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David Ives

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Book Writer b. 1950

David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.

Also credited on2 works

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Dance of the Vampires

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • The New York producers brought in playwright David Ives (1950- ) to Americanise the dialogue. At the time, Kunze told Ellis Nassour , “I’m completely happy with it… I’m not able to write in the ‘Broadway’ style… There’re people here who can do this type of thing so much better.” [280] However, seven years later, he would tell me “The Danc…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Pardon My English, it turned out, had a wonderfully silly book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind (to which David Ives, who did the adaptation, contributed much of his own wit.) In the context of a plot that was akin to the contemporaneous absurdist movie Million Dollar Legs, the high-spirited score, which had been shaped with extraordi…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • The playwright David Ives sees it this way: ‘It can’t be an accident that the ancient Greeks contributed three basic elements to western civilisation: democracy, the theatre and the small Greek salad.… Is there, then, some intrinsic connection between a great, difficult popular art form and a great, difficult popular political system?’ Iv…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
  • OUT OF THIS WORLD Music/Lyrics, Cole Porter; Book, Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence; Adaptation, David Ives; Musical Director, Rob Fisher; Director, Mark Brokaw; Orchestration, Robert Russell Bennett; Set, John Lee Beatty; Lighting, Marc B. Weiss; Sound, Scott Lehrer; Choreography, Johntheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1994-95 Season, v. 51 (Willis).txt
  • ALL IN THE TIMING By David Ives; Director, Jason McConnell Buzas; Sets, Bruce Goodrich; Costumes, Sharon Lynch; Lighting, Deborah Constantine; Sound, Jim van i Bergen; Music, Bruce Coughlin; General Manager, Maria Di Dia; Com| pany Manager, Bob Reilly; Stage Managers, Christine Catti, Bill McComb; Presented by Estragon Productions and Pri…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1994-95 Season, v. 51 (Willis).txt
  • DON JUAN IN CHICAGO by David Ives; Director, Robert Stanton; Set, Bob Phillips; Costumes, Jennifer von Mayrhauser; Lighting, Deborah Constantine; Music/Sound, David van Tieghem; Fights, B.H. Barry; Stage Manager, Christine Catti; Press, Tony Origlio CAST: Simon Brooking (Don Juan), Larry Block (Leporello), Peter Bartlett (Mephistopheles),…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1994-95 Season, v. 51 (Willis).txt

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