Act One: An Authobiography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Act One: An Authobiography 
It was, as far as I was concerned, the perfect job. There was usually even enough time, before Mr. Levenson returned at seven o'clock, for a good half - hour or so of pure, idle dreaming; a necessity as basic to a twelve-year - old boy as food and drink. I was thoroughly conscious of the fact that my own dreams of glory were quite unlike those of the other boys on the block, for the fantasies and specula tions I indulged in, after I had reluctantly turned the last page of Theatre Magazine, were always of Broadway. They were fantasies because though I had been born in and had lived in New York City all of my life, I had never actually seen Broadway. 
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Children's Books

Moss Hart

Literature & Fiction

Forgotten Books

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)

George S. Kaufman

Methuen Drama

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

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

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

Light up the Sky is a fast-paced, hilarious and ultimately loving look inside show business, set just before and immediately after a Broadway bound play meets its first audience.

Light Up the Sky. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Hart, Moss

Dramatist's Play Service

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)

St. Francis of Assisi/Napoleon/Act One: An Autobiography/My Early Life (Reader's Digest Great Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

EMIL LUDWIG

E. M. Almedingen

Leaders & Notable People

Reader's Digest Association

Excerpt from Act One: An Authobiography It was, as far as I was concerned, the perfect job. There was usually even enough time, before Mr. Levenson returned at seven o'clock, for a good half - hour or so of pure, idle dreaming; a necessity as basic to a twelve-year - old boy as food and drink. I was thoroughly conscious of the fact that my own dreams of glory were quite unlike those of the other boys on the block, for the fantasies and specula tions I indulged in, after I had reluctantly turned the last page of Theatre Magazine, were always of Broadway. They were fantasies because though I had been born in and had lived in New York City all of my life, I had never actually seen Broadway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Light up the Sky is a fast-paced, hilarious and ultimately loving look inside show business, set just before and immediately after a Broadway bound play meets its first audience.

Light Up the Sky (Library Edition Audio CDs)

Ian (ACT) Barford

Patrick (ACT) Clear

Shannon (ACT) Cochran

Kyle (ACT) Colerider-krugh

L.A. Theatre Works

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