cinderella Waltz ............... 117 Cinders ......................... 174 Cindy Ella's Going To The Ball, Baby! ........................ 287 The Circle ....................... 88 The Circus Animals' Desertion .. 75 Circus in the Wind ............. 296 The City Scene ................ 290 City Sugar ....................... 89 City Women ................... 317 Civilization and Its Malcontents .................. 242 The Claimant .................. 281 Claptrap .......................... 50 Clara and the Gambler ......... 238 Clara's Old Man ............... 315 Clara's On the Curtains! ....... 287 Clara's Play ...................... 35 Clarence Darrow .................. 8 Class Action ................... 169 Class Acts ..................... 317 Class Dismissed ........ . . . . . . .. 172 Class Enemy ..................... 92 Class Musical! ................. 202 Class of '77 .................... 238 Classic Mouth ................. 317 Claudia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 124 Clean Kill ...................... 124 Cleaning House ................ 247 Cleo's Cafe .................... 304 Clerambard .................... 160 Clippings ....................... 289 The Clock Shop ................ 304 The Clock Struck Twelve ...... 192 The Clod ....................... 275 The Clone People .............. 120 A Closer Look ................. 271 Closet Madness ................ 243 *Closure ......................... 252 Cloud 9 .......................... 87 Clouds ........................... 50 The Clouds .................... 178 Clown Face .................... 295 The Clown Prince of Wanderlust ................... 303 The Club ....................... 202 Clue: The Musical ............. 202 The Coarse Acting Show 2 .... 168 Coast of Utopia ................ 164 Coastal Disturbances ........... 110 Cock and Bull Story ............. 74 Cock of the Walk ................ 27 The Cocktail Party ............. 123 Coelacanth ..................... 238 The Coffee Lace ............... 121 Co-incidence ................ : .. 260 Cold Reading and How To Be Good At It ................... 321 Cold Storage ..................... 24 Cold Water .................... 313 Cole ............................ 203 Collaborators ..................... 38 A Collection of Dramatic Sketches and Monologues ............. 317 *The Collector ..................... 9 College Widow ................ 188 A Collier's Tuesday Tea ....... 286 The Colorado Catechism ......... 10 Colored People's Time ........ 119 Columbine Cum Laude ........ 280 Columbo ......................... 91 Comanche Cafe ................ 243 Come and Go .................. 290 Come Back for Light Refreshments After the Service ............. 276 Come Back, Little Sheba ...... 143 Come Back To The 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ... 117 Come Blow Your Horn .......... 91 Come Easy ..................... 135 Come Into the Garden Maud .. 269 Come Live With Me ............. 91 Come Next Tuesday ........... 243 Come Over To Our House ..... 185 Comedians ..................... 153 The Comedy of Errors ......... 191 Comedy Writing Step by Step .......................... 323 The Comet of St. Loomis ........ 60 Comic Potential ................ 126 Comic Strip .................... 188 Comin' 'Round the Mountain .. 293 Coming Apart .................... 29 Coming Attractions .............. 87 The Coming of Mr. Pine .. , .... 267 Comings and Goings ........... 277 Command Performance ........ 188 Commedia Americana ......... 287 Commodity .................... 314 The Common Glory ........... 187 Communicating Doors ........... 56 Communication Cord .......... 102 *Communication Problems ...... 289 A Community of Two ......... 124 The Company of Wayward Saints ........................ 121 Compatible ..................... 313 Competition Piece ............. 290 The Complaisant Lover ........ 124 Complete Production Manuals ..................... , 196 Concertina's Rainbow ........... 56 The Condemned Man's Bicycle ...................... , 276 Conditions ....................... 93 Conduct Unbecoming .......... 179 Conerico Was Here To Stay ... 286 The Confederacy ............... 187 Confession ..................... 313 Confessions of A Dirty Blonde .. 93 Confessions of A Nightingale ..... 8 The Confidential Clerk ........ 124 Conflict of Interest ............. 177 Confusions ....................... 53 Congresswomen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 Conjugal Rites ................... 10 Connie & Sabrina in Waiting .... 44 Conpersonas ..................... 53 The Conquest of Everest ....... 262 Conquest of the Universe Or When Queens Collide .............. 188 The Constant Wife ............. 122 Contact With The Enemy ...... 271 Contemporary Scenes for Contemporary Kids .......... 318 Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors ........................ 321 *The Contest .................... 109 Contract With Jackie ........... 313 The Contractor ................. 149 The Contrast ................... 203 The Convention ................ 291 Conversations With My Father ........................ 153 The Convertible Girl ........... 124 The Cook ....................... .41 The Cookie Lady .............. 188 Cookin' With Gus ............... 35 Copenhagen ...................... 17 Coping ......................... 203 Cop-out ........................ 274 Cops ........................... 120 Coriolanus ..................... 188 Corker's End ................... 124 Corn ........................... 163 The Corner ..................... 315 Cornered .................... : .. 243 Corpse! .......................... 34 Correct Address ................ 243 Corruption in the Palace of Justice ....................... 145 Counsellor-at-Iaw .............. 188 Count Dracula ................. 120 Countess Dracula! ............. 124 Country Club .................. 114 Country Scandal ............... 188 A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking ................ 15 Courage, Mr. Greene .......... 275 Court in the Act! ............... 152 Courting Promethus ............ 313 Courtship of Kevin and Roxanne ..................... 261 Cover .......................... 313 The Cover of Life ............... 79 Cowardy Custard .............. 203 Cowboy and the Lady ......... 188 Cowboy Mouth .................. 26 Cowboys #2 ................... 267 Cowboys, Indians and Waitresses ................... 262 Cradle Snatchers ............... 188 The Cradle Song ............... 162 Craig's Wife ................... 143 Crashing The Gate ............. 238 Crazy and A Half ................ 29 Crazy House ......... ;......... 193 The Crazy Locomotive ........ 290 The Crazy Time ................. 41 Creaking Chair ................. 152 A Cream Cracker Under The Settee ........................ 234 Creating A Role ............... 321 Creative Play Direction ........ 321

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The Creature Creeps! .... :..... 148 Creatures Lurking in the Churchyard .................. 234 Creep Square .................. 313 The Creeping Crud ............ 284 Creeps ........................... 49 The Cretan Woman ............ 145 Crime and Crime .............. 315 Crime and Punishment ......... 188 Crime Photographer ............ 157 Criminal Hearts .................. 27 Criminal Minds .................. 26 The Crimson Thread ............. 60 Cross and Sword ............... 188 Cross Country ................. 311 Crosses On The Hill ........... 306 Crossing ....... :............... 264 Crossing Delancey ............... 41 *Crossing Jerusalem .............. 55 Crossing The Bar .............. 262 Crossways ..................... 282 Crow & Weasel ................ 297 The Crown of Absalom ........ 147 Crowning Glory ................ 304 The Crucifer of Blood ......... 149 The Crumple Zone ............... 44 Cry Havoc ..................... 157 Crystal and Fox ................ 132 Crystal Clear ..................... 22 Cuba and His Teddy Bear ....... 82 A Cuckoo in the Nest .......... 157 Cul-de-sac ..................... 235 Cup Final ...................... 282 A Cup of Coffee ............... 139 A Cup of Kindness ............ 157 Cupid Is A Bum Is A 13um Is A Bum .......................... 280 Cupidosis ...................... 284 The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It ......................... 85 The Cure ....................... 272 The Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand ............. 203 Curley Mcdimple .............. 203 The Curse of an Aching Heart (Alfred) 149 The Curse of an Aching Heart (Swayne) ..................... 144 The Curse of Ravensdurn ...... 271 Curse You, Jack Dalton! ....... 293 Curtain Call for Clifford ....... 156 Curtain Going Up .............. 182 The Curtain Rises ................ 92 Custer .......................... 104 A Cut in the Rates ............. 255 Cut The Ribbons: A MotherlDaughter Musical .... 203 Cymbeline ..................... 191 Cymbeline Refinished ......... 288 Cyprienne (Divorcons) ......... 145 Cyrano De Bergerac ........... 195
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Da .............................. 105 Daddy, Dear Daddy ............ 135 Daddy Long Legs .............. 300 Daddy Long-legs ............... 157 Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Will?) .......................... 96 Daddy's Home ................. 243 Daft Danny .................... 270 Dagmar ........................ 188 Dahling You Were Marvellous ................... 290 Daisy Mayme .................. 108 Daisy Pulls It Off .............. 169 Dalliance ....................... 130 Damages To Tony ............. 313 The Damask Cheek ............ 124 Dames At Sea .................. 203 Damsel of the Desert .......... 271 The Dance of Death ............. 68 Dance Your Heart Out ......... 176 Dancers .......................... 85

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Dancing in the End Zone ........ 74 Dancing With A Devil ......... 313 Danger From the Sky .......... 152 Danger-Girls Working! ....... 140 The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood ................. 203 Dangerous Comer ... . . . . . . . . . .. 135 Dangerous Obsession ............ 22 Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine ..................... 203 Daphne Laureola ............... 188 The Dark (Nigro) .............. 235 The Dark (Tasca) .............. 243 Dark Deeds At Swan's Place .. 160 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets ...................... 269 Dark of the Moon .... . . . . . . . . .. 172 Dark Pony ..................... 243 Dark Rituals ..................... 44 The Dark Sonnets of the Lady ... 96 The Darkest Hour .............. 275 Darkness At Noon ............. 183 Darkness Like A Dream ....... 234 Darkside ......................... 64 Darling Mr. London ........... 114 Darling, You Were Wonderful! .................. 277 Das Barbecu ................... 203 Data Entry ..................... 243 Date ............................ 268 Dates and Nuts ................. .44 Daughter of A Traveling Lady ......................... 261 Daughter of Silence ............ 184 Daughters (Evans) .............. .49 Daughters (Levy) .............. 319 The Daughters of Edward D. Boit .......................... 265 Daughters of the Lone Star State ......................... 137 David and Lisa ................. 173 David and Nancy .............. 243 The David Show ............... 280 David's Mother .................. 96 Davy Crockett ................. 163 The Day After Forever ........ 275 The Day After The Fair ......... 71 The Day I Met William Inge .. 277 A Day in Hollywood!A Night in the Ukraine ...................... 203 A Day in the Night of Rose Arden ........................ 243 The Day It Rained Forever .... 269 Day of Our Dead .............. 314 The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis .............. 279 The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis and Other Plays ......................... 314 The Days Between ............... 74 Day's Mischief ................. 135 The Days of the Commune .... 171 Days On End .................. 300 Days Without End ............. 114 Dazzle ......................... 203 Dead Guilty ...................... 30 Dead Man's Hand ............... 67 Dead Men's Fingers ........... 236 Dead Pigeon ..................... 74 Dead Ringer ..................... 84 Dead Secret .................... 163 The Dead Wife ................ 238 Dead Wrong ..................... 35 A Deadly Habit ................ 197 Deadly Nightcap ............... 130 Deadwood Dick ................ 160 Dear Antoine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 Dear Brutus .................... 134 Dear Charles ................... 152 The Dear Departed ........... .. 281 Dear Liar ........................ 16 Dear Love ....................... 16 Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling' .. 150 Dear Miss Phoebe ............. 204 Dear Mrs. Martin ................ 10 Dear Octopus .................. 185 * Dear Old Golden Rule Days ... 288 Dear Phoebe ................... 157 The Dearly Beloved ............. 30 Death .......................... 290 Death and Deceit On The Nile .......................... 196 Death and the Maiden ........... 19 The Death Artist ............... 243 Death by Arrangement ......... 141 Death Defying Acts ............. .41 Death in England ................ 96 Death Knocks .................. 238 Death List ...................... 315 Death of A Don ................ 114 The Death of A Miner ......... 131 Death of Doctor Faust ......... 188 The Death of Von Horvath .... 243 Death Suite .................... 196 Death Takes A Holiday ........ 157 Deathwatch .................... 266 Decadence ........................ 9 Decent Birth, Happy Funereal ..................... 187 Deceptions ....................... 11 Decisions ........................ 25 Decisions, Decisions ........... 264 Deck Chairs 1 - 3 ................ 11 Deck Chairs III ................ 238 The Decorator .................... 22 Dedicated To the End ........ .. 197 Defender of the Faith .......... 121 Defiled ........................... 27 Definitely Eric Geddis ......... 282 Deflores ........................ 281 Deflores and Other Plays ...... 311 Defying Gravity .................. 75 Deja Rendez-vous .............. 264 A Delicate Balance .............. 72 Delta Triangle .................. 278 The Deluge .................... 135 Democracy ..................... 126 The Demon .................... 282 Demonology ................... 252 Dennis ......................... 118 The Deputy .................... 188 Der Ring Got Farblonjet ....... 188 The Deserter ................... 255 Design for Living .............. 132 Design for Murder ............. 134 * Designated Driver .............. 237 The Desk Set .................. 180 The Desperate Hours .......... 161 The Destiny of Me ............... 79 Detour ......................... 124 Deus X ......................... 277 The Devil (Nigro) .............. 255 The Devil (Tasca) .............. 267 The Devil and Billy Markham .................... 234 Devil of the Second Stairs ..... 124 The Devils ..................... 179 The Devil's Advocate .......... 143 The Devil's Disciple ........... 193 The Devil's Parole ............. 238 Devotion To The Cross ........ 178 Dialect Accents ................ 320 Dialect Determinism (The Rally) ........................ 315 Dialect Monologues ............ 320 Dialect Play Readings ......... 319 Dialogue for Lovers ............. 15 Dialogue With A Negro ....... 279 Diamond Studs ................. 204 Diamonds ...................... 204 Diana and Tuda ................ 152 The Diaries of Adam and Eve ... 11 Diary ........................... 243 The Diary of A Scoundrel ..... 185 Dick Whittington (Morley) .... 301 Dick Whittington (Robbins) ... 300 A Dickens' Christmas Carol ... 308 The Dicks ...................... 243 *Die! 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Die! .............. 55 Difference of Opinion ......... 188 A Different Drummer .......... 163 Ding Dong Dead ................. 85 Dinner At Eight ................ 169 The Dinner Party ................ 56 Dinner With The Family ....... 152 Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish ...................... 302 Diogenes The Dog ............. 236 Directing Your Directing Career ........................ 321 The Director's Voice .......... 321 Directory of Theatre Training Programs ..................... 321 Dirty Blonde ..................... 17 Dirty Hands .................... 124 Dirty Linen and New-foundland .......................... 132 Dirty Work .................... 174 Dirty Work At The Crossroads ................... 192 The Disappearance of the Jews ......................... 243 The Disappearance of the Three Little Pigs .................... 290 The Disenchanted .............. 163 Dispatches From Hell .......... 255 *The Dispute (Gerould) ......... 135 *The Dispute (Lester) ........... 126 The Dissolution of Dominic Boot ......................... 233 The Distaff Side ............... 157 A Distance From Calcutta ...... .44 A Distant Bell ................. 157 A Distant Country Called Youth .. 7 Diva .............................. 56 Diverting Devotion .............. 79 Dividends ........................ 20 The Divine Fallacy ............ 313 The Divine Flora ............... 188 The Diviners ................... 137 Division Street ................. 104 The Divorce ................... 260 Divorce Me, Darling ............. 89 Divorce Question .............. 145 Do ............................. 243 Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? .......... 204 Do Lord Remember Me ......... 52 Do Not Disturb .................. 74 Do Not Fear The Harvest ...... 307 Do Not Pass Go ................. 74 Do Over ....................... 243 Do You Know Where Your Parents Are? ......................... 284 Do You See What I'm Saying? .82 Do You Tum Somersaults? ...... 15 The Dock Brief ................ 243 Doctor Death .................. 147 Doctor' Doctor! ................ 204 Doctor Faustus (Rudall) ....... 171 Doctor Faustus (Nigro) ........ 263 The Doctor Has A Daughter ... 152 The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Bermel) ..................... 141 The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Clark) ....................... 294 Doctor in the House ........... 123 The Doctor Takes A Life ...... 152 The Doctor's Dilemma ........ 193 The Doctor's Duty ............. 284 A Doctor's Visit ............... 238 The Dodge Boys ................. 53 Does This Woman Have A Name? ....................... 255 Dog ............................ 234 Dog Eat Dog ................... 255 The Dog in the Manger ........ 188 The Dog It Was That Died .... 233 Dog Logic ....................... 30 Dog Opera ....................... 79 The Dog Problem ................ 75 Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth ..................... 141 Dogs Barking .................... 30 Doin' Time At The Alamo ...... 79

INDEX OF TITLES The Do-it-yourself Frankenstein Outfit ....................... 286 A Doll House .................. 311 A Doll's House ................ 124 A Doll's Life .................. 204 Dolorosa Sanchez .............. 243 The Dolphin Position .......... 284 Domestic Bliss ................. 238 Domestic Violence ............. 238 Domino .......................... 84 Domino Court ................... 33 Domino Courts ................. 265 Domino Courts/Comanche Cafe ........................... 33 Don Juan ....................... 188 Don Juan in Hell ............... 192 Don Juan, or a Statue To Supper ....................... 173 Dona Rosita, the Spinister ..... 186 The Donahue Sisters ........... 255 Donald and the Dragon ........ 300 Done To Death ................ 165 Donkeys ' Years ................ 118 Donnybrook! ................... 204 Donovan Affair ................ 188 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ... 147 Don't Blame It On the Boots .. 267 Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope ......................... 204 Don't Call Back ................. 89 Don't Dress for Dinner .......... 57 Don't Drink The Water ........ 165 Don't Go Away Mad .......... 145 Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! .................. 121 Don't Look Down ............. 279 Don't Mention My Name ........ 96 Don't Misunderstand Me ....... .44 Don't Step On My Footprint ..... 88 Don't Tell Mother ............. 103 Doomsday ..................... 172 Doonesbury .................... 204 Dope! .......................... 282 Dora, The Beautiful Dishwasher ................. 293 Dostoevsky .................... 278 Double Date . . ................ 282 Double Door ................... 151 Double Double ................... 13 Double Exposure ............... 124 Double in Diamonds ........... 135 The Doublers .................. 243 Doubles .......................... 66 Down an Alley Filled With Cats ............................ 14 Down By The Ocean ............ 57 The Downside ................. 100 Downtown ..................... 313 Downwinder Dance ............ 114 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Abbott) 194 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Osterman) ................... 114 Dr. Magic ...................... 253 Dr. Magic: Six One-act Plays .. 311 Dracula ........................ 102 The Dracula Spectacula ........ 204 Dracula: The Musical? ......... 204 Dragnet ........................ 135 The Dragon Who Giggled ..... 304 Drama ............................ 65 Dramatic Heritage ............. 322 Dramatis Personae ............. 136 Dramatists Sourcebook ........ 321 Drat! The Cat! ................. 204 Dream A Little Dream ......... 188 Dream At The End of the World ........................ 234 The Dream Cmst ................ 87 Dream Lover ..................... 53 Dream of A Common Language ...................... 60 Dream On Monkey Mountain .. 124 A Dream Play (Carlson) ....... 183 A Dream Play (Sprinchom) .... 315

