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From Samuel French to Dramatists Play Service: Concord’s Musical Marketing Machine Leaves Classic Plays Like Life With Father Dead When Life With Father opened at the Empire Theatre on November 8, 1939, nobody could have predicted what was coming. The play, adapted by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse from Clarence ... Read More »

Max Steiner all but invented what we now think of as the classic Hollywood film score, marrying melody, drama, and psychology in a way that virtually every composer since has borrowed from. From Vienna Prodigy to New York Striver Maximilian Raoul Steiner was born in Vienna in 1888 into a ... Read More »

Life With Father ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks, becoming the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record it still holds. The play toured the US for three years, was revived on Broadway, and enjoyed thousands of productions in stock, amature, university, and school productions. The play was adapted ... Read More »