Golden Boy

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Event Golden Boy
Venue Workers' Art Club (1932-1943), Sydney, NSW
First Date 15 October 1939
Opening Date 15 October 1939
Dates Estimated No
Status Pro-Am
World Premiere No
Description Three-act play by Clifford Odets. This play was made into a musical in 1961. The play is about the son of Italian immigrants growing up in the United States during the Depression. He is a talented violinist but decides to become a prize fighter in order to achieve the American dream.

"The play tells the story then of an artist, or even more generally of a sensitive human being, growing up in a world where personal achievement is measured in terms of that kind of sensational success that our newspapers, our mania for publicity slogans, indeed our whole large-scale production psychology makes into almost the only kind of success we can recognise. To tell this story two worlds are mirrored in the swiftest, barest terms; the artist' world with its humble pleasures, its small but basic contentments, and the business world with its fundamental uncertainty, hysteria, indifference to and impatience with human problems as such, its inevitable ruthlessness its ultimate killer tendencies."

Repeat performances: 29th October, 5th & 12th November 1939
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Social Issues
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Hal Alexander Actor Frank Bonaparte
Robert Alexander Actor Call Boy
Edmund Allison Actor Tom Moody
Victor Arnold Actor Eddie Fuseli
Bill Bray Actor Mickey
Frank Callanan Actor Tokio
Elsie Dick Actor Anna
Megan Edwards Actor Lorna Moon
Jack Gray Actor Driscoll
Charles Kitchener Actor Roxy
Kenyon McCarron Actor Siggie
Robert Mitchell Actor Drake
Dennis Nash Actor Mr. Carp
Frank Newey Actor Lewis
Don Sharpe Actor Joe Bonaparte
John Sherman Actor Mr. Bonaparte
Bill Westney Actor Pepper White
Leslie Wiggins Actor Barker
Leon Sherman Assistant Stage Manager
Clifford Odets Playwright
Frederick Hughes Producer
Neville Somerville Stage Manager
Resources
Further Information All information for this production was taken from The New Years, 1932 - The Plays, People and Events of Six Decades of Sydney's Radical New Theatre, New Theatre, 1992. No cast or production list available (except Playwright, Director and Designer) and therefore not entered. Update: cast, crew, and play description found in programme and entered.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Records of the Sydney New Theatre 1932-1990 ML MSS 6244, SLNSW
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 22737