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Eight Plays From The Heartland .................... 311 The Eight: Reindeer Monologues .................. 308 187 ............................ 313 Eighteenth Summer ............ 152 84 Charing Cross Road ........ 119 El Cristo ....................... 307 El Grande De Coca-cola ....... 204 El Salvador ...................... 84 The Elder Statesman ........... 108 Eleanor's One Magical Moment ...................... 312 Electra (McGinness) ........... 128 Electra (Rudall) .................. 79 Electric Roses .................. 313 The Electronic Nigger ......... 315 Elegies: A Song Cycle ......... 205 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens .............. 205 Elektra ......................... 114 Eleonora Duse ................. 141 The Elephant Calf ............. 267 The Elephant Man ............. 102 The Elevator ................... 281 Eleven-zulu .................... 149 Eli, The Fanatic ................ 121 Elizabeth: Almost by Chance A Woman ...................... 101 Elizabeth I .................... ; 145 Elizabeth The Queen ........... 185 Embers ........................... 55 Emerald City ..................... 65 The Emigrants ................... 14 Emily .......................... 148 Eminent Domain ................. 44 Emperor Henry IV ............. 155 The Emperor's Clothes ........ 188 The Emperor's New Clothes (Chorpenning) ............... 299 The Emperor's New Clothes (Marvin) ..................... 304 The Emperor's Nightingale .... 288 The Empty Room .............. 310 An Empty Space ............... 244 The Enchanted ................. 182 The Enchanted Journey ........ 297 An Enchanted Land ............ 153 Enchanted Maze ............... 188 The Enchanted Mesa ........... 244 The Enchanted Pig ............. 148 Encore! ........................ 317 Encore! More Winning Monologues for Young Actors ............ 321 Encounters ..................... 314 End As A Man ................. 145 The End of "}" ................ 256 The End of the Day .............. 57 The End of the Line ........... 196 End of the Shifty .............. 256 End of the World With Symposium To Follow ..................... 84 An Endangered Species ........ 281 Endgame ......................... 39 Ends of the World and Other Plays ......................... 291 Enemies (Gokey) .............. 188 Enemies (Leokum) ............. 244 An Enemy of the People ... (Fjelde) 311 An Enemy of the People ........... (Hampton) 138 The Engagement ............... 291 English Is A Foreign Language ... :; ............... 153 The English Only Restaurant .. 138 An English~an Abroad ........ 272 Enrico IV (BrusteinlCornthwaite) ....... 139 Enrico IV ...................... 157 Enter A Free Man ............. 108 Enter Laughing ................ 143 Entertaining Mr. Sloane .......... 39 Episode 26 ..................... 118 Epstein ......................... 121 Equus .......................... 117 EfR (Emergency Room) ....... 174 The Ermine .................... 186 Ernie's Incredible Illucinations .................. 305 Erogenous Zones ................ .44 The Erpingham Camp ......... 286 Errand of Mercy ............... 256 Escapade ....................... 163 Escape (Tasca) ........ _........ 266 Escape (Williams) ............. 311 Escape To Freedom ............ 296 The Escapologist ............... 256 Escurial ......................... .40 An Eskimo Named Joe Siegelman ................... , 106 Established Price ................. 30 The Establishment At Arles ... , 278 Ethel and Albert Comedies .... 314 Eukiah ......................... 313 Eunuchs of the Forbidden City .......................... 188 Evelyn and the Environment .,. 263 Evelyn and the Polka King .... 205 Evening Education ............. 244 An Evening of Culture: Faith County II ...................... 96 An Evening of One-act Stagers for Golden Agers ................ 314 Evening Star ................... 149 Ever Since Eve ................ 145 Every Family Has One ........ 151 Everybody's Ruby ............. 158 Everyman ...................... 307 Everyone Is Good for Something ................... 205 Everywhere .................... 244 The Evil Eye of Gondor ....... 303 The Evils of Tobacco ............ 65 Exceeding Small ............... 188 Except for Susie Finkel .......... 74 The Exception and the Rule ... 289 Exchange ...................... 171 Excursion Fare ................. 130 Execution of Justice ........... 165 Executive Dance ............... 313 Exit The Body ................. 130 Exit The King .................... 72 Exit Who? ..................... 103 Ex-miss Copper Queen On A Set of Pills .......................... 256 Exodus From Mcdonaldland .,. 252 Exploding Love .................. 96 The Express Line .............. 288 Exquisite Torture ................ 74 Extraction ...................... 264 Extremities ....................... 34 Eye To Eye .................... 313 Eyes of the American ............ 26 Eyes Upon the Cross .......... 307
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Dream World .................... 54 Dreamboats .................... 278 Dreamjobs ..................... 273 Dreams ........................... 30 Dreams From A Summer House .......................... 96 Dreams of Anne Frank ........ 297 Dreams of Glory ............... 268 The Dresser .................... 153 Drink To Me Only ............. 188 Drinking in America .............. 8 Drive ........................... 313 Drive Angry ................... 313 Driven To Murder ............. 120 Driving Lessons .................. 20 Driving Out A Devil ........... 282 Drop ........................... 255 Drop Dead! .................... 128 The Drummer .................. 312 Drums in the Night ............ 170 Drums in the Night (Manheim) ................... 188 The Drunkard ............. 180, 195 The Drunken Sisters ........... 268 The Duchess of Pasadena ........ 74 The Duck Pond ................ 313 The Duck Variations ........... 238 The Duelling Oakes ............ 275 Duet for One ..................... 14 Duley .......................... 145 Dumbbell People in A Barbell World ........................ 123 Dungeons ........................ 19 The Duplex .................... 315 Dusk ........................... 255 Dust of the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 309 Dutch Treat .................... 243 Dutch Uncle ..................... 71 Dutchman ........................ 25 The Dybbuk ................... 188 Dying for Laughs ................ 75 The Dying Gaul .................. 27 Dylan .......................... 181 Dynamo ........................ 124
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E = Mc2 ....................... 125 Each in His Own Way ......... 178 The Eagle Has Two Heads ...... 74 Earl The Vampire .............. 165 Early Days ..................... 125 Early Frost ..................... 273 The Early Girl ................. 125 Early One Evening At The Rainbow Bar and Grille ................. 82 Ears On A Beatie ................. 9 Earthlings! ..................... 295 East ............................. .41 East Lynne (Albert) ............ 195 East Lynne (Burton) ........... 122 East of the Sun and West of the Moon ........................ 244 East Texas Hot Links ............ 96 Easy Christmas Grab Bag ..... 310 Easy Come, Easy Go .......... 188 Easy Virtue .................... 171 Eat Your Heart Out .............. 54 Eating Out ..................... 312 Eating Raoul ................... 204 Echoes ........................... 25 The Eclipse .................... 264 Ecstasy ........................... 60 Eddie Lee, Eddie Lee .......... 256 Edith Stein ..................... 138 Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth ........................ 126 Edmond ........................ 131 Educating Rita ................... 14 Edward Ii ...................... 178 Egad, The Woman in White ... 132 Egad, What A Cad! Or Virtue Triumphs Over Villainy ..... 293 The Egg ........................ 188

Fabulous Miss Marie .......... 315 The Face On The Barroom Floor ......................... 160 The Failure To Zig-zag ........ 186 Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer ..................... 244 Fairy Tale Romance .... '.' ..... 234 Faith County ................... 114 Faith Healer ...................... 24 Faithful .......................... 20 The Fall and Redemption of Man .......................... 154 The Fall of the House of Usher (Berkoff) ..................... 114 The Fall of the House of Usher . (Hoppe) ........................ 17 Fallen Angels .................... 73 False Prophets ................. 277 Falsettoland .................... 205 Falsettos ....................... 205 Family ......................... 135 Family Album ................. 286

Family Circles ................... 93 The Family Man ............... 135 Family Names ................. 244 The Family of Mann .... : ........ 79 Family Planning ................. 79 Family Portrait ................. 183 The Family Reunion ........... 144 The Family Upstairs ........... 125 Family Values ................. 114 The Family Way ............... 135 Fando and Lis .................... 55 Fanny, The Frivolous Flapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 205 Fanny's First Play ............. 125 Fanshen ........................ 120 Fantasies At The Frick ........... 36 Fantasio ........................ 150 Fantastic Mr. Fox .............. 296 The Fantasy Bond ............. 244 Far Away ........................ 27 A Far Country ................. ISO The Far Off Hills .............. 134 The Farm ........................ 88 Farm of Three Echoes ......... 125 Farmer's Wife ................. 188 The Famdale A.H.E.T.G.D.S. Murder Mystery ............... 51 The Famdale A.H.E.T.G.D.S. Production of A Christmas Carol ......................... 308 The Famdale A.H.E.T.G.O.S Production of the Mikado ... 205 The Famdale A.H.E.T.G.D.S. Production of Macbeth ...... 127 Fashion! ........................ 195 Fashion! (Musical) ............. 205 Fast Girls ....................... .48 Fat Chance ...................... .45 The Fat Man's Wife ........... 311 Fatal Attraction .................. 67 A Fatal Combination ........... 197 The Fatal Weakness ............. 72 A Fate Worse Than Death ..... 151 The Father ..................... 101 The Father (Brustein) .......... 114 Father and Son ................. 244 Fathers and Sons ............... 171 Father's Been To Mars ........ 144 Father's Prize Poland China ..... 20 Faulkner's Bicycle ............... 30 Faust ........................... 175 * FawJty Towers ................. 311 Fear and Misery in the Third Reich ........................ 185 *Feet of Clay ................... 237 Female Transport .............. 129 Fen ............................... 86 Fences ........................... 82 The Ferry .. : ................... 239 Ferryboat ............. . . . . . . . . .. 244 Festival ........................ 205 The Festival of Our Lord of the Ship .......................... 284 Fettucine ......................... 24 Feuding ........................ 293 A Few Good Men ............. 165 *Fiction ........................... 17 Fiddle and Faddle .............. 313 The Field ...................... 313 Field God ...................... 135 The Fifteen Minute Hamlet .... 276 The Fifth Season ............... 157 Fighting Chance ............... 114 The Fighting Cock ............. 163 Fighting Light ................... 65 The Fighting Littles ............ 182 Film Producing ................ 323 The Film Society ................ 64 Filumena ....................... 141 Filumena Filumena ............ 146 *Final Approach ................ 237 Final Dress Rehearsal .......... 289 The Final Twist .................. 30 Find Your Way Home ........... 38 Finders-Keepers ................ 262

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Finding The Love of Your Life .......................... 256 A Fine and Private Place ...... 205 The Fine Art of Finesse ......... 93 Fine Line ...................... 244 A Fine Monster You Are! ..... 103 Finger Painting in A Murphy Bed ............................ 20 Finnegan's Farewell ........... 165 Fire ............................ 244 Fireband ....................... 152 The Firebird ................... 304 Fireman, Save My Child! ...... 293 The Fireman's Flame .......... 205 The First ....................... 205 The First Breeze of Summer ... 161 First Date ...................... 270 The First Dress Suit ........... 270 First Fish ......................... 74 First Impressions ............... 206 * First Kisses ....................... 9 The First Legion ............... 145 The First Man .................. 148 First Monday in October ....... 176 First Night (Neary) .............. 13 First Night (Rath) .............. 188 First of the Month ............. 256 First Person Singular ........... 319 First Time ...................... 206 First Year ...................... 125 Fisher King .................... 146 The Fisherman and His Wife .. 303 The Fisherman and the Flounder ..................... 304 Fishing ........................... 89 Fishing Hat .................... 244 Fit for Feet ..................... 313 Fit To Be Tried ................ 284 Fits and Starts .................. 267 A Fitting Confusion ............ 135 Fitting in ....................... 317 Five and Ten ................... 316 5:15 Greyhound ................ 253 Five Finger Exercise ............. 54 Five for Bad Luck ............. 284 Five On The Black Hand Side .......................... 179 Five One Act Plays by Mark Twain ........................ 314 Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain ........................... 45 *Flags ............................. 92 Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage ........................... 57 Flaming Idiots ................... 93 The Flatted Fifth ................. 30 The Flattering Word ........... 275 A Flea in Her Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 160 A Flea in Her Rear ............ 169 Flesh and Blood ................. 30 Flibberty and the Penguin ..... 301 The Flies ....................... 163 Flight ........................... .45 Flight of Fancy ................ 244 The Flight of the Earls ........... 86 Flights ......................... 239 Fling! ............................ 69 Flip .............................. 96 The Flip Side .................... 39 Floating Island ................. 253 The Floating Light Bulb ......... 57 Flora, The Red Menace ........ 206 Florida's Affair ................ 291 Fly Away Home ............... 157 Flyer ........................... 110 The Flying Doctor ............. 282 Flying Feathers .. " ............ 114 Fog ............................. 256 Foiled Again! .................. 272 Foiled Again! (Musical) ....... 206 Foiled by an Innocent Maid ... 279 The Folks Next Door .......... 120 Follow The Dream ............. 188 Follow The Gleam ............. 188 Food and Shelter ................. 75 The Fool 188 A Fool of Passion ............... .41 Foolin' Around With Infinity ... .49 Foolish Notion ................. 125 Fools ........................... 127 Fool's Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 108 Footfalls ....................... 244 Footlight Frenzy ................. 68 For Anne ....................... 244 For Colored Girls. . ............ 83 For Heaven's Sake! ............ 206 For Her C-h-e-ild's Sake ...... 151 For Love Or Monkey ............ 45 For Reasons That Remain Unclear ........................ 17 For The Defense ............... 188 For The Love of Juliet ........... 27 For Tiger Lilies Out of Season ....................... 277 For Women: Monologues They Haven't Heard ............... 319 For Women: More Monologues They Haven't Heard ......... 319 For Women Only .............. 316 For Women: Pocket Monologues From Shakespeare ........... 317 Forbidden Copy ................ 282 Forbidden Fruit ................ 244 The Force of Change ............ 75 The Forced Marriage .......... 288 Fore ............................ 253 Forensic and the Navigators '" 276 Forever After .................. 152 Forever Judy ................... 275 Forget-me-not Lane ............ 124 The Form ...................... 270 Fortune and Men's Eyes ......... 74 Fortune's Fool ................. 110 Fortune's Fools .................. 30 Forty Carats .................... 142 Forty Minute Finish " ........ " 313 Forty Years On ................ 178 Forward To The Right ......... 239 Foul Territory .................. 314 The Founders .................. 187 The Fountain ................... 171 Four Bars of 'agit' ............. 316 4 A.M .......................... 313 Four Men and A Monster ...... 256 Four On A Garden ............... 71 Four One-act Plays .............. 63 Four Our Fathers ............... 114 Four Plays for Coarse Actors " 168 The Four Seasons ................ 74 The Fourposter ................... 16 42 Seconds From Broadway ... 150 45 Seconds From Broadway ... 146 The 4-H Club .................. 256 Fourteen Hundred Thousand ... 274 The Fourth Prisoner ............ 256 The Fourth Sister .............. 153 The Fox .......................... 74 Foxfire ........................... 66 Francis Brick Needs No Introduction .................. 264 Frank Merriwell ................ 206 Frankenstein (Kelly) ........... 107 Frankenstein (Louise) .......... 164 Frankenstein (Nigro) ........... 236 Frankenstein 1930 ............. 154 The Frankenstein Monster Show ........................ 206 Frankenstein's Guests .......... 286 The Freak ...................... 103 Free Gift ....................... 239 The Freedom of the City ...... 177 Freefall ........................... 30 Freeze Tag ..................... 244 The French Have A Word for It ............................. 175 French Without Tears .......... 135 Frenzy for Two, Or More ...... 274 Fresh Fields .................... 125 Friday ............................ 26 * Friendly Fire ................... 237 The Friends .................... 125 Friends ......................... 256 Friends and Enemies ........... 290 The Frog Prince ................ 263 The Frogs ..................... 178 From A Madman's Diary ...... 236 From Agent To Actor .......... 323 *From Door To Dqor ............. 17 From Here To The Library .... 256 From Okra To Greens ......... 244 From The Memoirs of Pontius Pilate ........................ 130 The Front Page ................ 179 Frosty The Snow Man ......... 305 Fuente Ovejuna (Booty) ....... 157 Fuente Ovejuna ................ 183 *Fugitive Kind .................. 164 Fugue in A Nursery .............. 34 Fulfilling Koch's Postulate ...... 30 Full Fathom Five .............. 236 A Full House .................. 163 The Full Treatment ............ 145 Full-length Version ............ 222 Fumed Oak .................... 270 Fun City ....................... 145 Funeral Games ................. 274 Funny Money .................... 96 The Funny Old Man ........... 276 Funny Valentines ................ 51 Funnyhouse of A Negro ....... 284 Funnylogues for Women ....... 317 Further Mo' .................... 206 The Future Is In Eggs ......... 286
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Galas ........................... 157 Galileo ......................... 174 A Galway Girl ................. 244 The Gamblers .................... 63 Gamblers ....................... 284 The Game of Love and Chance .. 76 Game Theory .................. 314 Games ......................... 274 The Gang's All Here .......... 173 The Garbage Cantata .......... 206 Garden ......................... 159 Garden of Delights ............... 38 The Garden Party .............. 114 Gaslight Gaieties ............... 316 Gasoline Gypsies .............. 125 Gasping .......................... 57 *The Gate ....................... 252 The Gathering Place ........... 158 Gave Her The Eye ............. 313 Gawain and the Green Knight ....................... 297 The Gay Nineties Scrapbook .. 316 The Gemshield Sleeper ........ 304 Gendermat ..................... 264 The General From America .... 158 Generation ....................... 72 Genesis ........................ 236 Genesis and Other Plays ....... 314 Geneva ......................... 178 The Genius .................... 117 Geniuses ......................... 67 The Gentle Hook .............. 106 A Gentleman and A Scoundrel .. 25 The Gentleman Caller ......... 315 The Gentleman From Athens .. 163 The Genuine Article ........... 239 Geography of A Horse Dreamer ..................... 10 1 George Dandin ................. 103 George L. Smith ............... 236 George M. Cohan: In His Own Words ........................ 206 *The Germans .................. 290 Gertrude Stein and A Companion .................... 15 Get Away Old Man ............ 145 Getting and Spending ............ 76 Getting Away .................. 138 Getting Even ................... 239

Getting In ...................... 281 Getting Mama Married .......... 74 Getting Married ................ 155 Getting On ..................... 124 Getting The Gold ................ 49 Getting To Know The Natives ... 90 Getting Up The Rent .......... 291 *G-Force ......................... .40 Ghost of A Chance (Burton) ... 271 Ghost of A Chance (Kobler & Marcus) ........................ 60 The Ghost of the Chinese Elm .......................... 300 Ghost On Fire .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 146 A Ghost On Tiptoe ............ 106 The Ghost Sonata (Carlson) ... 183 The Ghost Sonata (Sprichom) ................... 315 Ghost Stories .................. 256 The Ghost Story ............... 287 The Ghost Train ............... 144 Ghosts ........................... 51 Ghosts (Fjelde) ................. 311 The Gift ........................ 259 The Gift and the Giving ....... 274 The Gift of the Gorgon ........ I 15 The Gift of the Magi .......... 217 A Gift of Time ................. 135 The Gig ......... '" ............ 206 Gigi .............................. 91 Gillette ......................... 138 The Gin Game ................... 14 Gina's Birthday ................ 312 The Gingerbread Lady ........... 71 The Gingerbread Man ......... 295 The Gioconda Smile ........... 133 A Girl Could Get Lucky ......... 16 The Girl in the Freudian Slip .... 72 The Girl of the Golden West .. 188 The Girl on the Via Flaminia .. 144 Girl Talk ......................... 11 The Girl Who Was Plugged In ............................ 206 Girl with the Green Eyes ...... 188 The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines ...................... .49 A Girl's Guide To Chaos ........ 33 The Girls in 509 ............... lSI Girls in Uniform ............... 188 Girls of Summer ............... 125 Give 'em Hell, Harry! ......... 177 Give The Bishop My Faint Regards ...................... 253 Give Us A Kiss and Show Us Your Knickers ..................... 256 Glad Tidings ................... 125 Glamorgan ....................... 45 Glamorgan and Other Plays .... 314 Glasstown ........................ 89 Glengarry Glen Ross ............. 76 The Glimpse of Reality ........ 267 The Gloaming, Oh My Darling ....................... 287 Gloria .......................... 310 Gloria and Esperanza .......... 152 Gloria Mundi .................. 281 Gloria Poses in the Nude ...... 291 Go Back for Murder ........... 135 Go Bang Your Tambourine ...... 39 Go Jump in the Lake .......... 297 Go Look ....................... 313 .Goblins Plot To Murder God .. 313 God ............................ 290 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater .................... 206 The God of Isaac ................ 60 God's Country ................. 138 God's Favorite ................. 102 God's Heart ...................... 93 The God's Honest, An Evening of Lies .......................... 101 God's Spies .................... 256 Gogol .......................... 253 Goin' A Buffalo ........... 74, 315 Going Ape ....................... 53

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The Great American Backstage Musical ...................... 207 The Great American Fourth of July Parade ....................... 163 Great Catherine ................ 285 The Great Choice .............. 285 Great Day in the Morning ..... 162 The Great Easter Egg Hunt .... 170 Great Expectations ............. 185 The Great Gilly Hopkins ...... 207 The Great Gromboolian Plain " 271 The Great Gromboolian. Plain and Other Plays .................. 311 The Great Lover ............... 125 Great Monologues for Young Actors ........................ 321 Great Monologues from the Humana Festival ............. 321 Great Scenes and Monologues for Children, Ages 7 -14 ........ 321 *Great Slave Lake .............. 263 The Great Western Melodrama ................... 293 The Great White Hope ......... 142 Greater Tuna ...................... 9 Greek ............................ 27 Green Forms ................... 253 Green Goddess ................. 125 Green Grow The Lilacs ........ 163 The Green Heart ............... 208 Green Man ..................... 272 Green Man and Other Plays ... 314 Green Stockings ............... 152 Greenfield Blooms ............. 281 Greetings! ....................... .45 Greetings ....................... 308 The Grey Fox .................. 188 Grotesque Lovesongs ........... .45 Groucho: A Life in Revue ....... 22 Growing Pains ................. 188 Growing Up Naked ............ 208 Grown Ups ...................... 74 Grumpy ........................ 152 Guarding The Bridge .......... 245 The Guardsman ................ 125 Guernica ....................... 245 Guess Who's Corning To Lunch? ....................... 272 The Guest Cottage ............. 125 Guest in the House ............ 163 The Guest of Honor ........... 313 Guillotine ...................... 263 Guilt ........................... 313 Guilty Conscience ............... 34 Guilty Party .................... 152 The Gulf of Crimson .......... 245 Gums .......................... 245 Gumshoe Rendenz-vous ......... 31 Gumshoe Rendezvous ........... 30 A Gun Play .................... 163 Gunmetal Blues ................ 208 The Gut Girls .................... 93 Gut Girls ....................... 165 Guys ........................... 313 Gwen and Gwen ................. 31 Gypsy Jim ..................... 152 The Gypsy Woman ............ 128 The Gypsy Woman and ~ther Plays ......................... 314 The Gypsy's Revenge ......... 130
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Going Nowhere Apace ......... 313 Going Solo ..................... 317 Going to Pot ................... 282 Going to the Catacombs ....... 256 Golda .......................... 168 Golda's Balcony .................. 7 Goldberg Street ................ 244 The Golden Accord ............ 313 Golden Boy ............... , .... 206 The Golden Circle ............. 152 The Golden Fleece ............. 244 Golden Fleecing ............... 156 The Golden Grotto ............. 298 Golden Rainbow ............... 207 Goldilocks ..................... 207 Goldilocks and the Three Bears ......................... 298 The Golem ..................... 188 Golf: The Musical ............. 207 Golgotha ....................... 236 Gone Out ...................... 158 The Good and Faithful Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 280 Good Boys ...................... .41 The Good Doctor ................ 51 Good Evening ................... 15 The Good German ............... 27 Good Help Is Hard To Find ... 268 Good Honest Food ............. 267 The Good Hope ................ 188 Good Housekeeping ........... 125 A Good Man ................... 110 Good Morning, Miss Dove .... 182 Good Morning Miss Vickers ... 127 Good News .................... 207 Good Night Ladies ............. 161 The Good Person of Setzuan (Kushner) ..................... 175 The Good Person of Setzuan (Manheim). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188 A Good Time for a Change .... 245 The Good Times Are Killing Me ........................... 169 The Good Woman of Setzuan ...................... 175 The Good Woman of Setzuan (musical) ..................... 207 Goodbye Again ................ 152 Goodbye Charlie ................. 91 Goodbye, Fay Wray ............. 74 Goodbye, My Fancy ........... 180 The Goodbye People ............. 69 Good-bye To The Clown ...... 280 Goodnight Mrs. Puffin ......... 133 Goods .......................... 245 Goodtime Charley ............. 207 Goose and Tomtom ............ 117 Goose Hangs High ............. 157 Gorey Stories .................. 207 The Gorilla .................... 145 *Gorilla Man .................... 198 GorKy .......................... 207 Gossipy.Sex ................... 163 *Gourmet Night ................. 290 The Government Inspector ..... 170 A Gown for His Mistress ...... 133 Grace ............................ 87 Grace and Glorie ................. 11 The Graduate .................. 136 The Grand Ceremonial ........... 54 The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein .................... 207 The Grand Old Duke of york ......................... 300 The Grand Tarot ............... 188 Grand TenementINovember 22 ............................ 155 The Grand Tour ................ 207 Grandchild of Kings ........... 165 Grandma Sylvia's Funeral ..... 165 The Grass Is Greener ............ 74 Gratuitous Sex and Violence ... 207 A Grave Encounter ............ 245 Grease ......................... 207 Grease: School Version ........ 207

