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Article: Playwright Ives stretches for farce 'A Flea in Her Ear'.(Time Out!)(On theater)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2006
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Byline: Jack Helbig
Playwright David Ives is best known for his witty, ultra-short one-act plays. Some are only five to ten minutes long. But in recent years, Ives has been branching out into comedies.
He's part of the team reconstructing "lost" musicals for the Lincoln Center's Encores series.
"So far we've done four encores," he said. "The operetta 'The New Moon,' (the musical version of) 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' 'The Apple Tree' and 'Pardon My English,' the Gershwin Brothers' only failure. It was the biggest flop of the season and it had an incoherent book by Morrie Ryskind. I should say the first draft was incoherent, because that is ...