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Buy Me Blue Ribbons
Buy Me Blue Ribbons
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Author: Sumner Locke Elliott Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 78 Pub. Date: 1952 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822201690 ISBN-13: 9780822201694 Cast Size: 6 female, 4 male
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About the Play:
Buy Me Blue Ribbons is a full-length comedy by Sumner
Locke Elliott. A light comedy about a former child movie star now grown-up and hankering to crash Broadway. Buy Me Blue Ribbons is an illuminating character study.
It is one of the few Broadway plays to be written by an Australian.
Buy Me Blue Ribbons centers on Jordan Sable, at 18, a
forgotten child movie idol attempting his comeback to fame through
the stage. Against the advice of his hardboiled agent and friend, Liz Kendall,
he buys a swashbuckling verse play about pirates in which he plans to
star on Broadway, hires a top producer and a female star and embarks
on a colossal publicity campaign to launch himself in the play. He is
abetted in this by Daisy, his doting mother, an overwhelming and dizzy woman
who was once a Ziegfeld girl. His not-quite-so-doting father, a hosiery tycoon, has
always opposed Jordan's career, and the parents have divorced over
this disagreement. During a hilarious rehearsal scene, Jordan is
found totally inadequate as the pirate chief and is forced out of his
own production, his hated rival replacing him and scoring a hit,
which leads to a Hollywood contract. Jordan, penitent and defeated,
vows he will retire forever, but Liz talks him into starting again,
at the bottom, and he accepts a small bit in a revival of Hamlet,"
having learned his lesson that one cannot "buy" success.
Buy Me Blue Ribbons premiered in 1951 at the Empire Theatre
on Broadway in New York City. It premiered in Australia in 1953 at
the Independent Theatre in North Sydney and was adapted for
television in 1954.
Cast: 6 female, 4 male
About the Playwright:
Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991) was a novelist and
playwright whose fiction drew upon his formative years in his native
Australia. His career was divided into three parts, first as an actor
in major English-language plays in Australia, then as a leading
writer of more than 30 original plays and scores of adaptations in
the golden age of live American television of the 1950's, and then as
a best-selling writer of a dozen artful novels.
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