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Madame Butterfly [Impassively, her eyes narrowing]:Speak concerning marriage once more, you die! [She fans herself. Suzuki salaams and backs quickly toward the door. Madame Butterfly claps her hands…
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David Belasco
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1900
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Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
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Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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[Same setting as the first act.
Jonah sits at his workbench. Across from him, on the bench, sits Zilberman. Next to the large table, Miriam stands and mends a shirt. The air shaft window is…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.
[She feels her way forward.]
[She shudders.]
The walls are sweating.
Tell me Bluebeard
Why this moisture on my fingers?
Walls and rafters, all are weeping.
[She…
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Béla Balázs
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
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Theatro Carlos Gomes
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1915
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Sidney H. Riesenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Abraham Goldfaden
Date:
1887
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Marx Brothers
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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For decades, my efforts have been directed at purifying the old modes [die alten Weisen]. Through [general] use and arbitrary treatment they have suffered tactless changes and distortions. I…
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Louis Lewandowski
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1882
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The attempt to edit a songbook for Jewish organizations is such an entirely new undertaking—one without any precedent whatsoever—that it would appear necessary to offer a few words of…
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Heinrich Loewe
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1894