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Appendix Plays Discussed in This Book Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert Sherwood. 1938 Broadway run: 472 performances. 1993 Lincoln Center revival: 27 previews, 40 performances. Abraham Lincoln, John Drinkwater. 1919 Broadway run: 193 per- formances. 1929 Broadway revival: 8 performances. Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, Aaron Loeb. 2008 San Francisco. 2010 off-Broadway run. American Iliad, Donald Freed. 2001 Burbank, California. As the Girls Go, William Roos (book), Jimmy McHugh (music), Harold Adamson (lyrics). 1948 Broadway run: 414 performances. Assassins, John Weidman (book), Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics). 1990 off-Broadway run: 73 performances. 1992 London revival. 2004 Broadway revival: 26 previews, 101 performances. The Best Man, Gore Vidal. 1960 Broadway run: 520 performances. 2000 Broadway revival: 15 previews, 121 performances. Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Alex Timbers (book), Michael Friedman (music and ly73rics). 2008 Los Angeles. 2009 and 2010 off-Broadway runs. Buchanan Dying, John Updike. 1976 Franklin and Marshall College. Bully! Jerome Alden. 1977 Broadway run: 8 previews, 8 performances. 2006 off Broadway revival. The Bully Pulpit, Michael O. Smith. 2008 off-Broadway. Camping with Henry and Tom, Mark St. Germain. 1995 off- Broadway run: 105 performances. Numerous regional theater revivals since then. An Evening with Richard Nixon, Gore Vidal. Broadway run: 14 previews, 16 performances. First Lady, Katherine Dayton and George S. Kaufman. 1935 Broadway run: 246 performances. 1952 off-Broadway revival. 1980 Berkshire Theater Festival revival. 1996 Yale Repertory Theatre revival. First Lady Suite, Michael John LaChiusa. 1993 off-Broadway run: 32 performances. Revivals include Los Angeles 2002, off Broadway 2004, and London 2009. 160 Appendix Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan. 2006 London. 2007 Broadway run: 23 previews, 137 performances. The Gang’s All Here, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. 1959 Broadway run: 132 performances. Give ’em Hell, Harry! Samuel Gallu. 1975 premiere in Hershey, Pennsylvania followed by three-week Washington, DC, run, six- city tour. 2008 off-Broadway revival. The Heavens Are Hung in Black, David Selby. 2009 Washington, DC, run. Hope: The Obama Musical Story, Randall Hutchins. 2010 Berlin run. I’d Rather Be Right, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart (book), Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics). 1937 Broadway run: 290 performances. 2008 Los Angeles revival. If Booth Had Missed, Arthur Goodman. 1931 Broadway run: 1 performance. 1932 Broadway run: 21 performances. In Time to Come, Howard Koch and John Huston. 1941 Broadway run: 40 performances. Jackie, Gip Hoppe. 1997 Broadway run: 34 previews, 128 perfor- mances. Several regional revivals since then. The Last Days of Lincoln, Mark Van Doren. 1961 Florida State University. 1965 off-Broadway run: 1 performance. Let ’em Eat Cake, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind (book), Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music). 1933 Broadway run: 90 performances. 1978 Berkshire Theater Festival revival. Lincoln, Benjamin Chapin. 1906 Broadway run: 21 performances. 1909 Broadway revival: 17 performances. Lincoln, Saul Levitt. 1976 off-Broadway run: 32 performances. The Lincoln Mask, V. J. Longhi. 1972 Broadway run: 19 previews, 8 performances. MacBird!, Barbara Garson. 1967 off-Broadway run: 386 perfor- mances. 2006 Washington, DC, revival. A Man of the People, Thomas Dixon, Jr. 1920 Broadway run: 15 performances. Mister Lincoln, Herbert Mitgang. 1980 Washington, DC, premiere. 1980 Broadway run: 5 previews, 16 performances. 1995 off- Broadway revival. Mr. President, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (book), Irving Berlin (music and lyrics). 1963 Broadway run: 4 previews, 265 performances. 2001 off-Broadway revival with significant revisions. Nixon’s Nixon, Russell Lees. 1994 off-Broadway run: 125 perfor- mances. 2006 off-Broadway revival. Appendix 161 November, David Mamet. 2007 Broadway run: 33 previews, 205 performances. Obama on My Mind, Teddy Hayes. 2009 London run. 2009 Seattle run. Of Thee I Sing, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind (book), Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music). 1931 Broadway run: 441 performances. 1952 Broadway revival: 72 performances. 1969 off-Broadway revival. Poker Night at the White House, Sean Benjamin. 2007 Chicago run. The Patriots, Sidney Kingsley. 1943 Broadway run: 173 performances. President Harding Is a Rock Star, Kyle Jarrow. 2003 off-off Broadway run. 2008 Washington, DC, revival. Prologue to Glory, Ellsworth P. Conkle. 1938 Broadway run: 161 performances. The Rivalry, Norman Corwin. 1959 Broadway run: 81 performances. 2008 Los Angeles revival: 5 performances. 2009 off-Broadway revival. Secret Honor, Donald Freed and Arnold Stone. 1983 off-Broadway run: 47 performances. 1986 Washington, DC, revival. 1988 San Francisco revival. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics), Leonard Bernstein (music). 1976 Broadway run: 13 previews, 7 performances. 1992 Washington, DC, revival. Revived as A White House Cantata in London 1997 and off-Broadway 2008. State of the Union, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. 1945 Broadway run: 765 performances. 2006 and 2008 Washington, DC, revivals. Stuff Happens, David Hare. 2004 London premiere. U.S. premiere, Los Angeles 2005. 2008 off-Broadway run. Sunrise at Campobello, Dore Schary. 1958 Broadway run: 556 performances. Occasional regional revivals since. Teapot Scandals, Jon Steinhagen. 2007 Chicago run. Teddy and Alice, Jerome Alden (book), John Philip Sousa (music), Hal Hackady (lyrics). 