Habeas Corpus ................. 141 Hackers .......................... 35 Hadrian The Seventh .......... 179 The Haggadah ................. 208 Haiku .......................... 253 Halftime At Halcyon Days ..... 272 Halfway Home ................... 96 . Halfway Up The Tree ......... 121 The Hallams ................... 145 Halloween ..................... 245 Halloween Screams ............ 138 Haloes and Spotlights .......... 188

Hamlet ......................... 191 Hamlet, Cha-cha-cha! .......... 208 Hamlet II ...................... 154 Hand Me My Afghan .......... 256 The Hand of God .............. 234 The Hand That Cradles The Rock ........................... 52 Handbook for Theatrical Apprentices .................. 322 Hands Across The Sea ......... 286 Hang On To Love ............. 163 Hangman's Noose ............. 134 Hans Brinker ................... 193 Hansel and Gretel .............. 300 Hapgood ....................... 110 The Happiest Days of Your Life .......................... 156 The Happiest Years ............ 125 Happily Ever Once Upon ...... 131 The Happiness Cage ........... 158 The Happy Apple .............. 125 Happy Birthday (Camoletti) ..... 52 Happy Birthday (Loos) ........ 188 Happy Birthday, Wanda June .. 124 Happy Days ...................... 16 The Happy Days ................. 74 Happy End ..................... 208 The Happy Hunter ............. 132 The Happy Journey To Trenton From Camden ............... 280 Happy New Year .............. 208 A Hard Time To Be Single .... 208 Hard Times ...................... 33 Hard-Boiled .................... 313 Hardesty Park .................. 106 Hardstuff ....................... 245 Hark! ........................... 208 A Harlequinade ................ 289 The Harmfulness of Tobacco .. 314 Harold ......................... 123 Harold and Maude ............. 174 Harriet ......................... 234 Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist ..................... 245 Harrigan 'n' Hart .............. 208 Harry, Noon and Night ........ 125 Harry's Christmas .............. 234 Harvest Time .................. 253 Hated Nightfall ................ 165 A Hatfu1 of Rain ............... 123 Haunted (Campbell) ............. 60 Haunted (Nigro) ............... 236 The Haunted High School ..... 193 The Haunted Host ............... 17 The Haunted House (Davis) .. , 145 The Haunted House (Plautus) ., 152 The Haunted . . . At Famdale Castle .......................... 60 Hauptmann ....................... 76 Having A Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her ................. 68 Hay Fever ...................... 122 Hazing The Monkey' .......... , 136 He .............................. 188 He Ain't Done Right by Nell .. 293 He Ain't Done Right by Nell (musical) ..................... 208 He Done Her Wrong: Or Wedded But No Wife! ................ 292 He Who Gets Slapped ......... 188 Head in the Clouds ............ 145 Head On ....................... 313 Head Over Heels ............... 208 Heads and Tales ............... 295 The Heart of Art ................. 93 Heartbreak House .............. 134 The Heartbreak Tour ........... 265 Heartland ........................ 39 Heart's Desire .................. 276 Hearts 'n Kisses 'n Miss Vickers ...................... 169 Heat ............................ 125 Heat Lighting .................. 262 Heavenly Express .............. 188 The Hebrew Lesson ............ 274

Hedda Gabler .................... 92 Hedda Gabler (Fjelde) ......... 311 Heidi ........................... 305 Heidi (musical) ................ 208 !heimskringla! ................. 152 Heir Today-gone Tomorrow ................... 103 Held by The Enemy ........... 188 Helen At Risk .................. 313 *Helen's Most Favorite Day ...... 55 Hell Bent for Heaven .......... 125 A Hell of A Mess .............. 188 Hello and Goodbye .............. 16 "Hello, Ma!" .................. 239 "Hello, Ma!" and Other Plays ......................... 314 Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! ...................... 208 Hello My Name Is ............. 102 Hello, Out There ............... 275 Help, I Am ..................... 236 The Helper ..................... 315 The Hen ....................... 266 Henceforward .................... 79 Henderson's Major Mailing Labels of NYC Casting Directors ... 321 *Henry IV (Mitchell) ........... 155 Henry IV (Shakespeare) ....... 191 *Henry IV (Stoppard) ........... 136 Henry VIII.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 191 Henry, Sweet Henry ........... 209 Henry The Tenth (Part Seven) ....................... 289 Her Big Chance ................ 234 Her Fatal Beauty, Or A Shop Girl's Honor ........................ 293 Her First Party Dress .......... 282 Her Masters Voice ............. 125 Her Pilgrim Soul ............... 209 Her Voice ...................... 245 Herb, Erica, Stuart and Joanne ....................... 312 Here .............................. 20 Here Comes The Bride . . . and There Goes The Groom ..... 281 Here Comes The Clowns ...... 163 Here Lies Jeremy Troy .......... 54 Here She Is! ................... 284 Here, There and Everywhere .. 311 Here Today .................... 125 Here We Come Gathering ..... 125 Here's How .................... 322 *Hermaphrodite ................. 252 The Hero ....................... 245 Heroes Just Happen ............ 188 He's Dead All Right ........... 270 He's Having A Baby .......... 292 The Hessian Corporal .......... 290 Hey, Cut Out The Parading Around Stark Naked! ................. 271 Hey, Naked Lady ................ 71 Hiawatha ....................... 140 Hickory Dickory Dock ......... 302 Hidden in This Picture ......... 265 Hidden Laughter ................. 96 Hidden Meanings .............. 286 Hide and Shriek ................ 159 Hieronymus Bosch ............. 272 Higgs Field .................... 235 High Ground ................... 145 The High Life .................. 209 High School Monologues Th6Y Haven't Heard ............... 319 The High School That Dripped Gooseflesh ................... 209 High Window .................. 275 The Highland Call ............. 188 Highwire ....................... 256 Hijack ........................... .45 Hijack Over Hygenia .......... 299 Hijinks! ........................ 209 The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre ..................... 196 Hillbilly Women ................. 83 The Hired Man ................ 209

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His and Hers (Kanin) .......... 163 His and Hers (Milligan) ....... 317 Hiss The Villain! .............. 282 Historic Costume for the Stage ......................... 322 A History of the American Film ......................... 209 Hitting Town .................. 260 H.M.S. Pinafore ................ 209 Hobson's Choice ............... 150 Hogan's Goat .................. 180 Hold Fast To Dreams .......... 286 Hold On Hortense ............. 283 The Hole ....................... 283 A Hole in the Head ............ 158 Holiday ...................... '.' 151 Holiday Snap .................. 100 The Hollow .................... 150 The Hollow Crown .............. 39 The Holly and the Ivy ......... 125 The Holy Ghostly .............. 268 The Holy Terror ................. 80 Home ............................ 54 Home Fires .................... 275 A Home for Stray Cats ........ 145 Home Free ....................... 83 Home Games .................... 22 Home Is The Hunter ........... 145 Home Is Where Your Clothes Are .......................... 115 Home Section .................. 256 Homebound .................... 236 Home-built Lighting Equipment for the Small Stage .............. 322 The Homecoming ................ 72 Homeroom ..................... 209 Homesick ...................... 239 Homesteaders .................... 5 1 Homo .......................... 145 Honestly, Now! ................ 125 The Honeycomb ............... 124 Honeymoon ...................... 50 Honky-tonk Highway .......... 209 Hoodwinked ................... 209 Hope for the Best .............. 209 Horowitz and Mrs. Washington .. 68 Horrid Massacre in Boston ...... 93 Horrors of Doctor Moreau ..... 280 Horse Farce .................... 236 The Hostage ................... 182 Hostile Witness ................ 188 Hot Comer ..................... 163 * Hot Hashes ....................... 9 Hot Fudge ..................... 289 Hot Grog ....................... 210 Hot Ice ......................... 188 Hot 'n Cole .................... 209 Hot Property ................... 101 Hot Rod ........................ 256 Hot Shot ....................... 105 Hot Turkey At Midnight ......... 38 Hotbed Hotel .................. 110 *The Hotel Inspectors ........... 288 Hotel Paradiso ................. 182 Hotel Suite ....................... 57 Hotel Universe ................. 122 Hothouse ....................... 106 Hotline ......................... 271 Hound of the Baskervilles ..... 132 House .......................... 159 House & Garden ............... 158 House Afire .................... 145 House Arrest ..................... 84 The House Beautiful ........... 306 A House Is Not A Poolroom .. 291 House of Bernarda Alba ....... 135 The House of Bernarda Alba .. 135 The House of Blue Leaves ..... 130 House of Cards ................ 313 House of Connelly ............. 189 The House of Dracula ......... 147 The House of Frankenstein .... 129 The House of Mirth ............ 127 The House of Ramon Iglesia .... 87 House of Wonders ............... 97 The House On The Cliff ......... 73 Houseparty ..................... 189 How Can You Tell The Good Guys From The Bad Guys! .......... 89 How Do You Do .............. 315 How Green Was My Brownie ...................... 142 How He Lied To Her Husband ..................... 260 How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth? .................... 236 How Many To Tango? ......... 245 How The Chicken Hawk Won The West ......................... 299 How The Other Half Loves ...... 71 How To Eat Like A Child ..... 210 How To Sell Yourself As an Actor ......................... 321 How To Write A Play ......... 189 Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Hy ........................... 210 Howard Crabtree's Whoop-deedoo! .......................... 210 Howie .......................... 189 The Human Comedy ........... 210 Humble Boy ..................... 57 Humphrey Pumphrey Had A Great Fall .......................... 265 Humpty Dumpty ............... 300 The Hunchback of Notre Dame ........................ 210 Hunger and Thirst ............. 156 The Hungerers ................. 275 Hunter ........................... 36 The Hunters and the Henwife .. 297 Hunting Cockroaches .......... 115 Hurlyburly ....................... 80 Hurrah for the Bridge .......... 280 Husbandry ....................... 34 Huui Huui ..................... 151 Hymn To The Rising Sun ..... 290
If Men Played Cards As Women Do ........................... 267 If Susan Smith Could Talk .... 313 If Women Worked As Men Do ........................... 292 If Yer Take A Short Cut, Yer Might Lose The Way ........ 271 If You're Glad I'll Be Frank ... 233 Il Fornicazione ................. 279 I'll Be Back Before Midnight .... 34 I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever ...................... 210 I'll Get My Man ............... 121 I'll Leave It To You ........... 134 I'll Take Manhattan ............ 245 I'm Dreaming, But Am I? ..... 261 I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road ...... 211 I'm Not Rappaport ............... 85 I'm Talking About Jerusalem .. 152 The Image ..................... 275 Imaginary Friends .............. 211 The Imaginary Invalid ......... 147 The Imaginary Invalid (Stone) ....................... 194 Imaginary Lines .................. 50 The Imbecile ................... 269 *The Immigrant ................. 198 The Imp Or Imps .............. 273 The Imperial Nightingale ...... 300 Impolite Comedy ................ 70 The Importance of Being Earnest (4 Acts) ......................... 148 The Importance of Being Earnest (3 Acts) ......................... 194 The Importance of Being Earnest (I Act) .......................... 294 The Impossible years .......... 161 Improv Comedy ................ 323 In 25 W ords-{)r Death ........ 134 In A Garden ..................... 74 In A Music Shop .............. 104 In Abraham's Bosom .......... 152 In and Out of the Light ........ 263 In Case of Accident .............. 74 In Hame ......................... 60 In for the Kill .. .' ................ .48 In Good King Charles Golden Days ......................... 145 In My Mind's Eye ............... 67 In New England Winter ....... 315 In One Bed. . . and Out The Other ........................... 88 In Order of Appearance ........ 115 In Other Words ................ 245 In Praise of Love ................ 38 In Search of Justice ............ 281 In the Boom Boom Room ..... 107 In the Cemetery ................ 256 In the Jungle of Cities ......... 189 In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ................ 163 In the Midnight Hour .......... 125 In the Penal Colony .............. 27 In the Shadow of the Glen ..... 269 In the Wine Time .............. 315 In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights ....... 321 In Times Square ............... 158 In Trousers ..................... 211 In White America ................ 72 hi With Alma .................. 271 The Inca of Perusalem ......... 280 Incident At San Bajo .......... 283 Incognito ....................... 189 The Income Tax ....... : ....... 275 The Incomparable Loulou ....... 76 The Increased Difficulty of Concentration .................. 97 The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers ........................ 129 Indian Ink ...................... 165 Indians ......................... 186 Indifferent Wave Lengths ...... 271

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I Bet Your Life .................. 97 I Came To New York To Write ........................... 53 I Can't Keep Running in Place ......................... 210 I Capture The Castle ........... 163 I (Cristoforo Colombo) ........ 210 I Don't Know Where You're Coming From At All! ....... 256 I Found April .................... 74 I Have Been Here Before ........ 73 I Killed The Count ............. 158 I Know My Love .............. 189 I Like It Here .................. 125 I Love My Wife ............... 210 I Love You, I Love You Not .... 15 I Love You, Two ................ 34 I Ought To Be in Pictures ....... 23 I Read The News Today ....... 276 I Remember It Well ........... 323 I Remember You ................ 27 I Sent a Letter To My Love ... 210 I Shot My Rich Aunt .......... 115 I Stand Before You Naked ..... 138 I Take This Man ................ .45 I Won't Dance ................... 24 Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays ......................... 311 Icarus's Mother ................ 274 Ice Cream ...................... 154 * Ida Lupino in the Dark ........ 252 The Ideal Gnome Expedition .. 295 Identity Crisis .................. 276 The Ides of March ............. 189 The Idiot ....................... 178 If ............................... 189 If Booth Had Missed .......... 189 If Five Years Pass ............. 189 If Love Were All .............. 165 If Memory Serves ................ 96

The Individuality of Streetlamps .................. 314 The Indoor Sport ................. 70 Infamous People ............... 314 Infancy ......................... 275 Infidelities! ..................... 115 An Infinite Deal of Nothing ... 266 Inflatable You ................ " 245 1be Informer ................... 261 Infrared ........................ 11 0 1be Inner Circle ............... 265 Inner City ...................... 211 Innocent One .................. 125 The Innocents . . ................. 72 Inquest ......................... 189 The Insanity of Mary Girard ..... 76 Inside .......................... 283 Inside Al ....................... 271 Inside Lester ................... 125 Inside Out ...................... 211 Inspecting Carol ............... 146 Inspector ....................... 170 An Inspector Answers ......... 274 The Inspector General (Frayn) ... 65 The Inspector General (Gogol) ...................... 170 Instincts ........................ 245 Interior Designs ................ 266 Interludes ...................... 290 Intermission .................... 313 The International Stud ........... 23 Interpreters ....................... 65 '!be Interrogation .............. 313 Intervention .................... 313 '!be Interview .................... 26 An Interview ................... 239 Intimate Exchanges .............. 13 Into The Fire ................... 128 Into The Fire (musical) ........ 211 The Invention .................. 295 The Invention of Love ......... 165 Invisible Friends ............... 296 The Invisible Man ............. 169 Invitation To A Murder ...... " 145 lonescopade .................... 211 Iphigenia Among The Taurians .. 61 Iphigenia in Aulis ................ 97 The Irish Girl Kissed in the Rain ......................... 235 The Irregular Verb To Love ... 122 Is Life Worth Living? ......... 158 Is Love Everything? ............. 53 Is That The Bus To Pittsburgh? ................... 257 Is The Real You Really You? ... 37 Is There A Comic in the House? ....................... 169 Is There Life After High School? ...................... 211 Is Zat So ....................... 163 The Island ....................... 16 The Island of Anyplace ........ 296 The Isle of Dogs ............... 285 Isle of the Hermaphrodites Or the Murdered Minion ............ 152 Israel Horovitz: 5 Short Plays ......................... 311 Istanbul ........................ 125 It ............................... 273 It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues ........................ 211 It Bees That Way .............. 315 It Can Damage Your Health .... .45 It Could Be Any One of Us ..... 61 The It Girl ..................... 211 It Had To Be You ............... 13 It Happened in Harrods .......... 87 It Has No Choice .............. 315 It Is No Desert .................... 8 It Is So! If You Think So ...... 170 It Pays To Advertise ........... 152 It Runs in the Family .......... 139 It Was A Dark and Stormy Night ........................ 159

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John Gabriel Borkman ......... 311 Johnny Guitar .................. 212 Johnny Johnson ................ 212 Johnny On A Spot ............. 175 John's Ring .................... 257 Joking Apart ................... 141 Jolson and Company ........... 212 Jonesy .......................... 158 Joseph .......................... 212 Joseph Andrews ................ 176 The Journalists ................. 189 The Journey of the Fifth Horse ........................ 179 Journey's End .................. 130 Joy To The World ............. 189 Joyce Dynel .................... 212 Joyful Noise ..................... 97 Judah's Daughter .............. III The Judas Kiss ................... 76 Judge and Jury ................. 115 Judgement Call and Other Plays ......................... 311 Judgment At Nuremberg ....... 111 Judgment Call ................. 253 Judith Viorst's Love and Shrimp ....................... 212 The Juice of Wild Strawberries ................. 239 Julius Caesar ................... 191 The Jumbo Christmas Book ... 310 Jump/Cut ......................... 18 "Jump, I'll Catch You!" ........ 11 Jump the Train at Riverpoint .... 97 Jumpers ........................ 159 June Groom .................... 120 ,June Mad ...................... 158 June Wedding .................. 163 Jungle of Cities ................ 174 Junior Play-readings ........... 319 Junior the Senior ............... 291 The Juniper Tree, A Tragic Household Tale ................ 24 Juno ............................ 212 Juno and the Paycock .......... 181 Juris Prudence ................. 271 Just a Little Something for Christmas .................... 309 Just Be Frank .................. 313 Just Between Ourselves .......... 52 Just for Tonight ................ 119 Just One Night ................. 313 Just Say No ...................... 97 Just Say Yes! ................... .41 Just So ......................... 212 Just Thinking .................. 257 Justice (Fox) ..................... 88 Justice (Galsworthy) ............. 88 Justice Without Revenge ....... 163
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Italian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions .................... 146 Italian Rum Cake .............. 287 An Italian Straw Hat ........... 163 Itch ............................. 239 It's A Dog's Life ................ 26 It's A Scream! A Horrorbly Funny Comedy ........................ 52 It's A Wonderful Life ......... 211 It's All in the Game ........... 279 It's All Relative .................. 61 It's Okay, Honey .............. 245 It's Only A Test ............... 287 It's So Nice To Be Civilized .. 211 It's The Truth (If You Think It Is) ............................ 170 Ivanov (Hare) .................. 136 Ivanov (Peyankov & Christenson) ................. 164 Ivory Door ..................... 189
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Jabberwock .................... 172 Jabiru .......................... 253 Jack and Jill ...................... 9 Jack and the Beanstalk (Ludlam) ..................... 125 Jack and the Beanstalk (Morley) ..................... 300 Jack and the Giant ............. 304 Jack, or the Submission ........ 286 Jack, Sharon and Russell ...... 312 Jack the Lad ................... 300 Jack the Ripper ................ 211 Jackie: an American Life ........ 94 Jackknife ....................... 125 Jack's Holiday ................. 211 Jade God ....................... 135 Jake's Women ................... 94 James and the Giant Peach .... 295 James Joyce's Dublin .......... 138 James Joyce's The Dead ....... 212 James A. Michener's Sayonara ..................... 212 James Skipworth and the Catfish Colonel ........................ 22 Jane ............................ 125 Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey ........................ 154 Jane Eyre ...................... 146 Jane Eyre ...................... 181 Janie ........................... 187 Janus ............................. 55 The Jar ......................... 285 The Jazz Singer ................ 189 J.B .............................. 180 The Jealous Husband .......... 285 Jealousy .......................... 74 Jeffrey 13ernard Is Unwell ...... .48 Jekyll and Hyde ................ 105 Jekyll Hydes Again! ........... 212 * Jeremy and the Thinking Machine ..................... 296 Jerry and Tom ................... 20 Jerry Springer Is God .......... 314 Jerry's Girls .................... 212 Jesse and the Bandit Queen ...... 16 Jewel Robbery ................. 158 Jewel Thieves! ................... 31 The Jeweler's Shop .............. 76 Jewish Girlz ......... : ......... 212 The Jewish Wife ............... 245 Jim Dandy ................ , .... 189 Jimmy and Evelyn ............. 312 Jitney .......................... III Jitta's Atonement .............. 125 Joan of Arc .................... 189 Joan of Arc in the Autumn .... 235 The Job ......................... .45 The Jockey Club Stakes ....... 155 Joe Egg .......................... 72 Joe Turner's Come and Gone .. 137 Joggers ......................... 268 John Bull's Other Island ....... 150

