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The Butter and Egg Man by Joel Benjamin

This post is by Joel Benjamin George S. Kaufman's only solo effort, the 1925 satire, "The Butter and Egg Man" is a colorfully exaggerated snapshot of the nitty-gritty, seat-of-your-pants theater of a prolific decade when two men could do it all: casting, hiring designers, booking theaters and, of course, raising the dough. How things have changed! It's the money, and the chicanery involved in raising it, that ani…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PM on May 22, 2015

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