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Thousand Clowns, A

  • Herb Gardner
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 4M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573616570

Would be a standout comedy in any season. Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired daffiness. One of the quintessential New York comedies.

New York Daily News

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick.

Tired of writing cheap comedy gags for "Chipper the Chipmunk", a children's television star, Murray finds himself unemployed with plenty of free time with which to pursue his...pursuits. Lectured by his conventional brother Arnold and hounded by "the system", Murray is paid a visit by bickering, uptight social workers, Sandra and Albert, and finds himself solving their problems as well as most of his own.

REVIEWS:

Would be a standout comedy in any season. Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired daffiness. One of the quintessential New York comedies.

New York Daily News

An extraordinarily funny play with some brilliantly offbeat lines.

The New York Post
Premiere Production: A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner was presented on Broadway by Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor. The play opened April 5, 1962, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
  • Casting: 4M, 1F

  • MURRAY BURNS
    NICK BURNS
    ALBERT AMUNDSON
    SANDRA MARKOWITZ
    ARNOLD BURNS
    LEO HERMAN
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    This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy gags for 'Chipper the Chipmunk', a children's television star, Murray finds himself unemployed with plenty of free time with which to pursue his...pursuits. Lectured by his conventional brother Arnold and hounded by 'the system', Murray is paid a visit by bickering, uptight social workers, Sandra and Albert, and finds himself solving their problems as well as most of his own.

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