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Awake and Sing! Playbill - December 1938
Awake and Sing!
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Daly's 63rd Street Theatre
22 W. 63rd St., New York, NY, New York, NY
SYNOPSIS:
The battle lines for a lower-middle-class Jewish family in the Depression-era Bronx are drawn between the string-pulling parents who think they know best and their resistant offspring who have hatched their own dreams of the future.
playwright:
Clifford Odets
People (15)
Emilie Adler
Performer
(Original)
Louis Brandt
Performer
(Original)
Louis Coppersmith
Performer
(Original)
Morris Dorf
Performer
(Original)
Gustave Schact
Performer
(Original)
Harold Schutzman
Performer
(Original)
Lyda Slava
Performer
(Original)
Jack Tammy
Performer
(Original)
Isadore Vernick
Performer
(Original)
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Emilie Adler
Performer
(Original)
Louis Brandt
Performer
(Original)
Louis Coppersmith
Performer
(Original)
Morris Dorf
Performer
(Original)
Gustave Schact
Performer
(Original)
Harold Schutzman
Performer
(Original)
Lyda Slava
Performer
(Original)
Jack Tammy
Performer
(Original)
Isadore Vernick
Performer
(Original)
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Clifford Odets
Writer
Chaver Paver
Adaptation
Jacob Mestel
Director
Wood McLane
Scenic Design
Moe Hack
Lighting Design
Federal Theatre Project of The WPA
Producer
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Pro Info
Opening Date
Dec
22
1938
Closing Date
Apr
9
1939
Performances
95
as of Mar 04, 2026
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