"Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
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Cast Album: Regina (1949) | The Singing Critic  Aug 6, 2013 ... Regina is Marc Blitzstein's theatrical opera based on Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes. ... on Broadway in 1946 and was subsequently given its own film version in 1948. ... The trend continued into the 1950s with Leonard Bernstein's operatic-infused musical Candide and Frank Loesser's sung-through...
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THEATER - A Musical Version Of 'Little Foxes' - NYTimes.com  May 15, 1988 ... THEATER; A Musical Version Of 'Little Foxes' ... Mark Blitzstein's musical version of ''The Little Foxes,'' Lillian Hellman's 1939 play, was a commercial casualty on Broadway in 1949, lasting seven weeks. ... The director, Arvin Brown, clearly perceives ''Regina'' as a theatrical display piece, and indeed he...
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Regina Restored (Tommy Krasker) - The Marc Blitzstein Web Site  Blitzstein's opera Regina was commissioned by Serge Koussevitsky and the ... A musical adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes, the work evolved ... Throughout 1948 and 1949, Hellman sent lengthy missives to Blitzstein ... accorded this revival prompted the company to mount a new version in 1958.
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ON THE RECORD: At Long Last, Regina | Playbill  Aug 8, 2010 ... In his 1949 musical drama Regina, Marc Blitzstein uses music and lyrics to weave a ... Blitzstein started with Lillian Hellman's strikingly effective ... Consider that moment in the play when Horace's bottle of heart ... Hellman's 1939 drama was only ten years old when Blitzstein's version reached Broadway.
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Regina (opera) - Wikipedia  Regina is an opera by Marc Blitzstein, to his own libretto based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. It was completed in 1948 and premiered the next year. Blitzstein chose this source in order to make a strong statement against capitalism. In three acts, the musical style has been described as new American verismo ... Brenda Lewis, Birdie in the 1949 cast, now took the lead as Regina.
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The Antagonist: On Lillian Hellman | The Nation  Aug 29, 2012 ... She was perhaps the most famous woman playwright in the world, yet one who thought it ... In 1952, Hellman was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). ... indecent and dishonorable, adding: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions,...
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Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" is banned in Boston | Jewish ...  ... banned Lillian Hellman's first play, The Children's Hour, from being staged in Boston, ... Watch on the Rhine and Toys in the Attic (1960) each won a New York ... Called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, she ... During a decade on the blacklist, Hellman wrote stage adaptations of four...
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Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" is banned in Boston | Jewish ...  Watch on the Rhine and Toys in the Attic (1960) each won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. If her later plays were less controversial than The Children's...
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Lillian Hellman - Wikipedia  Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905  June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist ... While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. ... They maintained their relationship off and on until his death in January 1961. Hellman's ..... Hellman adapted it from Burt Blechman's novel How Much?
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Ladies of the Chorus - Wikipedia  February 10, 1949 (widespread release) November 1, 1952 (re-release). Running time. 61 minutes. Language, English. Ladies of the Chorus is a 1948 American musical romantic drama directed by Phil Karlson and ... Ladies of the Chorus features Marilyn Monroe in the first major role of her career. ... Song, Actor(s).
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The King and I - Wikipedia  The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist ... He had lived half his life as a Buddhist monk and was an able scholar, ... Dorothy Hammerstein had known Gertrude Lawrence since 1925, when they had ..... The King and I opened on Broadway on March 29, 1951, with a wide...
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The Little Foxes - Wikipedia  The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. ... Horace refuses when Regina asks him outright for the money, so Leo, ... to finally understand the importance of not idly watching people do evil. ... her husband die, alienated her brothers, and driven away her only child, Regina...
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The Autumn Garden at the Jermyn Street Theatre | Theatre review ...  Oct 10, 2016 ... The cramped auditorium of the Jermyn Street Theatre is currently host to an ... of American playwright Lillian Hellman's 1951 chamber play The Autumn Garden. ... She herself regarded The Autumn Garden as her best play, but it has .... The Book of Mormon, Broadway in Concert, Buried Child, Burn The...
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The Official West Side Story Web Site -- FAQ  Jerome Robbins' proposed the idea for writing a musical based on Romeo and ... a meeting with Arthur Laurents produced another idea -- two teen-age gangs as the ... opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater, September 26, 1957. ... The order of songs is switched here also; on stage "Maria" and "Tonight" are...
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Six Plays by Lillian Hellman: Lillian Hellman: 9780394741123 ...  The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; ... effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. ... Watch on the Rhine (1941), the story of how fascism affects an American family and the refugees they harbor, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
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The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman  Reviews, Discussion ...  Suzanne said: Lillian Hellman's great play A Children's Hour is the story of two ... substituting for witchcraft--except Hellman's play was written 18 years before Miller's. .... books/plays/poems and Lillian Helman's "The Children's Hour" caught my ..... was accused of making up and exaggerating sections of her own memoirs?
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Broadway Musical Home - Hello Dolly  Dolly, the famed New York City matchmaker, receives her toughest challenge yet when rich ... Once the musical opens, the full schedule will be posted here.
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The scandalous Lillian Hellman | Stage | The Guardian  Jan 21, 2011 ... A new production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour opens tonight; ... primarily on the basis of two enormously successful plays from the ... for girls whose lives are ruined by a malicious student spreading the lie that they are lovers. ... rumours and community paranoia was unmistakable, and the play...
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Cyrano de Bergerac  Broadway Play  1946 Revival | IBDB  Cyrano de Bergerac (Play, Drama, Revival) opened in New York City Oct 8, 1946 and played through Mar 22, 1947.
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The Children's Hour (play) - Wikipedia  The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls ... At Karen's insistence, Joe reluctantly asks her whether she and Martha had ever ... asked Shumlin to read a play of her ownthe sixth draft of The Children's Hour. ... After reading the second act he said, "I hope it keeps up".
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Lillian Hellman - Gvsu  Jun 30, 1984 ... The Little Foxes: A Play in Three Acts (New York: Random House, 1939; London: Hamilton, 1939). ... Since her death Hellman has been the subject of two plays, ... was recruited by a Nazi student group and briefly considered joining, ..... play, Another Part of the Forest (1946), a prequel to The Little Foxes...