The Killing of Sister George ..... 36 Killing Time ..................... 11 Killings On The Last Line ..... 135 The Killings Tale .............. 166 Killjoy ........................... 61 Kind Lady ..................... 161 Kindling ......................... 37 Kindly Leave the Stage .......... 97 *The King and the Condemned .................. 270 King Hedley II ................... 57 King Lear ...................... 191 King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running ...................... 213 King of Schnorrers ............ , 213 The King of the Cats .......... 236 King of the Israelites .......... 306 King of the Kosher Grocers ..... 80 King of the Pekinese Yellowtail ................... , 245 The King Stag ................. 169 The Kingfisher ................... 24 The King's Horses ............... 27 King's Rhapsody ............... 213 The King's Standards ............ 74 *The Kipper and the Corpse .... 290 Kiss Mama ..................... 125 Kiss Me QuiCk-I'm Double Parked ....................... 288 A Kiss of Cinderella ........... 189 Kiss of the Spider Woman ..... 213 A Kiss On The Bottom .......... 80 Kiss Or Make Up ................ 90 The Kitchen .................... 189 The Knack ....................... 39 Knaves, Knights and Kings .... 317 The Knight From Olmedo ..... 158 Knock .......................... 182 Knock 'em Dead ............... 196 Knock Knock .................... 37 Knockout ........................ 87 Knuckle .......................... 71 Knucklebones .................... 35 Korea ............................ 63 Krapp's Last Tape ................ 8 Kudzu: A Southern Musical .. , 213 The Kukkurrik Fables .......... 311 Kuni-Ieml ...................... 213 Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ............... 213 Kuwait ......................... 313 Kvetch .......................... .41
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Kabuki Plays ................... 291 Kafka's Dick ..................... 86 The Kama Sutra ,............... 177 Kanjincho ...................... 291 The Karl Marx Play ........... 142 Kataki ............................ 74 Kean ........................... 189 Keely and Du ................... .45 Keep Tightly Closed In A Cool Dry Place ......................... 257 Keep Your Spirits Up ............ 87 Keeper ......................... 313 Keeping Down With The Joneses ....................... 118 Kempy ......................... 125 Kennedy's Children .............. 71 Key for Two ..................... 86 Kidney Stones ................. 311 Kid's Stuff ..................... 317 The Killdeer ................... 121 The Killer ...................... 150 Killer Joe ....................... .41 Killer's Head .................. 236 Killing Game .................. 189

La Cage Aux Folies ........... 213 La Chienne in the Park ........ 253 La Llorona ..................... 285 La Perichole ................... 213 La Puta Vida (This Bitch of A Life) ........................... 84 La Ronde ...................... 134 La Turista ........................ 90 Labor Day ..................... 313 Labor Pains .................... 239 Laburnum Grove ............... 125 The Labyrinth .................. 280 Ladies and Gentlemen ......... 189 Ladies First .................... 116 Ladies in Waiting .............. 271 Ladies' Man ................... 245 Ladies Night in A Turkish Bath ......................... 161 The Ladies of Soissons ........ 306 Ladies of the Corridor ......... 189 Ladies of the Jury .............. 184 Ladies of the Mop ............. 292 Lady Audley's Secret .......... 108 The Lady Chooses ............. 145 The Lady Cries Murder ........ 174 Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill ......................... 213 The Lady From Maxim's (Feist) ........................ 122

The Lady From Maxim's (Mortimer) ....................... . The Lady From The Sea ....... 311 The Lady in Question .......... 115 The Lady in the Van ........... 159 A Lady of Letters .............. 235 The Lady of the House ........ 170 Lady Precious Stream .......... 184 The Lady Who Cried Fox!!! ..... 53 Ladyhouse Blues ................ .49 The Ladykiller ................. 245 Laestrygonians ................... 57 The Laff Revue ................ 316 Lafferty's Wake .................. 76 Lafferty's Wake ................ 197 Lake No Bottom ................. 21 Lakeboat ....................... 10 I Lamppost Reunion .............. .49 Landscape ...................... 245 Landscape and Silence ........... 25 Landscape With Waitress ...... 246 Langston Hughes's Little Ham ......................... 213 Largo Desolato ................. 146 The Last Act Is A Solo ........ 257 Last Call for Breakfast ......... 267 The Last Carnival .............. 295 Last Chance Texaco ........... 257 The Last Cigarette ............. 246 Last Dance ....................... 27 The Last Dance ................ 246 Last Day of Camp ............. 313 Last Days At The Dixie Girl Cafe ........................... 52 Last Exit Before Toll .......... 236 The Last Flapper .................. 8 The Last Girl Singer ............. 20 The Last Laugh ................. .45 The Last Leaf .................. 125 The Last Leaf (musical) ....... 217 The Last of Hitler .............. 128 The Last of Jane Austen ....... 137 Last of the Class ................. 70 The Last of the Leprechauns ... 298 Last of the Red Hot Lovers ...... 37 Last Requests .................. 286 The Last Session ............... 213 The Last Straw ................. 285 The Last Supper' ............... 213 The Last Supper Restoration .... .45 The Last Sweet Days of Isaac ......................... 213 The Last Ten Miles of Avery J. Coping ....................... 115 The Last Time I Saw Timmy Boggs ........................ 264 The Last Time We Saw Her ... 313 Last Warning .................. 163 The Late Christopher Bean .... 123 The Late Edwina Black .......... 39 Late Flowering .................. .45 Late Love ...................... 125 The Late Mrs. Early ........... 105 Late Nite Comic ............... 214 Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening ............. 246 Later Encounters ............... 314 The Latest Mrs. Adams .......... 88 Laughter in the Dark ........... 138 Laughter On The 23rd Floor ... III The Laundry ..................... 74 Lavender and Old Lace ........ 135 Lawyers, Guns & Money ...... 313 Lazaretti, Or The Saber-toothed Tiger ......................... 125 The Laziest Man in the World ........................ 292 Le Bourgeois Avant-garde ..... 135 The Leader ..................... 280 Leader of the Pack ............. 214 Leading Lady .................. 158 The League of Semisuperheroes .................. 313 A Lean and Hungry Priest ....... 74 The Learned Ladies ............ 138

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Leavin' Cheyenne .............. 246 Leaving Home ................... 89 Leaving Tangier ............... 263 Lebensraum ...................... 18 The Ledge ..................... 286 The Left Bank . ............... 189 A Leg of the Journey ........... .46 The Legacy .................... 279 The Legend of Scarface and Bluewater .................... 305 Legends! ......................... 67 Lena and Louie ................ 246 Lena Rivers .................... 195 Lend an Ear .................... 214 Lend Me A Tenor ............. 100 Leonce and Lena ............... 151 The Lepers of Baile Baiste ...... 94 Les Blancs ..................... 142 Les Liaisons Dangereuses ..... 127 Les Miserables ................. 115 Less Said, The Better .......... 253 The Lesson .................... 253 A Lesson From Aloes ........... 23 Let 'em Eat Steak ...... .. .. .... 135 Let Freedom Ring ............. 189 Let Me Hear You Smile ......... 74 Let The Big Dog Eat .......... 313 Let Us Be Gay ................. 152 Let's Get A Divorce (Davies) ...................... 152 Let's Get A Divorce (Goldsby) .................... 158 Let's Go To The Moon ........ 299 Let's Murder Marsha ............ 86 Let's Put On A Musical ....... 321 Letters Home .................... 15 Letters To Lucerne ............. 158 Lettice and Lovage ............. .46 Libel ........................... 189 Liberty Jones .................. 189 The License .................... 283 Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect ........ 97 A Life .......................... 104 Life After Elvis ................ 263 Life Class ...................... 158 Life Comes To The Old Maid ......................... 246 Life in Refusal ................. 111 A Life in the Theatre ............ 23 Life in the Trees ............... 128 Life Is A Dream ................. 90 Life of Edward II of England .. 189 Life of Galileo (Hare/BrentoniWillet) ........ 174 Life of Galileo ................. 189 Life of the Party ............... 183 Life On the Bowery ........... 172 Life Support ..................... 11 Light Sensitive ................... 18 Light Shining in Buckinghamshire .............. 63 The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter ..................... 292 Lighting Up Time ................ 35 Lightnin' ....................... 189 The Lights Are Warm and Coloured ..................... 104 Lights, Camera, Action ........ 269 Like Mother, Like Daughter ... 291 Lilacs in the Rain .............. 145 Liliom .......................... 183 Lily, The Felon's Daughter .... 192 The Linden Tree ............... 135 The Line That's Picked Up 1000 Babes ........................ 277 Lingerie ........................ 257 Liola ........................... 150 The Lion in Winter .............. 91 The Lion Who Wouldn't ...... 298 Lip Service .................... 246 Listen To This ................. 317 Literature On Stage ............ 319 The Little Black Book ........... 16 Little Boxes .................... 121 Little by Little ................. 214 Little Eyolf .................... 311 A Little Family Business ...... 131 Little Girl Blue ................ 125 Little Ham ..................... 214 A Little Hotel On The Side .... 172 Little Jack Homer .............. 301 The Little Juggler .............. 302 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs .......... 74 Little Mary Sunshine .......... 214 Little Moon of Alban .......... 181 Little Murders ................. 107 Little O\'boy ................... 189 A Little Princess ............... 303 A Little Quickie ................. 67 The Little Red Schoolhouse ... 294 Little Scandal .................. 151 A Little Something for the Ducks ........................ 246 The Little Theatre's Production of 'hamlet' ........................ 97 Little Women (De Forest) ..... 150 Little Women (Ravold) ........ 192 Little Women (musical) ........ 214 The Littlest Tailor ............. 304 Live Like Pigs ................. 163 Livin' Fat ........................ 69 Living Quarters ................ 119 The Living Room .............. 125 Living Together .................. 70 Lloyd George Knew My Father ........................ 107 Lloyd's Prayer ................... 33 Lo and Behold! ................ 109 Local Murder .................... 34 Lock Up Your Daughters ...... 214 Locked Room .................. 158 Lombardi Ltd .................. 189 London Suite .................... 57 The Lone Star .................. 187 The Lone Star Love Potion ...... 80 Lonely ......................... 313 Lonely Places .................. 137 The Long Christmas Dinner ... 310 Long Island Sound ............. 166 Long Time Since Yesterday ... 100 Look After Lulu ............... 176 Look Away ...................... 15 Look Homeward, Angel ....... 173 Look No Hans! .................. 66 Look Who's Laughing ......... 192 Lookin' for A Better Berry Bush ......................... 239 Looking At The Stars .......... 306 Looking Good ................. 313 Loose Ends .................... 141 Loose Knit ....................... 80 Loot .............................. 72 Lord Alfred's Lover ........... 174 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime .... 131 Lord Pengo .................... 145 Lorenzaccio .................... 189 Lost and Found ................ 246 The Lost Christmas ............ 310 The Lost Colony ............... 187 The Lost Girl .................. 253 Lost in A Mirror ............... 148 Lost in Midian ................. 307 Lost in Yonkers .................. 76 The Lost Princess .............. 305 Lot's Daughters .................. 97 The Loud Red Patrick ......... 123 Louder, Please ................. 189 A Love Affair ................... .45 Love After Death .............. 189 Love Allways .................. 312 Love and How To Cure It ..... 270 Love and Intrigue .............. 135 Love and Peace, Mary Jo ...... 313 Love and Shrimp .............. 214 Love and Stuff ................. 317 Love Bite ...................... 283 Love Bites ..................... 214 Love by The Numbers ......... 115 Love Comes in Full Array ..... 145 The Love Course .............. 263 Love Forty ....................... 31 Love From A Stranger ......... 125 Love From Judy ............... 214 Love in the Title ................. 20 Love Lace ..................... 247 Love Letters On Blue Paper ..... 74 Love Nest for Three ............. 25 Love of A Pig ................. 100 The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden ........... 91 The Love of Susan's Life ...... 312 The Love of Three Oranges ... 169 Love On The Cusp .............. 69 Love On The Dole ............. 189 Love Out of Town ............. 125 Love Poem #98 ................ 313 Love, Sex and the I.R.S .......... 94 The Love Song of A. Nellie Goodrock .................... 304 A Love Story .................. 246 Love With A Twist ............ 214 Love'em and Leave'em ........ 135 Lovely Afternoon .............. 260 Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen ................... 214 A Lovely Light ................... 8 Lovers ........................... 18 The Lovers ..................... 189 Lovers and Other Strangers .... 133 Lover's Leap ..................... 67 Loves Labours Wonne ......... 159 The Loves of Cass Mcguire ... 135 Love's Labour's Lost .......... 191 Love's Old Sweet Song ........ 189 Love's Tangled Web ............. 65 Lovesick ....................... 276 Lovesong ...................... 214 Loving Daniel Boone .......... III Low Level Panic ................. 20 The Lower Depths ............. 179 The Lower Rooms .............. .48 A Low-lying Fog .............. 239 Loyalties (Galsworthy) ......... 189 Loyalties (Guyer) .............. 313 Lucia Mad ....................... 61 Lucifer's Child .................... 8 The Lucky O'learys .............. 84 Lucy and the Mystery of the Vineencrusted Mansion ........... 253 The Luftmensch ................ 246 Lullaby ......................... 246 Lunacy: A Bathroom Trilogy .... 31 The Lunatic From Number Seven ........................ 235 Lunatics-at-Large .............. 193 Lunch .......................... 239 Lunch Girls .................... 130 Lunch Hour (Kerr) ............... 52 Lunch Hour (Mortimer) ........ 262 Lunchtime (Marcato) .......... 313 Lunchtime (Melfi) ............. 246 Lurker .......................... 246 Lust ............................ 214 Lust 'n' Rust ................... 214 Lusting After Pipino's Wife ..... 31 Lux in Tenebris ................ 280 Luxury Cruise ................. 122 Lynette At 3:00 ................ 313 Lynette Has Beautiful Skin .... 313 Lysistrata ...................... 166
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M Is for the Million ........... 144 'M' Is for Moon Among Other Things ....................... 233 Ma Rainey'S Black Bottom .... 127 Ma Rose ........................ .46 Macbeth ........................ 191 Macbett ........................ 121 Macbird ........................ 189 Mack and Mabel ............... 214 Macnaughton's Dowry ......... 263 Mad Forest ..................... 137

Mad Hopes .................... 158 The Mad Show ................ 214 Madam Tic-tac ................. 145 Madame President ............. 292 Made in Bangkok .............. 148 Made in Heaven ............... 152 Madeline Nude in the Rain Perhaps ...................... 236 Mademoiselle Colombe ........ 186 A Madhouse in Goa ............. 57 lbe Madman and the Nun ..... 109 lbe Madness of George III .... 166 Madness On Madrona Drive ... 149 Madonna in the Orchard ....... 177 Madrigals ...................... 236 Mafia .......................... 154 Maggie Flynn .................. 215 Maggie Magalita ................. 35 Magic and the Loss .............. 74 The Magic Apple .............. 299 The Magic Devil Lion ......... 295 The Magic Pebble ............. 215 The Magic Pebble ............. 301 Magic Time ................... 103 Magnificent Cuckold ........... 145 The Magnificenl Yankee ....... 189 Mahalia .......................... 18 Maid To Order ................. 192 The Maids ....................... 26 Maids of Honor .............. : ... 80 Mail ............................ 215 The Maintenance Man ........... 22 Major Barbara ................. 183 Major Weir .................... 236 A Majority of One ............. 162 Make A Million ................ 189 Make and Break ............... 155 Make Me A Match ............. .40 Make-up ....................... 322 Make-up (Tasca) ............... 257 Makin' It ....................... 171 Making A Good Script Great .. 323 Making A Killing ................ 34 Making Book ................... .46 Making History .................. 61 Making Movies ................. .49 Making The Call ............... 313 Malcolm X: Message From The Grass Roots .................. 166 The Male Animal .............. 154 The Malefactor's Bloody. Register ...................... 263 Mama Drama ................... .46 Mamet Women ................ 239 Man Alive ..................... 162 Man and Supennan ............ 192 The Man At The Door ......... 266 Man Enough ................... 102 A Man for All Seasons ........ 162 The Man From Home .......... 189 The Man in 605 .................. 26 The Man in Blue ............... 246 The Man in the Bowler Hat ... 281 Man in the Flying Lawn Chair . .41 The Man in the Glass Booth ... 179 The Man of Destiny ........... 192 Man of the Moment ........... 137 The Man Who Couldn't Dance ........................ 313 The Man Who Died At Twelve O'clock ...................... 260 The Man Who Dug Fish ....... 315 The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife ......................... 135 Man Who Stayed by His Negative ..................... 283 Man With A Load of Mischief .................... 215 Man With Bags ................ 163 The Man With The Flower in His Mouth ....................... 261 The Man With The Plastic Sandwich .... ................. 36 The Manager ..................... 31 The Mandrake ................. 115

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A Medieval Romance .......... 286 Medusa of Forty-seventh Street ........................ 257 Meet My Husbands ............ 115 Meet The Wife., ............... 125 Meeting At The Mets .......... 282 Meetings ......................... 24 The Meg and Mog Show ...... 296 Meg .............................. 74 Megan Terry's Home .......... 142 Melancholy Baby .............. 104 Melodrama Play ............... 279 Melody Jones .................. 157 Membranous Croup ............ 274 The Memorandum ............. 184 The Men From The Boys ...... 111 Men in Suits ..................... 18 Men in White .................. 189 Mental Reservations ........... 313 Meow .......................... 313 The Merchant of Venice ....... 191 Meridian Mississippi, Redux ... 264 Merrily We Roll Along ........ 189 Merry Christmas Miss Vickers ...................... 308 Merry Madness ................ 145 The Merry Widow ............. 215 The Merry Wives of Windsor .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 191 Merton of the Movies .......... 144 Message From the Grass Roots ........................ 189 The Messiah ................... 153 The Messingkauf Dialogues ..... 46 Metamorphosis .................. .42 Meteor ......................... 125 Method-or Madness? Acting Techniques ................... 322 The Mice Have Been Drinking Again ........................ 265 Michael Gets Suspended ....... 291 The Middle Kingdom .......... 246 Middle of the Night ............ 143 Middle Watch .................. 189 Middle-age Spread ............... 68 Middle-aged White Guys ........ 80 The Midnight Moonlight Wedding Chapel ....................... 277 Midsummer .................... 151 Midsummer Mink .............. 143 Midsummer Nights ............ 215 A Midsummer Night's Dream ....................... 191 A Midsummer Night's Dream ....................... 169 The Mikado .................... 215 Mike's Appendix .............. 291 Milk ............................ 277 Milk and Honey ................. 71 Milky Way ..................... 125 Mill Hill ....................... 269 The Millionairess .............. 124 Mina Tonight! ................. III The Mind With The Dirty Man .. 89 Mindgame ....................... 20 Ming Lee and the Magic Tree .......................... 301 Minick ......................... 189 Mink Ties ...................... 236 Minnie's Boys ................. 215 Minor Miracle ................. 125 A Minor Scene ................. 315 A Minuet ...................... 262 Minus Some Buttons ............. 80 Minute Monologues for Kids .. 317 Miracle in Memphis ........... 215 Miracle On 34th Street ........ 309 The Miracle Worker ........... 160 The Miracles of May ........... .46 Mirage ......................... 247 Mirandolina ...................... 74 Mirandolina (Mitchell) ........... 97 Mirror, Mirror ................. 257 Misalliance ..................... 121 The Misanthrope ............... 142 The Miser (Bermel) ............ 175 The Miser (Malleson) .......... 162 Misery ........................... 21 Misreadings .................... 313 Miss Adams Will Be Waiting ... 36 Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet .. 235 Miss Jairus ..................... 189 Miss Julie ........................ 24 Miss Letitia .................... 125 Miss Margarida's Way ... : ........ 8 Miss Pell Is Missing ........... 125 Missing ........................ 264 Missing Link ................... l31 Missing/Crossing ................. 31 The Mistake ................... 277 Mister Paradise ................ 311 * Mister Paradise and Other Plays ......................... 311 Mister Peepers ................. 163 Mixed Company ............... 319 Mixed Doubles (Carmichael) .. 118 Mixed Doubles (Feydeau) ..... 279 Mixed Emotions ............... 313 Mixed Feelings .................. 64 "M'liss ........................ 194 Moby Dick ..................... 285 Moby Dick-rehearsed .......... 162 Modem Playwrights At Work ... ; ..................... 322 A Modem Proposal ............ 236 Modem Scenes for Women .... 319 A Modest Proposal ............ 246 Modigliani ....................... 88 Molly ............................ 69 Molly and James ............... 246 Moment of Weakness ............ 21 Money, Power, Murder, Lust, Revenge, and Marvelous Clothes ....................... 216 Money Talks ................... 253 Mongolian Idiot .............. :. 247 Monique ....................... 145 Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? .......................... 83 * Monkey Soup .................... 92 The Monkey Walk ............... 16 The Monkey's Paw ............ 292 Monkey's Uncle ................. 71 Monologues for Kids .......... 319 Monologues for Men .......... 319 Monologues for Teenage Girls ......................... 317 Monologues for Teenagers ..... 319 Monologues for Women ....... 317 Monologues from Chekhov .... 319 Monologues from George Bernard Shaw ......................... 319 Monologues from Literature ... 321 Monologues from Molie re .... 317 Monologues from Oscar Wilde ........................ 319 Monologues from The - Classics ...................... 319 Monologues They Haven't Heard ........................ 319 The Month Before the Moon .... 97 A Month in the Country ....... 161 A Month of Sundays ............. 66 The Moon Dreamers ........... 150 A Moon for the Misbegotten .... 38 Moon On A Rainbow Shawl ... 161 Moon OVer Buffalo .............. 94 * Mooncalf ....................... 234 Moonchildren .................. 173 Moonlight and Valentino ....... .42 Moonlight Cocktail ............. .46 The Moons of Alnyron .......... 11 Moose Murders ................ 119 More From Story Theatre ........ 68 More Fun Than Bowling ....... ,50 More Monologues for Kids .... 317 More Monologues for Teenage Girls ......................... 317 More Monologues for Teenagers .................... 317 More Monologues They Haven't Heard ........................ 319 More Ten-minute Plays From Actors Theatre of Louisville .................... 313 More Than Meets The Eye .... 144 The Morgan yard ................ 63 Morning ........................ 274 Morning (Chiaroscuro) ........... 54 Morning Coffee ................ 239 *Morning, Noon and Night (New bound) ................... 17 Morning, Noon, and Night ....... 54 Morning's At Seven ........... 117 Moroccan Travel Guide I . . . . . . . . 257 Mosquito Dirigible Aerosol Deodorant .................... 263 The Most Perfect Day ......... 264 A Most Secret War ............ 101 The Mother .................... 171 Mother Courage and Her Children ..................... 166 Mother Courage and Her Children (Manheim) ................... 189 Mother Earth ................... 216 Mother Goose's Golden Christmas .................... 299 * Motherhouse ..................... 26 Mothers and Daughters .......... 67 Mother's Day .................. 263 A Mother's Love .............. 276 Mother's Millions .............. 145 The Mountain Chorus .......... 285 The Mountain Hotel ........... 154 The Mousetrap ................. 102 Move Over, Mrs. Markham .... 117 Movie of the Month ........... 247 Movieman ..................... 273 Moving .......................... 11 Moving Parts: Monologues From Contemporary Plays ......... 321 Mpls, St. Paul .................. 313 Mr. & Mrs. North .............. 189 Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays ......................... 297 Mr. Bundy ....................... 76 Mr. Easter Bunny .............. 303 Mr. Foot ....................... 246 Mr. Happiness ................. 105 Mr. Happiness ................. 236 Mr. Lazarus ...................... 74 Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wexel .... 246 Mr. Pim Passes by ............. 125 Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti .......................... 171 Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting ..... 61 Mr. Snoop Is Murdered ........ 283 Mr. Tucker's Taxi ............. 268 Mrs. Coney: A Tale At Christmas .................... 310 Mrs. Gibbon's Boys ........... 145 Mrs. January & Mr. Ex ........ 189 Mrs. Klein ....................... 20 Mrs. Meadowsweet ............ 272 Mrs. Moonlight ................ 125 Mrs. O'Brien Entertains ....... 189 Mrs. Partridge Presents ........ 152 Mrs. Townley Had A Pomeranian .................. 239 Mrs. Warren's Profession ...... 192 Ms. Frankenstein's Monster ... 176 Much Ado About Nothing ..... 191 The Mumberley Inheritance .... 105 Mumbo-jumbo ................. 195 The Mummy's Claw! .......... 147 The Mundy Scheme ........... 189 The Municipal Abattoir ........ 311 Murder Among Friends .......... 70 Murder At Cafe Noir ............ 80 Murder At Minsing Manor ..... 128 Murder At Rutherford House .. 197 Murder At the Howard Johnson's ...................... 23

