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Vanities

  • Jack Heifner
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1960s, 1970s
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573630149

Jack Heifner's bittersweet comedy – an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls – is a provocative, hilarious vehicle for three strong female actors.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Drama Desk Award for Best New Play (1976)
This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship, which once thrived on assumptions as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common.
REVIEWS:

"Unnervingly funny... Fast moving, sneakily stinging dialogue."

 Newsweek

"Uncommonly attractive."

 New York Magazine

Premiere Production: Vanities premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on January 15, 1976. The production then transferred to the Chelsea Theatre Center (now the Westside Theatre) where it opened on March 22, 1976 and closed August 3, 1980, running for 1,785 performances. Directed by Garland Wright, the original production featured Kathy Bates, Jane Galloway and Susan Merson.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), All Female

  • JOANNE
    KATHY
    MARY

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    This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship, which once thrived on assumptions as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common.

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