''Career'' is a 1956
comedy play by
James Lee. It was later turned into the 1959 movie ''
Career'', also written by Lee.
Productions
The show was dedicated to
Margo Jones
Margo Jones (December 12, 1911 – July 24, 1955), nicknamed the "Texas Tornado", was an American Theatre director, stage director and Theatrical producer, producer, best known for launching the American regional theater movement and for introduc ...
, and opened on August 28, 1956, at the
Alley Theatre,
Houston.
After its run in Houston, it ran
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
at the Seventh Avenue South Playhouse (later renamed the Actor's Playhouse), directed by Charles Olsen, design by David Hays, starring Charles White (Charley Marsalla),
Charles Aidman (Sam Lawson), Nancy Rennick (Barbara Neilson),
Clifton James (Robert Kensington), Forrest Wood (Assistant/Matt Hemsley), Frances Armstrong (An Actress), Richard Goldhurst (Old Actor),
Norman Rose (Maury Novak), Mary James (Shirley Drake), William Long, Jr. (Eric Peters),
Norma Crane
Norma Crane (born Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman; November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973) was an American actress of stage, film, and television best known for her role as Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of ''Fiddler on the Roof''. She also star ...
(Sharon Kensington), Bernard Reed (Pinkie Bonaparte), Dick Stahl (Jack Goldman), and
Larry Hagman
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera, ''Dal ...
(A Soldier).
Reviews
Brooks Atkinson, of the
New York Times, wrote that it was "fundamentally knowledgeable and discerning...obviously, Mr. Lee knows what he is writing about, the spurious enthusiasm for old friends, the cynicism and squalor, the ruthless competition, the corruption of personal character, the affront to personal dignity."
References
External links
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1956 plays
American plays adapted into films
Comedy plays
Off-Broadway plays
Plays about actors
Plays set in New York City
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