Manhattan Love Songs ........ 312 Manny and Jake ............... 246 A Man's A Man (Bentley) ..... 177 A Man's A Man (Neilhaus) .... 189 Mansfield Park ................. 166 A Map of the World ........... 140 Maple Lodge ..................... 46 March of the Falsettos ......... 215 The March On Russia ........... 64 Marching Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 124 Marcus Brutus ................. 155 Mardi Gras ..................... 169 Maria .......................... 277 Marilyn and David ............. 312 Mariner ........................ 171 Mario and yvette .............. 312 Mark's Place ................... 105 Marlon Brando Sat Right Here ......................... 155 Marmalade Gumdrops ......... 296 The Marquise .................. 123 Marred Bliss ................... 313 The Marriage (Gogol) ......... l33 The Marriage (Gombrowicz) ... 133 Marriage Can Be Hazardous To Your Health .................. .46 The Marriage Counselor ......... 80 Marriage Gambol ................ 74 Marriage Is Murder .............. 11 A Marriage of Convenience .... .46 The Marriage of Don Juan ..... 283 The Marriage of Figaro ........ 159 The Marriage Proposal ......... 292 Marriage Proposal ............. 314 Marriage Wheel ................ 125 The Marriage-go-round .......... 39 The Marvelous Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes ............ 215 The Marvelous Story of Puss in Boots ........................ 299 Mary Barnes ................... 189 Mary of Scotland .............. 184 Mary Stuart .................... 189 The Mask of Moriarty ......... 166 Masquerade ...................... 24 Massage ........................ 239 The Master Builder (Fjelde) ... 311 The Master Builder (Rudall) ..... 80 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys ........................... 18 Mastergate ..................... 146 The Masterminds .............. 104 Masterpieces ..................... 61 Masters of the Sea ............. 174 Match Point .................... 253 The Matchmaker ............... 173 The Mating Game .............. .46 A Matter of Gravity ........... 106 A Matter of Wife and Death ... 267 The Maturing of Jonathan Pruneberg ...................... 70 Maude's Reunion .............. 291 Maureen's Gift ................. 312 Maybe Tuesday ................ 152 Mayor .......................... 215 The Mayor of Zalamea ........ 157 The Mayor's Limo ............. 111 Md 20120 ...................... 246 Me ............................... 76 Me and My Girl ............... 215 Me, Myself and I .............. 215 The Me Nobody Knows ....... 215 Me Too, Then! ................. 260 Meanwhile Back On The Couch ........................ 106 Measure for Measure .......... 191 The Measures Taken ........... 289 Medal of Honor Rag ............. 26 Medea .......................... 127 Medea (Klein) ................. 276 Medea (Ludlam) ................. 50 Medea (Rudall) ................ 126 Medea: A Noh Cycle ............ 74 Median ......................... 313 The Medieval Murders ......... 196

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Murder At the Prom ........... 196 Murder At the Vicarage ....... 155 Murder by Appointment .. : ...... 66 Murder by Misadventure ......... 31 Murder by the Book ............. 52 Murder for Rent ................. 97 The Murder Game ............... 36 A Murder Has Been Arranged ..................... 122 Murder in A Nunnery .......... 185 Murder in Baker Street .......... 77 Murder in Company ........... 106 Murder in Mind ................. 86 Murder in the Cathedral ....... 186 Murder in the Magnolias ...... 149 Murder Is A Game ............... 98 A Murder Is Announced ....... 149 Murder Is Fun! ................. 289 * Murder Me Once .............. 281 A Murder of Crows .............. 65 The Murder of Maria Marten .. 156 Murder On Arrival ............. 125 Murder On Reserve ............ III Murder On The Nile ........... 156 Murder On The Rerun ........... 86 Murder Over Miami ........... 145 Murder Play ................... 268 The Murder Room ............... 70 Murder Takes The Stage ....... 193 Murder Under The Big Top ... 196 Murder Well Rehearsed ........ 279 Murdered Alive! ............... 195 Murderer ......................... 33 Murder-go-round ................. 94 Murdermind ...................... 61 Murmurs ....................... 239 Murray Hill .................... 125 Museum ........................ 176 Music From Down The Hill ..... II Music Master .................. 189 Musical Chairs ................. 216 * Musical of Musicals ........... 198 The Music-cure: ............... 261 Mustard Seed .................. 239 My Antonia .................... 166 My Children! My Africa! ........ 21 My Daughter, Your Son ......... 90 My Daughter's Rated "X" ...... 71 My Dead Wife's Mother ....... 265 My Dinner With Mark ........... II My Family. The Jewish Immigrants ................... 314 My Fat Friend ................... 37 My Friend Irma ................ 152 My Friend Miss Flint ............ 67 My Giddy Aunt ................ 102 My Heart Reminds Me .......... 15 My Heart's A Suitcase ........... 57 My Heart's in the Highlands ... 189 My Husband The Wife ........ 216 My Husband's Wild Desires Almost Drove Me Mad ............... .46 My Mother Said I Never Should ......................... 31 My Next Husband Will Be A Beauty ....................... 268 My Old Friends ................ 216 My Old Lady .................... 18 My Sister in This House ......... 35 My Sister, My Sister ............. 38 My Son Is Crazy - But Promising .................... 159 My Son The Astronaut ........ 216 My Sweet Charlie ................ 72 My Thing of Love ............... 31 My Very Own Story ........... 302 *My Wife's Coat ................ 237 The Mysteries .................. 307 The Mystel;es: Creation ....... 306 The Mysteries: The Passion .... 306 The Mysterious Mr. Love ........ 11 Mystery At Greenfingers ...... 134 Mystery Man .................. 163 The Mystery of Irma Vep ........ 11 Mystery-bouffe ................. 189
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INDEX OF TITLES The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ........................... 187 Night Visits .................... 313 Nighthawks ...................... 94 The Nightingale and Not The Lark ......................... 267 Nightlight ........................ 54 The Nightmare ................... 74 Nightmare ........................ 83 Nightmare With Clocks ........ 236 Nights in Hohokus ............. 247 Nights in the Garden of Spain ... 19 Nightswim ..................... 313 Nijinsky Choked His Chicken ...................... 247 Nijinsky: God's Mad Clown ... 173 Nina .............................. 74 Nine ............................ 216 * 9.8 Meters Per Second ......... 263 1913 ............................ 136 The 1940's Radio Hour ........ 216 The Ninety-day Mistress ......... 91 Ninth Guest .................... 136 The No 'count Boy ............ 270 No Exit .......................... 39 No Hard Feelings .............. 121 No More Secrets ............... 216 No More Secrets: The Musical ...................... 296 No More Wars But The Moon ........................ 278 No Mother To Guide Her ...... 156 "No, No, A Million Times No!" ......................... 216 No One Knows How ............ 54 No One Wants To Know ...... 285 No Place To Be Somebody .... 180 No Problem .................... 257 No Room At The Inn .......... 310 No Room for Love ............ 125 No Sex Please, We're British .. 132 No Snakes in This Grass ...... 261 No Time for Comedy ............ 92 No Time Like The Present ....... 63 No Way To Treat A Lady ..... 217 No Why ........................ 283 Noah ........................... 122 Noah's Animals ................ 217 Nobody Don't Like yogi ......... 7 Nobody Hears A Broken Drum ........................ 189 Nobody Loves A Dragon ...... 217 Nobody Sleeps ................. 275 Nobody's Earnest .............. 217 *Nobody's Perfect ............... .40 Noe 'I and Gertie .............. 217 Noe 'I Coward in Two Keys ..... 37 Noe 'I Coward's Long Island Sound ........................ 166 Noir Suspicions .................. 77 Noises Off ..................... 111 Noon ............................. 54 Noon ........................... 274 The Normal Heart ............. 117 The Norman Conquests .......... 70 Norman, Is That You? ........... 47 Northanger Abbey ............. 154 Not About Heroes ............... 14 Not About Nightingales ........ 166 Not by Bed Alone ............. 189 Not Enough Rope .............. 262 Not for Children ............... 152 Not Herbert .................... 152 Not in the Book ................ 125 Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen ...................... 253 Not Showing ..................... 33 Not So Grim Fairy Tales ...... 184 "Not The Count of Monte Cristo?!" .................... 217 Not With My Daughter .......... 70 Notes From The Moated Grange ....................... 236 Nothing But Nonsense ......... 316 Nothing But The Truth ........ 144 Nothing Immediate ............ 247 Nothing in Common ........... 247 Nothing in the World Like It .. 257 Nourish the Beast .............. 121 The Novelist ..................... 12 November ...................... III Now! ........................... 217 Now Departing ................. 247 Now I Ask you ................ 194 Now Is The Time for All Good Men .......................... 217 Now That April's Here ........ 281 Now There's Just The Three of Us ........................... 273 Now You Know ................. 94 Nude With Violin .............. 162 A Number ....................... 28 Nun's Veiling .................. 158 NunsenselNunsense A-Men! ... 217 Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii ..... 87 The Nut Farm .................. 136 Nutcracker Sweet .............. 296 Nuts ............................ 119 lbe Nutt Family ............... 193 Nymph Errant .................. 217

The Name Game ................. 21 Nanawatai ...................... 140 Naomi Court .................... .47 Naples Gets Rich .............. 166 Napoleon's Dinner ............. 257 * Narragansett ................... 234 A Narrow Bed ................... 50 Nasty Little Secrets .............. 35 Nasty Things, Murders ......... 273 Natalie Needs A Nightie ......... 91 National Anthems ................ 21 The National Health ........... 178 Native Son ..................... 176 The Nativity (Harrison) ........ 172 The Nativity (Kimball) ........ 310 Natural Causes ................... 47 The Natural Look .............. 125 Nature's House ................ 298 Nature's Way .................. 163 The Nearlyweds .................. 74 The Necklace .................. 257 The Necklace and Other Stories ....................... 314 Necktie Breakfast .............. 166 Necropolis ..................... 247 Ned and Jack .................... 36 Ned Mccob's Daughter ........ 135 A Need for Brussels Sprouts ... 247 A Need for Less Expertise ..... 247 Negative ....................... 239 Neglected Husbands Sewing Club ......................... 287 The Neighbors ................. 285 Neil Simon Monologues ....... 317 Neil Simon Scenes ............. 318 Nell of the Ozarks ............. 216 Nellie Mcnab .................. 280 Nell's Belles ................... 216 Neon Psalms ..................... 34 Nero Fiddles ................... 285 Netherlands .................... 239 Neutral Ground ................ 233 Never Get Smart With an Angel .......................... 69 Never in My Lifetime ........... 57 Never The Sinner ................ 80 Never Too Late ................ 118 A New Brain .................. 216 New Clothes for the Emperor .. 301 The New Girl .................. 247 New Lamps for Old ........... 299 A New Life .................... 313 The New Quixote .............. 247 A New Style for Murder ....... 138 The New Tenant ............... 270 A New York Minute ........... 239 New York Rock ............... 216 New York Stories ................ 81 New York Water .................. 9 Next! ........................... 318 The Next Contestant ........... 260 Next Time, for Real ............. 23 Next Tuesday .................. 247 Nick and Wendy ............... 257 Nicky and the Theatre for a New World ........................ 247 Niedecker ........................ 33 Night (Melfi) .................. 275 Night (Pinter) .................. 247 Night and Day ................. 104 Night Caps ..................... 271 Night Errant ................... 265 The Night Hank Williams Died .. 61 A Night in the Theatre ........... 27 A Night in the Ukraine ........ 216 The Night Is My Enemy ....... 134 A Night Like This ............. 189 Night Must Fall ................ 118 Night of the Auk ................. 74 Night of the Beast ............. 315 Night of the Foolish Moon ...... 61 A Night On the Tiles ............ 84 Night Sky ........................ 61

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An O. Henry Christmas ........ 217 o Mistress Mine ............... 125 The Oblong Circle ............. 152 Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme ......................... 94 lbe Octette Bridge Club ....... 118 lbe Odd Couple ............... 102 The Odd Couple (Female Version) ....................... 94 Ododo .......................... 217 Oedipus ........................ 127 *Oedipus At Colonus ........... 164 *Oedipus The King ............. 136 Of Poems, Youth, and Spring .. 277 Of The Fields, Lately ............ 74 Of Thee I Sing , ................ 217 Off A Pewter Platter ........... 189 Off The Rack . ................ 313 The Office .... .. .............. 313 Office Suite ..................... 42 Off-off Broadway Festival Plays ........................ 312 O'Flaherty V.C ................. 268 Oh, Brother! ................... 218 Oh, Dad. Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad ................ 73 Oh, Fudge! ....................... 83 Oh, Hell! ........................ .48 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! ........ 109 Oh! My Giddy Aunt ........... 218 Oh, Promise Me ............... 195 Oh! Susanna ................... 218 Oh, The Innocents ............... 81 Ohio Impromptu ............... 247 Old Acquaintance .............. 125 An Old Beagle Called Amore ....................... 240 Old Father Time .............. 299 Old King Cole ................. 297 The Old Ladies .................. 74 The Old Lady Shows Her Medals ....................... 281 The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (musicals) .................... 218 The Old Maid .................. 163 Old Money ....................... 77 Old Mother Hubbard ........... 303 The Old Neighborhood ......... .47 The Old Ones .................. 158 The Old One-two .............. 261 Old Quebec .................... 273 Old Saybrook .................. 282 The Old Woman Broods ....... 150 Oily Oily Oxen Free ............. 50 Olympus On My Mind ........ 218

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Opening Act ................... 257 Operation Mad Ball ............ 189 Operation Sidewinder .......... 175 Operetta ........................ 177 Operetta! ....................... 218 Ophelia ........................ 248 The Orchestra .................. 285 An Ordinary Day .............. 257 An Ordinary Woman Under Stress .......................... 58 Original Monologues for Men .......................... 318 Original Monologues for Women ...................... 318 The Orphan .................... 155 Orphan Train .................. 218 Orphans .......................... 26 Orpheus in the Underworld .... 218 Oscar ........................... 287 Oscar and Felix .................. 94 Ostrich ........................... 13 Othello ......................... 191 The Other Fellow's Oats ....... 104 The Other Half ................. 240 The Other One ................. 260 The Other Other Woman ...... 286 Other People's Money .......... .47 The Other Son ................. 288 Otherwise Engaged .............. 89 Otis Proposes .................. 248 Our American Cousin .......... 195 Our Gal Sal .................... 194 Our Town ...................... 167 Out for the Count .............. 286 Out of Order ................... 127 Out of Our Father's House .... 257 Out of Sight. . . Out of Murder ....................... 119 Out of the Frying Pan ......... 151 Out of the Night ............... 136 Out On A Limb .................. 53 Out The Window .............. 313 Outlaws ........................ 313 Outrageous! .................... 283 The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon and Mrs. Levine ...... 10 Outrageous! and Other Comedies .................... 314 Outrageous Fortune (Franken) .................... 145 Outrageous Fortune (Travers) .. 189 . The Outside Dog ............... 235 The Outsider ................... 136 Outward Bound ................ 123 Over Here! ..................... 218 *Over My Dead Body ............ 55 Over The Checkerboard ......... 98 The Overcoat .................. 297 Overeating, and the Disappearing Nanny Syndrome ............ 240 Overlaid ........................ 260 An Overpraised Season ........ 281 Overruled ...................... 269 Owl ............................ 261 The Owl and the Pussycat ....... 16 The Owl and the Pussycat Went To See ........................... 301 The Owl Answers .............. 287 Owners ........................... 84
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Omnium Gatherum .............. 94 On A Darkling Plain ............. 31 On Approval ..................... 74 On Directing ................... 321 On Edge ......................... 28 On Hold At 30,000 Feet ....... 271 On Method Acting ............. 321 On Monday Next .............. 157 On Stage ....................... 125 On The Bridge At Midnight ... 193 On The Lake .................... .42 On The Marry-go-wrong ....... 145 On The Open Road .... : ......... 61 On The Razzle ................. 174 On The Rocks ................. 180 On The Technique of Acting .. 321 , On The Tip of My Tongue .... 299 On The Twentieth Century .... 218 On The Verge .................. 136 On The Waterfront ............. 323 On Tidy Endings ............... 264 Once A Catholic ............... 160 Once and for All ............... 278 Once in A Lifetime ............ 186 Once in Every Family ......... 189 Once in September. . . . . . . . . . . .. 125 Once Is Enough .................. 37 Once There Was A Princess ... 185 Once Upon A Clothesline ..... 300 Once Upon A Playground ..... 287 Ondine ......................... 181 1 Step From A Famous Story .. 319 100 Lunches-a Gourmet Comedy ........................ 65 100 Monologues: an Audition Source Book From New Dramatists ................... 321 One Day in the Life of Ivy Dennison ..................... 257 One Egg ....................... 262 One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .......................... 166 One for the Money ............ 237 One for the Pot ................ 118 One for the Road ................ 33 One Hundred Women .......... 313 *One Last Time ................. 237 One Mad Night ................ 193 One Man, One Woman ........ 247 *One Man's Vision ........ 237, 311 One Mo' Time ................. 218 One Naked Woman and A Fullyclothed Man ................. 247 One O'clock From The House ......................... 160 One of the All-time Greats .... 138 One of the Family ............. 136 One Person .................... 236 One Question .................. 247 . One Shoe Off ................... .42 One Sunday Afternoon ........ 185 One Toe in the Grave ............ 86 One Up ........................ 285 . One Way Pendulum ........... 161 One-eyed Venus and the Brothers ........................ 62 The One-woman Show ........ 319 Onionheads ...................... 31 Only A Countess May Dance When She's Crazy .................. 237 Only A Game (Pomerantz) .... 283 Only A Game (Younghusband) ............. 301 The Only Game in Town ........ 25 Only in America ............... 183 Only Kidding ................... .47 Opal ............................ 218 Open Admissions .............. 140 Open Admissions (l-Act) ...... 247 *Open and Shut ................. 263 The Open Couple .............. 247 The Open Meeting ............. 263 Open Secret .................... 283 *Open Secrets ..................... 55 Open Twenty-four Hours ...... 285

P Is for Perfect ................. 273 * Pacific 1860 ................... 198 Pack of Lies ................... 102 Package Deal .................. 240 Paddy The Next Best Thing ... 189 Paddywack ....................... 58 Padparadsha ...................... 75 Padparadsha ..................... 263 Paganini ........................ 147 Page Miss Glory ............... 189 Page Three Murder .............. 83 Pageant ........................ 218 Painting Churches ................ 23

Painting Distant Men .......... 248 Painting It Red ................. 218 A Pair of Lunatics ............. 292 The Paisley Convertible ......... 54 Pajama Tops ..................... 91 Palestrina ...................... 240 Palestrina and Other Plays ..... 312 The Palooka ................... 311 Pantagleize ..................... 189 Pantalone's Dream ............. 289 Pantomime ....................... 74 Papa Is All ....................... 73 Papa Never Done Nothing. . . Much ........................ 248 Papa's Angels .................. 308 Paper Thin ..................... 314 Papers ............................ 22 The Papertown Paperchase . . . .. 300 Par for the Corpse ............. 136 The Parade ..................... 248 Paradise Follies ................ 312 Paradise Gardens East ......... 283 Paradise Hotel ................. 182 Paradise Island ................... 12 The Paranormal Review ......... 53 Parcel .......................... 285 Paris Bound .................... 136 Paris Is Out! ................... 107 Park ............................ 219 Park Your Car in Harvard Yard ........................... 12 Parked ........................... 21 The Parker Family Circus ....... 58 Parlor Story .................... 136 The Parrot ..................... 240 A Partridge in A Pear Tree .... 309 The Party ...................... 265 A Party for Lovers ............. 103 A Party To Murder .............. 62 Pasquini The Magnificent ...... 257 Passacaglia ..................... 125 A Passage To India ............ 189 Passing Fancy .................. 248 Passing Game .................... 88 The Passing of the Third floor Back ......................... 152 Passion ........................... 47 The Passion .................... 172 Passion Comedy ............... 248 The Passion of Dracula ........ 120 The Passion of Josef D ......... 181 Passion, Poison and Petrifaction .................. 292 A Passionate Woman ............ 47 Past Imperfect .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 136 Past Tense ....................... 74 Pastiche ........................ 268 Pastoral ........................ 248 Pastorale ......................... 87 Patchwork ...................... 304 The Patchwork Quilt ........... 283 The Patient ..................... 286 The Patrick Pearse Motel ........ 90 The Patsy ...................... 125 Patter for A floating Lady ..... 253 Patterns ........................ 158 Pavane ......................... 264 Payment Deferred .............. 145 Peace ........................... 219 "Peace in Our Time" ......... 189 Peace in Our Time ............. 248 A Peace Replaced .............. 240 Pearls .......................... 248 Peccadillo ........................ 63 The Pedestrian ................. 248 Peeping Punch ................. 277 Peeps At People ............... 319 Peer Gynt ...................... 175 Peg 0' My Heart .............. 125 The Pelican .................... 315 The Pen Is Deadlier ............ 134 Penance ........................ 248 Pendragon ...................... 137 Pendragon Plays ............... 312 Penguin Blues ................. 248

