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BAKER\'S DOZEN : A RANDOM HOUSE PLAY
By Julius Monk
Publisher: : Random House,, New York , 1964
This book is a HARDCOVER in near fine condition with109 pages. The dust jacket is also in near fine condition.
12 very short plays performed at a NYCsupper club in 1964.
One play is titled \"MescalineHat Dance \" (5 pages) and is a satire on Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr.Richard Alpert from the Center for Research in Personality at HarvardUniversity eating sacred magical champignons and peyote, LSD and , under theeffects , starting IFIF ( International Federation for Internal Freedom) ,followed by a bit of IFIF\'s troubled history in Mexico , also mentioned is\"William Burroughs came for brunch and was served a naked lunch\" ,\"Allen Ginsberg filled his needs by munching morning glory seeds\", done in the style of a satirical revue. A little known Timothy Leary item.
Master of the topical revueand the forerunner of TV\'s\" Saturday Night Live\". Julius Monk foundedthe first repertory group in Provincetown summerstock and then went on to found the Downstairs Room in New York, followed by Upstairs at the Downstairs and the Plaza 9 Clubat New York\'sPlaza Hotel.
CONTENTS
On January 9, 1964, JuliusMonk\'s Plaza 9 — first presented BAKER\'S DOZEN, \"a farinaceous farrago intwo acts,\" at the Plaza Hotel, New York City,
with the following Cast: Gerry Matthews , Jamie Ross , Barbara Cason, Nagle Jackson , Delphi Harrington , RuthBuzzi , Richard Blair , Jan Templeton,
At the pianos: William Roy,Robert Colston, Paul Trueblood
Staged and choreographed byFrank Wagner
Costumes by Bill Blew
Musical and vocalarrangements by William Roy Special Assistant to Mr. Monk: Chester Morass Lightingby Don Lamb
Entire Production Conceivedand Directed by JULIUS MONK
CONTENTS
ACT ONE
1. BAKER\'S DOZEN By William Roy
2. AVIS By Dee Caruso and Bill Levine
3. MEGALOPOLIS Music and Lyric by LesleyDavison
4. WHITE HOUSE COMICS By Robert Elliott and WilliamF. Brown
5. WATER POLLUTION Music by William Roy, Lyric by Rod Warren
6. NEVER SAY DIE By William F. Brown
7. AVONGARDE Music and Lyric by Rod Warren
8. MESCALINE HAT DANCE
Music by John Simon , Lyric by Louis Botto
Introduction by William F. Brown
9. THE GRIPE OF THE GROUP Music by William Dyer , Lyricby Don Parks
10. THE BAG WITH WHICH YOUSHOP Music and Lyric by LesleyDavison Introduction by William F.Brown
11. THE OLD EIGHT-TEN Music and Lyric by G. Wood
12. WHO\'S AFRAID OF I. J. FOX By William F. Brown
13. A NEW ITALIAN FOLK SONGMusic by Stan Lebowsky Lyric by Fred Tobias
14. CRIES IN THE COMMONMARKETPLACE Music and Lyric by LesleyDavison
ACT TWO
1. DOUBLE-0 OR NOTHING By William F. Brown
2. NATIONAL SERVICE CORPS Music and Lyric by BudMcCreery
3. FOURTEEN HOURS AND\'THIRTY-SEVEN MINUTES Music and Lyric by ClarkGesner
4. WHEREFORE ART THOU, ROMEO Music by Margaret PerrinLyric by George Planer
5. HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, JANEDOOLEY By William F. Brown
6. MERRY-GO-ROUND Music and Lyric by G. Wood
7. BARRY\'S BOYS Music and Lyric by JuneReizner
8. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE By Treva Silverman
9. THE WONDERFUL WORLD-WIDEFAIR Music and Lyric by MichaelBrown
FROM THE COVER BAKER\'S DOZEN by Julius Monk
Baker\'s Dozen is the second ofJulius Monk\'s topical revues to appear at The Plaza 9- club in New York\'s Plaza Hotel.When it opened, comments like these came from the critics:
\"Julius Monk has notdone it again. He\'s done it better than ever. Baker\'s Dozen is the best yet andbetter than that.\" === TheNew YorkHerald Tribune
\"We Loved it. Adelightful evening.\" === EdSullivan
\"An entertaining platterthat has been well baked . . . delicious.\" === The New York Times
\"The funniest show in New York.\" === The Journal American
\"Tops all Julius Monkrevues . . . material is witty and literate.\" == The New YorkPost
\"One of the prettiest,wittiest shows in any town.\" == EarlWilson
\"A deliciousentertainment . . . Monk seems to hold to the principle that anything that ispopular can\'t be all good. There is one exception, of course—the new Monk show,which will be popular and is all good.\" === Newsweek
\"Searing ... loveliestsupper-club music this season.\" === TheNew Yorker
\"Can\'t wait to see itfor a third time.\" === Victor Borge
Julius Withers Monk was bornin Rowan County, North Carolina, and was educated at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and theCincinnati Conservatory. In New York, in 1935, he opened the #1 Fifth AvenueBar and later went to France, where he was associated with The Dingo,Bricktop\'s and Le Boeuf sur le Toit in Paris, 37\' in St. Tropez, and ChezVictor in Cannes. London, Rome,Budapest, and Salzburg are additional European credits. Heserved fourteen seasons as director of New York\'s Le Ruban Bleu, launching Imogene Coca,Jonathan Winters, plus many others, and also formed the Provincetown SummerStock Company, the first cabaret repertory group. He founded the DownstairsRoom in New Yorkand, eight seasons ago, the Upstairs at the Downstairs, introducing DodyGood-man in Four Below. The following revues—Son of Four Below, Take Five,Demi-Dozen, Pieces of Eight, Dressed to the Nines, Ten-ish Anyone?, 7 Come 11,Four Below Strikes Back —and the singular success of Tammy Grimes, have madeThe Upstairs at the Downstairs notable. Dime a Dozen inaugurated Mr. Monk\'s newdomain, The Plaza 9- at New York\'sPlaza Hotel, where his most recent revue, Baker\'s Dozen, is currently playing. He has made one film, onerecording, and for standing still, has been the highest-paid male model in America.
MORE ABOUT === Julius Monk(born c. 1913 – died 1995) was an American entrepreneur in the New York cabaret scene.Career == His club, JuliusMonk\'s Downstairs, opened March 4, 1956 with Four Below, labeled as \"thefirst legitimate cafe revue in New York City\" by James Gavin, author ofIntimate Nights, The Golden Age of New York Cabaret.
Four Below was a hugesuccess, and Monk continued to stage annual revues that established thestandard for New York cabaret over the following decade: Son of Four Below,Take Five, Demi-Dozen (1958), Pieces of Eight (1959), Dressed to the Nines(1960) and 7 Come 11 (1961). In 1962, he moved his troupe to a new nightclub,Plaza 9, at the Plaza Hotel and continued with revues such as Dime A Dozen,Bits & Pieces, Baker\'s Dozen and his last revue, Four In Hand (1968). Manyunknown performers who worked at Monk\'s cafe revues, including Ken Berry, RuthBuzzi, Mary Louise Wilson, Liz Sheridan, and Dorothy Loudon, among others, wenton to achieve varying degrees of fame.
In the 1960s, Mad published\"The Agony and the Agony\" (a parody of the film The Agony and theEcstasy) with the plotline moved from Renaissance Rome to present-day New York City. The film\'santagonist, Pope Julius II (a real historical figure), was updated by Mad asnightclub entrepreneur Julius Pope, a satire of Julius Monk.
Death == Monk died at age 82in August 1995 at his home in Manhattan.
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