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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Broadway play
stage comedy
author Moss Hart
countryOfOrigin United States
creatorOccupation playwright Moss Hart
dramaticForm three-act comedy
firstPerformanceDate 1948
genre comedy
hasPart out-of-town tryout sequence
hasStyle backstage comedy
satirical
hasTheme artistic ego
backstage chaos
vagaries of theatrical success
intendedAudience adult theatregoers
isAbout a new play’s out-of-town opening
language English
locationOfFirstPerformance Broadway
mainSubject production of a new play
narrativeFocus creative team of a new play
originalMedium stage
partOf Moss Hart’s body of theatrical work
period mid-20th-century American theatre
productionType commercial Broadway production
satirizes chaos of out-of-town tryouts
theatre world egos
setting hotel suite during an out-of-town tryout
theatricalTradition American commercial theatre
workChronologyOfAuthor later-career play by Moss Hart
writer Moss Hart

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Moss Hart
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