It s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to make it big in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls. Directed by Moss Hart s son, this is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman and Hart genius at its very best.

Three Plays: The Man Who Came to Dinner / Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take It with You (Methuen Modern Plays)

Moss Hart

George S. Kaufman

Methuen Drama

Merton of the Movies

Marc Connelly

Samuel. French

Satirical comedy / 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 newly invented talkies. Due to a series of consistent blunders, 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.

Once in a Lifetime

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

Book by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind

Animal crackers (French's Musical Library)

Merrily We Roll Along (A Play)

Samuel French, Inc.

Three American theater classics by two of our most revered playwrights."Once in a Lifetime" is a highly charged satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood. There, their wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their great success.The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner "You Can’t Take It With You" is the tale of a zany but lovable family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax payments; his son-in-law makes fireworks in the basement, and other assorted family members write plays, operate amateur printing presses, and play the xylophone. They live in delightfully comic eccentricity until Alice brings home her straitlaced Wall Street boyfriend."The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened in 1939 to become one of the longest-running hits in the history of Broadway. It portrays an eminent lecturer who unwillingly accepts a dinner invitation in a small Ohio town, slips on the ice outside his hosts’ home, and is forced immediately to their sickbed. While convalescing well beyond his stay of welcome, he turns the house of his indignant hosts into bedlam with his hilarious friends and diabolic pranks.Also included in this volume are “Men at Work” and “Forked Lightning,” two essays Kaufman and Hart wrote about each other.

Three Plays : Once in a Lifetime/You Can't Take It With You/the Man Who Came to Dinner

Bt Bound

A Night at the Opera

Morrie Ryskind

James Kevin McGuinness

Viking Press

Presents the 1937 Pulitizer prize-winning drama featuring the Sycamores and the Kirbys.

You Can't Take It with You: A Comedy in Three Acts (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Dramatist's Play Service

George S. Kaufman and his Collaborators

Edna, Ferber

Ring Lardner

John P. Marquand

PAJ Publications

George F. Kaufman - writings from a genius!

George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays

Olympic Marketing Corp

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