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Me and Molly
Me and Molly is a three-act play with eight scenes by Gertrude Berg, based on Berg's long-running radio drama The Goldbergs. It has a large cast, one setting, and moderate pacing. It is a domestic situation comedy, bordering on soap opera, as Jake Goldberg tries to start his own business while his family adjusts to life in a new apartment.
It was originally produced by Herbert Kenwith at the Belasco Theatre during February 1948, with staging by Ezra Stone and starring Berg and Philip Loeb. After its run completed, the play was followed by a television series (1949) and a film (1950) that used some of the same characters and performers, but followed different storylines.
The drama critic of New York Daily News had selected the season's ten best plays every year since 1920. For the 1947–1948 season, John Chapman chose Me and Molly for the tenth spot, an unexpected honor for neophyte playwright Gertrude Berg.
There were many featured parts and walk-on characters portraying neighbors, their children, and tradesmen which are omitted for clarity.
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The year is 1919, and the Goldbergs have recently moved from "downtown" (a tenement) to "uptown" (a lower middle-class apartment). After the movers have finished bringing the Goldberg's possessions in, Molly is embarrassed when they ask her to sign the receipt. The play is a series of domestic situations like this, in which Molly and Jake try to fulfill their own aspirations while raising their children. Among other situations they encounter is helping Mr. Mendel and Vera Wertheimer get together as a couple, overcoming Jake's suspicion that Molly has pillaged their savings to buy Rosie a piano (a secret gift from Uncle David), and trying to persuade Cousin Simon to advance Jake the money to start his own business.
First public word of the play came in early December 1947, when Sam Zolotow revealed in The New York Times that Me and Molly would star its playwright Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb. Zolotow also mentioned the play had four "angels": producer Herbert Kenwith, with Paul Feigay, Oliver Smith, and David Cummings also backing it. Ezra Stone would direct; Hedda Hopper said that Philip Loeb had been Stone's teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts during 1934, and had later directed him in his first Broadway play, Parade.
Me and Molly
Me and Molly is a three-act play with eight scenes by Gertrude Berg, based on Berg's long-running radio drama The Goldbergs. It has a large cast, one setting, and moderate pacing. It is a domestic situation comedy, bordering on soap opera, as Jake Goldberg tries to start his own business while his family adjusts to life in a new apartment.
It was originally produced by Herbert Kenwith at the Belasco Theatre during February 1948, with staging by Ezra Stone and starring Berg and Philip Loeb. After its run completed, the play was followed by a television series (1949) and a film (1950) that used some of the same characters and performers, but followed different storylines.
The drama critic of New York Daily News had selected the season's ten best plays every year since 1920. For the 1947–1948 season, John Chapman chose Me and Molly for the tenth spot, an unexpected honor for neophyte playwright Gertrude Berg.
There were many featured parts and walk-on characters portraying neighbors, their children, and tradesmen which are omitted for clarity.
Leads
Supporting
The year is 1919, and the Goldbergs have recently moved from "downtown" (a tenement) to "uptown" (a lower middle-class apartment). After the movers have finished bringing the Goldberg's possessions in, Molly is embarrassed when they ask her to sign the receipt. The play is a series of domestic situations like this, in which Molly and Jake try to fulfill their own aspirations while raising their children. Among other situations they encounter is helping Mr. Mendel and Vera Wertheimer get together as a couple, overcoming Jake's suspicion that Molly has pillaged their savings to buy Rosie a piano (a secret gift from Uncle David), and trying to persuade Cousin Simon to advance Jake the money to start his own business.
First public word of the play came in early December 1947, when Sam Zolotow revealed in The New York Times that Me and Molly would star its playwright Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb. Zolotow also mentioned the play had four "angels": producer Herbert Kenwith, with Paul Feigay, Oliver Smith, and David Cummings also backing it. Ezra Stone would direct; Hedda Hopper said that Philip Loeb had been Stone's teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts during 1934, and had later directed him in his first Broadway play, Parade.