Stage Door
by George Simon Kaufman, George S Kaufman, Edna Ferber

Broadway
Stage Door Book Cover
Stage Door Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1930s Ensemble Cast Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Flexible Cast Size Interior Set Period Costumes American Comedy

Synopsis

Depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young actors and actresses, and, for the very few, stardom and success.

Press Reviews

"Stage Door is smart and slick and glib and it is a relief to see such professional skillfulness in a season that has so far seen it so rarely."

— Richard Wats, Jr., The New York Herald Tribune

"For the time being George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber are standing guard at the Stage Door in a comedy bearing that title and put on at the Music Box last evening. Some years ago in The Royal Family they fired a salute in honor of the theatre and the mad folks who keep the theatres lighted. In Stage Door they are taking a quick glance at the same subject through the bright eyes of the anxious young ladies who live parsimoniously in a politely regulated theatre boarding house and haunt the managers’ offices. Being fond of the theatre themselves, Mr. Kaufman and Miss Ferber have written of the dewy probationers with affection and admiration, not forgetting to introduce a great many ricocheting gibes."

— Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times

Characters

Character
Ann Braddock
Bernice Niemeyer
Billy
Bobby Melrose
David Kingsley
Dr. Randall
Ellen Fenwick
Frank
Fred Powell
Jean Maitland
Jimmy Devereaux
Judith Canfield
Kaye Hamilton
Keith Burgess
Kendall Adams
Larry Westcott
Linda Shaw
Lou Milhauser
Louise Mitchell
Madeline Vauclain
Mary Harper (“Big Mary”)
Mary Mccune (“Little Mary”)
Mattie
Mrs. Orcutt
Mrs. Shaw
+ 7 more characters

Publication

Year 1969
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822210696
ISBN-10 082221069X

Stage Door is a American comedy play written by George Simon Kaufman and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1969).

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