1987 Broadway run: 11 previews, 77 perfor- mances. 1996 Waterbury, Connecticut revival. Teddy Tonight! Laurence Luckinbill. 2002 off-Broadway run. That Awful Mrs. Eaton, John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benét. 1924 Broadway run: 16 performances. The White House, A. E. Hotchner (books and lyrics), Lee Holby (music). 1964 Broadway run: 1 preview, 23 performances. 162 Appendix You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush, Will Ferrell. 2009 Broadway run: 18 previews, 46 performances. Note These plays are listed alphabetically by title, followed by authors, informa- tion about the original run, and a listing of the most prominent revivals, if any. Notes Introduction 1. For example, see the collection Hollywood’s White House, Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor (eds.), Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2003. 2. Patrick Julian, “A Touch Too Cracker Barrel Folksy: The Mythic Portrayal of Harry S. Truman in Give ’em Hell, Harry!” Philological Papers 44 (1998): 113. 3. Christian Moe, Scott J. Parker and George McCalmon, Creating Historical Drama: A Guide for Communities, Theatre Groups and Playwrights, Second Edition, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press, 2005: 5. 4. Quoted in Casper H. Nannes, Politics in the American Drama, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1960: 13. 5. Nannes: 24. 1 Plays about Abraham Lincoln 1. Merrill D. Peterson, Lincoln in American Memory, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 389. 2. Marcus Cunliffe, George Washington: Man and Monument, Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1958: 5. 3. Quoted in Cunliffe: 14. 4. Cunliffe: 13. 5. Garry Wills, Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1984: xxi–xxii. 6. Christian H. Moe, Scott J. Parker, and George McCalmon, Creating Historical Drama: A Guide for Communities, Theater Groups, and Playwrights, Second Edition, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press, 2005: 16. 7. Maxwell Anderson, Valley Forge, in Stanley Richards (ed.), America on Stage: Ten Great Plays of American History, Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1976: 145–56. 8. Anderson: 184. 9. Anderson: 248. 10. Joseph Wood Krutch, “Drama: Red—and White and Blue,” Nation 139 (Dec. 26, 1934): 750. 164 Notes 11. Brooks Atkinson, “Philip Merivale in ‘Valley Forge,’ ” New York Times, Dec. 11, 1934: 28. 12. David Turley, “A Usable Life: Popular Representations of Abraham Lincoln,” in David Ellis (ed.), Imitating Art: Essays in Biography, London: Pluto Press, 1993: 60. 13. Peterson: 27, 395–7. 14. Peterson: 35. 15. Benjamin Chapin, “Lincoln in the Hearts of the People,” The Independent 66 (Feb. 11, 2009): 305–8. 16. “To Portray Lincoln on the Stage,” New York Times, Feb. 6, 1906: X4. 17. “Abraham Lincoln as a Stage Figure,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 1906: XI. 18. “Mr. Chapin as Lincoln,” New York Times, Feb. 6, 1909: 9. 19. Peterson: 202. 20. Peterson: 170. 21. “The Negro a Menace, Says Thomas Dixon,” New York Times, Jun. 9, 1903: 2. 22. Thomas Dixon, A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1920: ix. The edition used was reprinted by Kessinger Publishing. 23. Dixon: 31–2. 24. Dixon: 47–49. 25. Dixon: 53–60. 26. Dixon: 105. 27. “Lincoln Again Play Hero,” New York Times, Sept. 8, 1920: 18 (Section: Amusements); and Anthony Slide, American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004: 69. 28. Lerone Bennet, Jr., “Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?” Ebony, Feb. 1968: 35–42. 29. Two useful summaries of this debate are Arthur Zilversmit, “Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 2 (1980) Issue 1: 22–45; and Martin D. Tullai, “Abraham Lincoln: Racist, Bigot or Misunderstood?” Lincoln Herald 103 (2001) Issue 2: 85–92. 30. Raymond A. Cook, Thomas Dixon, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974: 107. 31. Brook Thomas, “Thomas Dixon’s A Man of the People: How Lincoln Saved the Union by Cracking Down on Civil Liberties,” Law and
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    TWENTIETH CENTURY NORTH AMERICAN DRAMA, SECOND EDITION learn more at at learn more alexanderstreet.com Twentieth Century North American Drama, Second Edition Twentieth Century North American Drama, Second Edition contains 1,900 plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full-text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the econom- ic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century – including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more – through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades. More than 1,250 of the works are in copyright and licensed Jules Feiffer, Neil LaBute, Moisés Kaufman, Lee Breuer, Richard from the authors or their estates, and 1,700 plays appear in Foreman, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Horton Foote, Romulus Linney, no other Alexander Street collection. At least 550 of the works David Mamet, Craig Wright, Kenneth Lonergan, David Ives, Tina have never been published before, in any format, and are Howe, Lanford Wilson, Spalding Gray, Anna Deavere Smith, Don available only in Twentieth Century North American Drama, DeLillo, David Rabe, Theresa Rebeck, David Henry Hwang, and Second Edition – including unpublished plays by major writers Maria Irene Fornes. and Pulitzer Prize winners. Besides the mainstream works, users will find a number of plays Important works prior to 1920 are included, with the concentration of particular social significance, such as the “people’s theatre” of works beginning with playwrights such as Eugene O’Neill, exemplified in performances by The Living Theatre and The Open Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Susan Glaspell in the 1920s Theatre.