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Title: Stage Door
Author(s): Edna Ferber and George S Kaufman
Licensing Agent: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Genre: Comedy
Length: Full Length
Male Roles: 11
Female Roles: 21
Extras: 0
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Description: The play concerns a group of young girls who have come to New York to study acting and find jobs. The scene is Mrs. Orcutt's boarding house, where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen young women are revealed in scenes of entertaining comedy. Contrasted with this are the cases of the girl without talent and the elderly actress whose days are over. The central plot has to do with courageous Terry Randall, who fights against discouragement to a position in the theater where we are sure she will conquer. One of her fellow aspirants gives up in despair, one gets married, and one goes into pictures, but Terry, with the help of idealistic David Kingsley, sticks to her guns. Color and contrast are offered by Mattie, the maid; Frank her husband; a few young men callers, a movie magnate and young Keith Burgess, the playwright who "goes Hollywood." NOTE: Can be presented in a single setting. Direction on this and instructions covering slight alterations in the play appear in the back of the book.
| Character |
Gender |
Role Size |
Min Age |
Max Age |
Description |
| Terry Randall |
F |
Lead |
20 |
25 |
a born actress, striking but not conventionally beautiful. |
| Jean Maitland |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
25 |
movie star quality, a better actress off stage than on |
| Judith Canfield |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
actress, wise, cynical, quick wit |
| Madeline Vauclain |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
actress, a languid beauty, shallow |
| Bernice Niemeyer |
F |
Supporting |
16 |
22 |
a character actress but doesn't know it, comical |
| Mary Harper |
F |
Supporting |
14 |
20 |
petite, boy crazy, nosey, paired with Little Mary, comical |
| Mary McCune |
F |
Supporting |
14 |
20 |
tall, nosey, paired with Big Mary, comical |
| Ann Braddock |
F |
Supporting |
16 |
22 |
very dramatic and serious |
| Kaye Hamilton |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
25 |
big eyed, innocent new girl, serious role |
| Linda Shaw |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
a diva, promiscuous |
| Bobby Melrose |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
a southern belle |
| Louise Mitchell |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
leaving acting to get married |
| Susan Paige |
F |
Supporting |
14 |
20 |
an acting student |
| Pat Devine |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
Night Club dancer, sassy, moves like a dancer |
| Kendal Adams |
F |
Supporting |
16 |
22 |
comes from a wealthy family, and acts like it |
| Tony Gillette |
F |
Cameo |
20 |
30 |
young actress |
| Ellen Fenwick |
F |
Caneo |
20 |
30 |
young actress |
| Mrs. Orcutt |
F |
Supporting |
40 |
50 |
the house matron, flamboyant former actress, mother to the girls |
| Olga Brandt |
F |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
pianist, Russian, dark and artsy |
| Mattie |
F |
Supporting |
40 |
50 |
the maid, dry sense of humor |
| Mrs. Shaw |
F |
Supporting |
40 |
50 |
upper class woman |
| Laura Westcott |
F |
Supporting |
30 |
40 |
a publicity woman |
| David Kingsley |
M |
Lead |
35 |
45 |
successful Hollywood film maker, handsome, and slick |
| Keith Burgess |
M |
Supporting |
25 |
35 |
a playwright, bohemian but is seduced by success |
| Sam Hasitngs |
M |
Supporting |
20 |
30 |
a young actor from texas |
| Jimmy Devereaux |
M |
Cameo |
20 |
30 |
a young actor |
| Fred Powell |
M |
Supporting |
30 |
40 |
a businessman |
| Lou Milhauser |
M |
Supporting |
30 |
40 |
a businessman |
| Dr. Randall |
M |
Supporting |
50 |
60 |
a country doctor |
| Adolph Gretzl |
M |
Supporting |
50 |
60 |
a big wig in the movie business |
| Billy |
M |
Cameo |
20 |
30 |
young photographer |
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