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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Materials in this subseries reflect Cohen's work writing plays and musicals. Several of these works were produced for the stage, as documented in Cohen's Scrapbook, including City Boy, The Complaint Department Closes at Five, and Cakes with the Wine. The papers related to The Complaint Department Closes at Five illuminate Cohen's creative process, from the many notes he used...

Abstract

The Edward M. Cohen Papers collects the publications, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, and other ephemera of Edward M. Cohen (b. 1936 - d. 2023), a gay author, playwright, director, former Queens College student and Jewish New Yorker.

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Based on "Pitch Dark" by Renata Adler.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Nonfiction subseries includes materials related to Cohen's nonfiction writing, including drafts of published work, such as a manuscript draft of Working on a New Play, and unpublished work, such as a memoir in-progress(Stories for My Grandson), and a proposal for a book about Broadway lore (Broadway Legends).

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A few script pages found loose in Cohen's papers.

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This instance of the script was included with an instance of The Last Stage of Labor with a cover sheet reading "Danger in the Room: two plays by Edward M. Cohen." Another instance of Danger in the Room includes Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance C) with A Gorgeous Piece.

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This instance of the script was included with the play, A Gorgeous Piece, with a cover sheet reading "Danger in the Room: two plays by Edward M. Cohen." Another instance of Danger in the Room includes Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance B) with The Last Stage of Labor (Instance C).

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This instance of The Last Stage of Labor was included with Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance B) with a cover sheet reading "Danger in the Room: two plays by Edward M. Cohen." Another instance of Danger in the Room includes Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance C) with A Gorgeous Piece.

Scope and Contents

This script was included with Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance C) with a cover sheet reading "Danger in the Room: two plays by Edward M. Cohen." Another instance of Danger in the Room includes Two Girls and a Sailor (Instance B) with The Last Stage of Labor (Instance C).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Materials in this subseries reflect Cohen's work writing plays and musicals. Several of these works were produced for the stage, as documented in Cohen's Scrapbook, including City Boy, The Complaint Department Closes at Five, and Cakes with the Wine. The papers related to The Complaint Department Closes at Five illuminate Cohen's creative process, from the many notes he used...