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The prince of Central Park

Title: The prince of Central Park / music by Don Sebesky ; lyrics by Gloria Nissenson ; book by Evan H. Rhodes, 198-?.
Author: Sebesky, Don.

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Description

[3], 68 leaves; 28 cm. +

Summary

Typescript, undated.

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Genre/Form

Scripts.

Biography (note)

First a television film starring Ruth Gordon in 1977, the story was adapted as a stage musical with unfortunate results. This script is an early version of the musical sent to Dorothy Loudon for consideration by the director Albert Marre, but Loudon did not accept. It was announced Martha Raye would appear in it at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook, Ill., in Nov. 1985, but no production seems to have materialized before the one at the Belasco Theatre, New York, N.Y. Then directed by Tony Tanner, it opened Nov. 9, 1998, and closed Nov. 11 after just 4 performances, with Jo Anne Worley as the old lady who befriends a 12-year-old boy living in a tree in Central Park. In 2000 it was released as a non-musical motion picture starring Kathleen Turner, Harvey Keitel, and Jerry Orbach.

Call Number

NCOF+ 11-3284

OCLC

740491828

Author

Sebesky, Don.

Title

The prince of Central Park / music by Don Sebesky ; lyrics by Gloria Nissenson ; book by Evan H. Rhodes, 198-?.

Biography

First a television film starring Ruth Gordon in 1977, the story was adapted as a stage musical with unfortunate results. This script is an early version of the musical sent to Dorothy Loudon for consideration by the director Albert Marre, but Loudon did not accept. It was announced Martha Raye would appear in it at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook, Ill., in Nov. 1985, but no production seems to have materialized before the one at the Belasco Theatre, New York, N.Y. Then directed by Tony Tanner, it opened Nov. 9, 1998, and closed Nov. 11 after just 4 performances, with Jo Anne Worley as the old lady who befriends a 12-year-old boy living in a tree in Central Park. In 2000 it was released as a non-musical motion picture starring Kathleen Turner, Harvey Keitel, and Jerry Orbach.

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Separated from the Dorothy Loudon Collection.

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Nissenson, Gloria. Lyricist

Rhodes, Evan H. Librettist

Research Call Number

NCOF+ 11-3284

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