Very briefly I had a play produced on Broadway that
lasted one performance and one of the kindest things said about it was, "A play
opened on Broadway last night and it shouldn't have!" It was written under my
'stage name' and, though it was a flop, it was sold to the movies and made with
big names of that time. I did make some royalties off it as it was a popular
high school play being a one set, 3 character play. This happened over 50 years
ago just after I got out of the service and, for a brief time, I was the "HOT"
new trick in town going to private dinners (another name for orgies) and being
courted by 'the upper Park Avenue' crowd. The bottom line is I sold myself to
the Devil and paid the price. Someday I will write the whole story but that
say isn't today.

A few years ago, before Edward Albee won the
Pulitzer Prize using the same idea for his play, "Tall Woman"--hey, he didn't
steal the idea from me, it was just a coincidence :O)--I decided to try my hand
once again at a play. I called it "Five Sided View Of A Man". It was a two act
play with 6 characters, the main one a man in his 60s. The 5 others are the man
each at a different decade in his life. He is facing them wanting to find out
who he is and how he got that way.

About 2 years ago (?) I had a reading done at a
professional play-writing group and realized right away that it was too
repetitive, would need some editing and a lot of rewriting but I didn't know if
I was up to the job or wanted to do it. A friend of a friend of a friend asked
me to submit the play to a new theatre group and having nothing to lose I
agreed. To my surprise they said they would hold a public reading the following
(last) season and then the economy tanked so now it is on hold and it gives me
more time to rework, rewrite it. I am not good at writing plays because I prefer
describing rather than showing and though I am good at dialogue in short spurts
writing scenes, acts of conversations between people is difficult for me.

In January, 2006, I
started blogging and stopped
'writing' and that is what I will be talking about in Part 5 and ending
this series.