Clinton Marius started his career with the lead role in the one-act play by whom?
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Clinton Marius Clinton Marius (born 20 August 1966 in Pietermaritzburg) is a South African writer and performer. He made his first professional appearance singing the lead role in Menotti's opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at age twelve. His poetry has been published internationally, while he is also known for penning several plays and collections of short stories, as well as the fictional biography of a guru, "Sunshine - The Booklet of the Biography".
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Amahl and the Night Visitors Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame". It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.
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In 1999 In 1999 is a 1912 one-act comedic short play by William C. deMille, originally produced by Jesse L. Lasky, that was popular upon its release. Its gags are based on a future where gender roles are reversed.
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Krapp's Last Tape Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (Swedish: "Herr Sleeman kommer" ) is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her. Bergman infuses the situation with overtones of rueful pessimism concerning life in general.
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Fireworks (play) Fireworks is a set of three one-act plays about American life by Jon Swan. The set includes the plays "The Report", "Football", and "Fireworks For a Hot Fourth". The work premiered Off-Broadway at the Village South Theatre on June 11, 1969 where it ran for a total of seven performances.
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The Humans (play) The Humans is a one-act play written by Stephen Karam. The play opened on Broadway in 2016 after an engagement Off-Broadway in 2015. "The Humans" was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
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Mad Forest Mad Forest: A Play from Romania is a play by English playwright Caryl Churchill. The three acts occur, respectively, shortly before, during, and shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. The play is mostly written in English, but has several passages in Romanian, including having the cast sing Romania's national anthem, "Deşteaptă-te, române!".
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Sag Harbor (play) Sag Harbor was a sentimental comedy by American playwright James Herne. It inaugurated Oscar Hammerstein's Theatre Republic, the first Broadway theater on West 42nd Street, on September 27, 1900, starring the author as Capt. Dan Marble. Lionel Barrymore later took up the role
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The Outlaw (play) The Outlaw (1871; Swedish "Den fredlöse") is a one-act play by Swedish playwright August Strindberg written when he was a 22-year-old struggling University student who had yet to become a successful author. The story is based on old Viking sagas for which to prepare Strindberg taught himself Icelandic to read the old sagas. Soon after the premier at the Royal Theater, the King of Sweden, Charles XV, summoned Strindberg to his palace to tell him how much he enjoyed it and to offer help with the young writer's tuition. It was a seminal moment in Strindberg's career, allowing him to continue his studies and gaining him confidence and reputation as a writer.
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Servilia (opera) Servilia (Russian: Сервилия , "Serviliya", the name of a main character), is an opera in five acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The work was completed in 1901, and was first performed in 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on the drama by Lev Alexandrovich Mey. The story is set in Ancient Rome during Nero's reign.
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The Lake (play) The Lake is a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles.
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Fanny's First Play Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi in London on 19 April 1911 and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. A second production opened on Broadway on September 16, 1912 for 256 performances. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year.
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Caesar (Mercury Theatre) Caesar is the title of Orson Welles's innovative 1937 adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", a modern-dress bare-stage production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Considered Welles's highest achievement in the theatre, it premiered November 11, 1937, as the first production of the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented an acclaimed series of productions on Broadway through 1941.
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La naissance de la lyre La naissance de la lyre ("The Birth of the Lyre") is an opera (styled a "conte lyrique") in one act by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Théodore Reinach, is based on the satyr play "Ichneutae" by Sophocles. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 1 July 1925 with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.
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The Apollo of Bellac The Apollo of Bellac (French title: "L'Apollon de Bellac" or "L'Apollon de Marsac") is a comedic one-act play written in 1942 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.
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In the Shadow of the Glen In the Shadow of the Glen, also known as "The Shadow of the Glen", is a one-act play written by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge and first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on October 8, 1903. It was the first of Synge's plays to be performed on stage. It is set in an isolated cottage in County Wicklow in what was then the present day (c. 1903).
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Gallantry (opera) Gallantry is a one act opera by composer Douglas Moore. The work is a parody of soap opera, complete with sung commercial interruptions. The work uses an English language libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The opera premiered in a double bill with Dominick Argento's "The Boor" on March 19, 1958, in New York City at the now-destroyed Brander Matthews Theater on 117th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. It was presented by the Columbia University School of Music with a student cast. It has subsequently been staged by several other university opera theatre programs in the United States and Canada, including UCLA (1958, 1974, and 1994), Immaculate Heart College (1968), Goucher College (1969), the University of Michigan (1978), the University of Toronto (1988), San Diego State University (1989), Pepperdine University (1990), Wilfrid Laurier University (1992), the University of Arizona (1995), George Washington University (1999), and the University of Wisconsin (2003) among others. The University of Southern California toured the opera to the Netherlands in 1968.
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Ballo della Regina Ballo della Regina is a one-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Giuseppe Verdi. It is a set of variations set to ballet music (titled "La Peregrina") that Verdi cut from Act 3 of the original 1867 version of his opera "Don Carlos". Its premiere performance was on 12 January 1978, by the New York City Ballet at New York State Theater in Lincoln Center.
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American Buffalo (play) American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions it opened on Broadway in 1977.
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Your Own Thing Your Own Thing is a rock-styled musical comedy loosely based on "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. It premiered off-Broadway in early 1968. The music and lyrics are by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar with the book adaptation by Donald Driver, who also directed the original production. The show was a success, running for 937 performances Off-Broadway and then touring and playing in London and Australia.
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A Memory of Two Mondays A Memory of Two Mondays is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse during the Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United States. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a college education in the midst of people stumbling through the workday in a haze of hopelessness and despondency. Three of the characters in the story have severe problems with alcoholism.