Penny .......................... 163 A Penny Friend ................ 219 Pentecost ....................... 167 The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes ............ 120 People! ........................... 24 People Are Living There ........ 37 The People in the Glass Paperweight .................. 262 The People vs. Christ .......... 307 The People vs. Ranchman ..... 179 Percival The Performing Pig ... 305 Perfect ......................... 313 Perfect Alibi ................... 136 Perfect Crime ................... .42 A Perfect Frenzy ............... 158 A Perfect Match ............... 248 The Perfect Murder .............. 83 Perfect Pitch (Stroppel) ........ 240 Perfect Pitch (Taylor) ............ 90 The Perfect Setup ................ 25 Perfect Timing ................. 10 1 Perfect Wedding ................. 58 Peribanez ...................... 158 Period .......................... 260 Period Patterns ................. 322 Perkin and the Pastry Cook .... 304 Personal Appearance ........... 136 Personals ....................... 219 Perspective ..................... 283 Pete 'n' Keely ................. 219 Pete, Nick and Family ......... 312 Peter and the Wolf ............. 304 Peter Cottontail ................ 305 Peter Ibbetson .................. 189 Peter Pan ....................... 302 Peter Pan (musical) ............ 219 Petey's Choice ................. 125 The Petition ...................... 12 Petticoat Fever ................. 136 Petticoat Lane .................. 219 Phaedra ........................ 115 Phaedra Britannica ............. 115 Phantom ....................... 219 The Phantom Lady ............. 125 The Phantom of the Opera-the Play .......................... 219 The Phantom Tollbooth ........ 301 Phedre ......................... 115 Philadelphia, Here I Come! .... 156 The Philadelphia Story ......... 184' The Philanderer ................ 192 The Philanthropist ............... 90 Philip Goes Forth .............. 152 A Photograph: Lovers in Motion ......................... 52 Physical .......................... 31 Physical Therapy ............... 248 The Physicists ................. 181 Piaf ............................ 219 Piano ........................... 167 Piano Bar ...................... 219 The Piano Lesson ................ 94 Picasso ......................... 237 Picasso At The Lapin Agile ... III Pickwick Papers ............... 167 Picnic On The Battlefield ...... 280 The Picture of Dorian Gray .... 169 The Picture of Dorian Gray (musical) ..................... 219 The Picture That Was Turned To The Wall ..................... 171 Pictures in the Hallway .......... 73 Pie Supper ....................... 98 Piece for an Audition .......... 248 A Piece of Monologue ......... 237 A Piece of My Heart ............ 77 Pieces of the Sky ................ 42 * Pied A Terre ..................... 17 The Pied Piper ................. 304 The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. :. 301 Pierre and Marie ................ .47 The Pig Pen .................... 315 Pigeons .......................... 74 The Piggy Bank (Fratti) ....... 258

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The Piggy Bank (Labiche & Delacour) .................... 169 Pigs ............................ 136 Pilgrims ........................ 273 Pillars of Society ............... 311 Pillow-talk ..................... 313 Piiots of the Purple Twilight ... 116 The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera ........................ 219 The Pink Bedroom ............. 311 A Pink Cadillac Nightmare .... 248 Pink Magic .................... 180 A Pink Party Dress ............ 219 Pinkstring and Sealing Wax ... 124 Pinocchio (Marvin) ............ 303 Pinocchio (Morley) ............ 301 Pinocchio and the Indians ..... 300 Pippi Longstocking ............ 219 Pirandello's One-act Plays ..... 314 Pirates of Penzance ............ 219 Pistol Packin' Sal .............. 220 Pizza: A Love Story ........... 272 Pizza Man ....................... 23 Pizzazz ......................... 273 A Place With The Pigs ........ 240 Plain and Fancy ................ 220 P1ay ............................ 261 A Play for Mary ................. 74 Play It Again Sam ............. 140 Play Memory .................. 140 The Play of the Play ........... 315 Play On! ....................... 129 A Play On Letters ............... 81 Play The Game ................ 288 Play To Win .. .. .............. 295 Play Without A Title .......... 291 The Playboy of the Western World ........................ 195 Play-by-play ..................... 70 Playhouse Creatures ............ .47 Playing Doctor ................. 103 Playing Sandwiches .............. 19 Playing The Wife ................ 32 Play land .......................... 12 Play-readings .................. 319 The Playroom .................. 143 Plays by August Wilson ....... 312 Plays by Chekhov .............. 315 Plays by Ed Bullins ............ 315 Plays for an Undressed Stage .... 52 Plays for Children ............. 312 Plays for England .............. 141 Plays for Readers' Theatre ..... 315 Plays of Strindberg ............ 315 The Play's The Thing .......... 124 Plays To Play With Everywhere .................. 312 Plaza Suite ..................... 146 The Pledge ..................... 248 Plenty .......................... 160 The Plot, Like Gravy, Thickens ..................... 169 Plots ............................. 65 The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Comer ....................... 220 The Plough and the Stars ...... 186 Plunder . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 189 Pocket Classics for Women .... 318 Pocket Monologues for Men ... 318 Pocket Monologues for Women ...................... 318 Pocket Monologues: Working-class Monologues for Women ..... 318 The Poet and the Rent ......... 299 Point of Departure ............. 189 Point of No Return ............ 183 A Point of Order ................. 62 Poison .......................... 313 The Poison Tree ............... 155 The Police Chiefs an Easygoing Guy ......................... 285 Polly With A Past ............. 152 Pollyanna ...................... 143 Pomp and Circumstance ....... 313 The Ponder Heart .............. 189 Pools Paradise ................... 92 Poor Aubrey ................... 270 The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother ..................... 21 Poor Bitos ..................... 157 Poor Little Rich Girl ........... 189 Poor Murderer ................. 176 The Poor Nut .................. 182 Poor Richard ..................... 55 Pop Star ........................ 220 Popcorn ........................ 112 The Pope and the Witch ....... 128 Poppa .......................... 189 Poppa Dio! ..................... 248 Porch ............................. 24 Porno .......................... 258 Porno Stars At Home ............ 53 Portfolio ....................... 258 Portrait in Black ............... 125 Portrait of A Queen ............ 189 Portrait of Deborah ............ 163 Portraits .......................... 77 Position Available ............. 258 The Possum Play .............. 128 Post Road ...................... 185 Postcards ....................... 258 Postmortem .................... 100 Potash & Perlmutter ........... 189 The Potsdam Quartet ............ 49 The Potting Shed .............. 145 Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead ................... 8 The Power and the Glory (Cannon & Bost) ...................... 189 The Power and the Glory (Wilhelm) .................... 248 Power Plays ...................... 28 A Practical Handbook for the Actor ......................... 321 The Praetorium ................ 306 Prank ........................... 138 Pravda ......................... 172 A Prayer for My Daughter ....... 39 Precious Sons .................... 51 Precipice ....................... 313 Preggin and Liss ............... 248 The Pregnant Pause .............. 67 The Premature Corpse ........... 64 Preppies ........................ 220 Present Laughter ............... 143 Present Tense .................. 248 Press Cuttings .................. 280 The Prettiest Girl in Lafayette County ....................... 248 Pretzels ........................ 220 The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal ... 119 The Price ...................... 313 Price of Fame .................. 101 The Price You Pay ............. 258 Pride and Prejudice ............ 184 Pride's Crossing ................. 77 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ....................... 181 Primula The Non-sheepdog anq the Great Grey Wolf ............. 297 Prin .............................. 64 The Prince and the Pauper ..... 220 Prince Friedrich of Homburg .. 176 The Prince of Homburg ........ 176 A Prince There Was ........... 158 The Prince Who Ate in the Morning ..................... 306 The Prince Who Wouldn't Talk .......................... 297 The Princess and the Vagabond .................... 291 Prisoner ........................ 167 The Prisoner of Second Avenue ........................ 71 *The Prisoner's Dilemma ....... 158 A Private Affair ................ 283 The Private Ear ................ 261 The Private Ear and the Public Eye ............................ 26 Private Lives ..................... 42 A Private Moment ............. 313 The Private Prop. of Roscoe Pointer ....................... 268 Private Secretary ............... 158 Private View ................... 249 Privates On Parade ............. 220 The Problem ................... 249 Problem-projects in Acting .... 322 Problem-solver ................. 313 Procedure ...................... 313 Processional .................... 313 The Prodigal Daughter ........... 71 The Prodigal Sister ............ 220 The Prodigious Snob ........... 181 The Professional ................. 28 Professor George ... . . . . .. .. . . .. 279 Professor Taranne .............. 290 "Progress May Have Been All Right Once-But It Went On Too Long ......................... 220 Progression ...................... 25 Prom Queens Unchained ....... 220 Promenade ..................... 220 Promenade, All! ................. 38 The Prophets ................... 145 The Proposal ..................... 65 Proposals ....................... 112 Proscenophobia .................. 58 Protest ......................... 249 P.S. 193 .......................... 74 P.S., I Love you ............... 125 P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! .......... 37 *The Psychiatrist ................ 289 Psycho Beach Party ............ 137 Psycho Night At The Paradise Lounge ....................... 167 The Public ..................... 291 Public Affairs .................... 77 The Public Eye ................ 261 The Public Prosecutor ......... 125 Pudd'nhead Wilson ............ 158 Pullman Car Hiawatha ......... 290 Pump Boys and Dinettes ....... 220 Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man .......................... 190 The Puppetmaster of Lodz ....... 33 Pure As The Driven Snow ..... 155 Purgatory ...................... 270 Purlie .......................... 220 Purlie Victorious ............... 123 The Pursuit of Happiness ...... 143 Pushover ....................... 220 Puss in Boots .................. 300 Puss'n Boots ................... 221 Put Them All Together ........ 104 Pygmalion ..................... 151 Pygmalion and Galatea .......... 32 Pyramid Effect ................. 313

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Quadrille ....................... 190 The Quality of Boiled Water .. 277 Quality Street .................. 182 The Quare Fellow .............. 186 A Quarrel of Sparrows ........... 62 Quartermaine's Terms ........... 86 Quartet ........................... 28 Queen Amarantha ................ 58 The Queen and the Rebels ..... 145 *Queen Milli of Galt ............. .40 Queen of Persia ................ 306 The Queen of the Parting Shot .......................... 249 The Queen's Gambit ........... 125 Queens of France .............. 269 A Question of Attribution ..... 277 The Questioning of Nick ...... 258 Quick and Dirty (A Subway Fantasy) .. , ................... 240 Quick Tricks ................... 316 A Quiet End .................... .47 Quiet Summer ................. 185 Quiet Torrential Sound ........ 313 Quint and Miss Jessel At Bly .... 18

R. U. R ......................... 185 The Rabbi and the Toyota Dealer ........................ 249 The Rabbit Foot ................. 63 The Rabbit Who Wanted To Be A Man .......................... 116 Rabbitt ......................... 290 Races .......................... 314 Racing Demon ................. 137 Raconteur ........................ 24 The Radical Mystique .......... .42 Radio Gals ..... : ............... 221 Ragnarok ....................... 249 Rain ............................ 183 Rain From Heaven ............. 134 The Rain of Terror ............. 249 Raindance ........................ 67 The Rainmaker ................... 85 A Rainy Day in Newark ....... 143 Raisin .......................... 221 A Raisin in the Sun ............ 137 Rameau's Nephew ............... 12 The Ramplings ................... 28 Ransom ........................ 190 The Rape of Bunny Stuntz ..... 261 The Rape of Emma Bunche ... 249 The Rape of the Belt .......... 133 Rapes .......................... 260 Rashomon ...................... 123 The Rats ....................... 269 Rattle of A Simple Man ......... 25 Ravenscroft ...................... 62 Ravensdurn Remains ........... 282 Readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic .................... 294 Ready When You Are, C.b.! ..... 55 Real Estate ....................... 33 The Real Inspe(:\or Hound ..... 116 The Real Queen of Hearts Ain't Even Pretty .................... 35 The Real Thing .................. 77 Real To Reel ................... 240 Really Rosie ................... 241 The Rear Colunm .............. 125 The Recantation of Galileo Galilei ....................... 175 Recensio ....................... 249 Reception ...................... 273 Recklessness ................... 266 The Recluse .................... 249 The Recognition Scene From Anastasia .................... 249 The Recovery .................. 260 Red Carnations ................. 262 Red Cross ...................... 260 The Red Dragon ............... 303 Red in the Morning .............. 84 The Red Key .................. 262 The Red Lamp ................. 292 Red Licorice ................... 318 Red Magic ....................... 74 Red Noses ..................... 187 The Red Peppers ............... 281 Red Roses for My Lady ....... 249 Red Scare On Sunset ............ 98 The Red Shoes ................. 295 The Red Sneaks ................ 221 Red, White and Rosie .......... 221 Redevelopment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 159 The Reeves Tale ................. 58 Reflected Glory ................ 152 The Refrigerators ................ 89 Refugees ....................... 235 The Refusal .................... 249 Regional Theatre Directory .... 321 The Rehearsal (Johnson & Black) ........................ 106 The Rehearsal (Sams) .......... 125 The Rehearsal At Versailles ... 289 Rehearsal for Death ............ 144 Relative Values ................ 133 Relatively Speaking .............. 39 The Reluctant Debutante ....... 108

INDEX OF TITLES Reluctant Peer ................. 125 The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker ................. 184 Remedial Surveillance ......... 265 Remember Me? .................. 32 Remember Me Always ........ 286 Remember My Name .......... 129 Remembrance (Reid) ............ 62 Remembrance (Walcott) ....... 125 Remote Control ................ 190 Rep .............................. 62 Repaying Good With Evil ..... 277 Repeat Perfonnance .............. 74 Requiem for A Heavyweight .. 160 Requiem for A Nun .............. 91 Reservations for Two .......... 249 Reserve Two for Murder ...... 193. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Manheim) ................... 190 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Tabori) ...................... 173 A Resounding Tinkle .......... 262 Respect for Acting ............. 321 A Respectable Wedding ....... 287 Restless Heart .................. 190 The Restoration of Arnold Middleton ...................... 72 The Resurrection ............... 307 The Reticence of Lady Anne .. 249 Retrofit ........................... 50 The Return (Edwards) ......... 278 The Return (Fratti) ............. 268 Return Engagements ........... 100 Return of the Maniac ............ 69 Return to the Forbidden Planet ........................ 221 Reunion .......................... 14 The Reunion ..................... 77 Reunion ........................ 249 The Revengers' Comedies ..... 167 Reverse Psychology .............. 33 Reverse Transcription .......... 313 Rhinoceros ..................... 181 The Rich Full Life ............. 125 Rich Is Better .................... 37 Richare II ...................... 191 Richard III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 191 Richard Harding Bush l Or The Rococo Coco Bean .......... 298 Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show ................. 221 The Richest Girl in. the World Finds Happiness .................... 269 Riddle Me This ................ 163 The Ride Across Lake Constance .................... 125 Riders To The Sea ............. 270 Right Bed, Wrong Husband ..... 90 Righteous Are Bold ............ 135 Ring Around Elizabeth ........ 151 Ring Round The Bathtub ...... 142 The Ring Sisters ................. 81 Ringrose The Pirate ............ 249 The Rink ....................... 221 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice .......................... 81 A Rise in the Market ............ 81 The Rise of David Levinsky ... 221 Ritual in Blood ................ 167 The Ritz ....................... 167 The Rivals ..................... 195 Rivals .......................... 253 The River Niger ............... 155 The Rivers and Ravines ....... 159 Riverside Drive ................ 263 Road (Cartwright) ................ 84 The Road To Mecca .............. 21 The Road To Nineveh ......... 258 Road To Nirvana ................ 32 'The Road To Rome ............ 190 The Road To Ruin ............. 266 Road To Yesterday ............ 163 Road Trip ...................... 253 Roadside ....................... 136 Roadtrip ........................ 313 Roar Like A Dove ............. 145 A Roaring Tragedy ............ 112 The Roaring Twenties ......... 193 The Roaring Twenties Scrapbook ................... 316 Robbers .......................... 81 . Robert and Elizabeth ........... 221 Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks .................... 314 Robin Hood .................... 172 The Robin Hood Caper ........ 133 Robinson Crusoe ............... 301 Rocco, The Rolling Stone ..... 303 The Rock ...................... 307 Rock A Bye Daddy .............. 90 The Rock Garden .............. 261 Rockaby ....................... 237 Rockasocka .................... 221 Rocky Horror Show ........... 221 Roger's Last Stand ............... 52 Roll Sweet Chariot ......... . . .. 190 Rolling Home .................. 163 Roman Conquest ............... 120 Roman Fever .................. 258 Romance (Joselovitz) .......... 258 Romance (Sheldon) ............ 190 Romance (Topar) ................ 21 Romance in A Flat ............. 260 Romance Language ............ 167 Romance Ranch .................. 98 RomancelRomance ............. 221 The Romancers ................ 293 Romantic Age ................. 125 Romantic Comedy ............... 68 Romeo and Julliet .............. 191 Rookery Nook ................. 140 Room for One Woman ........ 258 Room On Floor One ........... 274 Roomies! ......................... 54 The Root ......................... 33 Roots ........................... 125 Rope ........................... 108 The Rope Dancers ............. 123 Rose (Davies) .................. 104 Rose (Shennan) ................... 7 Rose Cottages .................... 67 A Rose of Sharon ................ 81 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ......................... 173 Rose's Dilemma ................. 28 Rosmersholm .................. 311 Ross ............................ 186 Rough Crossing .................. 66 Rough Draft ................... 269 Rough for Radio I ............. 233 Rough for Radio II ............ 233 Rough Justice .................... 95 Rough Theatre I - II ........... 249 Round and Round The Garden .. 70 Rowan and Martin's Laughin ............................ 178 The Royal Family .............. 184 Royal Gambit .................... 91 The Royal Hunt of the Sun .... 180 The Ruffian on the Stair ....... 261 The Rules of the Game (Murray) ..................... 136 The Rules of the Game (Rietty & Cregeen) ..................... 132 The Ruling Class .............. 187 Rumors ........................ 127 Rumpelstiltskin ................ 300 Rumpelstiltskin (musical) ...... 222 Run for Your Wife .............. 98 The Runaway Heart ............ 152 Runaways ...................... 222 Running Riot .................. 118 Russet Mantle .................. 145 Russian Masters .................. 13 Rusty and Rico ................ 249 Rusty and Rico and Lena and Louie .......................... 16 Ruthless! ..................... :. 222

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The Sea Gull (Young) ......... 162 The Sea Horse ................... 17 Sea Marks ....................... 14 A Sea of White Horses .......... 37 Sea Waves Inn ................. 249 The Seagull .................... 146 Seagulls ........................ 254 Seance ......................... 254 Search and Rescue ............. 249 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life ............................. 8 Seascape With Sharks and Dancer ......................... 13 Season's Greetings ............. 119 Second Best Bed ............... 158 Second Chance .... . .. .. .. .. .... 250 Second Lady ...................... 7 The Second Lady ................ 87 Second Lady and Other Ladies ... 7 The Second Man ................. 39 Second Summer ................. .42 Second Time Around ............ 12 The Second Time Around ..... 105 Second Vows .................. 258 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ................. 174 The Secret Garden ............. 222 The Secret History of the Future ........................ 285 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ......................... 222 Secret Lives of the Sexists ....... 74 The Secret Love Life of Ophelia ........................ 10 The Secret Rapture .............. 62 Secret Sin ...................... 258 Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult ........................ 132 The Secretary Bird ............... 54 Security ........................ 263 Seduction Duet ................. 250 The Seductive Countess ....... 287 See How They Run ............ 118 See Naples and Die ............ 190 Seeing Stars in Dixie ........... .42 Seeing The Light .............. 313 Seesaw ......................... 223 The See-Saw Tree ............. 301 Seidman. and Son .............. 182 The Seizure .................... 279 The Selfish Giant .............. 223 The Selfish Shellfish ........... 296 Semi Monde ................... 167 The Senator Wore Pantyhose .. 129 Send Me No Flowers .......... 150 Senior Follies .................. 112 Senior Prom ................... 250 A Sense of Direction .......... 321 The Sensuous Senator ......... 112 The Sentimental Scarecrow .... 223 Separate Ceremonies ............. 74 A Separate Peace .............. 233 Separate Rooms ................ 125 Separate Tables ................ 144 Separation ........................ 13 Sergeant Was A Lady ......... 190 Serious Bizness ................ 223 Serious Money ................. 10 1 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance .... 190 A Serpent's Tooth ............. 306 The Servant of Two Masters (Cone) ....................... 141 The Servant of Two Masters (Dent) ........................ 154 The Servant of Two Masters (Louise) ...................... 145 Service ......................... 112 Servitude ....................... 126 Servy -N- Bernice 4ever ......... 33 Set A Thief .................... 158 The Seven ..................... 223 Seven Chances ................. 190 Seven Guitars .................... 77 Seven Keys To Baldpate ....... 157 Seven Rabbits On A Pole ........ 58

