Light Up the Sky (Broadway play)
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Light Up the Sky is a 1948 Broadway comedy by Moss Hart that satirizes the egos and chaos surrounding a new play’s out-of-town tryout.
Aliases (1)
- Light Up the Sky ×30
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| instanceOf |
Broadway play
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stage comedy → |
| author |
Moss Hart
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| creatorOccupation |
playwright Moss Hart
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| dramaticForm |
three-act comedy
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| firstPerformanceDate |
1948
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| genre |
comedy
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| hasPart |
out-of-town tryout sequence
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| hasStyle |
backstage comedy
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satirical → |
| hasTheme |
artistic ego
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backstage chaos → vagaries of theatrical success → |
| intendedAudience |
adult theatregoers
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| isAbout |
a new play’s out-of-town opening
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| language |
English
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| locationOfFirstPerformance |
Broadway
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| mainSubject |
production of a new play
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| narrativeFocus |
creative team of a new play
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| originalMedium |
stage
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| partOf |
Moss Hart’s body of theatrical work
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| period |
mid-20th-century American theatre
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| productionType |
commercial Broadway production
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| satirizes |
chaos of out-of-town tryouts
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theatre world egos → |
| setting |
hotel suite during an out-of-town tryout
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| theatricalTradition |
American commercial theatre
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| workChronologyOfAuthor |
later-career play by Moss Hart
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| writer |
Moss Hart
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| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Moss Hart
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