Found inside – Page 717I'M NOT RAPPAPORT A play by Herb Gardner Presented by Richard Piibrou and Anthony Fio ! c for Theatre Proiects Associates in association with ... Gardner's American comedy I'm Not Rappaport ( Apollo ) -- that it is exhilaratingly funny , that it is achingly sad , that it provides an enthralling ... The wit of the script and the strength of the performances , though , more than make up for its shortcomings . Found inside – Page 69He was to play many more film roles and became a movie director as well (e.g., ... i'm Not Rappaport, The Zulu and the Zayda FilMOGRAPHY 1950: No Way Out; ... Found inside – Page P-364... the original London productions of plays such as A View from the Bridge , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and I'm not Rappaport ... scripts of plays , scores of musicals complete with DVDs , and biogs of performers with expensive glossy photographs . Found inside – Page 11Anything Goes , or any of the Marx Brothers ' plays offer more than just irreverent fun : lacing their comedies are hidden manifestoes of anarchism as they " send up ... If by chance you deem your current script tame and uncontroversial , it will behoove you to change that attitude . Even situation comedies like I'm Not Rappaport and Social Security , for example , challenge society's treatment of the elderly . "I'm Not Rappaport! takes place under a bridge in Central Park, where two octogenarians, one white one black, meet regularly, determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Found inside – Page 54Gardner was working on a movie script in a fourth-floor office in the Gulf & Western ... He never returned to the movie project, but I'm Not Rappaport, ... Found inside – Page 122movies affirmative fiction , continued was looking for a really special script where I could play the lead , " says Nia Long of her first ... says actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis , recently seen opposite Walter Matthau in I'm Not Rappaport . Found inside – Page 718... 126, 144, 188 Carousel, 41, 120 Cats, 530, 582 Chess, 558 Chicago (play), ... 168, 196, 305 Hair,278–79,325 Hello, Dolly!, 208, 501 I'm Not Rappaport, ... Found inside – Page 211black man says he doesn't want to listen , but he never goes away , because then what would happen to the play ? ... play .... I'm Not Rappaport is not what I need or particularly want in my life , but it does no harm : its advocacy of hare - brained ... The wit of the script ... , though , more than [ makes ] up for its shortcomings . Found inside – Page 79The Rehearsal Script As mentioned before , it is also necessary for the stage manager to keep an accurate record of ... On I'm Not Rappaport , the Tony Award - winning play written by Herb Gardner and directed by Daniel Sullivan , the two ... Found inside – Page 122... recently seen opposite Walter Matthau in I'm Not Rappaport. ... I was looking for a really special script where I could play the lead," says Nia Long of ... Found inside – Page 251A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000 Thomas S. Hischak ... yet only four plays (Benefactors, I'm Not Rappaport, The Search for Signs of Intelligent ... Found inside – Page 9Wives and Lovers 1963 ( from play The First Wife ) ; Marnie 1964 ( sc ) ; The Prime of ... Not Rappaport , who entered films in the early 1960s with film ... Found inside – Page 58The anti-Semitic laws give the Jews of Ferrara no place to play, ... I'm Not Rappaport — Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis play two grave-dodgers who meet each ... Found inside – Page 253In Herb Gardner's adaptation of his play, I'm Not Rappaport, he played a character who might have been modeled after himself: Nat Moyer, ... Found inside – Page 7Back to the stage now after an absence of four years — he is in an American play , I'm Not Rappaport ( see p76 ) , opening ... Scofield needs the right kind of theatrical challenge ; in performance he can be too powerful for any shoddy script . Found inside – Page 69Two Plays : Michael and A SON COME Home by Ed Bullins . BMT Theater , Emeryville , Calif . ... I'm Not RAPPAPORT by Herb Gardner . Oakland , Calif . ... ( script - in - hand productions ) SHRINK ! by Bill Wine . Silver Spring , Md . Stage . Found inside – Page 121Drama as a Site for Critical Pedagogy Clar Doyle ... How can teachers make use of I'm Not Rappaport to help students understand their own worlds? A play ... Found inside – Page 215If Winter Comes [2 April 1923] play by A. S. M. Hutchinson, B. Macdonald ... I'm Not Rappaport [19 November 1985] comedy by Herb Gardner [Booth Thea; ... Found insideThe result – fewer and fewer original scripts. ... turning point inour journey when we adapted HerbGardner's comedy I'm Not Rappaport for the Indian stage. Found inside – Page 19One had to grateful for a script which gave actors of Judith Ivey and Ed Harris's caliber the opportunity to do such fine work . Nat , the old Jew who is the hero of I'm Not Rappaport , is an expert manipulator , spinning stories out of whole cloth in ... Found inside – Page 135When Warner Bros. filmed the play in 1938, James Cagney and Pat O'Brien gave ... He first acted on Broadway* in a 2002 revival of I'm Not Rappaport, ... Found inside – Page 583 mins . ; R ) Village Theatre VII ; Ziegfeld . by writing radio plays , scripts for other * Hamlet ... I'm Not Rappaport — Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis Alexanderplatz , his fifteen - hour magnum opus ) , Fassbinder secured his place in German ... Found inside – Page 30But he's had no starring roles—until now. ... Although Pais appreciated the “quality of the