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.......................... 224 The Shining Hour ................ 74 The Shining Mountains ........ 288 The Shiny Red Ball ............ 250 Shipwreck ....................... 165 The Shirkers ................... 262 Shirley Valentine ................. 7 The Shirt ....................... 261 Shivaree .......................... 51 Shmulnik's Waltz ................ 62 Shock! .......................... 87 Shock Tactics .................. 141 *The Shoemaker's Holiday ..... 164 Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife ......................... 186 Shoes .......................... 258 Shogun Macbeth ............... 171 Shore Leave ................... 264 Short and Sweet ............... 316 Short Eyes ..................... 190 A Short Play for A Small Theatre ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 315 A Short Walk After Dinner .... 261 A Shot in the Dark ............ 108 Shotgun Wedding .............. 293 Show Me Where The Good Times Are .......................... 224 The Show-off .................. 122 Shred of Evidence ............. 126 Shrunken Heads .................. 88 Shut Up, Martha! .............. 269 Shut Your Eyes and Think of England ...................... 120 Shylock ........................ 190 Sicilian Limes ................. 274 Side Show ..................... 224 A Side Trip To Dachau ........ 258 The Siege of Numantia ........ 180 Sight Unseen ................... 143 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window ...................... 122 A Significant Betrayal ......... 250 Signor Nicodemo ................ 81 Signs of Life ................... 104 Signs of the Times ............... 71 Silas Marner ................... 169 Silence ........................... 58 A Silent Catastrophe ........... 250 Silent Laughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 127 Silent Night, Lonely Night ....... 73 The Silk Shirt .................. 269 Silly Cow ....................... .42 The Silver Cord .................. 73 Silver Queen Saloon ........... 152 The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles .......................... 177 Sinbad The Sailor .............. 302 The Sin-eater .................. 254 Sing A Christmas Song ........ 224 Sing A Pretty Song ............ 237 Sing A Song of Sixpence ...... 302 Sing High, Sing Low .......... 190 Sing On! ....................... 139 Sing Out Sweet Land .......... 224 Sing To Me Through Open Windows ..................... 258 Single and Proud ............... 264 Single and Proud and Other Plays ......................... 312 Single Spies .................... 139 A Single Thing in Common ..... 53 Singleton, The Winner ......... 313 Sink The Belgrano! ............ 112 Sir Slob and the Princess ...... 298 Sis Boom Baa .................. 278 Sister ............................. 18 The Sisterhood ................. 116 Sisterly Feelings ............... 149 Sisters .......................... 126 The Sisters Mcintosh .......... 262 Sittin' .......................... 260 Sitting Duck ................... 284 Sitting Pretty ................... 127 Situation Comedy ................ 64 Six Award Winning Plays ..... 314 Six Characters in Search of an Author (StorerlLinstrumlMay/Brustein) 178 Six Characters in Search of an Author ....................... 190 Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks ......................... 10 Six Inch Adjustable ............ 250 The Six of Calais .............. 285 Six Passionate Women ........... 98 6 Rms Riv Vu ................. 107 Six Who Pass While The Lentils Boil .......................... 288 Sixteen in August .............. 152 *Sixteen Wounded ............... .40 The Sixth Station .............. 306 Sizwe Banzi Is Dead ............. 15 Skidding ....................... 136 The Skin Game ................ 190 The Skin of Our Teeth ......... 170 The Skriker .................... 167 Sky High ....................... 163 Skylight .......................... 18 Skyrocket ...................... 145 Skyscraper ..................... 224 The Slab Boys ................. 104 Slag .............................. 26 A Slap in the Farce ............ 274 Slaughter of the Innocents ..... 190 Slaughterhouse ................. 129 The Slave ........................ 25 Slave of Truth ................. 145 The Slave With Two Faces .... 283 Slavery ......................... 282 The Sleeper Murders ........... 100 Sleeping Beauty (Busch) ....... 285 Sleeping Beauty (Marvin) ..... 305 Sleuth ............................ 14 A Slice of Saturday Night ..... 224 Slice of the Blarney .............. 77 Slight Hangover .................. 58 Slivovitz ....................... 250 Slop Culture ................... 313 The Sloth ........................ 65 Slow Down, Sweet Chariot .... 224 Sly Fox ........................ 168 Small Claims .................. 265 A Small Family Business ...... 148 Small Miracle .................. 190 Small Tragedy .................. .42 A Smell of Cinnamon ......... 306 Smelling A Rat .................. 42 Smile ........................... 224 Smilin' Through ............... 134 Smith .......................... 224 Smoke & Mirrors ............... .47 Smoke On The Mountain ...... 224 Smoke-out ..................... 240 Snacks ........................... 35 *Snake in the Grass ................ 9 Snap! ............................. 68 The Sneeze ...................... 65 The Sneeze (Collected Work) .... 65 The Sniper ..................... 285 The Snob ...................... 126 Snocky ......................... 250 The Snow Job .................. 161 Snow Leopards .................. 12 The Snow Queen .............. 224 Snow Stars ..................... 250 Snow White .................... 224 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ....................... 303 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (musical) ..................... 225 So Long On Lonely Street ....... 66 So Nice Not To See you ...... 283 So Please Be Kind ............. 261 So Tell Me About This Guy ... 313 Soap Opera .................... 285 The Soapy Murder Case ....... 131 Soccer Moms .................... 18 Social Security ................... 66 Soft Click of A Switch .: ........ 12 The Soft September Air ....... 131 The Soft Touch ................ 107 Solace At Twilight ............. 168 Soldiering On .................. 235 Soldiers ........................ 152 A Soldier's Play ............... 154 Soldier's Wife ................... 55 Solid South .................... 126 Solitaire Man .................. 136 Solo: Best Monologues of the 80's for Men ...................... 321 Solo: Best Monologues of the 80's for Women .................. 321 Solo Scenes From Great Writers ....................... 320 Some Canterbury Tales ........ 225 Some Men Need Help ........... 14 Some of My Best Friends ...... 105 Someone From Assisi .......... 269 Someone Who'll Watch Over Me ............................. 18 Someplace Warm .............. 271 Something About A Soldier ... 152 Something Different ........... 143 Something Else ................ 247 Something for Charlie ........... 88 Something for Everyone ....... 318 Something in the Basement .... 250 Something in the Basement and Other Plays .................. 314

INDEX OF TITLES Something Rotten in Denmark ..................... 277 Something To Eat .............. 250 Something's Afoot ............. 225 A Sometime Thing ............. 262 Son Come Home ............... 315 The Son of Arlecchino ........... 86 Son of Man .................... 306 Song ............................. 65 Song At The Scaffold .......... 158 A Song At Twilight .............. 39 Song of Singapore ............. 225 Songbook ...................... 225 Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites .......... 316 The Sorcerer's Apprentice ..... 225 Sorceress ......................... 95 Sordid Lives ................... 147 Sorrows and Rejoicings .......... 28 Sorrows and Sons .............. 258 Sorrows of Stephen ............ 119 Sorry! Wrong Chimney! ......... 83 The Soul of th(~ White Ant ...... 68 Soulmates ...................... 240 Sounding Brass ................ 141 South of Tomorrow ............ 259 * Southern Baptist Sissies ....... 109 Southern Exposures ............ 314 Spades ......................... 312 Spare Parts ...................... .48 Sparkin' ........................ 270 Sparks in the Park ............. 285 Speaking of Murder ............ 109 Speaking Well of the Dead .... 254 Special Guest .................. 275 Special Occasions ................ 14 Specks ......................... 265 Specter ......................... 250 Speech for the Stage ........... 321 The Speed of Darkness ......... .47 Speed-the-plow .................. 19 Spell #7 ........................ 119 The Spelling Bee (Sheiness) ... 106 The Spelling Bee (Vassalo) .... 250 The Spelling of Coynes ........ 259 The Spider ..................... 185 The Spider and the Bee ........ 295 Spider Island ................... 192 Spider's Web .................. 144 Spike Heels ...................... 32 Spin: A Musical Myth ......... 225 Spinoff ........................... 71 Spirit of Hispania .............. 116 The Spiritual Pursuit of Cosmetic Surgery ...................... 264 Spit in Yazoo City ............. 272 The Spitfire Gllll .............. 225 Spittin' Image .................. 250 Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta ...................... 152 Split .............................. 85 Split Decision ................... .49 Split Second ......... ::' .......... 65 Splits ville ...................... 278 Spofford ....................... 171 Spoils of War .................... 65 Spoke song ..................... 225 The Sponsor ..................... 36 Spoofydoofs' Funnybone ...... 290 Spooks ......................... 145 Spoon River Anthology .......... 51 The Sport of My Mad Mother ....................... 126 *Spot's Birthday Party .......... 296 Spotted Dick ................... 152 Spring Dance .................. 158 Spring Green ................... 190 Spring Journey ................. 152 Spring Prom Magic ............ 193 * Spring Storm ................... 153 Spring's Awakening ........... 184 Springtime for Henry ............ 39 Squabbles ........................ 85 The Squall ..................... 152 Square One ...................... 13

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Strawberry Envy ............... 259 Strawberry Fields .............. 259 Strawberry Preserves ........... 266 Streamers ...................... 140 Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical ...................... 226 Street Scene .................... 186 Street Sounds .................. 315 The Streets of New York ...... 195 The Streets of New York (musical) ..................... 226 Streuth ......................... 288 Strictly Dishonorable .......... 126 Strider .......................... 226 String Game ................... 126 A Stroll in the Air ............. 190 The Strong Are Lonely ........ 190 The Student Gypsy ............ 226 Studio Portrait ................. 250 *Stuff Happens .................. 164 Stunt Plays ..................... 316 Subject To Change ............... 71 Subject To Fits: A Response To Dostoevski's The Idiot ....... 178 The Subject Was Roses ........' .. 25 The Substance of Fire .......... .43 Subterranean Homesick Blues Again ........................ 313 The Subway ................... 136 Subway Circus ................. 291 Success .......................... 12 Successful Stand-up Comedy... 323 Sudden Acceleration ........... 237 Suddenly At Home ............ 121 Sugar and Spice ................ 275 Sugar Babies ................... 226 Suggs .......................... 107 The Suicide (Erdman) .......... 175 The Suicide (Fratti) ............. 260 *Suicide Club ................... 252 Suicide in B-flat ................. 53 "Suitehearts" .................... 52 Sullivan & Gilbert ............. 226 The Sum of Us .................. 32 Summer (Leonard) ............. 104 Summer (Martin) .............. 283 Summer At The Lake .......... 311 Summer in the Country ........ 314 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ............................ 92 Summer Romance ............. 267 Sun Is Shining ................... 10 Sundance ....................... 276 Sunday Costs Five Pesos ...... 275 Sunday Go To Meetin' ........ 313 Sunday On The Rocks ........... 32 A Sunny Morning .............. 270 Sunrise At Noon ................. 98 Sunsets ........................... 22 Sunshine Boys ................... 78 Superflyer ...................... 291 Support Your Local Police . . . .. 260 The Supporting Cast ............. 52 Sure Fire ....................... 158 Surprise! ....................... 151 The Survivor ................... 147 Susan Slept Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 108 The Sutherland ................... 98 Swan Lake Calhoun ........... 313 The Swan Song .................. 83 Swan Song ..................... 314 Sweatshop ..................... 148 Sweeney Todd The Barber ..... 182 Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ............... 141 The Sweepers ................... .43 Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen ................. 226 Sweet Nell of Old Drury ...... 190 *Sweet Smell of Success ........ 198 The Sweetest Girl in Town .... 226 Swingtime Canteen ............ 226 Swiss Miss ..................... 251 Sword Against The Sea ........ 127
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The Square Root of Love ........ 15 The Square Root of Wonderful .. 74 Squaring The Circle ........... 151 Squirrels (Mamet) .............. 260 Squirrels (Nigro) ............... 237 Sr Royalty ..................... 315 St. Hugo of Central Park ...... 101 St. Lazare's Pharmacy ......... 158 Stage Blood ...................... 84 Stage Lighting Handbook ...... 321 Stage Management ............. 321 Stage Struck ..................... 34 Stages ........................... .47 Stags and Hens ................ 139 Stained Glass .................. 148 Staircase ......................... 15 *Stairs To The Roof ............ 164 Stalin Allee .................... 162 *The Stallion Howl ............. 276 Stand by Your Beds, Boys ....... 89 Stand by Your Man ............ 225 Standard British for Actors .... 321 Standing by ...................... 12 Stand-up Tragedy .............. 116 Stanton's Garage ................. 98 The Stanway Case ............... 28 A Star Ain't Nothin' But A Hole in Heaven ......................... 83 Star On The Door ................ 62 *Star Quality .................... 109 Star Song ...................... 310 Starblast ........................ 225 Stardust ........................ 225 Starmites ....................... 226 Stars ........................... 313 The Stars Within ................. 32 Starting Monday ............... 100 State of Mind .................. 158 State of Revolution ............ 176 Statements After an Arrest Under The Immorality Act ............ 24 The Steadfast Tin Soldier ...... 298 Steak Night .................... 272 Steal Away ...................... 64 Steambath ...................... 161 Steaming ......................... 64 Steel Pier ................. ~ .... 226 Stefanie's Arena ............... 312 Steinway Grand ................ 250 Stella ........................... 120 The Stephen Foster Story ...... 187 Stepping Out ................... 154 Stepping Sisters ................ 157 Steven and the Achiever ....... 312 Stevie ............................ 24 Sticks and Bones ................. 90 The Still Alarm ................ 276 Still Life ....................... 288 Still Stands The House ........ 270 Still-love ....................... 250 A Sting in the Tale .............. 50 Stolen Identity ................. 283 A Stone Carver .................. 22 Stone The Crows ................ 19 Stones and Bones .............. 313 The Stop At The Palace ....... 259 Stop Thief ..................... 158 Stopping The Desert ............. 84 Stories About the Old Days ...... 13 A Storm Is Breaking ........... 259 A Story for A Sunday Evening .. 55 A Story {)f Chelm .............. 290 Story Theatre .................. 102 *Storyville ...................... 198 Straight and Narrow ............. 82 Straight Up ...................... 74 *The Straits ....................... 26 Strange As It May Seem ....... 254 Strange Bedfellows ............ 185 Strange Snow .................... 23 Stranger .......................... 28 Strangers ......................... 53 Strangers On A Train ............ 77 Strasberg's Method ............ 321 Strategy ................ '" ........ 25

A Table for A King ............ 277 Table Manners ................... 70 Table Settings .................... 78 Taffy's Taxi ................... 279 Tailor-Made Man .............. 190 Tainted Justice ................... 95 Take A Giant Step ............. 186 Take A Number, Darling ........ 70 Take A Picture ................... 34 Take A way The Lady ............ 86 Take Her, She's Mine ......... 181 Take Her, She's Yours! ........ 112 Take My Advice ............... 126 Take My Tip ................... 158 Taking My Tum ............... 226 The Taking of Miss Janie ...... 116, 315 Taking Steps ..................... 58 Taking Stock ..................... 22 A Tale of Cinderella ........... 226 A Tale of Cinderella ........... 303 The Tale of the Allergist's Wife .......................... .43 The Tale of the Johnson Boys ......................... 238 I The Tale of the Mandarin , Ducks ........................ 226 I A Tale of Two Cities (Fitzgibbons) ................. 173 IA Tale of Two Cities (Quinton) .. 8 I A Tale of Two Cities: A Musical I Play .......................... 227 I A Talent for Murder ............. 83 ,Tales by Saki .................. 314 ! Tales from Hollywood ......... 172 I Tales from the Red Rose Inn .. 240 ,Tales from the Red Rose Inn and i Other Plays .................. 312 I Tales of Hoffmann ............. 227 ITaik Radio ..................... 116 I Talking Heads ................... 19 I Talking Heads 2 ................. 19 I Talking Things Over With ' Chekhov ....................... 13 Talking With. . . .............. 139 I Taller Than A Dwarf .......... 127 The Taming of the Shrew ...... 191 The Tangled Snarl ............. 273 Tangled Web .................. 263 iTango ..... '....................... 90 iA Tantalizing .................. 251 iThe Tap Dance Kid ............ 227 iTape ........................... 313 iTartuffe (Hampton) ............ 154 !Tartuffe (Malleson) ............. 150 ITartuffe: Born Again .......... 139 ITattoo .......................... 313 :The Tavern .................... 161 ;The Taxi Cabaret .............. 227 Taxi Tales ....................... 69 Tchin-tchin ....................... 74 Tea and Sympathy ............. 144 Tea At Five ..................... '.' 7 'The Teaser's Taxi .............. 268 :Teechers ......................... 21 ;Teen Antics .................... 194 !Teen Talk ...................... 320 :Teen Talk: Monologues for Teenage I Girls ......................... 318 ;Teenage Mouth ................ 318 ',Teeth ........................... 233 ITeibele and Her Demon ......... 88 Telemachus, Friend ............ 227 rrell Me Another Story, Sing Me A ; Song ......................... 251 Teller of Tales ................. 227 h'he Temp ...................... 259 rrhe Tempest ................... 191 rremporary Help ................. 28 Temptation ..................... 148 rremptation Sordid ............. 274 ;fen Nights in A Bar-room ..... 194

Ten Nights in A Bar-room (musical) ..................... 227 Ten November ................. 227 Ten Times Table ............... 131 Ten-Minute Plays From Actors Theatre of Louisville, Vol. 36 ............................. 313 The Tenth Man ................ 156 Terminal Terror ................ 271 The Terrible Meek ............. 292 Tesla's Letters ................... 32 The Test ....................... 240 Texas .......................... 187 A Texas Romance ............... 21 Thank You Kind Spirit ........ 311 *Thanksgetting .................. 238 Thark .......................... 140 That All of Us Should Be Fed .......................... 313 That Darn Plot .................. .48 That Pig, Morin ................ 278 That Summer-that Fall ......... 74 That Time ...................... 268 Thataway Jack ................. 285 That's Not My Father! ........... 24 That's The Spirit ............... 154 "The Asshole Murder Case" .. 313 "The Butler Did It" ........... 129 (The) Three Sisters ............ 159 Theater Trip ..................... 22 Theatre Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook ......... 321 Theatre Management and Production in America ....... 321 The Theatre of Peretz ............ 74 Theft ............................ .48 Their Very Own and Golden City .......................... 190 Thekla ......................... 174 The Theme Is Blackness ....... 315 *Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda .. 238 Theophilus North ................ 78 There Goes The Bride ......... 106 "There Is No John Garfield" .. 251 There Was an Old Woman .... 303 There's A Burglar in My Bed ... 78 There's A Girl in My Soup ...... 91 There's Always A Murder ..... 133 There's Always Juliet ............ 74 Theresa ........................ 126 These Are The Stairs You Got To Watch ........................ 311 These Cornfields ................. 74 Thesin-eater .................... 313 They Came From Mars . . . . ... .43 They Can't Take That Away From Me ........................... 240 They Knew What They Wanted ...................... 157 They Shall Not Die ............ 190 They Went Thataway .......... 194 They'd Come To See Charlie .. 126 They're None of Them Perfect ....................... 278 They're Playing Our Song ..... 227 Thieves ........................ 142 Thieves' Carnival .............. 156 Things Beyond Our Control ..... 95 Things That Go Bump in the Night ........................ 240 Things We Do for Love ......... 32 The Third Daughter ..........' .... 88 The Third Great Coarse Acting Show ........................ 168 Thirst .......................... 259 The 13 Clocks ................. 177 13 Rue De L'amour ........... 132 30 Modem Monologues ....... 320 30 Modem Scenes ............. 320 320 College Avenue ........... 190 The Thirteenth Chair ........... 185 This Happy Breed ............. 152 This Is How It Is .............. 265 *This Is Not What I Ordered ..... 92 This Is Where We Came in .... 298

