Name Douglas Beane | Role Playwright | |
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Movies To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Books Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, Music from a Sparkling Planet: A Comedy, Advice from a Caterpillar: A Comedy in Two Acts Awards Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical Nominations Tony Award for Best Play Plays The Little Dog Laughed, The Nance, Xanadu, Lysistrata Jones, As Bees In Honey Drown Similar People John Farrar, Bill Steinkellner, Oscar Hammerstein II, Mark Brokaw, Victoria Clark | ||
Theater talk playwright douglas carter beane on mr mrs fitch under the radar festival
Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York. 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. Beane often writes works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor.
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- Theater talk playwright douglas carter beane on mr mrs fitch under the radar festival
- Douglas Carter Beane on Xanadu plus Michael Mayer Steven Sater of Spring Awakening
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Douglas Carter Beane on Xanadu, plus Michael Mayer, Steven Sater of Spring Awakening
Theatre
Beane wrote the book for Xanadu, a stage musical adaptation of the 1980 film of the same name, adding new plot twists and humor parodying the original movie. The musical was workshopped in 2006 and early 2007 with director Christopher Ashley and actors Jane Krakowski, Tony Roberts, and Cheyenne Jackson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on July 10, 2007, with a budget of $5 million. Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson were the Broadway leads. Beane won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
In 2011, Beane was hired to "doctor" the book for the musical Sister Act alongside Bill and Cheri Steinkellner for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical.
Beane wrote the book for the musical Lysistrata Jones and rewrote the book for a new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella which opened on Broadway in 2013. Also opening in 2013 was his new play for Lincoln Center, The Nance, starring Nathan Lane and directed by Jack O'Brien. Beane has revised the libretto for the Metropolitan Opera's new production of the operetta Die Fledermaus which was performed in 2013- 2014.
Beane is the artistic director of the Drama Dept. Theater Company in New York.