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Life with Father
Life with Father
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Author: Clarence Day Adapted by: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover image may change) # of Pages: 109 Pub. Date: 1948 ISBN-10: 0822206617 ISBN-13: 9780822206613 Cast Size: 8 female, 8 male
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About
the Play:
Life with Father is a full-length drama adapted for the
stage by Howard Lindsay and
Russel Crouse, based
on a humorous autobiographical book of stories about his father
compiled by Clarence Day. A joyous and
sentimental glance at the Day family, set in Manhattan in the late
19th century. It involves patriarch Clarence Day, his family, and
relations who fail to see the point of hotels. The
themes of first love, old love, and the enduring lure of family made
it the longest running non-musical in the history of Broadway and is
a comedic delight for all ages. Especially recommended for
school and contest use.
Life with Father is a
picture of New York upper middle class family life in the 1890s.
Clarence Day's wonderful comic tales of his father, Clarence Day,
Sr., portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who
demands that everything from his family (his long-suffering wife
Vinnie and four
young sons) should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose
and an amusing sight it is too from a safe enough distance. He
is intolerant and tyrannical in his constant battle to harness the
world to his way of thinking. The more he rails against his staff,
his loyal cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children
and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible
standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family
who love him despite it all. Clarence Day's
Life with Father,
originally serialized in The
New Yorker, is a
timeless classic of American humour.
Life with Father premiered
in 1939
at the Empire Theatre on Broadway, and ran for almost eight years,
compiling a then mind-boggling 3,224 performances; it is the
longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. This heralded
play has become a
classic
of the American theatre and is a staple of community theatres, regional
repertory houses, middle schools and high schools.
Cast: 8 female, 8 male
About the Playwright:
Howard Lindsay, born Herman Nelke, (1889-1968) and Russel
Crouse (1893-1966) collaborated on a succession of Broadway
comedies and musicals. Their twenty-eight-year writing, producing,
and theatre-management partnership was one of the longest
collaborations of any in Broadway history. It was also one of the
most brilliant. In 1946 their play State of the Union took home the
Pulitzer Prize, and in 1960 The Sound of Music won the Tony for Best
Musical.
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Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
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Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
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