Clifford Odets

On stage 9 productions, 4 years

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Golden Boy

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In the literature8 passages

• 28 Clifford Odets (1906–63), American playwright and screenwriter. He was a founding member of the Group Theatre.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theater audiences in 1936 would not have had any trouble relating this reference to Clifford Odets’s then widely known union play produced the previous year, Waiting for Lefty , in which members of a taxi drivers’ union are waiting in vain for their leader, who has been killed.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• But if we look back to the Depression, when "the common man" was the subject of the theatre, we see that, however accurately a writer like Clifford Odets understood the proletariat, he was at least striving for something grander, something heroic. This attempt to create on an epic scale is apparent in a forgotten musical like Kurt Weill's…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• It had three white writers: librettist William Gibson, composer Charles Strouse, and lyricist Lee Adams. Gibson had taken over after his mentor Clifford Odets, adapting his own 1937 play, had died. In the afterword to his published script, Gibson gave credit to Golden Boy ’s star Sammy Davis, Jr., for bits and pieces of dialogue, and reve…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• CHARLES STROUSE: In his time, there were few playwrights as famous as Clifford Odets. He was part of that political schism in American life, one of the great left-wing types, the fiery young playwright who wrote Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, and Golden Boy, which was produced by the Group Theater in 1937 and which was probably his b…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• An early photo of Clifford Odets, who became one of the fiery playwrights of the Group Theater. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of Library of Congress.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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