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Stage
Door
Stage Door is a play, later adapted into a film
by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses
who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street
in New York City.
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. Slight
alterations in the play are determined by the director.
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