
The Mermaids Singing (1945) - repro
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John Van Druten’s sophisticated drawing-room comedy-drama 'The Mermaids Singing' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere at the Empire Theatre in 1945, running for an accomplished commercial residency under the banner of producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. The textually rich narrative unfolds inside an elegant hotel suite in a major midwestern city, tracking a smooth-talking, middle-aged Manhattan playwright whose stable artistic philosophies collapse into a farcical crisis when a beautiful, fiercely independent young local woman attempts to execute a strategic affair with him. Directed by Van Druten himself, it starred Walter Abel.

