The Live Wire: A Comedy in Three Acts

[light wear to extremities, old yellow tape-stains on both endpapers from former taping-down of jacket, large "Submitted by William Morris Agency" label on ffep; jacket shows light soiling, tiny tears at several corners, tape marks on both flaps (tape itself is no longer present), shallow chip at top of rear panel]. Comedy about "a group of young actors who have pooled their resources and hopes and live together in a Quonset hut in the Broadway theater district, [existing] by a system of mutual interdependence, until a heartless fourflusher joins them and comes near to putting their experiment out of business." The original New York production, under the sponsorship of Michael Todd, opened in 1950, with Scott McKay in the lead as the aforementioned fourflusher, and ran for just 28 performances; in 1959 it was announced by 20th Century-Fox that a screen adaptation of the play (written by Michael and Fay Kanin) would be Elvis Presley's first film after he got out of the U.S. Army, but alas (I guess) 'twas not to be, as he re-upped his movie career with G.I. BLUES instead. (But Fox went ahead and made the movie anyway, a year or so later, re-titled THE RIGHT APPROACH and with the setting changed to a converted nightclub in the Hollywood Hills.)

Product Info

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Year: (c.1951, 1948)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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