By George: A Kaufman Collection

Literature & Fiction

Kaufman, George S.

History & Criticism

St Martins Pr

THREE PLAYS BY KAUFMAN AND HART: Once In A Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You, The Man Who Came To Dinner 1980 Mass-market paperback 307 pages Grove Press A Black Cat Book

Three plays (A Black Cat book)

GROVE PRESS

Merrily We Roll Along, although praised by critics, was a failure on Broadway in 1934 but has since garnered almost cult classic status. It concerns a man who has lost the idealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise.

Merrily We Roll Along

Hart, Moss

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The Royal Family

FERBER, EDNA

Literary

VIKING

The Still Alarm concerns two businessmen who are sharing a hotel room. They are a fairly placid duo, concentrating on whatever matter is at hand without getting duly excited. This becomes quite clear when they discover that smoke is coming into their room and that the hotel's alarm bells are ringing furiously. Rather than panic, they treat this as if it were an everyday occurrence and begin making preparations for dealing with the emergency without a hint of panic.

The Still Alarm; a Play in One Act

Samuel French, Inc.

Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

Of thee I sing: A musical play in two acts (French's musical library)

S. French

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 by Kaufman and Hart: Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It with You and The Man Who Came to Dinner

Dramas & Plays

George Washington Slept Here (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Dramatist's Play Service

A radio celebrity and his secretary have dinner with a Midwestern family, and end up staying as a disruptive force when he breaks his hip and has to stay to recuperate.

The Man Who Came to Dinner. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Book by TEICHMANN, HOWARD AND GEORGE S. KAUFMAN

The Solid Gold Cadillac.

Teichmann, Howard

Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman

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