meditation in the script,” he spent a long unrecognizable in my ... Found inside – Page 228I'M NOT RAPPAPORT I KAMI was sent a script in 1986 , of a play by Herb Gardner called I'm Not Rappaport ; I had met him when in New York , and seen his play , A Thousand Clowns , which I liked tremendously . For me this was something ... Found inside – Page 964Heroism and fair play are the order of the day in the big finish , but it's up to ... ( He won the Tony in 1986 for his new play " I'm Not Rappaport . Found inside – Page 847The point of the trip is to get Elaine May to Seattle so she can help their mutual friend Herb Gardner cut a halfhour from his new play “ I'm Not Rappaport , ” which is trying out at the Seattle Repertory Theater . May is a renowned script doctor ... Found inside – Page 294Then , too , incidental music is often used in a straight drama . Examples include “ Alabama Bound " in I'm Not Rappaport and " California Here I Come " for Philadelphia Here I Come . A dramatic script such as Sisters Rosensweig may , for ... Found inside – Page 54... the script resemble Herb Gardner's commercially successful “ I'm Not Rappaport " as much as possible with perhaps a ... Whatever one thinks of Mr. Gardner's play , it tells a story , develops its characters and is written in a distinctive voice . Found inside – Page 228I'M NOT RAPPAPORT I me to was sent a script in 1986 , of a play by Herb Gardner called I'm Not Rappaport ; I had met him when in New York , and seen his play , A Thousand Clowns , which I liked tremendously . For me this was something ... Found inside – Page 253... the inspiration for his first Broadway script, A Thousand Clowns (1962). ... Stand (1980) did not enjoy long runs, his comedy-drama “I'm Not Rappaport ... Found inside – Page 61One of the curious virtues of Blessing ' s script is that although written pre - glasnost , and therefore already technically out ... On one level , this is a play that belongs in that grouping of The Odd Couple and I ' m Not Rappaport and Driving Miss ... Found inside – Page 414Some scripts question the enduring imperatives and relevance of Jewish ... the subject as well of Herb Gardner's bittersweet I'm Not Rappaport (1986). Found inside – Page 377... in a Broadway play reflecting Jewish themes : Judd Hirsch ( I'm Not Rappaport ) . Actor in a play in Yiddish : Jack Rechtzeit ( Broome Street ) . ... Original script reflecting the Jewish experience in America : Herb Gardner ( Rappaport ) . Found inside – Page 265I'm Not Rappaport W sonae . tral Park to peruse of the same name. I'm Not Rappaport silently drives home . Such an emotionally indirect conclusion fits the tone of the film perfectly . In his remarks in the published shooting script , writer James ... Found inside – Page 292He is on stage all the time ( as he was as Salieri ) and “ I also talk more in this play than I've ever talked in any play . ” The script of I'm Not Rappaport instantly recalled Central Park for him : “ Those terrible corners with seats and a bridge that ... Found inside – Page 69We wondered why Dr. Pilgrim had not noted that at the time Brian was born, ... like the enthusiasm the script generated in the play reading committee. Found inside – Page 76While there, he worked on a number of productions directed by Mike Nichols, including Hur/ybur/y, The Real Thing, Social Security, and I'm Not Rappaport. Found inside – Page 34Neil Vipond gets Grover just right , and we regret that William Cain's Joshua can't appear in Act Two . But the fine cast simply cannot compensate for the script's shortcomings . In his Broadway revival of Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport ... Found insideTED THAI FOR TIME II fered to bribe an agency inspector who was also a playwright by pledging to produce his plays . ... Carols elsenated ( as did Gardner's I'm where , he wrote an offstage Not Rappaport and Wassersuicide into the script . Found inside – Page 348The new man will not be you , ” Waterston cries frantically , revealing the depth of his concern and friendship . It is Waterston's most moving work in years . It is hard to imagine a more per fect actor to play the wily Soviet than Robert Prosky . ... bench pair of " I'm In the confrontation Bless- He is retiring after this meet- Prosky , in a nicely - gauged Not Rappaport ... that it ignited as dra- The script makes them ma with more force . two contrasting personalities - Making his Broadway de- the ... Found inside – Page 12Could write a play in which shop , half - toy store ( Henry Dunn and Ben social workers from New York City's Edwards designed ... As Arnold ( David Margulies ) ? he would later show with Thieves and I'm The way out of this conundrum ain't Not Rappaport , Gardner can write the easy ... There's a New York tang script , Murray finally throws over his to his language , and his world of funny erratic lifestyle ... Found inside – Page 34BRAVE NEW WORLD A marathon of fifty new plays and songs — written and performed by artists including Sarah Jessica Parker , Matthew Broderick ... Comedy of Errors ” has a new book by Nicky Silver , based on George Abbot's original script , and something has been lost in translation . ... A dialogue between a fire captain who lost eight of I'M NOT RAPPAPORT his men on September 11th and an ... Found inside – Page 198He read me a reader's report that , among other things , said about the play : “ It cries out for a laugh line . ... The scripts include : Star Wars ; E.T .; Same Time Next Year ; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ; I'm Not Rappaport ; American Graffiti ... 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