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This Land Is Whose Land? .... 291 This Must Be The Place ....... 118 This One Thing I Do .......... 100 This Savage Parade ............ 101 This Thing Called Love ....... 136 This Way To Christmas ....... 310 This Way To Heaven .......... 270 Thorn & Jerri .................... 74 Those Damned Ghosts ......... 159 Those Singing Sunday Mornings .................... 240 Those The River Keeps .......... 28 A Thousand Clowns ............. 66 Thrall ............................ 10 A Thread of Scarlet ............ 149 The 3 112 Musketeers .......... 227 Three Bags Full ................ 142 Three Beds ....................... 68 Three Cornered Moon ......... 126 The Three Cuckolds ........... 126 Three Faces East ............... 190 Three Goats and A Blanket ...... 90 Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down ........................ 227 Three Hisses for Villainy ...... 176 Three Hotels ..................... 10 Three Live Ghosts ............. 136 The Three Million Dollar Lunch ........................ 274 Three Months Gone .............. 71 Three More Melodramas ....... 279 Three More Sleepless Nights .. 264 The Three Musketeers ......... 168 Three Needles in A Haystack .. 190 Three On A Bench ............. 269 Three Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 112 Three Questions ................ 240 Three Sisters ................... 315 Three Sisters Two ............. 112 Three Tables ................... 282 Three To Get Married ......... 136 Three Ways Home ............... 22 Three Weeks After Paradise ... 235 Three Wise Fools .............. 158 Three Wishes for Jamie ........ 227 Three Years From "Thirty" ..... 81 Three's A Family .............. 190 Thriller of the Year .............. 54 A Thurber Carnival ............ 117 Thursday Is My Day for Cleaning ..................... 237 Thus Play in One Person Many People ....................... 320 The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew .................... 179 Thyestes ....................... 137 Ticket To The City ............ 284 Tickets, Please' ................ 240 Tickle .......................... 304 A Tide of Voices ................ 53 Tidings of Joy ................. 310 The Ties That Bind ............ 259 The Tiger ...................... 251 The Tiger and the Pussycat .... 289 Tiger At The Gates ............ 183 Tight Spot ....................... 69 Ti-Jean and His Brothers ...... 150 Till Death Do Us Part ......... 139 Time and the Conways ........ 134 Time and Time Again ........... 54 A Time for Madness ........... 155 Time Limit! .................... 182 Time of My Life ................. 81 Time of the Cuckoo ........... 134 The Time of Your Life ........ 173 Time Remembered ............. 190 Times Square .................. 284 Times Square Angel ........... 140 Time's Up ....................... 74 Tiptoe Through The Tombstones .................. 128 Tish ............................ 157 Tishoo ........................... 52 To Be Young, Gifted and Black .......................... 70 To Clothe The Naked .......... 126 To Damascus, Part I ........... 315 To Dorothy, A Son ............ 126 To Find Oneself ............... 158 To Grandmother's House We Go ............................. 99 To Have The Honor ........... 145 To Open, Pry Cover ........... 262 To Search and To Love ........ 307 To The Top ...................... 99 To Whit and To Whom .......... 12 To Whom It May Concern ..... 227 To Wit and To Whom ......... 251 Toad of Toad Hall ............. 303 Tobacco Road .................. 144 Tobias and the Angel .......... 185 Toddy's Taxi .................. 268 Token To The Moon ........... 313 Tom, Dick and Harry .......... 112 Tom Eyen: Ten Plays .......... 314 Tom Paine ..................... 180 Tom Sawyer ................... 186 Tom Sawyer (musical) ......... 296 Tom Sawyer's Morning ........ 305 Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt .. 301 Tom, The Piper's Son ......... 302 A Tomb With A View ......... 131 Tomboy Wonder ................. 91 The Tommy Allen Show ...... 190 Tomorrow! ..................... 170 Tomorrow and Tomorrow ..... 145 Tomorrow The World ......... 136 Tomorrow's Monday ............ 99 Toneclusters ................... 251 Tongue of A Bird ............... .48 Tongues ........................ 237 Tongues and SavagelLove ..... 237 Tonight At 8:30 ................ 161 Tonight, Baby? ................ 315 Tonight in Samarkand ......... 152 Tonight We Improvise ......... 179 Tons of Money (Ayckbourn) ... 129 Tons of Money ................ 136 Tony and Madelaine ........... 312 Tony and Ruth ................. 312 Tony N' Tina's Wedding ...... 170 Too Much Family .............. 152 Too True To Be Good ......... 132 Tooth and Consequences ...... 287 The Tooth of Crime ........... 107 Tooth Or Consequences ....... 291 Top Gear ....................... 104 Top Girls ........................ 81 Torch Song Trilogy .............. 58 The Torch-bearers ............. 151 Total Abandon ................... 35 Total Eclipse ................... 187 Totally Cool ................... 265 Touch and Go .................... 51 Touch of Brightness ........... 136 * A Touch of Class .............. 289 A Touch of Danger ............ 129 Touch The Bluebird's Song .... 251 Touching Bottom ................ 74 Tough Choices for the New Century ...................... 254 Tough To Get Help ............ 152 Tour Di Europa ................ 116 Toussaint ....................... 259 Tovarich ....................... 190 A Town Called Shame ......... 148 Town Full of Heroes ............. 85 Toyer ............................ 13 Tradition 1a .................... 237 Trafford Tanzi ................... 67 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine .......................... 163 The Traitor ..................... 190 Transceiver .................... 274 Translations .................... 131 The Transylvanian Clockworks .. 82 Traps ............................. 66 Trash Anthem .................. 313 The Traveling Sisters .......... 284 Traveller Without Luggage .... 158 Travellin' Show ................ 237 Travesties ...................... 106 Treasure Island ................. 303 Treasure Island: The Panto .... 302 The Treasure Makers .......... 299 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre .......................... 95 Treats ............................ 25 *Tree World .................... 252 Trelawny of The 'Wells' ...... 195 Tremulous ..................... 251 Trevor .......................... 121 The Trial (Berkoff) ............ 128 The Trial (Booth) .............. 274 The Trial (Gide & Barrault) ... 274 The Trial of A. Lincoln ........ 145 The Trial of Joan of Arc At Rouen, 1431 ......................... 190 Trial of Mary Dugan ........... 190 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine ......................... 142 Triangles for Two .............. 251 Tribute ........................... 89 Trick Or Treat ................. 148 Tricks .......................... 227 Tricks of the Trade .............. 13 Trickster of Seville ............ 190 The Tricycle ..................... 90 Trip Abroad .................... 152 The Trip Back Down .......... 176 Triplet .......................... 259 Tripper's Taxi .................. 268 Tristan ........................... 58 The Triumph of Love ............ 82 Trivial Pursuits ................. 128 Trixie True, Teen Detective ... 228 The Trojan Women (Duncan & Sartre) ....................... 136 The Trojan Women (Euripides) .. 95 A Trophy for Mr. Heartfelt .... 158 The Trouble With Europe ....... 69 The Trouble With Summer People ....................... 160 The Trouble With The Christmas Presents ...................... 310 The Trouble With Trent ......... 98 Trudy Blue ..................... 137 True & False ................... 321 True West ......................... 28 Trumpet in the Land ........... 187 Trumpets and Drums .......... 190 Trust ............................. 78 Truth About Blayds ............ 126 The Trysting Place ............. 284 Tucaret ......................... 158 A Tuna Christmas ............. 308 The Tunnel of Love ............. 73 Turds in Hell .................. 190 Turkey in the Straw ............ 228 Turkey Time ................... 152 Tum Back The Clock .......... 163 A Tum for the Nurse .......... 136 The Tum of the Worm ......... .48 Tum To The Right . . . . . . . . . . . .. 163 Turnabout ...................... 101 Turnabout (musical) ........... 228 The Tutor ...................... 190 Twain by The Tale .............. 53 'twas Brillig ................... 269 12:21 P.m. Comedy ............ 259 The Twelve Pound Look ...... 270 Twentieth Century ............. 168 21a ................................ 9 Twelfth Night .................. 191 25 Ten-Minute Plays From Actors Theatre of Louisville ........ 312 *Twenty Years Ago ............. 252 Twice Around The Park ......... 14 Twigs .......................... 107 The Twilight of the Golds ...... .48 Twin Beds ..................... 126 The Twin Mendaccios ......... 251 2 by 5 .......................... 228 Two ............................ 240 Two and Twenty ............... 251

INDEX OF TITLES Two and Two Make Sex ........ 38 Two Centuries ................... 12 Two Crooks and A Lady ...... 281 Two for the Road .............. 284 Two for the Seesaw .............. 16 Two From Galilee ............. 306 Two Gentlemen from Verona Two Into One .................. 130 Two Master~ ..................... 51 Two Minutes To Shine 1- 4 ... 318 The Two of Us .................. 16 Two Part Harmony ............ 251 Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed .................... 287 Two Trains Running ............. 78 Two Truths and A Lie ......... 314 Two-part Invention ............ 313 Two's A Crowd ................ 190

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Ubu Cocu .. . . . . . . . . .. 154 Ubu Rex ....................... 190 Ubu Roi ........................ 177 The Ugly Duckling ............ 284 The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook .................. 321 Ulysses ......................... 228 Un Tango En La Noche ....... 265 Uncertain Wings ............... 145 Uncle Clete's Toad ............ 235 Uncle Harry .................... 186 Uncle Tom's Cabin ............ 195 Uncle Vanya ................... 123 Uncle Vanya (Kipnis) .......... 315 Uncle Willie ................... 162 Under Lubianka Square ........ 313 Under Milk Wood ............. 182 Under Papa's Picture .......... 107 *Under The Bridge .............. 198 Under The Twelfth Sign ....... 272 The Undercurrent .............. 281 The Underpants (Bentley) ....... 68 The Underpants (Martin) ........ 78 Undertow ...................... 287 Undiscovered Country ......... 175 The Unexpected Guest ......... 133 Unexpected Guests ............. 132 Unexpected Tenderness .......... 78 The Unintended Video ......... 313 The Universal Wolf .............. 32 The Unknown Soldier and His Wife ......................... 190 Unlikely Heroes ................ 121 Unlikely Heroes-three Philip Roth Stories ....................... 121 Unpublished Letters ............ 251 The Unrest Cure ............... 259 Unseen Friends ................ 259 The Unseen Hand .............. 274 The Unseen Hand and Other Plays ......................... 314 Unsung Cole (and Classics Too) ......................... 228 The Unvarnished Truth ........ 105 Up From Paradise .............. 228 Up in the Air, Boys ............ 228 Uproar in the House ........... 156 Uranium ....................... 251 Urban Cycles .................. 288 U.S.A. ........................... 73 Utbu ........................... 133 Utopia .......................... 126 The Utter GI01Y of Morrissey Hall .......................... 228

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V and V Only .................. 116 Vacancy in Paradise ........... 181 Vacant Possession ............. 267 The Vagabond ................. 259 The Vagabond King ........... 228 The Valiant .................... 279 Valley Song ...................... 10 Valued Friends ................... 63

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The Walrus and the Carpenter .................... 145 The Waltz of the Toreadors .... 143 Wanna Play?! .................. 228 Wanted . . . Dead Or Alive ... 260 The War Minister .............. 126 Warburton's Cook ............. 254 The Warm Peninsula ........... 122 Warm Wednesday ............. 136 Warnings ....................... 284 A Warring Absence .............. 63 Warrior ........................ 139 The Warrior's Husband ........ 190 Was .............................. 28 The Washtub ................... 259 Wasp ........................... 264 Wasp and Other Plays ......... 314 The Wasps ..................... 178 The Water Engine ............. 105 The Water Hen ................ 174 Waterbabies .................... 313 The Watering Place .............. 38 Watermelon Boats ............. 313 Waterworks .................... 265 The Waverly Gallery ........... .43 Way Deep ..................... 272 The Way of All Fish ........... 241 The Way To Miami ............ 251 Way Upstream ................... 86 A Way With Words ...... 254, 314 Ways and Means ............... 287 The Wayward Stork ........... 126 We Bombed in New Haven .... 179 We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figures Aboard The S.s. Farndale Avenue .... .43 We Must Kill Toni .............. 75 We Were Dancing ............. 285 We Were Young That year .... 186 We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! ............................ 51 The Weak Spot ................ 262 Weatherman ..................... 67 Wedding ....................... 314 Wedding Band ................. 142 Wedding Breakfast ............... 75 The Wedding Feast ............ 190 Wedding of the Year .......... 131 *The Wedding Party ............ 289 Weeds .......................... 136 Weekend Comedy ............... 34 A Weekend Near Madison ....... 51 Weird Romance ................ 228 The Weird Sisters .............. 237 Welcome Home .................. 87 Welcome To Andromeda ...... 251 The Welcoming ................ 288 Welfare ........................ 175 A Well Taught Lesson ......... 271 Wendlebury Day ............... 237 We're All Guilty ............... 184 Were You There? .............. 307 The Werewolfs Curse ......... 168 West ........................... 112 Whadda 'bout My Legal Rights? ....................... 229 What A Spot! .................. 229 What Are You Afr~id Of? ..... 313 What Did We Do Wrong? ..... 107 What Did You Say "what" For? .......................... 251 What Every Woman Knows ... 143 What Happened To Jones? ..... 158 What I Did in the Holidays ..... .48 What I Meant Was ............. 313 What If ... ? ................... 99 What Is Making Gilda So Gray ......................... 251 What Mama Don't Know ...... 314 What Shall We Tell Caroline? .................... 270 What She Found There ........ 313 What The Bellhop Saw ........ 148 What The Butler Saw ............ 66 *What The Night Is for ............ 9 What The Rabbi Saw .......... 139 What The Wine-sellers Buy ... 177 What Wasn't Said, What Didn't Happen ...................... 313 What We Do With It .......... 313 What Where ..................... 29 What Would Jeanne Moreau Do? .......................... 260 What Would Jeanne Moreau Do? and Box Office ................ 36 Whatever Happened To Mrs. Kong? ........................ 106 "What's A Girl To Do?!" ..... 259 What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? ......................... 229 What's That Tune .............. 263 The Wheelbarrow Closers ..... 126 When Altars Bum ............. 266 When Did You Last See My Mother? ........................ 55 When Did You Last See Your Trousers? .................... 139 When Esther Saw The Light ... 288 When God Comes for Breakfast, You Don't Bum The Toast .. 259 When I Was A Girl, I Used To Scream and Shout ............. 32 When I Was A Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me ..... 235 When Kids Achieve ........... 318 When Ladies Meet ............. 126 When Lightning Strikes Twice .. 21 When Men Are Scarce ......... 278 When Men Reduce As Women Do ........................... 276 When One Is Somebody ....... 190 When Pigs Fly ................. 229 When She Danced ............. 100 When The Cat's A way .......... 65 When The Fire Dies ........... 275 When The Wind Blows .......... 34 When We Are Married ........ 162 When We Dead Awaken (Brustein) ...................... 82 When We Dead A waken (Fjelde) ...................... 311 When You're by Yourself, You're Alone ......................... 267 Whence ........................ 251 Where Are They Now? ........ 233 Where Are You Going Hollis Jay? .......................... 252 Where Have All The Lightning Bugs Gone? .................. 252 Where She Went, What She Did .......................... 266 Where The Truth Lies ........... 82 While The Lights Were Out ... 160 While The Sun Shines ......... 126 Whisperings in the Grass ........ 69 Whispers On The Wind ........ 229 The White Cat ................. 268 *White Chocolate ................. 56 White Horse Inn ............... 229 The White House .............. 133 The White House Murder Case ......................... 133 White Liars .................... 259 The White Phantom ............ 293 White Room of My Remembering ................ 277 The White Sheep of the Family ....................... 123 White Steed .................... 158 The White Whore and the Bit Player ........................ 252 Whiteheaded Boy .............. 152 Who Goes Bare? ............... 132 Who Killed Aunt Caroline? .... 195 Who Killed Santa Claus? ...... 108 Who Made Robert Deniro King of America? .................... 254 Who Murdered Who? .......... 293 Who Needs A Waltz ............. 89 Who Saw Him Die .............. 38 Who Says Murder ............... 89 Who Shall Be Happy. . . ? ..... 12 Who Walks in the Dark ....... 140 Whodunnit ..................... 129 The Whole Darn Shooting Match ........................ 181 The Whole Truth .............. 252 The Whole Truth and the Honest Man .......................... 261 Who'll Save The Plowboy? ...... 92 Whoop-dee-doo! ............... 229 Whoppers ...................... 252 Who's Crazy Now! ............ 193 Who's in Bed With The Butler ................ "1"..... 113 Who's On First? ................. 38 Who's Out There! ............. 280 Who's Under Where? ............ 78 Who's Who? ..................... 36 Whose Family Values! ........... 95 Whose Wives Are They Anyway? ....................... 99 Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily? ......................... 311 Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down .......................... 38 Why Me? ........................ 67 Why Not Join The Giraffes? ... 145 Why Not Stay for Breakfast ..... 51 Why Teachers Go Nuts ........ 294 Widow by Proxy ............... 126 Widowers' Houses ............. 192 Widows and Children First! ..... 34 Widow's Weeds ................. 84 Wife Begins At Forty ............ 59 A Wife for A Life ............. 259 The Wild and Woolly West .... 151 Wild Birds ..................... 145 The Wild Duck ................ 175 The Wild Duck (Fjelde) ....... 311 Wild Dust ...................... 116 Wild Honey .................... 172 Wild Horses ................... 158 *Wild Turkeys .................. 234 Wild Westcotts ................. 164 Wilderness Road ................ 187 *The Wildest!!! ................. 198 Wildest Dreams .................. 99 The Will ....................... 291 Will Someone Please Tell Me What's Going On Here? ..... 268 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ...................... 108 Will The Ladies Please Come To Order ........................ 285 Will You Still Love Me in the Morning? ...................... 82 William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream .. 170 Willie & Esther .................. 12 The Willie Tree ................ 295 Willy Wallace Chats . . . With The Kids ......................... 272 Wilson in the Promised Land .. 142 Win With Wheeler ............. 131 Winchel sea Dround ............ 237 Winchelsea Dround and Other Plays ......................... 315 The Wind in the Willows (Bennett) ..................... 302 The Wind in the Willows (Morley) ..................... 171 The Window ................... 293 Wings .......................... 120 The Wings of the Dove ........ 126 Wings Over Europe ............ 190 Winning Monologues for Young Actors ........................ 321 Winning Monologues From the Beginnings Workshop ....... 318 The Winning Number .......... 252 Winter Glory ................... 129 A Winter Reunion ............. 259 The Winter Wife ................. 33

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom ..... 95 Vampires in La ................. .43 Vanities .......................... 23 Vanity Fair (Donnellan) ....... 126 Vanity Fair (Thackery) ........ 190 Variety Obit ................... 228 Varney The Vampire .......... 148 Vasilisa, The Fair .............. 302 Vatzlav ......................... 126 The Velvet Glove .............. 306 The Venetian Twins ........... 139 The Ventriloquist's Wife ........ 74 Venus At Large ................ 126 Verdict ......................... 132 Veronica's Room ................ 38 A Very Rich Woman .......... 190 Vest Pocket Theatre ........... 320 V.1. Lenin Is Missing ............ 48 Via Dolorosa ...................... 7 Victim ........................... 37 Victims of Duty ................ 281 Victor Hugo's Les Miserables ................... 116 Victoria's House ............... 121 Viet Rock ...................... 190 The View From Here ............ 48 A View From The Obelisk .... 259 View of the Dome ............... 78 The Vigil ...................... 183 Vikings .......................... 34 Village Wooing ................ 251 Vilna's Got A Golem ............ 99 Vincent in Brixton .............. .43 Vinegar Tom ................... 118 The Vinegar Tree .............. 126 The Virgin of Orleans ......... 176 Virtual Reality ................. 240 Virtue Always Triumphs ....... 171 Virtue Triumphant ............. 160 The Vise ....................... 269 The Visions of Simone Machard (Manheim) ................... 190 The Visions of Simone Machard (Rank & Rank) .............. 173 The Visit (Durrenmatt) ........ 182 The Visit (Petrushevskaya) .... 313 A Visit From Miss Prothero ... 241 Visiting Dad ................... 313 Visiting Oliver ................. 265 The Visitor ..................... 291 Vita & Virginia .................. 10 Vital Signs ....................... 99 Viva! ........................... 100 Viva Mexico! .................. 228 Vivat! Vivat Regina! ........... 179 Vivien .......................... 260 Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy ...................... 158 The Voice of the Prairie ......... 19 Voices ......................... 318 Voices (Griffin) ................. .49 Voices 2000 ................... 170 Voices From The High School ....................... 172 The Vortex ..................... 129 Vortex ......................... 251 Voyage ......................... 168 A Voyage Round My Father ... 178 The Voyeur and the Widow ... 241

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A Winter's Tale ................ 191 Wisdom Tooth ................. 190 Wise Child ....................... 39 Wise Men and the Elephant ... 296 *Wise Women .................... 55 The Wishin' Tree .............. 286 The Wisteria Bush .............. .49 The Witch ..................... 260 The Witches ................... 302 With A Side of Sabotage ...... 235 With Or Without You ......... 252 Within The Ghostly Mansion's Labyrinth .................... 237 Without Apologies ............... 62 Witness for the Prosecution .... 173 The Witnesses ................... 90 The Wives' Friend ............. 184 The Wiz ....................... 229 Wizard of Oz .................. 301 The Wizard of Wobbling Rock ......................... 303 Wolfsbane ..................... 235 Woman ........................ 320 The Woman At Dead Oaks .... 150 Woman From The Town ........ 64 The Woman in Black ............ 10 Woman in Mind ................. 95 The Woman in White .......... 229 Woman of Paris .................. 55 Woman of the year ............ 229 Woman Overboard ............. 229 A Woman Speaks .............. 320 Woman's A Fool .............. 126 Women Behind Bars ........... 142 Women Have Their Way ...... 164 Women in Congress ........... 126 Women in White ............... 140 The Women of Theta Kappa ..... 99 Women On Fire ................... 7 Women's Scenes and Monologues .................. 318 The Wonderful Story of Mother Goose ........................ 299 Wonderful Tennessee ............ 59 A Wonderful Worldfu1 of Christmas .................... 310 The Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed ..................... 241 Wooden Kimono ............... 152 The Woodman and the Goblins ...................... 266 The Woods ...................... 15 The Woolgatherer ................ 14 Words and Music .............. 290 Words of Women .............. 318 Working Her Way Down ...... 284 . The Workout ................... 252 The Workroom ................. 149 The World of Carl Sandburg .... 26 The World We Live in ........ 185 A Worm in Horseradish ....... 136 Would You Like A Cup of Tea? ......................... 266 Woyzeck ....................... 185 Writer's Block ................. 137 Wrong Mountain ............... 147 Wrong Tum At Lungfish ........ 32 Wuthering Heights (Carter) ...... 73 Wuthering Heights (Vance) .... 129
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Yankee Doodles ............... 229 Yankee Ingenuity .............. 229 The Year Boston Won The Pennant ...................... 158 A Year in the Death of Eddie Jester ........................... 78 Yelena ........................... 43 The Yellow Jacket ............. 190 Yentl ........................... 177 Yerma (Dewell & Zapata) ..... 190 Yerma (Lujan & O'Connell) ... 186 Yes and No .................... 126 Yes Dear ....................... 261 Yes M'lord .................... 126 Yes, My Darling Daughter ..... 126 Yes Sir, That's My Baby ...... 252 You and I ...................... 126 You Better Watch Out ......... 309 You Could Die Laughing! ..... 168 You Don't Have To Go To Kansas City To Meet The Devil ..... 241 You Gonna Let Me Take You Out Tonight, Baby? .............. 315 You Know Who and What's His 'Name ........................ 312 You, Me and Mrs. Jones ....... 172 You Never Can Tell ........... 192 You Never Know .............. 229 You Oughta Be in Pictures .... 252 You Say Tomatoes ............... 29

You Should Be So Lucky ........ 62 You Shouldn't Have Told ..... 113 You, The Jury ................. 184 You Touched Me! ............... 92 You Waste Your Life .......... 312 You'll Love My Wife ........... 75 Young Actors Workbook ...... 321 The Young and the Beautiful .. 145 Young April ................... 190 Young Idea .................... 164 Young King Louis ............. 190 A Young Man's Fancy ........ 281 The Young Wife ................. 68 Young Woodl(~y ............... 126 The Youngest .................. 126 Your Flake Or Mine? ............ 68 Your Life Is A Feature Film ... 272 Your Obituary Is A Dance ..... 313

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Zara Spook and Other Lures ..... 59 The Zen Substitute ............. 291 *The Zero Hour ................... 17 Zig Zag Woman ............... 264 The Zombie .................... 103 Zombie Prom .................. 229 Zooman and the Sign .......... 119 Zorba .......................... 230 Zoya's Apartment .............. 116 Zygielbaum's Journey ......... 139

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