''Love in E-Flat'' is a 1967 comedy play by
Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna directed three films during a forty-year car ...
.
Plot
Teacher Amy is having an affair with intern Howard. He is jealous of her and bugs her apartment with a listening attack.
Original production
In August 1966 it was announced the production would be produced by Alfred de Liagre. The producer said he selected it over 500 other plays and liked that it was not concerned with the theatre of the absurd, the theatre of cruelty or theatre of sexual deviation. The following month
George Seaton
George Seaton (April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.
Life and career Early life
Seaton was born George Edward Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, of Swedish des ...
signed to direct; it was Seaton's first show for the legitimate theatre.
By November Hal Buckley and
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan (born Joycelyn Schrum, September 27, 1933) is an American actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. From 1957 to 1962, she played Kate McCoy, a housewife, on the television series ''The Real McCoys''.
Early years
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were cast.
It opened February 13, 1967. "It's mild" said Walter Kerr of the ''New York Times''. "It's full of mild people... it's very discrete about its jokes... polite, professional, placid."
The play closed March 4, 1967 after 24 performances.
Later productions
The play went to Los Angeles in 1969.
Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer (; born Elke Baronin von Schletz, 5 November 1940) is a German actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Pink Panther'' sequel ''A S ...
appeared in a 1972 production in Chicago.
The ''Los Angeles Times'' called a 1975 production "pleasant, rather bland."
Film adaptation
In September 1970 Lawrence Kasha bought the film rights and hired Krasna to write a script. However no movie resulted.
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Martin, Betty. Los Angeles Times 3 Sep 1970: g21.]
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1967 plays
Plays by Norman Krasna
Broadway plays
Plays set in New York City