Say Goodnight Gracie
- Written by Ralph Pape
- Directed by Austin Pendleton
Ralph Pape is an American playwright. Plays: Say Goodnight Gracie, Girls We Have Known, Warm and Tender Love, Soap Opera, Beyond Your Command, and Hearts Beating Faster. He adapted Say Goodnight Gracie for television and recieved an Emmy Award. Girls We Have Known was a runner-up in the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play contest. In 2007, he was named one of the top 50 American playwrights to watch.
AUSTIN PENDLETON has been seen on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank and Grand Hotel. He has appeared in the first New York productions of Oh Dad, Poor Dad..., Fiddler on the Roof, Hail Scrawdyke (Derwent Award), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (Obie Award), The Sorrows of Frederick, Doubles, The Imposter, The Loop and Sophistry, and in the title roles of Off-Broadway productions of Hamlet, Richard III, Uncle Vanya, Keats and Jeremy Rudge. He is a playwright (Orson's Shadow, Booth and Uncle Bob), director (Spoils of War, The Runner Stumbles andElizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes), teacher (HB Studio), and member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Ensemble. His film credits include What's Up Doc?, Trial and Error, The Associate, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Proprietor, Guarding Tess, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Catch-22 and Amistad. TV includes Fired Up, Frasier and Tracey Takes On. He began his career, and has acted and directed many times, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Bio as of January, 2009.
Featuring:
Mark Blum
Carolyn Groves
Willard Morgan
Molly Regan
Danton Stone
Scenic Design: Douglas E. Ball
Costume Design: Patricia A. Weigleb
Lighting Design: Cheryl Thacker
Stage Manager: Ellen Zalk
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Featuring
Mark Blum
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution; Little Footsteps; Gus and Al (Obie Award), Table Settings; Say Goodnight, Gracie. Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, A Thousand Clowns, Lost in Youngers. Other Off-Broadway: The Model Apartment; The Good Mother; Lonely, I’m Not; We Live Here; Picked; Singing Forest; The Long Christmas Ride Home; The Waverly Gallery; Mizlanski Zilinski; It’s Only a Play; Key Exchange. Film: How We Fell in Love, Blumenthal, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick. TV: “Mozart in the Jungle” and many more.
A very funny play with an undertone of dismay and bewilderment.
Ralph Pape is an acute observer of those who are trying to keep up cheerful demeanor in the face of despair.