The Boys in the Band

by Mart Crowley

Overview

Drama

Characters: 9 male

Interior Set

This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highly praised production produced by Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group.

In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved "32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy", compl

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573640049
Publisher:	Samuel French, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	222
Sales rank:	491,677
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Mart Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His first play, The Boys in the Band, opened Off-Broadway (1968) to estatic reviews. Crowley's other plays include Remote Asylum (1970), the autobiographical A Breeze from the Gulf (1973), and The Men from the Boys (2002). Crowley served first as the producer of the ABC series Hart to Hart.