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Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue
Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue
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Author: Ferenc Molnar Translated by: Benjamin Glazer Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 138 Pub. Date: 2012 ISBN-10: 0573611599 ISBN-13: 9780573611599 Cast Size: 5 women, 17 men
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About the Play:
Liliom is a full-length comedy by Ferenc Molnár
translated into English by Benjamin Glazer. A
love story that has transfixed audiences for nearly a century, Liliom
inspired the legendary musical Carousel. The story of a servant-girl
and the rough and gruff carousel barker she weds, Liliom
is an extraordinary work about the limits of love and the prices we
pay for it. Liliom tells the story of a shiftless young bully in Budapest ("Liliom" is the Hungarian for lily, and the slang term for "a tough"). He works
intermittently as a barker for a merry go round and many servant
girls fall victim to his charms. Among these girls is Julie, whom he
eventually marries. Learning that he is about to become a father
Liliom participates in a robbery to enhance his fortunes. But he is
caught and stabs himself rather than submit to arrest. He is tried in
the Magistrate's court on high, but they see through him there. They
know what repentance is in his heart though he is much too cocky to
admit it. He is sentenced to a term of years in the purifying fires
with the promise that after that sentence has been served he can go
back to earth with a chance to do one good deed there. A tender and
moving story told with a master's touch.
Liliom first opened on Broadway in 1921 and was revived
eleven years later. Following its 1932 production, the play was
adapted into Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel.
Cast: 5 women, 17 men
About the Playwright:
Ferenc Molnár
(1878-1952) was a
Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist who adopted American
citizenship. Probably the
greatest playwright to come out of Hungary, he
was celebrated all over the
world at the height of his fame in the 1920s and 30s. He
emigrated to the United States to escape persecution of Hungarian
Jews during World War II and
is now best remembered in the West for the play Liliom,
on which Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Carousel is
based, and for the
adaptation of his farce The
Play's the Thing by P.G.
Wodehouse.
Benjamin F. Glazer (1887-1956) was a screenwriter and
producer who won two Oscars for his screenplays Seventh Heaven and
Arise My Love. One of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences and a lifetime member, he made the first
translation of Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom into English in 1921. His
translation was used in the original Broadway production, in the 1930
film version, and in every production in English of the play. It also
served as the basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, as well
as the screenplay for the 1956 film version of the classic musical.
He collaborated with Ernest Hemingway on Fifth Column for Broadway.
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Ferenc Molnar translated by P.G. Wodehouse
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