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Douglas Carter Beane

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Book Writer b. 1959

Douglas Carter Beane (born July 12, 1959) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has been nominated for five Tony Awards and won two Drama Desk Awards. His plays are essentially works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor but just as often farce, particularly his work in musical theater. His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey Drown, which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997.

Also credited on2 works

Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Xanadu

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In the literature8 passages

  • In spring 2007, Jackson didn’t have prospects for a Broadway show. But then Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane’s spoof of the wretched 1980 film musical, had a setback during its June previews. James Carpinello, best known as Tony Manero in Broadway’s Saturday Night Fever, had been cast in the lead of Sonny, a record-cover designer who dreamed…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Douglas Carter Beane, who came in as a show doctor, apparently Googled and discovered that Saint Clarence was “the patron saint of prisoners.” Nice. Too bad, however, that Beane didn’t investigate a marvelous 1940 film called Brother Orchid . In it, Edward G. Robinson played a gangster who was severely wounded near a monastery. The brothe…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • I really wanted to work with Jerry again. And I really wanted to work with Douglas Carter Beane. And I wanted to be back on Broadway. I’d been offered lots of different things, and I had turned everything down. I thought, “If I keep waiting and waiting and waiting …”ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
  • Later, Douglas asked me to do readings of his plays, and then he made his Broadway debut as a playwright, and then suddenly it was “Douglas Carter Beane is writing Xanadu , and he wants to know if you’ll be in it on Broadway.” In the meantime, he met his husband, Louis, and I became friends with him as well. We eventually had a baby showe…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • DRAMA DEPT. Artistic, Douglas Carter Beane; Managing Director, Michael S. Rosen¬ berg; Director of R&D, David Semonin; Press, Chris Boneau-Adrian Bryan Brown/Miguel Tuason, Clint Bond Jr.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1996-97 Season, v. 53 (Willis).txt
  • Artistic Director, Douglas Carter Beane; Managing Director, Michael S. Rosenberg; Production Head, Ilene Rosen; Production Manager, Christian Douglas Cargill; Press, Chris Boneau-Adrian Bryan-Brown/Steven Padla, Scott Yarbrough; Performances at Greenwich House Theatre Tuesday, October 3-December 16, 2000 (61 performances and 16 previews)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2000-01 Season, v. 57 (Willis).txt

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